Mid-Carolina Daylily Society

Announcements

On May 18, 2008, we have a special guest speaker who will give us some insight on "Containers To Enhance Your Garden". Amanda McNulty, County Extension Agent and ETV's Making It Grow personality will be a delight - she is a lot of fun.

June 14, 2008, is our 19th Annual Daylily Show in the Magnolia Room at Riverbanks Botanical Garden.

On September 19 & 20, 2008, we will host the Region 15 Fall Regional. Our final details are not yet completed, but we will hav Jan & Royce Joiner of Joiner Gardens in Savannah, GA as our special guest speakers. Jan & Royce have some very cutting edge introductons and futures.

Van Sellers & Vic Santa Lucia, Gardening Gurus, of Irongate Gardens will present our Octr 19, 2008, program on Mums, Roses, Daylilies, etc... Plus we have our annual plant swap.

Jenks Farmer of Lush Life Nurseries will present our November 16, 2008, program on "Bulbs for the Southern Garden". Our annual Photo Contest will also be held that day.

HOPE TO SEE YOU AT ALL OR AT LEAST SOME OF OUR MEETING.

Meeting Schedule

Sat - Feb 09		Region 15 Internet Auction Fourth Annual Region 15 Internet Auction Begins
Fri - Jun 20 -- Sun - Jun 22		Region 15 Summer Meeting Hosted by the Piedmont Daylily Club in Charlotte, NC Tour Gardens: Judy Davisson - northern cultivars Bill and Linda Gluck - AHS Display Garden Sherrie Meineke Betty Brown - 7 water features! Newly remodeled Hilton.
Fri - Sep 19 -- Sat - Sep 20		Fall Regional Meeting - hosted by the Mid-Carolina Daylily Society

Club Officers

Jim Jeffcoat, President
Peggy Jeffcoat, Vice President
Linda Inabinette, Secretaries
Gail Buff, Treasurer
Alvin Bozard, 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, 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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