2025 Club Plant Distribution & Live Auction
Coming up soon is one of the most exciting dates on our club calendar, the Club Plant Distribution & Live Auction. It will take place on Saturday, May 17th, at the Floral Hall of the Muscatine County Fairgrounds (101 N. Clay St., West Liberty). Set-up time is 8 AM, breakfast at 8:30 AM with the drawing of daylilies and auction of extras to follow. 

There are several aspects to this important day. Let's start with refreshments. Here is a message from our hospitality chair Nancy Rash:

"CVIDS members are asked to please look at the sign-up chart and send your selected food contribution and how you will help.  Diane Derganz and Nancy Rash will coordinate. Please reply to nrash2000@gmail.com or lemflutist@hotmail.com or both!!  Coffee and juice will be provided but you can always bring your own favorite morning beverage.  All members are needed to help with set-up and clean-up afterwards.  Your participation is appreciated!"  

Now let's turn our attention to the plant distribution and auction. First, I'd like to give a big shout-out to Sue Kramer for selecting and ordering this year's daylily club plants. Thank you very much, Sue! There are several additional introductions from Judy Davisson and Sandy Holmes that now bring our total number to 45 cultivars. To access the entire list of plants, please click here. And, with many thanks to Colleen Hansen for her hard work on our behalf, click here for a PowerPoint that she created that shows the beauty of these cultivars and lists their key features.

Here is the list of 2025 qualifiers for daylily and iris club plants. To those members who are eligible for a club plant, if you are not able to attend the distribution, you must assign another member as proxy to choose your daylily.  Please notify our treasurer, Sherry Moffit at smoffit@netins.net , cell phone - 319-331-0784,  of your proxy prior to the event.  If not in attendance and no proxy is provided, no plant will be given out.

Finally, after the drawing, any plants remaining will be auctioned. All members can participate in this auction. These purchased plants are yours to keep and will not be required to be returned in two years.  So even if you're not on the club plant eligible list, you're still able to buy these newly hybridized plants from well-known daylily growers.

Don't forget! Those members who purchased a Curt Hanson plant at the 2024 Fall Banquet must pick up their daylily on that Saturday as well! 

We look forward to seeing you waving your paddle at the meeting!  

Muscatine Plant Sale
Partnering with the Muscatine Master Gardeners and Muscatine Garden Club, CVIDS co-hosted a Plant Sale on Saturday, May 10th, at the Muscatine County Environmental Learning Center Discovery Park in Muscatine. This was an ideal opportunity to purchase established perennials, registered iris and daylilies, houseplants and beautiful annuals on a beautiful sunny morning. Many thanks to Sherry and Lynn Moffit for the following photos.

May 2025 CVIDS Newsletter
Here is our May Newsletter from Nancy and Lyle with several very interesting articles and pictures from our members for you to enjoy. Thank you to all who contributed to this very nice newsletter!

"Photographing Daylilies - Tips for Amateurs"
I am delighted to announce that Sherry Moffit has kindly offered to share with us both her recent PowerPoint and personal notes from her presentation on April 12th. (Webmaster's note: The PowerPoint file is large and may take 15-30 seconds to open up! It's very much worth the wait!). Thank you very much, Sherry! Members who were unable to attend the Wilton meeting, and those who did, will now have the opportunity to better prepare themselves to submit photos to the 2025 Betty Miller Photo Contest in November.

CVIDS' April 2025 Meeting
Our April 2025 meeting took place on Saturday, April 12th, in the Wilton Community Room in Wilton, IA. Sherry Moffit presented on "Photographing Daylilies - Tips for Amateurs". Subsequently, Sue Kramer and Colleen Hansen gave an overview of the 2025 Daylily Club Plants. Here is the final list (April 7th) for the 2025 daylily club plants to be distributed at our May 17th meeting in West Liberty. Members qualifying for the daylily and iris club plants are listed here. The afternoon concluded with a business meeting, during which a second vote was passed, allowing the Bylaws to be amended to read "Article VI, Section 2. To conduct Society business at a meeting, the majority of those in attendance, including those attending meetings via Zoom, will constitute a quorum". Click here for the agenda. The minutes will be posted as soon as they become available.

We're Still Looking for Volunteers
As the saying goes: "Many hands make light work". Club President Diane Derganz has kindly provided an updated list of committees with members who have signed up or continue to participate.  There are still openings on several committees, and we encourage all members to be on a committee.   So, if you don't see your name on this sheet, please contact her or any officer to get you signed up.  Many times, being on a committee might only result in having a one-time commitment for a particular event.  Please support our club by joining a committee!

April 2025 CVIDS Newsletter
Can you believe it? We've reached the end of the first quarter of 2025 already! Spring is just around the corner, and with it comes the April 2025 CVIDS Newsletter, thanks to co-editors Lyle Moen and Nancy Rash. Grab yourself a cup of your favorite beverage and enjoy the many interesting articles in this month's edition!

March 2025 CVIDS Club Meeting
Our March meeting took place on March 8 at the Coralville Public Library. Nineteen members were present in-person, and eight members attended via Zoom. 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. Having 38 in their garden, Sue and Dave Kramer were declared the Stout contest winners. As a prize, they will get their choice of a 2nd club plant after all are distributed and before the auction begins. They will not have to bring it back. Meeting minutes can be accessed here. Thank you, Cari! The minutes will require approval at the April meeting. Many thanks to Diane, Nancy Carlisle and Jackie for their presentations! Heather will be presenting 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.

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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