tfeps - meetings & events

2010	Meetings and Events
Jan. 25:	Speaker: Jeff Searle Program: Color Your Garden with Crotons Jeff is known to many as a premiere palm specialist, but he also has wonderful knowledge of Crotons, beautiful plants that do well in any type of climate. Jeff will speak about how easy they are to cultivate in your garden. @ 7:30pm @ Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden 10901 Old Cutler Road. Coral Gables, Fl Raffle table provided by: Ree Garden
Feb. 22:	Speaker: Chris Migliaccio Program: Understory Palms for the South Florida Garden. Chris is a professor at Miami- Dade College, who will give us excellent advice regarding growing these great plants in our south Florida climate. He has traveled extensively and collected seeds in his journeys and has grown beautiful specimens as well. @ 7:30pm @ Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden 10901 Old Cutler Road. Coral Gables, Fl Raffle table provided by: Tim Anderson
Mar. 22:	Speaker: Bruce McAlpin Program: Propagation Techniques and Secrets. Dr. McAlpin will draw on his many years of experience working with tropical plants at Bob and Catherine Wilson’s Botanical Garden in San Vito, Costa Rica; at New York Botanical Garden; at Marie Selby Botanical Garden; and in his own extensive collection that ranges from aquatics to desert plants to share various propagation techniques and many trade secrets to promote success for the South Florida gardener. Bruce is known to many of us through TFEPS, the Aroid, the Cactus and Succulent and the Bromeliad Societies. He just retired 2 years ago after 18 years as a professor of botany at Miami Dade College. He received his Master’s and a Ph.D. in Plant Anatomy from Duke University. As a true plant lover preparing for retirement, he built his greenhouse before he built his home. There is no admission fee and the public is invited to attend this presentation. @ 7:30pm @ Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden 10901 Old Cutler Road. Coral Gables, Fl Raffle table provided by: Dolores Fugina and Richard Button of *Bloomin’ Good Nursery*.
April 26:	Speaker: Craig Morell Program: Feeding the Needy: Old, New, and Almost Forgotten Ways of Fertilizing Plants Now that the South Florida growing season has begun, Mr. Morell will explore the seemingly complex options available to us in fertilizing plants to assure meeting their various needs to develop robust growth and flowering or fruiting. Craig is horticulturist in the Parks Dept. based at Pinecrest Gardens . He’s been renovating the Gardens since 2004. A lifelong plant collector, he has a BS in Horticulture from UF, a career horticulturist, travels widely, and spends his free time gardening at home, scuba diving, nature photography and visiting even more gardens. There is no admission fee and the public is invited to attend this presentation. @ 7:30pm @ Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden 10901 Old Cutler Road. Coral Gables, Fl Raffle table provided by: Craig Reid
May 24:	Speaker: Dr. Jeff Block Program: The Complete Garden Over the past twenty years Dr. Jeff Block has used his scientific mind and his designer’s eye to plan, create and cultivate the “complete tropical garden.” Growing his plants to perfection has been the result of carefully applying what is known about tropical climate, soil, water, light and plant nutrition. Using slides, Dr. Block will illustrate the results of doing the right things in the right way at the right time in his garden. Dr. Block is a certified Master Gardener and is a Fellow member of Fairchild Tropical Botanical Garden. He is a frequent award winner a various plant society shows with his beautifully grown specimens. Two of the trees in his garden have been designated as Champion trees which means they are the finest examples of their varieties in the United States. There is no admission fee and the public is invited to attend this presentation. There will be a plant raffle. @ 7:30pm @ Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden 10901 Old Cutler Road. Coral Gables, Fl Raffle table provided by: Rebecca Tannenbaum
June 5 & 6:	Our 2010 Fern & Exotic Plant Show & Sale @ Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden 10901 Old Cutler Road. Coral Gables, Fl 9:00AM - 4:30PM Daily - Show is Free after paid admission to the Garden.
June 28:	Speaker: John Banta Program: The Realm of Peacocks (gingers) John has been involved with plants for over 50 years. He has collected plants around the world and introduced them into cultivation in the United States. He is a plant hybridizer and innovator currently working on inducing variegation into plants. Peacock gingers are one of his current passions. Peacocks are synonymous with extravagant displays of color and beauty. Any visitor to the temples in Bangkok quickly realizes that Thailand’s art makes the baroque style seem absolutely austere. It seems only natural that Thailand should be the epicenter for a genus of gingers known as peacock gingers. On June 28th we shall view some of the riches of Thailand. John is the author of the monthly column in the TFEPS newsletter and is one of only two individuals honored with lifetime honorary membership in TFEPS. This promises to be a most informative meeting. There is no admission fee and the public is invited to attend this presentation. There will be a plant raffle as well as a few peacock gingers for sale. @ 7:30pm @ Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden 10901 Old Cutler Road. Coral Gables, Fl Raffle table provided by: Larry and Glenda Weed
July & August:	No Meeting the months of July & August
Sept.27:	Program: TBA @ 7:30pm @ Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden 10901 Old Cutler Road. Coral Gables, Fl Raffle table provided by: Richard Button
Oct. 25:	Program: Annual Auction @ 7:30pm @ Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden 10901 Old Cutler Road. Coral Gables, Fl
Nov. 12, 13 & 14:	Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden " The 70th Annual Ramble " 10901 Old Cutler Road Coral Gables, Florida 9:00AM - 4:30PM
Nov. 22:	Program: TBA @ 7:30pm @ Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden 10901 Old Cutler Road. Coral Gables, Fl Raffle table provided by: Peter Kouchalakos
Dec. ?:	Holiday Party 7:00PM Location: TBA No Raffle table