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Nov 8 and 9, 2025, South Florida Palm Society Palm Show and Sale, Fairchild Garden, Coral Gables, FL
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Palms, Cycads and Paintings at Fairchild. And Palm Tours! We invite you to the SFPS Fall Sale, Nov 8 and 9, between the hours of 10:00 am to 5:00 PM at Fairchild Garden in Coral Gables. The sale will feature hard-to-find palms and cycads. We expect that over 300 species of palms will be for sale. Our local growers will be on hand to offer expert advice. The sale will be held in the palmetum, where many of garden's rare palms are growing, so we will have palm tours on both Saturday and Sunday. In addition, a local artist, Linda Apriletti, will join us, offering with her beautiful "plein air" style of oil based paintings. Many scenes will seem very familiar to Florid…
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It has been confirmed that CFPACS will have a booth at this event. Please stop by and enjoy the celebration after two years in operation. In years past, it was standard practice that CFPACS members get in free of charge if they wear their shirt. We can confirm and update this post, either way. Our West VP is the start of the show at 9:30AM for the fertilizer talk. If you're a member planning on hanging out for a while, bring a chair and hang out at our booth if your legs get tired.
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2025 CFPACS Holiday Meeting LOCATION: Rob Branch’s Private Garden, 1315 38th St., Sarasota, FL 34234 DATE: Saturday, December 6th, 2025 TIME: 10:00AM - 4:00PM NOTE: The main dish for lunch will be provided. We'll have lunch onsite. Plan on bringing: A side, salad, or desert to share A plant for the auction (Palms, Cycads, Companion plants) A chair for your own personal enjoyment! Please RSVP to cfpacs.membership@gmail.com so we can provide an accurate head count for our lunch order. For your enjoyment: Our meeting right before the pandemic stay-at-home orders: Central Florida Palm & Cycad Soci…
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CFPACS Fall Meeting The meeting is scheduled to start on Saturday, October 4th, 2025, at 10:00 AM in the Longwood area south of Wekiva Springs. Please send an RSVP to cfpacs.membership@gmail.com. The itinerary is included below: Site 1: Private Garden in Longwood Time: 10:00AM - 12:00PM Address: Given to those who RSVP Description: This garden is the "Wekiva Wonder", as coined by the Orlando Sentinel 2002 full page spread. The garden was also featured in and filmed for HGTV "Look What I Did". Matilde and I moved here in 1989 and I keep creating themed areas with architectural features and garden plantings. The yard is 1.5 ac…
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We are pleased to announce that CFPACS will have a table at St. Johns Botanical Garden and Nature Preserve for their celebration of their first full year after the grand opening. If you are a CFPACS member and wear your CFPACS shirt, the admission fee is waived. There will be food and live entertainment in similar fashion to last year's event, and hopefully without the heavy rain the night before the event. The garden boasts palms nearly unheard of in Florida such as Chrysalidocarpus decipiens and Rhopalostylis baueri. LOCATION: 8310 County Road 13 South, Hastings, FL, 32145 DATES and TIMES: Saturday, October 19th, 2024 + Sunday, October 20th, 2024 Open…
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Garden and Croton Party April 26
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PSSC BANQUET FREE TO PSSC MEMBERS AND ONE GUEST
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cfpacs CFPACS Website Update
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Those who receive our emails were notified of multiple updates to our website. These were shared last evening: The tagline under the title has been changed to Preservation, Education, and Commitment. The itinerary for the 2024 Holiday meeting is now on the Home page. https://cfpacs.com/org/ The About Us section has a new look more consistent with what used to be published in The Palmateer. https://cfpacs.com/org/about-us/ The previous Palmateer section has been set to open without a password and contains links to a plethora of web resources and our previous publications. h…
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Hawaii Island Palm Society - Sept, 20, 2025 tour at the garden of George and Lynn Peavy
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If you live on or are visiting the Big Island, consider joining the Hawaii Island Palm Society as we tour the garden of George and Lynn Peavy on Sept, 20. This west side garden tour is being offered for the first time. Their garden includes over 300 individual palms representing 124 species, including all 4 species of Johannesteijsmannia, 3 species of Raphia (regalia, hookerii, and mambillensis), Geonoma atrovirens, Sclerosperma mannii, Schippa concolor, Voaniola gerardii, and 3 of the 5 species of Pritchardia native to the Big Island. To learn more about the Hawaii Island Palm Society or about this garden tour, click here. From George and Lynn: …
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Save the Date! September 6th in the East Bay Hello Palm Friends! Please register for our next meeting which will be held on: DATE: Saturday, September 6, 2…
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Hey All! Letting you know that we will have a presence in Orchids at the Park on July 26-27 in the County Fair Building at the at the San Francisco Botanical Gardens. We hope to see you there. Orchids in the Park; https://www.orchidsanfrancisco.org/orchid-in-the-park-2025.html And, news on our most recent event on July 12:
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Southeastern Palm Society meeting in Brunswick, GA on Feb 24th
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Greetings, I will be hosting the February 24th meeting for the Southeastern Palm Society in Brunswick, GA, if anyone would be interested in attending. We will enjoy a walking tour around 10 am of my 1/2 acre downtown yard landscaped with 45+ palm varieties, 20 varieties of cycads, and various citrus, bromeliads and other subtropicals which are thriving unprotected in a warm 9a coastal Georgia climate. If interested, email me for details. Or you can join our society for free (below link) and begin to receive our quarterly newsletter and information/details regarding our future meetings. Best regards, Jim https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd…
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CFPACS 2025 Summer Meeting Date: Saturday, June 7th, 2025 Please RSVP to cfpacs.membership@gmail.com prior to the meeting. We will only email the addresses for the sites to members who have sent an RSVP. Site 1: A Private Garden in Saint Augustine South Time: 10:00AM – 11:00AM Site Address: Will be given to those who RSVP. Description: We have lived here for 42 years and our garden has 22 different species of palms and has a tropical look for this far north. We also have a large mango tree, two starfruit trees, and many flowering plants. The front yard is very sunny and the backyard is a shady, coastal live oak hammock with palms in the understory. …
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CFPACS 2025 Spring Meeting Date: Saturday, March 15th, 2025 Please RSVP to cfpacs.membership@gmail.com prior to the meeting. First Site: A Private Garden in Merritt Island Time: 10:00AM – 12:00PM Address: will be given to those who RSVP. Information about the garden from the owners: We are on a small 10,000 sf lot located in Merritt Island on a canal that leads to the Banana River, USDA zone 10a. We have lived in this house for about 6 years now. I have always held an interest in gardening but rarely have I been actively engaged in it. After picking some Christmas Palm seeds up off the gr…
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Please tentatively mark Saturday, December 7th, 2024 on your calendar for the Holiday meeting in Sarasota. More details to come as we approach the end of the year.
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Our Summer Meeting is tentatively slated for Saturday, June 15th, 2024 in Lakeland, FL. A few details for the meeting are still being hammered out, so mark your calendars and keep your eyes peeled for the full itinerary in the coming weeks. A link to the Fall 2022 Meeting in Lakeland, FL: https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/topic/73966-central-florida-palm-cycad-society-fall-meeting-sat-10222022/
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PSSC MAY 2025 MEETING IN SEAL BEACH, OC CA
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Everyone, we are pleased to announce that the PSSC's meeting on May 17, 2025 will be in Seal Beach, Orange County, in two gardens, by the sea. One is older, the other is relatively new. The last time the older garden (Snyder's) hosted a PSSC meeting was in the 1990s, about 30 years ago. Garden No. 1: Home and garden of Kenny Lam, 4741 Ironwood Ave, Seal Beach, CA 90740. Mr. Lam has been growing palms at his current location for 13 years. Several of his beauties were planted in his early years there, after he replaced much of the native clay soil with a more grow-friendly mixture. On approach to his property, a blue Bismarckia nobilis and a "Silver Sword" …
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Hello Palm Friends! Please save the date for our the Northern California Chapter of the IPS meeting which will be held on: DATE: Saturday, March 29, 2025 from 12:00 - 4:00 pm LOCATION: The Garden of Dale Motiska in Vacaville, California Dale Motiska will open his garden to the society on March 29, from Noon to 4 pm. Dale has been planting and upgrading his Vacaville estate for over 40 years. The nearly 30 acre property contains hundreds of adult palms sprawling across beautifully imagined and creatively managed garden areas that take advantage of Vacaville’s unique microclimate. The garden includes a subtropical poolside oasis with palms, cycads and …
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You're invited to the Palm Beach Palm & Cycad Society's annual Spring Sale Saturday, April 12th 9am-3pm No sales before 9am! Mounts Botanical Garden 531 N. Military Trail West Palm Beach, FL 33415 Hundreds species of palms & cycads in all shapes and sizes, palm special fertilizer, palm and cycad reference books, Palm Beach Palm & Cycad Society t-shirts and hats will be available for purchase Mounts and Palm society members free entrance to the garden
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The Palm Society of South Texas will be holding their April meeting at the garden of Dr. Romeo Montalvo on a Saturday (TBD) beginning at 12:00 noon. I will update this thread with more details when they become available. Reservations will need to be made prior to the meeting and a link to a form will be posted. If you have any questions regarding this meeting or PSST membership please contact the PSST secretary Maria Escobedo at 956-465-9085. If there's any interest in starting up a local chapter such as the former Houston chapter please contact the PSST president Chuck Malloy at 850-322-4907.
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PSSC MARCH 2025 MEETING MARCH 15 - The Ides of March
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Everyone: Mark your calendar for the Ides of March; the PSSC's March 15, 2025 meeting is in northern San Diego County in two outstanding gardens. GARDEN NO. 1: The first garden is that of Michael and Joyce Masterson, 2038 Arborwood Pl. Escondido Ca 92029. Mike is a true plant addict who had worked at the San Diego Zoo and Wild Animal Park in horticulture for forty years. He and his wife Joyce started started their garden in 1991 and have primarily focused on planting rare and unusual palms and other plants of distinction. Some of the notable palms in this garden are: Allagoptera leucocalyx, Brahea nidita, B. moorei, Butia archeri, Chamandorea fragr…
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Leu Gardens Spring Plant sale, this weekend, March 8-9, 2025
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Leu Gardens Spring Plant Sale March 8 & 9, 2025 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. (8-9am both days for Leu Garden members) FREE Admission all Weekend! Make sure you bring a wagon or plant cart for your purchases. Rain or shine. No pets. Over 50 vendors will be selling a variety of plants including: annuals, bamboo, bromeliads, butterfly plants, camellias, ferns, flowering shrubs and trees, fruit trees, gingers, heliconias, herbs, native plants, orchids, palms, plumerias, roses, succulents, vines and more! Plus, we will have some great outdoor garden accessories! There will be food and treats to purchase .Make sure you bring a wagon or plant cart for your purchase…
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The Central Florida Palm and Cycad Society is slated to host a booth at the Plantae–palooza Garden Festival. Enjoy the tropical landscaping, buy some plants, and enjoy some good food! Date: Saturday, February 22nd, 2025 Time: 9:00AM -2:30PM Location: Hollis Gardens in Downtown Lakeland, FL 702 E Orange St, Lakeland, FL 33801 CFPACS Events: https://cfpacs.com/org/events/ More information will be posted as it becomes available. We were at the sale in 2023 and nearly sold out of plants! 2023 Sale Thread: https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/topic/76607-plantae–palooza-garden-festival-formerly-plantopia-satur…
