Events
Our Fall line-up is taking shape! General Meeting (Oct 5), Garden Tour (Oct 24), Palm Sale (Nov 28 & 29), Holiday Party (Dec 7).
See recorded video and summary of our Aug 3, 2026 General Meeting, International Palm Society 2026 Biennial Meeting Vietnam and Post Trip to Southern Thailand, by Horace Hobbs.
Thailand: From IPS Site
October 5, 2026, General Meeting: Madagascar’s Spiny forest and Stone forest.
Laz Priegues will be our guest speaker, presenting the second leg of his trip to Madagascar as he ventured further south on the island. Will provide more details soon.
October 24, 2026, Fall Garden Tour: Two beautiful gardens in South Miami and Shanandoah (near Coconut Grove).
The dates are tentative. By reservation only for current members and their guests only. The details will be available in September. We will be asking for reservations a couple weeks before the garden tour.
Nov 28 and 29, Fall Palm Show and Sale, Fairchild Botanic Tropical Garden.
We are returning again! We are always looking for vendors. If you are interested, please let us know at: palms@southfloridapalmsociety.org
Special Note
Also, we are very grateful to Stephen Jurek, Director of Horticulture Operations at Naples Botanical Garden, who posted to the Garden’s website, how SFPS palm sales have helped the Garden diversify their collection. See link below:
The Art of Acquiring Palms
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.
Past Events
March 7 and 8, 2026. Our Annual Spring Palm Show and Sale at University of Miami, Coral Gables on Saturday March 7 and Sunday March 8. It was a great weekend, as we had nearly 300 species of palms and cycades for sale, plus 3 garden tours.
February 14, 2026, SFPS Spring Garden Tour at Montgomery Botanical Center.
February 2, 2026, General Meeting. Horace Hobbs presented his travels to Peru and and northern Amazon basin as part of an IPS trip.
December 1, 2025 Holiday Party with Tropical Flowering Tree Society, with a holiday feast, raffle, silent auction and live auction. See link.
November 8 and 9, 2025 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
Community Projects
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 diversity of Palms in the Palmetum at University of Miami in Coral Gables, FL in June 2025 and Junw 2026.
Any problems or incorrect information on this website, please contact the Webmaster at:
webmaster@southfloridapalmsociety.org
