IPS BIENNIALS
Special Adventures
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On October 1st, about a hundred and fifty people from more countries that I can remember, traveled to the Caribbean to partake in this year's biennial of the Dominican Republic. As this was my first biennial, after many years of waiting, I had great expectations and was richly rewarded. I had an incredible time both visiting the county, and meeting such interesting people who shared their love of palms. A unique experience is created when you put names to faces of people you only know from emails, websites, forum postings, and from sheer reputation alone. I took well over a thousand photos on this trip and will posting the best ones in chronological order. This will repre…
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2008 biannual itinerary
by zone11wannab- 0 replies
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2008 Biennial of the International Palm Society – Members Unite in Costa Rica 1 2 3 4 10
by Palmarum- 2 followers
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2008 IPS Biennial - Costa Rica Prologue After my first biennial in the Dominican Republic two years ago, I thought to how I could out-do myself in regards to photography on this biennial in Costa Rica. I figured right off that I would simply take more photos, which I did (by a lot). In the DR, I finished with 1271 photos after editing. It was a record for me at that time for a single event, however short lived. In Costa Rica, my camera never saw rest, as many of you know. As the addiction is total, I saw the possibility for a good shot fairly often and went for it whenever I could. The shutter began clicking from the point I got to the Ft. Lauderdale airport to when t…
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Tales, visions of a faraway land of lush gardens, wild jungles, clouds spilling over rolling hills; endless fields of rice, gum, oil palm marching towards temples of timeless splendor telling stories of a glorious past. ราชอาณาจักรไทย This is the story of the 28th Biennial of the International Palm Society held in the Kingdom of Thailand (formerly Siam), as experienced by a first time biennial attendee, myself, and my wife. This memorable trip did not lack on coverage by countless forms of media, as have been seen in these forums and elsewhere, but it did lack an important eye, bigger in size than the one that washed ashore in Pompano Beach: …
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2014 Miami Biennal Feedback
by realarch- 1 follower
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The Biennial Committee would like to get some feedback from you about the recent Miami Biennial, so here's your chance to sound off. Good, bad, indifferent, the only way we can improve the experience is to hear what you liked, disliked or just take the opportunity to offer suggestions. Get as detailed as you want down to the food, accommodation, transportation, garden tours, lectures, logistics and planning, or anything else. Personally, my experience exceeded all expectations and I had a great time. A week well spent and the palms and people? They were both spectacular. Tim
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2014 Miami Biennial - Bahia Honda State Park
by Walter John- 2 replies
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Sometime mid biennial, on bus tour to Key West we stopped at the Bahia Honda State Park for a look at Cocothrinax argentata growing wild and there were some Leucothrinax morrisii also. We really liked the beach view so I took some photographs there as well. A nice vibe about this beach.
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2014 Miami Biennial - Highlands Hammock State Park
by Walter John- 4 replies
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In keeping with my recent penchant for posting biennial photos represenative of the locations and themes, here are selections of photos I took from Day 2 of the biennial at the Highlands Hammock State Park. It took a while to get there but it was well worth it, I loved the walk and seeing three separate palm species in habitat, namely Rhapidophyllum hystrix, Sabal minor, and Sabal palmetto was fantastic. I'm also a huge fan of Tillandsias from the bromeliade family and seeing many of these adhered to the vegetation was a real buzz. I implore others to add to these threads I have begun, I remember before I went on a biennial (two now), I used to love reading about the …
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2014 Miami Biennial - Montgomery Palms on Parade
by Walter John- 6 replies
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The biennial attendees split into groups at Montgomery with a large portion under the guide of Larry Noblick, including yours truly. Here's a selection of photos.
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2014 Miami Biennial - Pinecrest Gardens
by Walter John- 5 replies
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Pinecrest Gardens is the former site of the esteemed Miami Parrot Jungle. It was located very close to the hotel and was on our way to Fairchild gardens. The palm collections here were originally begun by one of the IPS founders, Nat De Leon. Personally I was glad they didn't keep parrots in the cages there any more, as I'm not a big fan of this. The landscaped tropical settings here were fabulous, I loved it. Here we go.. We picked this day to wear our "Aussie Ratpack" tees, as can be seen in the gathering of people about to enter the gardens. Our guide explains a few things about the garden history and if anybody plays up or goes off the path they'll get thro…
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2014 Miami Biennial - Remarkable Fairchild Gardens
by Walter John- 13 replies
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My start to photo posting, I'll begin by posting pics from the biennial visit to Fairchild gardens in Miami. Still suffering jet lag so I'll just send a couple out for now, many many more later.
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2016 biennial 1 2
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Are the dates set for the 2016 biennial?
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Save the date! May 23 – May 30, 2020. Join the IPS and come to La Réunion to see palms on our 2020 Biennial! You don’t want to miss this trip! ---------------------------- Hyophorbe indica in habitat. Photo by Olivier Reilhes.
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2023 IPS mid-term, London
by Tracy S- 3 followers
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Starting a Thread for this Mid Term Trip This was in the IPS magazine and was posted as proposed. Hopefully we can get updates on this thread 2023 IPS mid-term, London: Sunday May 21–Thursday May 25 Including RBG Kew, RHS Chelsea Flower Show and Wakehurst Place Capacity 50
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2023 mini-biennial to La Reunion
by Peter Timmermans- 2 followers
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On day 2 we visited Bélouve forest in the centre of the island. We saw mountains covered in lush vegetation, sometimes hidden in the clouds, one of the 3 calderas of the island, tree ferns and Acanthophoenix crinita.
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A beautiful morning at Block Botanical Garden
by Mandrew968- 11 replies
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Earlier this year, I was fortunate enough to have been chosen to help out during the Block Botanical Gardens stop, for the IPS Biennial. As such, I got to know the gardens and the man behind this jewel of South Florida, Dr. Jeff Block, who has been maintaining excellence in horticulture for nearly 25 years! Spending time with Dr. Block, at his fantastic garden is an amazing treat on its own--getting to meet a lot of the people I have come to know and respect, on Palmtalk, was icing on the cake. I will start with a few photos and then let anyone chime in with recollections or pictures of the day, then I will further the thread with more photos--thank you everyone for such …
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A few pre-Biennial pics
by Jeff in St Pete- 26 replies
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The last couple of days I've had the pleasure of meeting and spending time with Jerry & Cindy Andersen and Al & Silvia Bredeson when they decided to come a few days early and spend it here in Manuel Antonio. Their first day here we went over to my friend Alexander's spice farm and he took us on a tour to look at of some of his palms. First stop was his prized Zamia which his wife had saved from a nearby area that was being developed. He says it gets at least 3 cones per year. Al, Jerry and Alexander checking out the newest cone Heliconia, I think he said this was "Splash" Native heliconia growing in an unplanted area of his property
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The fun thing about Herrero's Farms was you never knew what you might see around the next corner. Wandering into the tall palms, I found these Pinanga coronata with infructescences in several different stages: Everyone who saw these Areca vestiara fell in love: How do you describe the feeling of awe when walking through a dense stand of veitchia?
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A pre-biennial 2012 trip to Nong Nooch, Thailand 1 2
by Licuala- 1 follower
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I went to Thailand last month and spent a week at Nong Nooch, which will be home base for the upcoming Biennial in September. Despite being there a week, I did not see everything and am looking forward to going back to try and see more of the incredibly impressive Gardens. Nong Nooch covers 600 acres, part of which is an amazing nursery, but mainly full of Gardens with a little Disney thrown in. 1.7 million people visited last year with the majority coming from China, Russia and India. There are over 1000 species of palms planted, some of which will not be found in any other Garden in the world. There is also a major collection of Cycads as well as extensive coll…
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Amazon Pre-tour
by elHoagie- 33 replies
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Jack is in Hawaii, but I wanted to put up some pictures of our awesome trip down the Amazon. Sorry if I get some of the palm names wrong. I hope that other people that were on the boat will add pictures. Lindsey aka LaHoagie Our Boat
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An even 30
by Walter John- 12 replies
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Anyone know Horace Hobbs?
by John Case- 4 replies
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Horace Hobbs (my newest best friend) is posting photos on Facebook for the past few days. If you want to see them, you'll have to join FB and hope he wants to be your friend.....
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Arenal Volcano
by RainForestt Robert- 14 replies
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While at the Arenal Volcano, Dean - El Moderator - and I discussed the possibility of taking several photos and combining them to form a panoramic shot. Here is my shot(s). Still needs a little tweaking, but it is going to be one of the photos that I will be printing for display at my house. RainForestt Robert
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At the Biennial in Miami
by Walter John- 1 follower
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Hi folks, well we have begun the biennial and day one is complete. I have met many palmtalkers and I along with my fellow Aussie travellers and ratpackers are enjoying ourselves immensely. We went to the hammock areas for some palms in habitat a few hours north west of Miami, fabulous palmy jungles, and ended the day at Jeff Searles nursery for dinner and a look at the nursery, brilliant. Once again, as I've stated many times before, with biennials and palm outings of any kind, it's an equally fun time mixing and joining with the people, and haven't they all been great. I urge anyone to consider getting into the IPS and coming along to these fabulous events, it wi…
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Bangkok - Ground Zero, at the flower market
by Walter John- 1 reply
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The official first day at the four wings hotel on the Tuesday, we had time for a short trip into Bangkok central to check out the flower market, palace and gem stone factory. I went along because I wanted to see Bangkok on the streets, a ground zero experience I did not want to miss. The mini bus included a bunch of aussies, the Andersons of Hawaii, BS man and Bob from Cali and some others. Joe our guide was great, he spoke better English than I did, I only spoke Australian in fact, anyway this was a great little time, I nearly got lost and nearly got run over by traffic. Let's go to the pictures. There I am, winding my way back Isn't she gor…
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Biennial - Let's explore Thailand a bit on our own
by Carlo Morici- 27 replies
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Hello all, I will join the biennial 2012. I do not want to go to the post-tour or fly to Singapore but I wish to spend some days (seven ?) on my own or with friends, visiting a bit this country. Some of us wish to leave Bangkok and fly up to Chiang Mai too. We need all types of suggestions. Of course we are interested in palms but we need to see also some fabulous collections or nurseries of Bromeliads, Orchids or Adeniums. People wish to see the exotic fruit markets or plant rambles. We wish to taste all those weird colourful bananas. Any help or hint? Maybe some links? Carlo