The South Florida Palm Society (SFPS) is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to disseminate information about and encourage interest in palms. We raise awareness and knowledge of palms in the landscape, public areas and in their native habitats.
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February 2: General Meeting, Peru Exploration of northern Amazon Basin with the IPS. February 14: Members only Spring Garden Tour at Montgomery Botanical Center (lunch included), March 7 & 8, Spring Palm Show and Sale, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL.
February 2, 2026. General Meeting. Join us, as we travel with Horace Hobbs, long time palm enthusiast, as he explores northern Peru from the Amazon basin to the eastern slopes of the Andes, with intrepid members of the International Palm Society. Not to be missed! (Recognize this palm?)
February 14, 2026: Yes, Valentine’s day! You can bring your sweetheart to Montgomery Botanical Garden on a guided tour of their incredible palm and cycad collection, but this doesn’t count for a Valentine’s day gift! Lunch included and it will be excellent.
March 7 and 8, 2026. Annual Spring Palm Show and Sale at University of Miami, Coral Gables. Approval pending. Details will provided soon. We will post a list of all species for sale about a week before the sale.
Recent Past Events
December 1, SFPS Holiday Party with Tropical Flowering Tree Society, with a holiday feast, raffle, silent auction and live auction. See link.
November 8 and 9, SFPS Annual Palm Show and Sale, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden.
November 1, 2025 Fall Garden Tour, Dr. Block’s Botanical Garden, Coral Gables, FL.
October 6, 2025 General Meeting: Dr. Patrick Griffith, Executive Director of Montgomery Botanical Center, presented “In Search of the World’s Largest Coconut on the Palmyra Atoll.” See link.
On June 14, 2025, a group of 13 volunteers from South Florida Palm Society, Treemendous and FIU, lead by Steve Pearson, planted 21 palms at the Palmetum located at campus of the University of Miami in Coral Gables. The palms were donated mainly by Montgomery Botanical Center and Redland Nursery. We are very grateful for the assistance of the volunteers and the palm donations. See link
June 7, 2025, General Meeting, Laz Priegues presented his trip to Mauritius, including one of the most beautiful botanical gardens in the world.
April 12, 2025, Spring Garden Tour, Mike Harris incredible backyard landscape in Cooper City.
April 7, 2025, General Meeting, Understanding Peru from a Palm Perspective, by Chip Jones, Jones Landscaping. See Posting.
March 8 and 9, 2025 Spring Palm Sale, University of Miami Gifford Arboretum, See posting.
Feb 3, 2025, General Meeting, MBC Palm Expedition to Acre, Brazil by Dr. Joanna Tucker Lima, Living Collections Manager and Botanist, Montgomery Botanical Center. See posting.
Regular SFPS Activities
There are typically two garden tours each year, one in the spring and the other in the fall for SFPS members. Non-members can join the tour, but they must pay $15.00 each. Meetings are held on the first Monday of the even-numbered months- February, April, June, August and October in the Corbin building at Fairchild Gardens. Meetings are open to non-members.
The December meeting is the Holiday Party and annual auction. It is open only to members and their guests. At recent parties, we have invited members of the Tropical Flowering Tree Society to join us in the festivities. Attendees have an opportunity to outbid each other for a prized plant (not necessarily a palm).
You may join the Society by clicking on the link below.
SFPS is always looking for new ways to increase awareness and knowledge of palms in the landscape, botanical gardens and in the wild. We have supported efforts by the Kiem Foundation, Morningside park palmetum and MetroZoo collection of palms. We have added to the Palmetum at University of Miami in Coral Gables, FL in 2025 and hope to continue to expand their collection in 2026.
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