CFPACS 2nd Annual Festival of Palms

[Bob Johnson]

The Central Florida Palm & Cycad Society is proud to announce the 2nd Annual Festival of Palms at the Florida Institute of Technology Botanical Garden in Melbourne on Saturday, October 24th.

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Free palm seedlings and palm seeds will be available while they last. A Palm and Cycad Sale will run during the entire event with over 150 varieties available.

Throughout the day there will be talks on various aspects of palm gardening. The FIT Botanical Garden was started by FIT founding president Jerome Keuper with the assistance of Dent Smith, founding president of The Palm Society (which is now IPS).

The Festival of Palms will run from 10 am to 3 pm. Please park and enter through the South Babcock Street parking lot. Food and drinks will be available throughout the event at the Evans Dining Hall, just north of the Botanical Garden.

Schedule:

10 am - 3 pm - Palm & Cycad Sale

10:30 am - Talk #1

11:30 am - Talk #2

1 pm - Talk #3

FIT Address: 150 W. University Blvd, Melbourne, Florida 32901.

FIT Web Site: http://www.fit.edu/

Directions

From the North or South

Take 1 95 to Melbourne. Take exit 180 for US-192 toward W Melbourne/Melbourne.

Turn onto W New Haven Ave/US-192 east toward Melbourne. Turn right at S Babcock St/SR-507. Parking lot and entrance to the FIT Botanical Garden is on the West side of S. Babcok St. between Southgate Blvd. and University Blvd.

From the West

Take US-192 east to Melbourne. Turn right at S Babcock St/SR-507. Parking lot and entrance to the FIT Botanical Garden is on the West side of S. Babcok St. between Southgate Blvd. and University Blvd.

For pictures of the FIT Botanical Garden please see last year's thread: http://www.palmtalk.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=14664

[Bob Johnson]

For further info, please see the Festival of Palms page at the CFPACS web site.

[Bob Johnson]

A few last minute details:

Talk Schedule

10:30 am - Dr. John Kennedy will give a presentation on suggested palms for the Space and Treasure Coasts.

11:30 am - Tom Broome will address various issues on growing cycads in Central Florida

1 pm - Justin McSweeny will discuss ways to keep your palms healthy through pest management, fertilization and nutritional supplements.

Optional Garden Tour

Scott Ward has offered to open up his garden to any that were unable to tour his garden during the September 12 CFPACS meeting. (If you are interested in a repeat viewing, I am sure that he would be glad to accommodate you as well)

Directions to Scott Ward’s: Take I-95 to Exit 180 (US 192), take 192 east all the way across the Melbourne causeway. Riverside Drive is the first street you come to when you cross the Melbourne causeway (over the Indian River). Go right on Riverside Drive to Orlando Blvd. Scott’s is on the left, 500 Orlando Blvd. Parking is at Orlando Park, adjacent to Scott’s. email: fpward@mriresearch.org, tel. (321) 952-4085

Sale Plant List

Please see the CFPACS web site for the sale plant list.

[Moose]

Sounds like another fantastic Florida PRA! Wish I could attend but I have commitments down south.