Mid-Carolina Daylily Society

Announcements

April 19, 2009, Picnic and Auction at Ron & Holly Wilson's "The Ponderosa" garden at 142 Sassafrass Trail, Lexington, SC at 2 pm. Our auction will have plants from Kinnebrew Daylily Garden.

May 17, 2009, "Successful Herb Growing In The Midlands" prsented by the Richland County Master Gardener's Association.

June 20, 2009, Twentieth Annual Daylily Show at The Village at Sandhills on Clemson Rd.

September 12, 2009, Annual MCDS Plant Sale at the Magnolia Room at Riverbanks Botanical Garden from 9 am to 1 pm.

September 20, 2009, Marjorie and John Kinnebrew of Kinnebrew Daylily Gardens from Florida will present our program. Please bring a covered dish.

October 18, 2009, "Unexpected Pleasures In The Fall Garden" presented by Sharon Thompson, Master Gardener and Garden Writer for The State Newspaper.

November 15, 2009, Dale Hensley, Hybridizer, will present our program on his introductions. We also have our Annual Photo Contest.

December 6, 2009, our Annual Christmas Party and Chinese Auction of gifts valued between $15 and $20. Please bring covered dish to complement turkey/ham lunch.

December 25, 2009, celebrate the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Meeting Schedule

Fri - Jun 12 -- Sat - Jun 13

R15 Summer Meeting - Greenville, SC

The Upstate Daylily Club is sponsoring this KNOWN to be FUN event this Summer... yee haw!!! More info and program details coming soon!

Club Officers

Vernon and Lisa Jones, President
Sandy Harley and Lynn Asbill, Vice President
Linda Inabinette, Secretary
Gail Buff, Treasurer
Alvin Bozard, Chaplain
Aubrey Whitehead, webmaster

Membership

Membership dues are $10.00 per person per year

Meeting Information

MCDS meets the third Sunday of January, February, March, April, May, September, October, & November at 2:00 p.m at Clemson University Sandhill Research and Education Center,900 Clemson Road, Columbia, South Carolina.

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

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