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yes Troy , Colin Wilson and a big fan of Chamaedorea but you forget that in australia also Ian Edwards is a great collector of Chamaedorea

Hey Yall! DeBoe Family checking in.... We are still on PT, just kinde been in hiding for the last couple years... Moved to an apartment by the beach in Boca andd have no palms, but we have been working hard and saving to prepare for our impending move to Hawaii in the next couple years. Glad ya'll are still here and Palmtalk is so strong!

Brand spankin' new here, this is my first post. My name is Shirley. I was born and raised in Alaska but now living in Florida. My husband, Michael, originally from NY and CT, has worked in rescue with the military and that's how we met, and eventually got here....and here, to us, is a beautiful place. We have three white shepherds (one has a little bit of Siberian running thru her veins)....one chihuahua and one cat. We're actively involved with training, tracking, agility, etc., with all our dogs...including the almost 4lbs of chihuahua. We want to go full time with working dogs after Michael retires, with his eye on search and rescue, mine on physical-therapy (imagine Keek in the avatar pulling a wheelchair!), so our whole world seems to revolve around that goal....but....it's not all work and we're both palm crazy. Actually, it was Joe Alf who sparked that fire and then Bernie Peterson who flamed it, because we were mere closet palm people before those two fellas. They told us to join IPS and CFPACS, but I think I goofed up signing up on their board....I don't really know...l swear there is a bowl of oatmeal inside my head as opposed to any measurable IQ. I'm very, very fumble prone lately and probably will dork up a lot more before I'm finished. On top of that, I have a new-to-me-lap-top-format-dealy-o-thingy called apple to figure out, and then even more worse, my credit card got hi-jacked (resolved)-----that really freaked me out....had made an order to seabreeze nurseries....and didn't want them to think I'm a bad customer.....then wrote them this morning to help me because now I think one palm might be lost in the postal system. And I want to join IPS and/or CFPACS but don't want to mess up that. Good grief, it feels like I've told everybody my whole life story. And all that tmi for just one question.......can two persons, Michael and I, join once with one membership to IPS via CFPACS or how does that best work? Have mercy, that's technically two or three or maybe even more questions in one, right? Me, Cris, Trin, and Michael. ...and here's some last August new additions to our family. It took me hours -hours I tell you!- to figure out how to upload pictures. Hoping they show, but if not, well, it's okay, I'll try again later on. Hopefully, I did not blow up the internet.

As a side note: I just returned from an Orchid Society meeting where I heard that many rural folks in Venezuela still think orchids are parasites and not epiphytes. Thus they often remove them to protect their trees.The person who spoke has spent much time in that country and continues to promote orchids there by educating farmers. He also gives 20% of his profit selling orchids towards conservation there. I'm glad you know that orchids and palms can co exist happily! Your plants look great.