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New England Carnivorous Plant Society (www.NECPS.org)
September, 2015 Newsletter
The Second Post Fall Carnivorous Plant Show will take place on Saturday, September 19 (9AM-‐5PM) and Sunday, September 20 (8AM-‐4PM) at:
Lake Street Garden Center
37 Lake Street, Salem, NH 03079
http://www.lakestreet.com/directions/index.php
"The mission of the New England Carnivorous Plant Society shall be to share, to gain knowledge of, and to achieve expertise in all phases of growing, education, appreciation, and conservation of carnivorous plants in
New Members
A warm welcome to Mary McNulty, Catherine Best, and Monica Slayton!
President’s Message We drew huge crowds at Tower Hill this weekend. They ran out of parking spots at one point and we broke their computer system. They are going to give us the official attendance count when it is available. Most of our vendors did well and we were immediately invited back next year. The Boston Globe had a great story on our show.
The success of our show is attributed to the members of the NECPS who participated in planning and carrying out the show. We also received amazing cooperation and goodwill from Tower Hill. We made a great impression for the type of people we are and we have the support of many people from Tower Hill. Our plants made quite the impression on the crowd, many who have never seen anything like it.
Announcements and Upcoming Events • Volunteering for the Show: we are looking for volunteers and plant donors for this
weekend’s show! Specifically: o We need help with setup on Friday the 18th from 12-‐4 PM, and during cleanup
Sunday from 4-‐5 PM. o To contribute plants for display at the show, please fill out the preregistration
form attached with this newsletter and send it to Shaun ([email protected]).
• The Boston Globe published a fantastic article on this month’s NECPS pre-‐show at Tower
Hill, which can be found here: o https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/2015/09/11/carnivorousplants/948PlJt4
WvuAAtZPFSeoiP/story.html • Winners from the raffle and voting events at the Tower Hill show are out! A full summary
of winners is attached with this newsletter.
Post Fall Show Saturday-‐Sunday, September 19-‐20 9AM-‐5PM Saturday, 8AM-‐4PM Sunday Lake Street Garden Center, Salem, NH
(Press release and plant preregistration form attached with this newsletter) Over 100 plants are scheduled to be on display! Free handouts on growing and feeding carnivorous plants will be offered! Lots of opportunities for photographers! Visit the Venus Fly Trap feeding area where you can observe up close how these plants devour insects. Plants and growing accessories will be available for purchase for both novice and experienced growers from carnivorous plant vendors and the NECPS. Society members will be present both days to explain how the plants feed, what they eat, where they live, and how they can be grown and enjoyed at home.
NECPS 2015 Event Calendar Sept 19-‐20 Post Fall Show at Lake Street Garden Center Oct 10 Post-‐show evaluation Nov 14 TBA Dec 12 Holiday Social, Yankee Swap
Meetings, unless otherwise noted, are held at Roger Williams Botanical Gardens, 1000 Elmwood Ave., Providence, RI. from 12:30 - 2:30 PM. Regular program segments
include: Bog pruning, Speaker or workshop, silent auction, plant displays, refreshments, and informal social discussion.
Recent Events of Note: NECPS Pre-‐Show, 2015
This year’s show was one of our most successful ever! A record 2,000 people attended, and 198 plants were displayed with each of the 14 carnivorous plant genera represented (one of only five times this has happened in the last twelve years of shows). Flytrap feedings ran almost every hour and upon several requests. Two vendors sold out their entire stock of plants. For all of this, we owe a huge Thank You to Tower Hill Botanical Garden, to the vendors who attended, and to all members who participated in this milestone event for our society!
Jeff Mattesons’ ever-‐popular Barrel of Flytraps
Visitors swarm around almost 200 plants on display
NECPS Officers and Contact Information President Dave Sackett [email protected]
Vice President Emmi Kurosawa [email protected] Secretary John Twomey [email protected]
Membership Secretary Shaun Montminy [email protected] Treasurer Shaun Montminy [email protected] Librarian Don Gallant [email protected] Webmaster Ken Matteson [email protected] Newsletter Editor Ben DeMeo [email protected]
NECPS Website: www.necps.org NECPS Yahoo group: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/NECPS/ NECPS Forum: http://necps.proboards.com
Library News
A copy of the NECPS Library policy is appended to this newsletter. Please contact Don Gallant ([email protected]) to suggest books that should be purchased or if you have
books to donate.
On the following page is the complete NECPS library listing.
NECPS Library Policy
The loan period for all items including: books, magazines, and videos are 1 month with one renewal period. No renewals are allowed for books, magazines and videos on reserve.
All material will be stored at a secure location deemed by the library committee and confirmed by the Executive board.
Failure to bring back books within 2 months will result in loss of borrowing privileges!
Any member wishing to check out any NECPS library materials must present a valid membership number. Cards are not transferable. You are responsible for any materials checked out in your name.
NECPS library patrons may take out one (1) item, as they are willing to be responsible for. NECPS library patrons may sign up for one (1) additional book such that at the end of the meeting if no one has already signed up for the item you will be allotted to take that item for the duration until the next meeting. When there is a high demand for a particular item, there will be a limit of one (1) item per person. The only exception to the above rules are for approved functions by the Executive board that are sponsored by the NECPS may reserve any and all material providing a months notice is given to guarantee that material will be available.
The NECPS Library reserves the right to determine charges for lost or damaged materials and the right to deny borrowing privileges to anyone who has library materials overdue for more than two (2) months to the NECPS library or owes fines amounting to more than ten dollars ($10.00) from the NECPS. The NECPS library also reserves the right to deny borrowing privileges to any parent or guardian whose child and/or children have the above delinquencies.
All material taken from the NECPS library is the responsibility of the NECPS library patrons. For one of a kind items NECPS library has the right to refrain from loaning the material and may keep it as a reference item to be viewed solely at meetings and functions.
Please be kind. Rewind the videos before returning them to the NECPS library. Patrons are responsible for damage to videos, so please be careful. Never leave the tape partially rewound as this can cause damage to the tape. Also, videocassettes and equipment are to be used at room temperature as extremes of heat and cold may damage the video or equipment. Also exposure to magnetic fields can cause erasure or distortion.
The NECPS library is not responsible for damage to patron's VCR that may result from damaged or defective videos.
The copyright proprietor has licensed the picture contained in these videocassettes for private home use only and prohibits other use, copying, reproduction, or performance in public, in whole or in part. (U.S. Code, Title 17, Sec. 501 & 506).