CFPACS Spring Meet and Garden Tours - March 23rd

[Lucinda]

Earring Point on Orchid Island (Vero Beach) and Ron's Sanctuary on Goat Creek (Valkaria) will be open to Central Florida Palm and Cycad Society members and guests March 23rd

10:30 - noon - Lifetime member Anne Michael and her family will host the Society for the first time since 2001. Tour Guide: Jason Baker. The stunning waterfront Michael property features mature and unusual palms planted decades ago in the hope of inspiring others to include more interesting and rare palms in their own gardens. Address: 1 Earring Point, Vero Beach FL 32963.

Noon- 1 o'clock - Lunch on your own in the Sebastian area

1 o'clock - 3 o'clock - Ron Eward will lead tours of his carefully planned, densely planted garden and describe what/how species survived the bitter cold of 2010. Plant auction to follow. Rob Branch will talk about the spreading white fly plague and what palm fanciers can do to prevent/combat the scorge. Address: 3625 Lynn Street, Valkaria FL

See CFPACS's newly published Palmateer for more information.

cfpacs.net/palmateer

or PM Lucinda

The general public is welcome to see the gardens along with Society members. Hope to see many of you there for this inaugural 2013 meeting/tour.

Lucinda

CFPACS President

[Central Floridave]

Weather.com has 85F degrees for Saturday. Very low chance of rain.

[Dave-Vero]

I'll have a couple of books for the "plant" auction.

Evolution and Ecology of Palms by Andrew Henderson, The New York Botanical Garden Press, 2002. Paperback. It is pretty technical, but Henderson (co-author of guides to palms of the Americas and southeast Asia) is a good writer.

Loulou: The Hawaiian Palm by Donald Hodel. University of Hawai'i Press, 2012. Hardback. Wonderful color photography and quite a lot on Hawaiian natural history and pest problems. There's a chapter on introduced palms in Hawaii, including a scary of photo of a whole swarm of Archontophoenix alexandrae (Alexandra palm, from Australia).

[Dave-Vero]

I may have to scrub the books--I've got a supersized runny nose and fever today, and may not be able to make it. If anyone cares to stop by my place to gather the goods, it would be appreciated.

[Central Floridave]

photo thread of the two gardens visited:

http://www.palmtalk.org/forum/index.php?/topic/36309-3232013-central-florida-palm-cycad-society-meeting/