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Central Florida Palm & Cycad Society - Fall Meeting - Fri. 10/02/2020 to Sun. 10/04/2020


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If you are a CFPACS Member or former member, you should have received an email regarding the itinerary for the fall meeting.  If you are not a past or present member, but are interested in joining and/or attending, please PM me at your earliest convenience.  CFPACS was able to get a block of rooms reserved at a special group rate in the Miami area for our attendees.  The details of how to lock in the group rate are included in the email sent earlier, but you will need to reserve a room by Monday, August 31st, 2020.  The tentative itinerary is shared below:

Tentative Itinerary

 

Date

 

Time

 

Description

 

Friday, October 2nd, 2020

 

10:00AM

to

4:00PM

 

 

Nursery and Plant Sale Visits (starting at Searle ~10am)

Some members are going down early Friday to check out some of the South Florida nurseries.  These are some of the South Florida nurseries that members have suggested they wanted to visit.

Fall Searle Sale: 6640 SW 172nd Ave., Southwest Ranches, FL 33331

Richard Lyons’ Nursery: 20200 SW 134th Ave, Miami, FL 33177

Redlands Nursery: 18455 SW 264th St, Homestead, FL 33031

Action Theory Landscaping and Nursery: 22401 SW 130th Ave,Miami, FL 33170

Saturday, October 3rd, 2020

 

10:00am

Montgomery Botanical Center: 11901 Old Cutler Rd., Coral Gables, FL 33156

Attendees will be split in groups of 10 for tours of this wonderful 120-acre botanical garden.  Please bring a brown bag lunch and either a chair or blanket to sit on while you are eating.

Sunday, October 4th, 2020

 

12:00 Noon

Private Garden Cookout: TBA, Hollywood, FL

Attendees enjoy a hamburgers and hot dogs style cookout on a property large enough to allow plenty of social distance per CDC guidelines.  Please bring a chair or blanket to sit on while you are eating.  The garden contains plenty of mature palm specimens and a large pond, including several Tahina spectabilis.  There will be a garden tour and a palm raffle at this event.  Please bring long clothes and/or mosquito repellent.

Optional

 

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Fairchild Tropical Botanic Gardens: 10901 Old Cutler Rd., Coral Gables, FL 33156

Some members have expressed an interest in attending this wonderful 83-acre garden.  To our knowledge, they are not accepting reciprocal passes at the moment and are offering two 3-hour tours per day (10am and 1pm).  This can be done on your own if you wish as it is not formally scheduled.

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Lakeland, FL

USDA Zone 1990: 9a  2012: 9b  2023: 10a | Sunset Zone: 26 | Record Low: 20F/-6.67C (Jan. 1985, Dec.1962) | Record Low USDA Zone: 9a

30-Year Avg. Low: 30F | 30-year Min: 24F

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If anyone still needs to reserve a room, I was advised that the date above (August 31st) has been extended to include this week.

Lakeland, FL

USDA Zone 1990: 9a  2012: 9b  2023: 10a | Sunset Zone: 26 | Record Low: 20F/-6.67C (Jan. 1985, Dec.1962) | Record Low USDA Zone: 9a

30-Year Avg. Low: 30F | 30-year Min: 24F

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If you've sent an RSVP, an email will be sent later this week with further details for this meeting.  If you plan on attending and haven't sent an RSVP, please do as it will assist greatly with planning for the visit to Montgomery and the socially distanced private garden cookout.  CDC guidelines, including masks and social distancing, will be observed at these events.

Lakeland, FL

USDA Zone 1990: 9a  2012: 9b  2023: 10a | Sunset Zone: 26 | Record Low: 20F/-6.67C (Jan. 1985, Dec.1962) | Record Low USDA Zone: 9a

30-Year Avg. Low: 30F | 30-year Min: 24F

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Fall Meeting Wrap Up

Friday Plant Sales: Thank you to @Jeff Searle and the rest of the nurseries in the Miami area for welcoming our membership with open arms.

Montgomery Gardens: Thank you to @Noblick, @Mandrew968 and the rest of the Montgomery staff for providing a fantastic tour and for donating palms and a large amount of seeds to our seedbank.  Additional thanks to Andrew Street for inviting us to a palm yard sale after the tour.  The 46-year old Lodoicea maldivica was one of the highlights of the tour, as was the Nypa fruticans.

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Private Garden Picnic: Special thanks to @waykoolplantz for the invite to explore his private garden!  With the Tahina Preservation Project fresh in everyone’s mind, it made a great time to see four of them in a single garden.  Greg gave us an awesome tour and dug out some cycads for the group to take home with them.  The food was great, but the company was even better!

Next Meeting: For those who like a long window to plan, our Holiday meeting is currently slated to take place on Saturday, December 5th, 2020 at a private garden in Micco, FL.  Since the planning for this meeting is still in its infancy, look for a calendar event, a thread for that meeting, and emails to go out at some point later this month or early next month.

Seed Bank Update: You won't want to miss out on the new species donated by Montgomery!  The list below is due to be posted to our website momentarily and is subject to change.  Order and payment information is available at: http://cfpacs.com/org/seeds-for-sale/

SEEDS AVAILABLE

COLLECTED

HOW MANY AVAILABLE

PRICE

Arenga tremula

9/28/2020

100

 

10/$5

Borassus aethiopum

9/14/2020

10

 

2/$10

Carpentaria acuminata

9/29/2020

100

 

20/$5

Chamaedorea hooperiana

9/28/2020

51

 

10/$6

Chamaedorea tepejilote

9/28/2020

100

 

10/$5

Coccothrinax argentata

9/17/2020

203

 

10/$5

Coccothrinax borhidiana

9/17/2020

100

 

10/$8

Coccothrinax clarensis

9/14/2020

100

 

5/$7

Coccothrinax crinita ss. Crinita

9/14/2020

300

 

10/$7

Coccothrinax inaguensis

9/14/2020

28

 

5/$10

Coccothrinax macroglossa

9/28/2020

100

 

10/$12

Copernicia tectorum

9/28/2020

166

 

10/$6

Gaussia attenuata

9/22/2020

100

 

10/$7

Gaussia gomez-pompae

9/22/2020

100

 

10/$7

Gaussia maya

9/22/2020

100

 

10/$7

Hemithrinax ekmaniana

9/23/2020

112

 

10/$16

Pritchardia forbesiana

9/29/2020

190

 

10/$10

Pritchardia pacifica

9/17/2020

100

 

10/$8

Pseudophoenix vinifera

9/15/2020

100

 

10/$10

Sabal palmetto

9/2/2020

100

 

10/$1

Sabal minor

9/28/2020

100

 

10/$2

Schippia concolor

9/24/2020

100

 

10/$2

Thrinax radiata

9/14/2020

100

 

10/$3

Thrithrinax brasilensis var. acanthocoma

9/14/2020

100

 

10/$4

Zamia loddigesii

1/23/2020

98

 

10/$5

Zamia aff. Lucayana

1/22/2020

6

 

10/$15

Zamia  Lucayana

1/23/2020

100

 

10/$10

Zamia pumila

3/5/2020

80

 

10/$6

Zamia vazquezii

2/27/2020

100

 

10/$10

Check us out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Nonprofit-Organization/Central-Florida-Palm-Cycad-Society-145851341806/

Want to join us?  For a measly $20/year or $55 for 3 years you get:

  • Buy seeds with no fee from our seed bank
  • Four issues of “The Palmateer”, official journal of CFPACS – delivered online
  • Garden tours of the best public and private palm & cycad collections in Florida
  • Purchase rare palms & cycads at meetings via member-only auctions and vendor sales.
  • Networking and advice from expert palm and cycad growers.

 

 

 

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Lakeland, FL

USDA Zone 1990: 9a  2012: 9b  2023: 10a | Sunset Zone: 26 | Record Low: 20F/-6.67C (Jan. 1985, Dec.1962) | Record Low USDA Zone: 9a

30-Year Avg. Low: 30F | 30-year Min: 24F

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