Tampa Bay Fern Club
News and Announcements
Date: January
16, 2002
Long time club member and membership chairman,
Bert Snydeman passed away after a lingering illness. The viewing and
service will be held at Blount Curry & Roel Funeral Home's Garden
of Memories Chapel, 4207 East Lake Avenue on Saturday, January 19.
Call the Funeral Home for times, 813-626-3161
Date: August 23, 2001
VISIT TO CENTRAL FLORIDA
FERNS and CHARLES & HELENE JAROS
As you know, we have been invited by Charles
and Helene Jaros to visit their home in Sandford to see their ferns
and other plants and to share in lunch. The trip was scheduled for
September 29, 2001. However, Charles and Helene have been tempoarily
stranded on the west coast and cannot get a flight back in time to
arrange for the visit. So we will have to postpone or cancel the
visit. We will keep you informed if the trip is re-scheduled. You may
wish to keep the directions to Central Florida Ferns printed below
for future reference.
Stay tuned for a re-scheduling of this
trip.
DIRECTIONS TO CENTRAL FLORIDA
FERNS:
Going across State Rd 50:
Follow SR-50 'til you're almost downtown
Orlando to US-441 (Orange Blossom Trail).
Turn left and go north on US-441 (Orange
Blossom Trail) for 15 miles to Route 437.
Turn right and go north on Route 437
(Plymouth-Sorrento Road) for 5.3 miles to W. Kelly Park
Rd.
Turn left and go west on W Kelly Park Rd. for
2.6 miles to the T junction with Round Lake Rd.
Turn right on Round Lake Rd. and go north
approximately one mile to a sign for CFF (apparently the sign
mentions cactus & ferns).
Turn right and go east approx. 100 yards on a
dirt driveway
Going up I-4:
Follow I-4 'til you're almost downtown Orlando
to Exit 33, US-441 (Orange Blossom Trail).
Take Exit 33 and go north on US-441 (Orange
Blossom Trail) for 18 miles to Route 437.
Turn right and go north on Route 437
(Plymouth-Sorrento Road) for 5.3 miles to W Kelly Park Rd.
Turn left and go west on W Kelly Park Rd. for
2.6 miles to the T junction with Round Lake Rd.
Turn right on Round Lake Rd. and go north
approximately one mile to a sign for CFF (apparently the sign
mentions cactus & ferns).
Turn right and go east approx. 100 yards on a
dirt driveway.
Zoe says it takes around 3 hours from S Tampa
to CFF, so allow plenty of time.
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NEWSLETTER
Date: May 29, 2001
P. andinum preserve:
Roy
Vail has a web page with important
news concerning the establishment of the El
Quinillal Preserve in Peru for the
largest fern in the Americas, Platycerium andinum.
See;
http://www.oocities.org/vailroy/Quinillal.html
This site also has links to other Platycerium
sites.
Date: May 11,
2001
Fern Books at the USF Botanical Garden Plant
Shop
Bob Koehler, proprietor of the Elizabeth W.
Johnson Plant Shop will be carrying three books on ferns:
- Fern Grower's Manual Revised
Edition by Barbara Joe Hoshizaki and Robbin C. Moran - (See also
below, dated May 3)
- The Ferns of Florida : A Reference
and Field Guide by Gil Nelson
- The Gardener's Fern Book by F.
Gordon Foster
Date: May 2, 2001
Date: May3, 2001
- Timber Press has just announced the
arrival of Fern Grower's Manual Revised and Expanded
Edition by Barbara Joe Hoshzaki and Robbin C. Moran.
0-88192-495-4, 624 pp, 50 color photos, 165 b/w photos, 826 line
drawings, 8 1/2 x 11", hardcover, © 2001. Price is $59.95. If
you purchase it from their website, they offer a 10%
discount.
- Click her for Timber Press' announcement
for Fern
Grower's Manual.
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