March Meeting

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2019 Calendar of Events


March 24th(Sunday – Please
Note date change) – meeting will
be held at the Capital District
Garden and Flower Show at
10 am at HVCC

April 20th – Kathy Purdy will talk
about Colchicums: Autumns Best Kept Secret

May 11th – Members’ Sale

June 15th – Babysitter Distribution

July 10th – 13th –
National Convention,
Middleton, WI

July 13th – picnic

July 19th – 20th –
Regional Meeting

August 17th – Annual Sale
at Faddegon’s

September 21st – TBD

October 19th – TBD

November – TBD

December 14th – Holiday
Party with UNYHS.

The Albany Co-Cooperative Ext.
is located at 24 Martin Road,
Voorheesville, NY. 12186.
Meetings begin at 10 am
unless otherwise noted.

The William K Sanford
Town Library is located at
629 Albany Shaker Rd,
Loudonville,NY 12211.
Meetings begin at 10am
unless otherwise noted.

The daylily in the article is:
Topguns My Friend Ellen
by B. Scott, 2010

The daylily in the heading is
Ashley Danielle by C. Douglas,
2006

March Meeting

We will be meeting at the Capital District Garden and Flower Show on Sunday, March 24th at 10 am at Hudson Valley Community College. The date was changed to Sunday by the people running the Garden and Flower Show. Our meeting is again in Room 1B, which is down a looooong hall to the right after coming in the front door.

Tickets to get into the Show are available from Bill Wurster (518) 786-3105
wursterw@verizon.net
and Cindi Jones (518) 598-3366
cindijones58@gmail.com
– call or e-mail to get tickets.

Our own Frank Almquist is speaking on “Soils – What’s Under Your Boots” at the show on Sunday at 3:30 pm and Kathryn Mohr is giving a talk on “Growing Water-loving Irises” on Saturday at 2:30 pm. Both talks will be very interesting. You can see the entire schedule at the website:
www.gardenandflowershow.com

We share a booth at the flower show with the Iris and Hosta Societies to get the word out about our clubs and sales. We are asking people to help this year with setting up and taking down the booth. Setup will be Thursday, March 21, at 3:30 pm and take down will be after the show ends on Sunday, March 24th.


A Look Forward to The April Meeting

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HADS OFFICERS

Co-Chairs – Bill Wurster
(518) 786-3105 and
Cindi Jones (518) 598-3366
wursterw@verizon.net
cindijones58@gmail.com

Secretary – vacant

Treasurer – Carol Volungus
(518) 383-0447
daylilly@juno.com

Committee Chairs
Programs – Speakers –
Debi Chowdhury
debichowdhury@yahoo.com

Historian – vacant

Newsletter Editor –
Stephanie Kronau
skronau@nycap.rr.com

Hospitality – Barbara Sander
and Don Constantino
bsander@nycap.rr.com

Sunshine – Debi Chowdhury
debichowdhury@yahoo.com

Babysitter Plants –
Frank Almquist
falmquist@hvc.rr.com
and Sharon Gallucci
smgallucci@msn.com

Display Garden –
Pat & Don Salhoff
psalhoff@verizon.net

Website – Janet Spychalski
Janet.Spychalski@its.ny.gov

Photographer – Cindi Jones
cindijones58@gmail.com

Membership – Carol Volungus
daylilly@juno.com
4 Applewood Dr.,
Rexford. NY 12148

Publicity – Cathy Fruhauf
cathyfruhauf@hotmail.com

Daylilies in the Article are:
Deliverer by Emmerich, 2007 and
Tahoe Snow Blizzard by Gossard, 2006 Many Thanks to Betsy Thompson for the pictures used in the newsletter. Thanks so much, Betsy!!

A Look Forward To The April Meeting

Our meeting in April will be held on April 20th at 10 am at the Cooperative Extension offices on Martin Rd. in Voorheesville, NY.

Our speaker will be Kathy Purdy who will talk about Colchicums: Autumn’s Best-Kept Secret – Colchi-what? If you’ve never heard of colchicums before, you’ll be running to your catalogs to order some after hearing Kathy’s talk. These underused hardy bulbs bring bright color to the fall garden. Kathy will tell you everything you need to know to grow them successfully, including the best varieties for various garden situations and ideal plants to partner with them. She’ll even let you know her sources for the rarest and scarcest. If you don’t yet grow colchicums, it’s time you were in on the secret!

An award-winning garden blogger and writer, published in regional and national magazines, Kathy Purdy has grown colchicums for over twenty years. Charmed by these unusual corms, she became a colchicum evangelist, converting unsuspecting gardeners into confirmed colchicophiles. Kathy wrote the definitive article on colchicums for The American Gardener magazine in 2007. She currently grows over fifty varieties in her Chenango County garden.


The American Hemerocallis Society

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Wicked Path of Sin by CM Barnes, 2008

2019 Regional Meeting

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
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.

Check our website for details about each tour garden and open gardens:
www.www.longislanddaylily.weebly.com

The American Hemerocallis Society

Thinking of Joining the American Hemerocallis Society? Now is a good time to do it. You can get a book on Open Form Daylilies and a voucher for $25. But this offer is only good through March 31st, so don’t put it off too long!

The membership benefits of the American Daylily Society are already pretty great, but to encourage new daylily fans and memberships this month, new members will receive a complimentary copy of The Open Form Daylily! ($25.00 value, 232 pages, 616 full-color illustrations, 10 sketches; softbound,
first edition.)

Included with your membership are four beautiful issues of The Daylily Journal, our official newsletter magazine, each year. This magazine contains articles on award winning daylilies, the most popular daylilies by geography, trends in daylily hybridizing, scientific studies, highlights of gardens and conventions, and much more.

New members joining the American Daylily Society also receive a $25 voucher, which can be redeemed towards purchases of daylilies with select growers across the United States.

But remember, this offer ends March 31st!



Winter Doldrums

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2019 Calendar of Events

February 17th –
Winter Doldrums Party –
Sunday Barbara Melera
will speak on The Victorians:
How They Forever Changed
the Garden 11:30 am –
Coop. Ext., Voorheesville

March 23th – meeting will
be held at the Capital District
Garden and Flower Show at 10
am at HVCC

April 20th – Kathy Purdy will talk
about Colchicums

May 11th – Members’ Sale

June 15th – Babysitter Distribution

July 10th – 13th –
National Convention,
Middleton, WI

July 13th – picnic

July 19th – 20th –
Regional Meeting

August 17th – Annual Sale
at Faddegon’s

September 21st – TBD

October 19th – TBD

November – TBD

December 14th –
Holiday Party with UNYHS.

The Albany Co-Cooperative Ext.
is located at 24 Martin Road,
Voorheesville, NY. 12186.
Meetings begin at 10 am
unless otherwise noted.

The William K Sanford
Town Library is located at
629 Albany Shaker Rd,
Loudonville,NY 12211.
Meetings begin at 10am
unless otherwise noted.

The daylily in the heading is
Spacecoast Velvet Valentine
by Kinnebrew, 2010

Winter Doldrums

Our Winter Doldrums Party will be held Sunday, February 17th at 11:30 am at the Albany County Cooperative Extension, Martin Road, Voorheesville. Anyone who would like to help set up should arrive at 10:00. Many of us look forward to this gathering – it comes at a time when we are all happy to get out of the house and talk gardening with friends. It is one of the few times each year when the Capital Hudson Iris Society, the Upstate NY Hosta Society and the Hudson Adirondack Daylily Society all get together to share good conversation and good food. Please bring a friend and a dish to share – contributions for the Door Prize table will be very welcome.

The speaker is Barbara Melera who will be speaking on “The Victorians – How They Forever Changed The Garden.” When it comes to widespread impact on gardening practices, the discovery and worldwide proliferation of plant species, the way humans at every socio-economic level thought about gardens, it can be argued that of all the cultures, civilizations, and historic periods, none rivals the 90 year span known as The Victorian Era. The Victorians used flowers as a non-verbal language, transformed the garden from a symmetric, formal regiment into a frothy disarray of cottage informality and were mesmerized by the exotic plant material being discovered in the far away jungles of darkest Africa, the dashingly remote valleys of the Himalayan highlands, the plains of the Amazonian rainforest and the arid plateaus of Australia and the Andean Mountains. This talk provides an overview with some interesting vignettes about one of the most exciting periods in the history of horticulture and agriculture.

Barbara Melera is advisor to Harvesting History, a new horticultural company founded in 2016 to provide its customers with the finest quality horticultural and agricultural products available today. Its horticultural and agricultural products are largely heirloom varieties that can be reliably offered to customers year after year or designs


Winter Doldrums cont.

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HADS OFFICERS

Co-Chairs – Bill Wurster
(518) 786-3105 and
Cindi Jones (518) 598-3366
wursterw@verizon.net
cindijones58@gmail.com

Secretary – vacant

Treasurer – Carol Volungus
(518) 383-0447
daylilly@juno.com

Committee Chairs
Programs – Speakers –
Debi Chowdhury
debichowdhury@yahoo.com

Historian – vacant

Newsletter Editor –
Stephanie Kronau
skronau@nycap.rr.com

Hospitality – Barbara Sander
and Don Constantino
bsander@nycap.rr.com

Sunshine – Debi Chowdhury
debichowdhury@yahoo.com

Babysitter Plants –
Frank Almquist
falmquist@hvc.rr.com
and Sharon Gallucci
smgallucci@msn.com

Display Garden –
Pat & Don Salhoff
psalhoff@verizon.net

Website – Janet Spychalski
Janet.Spychalski@its.ny.gov

Photographer – Cindi Jones
cindijones58@gmail.com

Membership – Carol Volungus
daylilly@juno.com
4 Applewood Dr.,
Rexford. NY 12148

Publicity – Cathy Fruhauf
cathyfruhauf@hotmail.com

that have proven invaluable to gardeners for many, many generations. Wherever possible, Harvesting History offers products Made in the USA

For 13 years, Ms. Melera was president and CEO of The D. Landreth Seed Company, the oldest seed house in America, established in 1784, and the fourth oldest US corporation.

Prior to purchasing Landreth, Ms. Melera was the Managing Partner of Tritech Partners, LLP, a seed stage venture capital partnership which invested in early stage technology enterprises in the Mid-Atlantic region. During her years as a venture capitalist she helped to found more than 30 companies and was a Director of more than 20 firms in the software, computer, telecommunication, environmental, healthcare, biotech and agri-science industries. Throughout her career as an investment professional, she has been privileged to be involved with some of the most interesting, innovative technologies and entrepreneurs of the 20th century.


March Meeting

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Daylily in the article are:
Valentine Sweetheart
by Dugas, 2015
White Bunny Valentine
by Ridder, 2012

The Wisconsin Daylily Society proudly invites
you to the 2019 AHS National Convention
in Madison, Wisconsin. The dates will be
July 10-13, 2019.

Hotel: Marriott, Madison West.
1313 John Q Hammonds Dr.,
Middleton WI 53562.
608-831-2000.
There will be 7 tour gardens.

Daylilies in the article are:
My Sunny Valentine by Salter, 2007
Summer Valentine by Bellagamba, 2001

2019 Regional Meeting

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.

March Meeting

As in past years, our March meeting will be held at the Capital District Garden and Flower Show on Saturday, March 23rd at Hudson Valley Community College.

We share a booth at the flower show with the Iris and Hosta Societies to get the word out about our clubs and sales. We have been fortunate in prior years to have Cindi Jones design and set up our booth. The designs have been beautiful and eye-catching and have caused many people to stop and inquire about our clubs. We are asking people to help this year with ideas for the design and help setting up and taking down the booth. More plans will be made at the Doldrums party.

Notes from the January Meeting

Our Holiday Party in December will be combined with the Hosta Society. Dave and Cindy Jennings have done a wonderful job coordinating the party and will again co-host the event. The date is set for December 14th – we had so much fun last year, everyone’s