Mark Your Calendars for 2025 Pollen Dabbers!
The Central Iowa Daylily Society will be hosting Pollen Dabbers 2025 at Marshalltown Community College on March 28-29. Please click here for the meeting agenda, fillable registration form, and accomodation possibilities. If you have any questions, please contact Phil Fass.

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March 2025 CVIDS Club Meeting
Our March meeting took place on March 8 at the Coralville Public Library. Following the social time and potluck, Diane Derganz & Nancy Carlisle gave presentations on the “Stout Silver Medal Award for Daylilies & Dykes Award for Iris – History and How They're Chosen". Jackie Westhoff then talked about “Iris pests and prevention”, focusing on how to recognize and deal with the iris borer. The afternoon concluded with a business meeting (for agenda, click here) including a roll call in which members shared the number of Stout Award winners growing in their gardens. Meeting minutes will be posted when they become available. Many thanks to Diane, Nancy Carlisle and Jackie for their presentations! Heather will be giving a program at the Muscatine Art of Gardening event on March 15. She could also use some volunteers to help man the table. If interested, please contact her.
Here is the March 2025 CVIDS Newsletter!
Many thanks to Nancy Rash and Lyle Moen for the March Newsletter and to Nancy Carlisle for providing some interesting facts on irises.
The February 2025 CVIDS Newsletter is now Available!
Our Newsletter Editors Nancy Rash and Lyle Moen have created for us the February 2025 edition. Enjoy! Thank you, Nancy and Lyle!
February 2025 CVIDS Club Meeting
Our February 8th club meeting was scheduled to take place at the Johnson County Extension Office in Iowa City but had to be canceled due to inclement weather. Sherry Moffit's program, "Photographing Daylilies - Tips for Amateurs", will be presented at our April meeting. Revisit the Bulletin Board for updates!
Looking for our 2025 Team of Volunteers
As you well know, many volunteers are required each year to successfully carry out all our club activities. At the January meeting, our President Diane Derganz passed around sign-up sheets and urged everyone to sign up for one or more committees to help with whatever jobs need to be done. The table below indicates how far we have come in establishing our 2025 team of volunteers. Please support the club by lending your talents throughout the year. Please contact Diane by email or phone with your offer of help! As the saying goes: "Many hands make light work".
Role |
Volunteer(s) |
Vice President |
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Nominating Committee |
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May Plant Sale |
Nancy Carlisle |
Programs |
Nancy Carlisle, Barb Papenhausen |
Club Plants (Daylily) |
Sue Kramer, Colleen Hansen, Barb Papenhausen |
Club Plants (Iris) |
Diann Pavelka, Jackie Westhoff, Karmin Mullins |
Membership & Directory Update |
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Hospitality |
Nancy Rash |
Member Support |
Linda Jones |
Newsletter |
Nancy Rash, Lyle Moen |
August Plant Sale |
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Banquet |
Nancy Rash, Lyle Moen, Sherry & Lynn Moffit |
Photo Contest |
Peggy Daniels |
Photography |
Lyle Moen, Keith Riewerts |
Silent Auction |
Sara Hankemeier, Diane Derganz, Rex & Judy Raub, Dick & Jo Palmer |
Special Events |
Nancy Carlisle, Jackie Westhoff, Diann Pavelka, Heather Harroun |
IT |
Jonathan (website) Diann Pavelka (Facebook), Nancy Carlisle & Eli Hansen (Zoom) |
Auctioneer & Clerk |
Darrin & Shelly Lett |
January 2025 CVIDS Club Meeting
Our first meeting of the new year took place on Saturday, January 11th, at the Eldridge Public Library. After the social time and potluck lunch, the meeting began with two presentations by club members. Barb Papenhausen spoke about "Favorite Play Things for New Futures". Heather's presentation was titled: "Take a Walk on the Wild Side – A Trip Through the World of Spider, Unusual Form, and Sculpted Daylilies". A business meeting followed. Thank you to Nancy Carlisle and Eli Hansen for providing a Zoom link for folks unable to attend in person. You can access the meeting agenda as well as the November 2024 meeting minutes below. The proposed 2025 budget can be found in Diane Derganz's January 5th email.
A big Thank You to Barb and Heather for making their presentations available here for all to see and to Cari for taking the minutes!
The First CVIDS Newsletter of the Year!
Many thanks to Lyle Moen and Nancy Rash for creating the January 2025 CVIDS Newsletter.
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