2023 Meetings and Activities

Posted on April 1, 2023 by Michelle Young

HADS is teaming up with the local Hosta society and local Iris society to try and restart for 2023. We will be sharing speakers, as well as prizes and food.

Unless otherwise noted, the meetings will be at the Cornell Cooperative Extension, 24 Martin Rd. Voorheesville, NY at 10am.

The meetings and events for 2023 are scheduled for:

Feb
General Meeting: The Feb Doldrums meeting was about BIG Trees and old forests in NY with a speaker from the Landis Arboretum, Fred Breglia.
March
All three groups shared a booth at the Albany Home and Garden show March 24-26, 2023.
April
4/15 – General Meeting: Kathryn Mohr on “Why not try to grow a new type of Iris?”
May
- 5/12 (1-6) and 5/13 (10-2) – Schenectady County Master Gardeners Plan Sale at Central Park Greenhouses, Schenectady, NY
- 5/13 – General Meeting: “Soil preparation & recovery”
- 5/20 – 22nd Landis Arboretum Spring Plant Sale, Esperence, NY
June
- 6/3 (9-12) – Albany County Master Gardeners New Garden Education Fair, Cornell Cooperative Extension, Voorheesville, NY
- 6/7-6/10 – American Hosta Society National Convention, Ames, Iowa
- 6/10 – General Meeting: TBD
July
- 7/8 – Summer Picnic
- 7/15 – American Daylily Society Regional Conference, Nashua, NH
August
8/12 – potential combined sale at Faddegon’s – date subject to change.
September
9/16 – General Meeting: “News of the Iris and Daylily National Conventions”, Debi Chowdhury
October
10/21 – General Meeting: “For the Love of Hosta”, Dave Jennings
November
- 11/11 – TBD
- 11/18 -General Meeting: “Invasive Species Management”, Addison Kubik, Cornell Cooperative Extension
December
12/16 – Combined Holiday Party – Food, games, prizes. Details via email closer to the date.

If you like, you can bring a dish to share and/or a door prize with might be a plant or a garden-related item.

Hope to see you there!

Virtual Meeting From CDS – Sat. Aug 25, 2021

Posted on September 17, 2021 by Michelle Young

The Connecticut Daylily Society has invited us to join them for a virtual session. Link will be sent to members via email when we get it.

SAVE THE DATE! 9/25/21

Please join the Connecticut Daylily Society on Saturday, September 25 at 1:00 pm. The American Hemerocallis (Daylily) Society President, Scott Elliott of Maneki Neko Gardens in Ellabelle, Georgia, will be the guest for our Zoom Meeting! Scott focuses on doubles, unusual forms. miniatures, and spiders. He will be speaking on the latest of his hybridizing program, along with news and updates from the American Daylily Society. Scott’s talk will be followed by a Q&A on daylily culture. A further email advising of the Zoom log-on will be sent in advance of the program.

Be there for what’s sure to be a wonderful presentation!

Check out Scott’s Website

2021 Possibilities!

Posted on June 15, 2021 by Michelle Young

2021 Calendar of Events

Region 4 Summer Meeting –
Saturday July 17
– in Avon, CT – BUS Day TRIP
Regional Meeting Website https://cdsregional.weebly.com/

Week of August 16-20 – preparations for the Annual Sale. Specific dates/times/places TBD.

August 21st – Big Annual Sale at Faddegon’s in Latham, Ny

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.

2021 – Restarting Activities
As things open up, we are starting to add things back to the calendar, even if we have to make changes to accommodate the new normal. The Cooperative Extension offices are still closed to us, but the employees have returned to work, so we are hoping they may come up with rules to allow us back soon.

As we wait, we are planning a bus day trip to the regional meeting in Avon, CT. The details are still being ironed out, but due to covid, the meeting is only in the afternoon and we are planning to visit gardens on the way there and the way back. The date is Saturday July 17, 2021, and we are hoping to leave around 8 am from some exit off the Northway in Latham or Colonie. We think we will be returning between 7 and 8 pm. For more details and how to sign-up: http://hudsonadirondackdaylilysociety.org/?page_id=6453

Also, the Faddegon’s sale, also known as the Annual Sale, has been approved for the morning of August 21. This is a sale of daylilies to the members and the public. In order to make this sale happen, it requires lots of help from the members the week before the sale. If you are able, please consider helping. We need to dig some plants, clean the separate them, and package and label for the sale. The specific dates/times/places will be published as we get closer and can judge the weather. We will also need help with setup at Faddegon’s on the day of the sale.

And if you have plants to donate to the sale, we will need that information ahead of time so was can prepare. Watch your email for details on what we need. And we are grateful to people who can dig their own plants, but talk to us if you need help and we will see what we can do.

2020 July Picnic and August Sale cont.

Posted on July 8, 2020 by Janet Spychalski

HADS OFFICERS

Co-Chairs –
Debi Chowdhury –
debichowdhury@yahoo.com
and Michelle Young
youngs@socialscience.net

Secretary – Kathryn Mohr
kemohrke@aol.com

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

Committee Chairs
Programs – Speakers –
Debi Chowdhury
debichowdhury@yahoo.com
and Diane Steele
yankeefloral@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
and Diane Steele
yankeefloral@yahoo.com

Scholarship Chair –
Cindy Jennings
CindyJenningsNY@aol.com

We’ll see how things go for September. It may be possible to do a talk through Zoom. Many speakers are using Zoom to present their talks to people. It has worked very well in several presentations.

HADS Scholarship Winner!
From Cindy Jennings, Scholarship Chair

Many “thanks” go out to the excellent committee members who chose a wonderful candidate for the 2020 HADS Scholarship. This year’s student recipient, Samantha Bjorklun was a student from Schenendehowa High School who plans to attend college this fall majoring in Environmental Science at Syracuse Environmental School of Forestry.

While in high school Samantha had excellent school achievement; she was a member of the Science National Honor Society where she became an active participant in food sustainability by helping to implement composting bins throughout the school grounds. She is presently working outside the home to assist her family in making her dream to go to college possible.

Samantha wrote a “thank you” note to the membership expressing her appreciation for being chosen as this year’s scholarship winner. She wrote of her concern as to the future with the COVID-19 virus and how colleges will handle enrollments, but she is hopeful she will still be able to attend college in the fall.

Daylilies is the articles above are:
Greywoods Cowgirl Casanova by Wilkinson, 2012 and Mighty Goliath by Gossard, 2007