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Our meetings are held the first Wednesday of every month at 7:30 PM at the Mount's Botanical Garden building (click here for directions). Each meeting features a notable speaker, a palm & cycad auction, refreshments, socializing and camaraderie. Membership signup is available at the door.
 Dictyosperma album var. furfuraceum
 Coccothrinax borhidiana
 Ravenea rivularis
Please continue to check back for details as they become available.
- Wednesday, January 4, 2017, 7:30 PM
- Speaker: Jeff Searle
- Subject: 2016 International Palm Society Biennial
- Wednesday, February 1, 2017, 7:30 PM
- Speaker: Chad Husby, Ph.D, (postponed due to illness)
Botanical Horticulturist
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden
- Subject: Exploring the Spice Islands in the Footsteps of David Fairchild
- Wednesday, March 1, 2017, 7:30 PM
- Speaker: Chad Husby, Ph.D,
Botanical Horticulturist
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden
- Subject: Exploring the Spice Islands in the Footsteps of David Fairchild
- Saturday, April 8, 2017 - 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Sunday, April, 9, 2017 - 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM
- Wednesday, April 5, 2017, 7:30 PM
- Speaker: Chip Jones
- Subject: Cycad Sightings in Thailand
- Wednesday, May 3, 2017, 7:30 PM
- Speaker: Robin Crawford
- Subject: Palm Sightings in Hawaii
- Wednesday, June 7, 2017, 7:30 PM
- Speaker: Ruth & Terry Lynch, Mary & Tom Whisler, and Dale Holton
- Subject: Belize Trekking with Dale Holton
- Wednesday, July 5, 2017, 7:30 PM
- Speaker: Jerry Behan, President of the volunteer group at
Arboretum at Constitution Park, Deerfield Beach
- Subject: Jerry will discuss development of the plant collection at the Arboretum
- Wednesday, August 2, 2017, 7:00 PM----EARLY MEETING TIME
- Speaker: Joel Crippen, Horticulturist at Mounts Botanical Garden
- Subject: Tour of new Mount's Garden Exhibit, "Windows on the Floating World"
- Wednesday, September 6, 2017, 7:30 PM
- Speaker: Mike Tevelonis from Botanics Wholesale
- Subject: Palm Growing Strategies (at a large scale palm nursery)
- Wednesday, October 4, 2017, 7:30 PM
- Speaker: Dr. Patrick Griffith, Executive Director of Montgomery Botanical Center
- Subject: Montgomery's new cycad and palm conservation project and the
Discovery of Sabal antillensis
- Saturday, October 7, 2017 - 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Sunday, October 8, 2017 - 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM
- Wednesday, November 1, 2017, 7:30 PM
- Speaker: Robin Crawford
- Subject: Palm Exploration in Cuba
- Wednesday, December 6, 2017, SEE BELOW
- Palm Beach Palm & Cycad Society
Annual Holiday Party and
Spectacular Plant Giveaway
(MEMBERS ONLY)
- Door opens at 5:00 PM
- Pot Luck Dinner begins at 6:00 PM
- Plant Giveaway begins at 7:00 PM
- Where: Mounts Botanical Garden,
531 N. Military Trail,
West Palm Beach, FL 33415
- What to Bring: Please bring a covered dish,
vegetable or fruit dish, or dessert
and a plant (of any kind)
for the plant giveaway
 Phoenix rupicola
 Butia odorata
 Pinanga coronata
Please continue to check back for details as they become available.
- Wednesday, January 3, 2018, 7:30 PM
- Speaker: TBA
- Subject: TBA
- Wednesday, February 7, 2018, 7:30 PM
- Speaker: TBA
- Subject: TBA
- Wednesday, March 7, 2018, 7:30 PM
- Speaker: TBA
- Subject: TBA
- Saturday, March 24, 2018 - 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM, DATE CHANGE
Sunday, March 25, 2018 - 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM
- Wednesday, April 4, 2018, 7:30 PM
- Speaker: TBA
- Subject: TBA
- Wednesday, May 2, 2018, 7:30 PM
- Speaker: TBA
- Subject: TBA
- Wednesday, June 6, 2018, 7:30 PM
- Speaker: TBA
- Subject: TBA
- Wednesday, July 4, 2018, 7:30 PM, CANCELLED
- Speaker: TBA
- Subject: TBA
- Wednesday, August 1, 2018, 7:30 PM
- Speaker: TBA
- Subject: TBA
- Wednesday, September 5, 2018, 7:30 PM
- Speaker: TBA
- Subject: TBA
- Wednesday, October 3, 2018, 7:30 PM
- Speaker: TBA
- Subject: TBA
- Saturday,TBA, 2018 - 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Sunday, TBA, 2018 - 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM
- Wednesday, November 7, 2018, 7:30 PM
- Speaker: TBA
- Subject: TBA
- Wednesday, December 5, 2018, SEE BELOW
- Palm Beach Palm & Cycad Society
Annual Holiday Party and
Spectacular Plant Giveaway
(MEMBERS ONLY)
- Door opens at 5:00 PM
- Pot Luck Dinner begins at 6:00 PM
- Plant Giveaway begins at 7:00 PM
- Where: Mounts Botanical Garden,
531 N. Military Trail,
West Palm Beach, FL 33415
- What to Bring: Please bring a covered dish,
vegetable or fruit dish, or dessert
and a plant (of any kind)
for the plant giveaway
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