2016 South Florida Palm Society Spring Show & Sale

[Leonard Goldstein]

The South Florida Palm Society is pleased to announce its 2016 Spring Show & Sale, March 12-13, from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm each day. Our host is the Montgomery Botanical Center, famed 120-acre Coral Gables estate once owned by Robert and Nell Montgomery. Our member vendors will be offering a broad selection of well-grown palms and cycads, but this event isn't just an ordinary plant sale. During your visit to MBC, you will be able to obtain advice on growing your plants, along with free seeds of palm species currently in fruit. The SFPS will also be giving guests a palm seedling (while quantities last), as well as one of our popular PLANT A PALM bumper stickers. We will also be selling the 2016 edition of our SFPS T-shirt. Your $5 admission fee to MBC will entitle you to a narrated tram tour of the property, which has been designated a Horticultural Landmark by the American Society for Horticultural Science. Finally, at lunchtime you will be able to sit down to a meal prepared by our favorite barbecue vendor. Free parking is available at the Gulliver School, 12595 SW 57th Ave. (Red Rd.), adjacent to the southern border of MBC. For more information about the South Florida Palm Society, please explore our website, southfloridapalmsociety.org.

[Leonard Goldstein]

Please find attached below the preliminary list of species to be offered at the SFPS 2016 Palm Show & Sale. 

SFPS - PRELIMINARY Species List.docx

[Leonard Goldstein]

In answer to yesterday's question, Montgomery Botanical Center is not normally open to the public. There are afternoon lectures there from time to time, usually from a visiting scholar, and the estate is host to a couple of plant sales a year.

[Leonard Goldstein]

The complete booklet for the 2016 Spring Show & Sale of the South Florida Palm Society, including the most current species list, can now be found at our website, southfloridapalmsociety.org.