Upcoming Meetings

Winter Weather: Meeting cancellations will be announced by email to members, and on Twitter (http://twitter.com/dcgesneriads).

March Show CANCELLED due to weather: March 8 and 9, 2014: NCAC Show & Sale, "Gesneriads Go to the Movies." We will have a casual meeting on Saturday March 8, 2014 at 10:30 a.m. in the houseplant area of The Behnke Nurseries, 11300 Baltimore Ave, Beltsville, MD 20705 (on US-1, a couple of miles from I-495). Refreshments will be served, and anyone is welcome to stop by to chat about gesneriads.

April 12, 2014, 10:30 a.m. Location: The Behnke Nurseries, 11300 Baltimore Ave, Beltsville, MD 20705 (on US-1, a couple of miles from I-495).

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About the Chapter

The National Capital Area Chapter of The Gesneriad Society is a group of gesneriad enthusiasts in the Washington, D.C. area.

“The purpose of the chapter shall be to afford a convenient and beneficial association of persons interested in gesneriads; to stimulate a widespread interest in the identification, correct nomenclature, culture, and propagation of gesneriads; and to encourage the origination and introduction of new cultivars.” (NCAC bylaws.)

The Mid-Atlantic Regional Gesneriad Show took place on September 29-30, 2012 at Townsend Hall, 531 South College Avenue, University of Delaware Newark, Delaware. Some photographs from the show are available here.

See photos of all plant entries from the 53rd Annual Convention of the Gesneriad Society, which we hosted on June 30-July 4, 2009.

Or, go directly to a slideshow of plants entered by Chapter members in the 2009 Convention.