The title of the presentation is 'Soft Succulents' (also the title of the book that the talk/powerpoint will follow). I chose to use this nebulous title to include groups such as aeoniums and echeverias, which was initially what the book was going to be dedicated to, but decided to expand it to cover dudleyas, pachyphytums, sedums, crassulas, kalanchoes, senecios, and a few other genera based more on feel and compatibility than on botanical/Linnean correctness. These are all

Thomas has spent more than 20 years in sustainable agriculture, livelihoods, community development and humanitarian response work. Presently based in Santa Barbara, he has many years field experience across Sub-Saharan Africa- with significant time in Mozambique, Uganda and Ethiopia. His focal areas are in urban agriculture, food production system design, post-conflict recovery, organic horticulture, agricultural extension, permaculture, natural resource management and liveli

Brian Kemble has returned again and again to Mexico to investigate its amazingly rich flora of succulent plants. This program covers 3 states in northeastern Mexico, an area where the Sierra Madre Oriental is a dominating geographical feature. In a presentation in April 2016, Brian showed photos of the same mountain range farther south, in the states of Hidalgo, Queretaro and Guanajuato, so this might be considered a northward extension of the area covered in that talk. Plant

There’s lots of reasons to use a hanging pot. Many of us have most of our shelves full. One does not quit buying plants simply because there is no place to put them, after all. Sometimes, you can find a shadier or sunnier place that someone will just love. My main attraction is that they are harder for the mealie bugs to get to. This is a very big deal with some plants, especially stapeliads, in my experience. I make some very nice hanging pots (if I do say so, myself),