Palm Society of Northern California

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Annual Lunch

Meeting

Date: April 7, 2013

Time: 12:00 - 3:00

PM

Location: Flora Grubb Nursery, 1634 Jerrold Ave, San Francisco,

CA

HOLD THE DATE!

Northern California Palm Society Annual Luncheon and Meeting When: Sunday,

April 7 from 12:00 - 3:00 PM Where: Flora Grubb Nursery, 1634 Jerrold Ave, San

Francisco, CA • 415.626.7256

For more details on Flora Grubb: http://floragrubb.com/idx/index.php

NCPS will be holding its annual luncheon on Sunday, April 7th from 12:00 -

3:00 PM at the award winning Flora Grubb nursery in San Francisco. Put the date

in your calendar now!

More details on the lunch, buffet menu options, fees and how to sign up

coming soon.

Also, check out Flora Grubbs' resident Palm expert Jason Dewees' (palmtalks JasonD) palm blog at:

http://floragrubb.com/pbBlog/

Questions: email carolinevanhowe@comcast.net

Contact: Caroline Van

Howe

carolinevanhowe@comcast.net

or Glenn Harris

glennearlharris@yahoo.com

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Annual Lunch – Sunday, April 7 from 12:00 – 3:00 PM at Flora Grubb Nursery in San Francisco.

This year we are holding our annual lunch in the award-winning Flora Grubb Nursery in San Francisco. Thanks to NCPS Member Jason Dewees for kindly hosting the luncheon. Jason will be conducting a tour of the nursery with special focus on the many unusual palms and tropicals featured at the nursery. Visit the excellent Flora Grubb web site for more details on the nursery: http://www.floragrubb.com

Directions: Flora Grubb, 634 Jerrold Ave, San Francisco, CA • 415.626.7256 Web Site: http://floragrubb.com/idx/index.php

Lunch Buffet: (You can go back for seconds!)

There is a lunch buffet with a full selection of delicious dishes from the Rebecca Jean Catering served with sodas, tea and coffee.

Back from Last Year: Bring Your Own Beer or Wine! To save additional costs, we are able to serve your own beer or wine if you’d like drinks with your lunch.

Appetizers:

Artisan Cheese Platter, Crackers & Housemade Crostini

Assorted Fresh & Dried Fruits

Entrees:

Sliced Chicken Breast Herbes de Provence

Roasted Tofu Herbes de Provence (Vegetarian) – reserve in advance

Side Dishes:

Marinated White Beans

Pickled Gypsy Peppers

Orecchiette Pasta Salad

Broccolini

Fresh Mozzarella &Olives

Mayfield’s Bakery Baguette

Salted Butter

Dessert: A variety of cookies and brownies

Sodas, Coffee and Tea will be served

BYOA (Bring Your Own Alcohol) Bring Beer and Wine: If you would like beer or wine with lunch, please bring your own. (Coolers and glasses will be provided.)

Lunch Tickets: Tickets are $35 per person.

Reservations: RSVP to reserve your spot now! It’s easy! RSVP By Wednesday, April 3 so we can give guarantees to the caterers.

Send an email to carolinevanhowe@comcast.net or call 415.215.2460 to reserve your lunch tickets.

The payment options are:

By Mail: A check payable to the Northern California Palm Society may be mailed to:

Keith Jaeger/Caroline Van Howe - NCPS

290 Margarita Drive

San Rafael, CA 94901

Online: Pay online at: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/6006970009

Then scroll down until you see our event listed. There is a $2.92 fee charged by the web service for the convenience of online credit card booking.

Payment Onsite: Bring a check payable as above to the banquet.

We look forward to seeing everyone there!

Questions? Any questions about the event or booking tickets, call or email Caroline Van Howe at: carolinevanhowe@comcast.net or 415.215.2460

Best wishes

Caroline and Edith – Co-Secretaries, NCPS

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RSVP By

Wednesday, April 3 so we can give guarantees to the

caterers. It's easy- see below.

Annual Lunch –

Sunday, April 7 from 12:00 – 3:00 PM at Flora Grubb Nursery in San Francisco.

This year we are

holding our annual lunch in the award-winning Flora Grubb Nursery in San

Francisco. Thanks to NCPS Member Jason Dewees for kindly hosting the luncheon.

Jason will be conducting a tour of the nursery with special focus on the many

unusual palms and tropicals featured at the nursery. Visit the excellent Flora

Grubb web site for more details on the nursery: http://www.floragrubb.com

Directions: Flora

Grubb, 634

Jerrold Ave, San Francisco, CA •

415.626.7256 Web Site: http://floragrubb.com/idx/index.php

Lunch Buffet: (You can

go back for seconds!)

There is a lunch

buffet with a full selection of delicious dishes from the Rebecca Jean Catering

served with sodas, tea and coffee.

Back

from Last Year: Bring Your Own Beer or Wine! To save additional

costs, we are able to serve your own beer or wine if you’d like drinks with your

lunch.

Appetizers:

Artisan

Cheese Platter, Crackers & Housemade Crostini

Assorted

Fresh & Dried Fruits

Entrees:

Sliced Chicken Breast

Herbes de Provence

Roasted Tofu Herbes

de Provence (Vegetarian) – reserve in advance

Side

Dishes:

Marinated White

Beans

Pickled Gypsy

Peppers

Orecchiette Pasta

Salad

Broccolini

Fresh Mozzarella

&Olives

Mayfield’s Bakery

Baguette

Salted

Butter

Dessert:

A

variety of cookies and brownies

Sodas,

Coffee and Tea will be served

BYOA (Bring Your Own

Alcohol) Bring Beer and Wine: If you would like

beer or wine with lunch, please bring your own. (Coolers and glasses will be

provided.)

Lunch Tickets:

Tickets are $35 per

person.

Reservations: RSVP to reserve your spot now! It’s easy! RSVP By

Wednesday, April 3 so we can give guarantees to the

caterers.

Send an email to

carolinevanhowe@comcast.net or call 415.215.2460

to reserve your lunch tickets.

The payment options

are:

By Mail: A check payable to the Northern California Palm

Society may be mailed to:

Keith Jaeger/Caroline Van Howe - NCPS

290

Margarita Drive

San Rafael, CA 94901

Online: Pay online at:

http://www.eventbrite.com/event/6006970009

Then scroll down

until you see our event listed. There is a $2.92 fee charged by the web service

for the convenience of online credit card booking.

Payment

Onsite: Bring a check

payable as above to the banquet.

We look forward to

seeing everyone there!

Questions? Any questions about

the event or booking tickets, call or email Caroline Van Howe at: carolinevanhowe@comcast.net or 415.215.2460

Best

wishes

Caroline and Edith –

Co-Secretaries, NCPS

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Our next meeting will be at the garden of Axel Kratel in Santa Cruz, CA.

Date: June 15th

Meeting time: 1pm

"The area is actually a thermal belt above the zone 15 valley so zone 16 here,
USDA 10a, average extreme low is 31F or think of it as upper 9b. The temperature
range is very similar to Los Altos Hills. No white frost on the hill, some white
frost down below but there are papayas down there that stay green through the
Winter. But we do get a lot of chill here and I have a large apple collection,
most of which does very well.
There is always a lot of fruit to be eaten.

We have a little palmetum on the hill with a waterfall. I have some 15 feet
a. maxima, an older prichardia hildebrandii. I have 8 p. cocoides of which one
is blooming and two others are rather big already. I have a c. gigas that is now
above the second story of the house. Lots of New Zealand and New Caledonia and
Madagascar stuff, and this year I took the plunge into the bismarckia world,
trying to grow four large bismarck palms.

Lots of various braheas, several Hawaiian highland prichardias, livistonas,
highland Madagascae dyspis species, and a bunch of different sabals are also
growing here. And there is a 20 feet tall cherimoya and a similar sized inga ice
cream bean tree."

Driving Directions:

From South on 17 Exit Pasatiempo drive, go straight until you
reach Pasatiempo Drive and take a right

From North on 17 Exit Pasatiempo drive, take left at stop
sign, go over bridge, take left at next stop sign, then go straight until you
reach Pasatiempo Drive and take a right.

Go past gard house and keep to your right

Keep going 0.5 mi past golf course

Turn left to stay on Pasatiempo Dr

Keep going for 0.9 mi past golf course and

Turn left again to stay on Pasatiempo Dr

go for 0.1 mi, ocean should be on your right

Take the 1st right onto Panorama Ln

Our house is 500 feet down on the left

Note: don't let the your GPS fool you into taking the short
cut to our house via Simms rd, there is a locked gate.

Phone # 831-458-1015

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We hope to see.you next Saturday June 15 at Axels place in Santa Cruz! This is a garden that it not to be missed. See the description above and on Axels posts in other forums. Let us know if you have any questions!