Los Angeles Cactus & Succulent Society
Next meeting: FIRST THURSDAY of the Month
Doors open 6:15PM
One Generation, 18255 Victory Blvd, Reseda, CA
Next meeting: FIRST THURSDAY of the Month Doors open 6:15PM One Generation, 18255 Victory Blvd, Reseda, CA
Come and Visit!
Welcome to the website of the Los Angeles Cactus and Succulent Society. Our nearly 200 members come from throughout the southland and share a passion for cacti and succulents. Throughout the history of LACSS, many of the most prominent researchers, authors, and collectors of the succulent world have been leaders and members of our society.
LACSS meets monthly in the San Fernando Valley to enjoy stimulating presentations, hands-on workshops, plant sales, mini-shows, drawings, trading, and other activities. In addition, LACSS offers field trips to member gardens, nurseries, and private collections. We serve the greater community by offering free educational activities, and presenting an exciting annual Spring and Winter Sales.
In order to share the joys and benefits of collecting and cultivating cacti and succulents, we invite you to check out our general meetings on the 1st Thursday of each month at ONEgeneration Senior Enrichment Center at 18255 Victory Blvd in Reseda California.
Doors open at 6:15 for the Social Hour, Ask an Expert, and much more. The business meeting starts promptly at 7pm. Attendance is FREE and open to the public. Each new visitor receives a free plant! We hope to see you at a meeting soon.
June Program
Panel on cultivation/propagation.
There will be staging demos from Karen and Artie to prepare for the showing at Inter-City.
Refreshments
Last names beginning in U, V, W, X, Y, Z & anyone who missed
Marketplace Theme
Trading of plants. Bring any items you would like to consider trading with other members.
Eli Cohen, currently a student at Pasadena City College and a propagator of many fascinating arid plants! My fixation with the unusual forms, lives, and adaptations of xerophytic plants is a lifelong passion that started over a decade ago. I hope to share some of the joy and beauty I have discovered in pockets of the world that may be overlooked, or other aspects of the natural world that don’t always get the limelight, starting with California’s superb deserts.
Emily Diebold has been interested in plants her whole life and has been growing succulents since 2017. She currently works for Kyle's Plants.
Jan first began collecting succulents, mostly cacti, in the late 1960’s inspired by a neighbors collection. When the neighbor, Manny Singer started a small nursery I worked there part time learning to pot, water, and propagate plant cuttings.
As the nursery grew imported Euphorbias, Pachypodiums, and caudiciforms imported from Africa. The unusual shapes of these Seussian wonders fascinated me and I soon focused my collecting on them. During the seventies I made several trips to Baja California to see the more local exotics. Sixty years later I am still growing Euphorbias and odd African species, and can often be found driving around the Mojave and Sonoran deserts seeking out plants in habitat.
Plants of the Month
May 2026
Cactus
Epiphytic
Succulent
Lithops