Cactus:		Advanced • Novice   Something mostrose
Succulents:		Advanced • Novice   Something black
Something Special:		Advanced • Novice   Variegated plant (or your choice)
Beginners' Luck:		Novice Only   Something purple

Make Your Own Succulent Pumpkin! with Judy Hecht

Judy Hecht will show you how to turn a mini pumpkin into your own Fall themed succulent planter. Bring your own mini pumpkin. One that is 4-6" in diameter with a nice flat top works well, see photo for the approximate size to look for. Bonus if it has a fun stem to work with!

We encourage you to bring in any natural ephemera, such as acorns, cedar pine cones, small seed pods, and juniper berries. Dusty Miller cuttings make a great accent! If you would like to bring in fun items like buttons, feel free.

We’ll have glue guns to share, but if you would like to bring in one as well that would be wonderful! We will have nitrile gloves available.

Any succulent cuttings that you’d like to contribute to the activity are encouraged. We anticipate a full turnout, and will need lots of plant material. Think about what is in proportion to the pumpkin…small to medium, rather than large. These are some of the types that are suggested by our presenter:

There are a limited number of slots available for this hands on activity. Please email programs@csssj.org to reserve a spot.

Participation in the workshop is not required to attend the meeting: you can still observe, mingle and enjoy the mini show.

About the presenter:
Judy Hecht has been a Master Gardener since 2007. Her gardening emphasis is on succulents, which she has been playing with since the 1980s, but her nemeses are lithops. Judy leads the succulent group at Martial Cottle Park, where you can find her on Wednesday and Saturday mornings. There is also a succulent sale there the third Saturday of each month from 9:00 to noon.

Judy is also an Oma, a gardener, a reader, hiker, bread baker, jam maker, and Burner.