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With rain and thunderstorms in the forecast for this weekend, we are going to cancel the club picnic scheduled for Saturday at Lisa and Paul’s. Very sorry, but better to do it now then at the last minute.
Regards,
Paul
-Saturday, June 29, Noon -3 PM Club Picnic and Plant Swap
This will take place at the Lisa and Paul Bourret’s (11 Keepaway Lane, West Newfield, 04095). Please bring picnic food to share. Paul to also discuss aspects daylily garden judging. Note that this is NOT garden judge training, just an overview. Lisa and Paul will provide burgers, hot dogs and beverages. If you need directions on the way in, please call Paul at 207-459-8373.
-Saturday, July 27th – Joint Garden Tour with the Maine Hosta Society
We will arrive at Donna Primozich’s garden in Norway, ME at 10:00 a.m. where we will see an outstanding collection of hostas and a host of many plants of several species. If you have visited Donna’s garden, you know that there is something new to see each year. The landscaping and plant material are second to none! Be sure to bring along your camera. We will be traveling by private vehicles. We plan to depart from Donna’s garden at 11:00 a.m. Donna’s home and garden are located at 361 Norway Center Road, Norway, ME. A GPS in your vehicle should use this address as your destination.
This is a reminder that SMDHS will be holding its annual plant sale next Sunday, May 19 from 9:00 until 12:30 (or earlier if we sell out). The sale will take place at the Southern Maine Community College Horticulture Building on Slocum Drive in South Portland.
This sale helps to support the club to bring in speakers during the year. We ask our members to please donate plants to sell. Sellers may keep up to 50% of the sales from their plants or donate all sales from their plants to the club.
The doors will open and 7:30 for set-up and receiving plants. Sales start at 9:00 and not before.
We had a great meeting to start off 2019. The meeting started with our spring Pot-Luck luncheon. Thank you to everyone who brought something.
This was followed by a brief business meeting.
Out guest Speaker was Dan Robarts, hybridizer and horticulturalist at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. Dan shared what a year in the life of CMBG looks like, some of the art that is featured at the garden, a look at what the garden looks like during Gardens Aglow . Dan shared his history with plants and his work in hybridizing daylilies, hostas, epimediums, and many other types of plants.
This was followed with our annual photo contest. Congratulations to all the winners. The winners were as follows:
Category 1: Single Daylily Flower, Pat Boissonneault, Whip City Hankie Spanky
Category 2: Hosta single leaf or bloom, Pat Boissonneault, Fountainhead
Category 3: Daylily Multiple Blooms, Paul Bourret, Later Alligator (Also winner of best in show)
Category 4: Hosta Multiple Leaves or Blooms, Lee Harvie, Multiple Hosta in Planter
Category 5: Landscapes with Hosta and Daylilies, Pat Boissonneault, Barred Owl Daylilies
Category 6: People and Critters, Lee Harvie, Abby in the Garden
Our first meeting of the 2019 season will be Saturday, April 6, 2019 at the Horticulture building at Southern Maine Community College on Slocum Drive in South Portland. We will hold our our annual photo contest, and we will have a talk from Dan Robarts. Dan is a daylily hybridizer and works at the Coastal Maine Botanical Garden as a Grower / Horticulturalist. We will also have our Spring Pot-Luck, so be sure to bring something tasty to share
April Photo Contest
This contest is open to all SMDHS members.
Members will bring photos for the contest to the meeting on April 6.
All entries must be received by 12:00 pm.
Entries must meet the following requirements:
Photos must be a maximum of 5” x 7” in size.
Photos must not be matted or framed.
The category, name of the photographer and the name of the cultivar should be written on the back of the photo.
Photos should not contain any names, copyright marks or other information that would indicate the photographer.
Members may enter up to 5 photographs in each category.
Categories are as follows:
Votes will be tabulated and winners will be announced.
Winners from each category will also be judged “Best in Show” by the membership in a separate round of voting.
Prizes will be:
Category winners: $10 in auction credit for the 2018 Lobstah Classic.Grand prize “Best in Show”: $25 in auction credit for the 2018 Lobstah Classic
Registration is now open for SMDHS’s 8th Annual Lobstah Classic. This year’s event will be on Saturday, August 17 on the campus of Southern Maine Community College. This year our speakers will be Rich Howard from CT Daylilies in Wallingford, CT and Mike Shadrack from Smug Creek Gardens in Hamburg, NY. Registration will close on July 27, 2019. We look forward to seeing you there!
With the weather coming tomorrow featuring snow, ice and rain, we will be postponing our holiday party until next Sunday, December 9. While the storm will bring rain to everyone eventually, there will still be snow and ice to contend with in the western part of the state. Why take chances. Hopefully mother nature will bless us with better weather next week.
Hi Everyone. Our final meeting of the year, our annual holiday party, is scheduled for Sunday, December 2 from noon – 3 PM. This will be a pot luck dinner, so please bring a festive holiday dish to share.
We will be exchanging gifts in our Yankee Swap, though this year we may have an interesting twist if folks are interested. Everyone starts off with their own wrapped gift and sits in one big circle. There are 3 rounds rolling a die and doing what is shown in the photo. At the end of the game whatever gift you end up with you keep! We will discuss it at the meeting and choose the game or the traditional Yankee swap. Please keep gifts to under $15 in value.
We will play our holiday bingo for the following prizes:
And last but not least we will have the following door prizes:
Please let Paul know if you will be attending by responding to paul.bourret@gmail.com. Please don’t “reply to all”.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone and we look forward to seeing you at the meeting!
Because of business travel, Paul will be unable to give his presentation in September. So, we are cancelling our September meeting.
Our October meeting will take place on Sunday, October 7 from noon-3. THis will be our annual business meeting where we will elect officers for the next 2 years and set our schedule for next year.
We will also have our fall Soup Social pot-luck. Bring some food to share.
Rex Beisel will also give a presentation on hybridizing, seed planting etc.
Please join us at the SMCC Horticulture building on Slocum Drive.
This year was another great meeting. We started the day with our silent auction. Members and visitors donate plants, art and anything else of interest. Visitors to the event are free to mingle, enjoy some coffee or tea, chat and catch up with friends and bid, bid, bid!
This year we had around 105 items to browse through. 
O
ur first speaker was Chuck Doughty from Cochato Nursery in Holbrook Massachusetts.
Chuck brought his lovely wife Sue assist
him…sort of.
After lunch, Mike Georges from Ontario de
scribed his breeding program which focuses on toothy cultivars
Following our speakers, we held a live auction of club-purchased and donated daylilies and hostas. As is tradition, we finished the day with a Maine “lobstah” dinner overlooking Casco Bay. Thank you to everyone who came, donated, spoke, and assisted the days events. We also would like to thank SMCC, Sodexo, and Dock’s Restaurant. See you again in 2019!