Dear friends.

 

In December of this year 2024 we will celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Palmetum Botanical Garden of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, and we will inaugurate our new area dedicated to Papua New Guinea, of more than 4,000 m2,  for which we have worked for more than one year. 

 

For this anniversary we will also celebrate a technical event: the II Meeting of Botanical Gardens of the Canary Islands, to be held on Thursday, December 12 and Friday, December 13, and we will have lectures from many staff members from all the botanic gardens of the archipelago.

 

On Friday we will become more international and we will have the honor of having John Dransfield, from the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew, author of the PNG book published in March 2024, as a guest speaker.  Then we will visit the new area and will carry out two memorial plantings in the new area, with cocktail and accompanied by the “Imprevisto” string quartet.  John will plant a Livistona muelleri and another honorable guest from abroad will plant a Ptychosperma pullenii: Joerg Schumann, from Germany, well known for his nursery www.Thrinax.de, who contributed for years to our garden.

 

I am organising all this with the help of a new biologist who has joined our staff this year, Trigal Perdomo.  After ten years I am not alone anymore and the project, which has grown a lot, can grow even faster! 

 

We will drop here more pictures of the new area and the event.  

 

Carlo

 

Hello again, I attach some random pictures from the last weeks, so you can have an idea of what has been going on. 

 

This looks fantastic,  would have loved to come over to join you.

We need something like this in the Balearic islands.

Hello Carlo, how nice to see the Palmetum de Tenerife continues to thrive and expand. I have good memories of visiting in the early days. Congratulations on the continued success of this enormous and lengthy endeavor toward which you have devoted so much time and energy.

I need to visit this place when i’m on the other side of the Atlantic next time!!

Carlo, this is an outstanding achievement. I have thoroughly enjoyed watching the garden successfully mature through your articles in Palms and submissions to this site. As others have said, I sure hope to visit one day. Congratulations! Andy.

Dear Mr. Morici,

Thank you for posting those images, very interesting.

Creating a PNG-like area on Tenerife is probably quite a challenge, so I am honestly wishing you and your team all the best!

 

With kind regards from Okinawa -

Lars

It's always a pleasure to visit Palmetum, every time you notice new improvements and new plants and progress is nicely seen over past few visits. Can't wait to see the new part. Congratulations to Carlo and all people that contribute to this beautiful place.

Hello Carlo,

Congratulations on the 10 year anniversary of the Palmetum, your gigantic efforts prior to and since opening are only known to a few and your continuing results are  enjoyed by the many.  Unfortunately unable to attend the anniversary but look forward to visiting again

warmest regards

Colin

 

 

Great photos! Thank you for sharing! I hope you're doing well!

Fantastic Carlo! Some of us old timers here on PT are gratified to see the evolution of the garden and applaud your commitment and effort.

Hmmmm, I believe there is a cruise to Tenerife currently in the planning. The garden will definitely be on the agenda.

Tim 

Hello again everybody and many thanks to those who already congratulated us.

The 10th Anniversary + 2nd Meeting + PNG Inauguration have been a success.  We took a lot to recover since all that work organizing things has been a brake to many daily activities.  So it is never too late and here i share a bunch of pictures, from those days of 12-13 December 2024. 

A few pictures of the IInd meeting of the Canarian Botanical Gardens, with all the directors seated at the same desk.  John Dransfield had to cancel his trip and gave us his lecture online from home.

Here we gave a tour of the new area , and the German nurseryman Joerg Schumann planting "his" inaugurational Ptychosperma pullenii

More of us... with press and a bit of glamour!

What a fantastic garden you've created Carlo, and belated congratulations on its 10th anniversary. You must be so proud and rightly so, it's one of the best in the World for palms.

Whilst living in UK, I visited the Palmetum 3 times, the last a couple weeks before we emigrated to Australia in 2019. Planning to visit my folks in UK this December so budget permitting, will try to head over again to your beautiful island. The Palmetum is top priority, but also looking forward to nothing but sangria and paella 😋. It's just not the same when consumed outside of Spain.