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Chicago Botanic Gardens C&S show

11 years ago

The C&S Society of Greater Chicago hosted a show and sale at the Chicago Botanic Gardens on July 21st and 22nd. It was sponsored by Ted's Greenhouse, one of 3 vendor's at the show this year.

Following are my purchases:

Hummel's Sunset Jade

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$7 for a tree the height of a 2 liter bottle!

Dorstenia foetida

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Albuca longipes

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Astrophytum myriostigma

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Euphorbia suzannae

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Euphorbia flanaganii

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I went to this show with 2 members of my C&S club. Afterwards, we drove over to Elgin, IL, to Shoal Creek Succulents. This is a mail order/internet only business run out of the owner, Lisa's, home, but because the people I was with know her personally, we were welcomed to shop right out of her greenhouse.

I picked up the following plants:

Agave victoria-reginae variegated

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Rebutia arenacea

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Rebutia heliosa v. condorensis

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I recommend her highly. The variety and sizes of plants she has is mind-boggling, and her prices aren't too shabby either!

Nancy

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Microthrix
11 years ago
Nice finds ! Cute little dorstenia, and i always get an astrophytum myriostigma at shows ... i have 7 now :P
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bikerdoc5968 Z6 SE MI
11 years ago
Nancy might I ask, if you can recall, who the other vendors were at the show and is this show publicized yearly? Is it a big show? I would have loved to attend but didn't know about it.
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Original Author
11 years ago
Hi Howard,

There were only 3 vendors there, Ted's being the one with the most goodies. I think one vendor was the actual Chicago C&S club, and I'm not sure who the other one was. He had some "catalogs" from Miles2Go, but he said he was not representing them. Ted's had more non-cacti succulents this year than cacti; usually he has a nice even mix. The C&S club had a miniscule amount compared to Ted's, and the other guy had a handful of plants and some cuttings of cold-hardy cactus. This is the 3rd year I've gone, and this was the least exciting of the 3. There are always plenty of people shopping, but the entire event seemed smaller this year.
The show is listed on the events calendar of the Chicago Botanic Gardens website and is in mid to late July every year. While the show isn't necessarily huge (as I assume the San Diego show is), the gardens ARE and even though I've been three times, I've never seen the whole place. I don't think I've even seen half of it!
I have a few pictures of the show plants at the facebook page for the Wisconsin Cactus and Succulent Society.

Here is a link that might be useful: Chicago Botanic Gardens
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