IPS BIENNIALS
Special Adventures
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thailand biennial 2012 1 2
by paulgila- 1 follower
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moving right along(ok,after 3 months) to part II of my epic SE asia triad--vietnam,thailand,malaysia. the vietnam(& malaysia,eventually) chapter can be found in the "travel log" section of PT. after an awesome 5 days in saigon we arrive in bangkok,representing the PRA team at the IPS 2012 biennial in thailand! the airport in bangkok is huge,in case you didnt notice. after a prompt pick-up we arrive at the hotel to join 200 other rabid palm enthusiasts. but 1st jes takes advantage of our amazing hotel room desk/office to make some "executive decisions," just like mitt romney. already the palmtalk illuminati have gathered. PRA team enforc…
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Miami Biennial help needed
by PalmatierMeg- 4 replies
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Quick update: we registered online and paid ~$3,300 via credit card on 12/3/13. Our cc statement shows payment went through. This morning my husband went on the computer and found reams of documents regarding the convention and what he says are 1) request for $3,300 payment and 2) request that we allow 3rd party credit cards access to our financial info. He has gone absolutely ballistic. I can't get a word in edgewise. And, because I am visually impaired I can't read all those pages even with magnifiers to confirm what is in those pages. This is probably my first & last convention so I really don't want it to turn into a nightmare. I have a feeling I'm not…
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Florida Biennial Shopping?
by Cindy Adair- 5 replies
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Since I always like to stay busy on trips, I'd appreciate leads on Miami area nurseries. I'll have really only 1/2 a day (Friday), but other attendees may be coming earlier or staying later and be interested in some hints also. Probably those that offer small sizes would be better. I'd need to be able to fit any plants on a plane or mail them to Virginia myself unless the nursery ships. I really like the uncommon-flowering and fruiting trees, ornamentals including broms and orchids and really pretty much anything! I've heard many good things about Jesse Durko's nursery, but don't know if his plants are all too large to be practical for me. I'd love a Cynomet…
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Miami Biennial early registration - Extension until Jan 17
by SubTropicRay- 1 follower
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Just a quick note to let folks know we've extended the early Biennial registration date until Friday, January 17th. The original date of Jan 3rd coincides too closely with the New Year and people are distracted by the holiday.
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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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I just received this information from Paul Craft this morning. Due to the popularity of this trip, a PRE-Biennial trip has been added. The POST-biennial trip is SOLD-OUT. Palms of Cuba, May 15th – May 23rd, 2014, sponsored by the Florida Keys TREE Institute. This tour is fully licensed and permitted for US citizens to go on and will feature a wide diversity of palm species in habitat. For more information and registration, email info@fktreeinstitute.org or call: 866-FLK-TREE (866-355-8733). Registration is limited to 40 people and is first come, first served. This trip is identical to the post-trip which sold out quickly. Tim
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Thailand Biennial Sep. 2012 1 2 3
by bgl- 2 followers
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Liz opened up registration just a little while ago. Please check out http://www.palms.org for full details. In order to register you need to be an IPS member. Here are the registration fees: Registration per person for double occupancy RECEIVED and PAID by end-of-day May 4th, 2012, is US$1,500. Registration per person for single occupancy RECEIVED and PAID by end-of-day May 4th, 2012, is US$1,910. Registration per person for double occupancy RECEIVED and PAID from May 5th through August 17th, 2012, is US$1,600. Registration per person for single occupancy RECEIVED and PAID from May 5th through August 17th, 2012, is US$2,010. We had hoped the registration …
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Commemorative Photo Gift for Nong Nooch 1 2
by Annika- 2 followers
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For those of you interested, Daryl and I are looking to organize a batch of photos as a commemorative gift to Nong Nooch. We have created an email address designated this. If you would like to contribute, please send up to 5 (or more if you must ) of your favorite photos from the grounds of Nong Nooch. Please title images with your name, such as Smith1, Smith2, Smith3. We will work with the photos and add some text, i.e. IPS Biennial 2012, to the image in nice font. We will be sending the gift in the form of a cd (and maybe even a couple of large prints - wink wink, hang this on your walls!) to Nong Nooch later this year in thanks and maybe even do something more w…
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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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Aloha – to share my IPS Biennial experience with friends on social media who are not (yet) palm people, I made a photo-video using photos I took during our September 2012 International Palm Society Biennial and Southern Thailand Pretour - I had a lot fun seeing old friends and making new friends - if you have friends and palm pals who are not regular IPS PalmTalk Forum users, you could use email or other social media networking like Facebook to send them links to our PalmTalk Forum member Biennial video and photo posts Thailand IPS Biennial September 2012 by konadanni
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Random Thai Biennial shots 1 2
by bgl- 2 followers
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I have a lot of random shots that don't really belong in any of the other threads (Faces, for instance), so I'll be adding them in this thread. A few now and then when I have time. Feel free to add whatever you might have, and in no particular order, even though these five happen to have been taken the very first morning (Wednesday September 12), as we were leaving the Grand Four Wings Hotel in Bangkok.
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Exotic Thai Food...a great experience!
by Jeff Searle- 17 replies
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Early one morning, ( approx. 6:00am) Andrea, Rob and myself decided to catch the train and go have a look at the local early morning market. What a great experience it was. Later that morning, we got to try some out.....
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South island pre tour going great
by TonyDFW- 23 replies
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Check out the video of day one Day two
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Thailand Biennial on Thai TV
by rthink- 9 replies
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Vasin showed me this link from a Thai TV channel about the biennial so some of you were broadcasted around Thailand. Look what Jeff Searle is trying to taste! Also an interview with Jeff Brussel. The narrator said about 300 millionaires from all over the world participated in this event. http://www.krobkruakao.com/ข่าว/61860/สกู๊ป--สวนนงนุช-สวนปาล์มระดับโลก.html
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Thank you everyone
by MattyB- 2 followers
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Paul brought me a Noongnooch book signed with greetings and well wishes from everyone on palmtalk. That was very special. Thank you everyone for the kind words, and thank you Paul and Jessie; for bringing me the memorable gift. Reading through your words and viewing the the beautiful picture book made me feel like I was there.
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On the way to Khao Yai - wind beneath my wings
by Walter John- 1 follower
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Here's an array of pics of our transportation style to Khao Yai national park, we didn't see many diff palms, saw a lot of leeches, and it rained, but the transport and people were bloody great, I loved the back of the ute travelling, we transferred from the big Volvo bus to these open back trucks/utes. I along with some others spied a great looking Licuala in some low jungle near the side of the road, as we sped along (no stopping).
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There's nothing like a bunch of smiling faces, and there were plenty of those at the recent Biennial! Here's a few...feel free to post all of yours here too... Wal (or Wall in American, Wol in Aussie) Lindsey Sayers Annika Xing Carlo Prew and Wal Kieran and Wal Palmgrover!
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Grand Palace - Bangkok
by Daryl- 1 follower
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I thought somebody would have posted some tourist shots of the Grand Palace by now? There were several organised tours to this very popular tourist destination in central Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit (according to Joe our tour guide!) That name is certainly a mouthful, so it's easier to call it by it's western name of Bangkok... Here's a few random photos from the grounds...all of that gold is genuine gold leaf on mosaic tiles BTW...
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Farewell Dinner - Thailand Biennial 2012
by Walter John- 3 replies
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There has not been a dedicated thread to the Fraewell Dinner so I thought I'd begin one so everyone who took pics this night might like to post them here to show the joy and exceptional pleasure of being at this biennial and perhaps to encourage others to consider attending biennials in the future. My camera was out of action so I rely on others to post photos. Here's where you might like to post your personal testimonial on the whole biennial. Bring it on (I do have a copy of Colins pics from the night though, await your okay to post any Col) A great night to end the event, some delegates had to leave a few hours after the dinner and so it went on through the ni…
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Welcome Dinner at Nongnooch
by Walter John- 12 replies
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There was much spectacular colour (color) and sound and elephants at the welcome dinner night at the Nong. we were greeted by trad Thai dancers and drummers and a few elephants were dressed up for the occasion so we could get our photos with them if we chose. Pretty ladies gave us leis (how do I write that?) and all. And we hadn't even gone inside the dining hall yet. Let's go to the video
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Next biennials in Sri Lanka?
by doranakandawatta- 2 followers
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Since I am a new Palmtalk member, I must apologize because I don't know how IPS is organizing biennials, but: Why don't you come to Sri Lanka: Peradeniya botanic garden Samarakoon palm collection Kandy Kandalama Hotel (G. Bawa architect) Avissawella jungle (Ratnapura district) Boulder Garden Hotel (!!!!) Singharaja rainforest (place of Loxococcus rupicola and others) Bandarawella plantation hotel or Nuwara Eliya station bangalow (tee hills) Hakgala botanic garden Galle Fort Dutch House hotel (Channa Daswatte architect) Bentota Villa (G Bawa architect) Bentota river and mangrove Brief Garden Lunuganga garden T.S. palm collection Colombo Tintagel Hot…
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Nong Nooch slide show
by Trópico- 1 reply
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The IPS Biennial photo slideshow is on the Nong Nooch website. Enjoy! http://www.nongnoochtropicalgarden.com/th/Touriumphp1103.php
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Nong Nooch 2
by Gileno Machado- 8 replies
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The traffic stops for IPS; Entering the gardens; Coccothrinax nursery; Copernicia and Bismarckia for future Projects
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Travel time to get home from Biennial ?
by Cindy Adair- 1 follower
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I was on the last bus out of Nong Nooch (6 pm) and my flight didn't leave until 2:40 am. After changing planes in Doha (I now know where Qatar is!) and then to Washington, DC, I finally arrived at my home in Virginia Beach around 7 pm. I think that makes 25 hours plus the 11 hour time difference for a total time from the gardens of 36 hours even with no flight delays. Well worth the jet lag-simply an amazing trip!!!!!! Of course some lucky folks are extending their trip to Vietnam or elsewhere. Let us know about your travel time and that you are safely home.
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Scenes from Nongnooch 2 gardens
by Walter John- 5 replies
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At the Borassus Football Field.
