Palm Beach Palm & Cycad Society Spring Sale

[MAPU 1]

The Palm Beach Palm & Cycad Society will be haveing its annual spring sale March 23 & 24,

at the Mounts Botanical Garden in West Palm Beach Fl. The garden is on Military Trail, between Southern Blvd. and Belvedere Rd. " And its Free".No admission charge during the sale.The hours are 9:00 to 4:00 on Saturday and 9:00 to 3:00 on Sunday.While you are shopping for some good deals on palms and cycads, you can tour a nice small garden. We will have also fertilizer and books etc.Lots of free advice and help loading your purchases. I hope to see a lot of new faces plus all of our regular customers.Remember, this sale helps support the local chapter of the Palm & cycad Society.

[Tomw]

This is a great sale, one that shouldn't be missed! We have added some new vendors that have some very hard to get Palms and Cycads.

See you there....

[empireo22]

is there a plant list? thank you

[empireo22]

I dont see this sale listed on their website. Im not a member,but I can tour the gardens for free????? sounds great

Edited March 17, 2013 by empireo22

[LindaB]

Any pictures from the event?

Linda

[Jeff Searle]

Ryan and I was up there early saturday morning. I came home with some nice Euterpe's. It was great to see some of the vendors and spend some time talking.

[Tomw]

Another GREAT sale! This may in fact be the biggest Palm and Cycad sale in America now. The traffic thru our sale keeps getting better and better!!!

[Tomw]

empireo22,

We no longer provide a plant list. The list was very labor intensive and not always accurate due to vendors forgetting to bring something, or if they only brought one of something. I create a “palms that I’m looking for” list and take that to the sale, everyone is very helpful in finding the ones on the list.

[Palmarum]

Any pictures from the event?

Linda

Hi Linda,

I managed to take a few photos during Saturday morning. The weather was great, however it was warming up quick for a spring day. The ride up to the sale was quick, and finding Mounts Botanical Garden is easy as always.

- Saturday morning, March 23rd, 9:26am - Jeff and I arrived shortly after the opening of the sale and we walked through the front part of the garden to get to the sales area. The setting for the sale was perfect, right in the middle of a great garden of which we had free admission to enter. As we turned into the sales area and saw the first few booths, I noticed this Jakfruit, Artocarpus heterophyllus tree in different stages of fruiting.

- The garden has quite a few surprises and begs for many to take a deeper look.

- We walked through and perused Dale's great selection of cycads and got to Vendor Drew Rathburn's (right in white) booth when Jeff Searle got surrounded by PBPCS's board members and volunteers asking him questions about his upcoming talk.

- I took the majority of my photos from the center of the sales area, from where one could see most of the action. A large and well grown Kerriodoxa elegans makes its way over to the holding area, the fenced in area to the left of the tent.

Ryan

[Palmarum]

- The palm got quite a few stares, looks and "wows" from other customers as it moved gracefully through the sales area.

- While some plants go to the holding area, some are ready for their trip home right here and now. Volunteers cut the tags off some plants while others are carried right to the tables under the tent.

- The scene was classic plant sale all the way. Only the occasional roar of a jet taking off from the nearby Palm Beach airport would interrupt the mood; and pause conversations.

- Palmtalk Forum members were here in force. In the center of the frame and also the center of Betty Ahlborn's booth, FM. Randy Wiesner (palmisland) describes the height of one of his plants while talking with FM. Meg Price (PalmatierMeg), with her back to the camera, conveniently wearing a Palmtalk t-shirt.

Ryan

[Palmarum]

- Rare and exotic material was well represented in both palm and cycad flavors. In Brett Emery's booth, he had a nice mix of everything including this vibrant Licuala sallehana showing off its undivided, silver underside-decorated leaves.

- The ever regal and always sought after trophy of the genus, Licuala orbicularis. This specimen was further down the table from the plant pictured above, but stood out from a mile away. It was accompanied by a slew of 2 inch seedlings that gave purpose and hope to those who wanted a nice specimen of their own one day.

- Vendor Ron Croci, Sr. carries an Old Man Palm, Coccothrinax crinita, over to the holding area for a customer.

- In a nearby garden bed, a broad leaf Fig was in fruit, producing apparently edible but not 'eatable' figs. The sign was on the other side and I had a customer read it for me, but I forgot the name. The photo of the trees canopy did not turn out well. The leaves were quite large and spade shaped... another example of what the garden has to offer.

Ryan

[Palmarum]

- A general view looking towards the tent, while standing in Ron Croci's booth.

- Sold. -yoink-

- Conversations abound, all topics were discussed and the discussion itself became a transfiguring item as we moved around from booth to booth. The faces changed slightly, but the words stayed the same, like in days, months and years past. On the left, Vendor and FM. Brett Emery (MBPalms) along with FM. Jeff Searle listen to Vendor, FM. and topic author Dale Holton (MAPU 1). Dale was talking about one of his many adventures from over the years of growing and collecting palms and cycads.

- Collector Bob Beatty was at it again, grabbing many of the rare and unusual for his growing collection.

Ryan

[LindaB]

Thank you so much for the nice pictures Ryan!

Looks like it was a good event.

Linda

[Palmarum]

Thank you so much for the nice pictures Ryan!

Looks like it was a good event.

Linda

Your welcome, Linda. I did not take as many photos as I wanted, but like everything else I photograph, I never do. There was a good turnout for what I could tell for a spring palm sale. I had not been to a PBPCS Sale in a few years, back when it was at Caloosa Park and this seemed busier than those sales. Mounts Botanical Garden is definitely a great venue for the event.

- Last trio of photos showed the sale during a busy period while I was there...

Jeff and I left shortly there after since we had to get back down south for the second half of the day.

Ryan

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