Spring meeting Calendar - Southeastern Palm Society

Spring meeting
Location
Aquinas High School and the garden of Joe LeVert, Augusta,
Georgia; and Woodlanders, Aiken, South Carolina
Date
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Agenda
8.30 am
9.00 am
10.00 am
Plant vendor setup at greenhouse parking lot
SPS Board Meeting
General meeting begins, tours of Aquinas High
School gardens and plant sale
11.30 am Guided tour of Joe LeVert’s garden (a few blocks
away)
Lunch
On your own; and travel to Aiken, South Carolina,
about 40 minutes away
Afternoon Woodlanders spring open house, open until 3 pm
Addresses Aquinas High School
1920 Highland Avenue
Augusta GA 30904
Woodlanders
1128 Colleton Avenue
Aiken SC 29801
woodlanders.net
Joe LeVert
1901 Pennsylvania Avenue
Augusta GA 30904
Our day begins at Aquinas High School in Augusta, where SPS member Joe
LeVert is both a teacher and is the school’s garden designer. This garden is
the object of Joe’s subtropical imagination and is full of both common and
rare hardy palms and a huge variety of other ornamental plants.
Joe will give several tours of the school’s garden concurrent with the spring
meeting plant sale, which is a great place to find those hard-to-find plants
that are not easily obtained elsewhere. We’ll move a few blocks away to
Joe’s private garden. Though planted on a small city lot, the garden is
designed for impact.
Lunch is on our own. After lunch, there’s a 25-mile drive to Woodlanders in
Aiken. The mail-order nursery is famous for its introduction of Southeastern
native plants, and for a wide variety of subtropical plants. Our visit is on the
last day of their spring open house, when a selection of plants are available
for retail sale.
See you there!
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Quarterly
Newsletter
Volume 1-1, Spring 2012
Calendar
Spring Meeting
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Augusta Georgia and Aiken, South
Carolina. See details at left.
Summer Meeting
Saturday, June 16, 2012
Stockbridge, Georgia
The SPS 20th Anniversary Meeting at
the garden of the late Mr. Bill
Manley. Mr. Manley’s home and
garden are now owned by meeting
host and SPS member Ed Jones.
Fall Meeting
Saturday, October 6, 2012
Longleaf Botanical Garden, Anniston,
Alabama
Host: Hayes Jackson
Southeastern Citrus Exposition
Friday and Saturday, November
16–17, 2012
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Host and organizer: Stan McKenzie
Spring plant sale
Help desk
Calling all palm growers! Would you like to sell some of your surplus palms,
cycads and other plants at the Southeastern Palm Society’s spring meeting?
For full addresses, see the
SPS Membership Directory.
It’s a great venue to market your plants, make a little extra money and enjoy
a fantastic day! You don’t have to be a professional grower to participate
and there is no minimum number of plants you must bring.
President
Book mailings
Seed bank
Michael Hartley
[email protected]
Please e-mail Tom McClendon at [email protected] to
register. Registration is free for all current SPS members and is $25 for
nonmembers.
Setup for the sale will be at 8:30 am at the Aquinas High School greenhouse
parking area.
Hometown Grant
The annual SPS Hometown Grant is back! The Grant awards $500 to a
current member who desires to plant a palm display in a public setting in
their hometown. The contest is open to dues-paying members with
membership current for 2012.
Complete instructions for entering the Hometown Grant contest, along with
the entry deadline, can be found on page 4.
Treasurer’s report
$392
$618
$26
$5,216
6%
10%
0%
84%
Total
$6,252
100%
Summary
Beginning bank balance
Gain or (loss)
Ending Bank Balance
Assets: Book Inventory
Liabilities: None
Net worth
Expenses
Book mailing
$125
Journal
$6,183
Meetings
$85
Office supplies $217
Other
$111
Website
$280
Total
$7,001
Secretary
SPS Newsletter editor
Jeff Stevens
[email protected]
Treasurer
Membership contact
Will Taylor
[email protected]
Alabama director
Hayes Jackson
[email protected]
Georgia director
Will Fell, Jr.
[email protected]
This summarizes the society’s financial activities for 2011.
Income
Plant auction
Books
Contributions
Membership
Vice president
Southeastern Palms editor
Liaison to the Bamboo Farm
Tom McClendon
[email protected]
2%
88%
1%
3%
2%
4%
100%
North Carolina director
Keith Endres
[email protected]
South Carolina director
Rick Davis
[email protected]
Tennessee director
David Cox
[email protected]
Director-at-large
Newsletter and journal mailings
Johnny Cochran
[email protected]
$9,393
($749)
$8,644
$4,674
$0
$13,318
General counsel
Alex Woollcott
[email protected]
Webmaster
John Saltiel
[email protected]
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Winter meeting report
Good weather greeted about 65 SPS members and guests for the
winter meeting at the Georgia Botanical Gardens at the Historic
Bamboo Farm in Savannah on February 25.
Jeff Stevens took the group on an hour-long tour of the tropical sights
of Buenos Aires, Argentina and to Uruguay to see Butia odorata in its
native habitat. The trip continued to the International Palm Society’s
biennial in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and to the garden of the late Roberto
Burle Marx.
A pizza lunch disappeared quickly, followed by a lively plant auction
and tour of the palm collections of the Bamboo Farm.
Photos from the winter meeting presentation at right:
 The allée of the imperial palm, Roystonea oleracea, in the Jardim
Botânico do Rio de Janeiro.
 Bromeliads are a found in abundance in Brazil. This is probably
Neoregelia ‘Fireball’.
 A group of Butia odorata used to form the wall of a corral in
eastern Uruguay.
Photos: Jeff Stevens
Publication changes for 2012
To communicate better with members, we’re making a significant
change to our publications in 2012.
You’ll receive via e-mail four newsletters with:
 News about quarterly meetings.
 Entry forms for the annual SPS Hometown Grant and offers to host
future meetings.
Printed copies will be mailed to those without e-mail.
Our journal, Southeastern Palms, will be published and mailed to
members three times a year. The journal will be filled exclusively with
articles and color photos about hardy palms and subtropical plants.
These changes will:
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Ensure that members receive information about meetings and other benefits.
Align us with the publication content of many other plant societies.
Help keep membership dues, which pay for printing and mailing, at a stable cost.
Keep the responsibilities of our SPS volunteers at a manageable level.
We hope these improvements will continue to make your membership enjoyable and a good value.
About the Southeastern Palm Society
The Southeastern Palm Society, founded in 1992, is the Southeastern north-of-Florida chapter of the International Palm
Society. Members are devoted to growing hardy palms and other subtropical plants.
Membership is open to all for $25 per year per household. Benefits include a subscription to Southeastern Palms, the
SPS Newsletter, members-only plant auctions and seed bank access.
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Hometown Grant 2012
Have you ever driven by the local post office and thought, “Some palms would look really good around that place?” Now
you have a chance to do something about it! About a decade ago, the membership of the Southeastern Palm Society
approved the funding of the Hometown Grant. The Hometown Grant is a $500 grant awarded to a current member who
desires to plant palms in his or her own town. It’s a great way to show people where you live that yes, palms will grow
here.
Past recipients have enriched gardens in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and New Jersey.
You could be next.
Please read the rules below and give some thought to applying. It’s a great way to make your town a little more “palmy.”
Sincerely,
Michael Hartley
SPS President
RULES FOR THE SPS HOMETOWN GRANT
1. Who can apply for the grant?
Applications are only open to current (2012), dues-paying SPS members.
2. How may the funds be spent?
The amount of the grant is $500 and must be used to purchase palms only. Funds may be used to cover shipping costs as
well, and if the recipient picks up palms, he or she may use the funds to reimburse fuel costs. However, no funds may be
used for meals, lodging or other personal expenses.
3. What palms can I use?
The palms planted must be hardy for your area. No experiments, please! We want to demonstrate that palms are
worthy landscape subjects, and nothing shows this better than a healthy palm.
4. Where should the palms be planted?
Palms must be planted in a public place (no private gardens) with regular maintenance and, preferably, some type of
irrigation system.
5. How do I apply for the grant?
Applicants must submit a proposal that includes:
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A one-page rationale.
A site map showing the proposed location of palms.
The nursery sources the applicant intends to use.
A timeline.
A cost estimate.
Grant proposals should be sent by e-mail to SPS president Michael Hartley at [email protected]. Proposals will be
forwarded to the SPS Board of Directors, who will select a recipient.
6. What's the deadline to submit an application?
Proposals are due by May 18, 2012. The winner will be announced soon thereafter.
7. If I am awarded the grant, how will I be reimbursed for purchases?
Receipts for purchases must be turned in to the SPS treasurer no later than September 30, 2012. Any unused funds must
be returned to the SPS treasurer to be deposited back into the general fund of the Southeastern Palm Society.
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