Southern California Plumeria Society July 2021 Meeting

4880 La Cuenta Drive,San Diego CA 92124

11 July, 2021

Description

July 2021 meeting: Propagating Plumeria from Cuttings and Seeds Ernesto Sandoval will be discussing several ways to propagate Plumeria from cuttings as well as seeds. Ernesto is the Curator/Manager at the UC Davis Botanical Conservatory. He describes himself as a Jose of All Plants, Master of None and although he doesn’t consider himself a Plumeria expert he’ll show us what he’s seen and discovered over the years for success propagation of the sometimes fragrant frangipani. He received his BS in Botany from UC Davis in 1996 but learned Horticultural practices from the age of about 14 assisting with his father’s Mow, Blow, and Go style gardening business in the San Fernando Valley. By going to UC Davis to study biology, he got a job at the Conservatory in 1991 doing everything, besides mowing lawns, and discovered plant diversity from ferns to orchids and deserts to cloud forests. He’s made it his life goal to understand the biology of plants as it relates to their horticulture as well as their enormous diversity. Succulents are perhaps his plant passion but helping others better understand why and how plants do what they do is his educational mission in life. He loves the science and technical language of Botany but even more he loves explaining plants with analogies and visuals versus verbosity! You may hear a few puns because he intends to edutain his audience in memorable ways...