At our August 26 meeting our speaker will be Craig Fry. Craig has been growing cacti and succulents for over 20 years, and has specialized in growing rare and difficult plants. He and his wife Denise, now have a collection of over 3000 species and varieties of almost every type of succulent, consisting of mostly small and slow growing collector type plants. They grow many from seed, and sell plants and top dressings under the name “C and D Plants” and just started a new web site “CandDPlants.com”. During the Spring and Fall, they take numerous camping excursions into the desert for rock hounding, photographing wildlife, enjoying nature, and sifting sand.
Craig has a degree in Biology from UCSB and works as an Air Pollution Chemist. He is also well known in the world of Rock and Mountain Climbing and is the author two Rock Climbing Guide books for the local climbing areas.
