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Don Hodel at Leu Botanical Gardens

SubTropicRay

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SubTropicRay Grand Master

SubTropicRay

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CFPACS will be hosting Don Hodel at Orlando's Leu Botanical Garden Sunday, July 20th.

Don Hodel's Chamaedorea talk - July 20th

Tampa, Interbay Peninsula, Florida, USA

subtropical USDA Zone 10A

Bokeelia, Pine Island, Florida, USA

subtropical USDA Zone 10B

  • 3 weeks later...
SubTropicRay Grand Master

SubTropicRay

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Bump as this is now less than 2 weeks away.

Tampa, Interbay Peninsula, Florida, USA

subtropical USDA Zone 10A

Bokeelia, Pine Island, Florida, USA

subtropical USDA Zone 10B

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I'm planning on being there...why bump for being less than two weeks? Was I supposed to make previous reservations??

Catherine Presley

 

Old Miakka

& Phillippi Creek

Sarasota

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I'm planning on being there...why bump for being less than two weeks? Was I supposed to make previous reservations??

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but I think by "bump" Ray means move the post to the top to remind people because the event is getting closer.

-Brian

Zone 10B, starting 07/01/2013

SubTropicRay Grand Master

SubTropicRay

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You are correct Brian. Here's a three day away bump!

Tampa, Interbay Peninsula, Florida, USA

subtropical USDA Zone 10A

Bokeelia, Pine Island, Florida, USA

subtropical USDA Zone 10B

Creekside Proficient

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I'm planning on being there...why bump for being less than two weeks? Was I supposed to make previous reservations??

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but I think by "bump" Ray means move the post to the top to remind people because the event is getting closer.

-Brian

Thank you, Brian...

Catherine Presley

 

Old Miakka

& Phillippi Creek

Sarasota

_Keith Grand Master

_Keith

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I only wish I could be there to join you all.

One day I will get ahead of this stuff.

Keith

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Walter John Grand Master

Walter John

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How was it folks ?

Happy Gardening

Cheers,

Wal

Queensland, Australia.

SubTropicRay Grand Master

SubTropicRay

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I missed it due to a flat tire on Interstate 4. What a bummer.

Tampa, Interbay Peninsula, Florida, USA

subtropical USDA Zone 10A

Bokeelia, Pine Island, Florida, USA

subtropical USDA Zone 10B

Jeff Searle Grand Master

Jeff Searle

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WHAT ?????? You missed the talk? What a bummer....

Searle Brothers Nursery Inc.

and The Rainforest Collection.

Southwest Ranches,Fl.

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Ray, I'm sorry to hear of your bad luck. We made it just in time due to an emergency stop at my favorite Vietnamese restaurant for lunch. Dr. Hodel covered a number of Chamaedoreas that have been described or renamed (mostly by him) since his book on the genus was published, (including one that grows by long rhizomes - how cool is that?!)

Catherine Presley

 

Old Miakka

& Phillippi Creek

Sarasota

SubTropicRay Grand Master

SubTropicRay

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At least they patched up the tire and a new one was not required. Tires are not cheap.

Tampa, Interbay Peninsula, Florida, USA

subtropical USDA Zone 10A

Bokeelia, Pine Island, Florida, USA

subtropical USDA Zone 10B

Eric in Orlando Grand Master

Eric in Orlando

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At least they patched up the tire and a new one was not required. Tires are not cheap.

I was wondering where you were!

It was a really good presentation and nice photos. I really liked the C. piscifolia.

Eric

Orlando, FL

zone 9b/10a

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Tala

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great minds think alike, the piscifolia was my favorite too, and not just cuz I'm a pisces. I can't find one friggin pic of it anywhere; for those who don't know, it is one of the bifid leaved Chams but at the end of each segment is a protruding piece of foliage not unlike an actual fish's tail. Very kool... his presentation was fantastic, not sure where we would see pics of those palms again.

Hodel toured my place afterwards, what a personable person he is. We were able to discuss the growth rates of certain things here like Bismarckia & Washingtonia vs out west, , ID a previously unknown (to me) Cham., and flowers on a Hyphaene, and observe an Allagoptera branch (I have an arenaria where one of the stems has split the ensuing frond also bifurcated)! Never seen this before. I don't have many Chams at my place (blamed on lack of shade earlier) but I can't do that anymore. Will have to get busy with them now. The funny thing is he & his asst were more interested in the thorough coating of graphiola false smut that engulfs a P.canariensis, maybe more than any palm I showed them...

- dave

Dave-Vero Grand Master

Dave-Vero

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I agree about getting to see some extraordinary photos. It was a really nice day to be in Orlando. Thanks to everyone who had a hand in this event. The little Chamaedoreas in my yard look all the better now.

Leu was looking great, as usual, and the humidity was low enough to make it comfortable. Among all the wonderful palms, cycads, and unusual stuff it was wonderful to see the pair of giant crape myrtles ("Muskogee"?) in flower. With all the myrtle mutilation going on, you rarely see big, well-formed ones in their glory.

Got to see the freshly planted sabal palmettos hiding the billboard. Wonderful. Not to mention a nice Caryota in someone's yard straight ahead of the Mead Garden entrance.

Fla. climate center: 100-119 days>85 F
USDA 1990 hardiness zone 9B
Current USDA hardiness zone 10a
4 km inland from Indian River; 27º N (equivalent to Brisbane)

Central Orlando's urban heat island may be warmer than us

Jeff Searle Grand Master

Jeff Searle

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It's too bad no one took any pictures of the lecture that day. Even one of Ray changing his flat tire would of been acceptable. :mrlooney:

Jeff

Searle Brothers Nursery Inc.

and The Rainforest Collection.

Southwest Ranches,Fl.

SubTropicRay Grand Master

SubTropicRay

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I-4 is not a safe place for tire changing.

Tampa, Interbay Peninsula, Florida, USA

subtropical USDA Zone 10A

Bokeelia, Pine Island, Florida, USA

subtropical USDA Zone 10B

  • 4 weeks later...
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Well, I don't have a pic of Ray changing his tire on I-4 :( - but I do have one of Don speaking to the crowd.

Ray, we missed you - sorry about your flat tire. It was a great presentation. Don covered all of the changes in Chamaedorea since his book - new discoveries as well as nomenclature changes. If you attended the talk and would like to have a record of what Don covered, he wrote an article in the subject which appears in the Winter 2005 (Issue 182) PSSC Journal. Along with his text there are 26 pictures of the "new" Chamaedorea - including the stunning Chamaedorea frondosa, C. piscofolia, C. rossteniorum, C. sullivaniorum and many more.

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Bob Johnson
Orlando, Florida, USA

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