Join us for a unique educational event in an outdoor botanical classroom.
This is a rare chance to geek out with local legend Jeff Marcus as he guides us through his extensive palm collection to demonstrate interesting palm morphology and taxonomic mysteries. The Marcus garden is a wonderful example of how private gardens can play a role in conservation and taxonomic research. Several new species of palm have been named in his garden, and herbarium vouchers made from palms in his garden have been sent to world renown botanical gardens including The Royal Botanical Garden at Kew in the United Kingdom.
See Palms that are rarely seen anywhere in cultivation. Jeff will explain cultural and historical facts, growing tips, and conservation status.
Here are just some of the genera included in the tour:
Sclerosperma Lemurophoenix Masoala Marojejya Chrysalidocarpus Geonoma
Sclerosperma
Lemurophoenix
Masoala
Marojejya
Chrysalidocarpus
Geonoma
Pinanga
Areca
Burretiokentia
Kentiopsis
Licuala
Physokentia
Shuttles will be provided from/to the Hawaiian Acres Community Association. Session times allow for sign in and shuttle rides from the community center. No parking will be available at Floribunda. No sales will be made.
Morning Session (limit 30 people):
Arriving at Hawaiian Acres Community Center at 8:00 am. Tour begins at 8:30am, 10:30 am refreshments and talk story, return to Hawaiian Acres Community Center at 11:30am.
Afternoon Session (limit 30 people):
Arriving at Hawaiian Acres Community Center at 12:30pm. Tour begins at 1:00pm, 3:00pm refreshments and talk story, return to Hawaiian Acres Community Center at 4:00pm.
No place is like Floribunda Palms, where you can take a photo like the one on the left showing a Dypsis leucomalla in the foreground with the maroon crown shaft of a tall Lemurophoenix halleuxii and a trunking Masoala madagascariensis in the background.
And no one wants to miss seeing this beautiful garden favorite in the photo on the right! And check out the red leaf on that Geonoma conduruensis (pauciflorus) too.
So grab your notebook and register now!
Grab some ice cream and hang out with your HIPS friends in the incredible Moani-Lundkivist Garden. Bob Carrere and Andy Pesce welcome us back to their garden for an afternoon of plant bartering or selling.
HIPS will provide drinks and ice cream, served in the garden pavilion. Enjoy wandering past hundreds of palm species in one of the most famous private palm gardens in the world. If you missed the previous garden tours, be sure to see it this time.
We can’t have a plant sale without plant sellers!
All HIPS members are invited to sell or trade plants at this meeting. This is not a fundraiser for HIPS. There is no cost to set up ~10X10 area of plants you want to pass along to new homes. Seller keeps all money from the sale. Of course, we are looking mostly for palms, but all plants are welcome. Use this opportunity to clear out some those extra babies in your shade house and convert them into cash. The event begins at 1:00, so vendors should set up between 12:30 and 1:00 on Kumakahi next to the property. This is a dead end that will be blocked off to regular traffic and parking. Bring a pop-up canopy if you are worried about rain. Your sales area will be immediately next to your vehicle, so setup should be quick and easy. Please test all plants for fire ants and treat as needed.
We should have plenty of space, but please email Rick Kelley <ricklkelley@att.net> no later than Friday, September 21st if you plan on selling so we know how many vehicles to expect.
Please be considerate of the neighbors. Carpooling is appreciated, parking will be along the streets.
A new garden never before toured! George and Lynn Peavy welcome us to their beautiful west side garden. Their garden includes over 300 individual palms representing 124 species, including all 4 species of Johannesteijsmannia, 3 species of Raphia (regalia, hookerii, and mambillensis), Geonoma atrovirens, Sclerosperma mannii, Schippa concolor, Voaniola gerardia, and 3 of the 5 species of Pritchardia native to the Big Island.
We purchased the property as a relatively undeveloped 8 acre parcel in 2003 with a plan of it becoming our retirement home, and began development as absentee owners. Approximately 6 acres are in commercial production (citrus, coffee and dragon fruit), 1 acre of buildings and botanical garden, and 1 acre of ancient terraces and rock walls that are gradually being hand cleared for expansion of the garden.
Our first year was devoted to planning and permitting. Clearing and preparation of the orchard spaces started in 2005 with installation of the orchards in 2006-2007. We began planning and installing trees and palms in 2008 in order to establish canopy before our retirement, although the addition of palms is a continuously on-going adventure. Following retirement in 2016 we moved to the Big Island and began the construction of our home and other farm structures, while broadening the garden with a diverse collection of crotons, aroids, bromeliads and other tropical plants.
HIPS is happy to host Jiro and Zhereeleen. a husband and wife team who have just completed palm surveys in the Philippine islands of Samar, Sibuyan, and Luzon, discovering many new palm species and observing many variations in morphology that pose several taxonomic mysteries that require further studies to resolve.
A remnant population of Livistona saribus in Basey, Samar with several cultivated Cocos nucifera in the background. Photos by J.T. Adorador, Palms Journal Vol 61 (4) 2017.
Often referred to as the Galapagos of the Philippines, Sibuyan island has never been part of the Philippine archipelago geologically speaking, and with its varying topography it offers much to explore.
Jiro Adorador is a botanist and assistant professor at the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) who specializes in the taxonomy, ecology, and conservation of native Philippine palms (Arecaceae). He has been involved in the discovery and formal description of several new palm species including Adonidia zibabaoa, a new species found on karst formations in central Samar Island.
Zhereeleen Mendez Adoradora, is an assistant professor at the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) . Though her focus is on orchids, she often lends her talent in the field to palm expeditions and has been a co-author on several palm articles describing Pinanga gruezoi and Adonidia zibabaoa. She recently described Pseuderia samarana (Orchidaceae) from Samar island, found while surveying palms – a genera new to the Philippines.
HIPS has been invited by Tiffany Knight, Director of Science and Conservation at the National Tropical Botanic Garden (NTBG), Kauai, to tour the McBryde Pritchardia collection (not open to the public) and the McBryde and Allerton palm collections. The garden has an extensive collection of over 900 Hawaiian Pritchardia palms from most all of the known species throughout the islands.
The event will include tours over two days within the McBryde and Allerton gardens and a dinner presentation at the research center. Attendance is limited to 50 people.
This tour is a fundraising event for the NTBG Science and Conservation Center to support their efforts in Hawaiian Pritchardia research, conservation, and collection management. Now more than ever, due to Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle infestations on Kauai it is critical that action is taken to protect Hawaii's Pritchardia biodiversity.
We will learn more about their plans on using phylogenetics to help gardens identify species of Pritchardia and perhaps provide information about what wild population the specimen may have descended from. We will also hear about their program to distribute Pritchardia palms to the public.
Tiffany Knight, Susan Fawcett (she gave the Pritchardia lecture at UH last year), and the wonderful NTBG plantsman Dave Lorence will be our guides.
A minimum donation of $100 is required to attend this event payable at registration. HIPS will give 100% of the money donated to NTBG.
Registration to open in October.
Contact Us:
Hawaiiislandpalmsociety@gmail.com
550 Akolea Rd
Hilo, Hi 96720
