LIDS has monthly meetings most of which are held at Planting Fields Arboretum in Oyster Bay, New York. We have a social time with refreshments, a short business meeting, programs given by our members or other speakers on all aspects of daylilies and even door prizes! A public daylily sale is held in May. Most years in July there is a Flower Show where hundreds of daylily blooms are exhibited along with artistic flower arrangements featuring daylilies. Also in July, tours of members’ gardens are scheduled. A few times a year club members gather to help maintain the club's American Hemerocallis Society display garden at Planting Fields Arboretum. In the fall, members get together for a barbecue!
Long Island Daylily Society 2024 Calendar
January 20: Speaker: Marc Bossert, LIDS member, “Growing Up in LIDS” - 1PM (G)
February: No Meeting
March 16: Speaker and auction: Dianna Gossard, Heavenly Gardens, Columbus, Ohio - 1PM (G)
April (TBA): Garden Clean-up- 10AM (LIDS Display Garden),
April 20: Spring Luncheon: Speaker: Bill Barash, Horticulturist, Planting Fields Arboretum, NY, “Tiffany Glass”- 12PM (Tentative- St. Georges Golf and Country Club, Setauket, NY)
May 5 - 7: Farmingdale University Plant Sale- 9AM - 5PM (Garden Gates Parking Lot, Farmingdale, NY)
May 3 - 4: Canadian American Daylily Meeting (Ontario, Canada)
May 18: Garden Clean-up- 10AM (LIDS Display Garden); LIDS Member Auction- 1PM (G)
June 8: Garden clean-up-10AM (LIDS Display Garden); 50/50 Member Plant Sale- 12PM; Program: “Preparing for a Flower Show”- 1PM (G)
June 12 -15: AHS National Convention, Oklahoma City, OK
July (TBA): Garden Clean-up- 10AM (LIDS Display Garden)
July 6: LIDS Flower Show Set-up- 9:30AM (HC)
July 7: LIDS Flower Show “Treasured Gardens”- 1:30PM - 3:30PM (HC)
July (TBA): NEDS Flower Show (New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill, Boylston, MA)
August (TBA): Garden Clean-up-10AM (LIDS Display Garden)
September 14: Barbecue- 12PM (Petersen/ Widom Garden, Asharoken, NY)
October 19: Speaker: Cyril Weller, Vestal, NY,” Garden Construction and Favorite Hybridizers” - 1PM (G)
November 16: Potluck Luncheon- 12PM; Business Meeting -1PM (G)
Meetings are held in the Main Greenhouse (G) or the Horticultural Center (HC) at Planting Fields Arboretum in Oyster Bay, NY. Please check the LIDS website or Facebook page for updated information as it becomes available: www.longislanddaylily.weebly.com; www.facebook.com/groups/1642663299287371
CHANGES MAY BE MADE TO THIS CALENDAR AS NEEDED