October to December, 2025 Activities October 6, 2025: General Meeting. FTBG Corbin “A” building. Our guest speaker will be announced soon. The meeting will be potluck, so please bring a dish to share. After the presentation, we will...
SFPS General Meeting, August 4, Curating the Plants of Fairchild, Why We Grow What We Grow, by FBG Director, Brett Jestrow (Summarized by Lenny Goldstein) A good botanical garden isn’t just an aggregation of plants, thrown together...
Volunteers (L-R) Mia Davis, Lenny Goldstein, Xavier Purroy, John Cozza, Clyde de Quesada (behind John), Steve Pearson, Julio Alvarez (behind Steve), Benyah Andressohn and Horace Hobbs. UM Palm Planting Day, June 14, 2025 Last year, following a...
SFPS General Meeting, June 9, 2025, “My Trip to Mauritius in 2023: How My Travels with the IPS to the Indian Ocean led me to one of the Greatest Botanical Gardens in the World,” by Laz Priegues. (Summarized by Lenny Goldstein). A...
In his program for the SFPS meeting on April 7, Chip Jones gave a roomful of appreciative folks a broad tour of Peru, a botanically captivating country. He’s certainly qualified, having been there eight times in the past two years! Via both...
SFPS Palm Show and Sale at University of Miami, March 8 and 9, 2025 Our Spring sale was a great success as our growers had an excellent selection of palms and cycads to offer our visitors. I am especially appreciative to our organizers...
SFPS General Meeting, Feb 3, 2025 Seed Collection Expedition to Acre, Brazil By Lenny Goldstein. On February 3, 43 hardy souls were transported to Acre, the remotest of Brazil’s 26 states, on an expedition to collect palm seeds. In truth...
On February 3, 43 hardy souls were transported to Acre, the remotest of Brazil’s 26 states, on an expedition to collect palm seeds. In truth, they made the trip in the comfort of the Garden House at Fairchild Garden during the first SFPS...
Courtesy of Montgomery Botanical Center Attalea butyracea Attalea tessmannii Iriatella stenocarpa Leaf measuring in Acre Stuck in the mud
We’ve just waved farewell to 2024, a year that was good to the SFPS in so many ways. First and foremost, we in southern Florida were spared the vicious hurricanes that shredded many communities upstate. Our gardens are intact; sometimes it...
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...
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...
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