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Don Hodel Palm Presentation
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Posting this at the request of Jeff Chemnick folks...this is his post on the cycad group board: Hello Group, Dry your crying eyes! Though Cycad Day at the Huntington has just sold out, here is an equally entertaining opportunity for a botanically-fascintating Saturday, June 16...at Lotusland in Santa Barbara! Don Hodel, noted palm authority, will be visiting Lotusland and making a presentation on...palm trees (large group of derived monocotyledonous angiosperms superficially evocative of and splendid examples of convergent evolution with cycads). The program begins in the afternoon and will feature not only a riveting talk and garden tour but wine, cheese, etc. …
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Palm Beach Palm & Cycad Society Fall Sale
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Palm Beach Palm & Cycad Society will hold it's annual Fall Sale Oct. 11 & 12 at Mounts Botanical Garden located at 531 N. Military Trail in West Palm Beach. The hours are 9 till 4 on Saturday and 9 till 3 on Sunday. ADMISSION IS FREE. There will be 500+ species of palm & cycads for sale. Also, 'Palm Special' fertilizer, books and T-shirts and free knowledgeable advice. There will be a special guest speaker on Sunday to be announced.
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Herb Johnson has got palms
by DoomsDave- 0 replies
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Well, we had us two great gardens today. A mad swarm of palm-o-philes showed up that the Whittier residence of the Johnsons and, weh-hell, whoo wee, we all swooned. And this was the first garden. Someone please, post some pics! I forgot my camera . . .
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Northern California Palm Society Meeting
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NCPS Summer Meeting: Sunday, June 30 @ 1-5 pm at Chas and Gordana Pavlovic's garden in Palo Alto 602 Hawthorne Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94301 [Google Map link] Palm Meeting Info …
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Port St. Lucie Botanical Show
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BPACS October Outing
by Daryl- 0 replies
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Garden of Nick Craig, ex BPACS President 10:00am start Instructions: * Head to Caboolture. * Get on the D'Aguilar Hwy headed west to Kilcoy/Woodford. * After the turnoff the Bruce Hwy its about 20 ks * After passing through Wamuran its about 10 min. * You pass the Bracalba Quarry and head up the range. * At the top you take the next left...Mc Leod Lane. * Signs will be up...about 1 k along a narrow 2way road, you will turn right then sharp left into my place. I hope to see some of you there! Non BPACS members welcome as usual... Daryl
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The Jackson Grant Garden 16 Brookwood Ln. , Ross Story Behind the Garden We bought the house, our starter, in 1980, moving from potted plants on a Russian Hill fire escape to a real garden. Palms were our favorites. We did test plantings for a few years as we worked out a planting plan. About that time we met Herb Weber and our knowledge of palm trees and the International Palm Society took a giant leap forward. The flood of January 1982 changed all plans. Bridge road was washed out and rebuilt, higher than before. Our construction started in the mid 1980s with the glass house, concrete terraces and retaining wall on Bridge road. Then the house remodel…
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CFPACS meeting on June 14
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Here are the details CFPACS meeting June 14
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BPACS April Outing - Utopia
by Daryl- 0 replies
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Next outing is to Utopia on the Sunshine Coast to tour the expansive and spectacular gardens and nursery of Clayton York. There will be many rare gems to be purchased on the day, so save your pennies and make this a must-do event. As visits like this are a rare event, it would be great to see as many people as possible. Nobody ever leaves disappointed (or empty handed!) Ninderry Slopes Road, Valdora, Queensland Sunday 24/4/16 Starts at 10:00am
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Date: Sunday, April 3rd, 2016 Time: 1:00 till 5:00 Location: 36501 Niles Blvd Fremont Save the date! April 3, 2016, We are grateful to Janet Barton who has arranged a wonderful tour and history presentation at the California Nursery Historical Park in Fremont. Complete details are printed below. This notice is being sent early as I will be out of town and unable to send a reminder until the middle of March. Mark your calendars now. (some mobile phone mapping apps will give you the wrong location. Make sure it agrees with the intersection) Intersection: Niles Blvd and Nursery Avenue Parking: Free. Park near the Vallejo Adobe. From parking lot, walk ba…
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South Florida Palm Society - Meeting August 6, Monday
by Linda Apriletti- 0 replies
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Please join us at the SFPS Meeting this Monday, August 6, 7:30 pm at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, 10901 Old Cutler Road. Tim McKernan will be our guest speaker and will give a presentation about using palms in your landscape. Native Miamian Tim McKernan is a second generation landscape designer. His Father, Jack Kearns, was the ‘water feature’ pioneer for South Florida during the 70’s and ‘80’s and was also known for his unique Landscape design strategies. A chip off the old block, Tim founded and ran “Tropical Palm Gardens” for 10 years before deciding to go back to School and complete his Masters in Landscape Architecture. He was a previous SFPS Director and …
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Date: Sunday, September 10, 2017. Time: 11:30 AM Location: 3883 Woodford Drive, San Jose 95124 San Jose This meeting will be in San Jose at the David Sylvia and Eric Christensen Garden. This is a truly inspirational garden with a wide variety of unusual Palms at their absolute finest. There is also a wide spectrum of other plant species in this garden that are ideally suited to the many naturally created micro climates from lush rain Forest to desert oasis. Every square inch of this landscape is covered with something that is ideally suited for every niche. The variety of color and texture also contributes to the experience of this intimate s…
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April 7 General Meeting - South Florida Palm Society
by Leonard Goldstein- 0 replies
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Dr. Chad Husby, Collections Manager and Botanist at Montgomery Botanical Center, will present the program at our April 7 meeting. Chad will give an illustrated presentation about recent plant exploration in the Dominican Republic, highlighting the localities visited and the plants collected, including Reinhardtia paiewonskiana, Sabal domingensis, Zombia antillarum, Coccothrinax boschiana, Clavija domingensis, and Plumeria magna. The expedition team visited many localities throughout the country, from mountains to deserts, and brought nearly 200 new species into cultivation for South Florida. In addition, Chad will describe the process of plant collecting in the 21st cent…
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Mount's Sale
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After you spend a wonderful day at Fairchild Gardens at the palm and cycad sale on Saturday, run by the Mount's Botanical Garden in West Palm Beach for the grand Fall Sale. Not just palms but anything and everything. Saturday 9-5 and Sunday 9-4. Hope to see you there.
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18th International Botanical Congress
by Dave-Vero- 0 replies
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OK, International Botanical Congresses aren't affiliates of the International Palm Society, but they matter because they invariably have impressive scientific symposia, and they legislate changes to the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, which governs the naming of....palms, of course. http://www.ibc2011.com/Default.htm Being held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre
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HIPS Garden Tour
by Al in Kona- 0 replies
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Opihikao Garden Tour on Sunday April 6. This is a HIPS (Hawaii Island Palm Society) meeting being held at Davis Dalbok's beautiful garden located in the SE corner of the Big Island of Hawaii. To get to the garden: From Kea`au, take Hwy 130 past Pahoa. From the beginning of the Pahoa Bypass it is 5.7 miles to the Opihikao turn off to the left. This is past Leilani Blvd. and past the Scenic Overlook by the steam vents, or 0.25 miles after mile post 15 on Hwy 130. Go left down the (steep) hill on Opihikao Rd. 2.5 miles to the colorful house number sign at 13-698 Opihikao Rd. on the left. It is by the last telephone pole where the line suddenly swings overhead from…
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PACSONZ on Facebook
by Caryota_gigas- 0 replies
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PACSONZ is now on Facebook! Yes thats right, The New Zealand Palm and Cycad Society has given in to pressure and joined Facebook. It will be a place to find out about Society activities and the latest changes to the PACSONZ website. There will also be photos and video added with time. There is not much there at the moment as I have only just started it, but please feel free to join if you are interested. PACSONZ Facebook page
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SFPS Guest, Monday OCT. 19, 2020 - 7:20PM - REGISTRATION REQUIRED (SFPS Members & Non Members Invited) Click here to register. - http://bit.ly/SFPS2020OCT "Defaunation in the Anthropocene" presented by Dr. Mauro Galetti, Director of the Gifford Arboretum (University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida) Dr. Mauro Galetti is a tropical ecologist at the University of Miami and Director of the Gifford Arboretum. His current research centers broadly on the effects of animal extinction on key ecological, evolutionary and ecosystem processes. Current understanding of the effects of animal extinction and the cascading effects in terre…
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NorCal Palm Society meeting
by Darold Petty- 0 replies
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Northern California Palm Society San Francisco Gardens - Saturday April 20, 2024 …
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PBPCS annual Picnic
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The Palm Beach Palm & Cycad Society (Florida) Will be holding its annual Picnic on Saturday Sept. 16, at Ruth Sallenbach's home.Attendees should bring a dessert and any plants that you would like to donate for our famous any kind of plant auction.Starting time is 9AM.Ruth has 6 acres of tropical plants to enjoy.
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South Florida Palm Society Meeting
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South Florida Palm Society Welcome Palm Enthusiasts, A reminder that Rory Antolak will present a program titled, "A Photo Tour of Neotropical Palms in Situ" at the SFPS meeting tomorrow. …
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Save the date for our next palm meeting on Sunday, July 16th for a double treat with Guest Speaker Dr. Sanchez from Cuba and a tour of the Edith Bergstrom gardens. Directions and Garden Info from Edith Bergstrom Directions to 149 Hawthorn Drive, Atherton From the San Francisco take the 101 freeway south toward San Jose. Leave the freeway at the Marsh Road. The city just north of Atherton is Redwood City and the street before Marsh Rd. is Woodside Road. You will go about a mile on Marsh. You are heading west toward the sun. The road will dead-end into Middlefield Rd. Turn left. Drive what will seem like a very long block until you see a large …
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Northern California chapter meeting
by Darold Petty- 0 replies
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The Northern California chapter of the IPS will meet on August 6, 2006 at the home of Ray Laub in Los Altos Hills. Please visit our website for further details at www.palmsnc.org. We invite all readers of this board to attend, member or not. (This means you, Adrian and Stan!) Our subsequent meeting is September 24 in San Jose.
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