The American Hemerocallis Society (AHS) is pleased to present information about our National Conventions, Regional Meetings, and other events.

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• 2009 AHS National Convention
  Lake Mary, Florida
  May 20TH – 24th, 2009
  Hosted by Region 12 AND Sunbelt Daylily Chapter.
  

  • For future AHS National Conventions and hosts, click HERE.
    
    
• AHS Regional Meetings
• (Click here to see which AHS Region you may live in.)

  • AHS Region 1 Meeting, July 18-19, 2008, Huron, SD
  • AHS Region 2 Symposium, To be announced... Cincinatti, Ohio 2009
  • AHS Region 2 Meeting, July 18-20, 2008, Madison, Wisconsin
  • AHS Region 3 Lilyhemmer, October 18-19, 2008, Camp Hill, near Harrisburg, PA
  • AHS Region 3 Meeting, July 10-12, 2009, Gaithersburg, Maryland
  • AHS Region 4 Meeting, July 18-20, 2008, Nashua, New Hampshire
  • AHS Region 4 - Can-Am Classic, To be announced...
  • AHS Region 4 - Can-Am Fall Classic, To be announced...
  • AHS Region 5 Meeting, Sept. 20, 2008, Macon, GA
  • AHS Region 6 Meeting, May 28-30, 2009 in Fort Worth, TX
  • AHS Region 7 Meeting, To be announced...
  • AHS Region 8 Meeting, July 10-12, 2009, Langley, BC, Canada
  • AHS Region 9 Meeting, July 18-20, 2008, Colorado Springs, CO
  • AHS Region 10 Mid-Winter Symposium, To be announced...
  • AHS Region 10 Summer Meeting, To be announced...
  • AHS Region 11 Winter Meeting, 2009. To be anounced....
  • AHS Region 11 Meeting, July 4-6, 2008, Wichita, KS
  • AHS Region 12 Meeting, October 25, Lakeland, FL
  • AHS Region 13 Meeting, To be announced...
  • AHS Region 14 Spring Meeting, To be announced...
  • AHS Region 14 Fall Meeting, October 11, 2008, Hattiesburg, MS
  • AHS Region 15 Meeting, To be announced...

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2009 AHS National Convention Lake Mary, Florida May 20TH – 24th, 2009 Hosted by Region 12 & The Sunbelt Daylily Chapter

Convention Chair:
Frank Smith
2815 W. Ponkan Road
Apopka, FL 32712
Tel 407-886-4134
E-mail: orchidfrank@aol.com

Honorary Chair: Marjorie Kinnebrew

HEADQUARTERS:
MARRIOTT HOTEL
1501 INTERNATIONAL PARKWAY
LAKE MARY, FL 32746

HOTEL RESERVATIONS: 407-995-1100

Mention you’re with the 2009 American Hemerocallis Society National Convention. Negotiated room prices are : Single room (One occupant) $111.00. Single room with double occupancy $121.00, Room with 3 occupants $131.00. Room with 4 occupants $141.00 Hotel costs include buffet style breakfast.

2009 AHS National Convention Website. http://www.ahsregion12.org

ACT TODAY! REGISTRATION IS LIMITED TO THE FIRST 700 APPLICANTS.

BANQUET MEAL CHOICES:
FRIDAY:  SPRING HERB ROASTED CHICKEN OR TENDERLOIN OF BEEF.
SATURDAY: CHICKEN AND SHRIMP OR FILET MIGNON.

Schedule of events may be downloaded as a .pdf file HERE.

Convention Registration Form may be downloaded as a .pdf file HERE.

Please note: CONVENTION FEES REFLECT THE LARGE INCREASE IN FUEL COSTS.

Early registration fee $245.00 (postmarked by 3/15/2009).
Late registration fee $295.00 (postmarked after 3/15/2009).
Youth registration fee $159.00 (postmarked by 3/15/2009).

Pre-registration is required.

Registration Fee includes motor coach tours of convention gardens and banquet dinners  on Friday and Saturday evenings.

Cancellations received by 3/1/2009 will receive a full refund. Partial refund (50%) paid after convention will be given for cancellations received by 4/1/2009. Sorry, no refunds will be given for cancellations after 5/1/2009. Registrants unable to attend may swap their registration with others.

Groups who wish to use their own coaches for garden tours must contact
BOB WETTON 386-822-9788 E-mail bwetton@cfl.rr.com or by mail at 1314 Trail by the lake, DeLand, FL 32724-1024. These  arrangements must be made by 3/1/2009.

You are responsible for making your own hotel reservations. The Lake Mary Marriott Hotel must receive your booking by 3/20/2009 to guarantee the discount rate of $111.00 for single room with one occupant or $121.00 for a single room double occupancy or $131.00 per room for 3 occupants and so on.

Additional information about this National meeting will be posted as soon as the Webmaster gets the updates. If you can help supply it, please send what you have to: webmaster@daylilies.org

Daylilies on the Dakota Prairie
July 18-19, 2008

Crossroads Hotel and Events Center
Huron, SD 57353

Hosted by the Dakota Prairie Daylily Society
www.huronsd.com

Tour gardens:
2 City gardens
Alexis McEnelly and Abby Schiebe

2 Country gardens
Donna Steele and Vicky Aughenbaugh

Location:
Crossroads Hotel and Event Center
100 4th St. SW
Huron, SD 57350 1-800-876-5858
http://www.huroneventcenter.com/crossroads.asp

Guest Speaker: John Shooter of Marietta Gardens.

Schedule:
Friday, July 18
3:00 - 7:00 Registration & Bargain Table
5:00 - 5:30 Social time
5:30 - 6:30 Dinner
6:30 - 7:30 Business Meeting
7:30 - 9:00 Hybridizers Slides

Saturday, July 19
7:00 - 8:00 Breakfast
7:00 - 8:00 Registration
8:00 Buses depart hotel
8:30 - 10:00 Tour country garden
10:30 - 11:30 Tour city garden
11:40 - 12:30 Lunch at Dakota Inn
12:30 Buses leave Dakota Inn
1:00 - 2:30 Tour country garden
3:00 - 4:00 Tour city garden
4:00 - 5:30 Free time
5:30 Social time
6:30 Banquet
7:30 Speaker - John Shooter
8:30 Live plant auction

Meals: Meals included in registration fee are: Friday - dinner. Saturday - breakfast, lunch, and banquet.

Registration: $85.00 Registration fee includes motor coach transportation for garden tours, program and meals . After June 21st add $10.

Hotel Rooms: Special room rate is $65.00.

Plant Auction: Saturday night after banquet. If you are willing to donate, please contact Donna or Vicky prior to our meeting. Their contact info is listed below.

Hybridizer Show: Friday evening. We would love to have all of you that are hybridizing bring your slides, power point or CD of your newest daylilies. Region 1 now has a laptop and projector, but if you need a slide projector we will have the equipment you need.

This is the time to show off a little and let the rest of us know what your program is like and the work that you have done. Slide shows are truly one of the high lights of our get together. So, bring your pictures and WOW the audience.

If you want to show your slides or CD, please contact Le Walls before July 1st so she can provide you with the details. (605) 693-4300 or leannwalls@hotmail.com.

Garden Judges Workshop: Kathy Lamb and Don Lovell will conduct the Garden Judges Workshop. Fee collected at workshop.

Open Gardens: List of open gardens and directions to gardens now available by emailing leannwalls@hotmail.com. Confirmation letter will contain list and maps.

Open Gardens
As of April 30, 2008

Huron, South Dakota
            Larry Zavesty
            1581 Simmons SE
            Huron, SD
            605-352 -9924

Brookings, South Dakota
            Le Walls
            8940 Westview Road
            Lake Campbell
            Brookings, SD
            605-693-4300

            McCrory Gardens
            Public Garden (SDSU)
            Corner of 6th St. and 22nd Ave.
            Brookings, SD

            Linda & Allen Whitaker
            1105 12 St.
            Brookings, SD
            605-692-5448

Sioux Falls, South Dakota

            Signey and Chuck Claussen
            4201 S. Ellis Rd
            Sioux Falls, SD  57106
            605-361-8467

            Terrace Park Japanese Gardens
            Public Garden – no charge
            North Euclid Ave. and West 4th St.
            Sioux Falls, SD

More gardens may be added.

If you want maps, please email leannwalls@hotmail.com.

Questions?

Co-Chairs are:
Vicky Aughenbaugh
41873 211 St
Iroquois, SD 57353
605-546-2241
vla@wildblue.net

Donna Steele
20127 379 Ave
Wolsey, SD 57384
605-458-2275
jws@venturecomm.net

Registration form in .pdf format HERE.

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American Hemerocallis Society Region 2 Winter Symposium 2009

Cincinatti, Ohio - Dates to be announced...

Information about this Regional activity will be posted as soon as the Webmaster gets the information. If you can help supply it, please send what you have to: webmaster@daylilies.org

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AHS Region 2 Summer Meeting

will be hosted by the Wisconsin Daylily Society,
July 18 - 20, 2008 in Madison, Wisconsin

The Wisconsin Daylily Society invites you to a, 'Mad City Affair' the Region Two Summer Meeting from July 18 – 20, 2008, in Madison, Wisconsin.

You will tour gardens with eye-catching daylilies that thrive in USDA - Zones 4b and 5a after cold winters and variable snow cover. You will hear the keynote speaker, Roy G. Klehm from Song Sparrow Nursery. You will receive a plant of H. 'Mad City Blush', a daylily hybridized by Roy Klehm and introduced especially for the occasion. The parentage of H. 'Mad City Blush' carries the genes of daylilies from another Region 2 Hybridizer, Brother Charles Reckamp. You will find an array of bargain daylilies and many interesting items in the boutique

Come join us for a 'Mad City Affair'. Enjoy the fun, the food, the meeting, the gardens and some good daylily camaraderie.

Tour Garden Preview pages:

• Windswept Garden
• Fitchward Garden
• Earthspirit Farm
• Happy Meadows Farm
• The Pearcy Garden
• The Kleinheinz Garden

Schedule of Events

Friday, July 18, 2008
9 am-6 pm Registration, Bargain plant sales
9 am-5 pm Boutique, Raffle ticket sales open
1:00 pm Exhibition Judges Clinic II
1:30 pm Garden Judges Workshop l
2:30 pm Exhibition Judges Clinic I
3:30 pm Youth Meeting
4:00 pm Exhibition Judges lll (Refresher) Clinic
4:30 pm Robin Meeting
5:30 pm Reception -- Cash Bar
6:15 pm Hybridizer's slide show
6:45 pm Buffet Dinner (Included in registration fee)
7:45 pm Announcements
8:00 pm Plant Auction

Saturday, July 19, 2008
6:30 - 8:00 am Breakfast on your own in Basie's Restaurant
7:00 - 8:00 am Registration
8:00 - 8:15 am Board Busses
8:15 am Busses depart to gardens
12:05 pm Lunch at hotel
1:05 pm Reload busses and depart for gardens
Garden Judges II Workshop at last garden of day
5:00 - 5:30 pm Busses arrive back at hotel
5:00 - 6:00 pm Boutique, Bargain plant and Raffle areas open
6:00 pm Reception - Cash Bar
7:00 pm Buffet Dinner (Included in registration Fee)
Region 2 Business Meeting
Guest Speaker Roy Klehm

Sunday, July 20, 2007
6:30 - 8:00 am Breakfast on your own in Basie's Restaurant
8:00 - 8:15 am Board Busses
8:15 am Busses depart for gardens
12:05 pm Busses arrive back at hotel
Note: Special hotel checkout time is 1:00 PM.

Registration Information
$110 per adult-cut off date June 15, 2008
$135 per adult after the cut off date
$50 per youth

Make checks payable to the:
Wisconsin Daylily Society (WDS)

Mail to:
Gene Dewey, Registrar
2125 Fox Avenue
Madison, WI 53711
Phone: 608-255-0858
E-mail: gldewey@wisc.edu

For additional information, contact:
John E. Sheehan
Regional Meeting Chair
5656 Barbara Drive
Madison, WI 53711
Phone: 608-274-4921
E-mail: johnsheehan@charter.net
http://www.wisdaylilysoc.org

Meeting and Lodging
The Radisson Hotel-Madison
517 Grand Canyon Drive
Madison, WI 53719
Phone: 608-833-0100
Toll free: 1-800-333-3333
http://www.radisson.com/madisonwi
Ask for the Region 2 daylily meeting group
Rate: $82.00 per night (single or double).

Download event schedule and registration form in .pdf format. Here and Here.

Lilyhemmer 2008
October 18-19, 2008
Region 3 fall fun daylily festival

This is our fabulous fourteenth daylily fall festival. The location is in Camp Hill, near Harrisburg, PA. Official events are scheduled noon to noon, October 18 & 19, 2008. Many attendees arrive early on Friday and enjoy the informal preview activities Friday evening and Saturday morning.

We want to encourage new attendees and we are offering a nice daylily plant, minimum value of $35, to each new attendee.

Get fabulous and join us for 2008 Lilyhemmer!

Registration Information and Schedule and more at:

http://ww.lilyhemmer.org

AHS Region 4 Peak Bloom Regional

Featuring tours of 5 wonderful gardens in southern New Hampshire

Hosted by: New England Daylily Society

Date: July 18-20, 2008
Speakers: Dan Bachman of Ohio and Phil Reilly of Florida

Hotel: Radisson - 11 Tara Blvd Nashua, New Hampshire
Call 603-888-9970 for room reservations. Be sure to ask for New England Daylily Society to get special $109 room rate. This rate is good for 3 days prior and 1 day after the regional.

Registration: $98 postmarked by June 18, $119 after. Send registration to:
Joan Dahl, Registrar
2008 Region 4 Regional Convention
142 Williams Road
Ashburnham, MA 01430

Make checks payable to New England Daylily Society.

Registration form and open garden information can be found on the New England Daylily Society website

http://www.nedaylily.org/

Meeting Chair:
Kim Walters
ownedbycats@comcast.net

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Can-Am Fall Classic - The Ontario Daylily Society proudly presents the 2009 Fall Classic.

Information about this Regional meeting will be posted as soon as the Webmaster gets the information. If you can help supply it, please send what you have to: webmaster@daylilies.org

REGION 5's REGIONAL MEETING

Region 5 Fall Meeting:
Saturday, 20 Sep 08
Macon State College, Theatre-Arts Complex, Macon GA
Registration/Refreshment Fee: $5.00

0915: Registration
0930: Call to order, current issues, club news
10:15: AHS/Regional awards/Regional contest winners
11:00: Break, light refreshments
11:30: Program: Christi Dixon of Christi's Daylilies, Jesup GA
12:15: Auction
1:30: Dismiss or lunch break (on your own)
2:00: Exhibition Judges Refresher Course

POC: Barbara Kirby: bkirby2@earthlink.net
(478) 922-8416

Additional information about these Regional activities will be posted as soon as the Webmaster gets the information. If you can help supply it, please send what you have to: webmaster@daylilies.org

AHS Region 6 Meeting

AHS Region 7 Summer Meeting

Information about this Regional activity will be posted as soon as the Webmaster gets the information. If you can help supply it, please send what you have to: webmaster@daylilies.org

AHS Region 8 Summer Meeting

AHS Region 8 Annual Meeting & Garden Tours

Date: July 10 – 12, 2009

Place: Langley, BC Canada

Speakers: Pat and Grace Stamile

Hotel headquarters: The Coast Hotel and Convention Center, Langley, BC. Ph: 604-530-1500. This is a new hotel since we last hosted the regional meeting, and is an extremely high-rated, clean and modern establishment. Our meeting room will be all glass overlooking the City of Langley.

Block of rooms reserved under Aldergrove Daylily Society/AHS Region 8 with special rate of $98 Cdn per night.

Price includes: Friday night social; Saturday morning champagne breakfast, full day bus tour of fabulous gardens and local attractions (something new this year!), lunch at tour stop, dinner banquet at hotel, light lunch on Sunday and speakers. Our Sunday event will feature our speakers, Chinese auction and live Regional auction.

Cost: $70(US) until June 1/09

Contact: Pam Erikson, president of Aldergrove Daylily Society. Ph: 604-856-5758 Email: pamela1@istar.ca

AHS Region 9 Summer Meeting

2008 Region 9 Regional Hemerocallis Society Meeting

July 18-20, 2008

Sponsored by the Colorado Springs Daylily Society

Friday: Daylily Show
Friday afternoon: Exhibition Judges Clinic I, III
Friday evening: Welcome Dinner
Saturday: Garden Tours (Roberts, Holzrichter, Goodwin, Holiday, Arndt, Shaffer)
Saturday evening: Banquet featuring Linda Michaels, speaker
Sunday morning: Garden Judges Workshop 1 and 2

Headquarters:
Academy Hotel
8110 North Academy Boulevard
Colorado Springs, CO

The room rate at The Academy Hotel is $91.
The registration fee is $50.00

Chairman: Betty Roberts, 719-282-9642, Florabetty@aol.com

AHS Region 10 Annual Meeting & Garden Tours

Information about this Regional activity will be posted as soon as the Webmaster gets the information. If you can help supply it, please send what you have to: webmaster@daylilies.org

AHS Region 11 Winter Meeting

2009
Information about this Regional activity will be posted as soon as the Webmaster gets the information. If you can help supply it, please send what you have to: webmaster@daylilies.org

AHS Region 11 Meeting

July 4-6, 2008, Wichita, KS

The Wichita Marriott
9100 Corporate Hills Drive
Wichita, KS 67207
Contact hotel direct at 316-651-0333 or
800-610-0673
Hotel: $80.00
Ask for Wichita Daylily Club rate.
Rooms available till June 18th, 2008

Our speaker will be Dan Trimmer.

Registration fee: $100.00
Late fee $125.00 after June 18th, 2008
Registrar:
Sherryl Fitzpatrick
2869 N. Tee Time Ct.
Wichita, KS 67205
316-721-4810
sfitzpat@cox.net

Registration form in printable .pdf format HERE.

Additional information about this Regional activity will be posted as soon as the Webmaster gets the updates. If you can help supply more data, please send what you have to: webmaster@daylilies.org

AHS Region 12 Fall Meeting

HOSTED BY THE BAY AREA DAYLILY SOCIETY    

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2008 

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS 
 
8:00 am - Noon Registration, Silent Auction and Plant Sale 
(proceeds to defray cost of regional meeting)

Clinics: 
9:00 am - Noon  Exhibition Clinic I - for becoming a new Exhibition Judge 
10:00 am - Noon Exhibition Clinic III - Refresher and Re-certification of 
expiring terms of Exhibition Judges 
Students need to bring the AHS Judging Daylily Handbook 
Before the Clinic read Chapters C1-1 through Chapter C2-6 

Workshops: 
10:00 am - NoonGarden Judges Workshop I – for becoming a new Garden Judge 
Students need to bring the AHS Judging Daylilies Handbook 
Before the Workshop read Chapters B1-1 through Chapter B4-4 
 
12:30 - 1:30 pm     Lunch
1:30 - 3:00 pm Region 12 Business Meeting – Elaine Alito, RVP, presiding 
Followed by a presentation by our guest speaker, Nicole Harry of Apopka 
 
3:00 - 4:00 pm      Plant Auction - all proceeds benefit Region 12

Location:
Hilton Garden Inn
3839 Don Emerson Drive
Lakeland, FL
863-647-0066

Room Rate: $100.00  - please confirm reservations by October 5, 2008 to 
receive this rate

Registration Fee:
Adults $40.00 (including lunch) 
Youth $20.00 (including lunch)
 
Clinic and Workshop fees will be $5.00 and payable at the door 
$3.00 to attend for audit 
 
Please make check payable to:  “The Bay Area Daylily Society” and send 
to the Registrar: 
Kay Smith 
232 Gulf Boulevard 
Indian Rock Beach, FL  33785

In 2009, Region 12 will be hosting the AHS National Convention.

AHS Region 13 Meeting

REGION 13 ANNUAL MEETING 2009

Additional information about this Regional activity will be posted as soon as the Webmaster gets the updates. If you can help supply more data, please send what you have to: webmaster@daylilies.org

AHS Region 14 Spring Meeting

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AHS Region 14 Fall Meeting

AHS REGION 14 FALL MEETING: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2008
Hosted by The Hattiesburg Area Daylily Society
at the Extension Conference Room – Multi-purpose Center
US 49 South, Hattiesburg, MS

Guest Speaker: David Kirchhoff, Daylily World. Lawrenceburg, KY

Registration Fees: Member $20.00, Youth $10.00
Deadline: Friday, October, 3, 2008
Make checks payable to Hattiesburg Area Daylily Society
Mail to: Alice Essary, 711 Duane St., Hattiesburg, MS 39401
601-582-3670

Schedule:

8:30 A.M. 11:30 Noon
Plant Sale Table Opens Lunch

10:00 A.M. 12:30 P.M.
Region 14 Business Meeting David Kirchhoff

10:30 A.M. 1:30 P.M..
David Kirchhoff Plant Auction

(The meeting will adjourn by 3:00 P.M).

Special Forum
Friday Evening, October 10, 2008
7:00 PM
Extension Conference Room – Multi-purpose Center
David Kirchhoff will discuss “What’s New in Daylily Exhibitions”
Everyone is encouraged to attend this presentation – All daylily people should be aware of all aspects of showing and judging daylilies. Shows are an excellent means of reaching the public. Exhibition judges will receive credit for renewal ($5.00 fee required) but all others may participate with no fee.

Registration form in pdf format HERE.

 

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Region 15 Summer Meeting

 

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