Sunday, September 23, 2018

American Daylily Society Region 4 Meeting




                                   AHS Region 4                               
“Fun in the Sun!”

2019 AHS Region Four Meeting • Melville, New York • July 19-20, 2019
Hosted by the Long Island Daylily Society


Guest Speaker: Gil Stelter Gryphon Gardens, Guelph, Ontario
http://www.gryphongardens.ca/

The Long Island Daylily Society (LIDS) invites you to join us Friday, July 19 through Saturday, July 20, in Long Island, New York, for the 2019 AHS Region Four Meeting. Our guest speaker is hybridizer Gil Stelter owner of Gryphon Gardens in Guelph, Ontario. Gryphon Gardens was an AHS Region Four tour garden in 2011. Gil will present his program on Saturday evening following the banquet and business meeting.

The host hotel is the
HILTON LONG ISLAND / HUNTINGTON
1 631-845-1000
598 Broad Hollow Road, Melville NY 11747 
 Mention “LIDS” to get the reservation group rate of $165 per night.

Your registration includes the Saturday bus tour and four meals: Friday buffet dinner followed by an auction, Saturday grab and go breakfast on your way to three garden tours, Saturday lunch and tour at Planting Fields Arboretum in Oyster Bay, NY, and Saturday evening sit down banquet, business meeting and program by Gil Stelter.

Four tour gardens and lovely open gardens await you!

Gardens on Saturday's Bus Tour:

Joan Lundin: Setauket, NY
An imaginative daylily garden, secluded in nature and complemented by a diverse collection of perennials, interspersed among rocks, the core of Long Island's north shore, garden art and fairy gardens.
Pat Sayers:  Huntington, NY
  A delightful hybridizer’s garden where you’ll get to see many of Pat’s introductions as well as numerous perennials set in artistic vignettes.

Chris Petersen:   Northport, NY
A peaceful seaside garden with an eclectic mix of daylilies, shrubs, grasses, annuals, hosta and other perennials arranged in an array of settings.

Planting Fields Arboretum: Oyster Bay, NY
An amazing conservatory and arboretum that hosts the LIDS AHS Display Garden and the Saxton Seedling bed. This garden is also our lunch stop.


Open Gardens on Thursday, Friday and/or Sunday: See our website for details

The Region Four Daylily Auction will be on Friday evening. Credit cards will be accepted. Shop our Bargain Table, Silent Auction, and Country Auction on Friday and Saturday afternoons.
Region Four members, please consider donating raffle items, baskets, and daylilies for the auction and/or bargain table!

Judges Clinics and Workshops will be set up if there is enough interest.

Please celebrate daylilies with us on July 19-20. Visit with old friends and make new friends while we all have “Fun in the Sun” on Long Island—you won’t want to miss it!

Check our website for details about each tour garden, open gardens, our speaker, fun things to do while you're on Long Island, and more!




AHS Region 4 Summer Meeting, July 19 -20, 2019

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