Use this list to find a chapter in your area. It's a great way to meet other gesneriad enthusiasts! If you are planning a trip, see if there is a chapter in the area. Visitors are always welcome!

No chapter in your area? Want to start one, or find other Gesneriad Society members nearby? Contact our  Chapters and Affiliates Chairperson.

Be sure to check the listing of Gesneriad Society Chapter meeting anouncements for specific meeting information submitted by the chapters.

We have also provided this list of Gesneriad Society Officers, Directors, and Committee Chairpersons.

Arizona

  Desert Sun African Violet and Gesneriad Society

President, Thelma Heinrich. More information is available on the chapter website or by email.

California

  San Francisco Gesneriad Society

President, Alan LaVergne. More information is available on the chapter website or by email.

  Culver City Chapter

President, Emmit Willis.

  Delta Gesneriad & African Violet Society

President, Lynn Lombard.  More information is available on the chapter website or by email.

  Grow and Study Chapter

President, Jacquie Eisenhut, 22800 Eriel Ave., Torrance, CA 90505-3011

  Peninsula Chapter

President, Gene Sussli, 1734 Wolfe Drive, San Mateo CA 94402-2621
Email contact

Colorado

  Gloxinia Gesneriad Growers

President, Larry Boyer. For more info, please visit our Website

Connecticut

  Connecticut Chapter

Email contact: Marcia Kilpatrick 139 Kenyon Rd. Hampton, CT 06247-1112

Delaware

  The Delaware African Violet and Gesneriad Society

President, Mary Schaeffer. More information is available on the chapter website or by email.

Florida

  Caribbean Basin African Violet and Gesneriad Society

President, Karen Lieux 8054 SW 133 CT., Miami, Florida 33184

  Suncoast Chapter

President, Jeanne Katzenstein. Meetings are temporarily suspended. Anyone interested in attending gesneriad meetings/programs in the area, please see the Tampa Bay Chapter listing as guests are welcome anytime at their monthly Saturday meetings.

  Tampa Bay Chapter

President, Jay Sespico, 515 Summer Sails Drive, Valrico, FL 33594

  Bloomin' Violets & Gesneriads of Palm Beach

Contacts, Martha Spyridon, 3548 Ensign Circle, Delray Beach, FL 33483 and Lynn DiMaio, 2319 Treasure Isle Dr., #49, Palm Beach Gardens, FL, 33710. (Affiliate chapter)

Georgia

  Atlanta Gesneriad Interest Group

Contact, Kathy Spissman, 4086 Brownlee Dr., Tucker, GA 30084

Illinois

  Northern Illinois Chapter

President, Bob Nicholson.   More information is available at the chapter website or by email.

Kansas/Missouri

  Heart of America

President, Doris Carson. More information is available at the chapter website or by email.

Massachusetts

  New England Chapter

President, Leslie Milde, PO Box 14, Fremont, NH 03044. More information is available at the chapter website or by email.

 

Michigan

  Southeastern Michigan Chapter

President, Richard Holzman. More information is available by email.

Minnesota

  Twin Cities Area Chapter

President, Jinean Schofield, 4665 Morris Lane, Bloomington, MN 55437
More information is available at the chapter website or by email.

Missouri

  Gateway West Chapter

President, Gary Dunlap, 4189 Jarvis Rd, Hillsboro, MO 63050
More information is available at the chapter website or by email.

Nebraska/Iowa

  Omaha Chapter
       President  Joyce Stork,  Contact Tom Bruning, 31233 Beechnut Rd., Council Bluffs, IA 51503

New Hampshire

  Granite State African Violet & Gesneriad Society

Lisa DiMambro, 182 Old Chester Turnpike, Chester, NH  03036-4016 Visit the Chapter Web Site

New Jersey

  Frelinghuysen Arboretum Chapter

President, President,  Karyn Cichocki. More information is available by email.

New York

  The African Violet and Gesneriad Society of Western New York

President, Judy Niemira, 12 Dappled Dr., East Amherst, NY 14051
Visit the Chapter Website

 African Violet and Gesneriad Society of Rochester

President, Stacey Davis. More information is available by email.

  Greater New York Gesneriad Society

President, Bruce Boyd 165 West End Avenue (2B), New York, NY 10023

Visit the Chapter Web Site 

  Long Island Gesneriad Society

President, Sylvia Svitak, 85-51 169th St., Jamaica, NY 11432
Visit the Chapter Web Site

  Vestal African Violet and Gesneriad Society

President: Lee Stradley. More information is available at the chapter website or by email.

Ohio

 North Coast Gesneriad Club

        President Linda Neumann. More information is available at the chapter website or by email.

Oregon

  Mt. Hood Chapter

President, Hal Shrauger. More information is available by email.

Pennsylvania

  Liberty Bell Chapter

President, Steven Maciejewski, 2030 Fitzwater Street, Philadelphia, PA 19146
Visit the Chapter Web Site

Tennessee

  Tennessee Chapter

President, Carol Ann Bonner 3705 Tibbs Drive, Nashville, TN 37211-3413
Visit the Chapter Web Site

Washington

  Puget Sound Chapter

M.J. Tyler,  POB 425, Indianola, WA 98342. More information is available at the chapter website or by email.

Washington, D.C.

  National Capital Area Chapter

Brian Connor, 3003 East Monument Street, Baltimore MD 21205
Visit the Chapter Web Site

Canada

  Carefree Gesneriad Society

President, Elaine Stutt
Contact: Gloria Martin, 298 Michener Dr., Regina, SK S4V 0J4, Canada
Email Contact: President, Elaine Stutt

 

  Edmonton Chapter
       President, Doreen Dragon , 14 Gareth Place, St. Albert, AB.  T8N3K5  Canada

 

  Toronto Gesneriad Society
       President, Suzie Larouche
       Visit the Chapter Web Site  

 

  Vancouver African Violet and Gesneriad Society

President, Marianne Moore. Meetings are on the third Sunday of each month (except in July, August and December), from 1:30 to 4 p.m.,  in the Cedar Room of Van Dusen Botanical Gardens at W. 37th Avenue & Oak Street in Vancouver. More information is available at the chapter website or by email.

Sweden

  Gesneriasts of Sweden

President, Margareta Edquist. More information is available at the chapter website or by email.

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