Our magazine Chatter appears four times a year and presents its readers, the members of AVSC, with timely articles on growing and showing African violets and their relatives in the gesneriad plant family.

Also included are news from the African violet world such as Coming Events where you can learn about upcoming shows and other events and Showstoppers which features lists of winning plants and their exhibitors at recent shows.

There are advertisements from commercial growers across the country to help you find the plants or plant products you need.

A question-and-answer column is available to help growers having problems or needing advice.

The news of our annual Convention is also published in the magazine along with items covering AVSC business.

If you think you would like to start receiving Chatter at your home, just go to the Join AVSC page. Our membership application form is available to you there.

If you think you would like to explore a little bit of Chatter, click here to see a sample article in PDF format. The current sample is an article on light for African violets and contains valuable information for those who wish to grow plants in artificial light.

AVSC members, we hope you enjoy your January-March 2010 issue of Chatter (above) which will be in your hands soon. 

The line-up of the four issues of Chatter mailed to our members in 2009 is shown above. Anyone who enjoys African violets and their gesneriad relatives, is invited to join AVSC and receive Chatter. See our Join AVSC page for details and the application form.

Click here to view a sample article from Chatter in Personal Document Format (PDF).

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