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

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.

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.

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.

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? 

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.

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. 

I like the idea, I don't know what all this entails but sounds cool

Great idea! Any chance you could include Tennessee too? Please, pretty please? Our climates are essentially a mirror image of North Carolina's but without the coast, and we were part of North Carolina in the 1700s prior to being split off as the Southwest Territory. I like to think of Carolina as a region that includes the Carolinas (which were once one colony but split into two colonies in the even more distant past) plus Tennessee.

On 11/30/2025 at 8:44 AM, L.A.M. said:

Great idea! Any chance you could include Tennessee too? Please, pretty please? Our climates are essentially a mirror image of North Carolina's but without the coast, and we were part of North Carolina in the 1700s prior to being split off as the Southwest Territory. I like to think of Carolina as a region that includes the Carolinas (which were once one colony but split into two colonies in the even more distant past) plus Tennessee.

You could just join the Southern Palm Society. I know there's a lot of members from tennessee

13 hours ago, PAPalmtrees said:

You could just join the Southern Palm Society. I know there's a lot of members from tennessee

Yeah. Or maybe we could create our own state branch? Still, I'd like us to be included if there's a Carolina one that isn't specific to either particular Carolina, given our shared history and our mirror geography of North Carolina's.