MesembsVirtually – A quarterly collaboration between BCSS Manchester Branch, the San Francisco Cactus and Succulent Society and The Mesemb Study Group
Each year the BCSS Manchester Branch hosts the North West Mesemb Show on the 2nd Saturday in October. Obviously that wasn’t possible in October 2020 so in collaboration with the San Francisco Cactus and Succulent Society and the Mesemb Study Group it was decided to replace the show with an afternoon of talks. The idea proved popular so the meetings were carried on every quarter with an evening talk about Mesembs. There has now been over 10 such meetings.
The Mesemb Show returned to being a live show in 2022 and will take place again in 2023.
To be kept up-to-date when the next meeting will be please subscribe to our Mailing Lists on our Contact Us page.
You do not need to be a member of any of the societies to attend meetings. Anyone with an interest in learning more about Mesembs is welcome to join.
List of past MesembVirtually Meetings
| Mesemb Virtually 01×01 | Terry Smale | Chairman’s Introduction | Saturday 3 October 2020 14.00 hrs to 17.30 hrs |
| Mesemb Virtually 01×02 | Matthew Opel | Winter Mesembs: cultivation and taxonomy of selected genera | Saturday 3 October 2020 14.00 hrs to 17.30 hrs |
| Mesemb Virtually 01×03 | Ian Robinson, Alice Vanden Bon and Catherine Arthur | 3x 10 minute greenhouse presentations | Saturday 3 October 2020 14.00 hrs to 17.30 hrs |
| Mesemb Virtually 01×04 | Robyn Powell | Adaptations of Aizoaceae to arid stress in Namaqualand | Saturday 3 October 2020 14.00 hrs to 17.30 hrs |
| Mesemb Virtually 01×05 | Brian McDonough and Terry Smale | 2 x 10 minute greenhouse presentations | Saturday 3 October 2020 14.00 hrs to 17.30 hrs |
| Mesemb Virtually 01×06 | Peter Bint | Closing comments | Saturday 3 October 2020 14.00 hrs to 17.30 hrs |
| Mesemb Virtually 02×01 | Russell Wagner | Namaqualand in My Garden | Saturday 2 January 2021 19.30 hrs |
| Mesemb Virtually 02×02 | Russell Wagner and Terry Smale | Question & Answer | Saturday 2 January 2021 19.30 hrs |
| Mesemb Virtually 03×01 | Andy Young | A Personal A-Z of Mesembs Part 1 | Sunday 11 April 2021 19.30 hrs (moved to Sunday to avoid BCSS/DKG meeting clash) |
| Mesemb Virtually 03×02 | Catherine Arthur | Gibbaeum in Nature and Culture | Sunday 11 April 2021 19.30 hrs (moved to Sunday to avoid BCSS/DKG meeting clash) |
| Mesemb Virtually 04×01 | Roy Earle | Lithops of Namibia | Sunday 11 July 2021 19.30 hrs |
| Mesemb Virtually 04×02 | Brian Kemble | Cephalophyllum | Sunday 11 July 2021 19.30 hrs |
| Mesemb Virtually 05 | Andy Young | A personal A-Z of Mesembs Part 2 | Sunday 10th October 2021 at 19.30 hrs |
| Mesemb Virtually 06 | Ute Schmiedel | The Ecology of Mesembs on Quartz Fields in Southern Africa | Sunday 9 January 2022 at 19.30 hrs |
| Mesemb Virtually 07 | Andy Young | A personal A-Z of Mesembs Part 3 | Sunday 10th April 2022 at 19.30 hrs |
| Mesemb Virtually 08 | Steven Brack | Forty two years and counting, of exploring for mesembs in nature | Sunday 10th July 2022 at 19.30 hrs |
| Mesemb Virtually 09 | Andy Young | A personal A-Z of Mesembs Part 4 | Sunday 9th October 2022 at 19.30 hrs |
| Mesembs Virtually 10 | Ernst van Jaarsveld | The Succulent Flora of South Africa | Sunday 8th January 2023 at 19.30 hrs |
| Mesembs Virtually 11 | Brian Kemble | Mesembs at the Ruth Bancroft Garden | Sunday 16th April 2023 at 19.30 hrs |
Mesembs Virtually – Quarterly Zoom meeting – Sunday 18 June at 7.30pm (BST), 11:30am (California)
“The Strangeness of Mesembs” by Steven Brack, Co-founder of Mesa Garden
MV Insights into the Evolution of Mesembs with Derek Tribble Time: Sunday 15 October at 7.30 pm BST
To join any of the societies involved please visit their websites.
https://manchester.bcss.org.uk (BCSS Manchester Branch)
https://sfsucculent.org (San Francisco Succulent & Cactus Society)
http://mesemb.org (The Mesemb Study Group)