April 20,2024
The next meeting of the Long Island Daylily Society will be our annual buffet luncheon on Saturday, April 20 at the St Georges Golf and Country Club, 134 Lower Sheep Pasture Road in Setauket, in Setauket at 12 Noon. The speaker will be our very talented LIDS member, Bill Barash, who will speak about Tiffany glass.
Bill is an accomplished photographer and has visited many different botanical gardens, arboretums and places of historical and horticultural interest, such as Green Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. He has a wealth of information concerning horticulture, as he was at Planting Fields from 1972 until his retirement (although he still volunteers there). He also is a snowbird, a NYC pundit, an avid bike rider, hiker and a talented pianist.
Bill is an accomplished photographer and has visited many different botanical gardens, arboretums and places of historical and horticultural interest, such as Green Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. He has a wealth of information concerning horticulture, as he was at Planting Fields from 1972 until his retirement (although he still volunteers there). He also is a snowbird, a NYC pundit, an avid bike rider, hiker and a talented pianist.
March 16, 2024- 1PM
Speaker: Dianna Gossard
Heavenly Gardens, Columbus, Ohio
Dianna Gossard of Heavenly Gardens in Galloway Ohio is known for her advances in hybridizing doubles. She states that she keeps her program small, working only with tetraploid daylilies. She says even with her relatively small program, she gets lots of “keepers” from her targeted and focused hybridizing.
The meeting is at 1PM in the Greenhouse Classroom, Planting Fields Arboretum, Oyster Bay, NY. There will be an auction of some of Dianna's daylilies after her program. Refreshments, as usual, will be welcomed. See your meeting notice for more details.
Heavenly Gardens, Columbus, Ohio
Dianna Gossard of Heavenly Gardens in Galloway Ohio is known for her advances in hybridizing doubles. She states that she keeps her program small, working only with tetraploid daylilies. She says even with her relatively small program, she gets lots of “keepers” from her targeted and focused hybridizing.
The meeting is at 1PM in the Greenhouse Classroom, Planting Fields Arboretum, Oyster Bay, NY. There will be an auction of some of Dianna's daylilies after her program. Refreshments, as usual, will be welcomed. See your meeting notice for more details.
January 20. 2024
Speaker: Marc Bossert, LIDS member,
“Growing Up in LIDS”.
There will also be a fun “Snowflake Raffle”. Three raffle tickets will be given to each family to use for any of the raffles. If you are making a raffle “basket” let Chris Petersen know and bring it in January. You can decorate it or not. There will be a donation box out for the food pantry which will be totally voluntary.
Refreshments, as usual, will be welcomed.
The meeting is at 1PM in the Greenhouse Classroom, Planting Fields Arboretum, Oyster Bay, NY. See your meeting notice for more details.
Speaker: Marc Bossert, LIDS member,
“Growing Up in LIDS”.
There will also be a fun “Snowflake Raffle”. Three raffle tickets will be given to each family to use for any of the raffles. If you are making a raffle “basket” let Chris Petersen know and bring it in January. You can decorate it or not. There will be a donation box out for the food pantry which will be totally voluntary.
Refreshments, as usual, will be welcomed.
The meeting is at 1PM in the Greenhouse Classroom, Planting Fields Arboretum, Oyster Bay, NY. See your meeting notice for more details.
November
Our meeting is on Saturday, November 18th in the Greenhouse Classroom at Planting Fields Arboretum, Oyster Bay, NY.
We will have a Potluck Luncheon at 12PM and a Business Meeting at1PM. Please RSVP to Chris Petersen with what you plan to bring for the potluck.
Also, we would like to do another "Snowflake Raffle" to raise funds for a food pantry, but we need raffle items! Please bring any donations of like new or new items to the November meeting. Gardening items (ie- tools, fertilizer, gloves, journals), gift certificates, tea sets, gourmet foods, kitchen gadgets, hand towels, boxed cards, artwork, trays, baskets, toiletries, etc. would be welcome!
See your meeting notice for more details.
We will have a Potluck Luncheon at 12PM and a Business Meeting at1PM. Please RSVP to Chris Petersen with what you plan to bring for the potluck.
Also, we would like to do another "Snowflake Raffle" to raise funds for a food pantry, but we need raffle items! Please bring any donations of like new or new items to the November meeting. Gardening items (ie- tools, fertilizer, gloves, journals), gift certificates, tea sets, gourmet foods, kitchen gadgets, hand towels, boxed cards, artwork, trays, baskets, toiletries, etc. would be welcome!
See your meeting notice for more details.
October
Our meeting is on Saturday, October 21st at 1PM. Our speaker will be Sandy Holmes of Riverbend Daylily Garden, Bellbend, Ohio. Sandy has registered many award winners including 'I Lava You' (Holmes-S., 2009), the 2020 Silver Stout Award Medal winner. After her program, there will be a small auction including some of Sandy's cultivars!
See your meeting notice for more details.
See your meeting notice for more details.
Display Garden dig on Friday, August 25th!
June 10, 2023
The June Meeting of LIDS will be at Planting Fields Arboretum on Saturday, June 10th, with the program beginning around 1 PM.
The meeting will be preceded by the members 50/50 plant sale. So if you have some daylilies you've divided and wish to share, and make a bit of money, bring them on! Also, if you started too many tomatoes, peppers or annual flowers and plants, you can bring in the excess for sale.
The main meeting will be Frank Chaloupecky talking about vegetable gardening. Frank has been a Long Island Daylily Society (LIDS) & AHS member, as well as an Exhibition Judge for over 20 years and participated in daylily flower shows in many capacities and states. He has an A.A.S. degree in ornamental horticulture and is a daylily hybridizer.
Plans are being made for garden tours in July; several members have come forward to offer their garden for touring. Details will follow in future notices.
The meeting will be preceded by the members 50/50 plant sale. So if you have some daylilies you've divided and wish to share, and make a bit of money, bring them on! Also, if you started too many tomatoes, peppers or annual flowers and plants, you can bring in the excess for sale.
The main meeting will be Frank Chaloupecky talking about vegetable gardening. Frank has been a Long Island Daylily Society (LIDS) & AHS member, as well as an Exhibition Judge for over 20 years and participated in daylily flower shows in many capacities and states. He has an A.A.S. degree in ornamental horticulture and is a daylily hybridizer.
Plans are being made for garden tours in July; several members have come forward to offer their garden for touring. Details will follow in future notices.
Our next meeting is Saturday, May 20th. Volunteer Training will be held at 10AM (G) followed by the LIDS' Member Auction at 1PM. Bring your lunch if you so desire. The training and meeting take place in the Greenhouse Classroom at Planting Fields Arboretum, Oyster Bay, NY. See your meeting notice for more details.
April 22, 2023 LIDS Luncheon
Speaker: Bill Barash, Horticulturalist
Recently Retired Production Greenhouse Manager at Planting Fields Arboretum
in Oyster Bay, NY
April 22, 2023 12 Noon
St. George’s Golf and Country Club
134 Lower Sheep Pasture Road, Setauket, NY 11733
RSVP to Joan Lundin by April 8th
Speaker: Bill Barash, Horticulturalist
Recently Retired Production Greenhouse Manager at Planting Fields Arboretum
in Oyster Bay, NY
April 22, 2023 12 Noon
St. George’s Golf and Country Club
134 Lower Sheep Pasture Road, Setauket, NY 11733
RSVP to Joan Lundin by April 8th
March 18th Meeting
Speaker: Carl Harmon, Harmon Hill Farm, Hudson, NH,
“Daylilies, Lillium, and Irises Everyone Should Grow”
The meeting is at 1PM in the Greenhouse Classroom, Planting Fields Arboretum, Oyster Bay, NY. See you there!
“Daylilies, Lillium, and Irises Everyone Should Grow”
The meeting is at 1PM in the Greenhouse Classroom, Planting Fields Arboretum, Oyster Bay, NY. See you there!
January 21st Meeting
Our next meeting is Saturday, January 21st. Our speaker is LIDS President, Chris Petersen who will do a PowerPoint presentation entitled “Welcome to My Garden- a work in progress” that was first presented for CDS. There will be a fun “Snowflake Raffle” and refreshments (Provided by YOU).
The meeting is at 1PM in the Greenhouse Classroom, Planting Fields Arboretum, Oyster Bay, NY. See you there!
The meeting is at 1PM in the Greenhouse Classroom, Planting Fields Arboretum, Oyster Bay, NY. See you there!
Check your meeting notice for more details.
November 19th Meeting
The next meeting of LIDS is Saturday, November 19 at 12 pm in the Greenhouse Classroom at Planting Fields Arboretum, Oyster Bay. This is our annual business meeting wherein the budget for 2023 is reviewed and the election of officers takes place, preceded by our potluck luncheon.
October 15th meeting-
The speaker was Rich Howard, of CT Daylily in Wallingford, CT.
CT Daylily is owned and operated by Rich Howard on his two acre property in Wallingford in South Central Connecticut. This area of Wallingford is home to a horse farm, winery, dairy farm and orchard along with abundant wildlife.
CT Daylily is primarily a mail order business, and includes selling seeds on the Daylily Auction. Rich has registered about 146 daylilies.
He grows about 1700 named varieties in pots and has about 5,000 seedlings in the ground in various stages of evaluation. Besides daylilies, you will see interesting tropicals including Brugmansia and citrus (including a clementine tree started 15 years ago from seed) as well as hardy banana trees (Musa basjoo).
Rich has a 1500 sq.ft. greenhouse used primarily for hybridizing.
Visit CT Daylily at: https://www.ctdaylily.com/.
The speaker was Rich Howard, of CT Daylily in Wallingford, CT.
CT Daylily is owned and operated by Rich Howard on his two acre property in Wallingford in South Central Connecticut. This area of Wallingford is home to a horse farm, winery, dairy farm and orchard along with abundant wildlife.
CT Daylily is primarily a mail order business, and includes selling seeds on the Daylily Auction. Rich has registered about 146 daylilies.
He grows about 1700 named varieties in pots and has about 5,000 seedlings in the ground in various stages of evaluation. Besides daylilies, you will see interesting tropicals including Brugmansia and citrus (including a clementine tree started 15 years ago from seed) as well as hardy banana trees (Musa basjoo).
Rich has a 1500 sq.ft. greenhouse used primarily for hybridizing.
Visit CT Daylily at: https://www.ctdaylily.com/.
Rich’s Award Winning Flowers
Explosion in the Paint Factory 2021 Award of Merit 2020 Lambert -Webster Award for best unusual form 2019 RW Munson Award for best patterned daylily 2018 Eugene S. Foster Award best late blooming daylily 2018 Honorable Mention 2017 Region 4 Hybridizer’s award Polar Vortex 2020 Honorable Mention . Yankee Pinstripes 2021 Award of Merit 2021 RW Munson Award for best patterned daylily 2018 Honorable Mention Pawprints on My Heart 2018 Honorable Mention |
September Barbecue!
It was so nice seeing everyone on Saturday for the barbecue! We were fortunate to have a beautiful day. We missed some of our daylily friends, but we still had 31 people attend.
Thank you to our back stage organizers including Pam and Luanne who shopped, Pat K. who brought auction plants, Laura and Frank who dug gift plants for all, Gene who brought the ice and auctioned off daylilies and everyone who brought desserts and appetizers. Thank you also to everyone who made sure the food was out and cleaned up between courses and afterwards. Thanks to my husband who helped set up, parked cars and manned the barbecue. You all made it easy to host!
Marc distributed copies of the newsletter that you should have received by e-mail. Well done!
If you took any pictures at the barbecue, could you send them to me for use on our website?
Thank you to our back stage organizers including Pam and Luanne who shopped, Pat K. who brought auction plants, Laura and Frank who dug gift plants for all, Gene who brought the ice and auctioned off daylilies and everyone who brought desserts and appetizers. Thank you also to everyone who made sure the food was out and cleaned up between courses and afterwards. Thanks to my husband who helped set up, parked cars and manned the barbecue. You all made it easy to host!
Marc distributed copies of the newsletter that you should have received by e-mail. Well done!
If you took any pictures at the barbecue, could you send them to me for use on our website?
Photos below from the Flower Show "A Summer Interlude" and Plant Sale at Planting Fields Arboretum in Oyster Bay, New York on July 17, 2022. Thanks to all the volunteers and participants and especially our co-chairs, Joan Lundin and Joan Turano!
The Winners were:
Section 1 (Extra large flowers): Wedding Cantata exhibited by Dr John Price.
Section 2 (Large Flower): Eyes of Faith exhibited by Dr John Price.
Section 3 (Small flower): Strawberry Candy exhibited by Carolyn and Marc Bossert.
Section 4 (Miniature flower): Siloam Jerome Pillow exhibited by Joan Lundin.
Section 5: (Double, multi form and polymerous flower): Double Bourbon exhibited by Dr John Price.
Section 6 (Spider flower): Wilson Spider exhibited by Carolyn and Marc Bossert.
Section 7: (Unusual form flower): Garden Fairy exhibited by Rachel, David and Elliot Turkiew.
Section 8: (Youth): Alas no entries
Section 9: (Seedling) Exhibit by Dr Robert Stanton.
Best in Show was Garden Fairy exhibited by the Turkiews.
Sweepstakes with 18 blue ribbons was won by Dr. John Price.
There were 174 entries.
The Winners were:
Section 1 (Extra large flowers): Wedding Cantata exhibited by Dr John Price.
Section 2 (Large Flower): Eyes of Faith exhibited by Dr John Price.
Section 3 (Small flower): Strawberry Candy exhibited by Carolyn and Marc Bossert.
Section 4 (Miniature flower): Siloam Jerome Pillow exhibited by Joan Lundin.
Section 5: (Double, multi form and polymerous flower): Double Bourbon exhibited by Dr John Price.
Section 6 (Spider flower): Wilson Spider exhibited by Carolyn and Marc Bossert.
Section 7: (Unusual form flower): Garden Fairy exhibited by Rachel, David and Elliot Turkiew.
Section 8: (Youth): Alas no entries
Section 9: (Seedling) Exhibit by Dr Robert Stanton.
Best in Show was Garden Fairy exhibited by the Turkiews.
Sweepstakes with 18 blue ribbons was won by Dr. John Price.
There were 174 entries.
Photos courtesy of Paul Rouan and Chris Petersen