CSSA June Gathering 2025
Jun 24

CSSA June Gathering 2025

Date & Time
24 June 2025 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Timezone
(UTC+10:00) Australia/Melbourne

Hope you can join us at the CSSA June Gathering! For those unable to attend the hall, we will still be on Zoom (details on how to join can be found below) and the Gathering recording will be posted to the CSSA Members-Only Group (usually within 48 hours).

 

📣 Our Speaker this month is Attila Kapitany - Cycads of Australia

Some of Australia's best and most attractive native cycads, some rare! All are highly collectable and very desired by cactus and succulent collectors. Many of us already grow a few as they are great container plants that can be extremely slow growing. 

Attila Kapitany is a leading expert on Australian succulents. He has written and co-authored 18 books or publications on cacti and succulents, including large tomes on Copiapoa and Echeveria.
Nearly 40 years ago, with his brother Jeno, he developed and established several nurseries, both wholesale and retail, that are now Australia’s largest centres for succulent research, development and marketing. He has since left the commercial business to continue and expand what he loves doing the best – promoting the passion for plants to others. For several decades, Attila’s professional and private life has been consumed by the appreciation and promotion of these plants to the collector, the gardener and the general public. He has regularly appeared on television, radio and stages around the country and internationally. In the last 15 years he has become best known for his work with Australian native succulents and other xerophytes including bottle trees and boabs. Most recently, along with the Australian Government, Attila helped organise a series of postage stamps featuring his favourite plants. For more information, visit www.australiansucculents.com.

 

🌵 POTM: Any caudex

 

📍 AT THE HALL:

Members/Visitors/Guests will need to sign in with the CSSA, this is for Society Insurance purposes and must be completed.

For the all-important Supper Break, please remember to bring your own mug for a cuppa!

The order of proceedings will be as follows (approximate times):

  • 6.00pm Hall will open to set-up the venue (if you can assist with set-up this would be appreciated)
  • 6.45pm Sellers may enter the Hall to set-up their sales
  • 7.00pm Members/Guests/Visitors may enter the Hall
  • 7.30pm Zoom room will open
  • 8.00pm Monthly Gathering starts
  • 10.00pm Gathering close and pack up (if you can assist with pack-up this would be appreciated)

 

🖥 FOR THOSE WISHING TO JOIN THE MEETING VIRTUALLY:

CSS Australia Members are provided the Zoom details via email and the Members-Only FB Group.

If you would like to join the Monthly Gathering Zoom room as a Guest/Visitor, please contact us no later than 24 hours prior to commencement of the Monthly Gathering.

Guests/Visitors are welcome to attend our Monthly Gatherings either at the hall or via Zoom for up to three occasions, after this time, we ask you to become a Member. More information about our Membership is available on our Website (https://cssaustralia.org.au/membership). Membership costs as little as AU$20 ($15 concession holders) a year – so there is no better time to join than now!

 

Event Location
Mount Waverley Youth Centre - Hall A
45 Miller Crescent
Mount Waverley VIC 3149

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