Potential Creation of the Carolina Palm Society

[MrTropical]

Hello everyone. @NC_Palms & I are interested in creating a palm society to represent the Carolinas. How would we go about establishing one? Thanks in advance. 



@kinzyjr @ASHCVS @PALM MOD

[kinzyjr]

I'm not sure if this is up your alley, but a lot of folks from the Carolinas are members of the Southeastern Palm Society. 

https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/topic/82791-southeastern-palm-society-meeting-in-brunswick-ga-on-feb-24th/

 

@JLeVert is an active member of the group.

[MrTropical]

3 hours ago, kinzyjr said:

I'm not sure if this is up your alley, but a lot of folks from the Carolinas are members of the Southeastern Palm Society. 

https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/topic/82791-southeastern-palm-society-meeting-in-brunswick-ga-on-feb-24th/

 

@JLeVert is an active member of the group.

One of the goals of a potential Carolina Palm Society would be the creation of events within NC. I'd like to shorten the drive for the folks in NC. Also, the palm scene in central & eastern NC is considerably different from the palm scene in southeast GA. A palm society in North Carolina would capture the widely varying climate of the state, as a (sub)tropical garden in Raleigh can look vastly different from a garden in Hatteras. The differences become even greater west of the Piedmont.

The "North Carolina Palm Society" might be a more fitting name in this case, as I wasn't aware of the Southeastern Palm Society.

[kinzyjr]

At a minimum for a new society, you'll probably need a president, a secretary, and a treasurer.  As far as affiliation with IPS, @ASHCVS or another person with more knowledge of IPS would have to comment.

[JohnAndSancho]

22 hours ago, MrTropical said:

One of the goals of a potential Carolina Palm Society would be the creation of events within NC. I'd like to shorten the drive for the folks in NC. Also, the palm scene in central & eastern NC is considerably different from the palm scene in southeast GA. A palm society in North Carolina would capture the widely varying climate of the state, as a (sub)tropical garden in Raleigh can look vastly different from a garden in Hatteras. The differences become even greater west of the Piedmont.

The "North Carolina Palm Society" might be a more fitting name in this case, as I wasn't aware of the Southeastern Palm Society.

is it a requirement for membership to take your shirt off, twist it 'round your head and spin it like a helicopter? 

[SeanK]

Talk to Gary Hollar. He and some others up that way had an NC Palm Society for a short time about about 20 years ago. I don't know what issues they ran into back then.

[NC_Palms]

Oh gosh I apologize for just seeing all this now. These past few weeks have been absolutely terrible and busy. 

But I definitely think a Carolina Palm Society will open the doors for more opportunities to discuss palm trees and meet other people interested in this area. The Southeastern Palm Society is great. But as @MrTropicalmentioned, putting NC are the surrounding areas on the map would be great. As I do not think the SEPS has done much in NC.

North Carolina, South Carolina and Southeast VA would be a good target area. Perhaps the “Palm Society of the Carolina’s and Virginia” would be a nice name. We can discus anything from growing palms, seeing them in the wild and botanical garden trips.

Hopefully we can get this rolling soon.