CACSS 2025 Calendar
2025 CACSS Monthly Club Meetings and Key Event Schedule
Due to the club’s preference of meeting in Dorrance Hall, we need to be flexible in adjusting our meeting dates to accommodate receiving this space (free of charge) where we comfortably fit a growing membership and an active auction. We are grateful to the Desert Botanical Garden for providing our meeting space and for supporting our projects.
In 2025 we returned to our Annual Show and Sale event featuring a full Show in Dorrance Hall and over 20 vendors selling fantastic plants in Boppart Courtyard. Circle your calendars for March 27, 28, 29 2026 for the 2026 Annual Show and Sale.
Monthly Meeting: Sunday, January 12
Setup: 12:30 pm. Meet & Greet: 1:00 pm. Meeting: 2:00 pm sharp. Silent Auction follows.
Daniel Gruber: Ecology: The Interconnectedness of All That Exists
Desert Botanical Garden, 1201 N Galvin Pkwy, Phoenix, AZ 85008, Dorrance Hall
Monthly Meeting: Sunday, February 2
Setup: 12:30 pm. Meet & Greet: 1:00 pm. Meeting: 2:00 pm sharp. Silent Auction follows.
Nature’s Medicine Cabinet: Plants of the Sonoran Desert
Desert Botanical Garden, 1201 N Galvin Pkwy, Phoenix, AZ 85008, Dorrance Hall
Monthly Meeting: Sunday, March 9
Setup: 12:30 pm. Meet & Greet: 1:00 pm. Meeting: 2:00 pm sharp. Silent Auction follows.
Microbial Friends and Foes: A Primer on Plant Pathology and Symbiosist
Desert Botanical Garden, 1201 N Galvin Pkwy, Phoenix, AZ 85008, Dorrance Hall
PEG: Propagation Education Group: Saturday, March 22
9:00 am – 11:00 am
The New Normal – Why do they look like that?
Desert Botanical Garden, Dorrance Hall.
Annual Show & Sale March 26 - 30:
CACSS' Annual Show and Sale event features a full Show in Dorrance Hall and over 20 vendors selling fantastic plants in Boppart Courtyard. Circle your calendars for Members Only Wednesday, March 26th – 27th 2025, and open to the public March 28 - 30, 2025.
Desert Botanical Garden, 1201 N Galvin Pkwy, Phoenix, AZ 85008: Dorrance Hall & Boppart Courtyard
Monthly Meeting: Sunday, May 4
Setup: 12:30 pm. Meet & Greet: 1:00 pm. Meeting: 2:00 pm sharp. Silent Auction follows.
Latin For Cactus And Succulent Lovers
Desert Botanical Garden, 1201 N Galvin Pkwy, Phoenix, AZ 85008: Dorrance Hall
PEG: Propagation Education Group: Saturday, May 10
9:00 am – 11:00 am
Desert Botanical Garden, 1201 N Galvin Pkwy, Phoenix, AZ 85008: Dorrance Hall
Monthly Meeting: Sunday, May 25
Setup: 12:30 pm. Meet & Greet: 1:00 pm. Meeting: 2:00 pm sharp. Silent Auction follows.
Expanding the Cactus Collection at the DBG
Desert Botanical Garden, 1201 N Galvin Pkwy, Phoenix, AZ 85008: Dorrance Hall
Mastering Cactus Grafting: Techniques for Healthy and Unique Succulents: Saturday, June 21
June 21, 2025 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Zoom Webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84722126051?pwd=B5a40WQwH59gyyX7if7UzKBxb3zMMa.1
Mastering Cactus Grafting: Techniques for Healthy and Unique Succulents
Zoom Webinar
Monthly Meeting: Sunday, June 22
Setup: 12:30 pm. Meet & Greet: 1:00 pm. Meeting: 2:00 pm sharp. Silent Auction follows.
Harvesting And Eating Mesquite
Desert Botanical Garden, 1201 N Galvin Pkwy, Phoenix, AZ 85008: Dorrance Hall
PEG: Propagation Education Group: Saturday, July 12
9:00 am – 11:00 am
101 Reasons you really should be growing at least some Gymnocalycium
Desert Botanical Garden, 1201 N Galvin Pkwy, Phoenix, AZ 85008: Dorrance Hall
Monthly Meeting: Sunday, July 27
Setup: 12:30 pm. Meet & Greet: 1:00 pm. Meeting: 2:00 pm sharp. Silent Auction follows.
The Sonoran Desert: Views from the Desert Laboratory and Beyond.
Desert Botanical Garden, 1201 N Galvin Pkwy, Phoenix, AZ 85008: Dorrance Hall
Rare and Protected Cacti and Succulents of Arizona: Sunday, August 24
Setup: 12:30 pm. Meet & Greet: 1:00 pm. Meeting: 2:00 pm sharp. Silent Auction follows.
Rare and Protected Cacti and Succulents of Arizona
Desert Botanical Garden, 1201 N Galvin Pkwy, Phoenix, AZ 85008: Dorrance Hall
PEG: Propagation Education Group: Saturday, September 13
9:00 am – 11:00 am
The Pachycaul Trees–Not Suitable for Climbing, but Great for Growing
Desert Botanical Garden, 1201 N Galvin Pkwy, Phoenix, AZ 85008: Dorrance Hall
Monthly Meeting: Biology Through The Lens Of Cacti : Sunday, September 28
Setup: 12:30 pm. Meet & Greet: 1:00 pm. Meeting: 2:00 pm sharp. Silent Auction follows.
Biology Through The Lens Of Cacti
Desert Botanical Garden, 1201 N Galvin Pkwy, Phoenix, AZ 85008: Dorrance Hall
Guided Walk at Spur Cross Conservation Area: Sunday, November 2
8 a.m. sharp, November 2, 2025
Guided Walk at Spur Cross Conservation Area
44000 N. Spur Cross Road, Cave Creek, AZ 85331