Many of our members have daylilies that are special and were expensive for them to purchase. As these plants grow and enhance our gardens, there comes a time when we need to divide them. What to do with the extra fans that we don’t want to plant back in our gardens? They would be perfect for the auction at the Members’ Sale. The Sale is meant to give club members the opportunity to purchase daylilies that are a cut above the ones offered at the public annual sale.

So, as you begin to assess your daylilies, remember the possibility of contributing to the Members’ Sale in May. And yes, I know it’s only January and the gardens are frozen and flat as a pancake – but don’t we all begin to think about spring and what needs to be moved, divided, added, etc.? Seed catalogs and spring garden catalogs are coming in the mail and websites are being updated for the 2019 gardening season. What delightful temptations await….

The Long Island Daylily Society (LIDS) invites you to join us Friday, July 19, through Saturday, July 20, in Long Island, New York, for the 2019 AHS Region Four Meeting. Our guest speaker is hybridizer Gil Stelter, owner of Gryphon Gardens in Guelph, Ontario.

The host hotel is the HILTON LONG ISLAND/ HUNTINGTON 598 Broad Hollow Road, Melville NY 631-577-1506
http://www.Hiltonlongisland.com
Mention “LIDS” to get the group rate of $165 per night.

Your registration includes the Saturday bus tour and four meals: Friday buffet dinner followed by an auction, Saturday grab and go breakfast on your way to three garden tours, Saturday lunch and tour at Planting Fields Arboretum in Oyster Bay, NY, and Saturday evening sit down banquet, business meeting and program by Gil Stelter.

Please celebrate daylilies with us on July 19-20. Visit with old friends and make new friends while we all have “Fun in the Sun” on Long Island—you won’t want to miss it!

Check our website for details about each tour garden, open gardens, our speaker, fun things to do while you’re on Long Island, and more –
http://www.longislanddaylily.weebly.com

to take back to their garden. Because the plants still belong to HADS while they are growing to size in members’ gardens, we ask that all members receiving plants sign a contract with HADS that they understand the plant belongs to HADS and that they will return it. Babysitter plants are generally higher priced plants and HADS uses the babysitter program to obtain these daylilies for the members who will eventually either receive a fan for free or be able to purchase the plant at the members’ auction.

This year, our babysitter plants have come from Northern Grown Perennials in Ferryville, WI; Perfect Perennials in York, PA; and Kennesaw Mountain Daylilies in Marietta, GA
The babysitter plants are:

Another Man’s Praise
Ark of Refuge
Dark Purple Matter
Eggplant Luminosity
Heritage House
Kennesaw Sunset
Magical Morning
Parting the Waters
Pollo Grasso
Potter’s Wheel
Pretty in Purple
Red, White and New
Roaring Fire
The Snow Moon
Yuletide Greetings

It isn’t too early to be thinking about the Big Annual Sale we have at Faddegon’s Nursery in August. The sale relies on donations from members of daylilies they are willing to share. If you have daylilies that have grown too big and you’re ready to split them up or have daylilies that you want to donate so you have more room for newer varieties, then do we have a deal for you! We will help you dig up your plants and take away the ones you
don’t want!!

If you have donations for this year’s sale, please let Stephanie Kronau know by e-mail (skronau@nycap.rr.com) or by phone
(518) 283-6107. We need to know the name of the variety and how many fans you are donating. Please let Stephanie know by July 15th so we have time to get the list organized and make labels and bags for the fans. Thanks!

Roaring Fire by Waldrop, 2018

Yuletide Greetings by Lysne, 2016

You can find out more about this celebrated speaker and author and also purchase tickets at the Berkshire Botanical Garden’s website:
http://www.berkshirebotanical.org/

The National Convention is June 6-9, 2018, at the Sheraton Myrtle Beach Convention Center in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The 2018 Convention Website is:
http://www.ahs2018convention.org/

Contact the Sheraton hotel directly for reservations on 888-627-8203 by 5/5/18 and identify yourself as part of the Daylily Convention to receive the negotiated rate of $149.

For more information contact convention
co-chairs:

Kathy Tinius
Gadc2018@gmail.com
1-843-238-1548

Heidi Douglas
Gadc2018@gmail.com
1-843-240-2532

There will be a Regional Meeting in 2018 – it will be held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, July 27th to 29th. The website is up and running with hotel information, schedules and registration information. The keynote speaker is Allan Banks, who is a member of the Nova Scotia Daylily Society and hybridizes locally in Nova Scotia. He has 30 registered daylilies. Get more information on the website:
http://www.nsdsregion4.com/

• Appoint new or reappoint
  committee chairs after
  the election

• Set dates for meetings at the
  Cooperative Extension
  and Colonie Library

• Insure Treasurer sends
  Insurance Certificate to
  the Cooperative Extension

• Insure auction plants are selected
  for the Members’ Sale

• Be available if Babysitter Committee
  needs help

• Submit paperwork for a table at the
  spring Garden Show

• Prepare and submit article for the
  Regional newsletter twice a year

• Make sure there’s a committee for the
  annual sale and tasks are outlined so
  everything is done on time

• Keep and update a calendar of events to
  insure all tasks by operating committees
  are accomplished on a timely basis and in
  time for the event

• Keep in touch with Regional leaders to be
  informed about Regional events.
  Make arrangements for attendance at
  Regional meetings

Christmas Hugs by Shooter, 2013