Mid-Carolina Daylily Society

Announcements

Mid-Carolina Daylily Society is celebrating our 25th Anniversary 1987 to 2012 Come celebrate with us! January 15th program - "Designing Gardens With Your Daylily Collection" - a Power Point presentation developed by Bobbie Brooks. Also Back to Basics...Just What is This Daylily-Peggy Jeffcoat

February 19th program - "Backbones of the Garden...Rhodendrons (azaleas) and Camellias" presented by our own resident expert Dan Robinson. Also Back to Basics...How To Select Daylilies To Grow In Your Garden And Where And How To Plant Them-Vernon Jones

March 18th program - Old Fashioned Roses presented by Bill Patterson of Roses Unlimited at www.rosesunlimitedownroot.com. Also Back To Basics...How To Prepare Your Dayliuly Bed - Jim Jeffcoat

April 15th program - Doubles, Spiders, Miniatures, ect., The Hybridizing Program of Herrington Daylily Garden in Dublin GA, presented by Tim Herrington. Also Back to Basics...Developing a Fertilizer Program For Daylilies - Tom Bruce

May 20th Picnic and Auction at The Faded Flamingo Garden of Becky and Ralph Adams in York SC.

September 16th program - Mercer Daylily Gardens presented by Roger Mercer of Fayetteville NC. Covered dish luncheon. Also Back to Basics...Daylily Diseases and Insects - Jim Jeffcoat

October 21th program - 'Hybridizing Program of Don and Nancy Eller. Also Back To Basics...When And How To Divide And Plant Daylilies - Gail Buff

November 18th program - Down Memory Lane a Power Point presentation chronicling the activities of Mid-Carolina presented by Jim Jeffcoat. Also our annual Photo Contest.

December 2nd - Annual Christmas Party and Chinese Auction with covered dish dinner.

Meeting Schedule

Sun - Jan 15		MID-CAROLINA January program -'Designing Gardens for Your Daylily Collection' a PPP developed by Bobbie Brooks
Sun - Feb 19		MID-CAROLINA February program - 'Backbones of the Garden - Rhodendrons (azaleas) and Camellias' presented by Dan Robinson, our member expert
Sun - Mar 18		MID-CAROLINA - March program, 'Old Fashioned Roses' presented by Bill patterson of Roses Unlimited, Laurens SC
Sun - Apr 15		MID-CAROLINA April program - 'Daylily Hybridizer of Full forms, Spiders, Unusual Form, Miniaturesd, Doubles' presented by Tim Herrington, Dublin, GA
Sun - May 20		MID-CAROLINA - in May we have our Annual Covered Dish Picnic in The Faded Flamingo Garden of Becky Adams, York, SC
Fri - Jun 22		REGIONAL MEETING R15 SUMMER MEETING - JUNE 22nd, 23rd and 24th, 2012 - MORGANTON NC
Sun - Sep 16		MID-CAROLINA September program - "Mercer Daylily Gardens' presented by Roger Mercer, a Region 15 hybridizer, from Fayetteville, NC
Sun - Oct 21		MID-CAROLINA October program - 'Hybridizing Program of Don and Nancy Eller of Leesburg, GA
Sun - Nov 18		MID-CAROLINA November program - "Down Memory Lane' a PPP of Mid-Carolina Daylily Society activities over the past 25 years - THIS IS OUR 25TH ANNIVERSARY
Sun - Dec 02		MID-CAROLINA celebratres Christmas with a covered dish lunch and Chinese Auction

Club Officers

Linda Inabibette, President
Peggy Jeffcoat, Vice President
Holly Wilson, Secretary
Gail Buff, Treasurer
, Chaplain
Jim Jeffcoat, webmaster

Membership

Membership dues are $10.00 per person per year

Meeting Information

MCDS meets the third Sunday of January, February, March, May, September, October and November at Clemson Sandhill Research and Education Center lake house, 900 Clemson Rd., Columbia SC 29224 at 2:00 pm.

About the Club

Realizing the desire for a local daylily club in the midlands of South Carolina, Peggy and Jim Jeffcoat sent out written invitations to all know interested persons in the midlands of South Carolina, inviting them to a meeting on April 5, 1987. Twenty-five persons responded and gathered to discuss the possibility of organizing a local club at Clemson Sandhills Research and Education Center in northeast Columbia, SC. Peggy led the group, reporting that there had been a South Carolina Hemerocallis Society which was founded in 1953 and had been supported by the late Charlotte Holman, Loy Singletary and Laura Sims. That organization had not been active for a good many years. Peggy asked if the group would like to reorganize the old society or start a new club. The group was indeed interested in forming a club to promote daylilies and unanimously voted to organize a new new club choosing the name Mid-Carolina Daylily Society.

MCDS members assembled at The Lake House.

Featured Quote

There are many tired gardeners but I’ve seldom met old gardeners. I know many elderly gardeners but the majority are young at heart. Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized. The one absolute of gardeners is faith. Regardless of how bad past gardens have been, every gardener believes that next year’s will be better. It is easy to age when there is nothing to believe in, nothing to hope for; gardeners, however, simply refuse to grow up. Thomas Jefferson said once, "Though an old man, I am but a young gardener" --- Allan Armitage

Club Links

Display Gardens The Garden of Ron and Holly Wilson
Club Hybridizer & Commercial Garden Sassafras Garden and Farm - Floyd Boatwright
Club Hybridizer & Commercial Garden Carolina Daylilies - Tom Bruce
Club Hybridizers & Commercial Garden Singing Oakes Garden - Jim & Peg Jeffcoat
Club Hybridizers & Commercial Garden Jordan
Display Gardens Singing Oakes Garden - Jim & Peg Jeffcoat