CFPACS June 25 meeting in Gainesville - Kanapaha plus a private garden

[Bob Johnson]

The summer meeting of the Central Florida Palm & Cycad Society will be help on Saturday, June 25 In Gainesville. We will enjoy a guided tour of Kanapaha Botanical Garden in the morning. In the afternoon we will visit the garden of CFPACS members Roger and Marilyn Bachmann where we will have our plant sale and auction. All are invited - you do not have to be a member to attend the meeting. This will be a great opportunity for us to meet some of our palm friends from north Florida.

Schedule

10 am: Kanapaha Botanical Garden. Guided tour begins at the visitor center. A special group tour price of $6.50 will be paid by CFPACS for current members. Non members can join at the meeting or pay CFPACS just the $6.50 to enjoy the special group tour rate.

12 noon: Lunch on your own

1 pm: Garden of Roger and Marilyn Bachmann. Garden tour, membership meeting, plant auction and sale. Things usually wrap up around 3 pm.

Kanapaha Botanical Gardens is a 62 acre facility founded, developed, funded and operated by the North Florida Botanical Society, a non-profit educational organization. In 1978, the Society signed a lease agreement with Alachua County whereby it gained access to a 33 acre tract of land for the development of a public botanical garden; in 1982, an additional 29 acre parcel was added to the lease, bringing Kanapaha Botanical Gardens to its present size. The Gardens' name is derived from its proximity to 250 acre Lake Kanapaha. The word Kanapaha is derived from the Timucua Indian words for "palmetto leaf" and "house." Taken together, they refer to the thatched dwellings that were home to the original residents of a small Timucua village on the western shore of Lake Kanapaha. Between 1978 and 1987, the infrastructure and initial plantings were completed and Kanapaha Botanical Gardens was formally opened to the public on October 16, 1987.

More information on Kanapaha: http://kanapaha.org/

Hope to see you there!

[RedRabbit]

Thanks Bob, Kanapaha looks nice but I think I may have to sit this one out.

[tank]

Bummer,

I'll be out of the country for this one....