2009 Region 4 Regional
Meeting
Hosted by the Buffalo Area Daylily Society (BADS)
July 17th &
18th, 2009
BADS is pleased to host the 2009
Regional. The bus trip on Saturday will visit 4 of our local hybridizer's gardens.
Meeting and
Lodging
Millennium
Airport Hotel
2040 Walden Avenue Buffalo NY
14225
For
Reservations: 716-681-2400 or 800-323-3331
Call hotel directly – identify with
American Daylily Society
Free
Airport Shuttle - Next door to the Walden Galleria
Mall
Rate:$125/night (single, double, triple, quad)
plus tax
Reserve by June
1st.
Schedule of
Events:
Thursday, July
16th – 1 pm till 6 pm
Frank
Lloyd Wright’s Buffalo – a guided tour of two of FLW’s masterpieces, the famous
Darwin Martin House and the summer home, Greycliff. Included in this tour
will be a drive by other Wright houses in Buffalo, as well as the recently
constructed Boathouse (built from FLW’s original plans).
Cost:$62 pp (minimum of 25 reservations
required)
Friday, July 17th – 8:30 till
1:30
Niagara Falls,
Canada, Ontario Schoolof Horticulture and the Butterfly Conservatory. You will
have time to enjoy the spectacular beauty and power of “The Falls”. Further
plans include a visit to the grounds of the Ontario School of Horticulture and
paid entrance to the Butterfly Conservatory.
Cost:$62 pp (minimum of 25 reservations
required)
Registration open 8 am – 6
pm
Judges Training (Clinic
I)
Board Meeting & Membership
Meeting
Welcome Banquet with Special
Guest
Bill Maryott – Maryott’s
Gardens
Maryott's Daylilies
Freedom, California
Saturday, July
18th
Garden Bus Tours
Mystic Meadows – Garden of Pam Hoffman
Daredevil Daylilies
– Garden of Linda Michaels
CottageGardens – Garden of Brent Ross
Gladstone Garden – Garden of Kris Weitz
Cash Bar – Awards Banquet (A Taste
of Buffalo)
Exciting Auction!
The bus plants will be donated by the
above hybridizers, so everyone will
go home with a daylily from a BADS
hybridizer.
Please visit our
Member Pages for previews of these gardens.
Sunday, July
19th
Garden Judges Training – Garden of Mary Beth Lee
Throughout – vending, hospitality
and more
Plus each conventioneer will receive an OPEN GARDEN BOOK
to tour
local gardens on your own
Registration Form:
Click
Here
The following committees have been formed:
Co-Chairs of the Regional,
Kathy & Mike
Shadrack
Registration, Kathy Guest
Shadrack
Finance, Dolores Galbo
Hospitality, Mary Beth
Wagner-Lee
Guest Plants & Saxton Seedlings,
Pam
Hoffman
Auction Plants, Kevin Bennett or Dick Derr
Publicity,
Carolyn
Schaffner
Speakers
& Clinics,
Peter Weixlmann
Boutique, Linda & Kevin
Bennett
Please
contact any of the above BADS members to volunteer, or ask
questions.
Heads Up all Region 4
Hybridizers!
2009 Stanley Saxton Seedling Award Bed and 2009 Guest
Plants
For the 2009 Region 4 Meeting, take advantage of this
opportunity
to showcase some of your introductions.
Your daylilies will be
viewed by the meeting attendees as the plants
will be prominently displayed
and labeled in the tour gardens.
Please
contact Pam
Hoffman
if you are willing to guest
your plants for the 2009
event, plants should be sent in the spring of
2009.
In addition, at this Region 4 Meeting, the Stanley Saxton Seedling
Award will be
awarded to the best seedling hybridized in region 4.
Purchased seeds and
seedlings are not eligible. Region 4 Hybridizers
may submit up to a
maximum of three (3) unregistered seedling entries.
At least 3 fans
of each seedling are desired, but no more than the maximum of
5 fans
for each is allowed. These plants will be grown at one of the
tour gardens in
a specified bed and during the bus tours, all attendees will
have the opportunity
to view and vote for the best overall seedling.
The award will be presented
to the winner at the Saturday evening
banquet.
Seedling entries should be clearly labeled, plus height and
color
information should be included. Seedling entries should be sent
next spring to:
Pam
Hoffman
5362 Merlau Road
South Wales, NY
14139-9766
716-655-9223
Auction Plants:
All auction plants should be sent
to:
Dick Derr
1370 Mill Road
East Aurora, NY 14052
So mark your calendars
for July 16th, 17th & 18th, 2009,
and plan on joining us for some
fun and flowers
in Buffalo, New York.
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