Columbia River Daylily Club

Christmas Gathering for CDRC

I would like to extend an invitation to all members to attend the Christmas/Holiday Meeting. The Club will provide the main course, turkey and gravy. Members are asked to bring a food contribution. A thru K a side dish, and L thru Z a desert.  We will be having a gift exchange. If you want to participate, bring a gift valued at approximately $10.00- $15.00value. The gift exchange is a fun event with stealing and exchanging allowed.

The meeting will be held On December 7th at 1:00 at the PUD Building, 8600 NE 117th Ave, Vancouver WA. If you need additional information give me a call at 360-695-9126

Also remember that we update our web site so that information on meetings times and places are current. If you haven’t had a look yet we are www.columbiariverdaylilyclub.org

MaryAnn

Vice President

Yard Garden and Patio Show

Don't forget -- the 2009 Yard, Garden and Patio Show will be held on Feb. 27-March 1st at the Oregon Convention Center! Sign-ups are coming along well, but if you have not volunteered to serve a three-hour shift in our booth recruiting new members, please call JoAnn Opp at 503- 762-2896. You will enjoy visiting with other like-minded gardeners, signing new people up to join our great club, and sharing information along with beautiful daylily starts. You will receive free entrance to the show the day of your shift. Please join us for this once-a-year event and help promote our club!

Greenhouse Growin

Linda Powell

It’s pretty obvious that winter is setting in. The dormant daylilies are in hiding for the winter and the semi dormants look pretty ratty. It’s not just outside that these look that way; it’s in the greenhouse too. I’ve noticed that when you expose a hard dormants to the least bit of cooler weather, it doesn’t take much time before they figure out it’s time to hibernate. Before you know it, they’re no where to be seen. For me, the countdown for spring is on. Here we are at the end of November. In just a matter of weeks, we’ll be in the New Year already. Can you believe it? 2009 is just around the corner. So far, it hasn’t been that badof a fall other than a little wet at times. We haven’t even had a hard freeze yet. The longer the cold holds off, the shorter the winter will seem, at least in my mind. Once we’re past January, things should gradually start to get warmer. That’s not really very far off. In spite of the colder weather, I have over a dozen plants that were trying to bloom in the greenhouse. Several have bloomed, but the flowers are ugly. Daylily flowers are very dependent on temperatures. The flowers don’t look anything like they’re supposed to, but when there’s no other daylilies blooming, I’ll take ugly.

Watering in the greenhouse has always been a problem for me. Part of my watering system works well and part of it doesn’t so there are always plants that would appreciate more water. A few weeks ago, I decided to try something a little different (you know me, I’m always willing to try something new). I read where one of the growers/breeders in Louisiana grew their seedlings in pots sitting in water. I thought, what a great way to keep the plants watered during the summer. So I cleaned out 1/4 of the greenhouse, leveled the ground, protected it with cardboard and proceeded to make 4 separate ponds with black plastic. I don’t need much water for them during the winter, so the ponds are dry right now, but when the time comes, I’ll leave several inches of fertilized water in the ponds and they can drink until they’re hearts content. The grower in Louisiana said it was his way of getting his seedlings to bloom earlier. If I see a noticeable difference between these seedlings and the plants on the other side of the greenhouse, I may convert the other side next year. If it doesn’t work, it still makes a nice place to contain my pots. Seems like a win-win situation. I’ll keep you posted.

HURRY! HURRY! HURRAY!

Here is your opportunity to save some bucks. Starting January 1, 2009 the club dues will be increasing to

$10.00 per member

$15.00 per couple

If you pay your dues before then, you will still pay the current membership dues which is

$5.00 per member

$7.50 per couple

This is a necessary evil! We need to increase our bank account if members expect to have quality guest speakers. Where else can you go and spend the afternoon, eating, talking, visiting with friends, being entertained and educated for a few dollars a meeting? Also don’t forget all of the bonus daylilies and other plants you bring home from meetings.

Contact Gary

Turpin at note4gary@aol.com

Greetings from the President

I hope you all have been able to take advantage of the good weather to get out in the garden. I am always so far behind in my garden chores that I for one really appreciate the opportunity to play catch up. Yesterday I pulled weeds – again – and spread mulch in hopes that the weeds become discouraged and go away. I always have plants in pots waiting for a place in the garden, and many of those found a new home, so at the end of the day I felt I had accomplished great things. BUT, there is still much to be done.

It amazes me that there is still so much color in the garden. Many varieties of chrysanthemum are still at their prime. There are lots of fuchsias, clematis, and the sasanqua camellia is in full bloom. With no rain to beat up the blossoms, the white camellia is quite lovely. With all of these flowers there are still many humming birds present in the garden.

If you missed Jeff Corbett‘s presentation I am truly sorry. He is a joy of a man, and the pictures of his future introductions make you want to save your money to invest in the beauties. He was very generous in bringing not only his own plants to auction but some from his fellow hybridizer, Keith Miner, as well as some recent introductions of other growers. Needless to say, our members went home with some very nice plants, and the club bankroll is a few bucks to the good.

Since this was our October (Halloween) meeting, every member went home with spider daylilies to haunt their garden.

JoAnn Opp invited members to volunteer to spend time at our booth at the Yard, Garden & Patio Show. Free admission to the show in return for a little bit of your time to expand our club is a win-win situation.

Call JoAnn at 503-762-2896 to get your favorite time.

Put the Christmas Party on your calendar on December 7, 2008. This is a “can’t miss” affair. Lots of good food, a fun gift exchange, and the company of some mighty fine people. What more could you ask for?

While you are making your spring garden plans, remember that we plan to have a plant sale, so save your extras to sell to the public. In 2010 we will again host the Regional Meeting, and will need to be able to subsidize the cost of the meeting. Selling our extra daylilies should make that possible.

Yesterday I pulled all of the Zinnias so it is time to go buy pansies for winter color. See you at the Christmas Party!!!!!

Enjoy your garden.

Mary

Yard Garden and Patio Show Sign-up

Don't forget -- the 2009 Yard, Garden and Patio Show will be held on Feb. 27-March 1st at the Oregon Convention Center! Sign-ups are coming along well, but if you have not volunteered to serve a three-hour shift in our booth recruiting new members, please call JoAnn Opp at 503- 762-2896. You will enjoy visiting with other like-minded gardeners, signing new people up to join our great club, and sharing information along with beautiful daylily starts. You will receive free entrance to the show the day of your shift. Please join us for this once-a-year event and help promote our club!

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Fall Is here Again

MaryAnn Borcherding

My days now are spent looking out the window trying to decide if it’s raining, stopped raining enough to go out and work, or sunny today. Many chores need to done. Give all the daylilies a hair cut (because they look better that way), rake and chop leaves, spread some mulch, and cut back all of the other perennials in my yard. I keep looking at all of my garden art, thinking I should put that out of the way. I’m waiting for a hard frost to knock back the fuchsias and move the pots to a central location and mulch them for the winter. There is something about this interim time of year that makes me want to stay inside and think about all the things that need to be done instead of doing them. Of course I start to feel guilty and run out and work for a few hours. Living on a city lot has its disadvantages. No room for a giant mulch pile in my yard. I must rely on the City Debris Recycle program

to get rid of my stuff. Yesterday I put out 3 cans. One big regulation one (90 lbs), on extra regulation one (30 lbs) and one illegal one of about 40 lbs. All were filled to the max. I’m sure the “recycle guy” was very pleased with the extra work. He threw the lid of one of the cans on top of my daylilies. “Take that lady” I’m sure were his thoughts. I usually try to be out there when they come and ask them nicely, if they would take an extra can. Maybe I should try to leave them some cookies and milk. In the old days in Seattle we would leave a cold six pack with the extra trash. Guess that is not politically correct any more. Well back to the clean up. I’ve gotten all of the daylilies cut back and half of the side garden cut back. I still have one bag of mulch to spread. All of my daylilies are looking good. Ones I thought I might have lost are making new fans under the surface, so they will be great next year. I’m looking forward to the work being done, and then I can spend months dreaming about what the garden

will look like next summer. I have quite a few new purchases that will bloom for the first time next year and it will definitely be exciting.

At the first meeting that I attended of the CRDC I was so proud that I was growing 16 daylilies, only half of which I had saved the names on. Wow! Was I in for an interesting ride into daylilydom. It’s been fun!

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2009 EUREKA DAYLILY GUIDES

CRDC has ordered a case of 20 and they said they should be here by our December 7 meeting.  This year the retail price, including shipping, of the guide if purchased from EUREKA is $40.90.  CRDC will be able to sell them for $33.00 if picked up at a meeting. Due to the increase in postage there will be a mailing fee of $5.00 if we have to mail them to you.  If anyone wishes to reserve a copy they can do so by e-mail or letter.

Gary Turpin

16812 SE First St., #14

Vancouver, WA 98684

or

note4gary@AOL.com

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