CIDS is hosting an on scape daylily show accredited by the American Daylily Society, Saturday, June 23, 2018 at the Washington Park Botanical Garden Exhibition Hall, Springfield, IL 62704. Entries will be accepted from 8:00 am to 10:00 pm. Judging will be from 10:00 am until 1:15 pm and the show will be open to the public from 1:15 pm until 3:00 pm. Admission is free.
The March meeting will be held on Sunday the 18th from 12-4pm at the Rochester Community Building. Gayle Story of Nature’s Edge Daylilies, Danville IL will give a talk on her hybridizing program. She and her husband Rick have been hobby gardening for almost 30 years. She has been hybridizing for almost as long. Her focus is on blue/lavenders, true reds, eyed patterns and deep true purples. She grows strong hardy plants in an open prairie setting.
We will also auction some of her creations at this meeting to be delivered sometime in May. Hope to see you there!!
CIDS held their annual daylily sale August 5, 2017 at the Springfield Botanical Gardens. There were lots and lots of beautiful daylilies to choose from, which made it very difficult to pick just one! It was a beautiful day and the turnout was wonderful.
OK, I’m breaking my own rules here, but here is the list. This is only the list from Blue Ridge Daylilies, but there will be more plants donated by your fellow members. Those names, photos and details will be included in the presentation at the auction.
Just a reminder: Ballots for the AHS Popularity Poll are due by September 1st. Use this link to access the ballot directly:
http://www.daylilies.org/PopPoll/ballot.html
Our next club meeting will be on Friday, September 12th at 7pm, and we will again meet at the Rochester Community Room.
We will have a business meeting, followed by a presentation on Sculpted Daylilies. Photos from the 2013 AHS Photography Contest will be displayed during our break/social time.
If you have any items to add to the agenda, feel free to add a comment below or contact Jacob (br4un3r@gmail.com).
CIDS will hold our annual Plant Sale on Saturday, August 2nd, at the Washington Park Botanical Garden Exhibition Room. Doors will open at 12:00pm. We invite the general public to attend. The purpose of this event is to provide an opportunity for the general public to learn more about daylilies as well has provide opportunities for all to expand their garden with new or additional varieties.
At the sale, CIDS will have tables filled with a variety of daylilies for sale, all at very reasonable prices. They will be sold bare-root, meaning that they will not be potted.
The sale will also include a number of vendors, who are members of the club that have specialty daylilies or related products to sell.
The following information was passed along to members of CIDS:
I am sending this to all of you who are requesting vendor tables at the sale next Saturday and/or helping at the CIDS table. So far, CIDS table helpers are Deb (chair), Jacinto’s, Jim, Paula, Rich. Children’s area are Sharon, Nancy, Dave. (everything for children’s will be provided, except I may need another trowel). Nikki will provide seedlings. We will be able to get into the exhibition hall at 9:30 am. Tables will be set up, and your name will be on yours. However, you will need to put your table away at the end of the sale. Please bring a sack lunch, drinks, and your tablecloth if you want one. Those who are helping with the sale will be able to buy between 11:30 and 12:00. Remember, you cannot have a vendor hold plants for you before 11:30. Any questions, please respond to this email.
Wishing for a fantastic sale for the club.
Cheryl
If you’ve been following the posts on this site, you already know that our little club planned to host an AHS-accredited Exhibition Show on July 6th, 2014, and we pulled it off! With the help of many, CIDS hosted their first show in a handful of years, and it was a success.
After a rushed morning of setup, grooming, classification, and placement, we waited while the judges studied each bloom to find the diamonds among the jewels. After they were finished, we opened the doors to a waiting crowd, and the results were unveiled. It was a whirl-wind day for all of the first-time participants, but it went off without a hitch.
Setup
Our venue was booked all weekend long, so we were only able to get in to setup the room first thing in the morning. The staff at the venue (Thank you, Steve!) even showed up early to open the doors for the setup crew to get tables up and arranged throughout the space. The crew then turned to the kitchen to fill the wine bottles – which were used as vases – with a bit of water in preparation for the entries that would soon fill them.
Entries and Classification
Each flower was carefully transported, and, after a bit of grooming, they were each identified and submitted to classification. This process determines which section each flower will be placed into for judging. There are 10 sections and two special awards sections in each show. The 148 submitted blooms filled all but one section, and we were thrilled to have so many on display.
Judging
The judges are taken into the room with the entries, accompanied by clerks who assist with the handling of pants, placing of ribbons, and answering questions that the judges may have. The classification team is also on-hand to look up any registrations for which the judges need clarification or further information. The judging can take quite a while, as each flower is judged on it’s own merit before being compared to others in it’s section for the final awards. Eventually, one winner from each section was selected and moved to the head table.
Once on the head table, the judges once again evaluate each section winner to find the bloom that will be awarded Best In Show.
While the judges were doing their part, our club had a table full of off-scape blooms on display for our guests to view in the lobby. These were not judged by the AHS judges, but instead were up for judging by the visitors to our show. We allowed each guest to vote for their favorite off-scape bloom, which led to a winner of this popularity contest.
Tabulation and Awards
After the judges have finished, they submit ballots to the tabulation team to be counted and summarized. The tabulation team uses these ballots to find out which bloom is to be awarded Best In Show. Other awards, such as Achievement Award and Sweepstakes, were also tabulated at this time.
At our show, we were able to quickly determine the Best In Show winning bloom, as well as the Sweepstakes winner for the show. We placed these awards and then opened the show to the public, while the judges took a quick break before evaluating the submissions for Ophelia Taylor and Achievement Award. Once they completed this judging, the tabulations team reviewed the final ballots to determine whether or not awards would be given in these sections.
The Show
After the doors opened, a large group of guests eagerly filed in to view all of the different blooms on display. Many Ooos and Aaahs could be heard throughout the room. Members of CIDS mingled with the other guests to help explain the various parts of the show and answered other questions from the guests.
The Results
Here are the final results, by section, with the final awards at the end.
Thank you!
A big thank you from CIDS to all who participated in any way!
In the end, the blooms were collected and placed in a can for compost. This beautiful bouquet was heading to the heap!
There are only 5 days left before CIDS 2014 Daylily Exhibition Show, the only accredited show in Illinois in 2014!