By Invitation Only:
Newcomers are invited to join one of our members in their garden. Invitations will be sent out in June for members who have most recently joined HIPS.
If invited, you will be able to choose which garden you would like to visit using a map showing relative locations of the available gardens. Each garden will have a description to help you choose.
Let's Hang Out and Eat Ice Cream
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.
Special Invite: NTBG, Kauai Palm Collections
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
