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Patriot Daylily Society (PDS) meetings
are on the first Saturday of most months from 12-3PM in the
Bedford Library Bedford, Mass.
Feb 4: 2012 John R
Pike Photo Contest winners (first 3 places) Next Meeting
Patriot Daylily Society Meeting
Saturday, April 7, 2012, noon to 3 PM, Bedford Library
(snow date: none)
Photos: 2011 National Convention Gardens
(Baton Rouge area, Louisiana, May 2011)
Nick Chase was fortunate to be able to go to the last three AHS national conventions (Lake Mary, 2009, Valdosta, 2010 and Baton Rouge, 2011) because these were Southern conventions
held in late May (not in July, like
northern conventions, when he is busy with the Massachusetts
Symphony Orchestra and canʼt get away). The
pictures in this presentation are from last yearʼs
convention in Baton Rouge, taken in eight
display and open gardens: Terry & Jill Rehn, Terrio,
DayByDaylilies, Windrush, Botanical Gardens
of Baton Rouge, Beau Basin Gardens, Daylilies
Etc., and Annette & Norman Pressler. In
addition to daylilies by well-known Southern
hybridizers, you will see creations of
less-well-known local hybridizers like Ken Begnaud, Joe
Goudeau, Nan Wilkerson, Tim Tassin and
Jimmy Terrio.
If there is time: Nick also loves
camellias, and he has taken four yearsʼ worth of pictures at
various times during the camellia season
(December to May) at Orlandoʼs Harry P. Leu
Gardens, which has one of the largest
camellia collections in the world.
Snow date: If the weather is bad on
April 7 (or predicted to be bad), go to
to verify that the meeting is still
being held. We will try to have any announcement
posted before 10 AM on the day of the
meeting. (This is a public area - no need to log in
to see the message.)
Members A-L please bring a snack for our
noon social time.
For login info to membersʼ area of http://patriotdaylilysociety.org,
e-mail request to patham@cox.net.
2012 future meeting dates:
May 5 (members/guests' plant sale at
NEADS)
The PDS May Sale will be
held on Saturday, May 5, noon to 3 PM, at
the campus of NEADS( National Education for Assistance Dog Services) in Princeton, MA. The address is : 305 Redemption Rock Trail South (Route 140) in Princeton,
Phone:
(978) 422-9064 Here is a link to the NEADS website for directions: http://www.neads.org/page.aspx?pid=396 The sale will begin at noon and go until 3pm. For the first 2 hours or so, members/growers may sell plants. If you would like to be a seller at the sale, please let me or Phill Warbasse know, and we will reserve you a table. As a seller at this sale, you will get to keep 90% of the proceeds from your sale, and give 10% to PDS. Also during the first 2 hours of the sale, Silent Auctions will be open for bidding. Plants will be arranged on round tables, and each will have a sheet on which you can write your name, phone number and bid price. PDS keeps 100% of proceeds for PDS Babysitting plants, and 50% of proceeds from plants which members bring in to be put in the Silent Auction. You may, if you wish, make a gift to PDS of the proceeds from the plants you bring in for the Silent auction. At 2:30, Silent Auction bids will be closed, sales tables will close around that time, too, and money will be collected and plants distributed. If you won a plant at a PDS meeting, you may pick it up at the sale. Feel free also to swap and share plants with friends as the sale winds down. To make the day financially viable, Nick has suggested that we welcome folks from both CDS and NEDS to attend the May 5th sale at NEADS. I think this is a great idea. We will not be advertising this sale to the public, because there is not enough parking on the NEADS site for that. Feel free to invite/bring a guest; perhaps he or she will decide to join! :>) At the next PDS meeting I will be putting out a call for sellers and for plants for the Silent Auction. As far as the Silent Auction, I do not need to know which plants you are bringing at this point, only that you will be bringing something for it; cloer to the date I will check back with you to ask which plants you'd like to bring. Sellers who would like a table reserved need to let me know, but I do not need to know anything about the plants you'll be bringing. Important: All plants that come into the room we've reserved must be either clean and bareroot, or potted. Please email me akgabriel22@comcast.net or Phill Warbasse Castoreum@aol.com with your questions or to reserve a table at the sale.
July or August picnic
Oct. 6 (Lori Jones)
Nov. 3 (Bob Sobek) Dec. 1 (party)
May meeting - Saturday, May 5, 2012,
noon to 3 PM, NEADS campus in Princeton, MA,
Members & guests plant sale.
Raffles for April Meeting
Door prize plants - 2 of these:
H. “Natchez
Lace” (Jeff Salter, 2005), evergreen tetraploid, midseason,
27" tall, 7" bloom.
Might
be available, potted, at the April meeting; if not, pick up at the
May meeting at NEADS in Princeton. (Straight from Florida; this year, will
probably bloom in early June in New England.)
Other Daylily Societies - Meetings
Connecticut Daylily Society: March 17, 2012
(11-3), Bob Sobek and Mark Carpenter hybrids;
May 19, 2012 (10-2), plant sale; July 8,
2012, members’ picnic; September 8, 2012 (12-3),
speaker TBD; November 3, 2012 (12-3),
speaker TBD. All meetings except picnic at Avon Senior
Center, Avon, CT.
New England Daylily Society: April 14, 2012
(10:30-3:30), Gil Stelter; May 12, 2012 (10-4),
plant sale and auction in Wakefield; July
28, 2012 (1-4), exhibition. All meetings at Tower Hill,
Boylston, MA except as noted.
Southeastern Massachusetts Daylily Society:
March 18, 2012 (12:30), Carl & Marlene
Harmon; April 15, 2012 (1-4), plant sale
and auction; October 21, 2012 (12:30); November 18,
2012 (12:30); March 17, 2013, Darlyn
Wilkinson and Curt Turner. All meetings at Wesley
United Methodist Church, Wareham, MA.
National and regional: July 11-14, 2012,
AHS national convention, Columbus, OH; September
15-16, 2012, AHS Region IV fall meeting,
Canandaigua, NY.
For login info to membersʼ area of http://patriotdaylilysociety.org, e-mail request to patham@cox.net.Newest meeting minutes posted here 2012 future meeting dates: FApr. 7 (AHS 2011 convention gardens), May 5 (members' plant sale at NEADS),
Apr. 7 (AHS 2011 convention gardens)
Oct. 6 (Lori Jones) Nov. 3 (Bob Sobek) Dec. 1 (party). On November 5th Tina Bemis from Bemis Farms Nursery out in Spencer, MA gave a mini gardening workshop. http://www.bemisfarmsnursery.com, making 'berry' bowls and bulb pots. You missed a great time if you didn't come. here's a few photos by Nick
The Calendars will be
available for purchase at the November 5 meeting and the Holiday Party.
Members can buy calendars for $10 each at the meetings. John R Pike Photo Contest February 3 All members are invited to submit their daylily photos for our annual contest by January 13 so that they can be presented at the Feb 3 meeting for viewing and judging. As always, the winners of the 12 categories will have their entries featured full size on our calendar. Everyone who enters will have at least one of their photos printed in each category they entered. Send them to patham@cox.net as high resolution photos. You could also mail a disk if you'd rather to Patsy Cunningham, 54 Mt Vernon Blvd, Pawtucket, RI 02861.
Hint: If you are cropping and have a choice,
remember it will be fitting on an 11 X 8.5" page on the calendar if it wins.
Patriot Daylily SaleSaturday, June 4, 2011Thank you to all who donated their plants and their
time!
John R. Pike Photo Contest
John Pike had a special interest in preserving heritage
daylilies. John Pike Photo Contest 2009, here are results 2008 Winners of John Pike Photo Contest 2007 Winners of John Pike photo contest
We have printable membership contact
list,
Karin Cooke
invites you all to donate or pledge to donate daylilies for the
LilyAuction online. If you bring them into the next meeting, she can take
care of the shipping to the winner. All members please feel free to email me your list of favorite
daylilies.
If you have a photo as well that would be great. Tell
us why its a good one. See Members' Favorites page.
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