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	CFPACS Notices and Upcoming Events Holiday Meeting at Rob Branch's, Sarasota - Saturday, December 13 from 10:30am until ? Please note the meeting has moved to the 13th of December. This year's holiday meeting will take place at Rob Branch's spectacular garden in Sarasota. Rob has well over 700 palms planted in his garden representing over 300 varieties. Our holiday meetings are always a fun time of talking with fellow palm enthusiasts and great food in a beautiful palm garden. A palm and cycad sale and auction conclude the official activities of the day. Read more and get directions... 2009 CFPACS Hometown Grant Available The CFPACS Hometown Grant is a $500 grant awarded to a member in good standing who desires to plant palms and cycads in his or her own home town. It's a great way to improve the landscape of your favorite public place while at the same time show people in your community how much beauty palms and cycads can bring to the environment. Read more about the grant... Fall Seed Bank Public Sale Going on NOW!!! - Seed list updated 8/29/2008 CFPACS has decided to sell excess seeds from the seed bank to the general public. You don't have to be a member to purchase seeds in a public seed offering. Please go to the Public Sales page of the Seed Bank website area and look at what is available. Ordering instructions are at the bottom of the page.
	Recent Events & Interesting Stories East Coast Summer Meeting Recap (June 14) At the first of two gardens visited, about 40 members toured an 8.5-acre property in Grant, southern Brevard County. The collection of 150 species and at least a thousand individual palms is bigger than that of most smaller botanical gardens. While there are no lawns or pretty vistas, the palms are clustered around four ponds. The second garden, in Valkaria/Malabar, is smaller and on the scale of an ordinary homeowner. The attractive palms and cycads there are remarkable, however, in their survival of the wild fires last spring that surrounded and threatened the house. (JDK) Central Area Spring Meeting Recap (March 8) A sunny day in Orlando, slightly less than warm in the strong winds: a two-hour tour of the palms and cycads of Leu Gardens conducted by the on-site palm/cycad maven, Eric Schmidt. This was the March 8th CFPACS spring meeting with 60 members and guests attending. There are 375 species of palms and 65 species of cycads in the Leu collection. Many - 125 species - have been planted in the last five years. After lunch, the tour moved on to the second stop at the property of Pat and Gordon Smith, long-time members, whose collection dates back into the 1970s and earlier. Theirs is a favorable microclimate between canals just off Lake Maitland. What is that tall palm? Why, it's Livistona decora. I've never seen one that big, not around Orlando!   Well, you just have... The real business of the day got underway at the Smiths' with the plant auction, followed by sale of palms and cycads by the several vendors present. As always, good company (people just as crazed as yourself). (JDK)