Remembering Lee Horton

Remembering Lee Horton

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by Kim Schultz, SCPS Past President Lee Horton (Left) and SCPS Past President Roland Dubuc (Right) Lee Horton, long-time SCPS board member, plumeria developer, and SCPS Lifetime Achievement Award winner, passed away in his sleep on July 18, 2020. He was a gentle, kind, generous man with one of the biggest hearts I’ve ever seen. Along with his departed partner Roland Dubuc, he was one of the Society’s most dedicated members; they were always among the first to arrive and last to leave a meeting or sale. Among the more beautiful Horton/Dubuc varieties developed are Jeanne Cecile, Midnight, Mary Helen’s Rainbow, Dawn Sullivan, and Kim Schultz. Even though Lee served for many years as the head cashier at our SCPS sales, many of his contributions went unnoticed or unacknowledged. Lee was an acclaimed and accomplished international lovebird competition judge, and when our flower show began, he helped to develop high standards in the SCPS flower show and created the original judging classifications for...
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Remembering Betty Feldman

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by Kim Schultz, SCPS Past President Bill Pack (Left), Betty Feldman (Center) and her husband Dave Feldman (Right) Plumeria ohana, we are sad to report the passing of former SCPS board member and SCPS President’s Award winner Betty Feldman on Saturday, June 6th. She was ninety and a half. She and her husband Dave, who preceded her in death in March 2019, were longtime members of SCPS. Betty served as Publicity chair, making sure the meetings and sale events were posted in every local library and the local newspapers (and once, memorably, in Sunset magazine). Betty renamed the “Annual Plumeria Plant Sale and Show” the “Hawaiian Plumeria Festival” when she shrewdly noted that flower sales and shows did not get print coverage, but festivals always did—and she gave us a new goal to shoot for in terms of expanding our Labor Day event, even if it took us a few years to grow up to that name. Betty also clinched the first television...
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Free tree trimming service

Free tree trimming service

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In keeping with the Society's aims of promoting the understanding and research of plumeria, we have established an educational outreach fund to support academic scientific research on plumerias as well as to educate prospective landscapers and designers about the beauty and ease of plumeria in the landscape. In order to meet its educational outreach goals, the Society relies on donations from its members and the general public. If you have plumeria trees that need trimming, the Society has experienced members standing by ready to assist. All cuttings will be donated to the SCPS, which will sell the cuttings. All proceeds will go to the SCPS educational outreach fund. Please fill out the tree trimming request form below. We will typically respond within 72 hours. NOTE: Orange County residents should feel free to contact our sister organization, the South Coast Plumeria Society, to ask about their tree-trimming services....
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