Well, it is that time again. We need to have a planning meeting and elect a president.

Given the state of the world, anyone have ideas for online meetings? Things we can do without the in-person thing?
Hopes and dreams for when the vaccines are rolled out and it is safe to leave the house again?

Come share your ideas. Given that this is an election, I would really appreciate people showing up.

The meeting will be Sunday 1/10 via Zoom. The usual time of 3:00 pm. Contact us for the meeting link.

Contact us at the usual places: blog at umcps (dot) net
email via umcps (at) rosinante.com
or Facebook @ /UpperMidwestCarnivorousPlantSociety/ (Feel free to send a message.)

Bill

First off an interesting article about research out of Japan on how
Venus Fly Traps count. This was posted on facebook, so will not be new
for some of you.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/10/the-secret-of-how-the-venus-flytrap-remembers-when-it-captures-prey/

If you think that date is a week late, you are correct. We needed to move the meeting to accommodate our speaker.
For the first time ever, to the best of my knowledge, we are going to
have an speaker that is not a member!
Dr. David Remucal, Curator of Endangered Plants at the U of M’s
Landscape Arboretum, will be talking conservation.
“Plant Conservation at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum: Projects and
Priorities”

The meeting will be Sunday 11/15 via Zoom. The usual time of 3:00 pm. Contact us for the meeting link.

Contact us at the usual places: blog at umcps (dot) net
email via umcps (at) rosinante.com
or Facebook @ /UpperMidwestCarnivorousPlantSociety/ (Feel free to send a message.)

Getting with the modern pandemic normal, we will be having a meeting Sunday 10/11 via Zoom. The usual time of 3:00 pm. Contact us for the meeting link.

We are just planning on a general hang, no topic defined. It will be nice to connect with real humans again!
BYOB (bring your own beverage,) introduce yourself and talk carnivorous plants.

Contact us at the usual places: blog at umcps (dot) net
email via umcps (at) rosinante.com
or Facebook @ /UpperMidwestCarnivorousPlantSociety/ (Feel free to send a message.)

Getting with the modern pandemic normal, we will be having a meeting tomorrow 9/13 via Zoom. The usual time of 3:00 pm. Contact us for the meeting link.
We are just planning on a general hang, no topic defined. Let’s get this working and then off to great(er) things! It will be nice to connect with real humans again!

Contact us at the usual places: blog at umcps (dot) net
email via umcps (at) rosinante.com
or Facebook @ /UpperMidwestCarnivorousPlantSociety/ (Feel free to send a message.)

The meeting was supposed to take place on May 17th, a week later to avoid Mother’s Day as we always do. The state is still under a stay at home order until the 18th.
Since there is no way to have a seed starting meeting online, and we meet at a government building, the meeting is hereby canceled.

Well, it is time for the April social meeting, and of course, we are socially locked down. In place of our meeting this month, time will need to be spent with family and plants, but it need not to be in that order.

By now, if all went well, the flytraps and sarrs are out of dormancy and likely either stalks are up or they are in flower. I have done most of my spring repotting, I have a few sarrs left to separate the seedlings from last year into larger pots for the year. The flytraps are in the process of setting flower stalks and I am in the process of removing the stalks, trimming to size and placing into sphagnum moss in hopes of having some babies grow from the stalks.

Hopefully in a few weeks, some of the CPs and orchids will go to the greenhouse. The way my plant accumulation is going, I may need to add a room onto my house in a couple years. Oh the joys of a growing hobby.

See you next month…hopefully.
Don Schiller

If the weather is nice, we will meet at Blue Wolf Brewing, 8515 Edinburgh Centre Dr.
Brooklyn Park, MN 55443
Sunday 2/9 @ 3:00pm

If we get the snow as forecast, there will be no meeting.

Contact us at the usual places: blog at umcps (dot) net
email via umcps (at) rosinante.com
or Facebook @ /UpperMidwestCarnivorousPlantSociety/ (Feel free to send a message.)