Sandhills Daylily Club

Announcements
Garden Ornament at Perennial Patch Thank you for checking into the Sandhills Daylily Club! Had a great time at Roger Mercer Gardens on the 25th regular meeting. Enjoyed seeing so many beautiful plants along with thousands of daylilies!


Meeting Schedule
Thu - Mar 26
6:15 PM
 
Learn how to take and interpret a soil sample.
Jack Dewar, a Master Gardener, will bring kits for taking soil samples, explain how to take the sample, and how to interpret the results. Using these results can help you correct the pH of your soil or know what nutrients might be low.
Thu - Apr 23
6:15 PM
 
David DeKort's Hybridizing Program
David DeKort is fairly new to hybridizing daylilies, but he has really done his homework, bought some great parents and come a long way in a short time. He is registering his first cultivar this year and will show us his program through a PowerPoint Presentation.
Sat - Apr 25

 
Plant sale at Cape Fear Botanical Garden
Sandhills Daylily Club members will again have a table to sell daylilies at the CFBG plant sale. The day for preparation for the sale will probably be April 24, but keep an eye out for any changes. The clumps of plants that were dug from CFBG last year are at the Barnes' garden in Wade and the dividing and washing of plants will be done there.
Thu - May 28
6:00 PM
 
Club picnic in a garden and final show preparation.
We will meet in a member's garden (still to be determined)for a picnic and make final preparations for the show. For members who are interested a demonstration of choosing scapes and preparing them for the show will be given.
Sat - Jun 06

 
Daylily show and sale
The annual daylily show and sale will be held at Biggs Park Mall in Lumberton, NC, on June 6. All entries must received by the classification
committee between 8:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.
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!
Thu - Jul 23

 
TBA
Thu - Aug 27

 
TBA
Thu - Sep 24

 
TBA
Thu - Oct 22
6:15 AM
 
Jan Joiner of Joiner Gardens
Jan Joiner of Joiner Garden, Savannah, GA, will present the hybridizing program of the Joiner family -- Jan, Aaron, and even Royce is now getting into the act.
Club Officers
Roger Mercer, President
Linda Sue Barnes, Vice President
Dawn Whitley, Secretary
Rose Stalvey, Treasurer
New members ! We welcome you to take part in monthly meetings. Lets make this the best year ever for Sandhills Daylily Club.. Months ahead we have many things on our agenda..
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Display Gardens
Fayetteville now has 3 AHS Display Gardens! Cape Fear Botanical Garden--- Sanderson Gardens--- Bones Daylily Garden--- For address's Check WEB "site Region 15 AHS Display Gardens."
Meeting Information
Meetings are on 4th Thursday of the month from February - October (often we skip June since we have our flower show in early June) and are usually held at Friendship Baptist Church, 3232 Davis St., Hope Mills, NC.

Come early for the meal(6:00 p.m.); program starts about 6:45.

Membership
We have members who drive regularly from as far as Lumberton and Red Springs to the South and Dunn and Erwin to the North. We invite anyone within driving distance to join us. We are a very low key, informal group. Dues are only $10 a year.
Club Projects
The Bettie Jernigan Daylily Garden at the Cape Fear Botanical Garden is our major club project.

An AHS sanctioned show and sale are held at Biggs Park Mall in Lumberton each June.

We often have a club tour on the Sunday after the show.

June 4 Prepare plants for sale
Prepare plants for sale-probably at Linda Sue and Curtis Barnes' garden.
June 6 Show
June 6 Show and Sale-Biggs Park Mall, Lumberton.
October 22 meeting
October 22-Jan Joiner will discuss Joiner Gardens and the hybridizing programs of Jan, Aaron and Royce Joiner.
Club Links
Cape Fear Botanical Garden
Cape Fear Botanical Garden
Mercer Gardens
Roger Mercer
Marietta Gardens
John, Faye and Elizabeth Shooter
More Links
AHS Region 15 Website
American Hemerocallis Society
Daylily Rust Website
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