Category: Past Events
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Dec 2, 2024 SFPS Holiday Party
For the second year in a row, the South Florida Palm Society and the Tropical Flowering Tree Society teamed up to throw a bountiful holiday party in the Garden House at Fairchild Garden. Paul Gehrke, TFTS board member and grower par excellence, gave away many beautiful poinsettia cultivars midway through the evening. Meanwhile, on the…
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SFPS Fall Show and Sale, Nov 2-3, 2024
We were fortunate to have two beautiful days at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Gardens in Coral Gables, Florida. Our customers had a lot to choose from with nearly 300 species of cycads and palms for sale. We also gave away many varieties of seeds with directions. No definite plans have been made for a Spring Sale,…
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SFPS General Meeting, June 3, 2024: Andrew Street, How to get the most out of our soils
June 3, Andrew Street, Curator of Palms, Montgomery Botanical Center, The June general meeting of the SFPS featured an informative lecture by Andrew Street on how to get the most out of the soils of our region through understanding the role of fungi. It generated lots of questions from those in attendance. The program was…
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SFPS Spring Palm Show and Sale, April 27-28, 2024
Common, Uncommon and Extremely Rare Palms and Cycads for sale! SFPS resumed its Spring Show and Sale, which this year took place at University of Miami, in the Gifford Arboretum, Coral Gables on April 27 to 28. We were very fortunate to have over 300 species of cycads and palms for sale. Tours were conducted…
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Help Save the Morningside Park Garden & Palmetum
Help Save the Morningside Park Garden & Palmetum! “Longtime SFPS & IPS member Elvis Cruz is the primary caretaker of the magnificent palmetum at Morningside Park in Miami, Florida. This 3-acre garden was the defining element of the park’s original design in 1953. However the palm garden was neglected over time. The South Florida Palm…
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SFPS General Meeting – Aug. 2nd – “Using Palms Along Florida Roadways: A Landscape Inspectors Perspective” Benjamin Koubek
In the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge of Arizona, there is a relic population of Washingtonia growing in a remote narrow desert canyon surrounded by Sonoran Desert vegetation. Some scientists have dared to recognize it as a new species and others have dismissed the idea. In a recent study it was found to be an outlier…
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SFPS General Meeting – June 7 – Dr. Larry Noblick “An Ice Age Relic Palm in Arizona”
In the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge of Arizona, there is a relic population of Washingtonia growing in a remote narrow desert canyon surrounded by Sonoran Desert vegetation. Some scientists have dared to recognize it as a new species and others have dismissed the idea. In a recent study it was found to be an outlier…
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SFPS Member Distribution Report (2021)
On the morning of February 20th, 2021 South Florida Palm Society members shared and distributed various plants and seeds at Matheson Hammock Park. Twenty plus SFPS members attended the outing and went home with some excellent plants. Here is the distribution report.