South Florida Palm Society's annual Palm sale is at Montgomery Botanical Center.

[Mandrew968]

Greetings fellow Palmtalkers! I am pleased to announce the annual palm sale for the South Florida Palm Society(SFPS) will be held at the world famous Montgomery Botanical Center(MBC) during the 9th and 10th of March 2013.

Admission is $5.00 except for annual and lifetime SFPS members and MBC members.

Parking will be held next door at Gulliver Academy. BBQ will be sold at the event. There will be free tours of the 120 acre MBC garden, throughout the day. In addition to palms and cycads, an artist( Linda Apriletti--fellow Palmtalker) will be selling her paintings. A list of available material will be posted on this page so stay tuned!!

[Bob Greiner]

Is there a list of vendors for this sale?

Bob

[Mandrew968]

We are working on that and more--hopefully it will be up for perusal, soon. Thanks for the concern, Bob. I hope you make it out!

[Jeff Searle]

Greetings fellow Palmtalkers! I am pleased to announce the annual palm sale for the South Florida Palm Society(SFPS) will be held at the world famous Montgomery Botanical Center(MBC) during the 9th and 10th of March 2013.

Admission is $5.00 except for annual and lifetime SFPS members and MBC members.

Parking will be held next door at Gulliver Academy. BBQ will be sold at the event. There will be free tours of the 120 acre MBC garden, throughout the day. In addition to palms and cycads, an artist( Linda Apriletti--fellow Palmtalker) will be selling her paintings. A list of available material will be posted on this page so stay tuned!!

Wow, this is new. A $5 admission to get in now? Never a good thing IMO in today's times.

[Jerry@TreeZoo]

Didn't it use to be free admission and $5 for the tour?

[George Sparkman]

Greetings fellow Palmtalkers! I am pleased to announce the annual palm sale for the South Florida Palm Society(SFPS) will be held at the world famous Montgomery Botanical Center(MBC) during the 9th and 10th of March 2013.

Admission is $5.00 except for annual and lifetime SFPS members and MBC members.

Parking will be held next door at Gulliver Academy. BBQ will be sold at the event. There will be free tours of the 120 acre MBC garden, throughout the day. In addition to palms and cycads, an artist( Linda Apriletti--fellow Palmtalker) will be selling her paintings. A list of available material will be posted on this page so stay tuned!!

Wow, this is new. A $5 admission to get in now? Never a good thing IMO in today's times.

I hope Andrew just made a mistake and meant to say the $5 were for the tour. Because an entry fee would not be good.

Jerry is right that the $5 were for the tour in previous years.

[George Sparkman]

A friend of mine just pointed out to me that the MBC website says that there is an entry fee of $5 which includes the tour and acompanied children under the age of 16 get in for free.

http://www.montgomerybotanical.org/Pages/Current.htm

[Tim McKernan]

FREE admission for all SFPS members and MBC members

FREE admission for accompanied kids 16 and younger

FREE tours given of the Garden all day long

com'on guys! MBC makes NO money on concession and they have no gift shop. $5 is an incredibly reasonable amount to host an event like this.

I'm going!

[George Sparkman]

I was thinking more about people that are just getting into palms and don't even know about MBC.

They might be less likely to "Come On In". For anybody that knows of MBC it obviously is a great deal to get to see such a great garden with all the knowledgeable staff members and volunteers sharing their expertise and also get to buy great palms.

[Mandrew968]

No mistakes, guys. But hey--if you are a SFPS member, it IS free. The palm sale palm list should be out very soon. Thanks Tim and George for helping out with the info. Jeff, your a member so it would be free for you as well. Just another reason/incentive why palm folks should join their local palm society chapter.

[Bob Greiner]

I will go for sure.

Bob

[Mandrew968]

sfps_plant_list_with_vendor_map__final.pdf

Thank you, David.

[Dave from Miami]

In addition to some really rare palms, the list includes some very hard to find cycads such as Zamia pseudoparasitica and Z. nesophila. Many varieties of Ceratozamia, Encephalartos and a number of Dioon species are for sale.

The sale is open from 9:30 to 4:30 pm, Saturday and Sunday, but if your passion is for the really rare ones, I would come early on Saturday.

[Mandrew968]

Thank you all who attended, helped out, and bought plants! It was a great event and no one got hurt!