• cultural notes
• plant competition
• raffles and door prizes
• supper provided by CSSQ
• Committee reports
• slides shows
• lectures by guest- speakers
• special information 'round-robins'
• "Interest Table" - space set aside at each meeting for members to share new books or seed catalogues or magazines, flowering or unusual plants, new C&S equipment or media...

• quality plants at the sales tables
• extensive C&S library
• specially priced C&S pots and chemicals
• C&S seed bank

• opportunities for bus trips to remote members' collections
• the quarterly journal, Dinteranthus
• field day visits to local members' collections

Cultural Notes and Competition: Matucana and Denmoza by Merv Whitehouse.
Special Competition: Turbinicarpus.
Interest Table: Bring a plant in to show other members.
Main Activity: Slides by Greg Daniels (More slides from recent South African trip).

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Cultural Notes and Competition: Euphorbia - prostrate by John Higgins.
Interest Table: Bring a plant in to show other members.
AGM: Selection of committee and other office bearers for 2008.
Main Activity: "Astrophytum - Line Breeding - Growing the Perfect Clone" - A slide presentation by Terry Tierney.

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Cultural Notes and Competition: Copiapoa by Wayne Stewart.
Special Competition: Huernia, Stapelia, Carraluma .
Interest Table: Bring a plant in to show other members.
CSSQ Show Discussion: Introductory requirements for June show by Marie D'Alton and Ruth Higgins.
Main Activity: "Greenhouse, shadehouse, or bushhouse - What factors should you consider when setting one up?" Round robin discussion led by Stephen Haase and Wayne Stewart.

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Cultural Notes and Competition: Pleiospilos, Lapidaria, Agyroderma and Chieridopsis by Greg Daniels.
Interest Table: Bring a plant in to show other members.
June Show Discussion: Judging, sales, display requirements.
Main Activity: "Cactus and succulents of the Sonoran Desert" by Paul Forster.

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Cultural Notes and Competition: Sansevieria by Lou Randall.
Interest Table: Bring a plant in to show other members.
Special Competition: Aeonium.
June Show Discussion: Final wrap-up on judging, sales (tickets/delivery/timing), and display requirements.
Main Activity: "Pseudolithos - How to grow them in Queensland" by Terry Tierney.
Secondary Activity: Slides from Lynn and Jim Faulkner's Field Day.

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Cultural Notes and Competition: Mexican Crassulaceae by Marie D'Alton.
Interest Table: Bring a plant in to show other members.
CSSQ Show feedback report by Ruth Higgins, Greg Daniels and Paul Forster.
Main Activity: "Growing succulents - Mixes, pots, watering, seasonal variations, propagation." Round robin discussion on all aspects of growing succulents. Hosted by Ruth Higgins and Merv Whitehouse.

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Cultural Notes and Competition: Aloe by Paul Forster.
Special Competition: Hechtia.
Interest Table: Bring a plant in to show other members.
Mystery plant ID: Bring in plants without labels and let other members identify them.
Main Activity: Succulent flowers - Slides by members on any cactus or succulent flower.

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Cultural Notes and Competition: Caudiciforms other than Pachypodium or Adenium by Terry Tierney.
Interest Table: Bring a plant in to show other members.
Special competition: Adromischus.
Next year's programme: Discussions and suggestions welcome for next year's programme.
Main Activity: Slides on gardening using succulents by Paul Forster.

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Cultural Notes and Competition: Parodia by Merv Whitehouse.
Special competition: Retuse Haworthia.
Interest Table: Bring a plant in to show other members.
Main Activity: Talk by Lou Randall (possibly on Panama trip) - TBC.

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Guest speaker from another group or society. TBC.
Special competition: Variegated plants - cactus or succulents.

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Cultural Notes and Competition: None.
Interest Table: None.
Main Activity:
CHRISTMAS SOCIAL and MONSTER RAFFLE.
Bring in plants and other Christmas gifts for our huge end of year raffle. Members to bring in a plate of eats for Christmas break-up social that follows raffle.

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