2025 Calendar of Events

Saturday, January 11
Set-up: 11 AM
Social time: 11:30 AM
Potluck: Noon
Meeting: 12:30 PM

CVIDS Club Meeting
Speakers: Barb Papenhausen - "Favorite Play Things for New Futures". Heather Harroun - "Take a Walk on the Wild Side – A Trip Through the World of Spider, Unusual Form, and Sculpted Daylilies"

Eldridge Public Library (200 N. 6th Ave., Eldridge, IA)

Saturday, February 8
Set-up: 11 AM
Social time: 11:30 AM
Potluck lunch: Noon
Program: 12:30 PM

CVIDS Club Meeting
Speaker: Sherry Moffit
"Photographing Daylilies-Tips for Amateurs" Meeting postponed due to inclement weather

Johnson County Extension Office, 3109 Old Hwy 218 South, Iowa City

Saturday, March 8
Set-up: 11 AM
Social time: 11:30 AM
Potluck: Noon
Meeting: 12:30 PM

CVIDS Club Meeting:
1) Diane Derganz & Nancy Carlisle: “Stout Silver Medal Award for Daylilies & Dykes Award for Iris – History and How They're Chosen". 2) Jackie Westhoff: “Iris pests and prevention".
3) Stout Medal Contest

Meeting Room A, Coralville Public Library, 1401 5th St, Coralville

Friday & Saturday, March 28-29

Pollen Dabbers 2025 Spring Hybridizers Meeting (organized by CIDS)
Agenda and Fillable Registration Form

Marshalltown Community College, Rooms 612 & 614, 3700 S Center St, Marshalltown, IA 50158

Saturday, April 12
Set-up: 11 AM
Social time: 11:30 AM
Potluck: Noon
Meeting: 12:30 PM

CVIDS Club Meeting:
1) Club Plant Presentation by Sue Kramer
2) "Photographing Daylilies-Tips for Amateurs" by Sherry Moffit

Wilton Community Room, 104 W. 4th St., Wilton, IA  52778

Saturday, May 10
Time: 9 - 11:30 AM

Muscatine Plant Sale

Muscatine County Environmental Learning Center Discovery Park, Pavilion #2, 3300 Cedar Street, Muscatine (please use ELC parking lot)

Saturday, May 17
Set-up time: 8 AM
Breakfast: 8:30 AM
Drawing of daylilies and auction of extras to follow. 

Brief Business Meeting
Club Plant Distribution & Live Auction

Floral Hall of the Muscatine County Fairgrounds (101 N. Clay St., West Liberty)
July 9-10

American Daylily Society National Convention

Seattle, WA

Saturday, July 12
Schedule: TBA
CVIDS Garden Tours

TBA

July 18-20

ADS Region One Summer Meeting
Fargo, ND

Saturday, August 23
Schedule: TBA

Fall Public Plant Sale, Club Plant Return and Iris Sale and Auction

Monticello ISU Extension Expo Center

Saturday, October 11
Set-up: 11 AM
Social time: 11:30 AM
Potluck: Noon
Meeting: 12:30 PM

CVIDS Annual Hybridizers' Roundup

Washington Public Library
115 W. Washington Street
Washington, IA 52353

Saturday, November 8

Fall Banquet
Betty Miller Photo Contest

Radisson Hotel & Conference Center, Coralville
(HWY 80, Exit 242)

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