Ozark Daylily Society June Newsletter & Daylily Display Sun June 24

Ozark Daylily Society June 2012 Newsletter
June activities and notes:

Daylily Display (with some sales) Sunday, June 24:
We have scheduled our Daylily Display for Sunday, June 24th, from 11am to 3 pm at the Botanical Center, 2400 S. Scenic, Springfield. Five club members who displayed daylilies last year plan to provide blooms again this year. We encourage other members to also display their blooms. If you are interested in doing so, they must be named daylilies and we will provide you with the holders for your blooms. We realize you won’t know the specific flowers that will be in bloom until the 23 or 24th. But please let us know by return email if you wish to display daylilies and we will arrange to get you materials (waltandbevlong@sbcglobal.net, or 417-773-4100).

Even if you do not plan to display daylilies, we encourage you to attend the display on Sunday, June 24th. In addition to the display, we will also be selling no name daylily clumps for $8 a clump from the garden. So we will need help with digging. Please let all you friends know of our display and sale.

April Program Report:
Our April 14th meeting featured a program by Dr. Clydette Alsup-Egbers; Associate Professor of Horticulture, Missouri State University about tissue culture regarding creating new daylilies. Very interesting information was provided.

Daylily Beds at the Botanical Center (Close Memorial Park):
If you haven’t been out to the Daylily Beds, they are just magnificent this year. The colors are amazing and we are getting wonderful comments from everyone who comes to the garden. Thanks to Cindy, Frieda, Gary, Gail, May, and Walt and Bev for their work on the beds. We have them in pretty good condition this year. As always members are welcome to work independently at the gardens weeding and dead heading the daylilies

Daylily Sale, July 21st:
Our official sale this year will be in conjunction with the Butterfly Festival July 21st. Please plan to work that day or help with the preparations of the dayliles earlier in the week. And start letting others know about the sale so they can plan to attend and buy some day lilies. We will be providing more information about the sale as we get closer to the date.

General Information:
Future Meetings and Programs: To see a complete listing of the year’s activities go to our website> www.ozarkdaylily.org

We are always looking for suggestions for future programs. If you would like to present a program or have an idea for a program you would like us to find a speaker for please share your ideas.

Daylily Garden at Close Memorial Park video link: http://www.youtube.com/user/hiltrudwebber?feature=mhw4#p/u/3/1gAf3syM6EE

Botanical Center Volunteer Background Screening:
For those planning to work 15 or more hours during the year at the botanical center or within the park maintaining gardens and/or offering public information, a background screening and ID Badge are now necessary. For those who have not already completed the screening, attached to this newsletter is the form to complete and bring with you to the meeting. Forms will be turned into the office at the Botanical Center. Once a volunteer passes the screening process, a permission slip will be sent by mail to have an ID made at the Chesterfield Family Center.

Dues & Check Writing:
Annual dues can either be paid at a meeting or sent by mail to Walt Long at 3618 W Blakey St. Springfield, Mo, 65810.

The amounts are as listed below:
Annual – 1 person $5.00 Dual (2 people in household) $8.00
3 years – 1 person $12.00 Dual $20.00
Youth (under 16) $3.00
Life Membership — $50.00 (no credit for past membership)

When you are writing any check to our club, please make sure that they are made out to the Ozark Daylily Society. The bank is very specific that they will no longer take checks that do not have this tile.

OFFICERS:
President: Frieda Alexander frieda.alexander@ozarkdaylily.org Telephone: 417-877-9406
Vice President: May Moore 2109 E Cardinal Dr. Springfield Mo 65804 widomor@att.net Secretary/Treasurer: Bev & Walt Long waltandbevlong@sbcglobal.net Telephone: 417- 886-7939