If the date is
RED, you missed your
chance. If it's GREEN
there's probably still time to
mark your calendars and plan to attend!
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Sunday,
March
2,
2008 -
Refreshments & Socializing
at 1:30 PM, Program begins at 2:00 PM,
Community Room, Marlboro Free Library, 1251 Route 9W, Marlboro, NY
12542
"Garden thriving despite draught and or dry winters -
Xeriscape Gardening" - by Guest Speakers, Lilly Norton
and Judy Lawrence - Beautify your yard and conserve our water resources
through xeriscaping and the use of waterwise plants
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Sunday,
April 6
,
2008
- Refreshments & Socializing at 1:30 PM, Program begins at 2:00 PM,
Community Room, Poughkeepsie
Galleria, 2001 South Road, Poughkeepsie, NY
"Iris Hybridizing Iris through the Seasons" - by Guest Speaker,
noted Iris Hybridizer and Photographer,
Terry Aitken of
Aitken's Salmon Creek Gardens
- Photo of Gardens during
2006 AIS Convention
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Sunday,
May 4
,
2008
-
Refreshments & Socializing at 1:30 PM, Program begins at 2:00 PM,
Community Room, Marlboro Free Library, 1251 Route 9W, Marlboro, NY
12542
"
Ikebana, the art of flower arranging" -
by
Guest Speaker, Mary Ann Robinowitz, a professor of Ikebana. Mary Ann has
been taking classes in Ikebana for 20 years and also teaches. She will
give a demonstration as well as
lecture.
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Saturday,
May 24, 2008
-
9:00 AM
- 2:30 PM,
Open Members' Gardens during Peak
Iris Season - Times overlap, so you can set your own
pace. There will be light refreshments at the gardens.
Open Gardens
- Thanks to Noel Montgomery, Perla & Chuck Kaufman, Howie Dash & Lilly
Rawlyk and Sondra Tillou & Phil Volpe for
opening their gardens this year.
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Sunday,
May 25, 2008
-
1:00 PM -
5:00 PM,
Center Court, Poughkeepsie
Galleria, 2001 South Road, Poughkeepsie, NY
12th Annual AIS Affiliated
Judged Iris Show and
Public Exhibition
Complete Show Schedule and Official
Rules in Adobe Acrobat PDF File
Haven't you been coming to view the
competition long enough? Why not enter this year? Howie & Lilly Dash will be there to
give advice to first time entrants. Come & enjoy the fun!
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Sunday,
July 13, 2008
-
1:00 PM
- 5:00 PM,
Center Court, Poughkeepsie
Galleria, 2001 South Road, Poughkeepsie, NY
8th Annual Daylily Show &
Public Exhibition
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Saturday, August 2, 2008
- 10:00 AM
- 5:00 PM
-
Adams Fairacre Farm, Route 44, Poughkeepsie
Iris
Rhizome and Daylily Fan Sale
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Saturday,
August
9
and Sunday, August
10,
2008
- 10:00 AM
- 5:00 PM,
Center Court, Poughkeepsie
Galleria, South Road, Poughkeepsie, NY
Eleventh Annual - Two Day - Iris Rhizome and Daylily Fan Sale
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Sunday,
September
7,
2008
-
Refreshments & Socializing at1:30 PM,
Program begins at 2:00 PM,
Community Room, Poughkeepsie Galleria, 2001 South Road, Poughkeepsie, NY
"Backyard Hybridizing - Create Your
Own Daylily" - by Guest Speaker, daylily Hybridizer, and former
President of the Connecticut Daylily Society. Rich grows over 1000
varieties of daylilys on his 2 acre garden and is currently evaluating some of
his own creations for commercial
intoduction.
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Sunday, October 5,
2008 -
Refreshments & Socializing at 1:30 PM, Program begins at 2:00 PM,
Community Room, Marlboro Free Library, 1251 Route 9W, Marlboro, NY
12542
"Uncommon
Spring Blooming Bulbs" - by Guest Speakers, James Thomas and Samantha
Geiler, Master Gardeners with the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Orange
County. Their talk will be on spring blooming bulbs that are NOT tulips
or daffodils.
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Sunday,
November 2,
2008
-
Refreshments & Socializing at 1:30 PM, Program begins at 2:00 PM,
Community Room, Marlboro Free
Library, 1251 Route 9W, Marlboro, NY
12542
"Siberian Hybridizing" -
by Guest Speaker, noted Siberian Iris Hybridizers, Marty Schaefer and Jan Sacks
of Joe Pye Weed Garden in Carlisle, Massachusetts. Several of Marty and
Jan's introductions have won the Morgan-Wood Medal, which is the top honor for a
Siberian Iris. Marty and Jan have honored our own past President, Jerry
Murphy, by naming one of their 2008 introductions for him.
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Sunday,
December 7
,
2008
- 1:30
PM , Members’ Yearend
Holiday
Luncheon. Cafe Maya -
East Fishkill
.
Please contact
our Secretary, Perla Kaufman, for reservations and details at 845-463-2838, or
by e-mail at brandaliz5@optonline.net
. You must reserve by November 22,
2008.
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Last
Updated: 12-Feb-09