Regional Meetings at a Glance
2021 REGION 15 SUMMER REGIONAL
Foothills Daylily Society is pleased to invite you to the Region 15 Summer meeting on June, 19, 2021. Because we are still cautious about indoor meetings due to the pandemic, we are limiting the bulk of the meeting to one full day of outdoor events—fabulous garden tours, a great lunch, and a general meeting. We are looking forward to seeing many of you for this event! Get your registration in before May 15 for “Daylily Fun in 2021.”
Masks and social distancing will still be required.
Here’s an abbreviated schedule for the meeting. The registration form is attached below.
Fri. Evening, June 18
5:00 p.m.—Leadership Team and Board Meetings (Location TBA)
Sat. June 19
9:00 a.m.—Garden Tour Groups arrive at their first designated garden; then follow schedule with directions to the other two gardens
1:00 p.m.—With slightly staggered arrival times, designated garden tour groups will arrive at Garden Cafe for lunch in a covered outdoor shelter.*
2:30 p.m.—Business Meeting, Program, and Awards Ceremony (same location)
* This outstanding venue is part of a larger compound consisting of the restaurant, a nursery, and a gift shop featuring many garden items, including statuary and fountains.
Sun. June 20—Clinics at Slightly Different Nursery
10:00 a.m.—Garden Judging II, and Exhibition Judging
Most of you are familiar with the three commercial gardens—Blue Ridge Daylilies, Slightly Different Nursery, and Iron Gate Gardens. You may have visited them in the past and marveled at all the amazing daylilies they have to offer, not to mention the lovely surroundings. Even if you have been before, as you know from the evolution of your own gardens, these gardens are forever changing, forever different, forever new. Their owners—Robert Selman and Eric Simpson, Paul Owen, Van Sellers and Vic Santa Lucia—would love to have you visit.
Two private gardens on the list, both owned by members of Foothills Daylily Society, may not be as familiar but they are equally worthy of your visit, and they may be more familiar than you realize. Just go back and look at your spring Hemalina: The cover features the garden of Joe and Geri Phillip’s “Our Garden” (as does other photos among the winning entries in the "Landscape Category" of the photo contest). You will also see Nance Wolff, owner of “GaGa Garden’ as the subject of Barbara Peterson’s award winning photo in the “People in the Garden” Category. In case you are wondering about the name of Nance’s garden, it did not come from Lady GaGa, nor is it from the fact that visitors go GaGA over the amazing things she does when her creative mind and her whimsical personality come in contact with found objects others throw away. It comes from the name she called her grandmother as a child, and it was this same GaGa who taught Nance her love for gardening. Nance’s garden is hard to describe. You just HAVE to see it for yourself.
The last garden on the list is a public garden, the Lake Lure Flowering Bridge. Last year we had planned to have this as a featured part of the meeting’s garden tour; however, with our abbreviated schedule for 2021 we just couldn’t work it in. It is located only a few miles west of our lunch and meeting venue and is well worth the time it would take for you to visit. Check out their website for its history and special features.
We look forward to hosting you and hope that you will extend your time in our area to make June 18-20 a weekend to remember!
Masks and social distancing will still be required.
Here’s an abbreviated schedule for the meeting. The registration form is attached below.
Fri. Evening, June 18
5:00 p.m.—Leadership Team and Board Meetings (Location TBA)
Sat. June 19
9:00 a.m.—Garden Tour Groups arrive at their first designated garden; then follow schedule with directions to the other two gardens
1:00 p.m.—With slightly staggered arrival times, designated garden tour groups will arrive at Garden Cafe for lunch in a covered outdoor shelter.*
2:30 p.m.—Business Meeting, Program, and Awards Ceremony (same location)
* This outstanding venue is part of a larger compound consisting of the restaurant, a nursery, and a gift shop featuring many garden items, including statuary and fountains.
Sun. June 20—Clinics at Slightly Different Nursery
10:00 a.m.—Garden Judging II, and Exhibition Judging
Most of you are familiar with the three commercial gardens—Blue Ridge Daylilies, Slightly Different Nursery, and Iron Gate Gardens. You may have visited them in the past and marveled at all the amazing daylilies they have to offer, not to mention the lovely surroundings. Even if you have been before, as you know from the evolution of your own gardens, these gardens are forever changing, forever different, forever new. Their owners—Robert Selman and Eric Simpson, Paul Owen, Van Sellers and Vic Santa Lucia—would love to have you visit.
Two private gardens on the list, both owned by members of Foothills Daylily Society, may not be as familiar but they are equally worthy of your visit, and they may be more familiar than you realize. Just go back and look at your spring Hemalina: The cover features the garden of Joe and Geri Phillip’s “Our Garden” (as does other photos among the winning entries in the "Landscape Category" of the photo contest). You will also see Nance Wolff, owner of “GaGa Garden’ as the subject of Barbara Peterson’s award winning photo in the “People in the Garden” Category. In case you are wondering about the name of Nance’s garden, it did not come from Lady GaGa, nor is it from the fact that visitors go GaGA over the amazing things she does when her creative mind and her whimsical personality come in contact with found objects others throw away. It comes from the name she called her grandmother as a child, and it was this same GaGa who taught Nance her love for gardening. Nance’s garden is hard to describe. You just HAVE to see it for yourself.
The last garden on the list is a public garden, the Lake Lure Flowering Bridge. Last year we had planned to have this as a featured part of the meeting’s garden tour; however, with our abbreviated schedule for 2021 we just couldn’t work it in. It is located only a few miles west of our lunch and meeting venue and is well worth the time it would take for you to visit. Check out their website for its history and special features.
We look forward to hosting you and hope that you will extend your time in our area to make June 18-20 a weekend to remember!
Regional Meeting Planning Guides
Region 15 Clubs Please Considering Hosting a Summer or Fall Regional Meeting,
Attached are PDF guides for hosting a Summer or Fall regional meeting. If you are considering hosting a regional meeting, these guides can be used to understand the process, as well as the individual tasks and pieces needed for planning and hosting a Summer or Fall event. Hopefully you will find this information useful, and a good guide.
As many of you know that have been a part of planning a regional meeting for your club in the past, these meetings are not as difficult to plan as they may first appear, and will be a fun event for your club. They do require some early planning, and help from a number of club members in order to spread around the task load, but when the event gets there and the regional members arrive for the weekend of events, you will see a lot of appreciation, and hear a lot of thank-you's, which makes the planning and work that you did so worthwhile.
In addition, as we spread these Summer and Fall events around the region, it gives each of our regional clubs the opportunity to support the region, which is all of us individually, and helps fund the regional newsletter, The Hem-alina, we all enjoy, which is the primary expense for the region. And please do remember that The Hem-alina and region does not have any other funding or income other than auctions at these meetings, and the generous donations made by many clubs within the region. Please do consider hosting a Summer or Fall meeting in the coming years.
***Important***
Attached are two MS. Word files you can print out and use. If you have more questions, need guidance, or help getting the process started, please contact our regional president or the regional meetings liaison...
Region 15 Clubs Please Considering Hosting a Summer or Fall Regional Meeting,
Attached are PDF guides for hosting a Summer or Fall regional meeting. If you are considering hosting a regional meeting, these guides can be used to understand the process, as well as the individual tasks and pieces needed for planning and hosting a Summer or Fall event. Hopefully you will find this information useful, and a good guide.
As many of you know that have been a part of planning a regional meeting for your club in the past, these meetings are not as difficult to plan as they may first appear, and will be a fun event for your club. They do require some early planning, and help from a number of club members in order to spread around the task load, but when the event gets there and the regional members arrive for the weekend of events, you will see a lot of appreciation, and hear a lot of thank-you's, which makes the planning and work that you did so worthwhile.
In addition, as we spread these Summer and Fall events around the region, it gives each of our regional clubs the opportunity to support the region, which is all of us individually, and helps fund the regional newsletter, The Hem-alina, we all enjoy, which is the primary expense for the region. And please do remember that The Hem-alina and region does not have any other funding or income other than auctions at these meetings, and the generous donations made by many clubs within the region. Please do consider hosting a Summer or Fall meeting in the coming years.
***Important***
Attached are two MS. Word files you can print out and use. If you have more questions, need guidance, or help getting the process started, please contact our regional president or the regional meetings liaison...