Our next sale will be on November 8 and 9, 2025 at Fairchild Gardens. The sale will be from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm each day. The growers will be there to help you find the perfect plant for your garden. And they can give you great advice on caring for your special plant.
In addition, we will have walking tours of the Fairchild’s world-class Palmetum, led by SFPS members on Saturday and Sunday. On each day, there will be a morning tour at 11:00 am and an afternoon tour at 2:00 pm. Tours will be approximately 45 to 60 minutes long.
There will be 10 local growers at our sale, selling 402 unique species of palm and 31 unique species of cycad. The selection is enormous and unmatched at any palm and cycad sale in South Florida. See consolidated list in our Palm Report below:
Palm Report with consolidated list of all palms and cycads for sale.
| Linda Apriletti (Artist, oil based paintings) | Clay Porch, Vendor #2 |
| Albert Livingston, Vendor #31 | Jeff DeMott, Vendor #7 |
| Ellis Brown, Vendor #68 | John Schild, Vendor #75 |
| Garin Hamilton-Jones, Vendor #6 | Stephen Jurek, Vendor #4 |
| Dagoberto Rodriguez, Vendor #5 | Jeff Searle, Vendor #57 |
| Ron Croci, Jr, Vendor #66 |
As a very special addition, we will have for sale paintings by Linda Apriletti, a very accomplished plein air styled artist. She will be at the sale in person. Linda has shown her artwork in solo exhibitions, including at Everglades National Park, Big Cypress National Park, Museum of the Everglades, and Biscayne Nature Center, and many group settings. She crafts her work the old-fashioned way, by going on location to immerse herself in the beauty that surrounds her.
We hope you will come to our show. Consider spending a day there, to enjoy the rest of the garden and the many exhibits nearby our sale. It is a wonderful time of the year to stroll through the rainforest, with the cooling light mist, The conservatory has many rare and beautiful plants. Most visitors will enjoy the butterfly exhibit, the succulent garden and Victoria Lily Pond.
Paintings by Linda Apriletti
Photos from past sales
And Next Year?
We are in the planning stage for our next palm sale, to be held at the University of Miami, adjacent to the Gifford Arboretum, with the anticipated date of March 7 and 8, 2026. If our request is approved, we will have walking tours of both the Palmetum and the Arboretum. Free admission.
A LITTLE HISTORY ON THE PALM SOCIETY & PALM SHOWS IN MIAMI
In 2022 the International Palm Society (IPS) celebrated its 67th anniversary. It is now a far-flung organization, with affiliate societies active around the world, but it was founded here in Florida. Dent Smith, an oil field worker turned investment house wizard, retired young to Daytona Beach, Florida, where, single-handedly, he created The Palm Society as a conduit for sharing his obsession with the stately plants.
From its beginning in 1955, the Palm Society has had strong links to Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden. Among its first directors was Mrs. Marian Fairchild, widow of Dr. David Fairchild, the Garden’s namesake.
Another of the Palm Society’s early members, Lucita Wait, was longtime coeditor of the Fairchild Garden Bulletin alongside some notable writers such as Marjory Stoneman Douglas. Of the first 10 founding members of the Palm Society, the last one surviving was Stanley Kiem (1929-2020), who for many years was superintendent of the Garden. Not surprisingly, over time many palm enthusiasts have belonged to both the Society and the Garden.
A movie theater parking lot was the site of the initial Palm Society sale in Miami in the mid-1970s. As interest in palms burgeoned, a better sale venue was warranted. Accordingly, in 1979 Fairchild Tropical Garden hosted the first Fall Show and Sale of the Palm Society, with plants arrayed on tables just outside the Nell Montgomery Garden House. The next year, more space and less sun was needed, and the event’s location within Fairchild Tropical Garden was moved to the Montgomery Palmetum.
