2019 Events Calendar
JANUARY 19 - 11:30 AM LUNCHEON MEETING AT HEATHER DOWNS COUNTRY CLUB
MANDY McMAHON, Silver Creek Daylilies Hamilton, MI
PROGRAM: “HYBRIDIZING AWARD WINNING DAYLILIES” Mandy has been hybridizing daylilies for 18 years and loves every part of it! Each January she starts about 2,000-3,000 seeds with the hopes of finding just the perfect seedling with that special "something" to introduce! She concentrates on bagel form daylilies with lots of ruffles and "extra" stuff. She just can’t get enough of watermarks - they are her favorite! The last couple of years have been exciting as in 2016 Mandy’s seedling won the Englerth Award for Region 2, and in 2017 West Michigan hosted the AHS Region 2 Summer meeting and their garden was on tour for that. Lots to look forward to!!
FEBRUARY 9 - 1 PM Toledo Botanical Garden Conference Center
DR. LAURA DEETER aka “THE GARDEN HOE” Ph.D. Professor and Coordinator, Landscape Horticulture and Horticultural Science, Ohio State University Agricultural Technical Institute, Wooster, OH
PROGRAM: “LANDSCAPE DESIGN IDEAS FOR HOSTAS AND DAYLILIES” A popular educator experienced in many subjects. Laura is a very dynamic speaker and presenter who has visited us several times in the past.
MARCH 9 - 1 PM Toledo Botanical Garden Conference Center
CLARENCE (C.H.) FALSTAD-WALTERS GARDEN, ZEELAND, MI
PROGRAM: “HOSTA FLOWERS-THE CROWNING GLORY OF HOSTAS” C.H. graduated with a Bachelor's of Science in Ornamental Horticulture from the University of Illinois. For almost 30 years he has worked as Laboratory Director at the Walters Gardens tissue culture lab operations with other periods of hybridizing work along with intellectual property activities - patents, trademarks and licensing of plants developed at Walters Gardens. He enjoys hybridizing hostas and numerous other plants, constantly seeking improvement. He served as President and Vice President of both the AHS and the Michigan Hosta Society, American Hosta Society Scientific Chair and is a frequent author for the Hosta Journal.
APRIL 27 - 1 PM Toledo Botanical Garden Conference Center and Hosta AM Workday
PROGRAM: Hosta Workday, 9 AM – 12 Noon in the Shade Garden. Meeting begins at 1 PM to discuss Perennial Plant Sale, Tissue Culture Program, and our 14th AHS Accredited Hosta Show. This is the meeting for members who need tags for our May perennial plant sale or have questions about the sale to get information from Betty Moore and Charlene Patz, Plant Sale Committee Co-chairs. Phil Parson, Chairman, will be discussing our tissue culture program and distribute this year’s tissue culture plant to eligible members.
MAY 18 - 8 AM TO 1 PM Churchill’s Supermarket Parking Lot, Perrysburg, OH PERENNIAL PLANT SALE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC at Churchill’s Parking Lot, 26625 N. Dixie Highway, Perrysburg, OH
JUNE 23 14th ANNUAL Accredited AHS HOSTA SHOW – "RIVERS OF LEAVES "
SARAH DaPRA, CHAIRMAN
TOLEDO BOTANICAL GARDEN CONFERENCE CENTER OPEN FOR PUBLIC VIEWING 1 – 4 PM
AUGUST 17 - Toledo Botanical Garden Daylily Walk Workday and Daylily Auction From 9 am – noon, members of Black Swamp dig up, divide, and replant daylilies that are in Toledo Botanical Garden’s Daylily Walk. This is a great opportunity to learn about varieties of daylilies, the different awards, how to divide and grow them properly. Park in the Bancroft Street entrance parking lot. At 12:30 PM behind the Conference Center, we will hold our annual Daylily Auction and Host Program. This is the time to purchase expensive daylilies at reasonable prices. Also, if you’ve been a member for two (2) or more years, you can take home a plant to baby-sit for two years, keeping one fan and returning the rest to the club for the auction.
SEPTEMBER 21 - 1 PM Toledo Botanical Garden Conference Center
PROGRAM: Members Roundtable with Moderator, John Krukemyer, Agronomist Mid-Wood Pro, Bowling Green, OH John has been with Mid-Wood for 43 years- the last 38 years as the store manager. Has attended numerous seminars, trainings and other meetings on Lawn & Garden in General. Currently teaching Lawn Care & Maintenance for the Wood County Master Gardeners. If John doesn’t know the answer, rest assured he will find you the answer or refer you to someone that can help you.
OCTOBER 12 - 1 PM Toledo Botanical Garden Conference Center
TERESA BYINGTON, President-INDIANAPOLIS ROSE SOCIETY, American Rose Society’s Editor “ROSES & YOU”
PROGRAM: “NEW ROSES FOR TODAY'S GARDEN” The Knock Out Rose was released in 2000, changing the world of roses forever. We now have so many options when it comes to sustainable easy care roses. Teresa tests many of the new varieties in her garden and will share her experiences and recommendations.
NOVEMBER 9 - Noon Toledo Botanical Garden Conference Center BLACK SWAMP SOCIETY YEAR-END POTLUCK - Just bring a side dish to share. Everything else provided.
MANDY McMAHON, Silver Creek Daylilies Hamilton, MI
PROGRAM: “HYBRIDIZING AWARD WINNING DAYLILIES” Mandy has been hybridizing daylilies for 18 years and loves every part of it! Each January she starts about 2,000-3,000 seeds with the hopes of finding just the perfect seedling with that special "something" to introduce! She concentrates on bagel form daylilies with lots of ruffles and "extra" stuff. She just can’t get enough of watermarks - they are her favorite! The last couple of years have been exciting as in 2016 Mandy’s seedling won the Englerth Award for Region 2, and in 2017 West Michigan hosted the AHS Region 2 Summer meeting and their garden was on tour for that. Lots to look forward to!!
FEBRUARY 9 - 1 PM Toledo Botanical Garden Conference Center
DR. LAURA DEETER aka “THE GARDEN HOE” Ph.D. Professor and Coordinator, Landscape Horticulture and Horticultural Science, Ohio State University Agricultural Technical Institute, Wooster, OH
PROGRAM: “LANDSCAPE DESIGN IDEAS FOR HOSTAS AND DAYLILIES” A popular educator experienced in many subjects. Laura is a very dynamic speaker and presenter who has visited us several times in the past.
MARCH 9 - 1 PM Toledo Botanical Garden Conference Center
CLARENCE (C.H.) FALSTAD-WALTERS GARDEN, ZEELAND, MI
PROGRAM: “HOSTA FLOWERS-THE CROWNING GLORY OF HOSTAS” C.H. graduated with a Bachelor's of Science in Ornamental Horticulture from the University of Illinois. For almost 30 years he has worked as Laboratory Director at the Walters Gardens tissue culture lab operations with other periods of hybridizing work along with intellectual property activities - patents, trademarks and licensing of plants developed at Walters Gardens. He enjoys hybridizing hostas and numerous other plants, constantly seeking improvement. He served as President and Vice President of both the AHS and the Michigan Hosta Society, American Hosta Society Scientific Chair and is a frequent author for the Hosta Journal.
APRIL 27 - 1 PM Toledo Botanical Garden Conference Center and Hosta AM Workday
PROGRAM: Hosta Workday, 9 AM – 12 Noon in the Shade Garden. Meeting begins at 1 PM to discuss Perennial Plant Sale, Tissue Culture Program, and our 14th AHS Accredited Hosta Show. This is the meeting for members who need tags for our May perennial plant sale or have questions about the sale to get information from Betty Moore and Charlene Patz, Plant Sale Committee Co-chairs. Phil Parson, Chairman, will be discussing our tissue culture program and distribute this year’s tissue culture plant to eligible members.
MAY 18 - 8 AM TO 1 PM Churchill’s Supermarket Parking Lot, Perrysburg, OH PERENNIAL PLANT SALE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC at Churchill’s Parking Lot, 26625 N. Dixie Highway, Perrysburg, OH
JUNE 23 14th ANNUAL Accredited AHS HOSTA SHOW – "RIVERS OF LEAVES "
SARAH DaPRA, CHAIRMAN
TOLEDO BOTANICAL GARDEN CONFERENCE CENTER OPEN FOR PUBLIC VIEWING 1 – 4 PM
AUGUST 17 - Toledo Botanical Garden Daylily Walk Workday and Daylily Auction From 9 am – noon, members of Black Swamp dig up, divide, and replant daylilies that are in Toledo Botanical Garden’s Daylily Walk. This is a great opportunity to learn about varieties of daylilies, the different awards, how to divide and grow them properly. Park in the Bancroft Street entrance parking lot. At 12:30 PM behind the Conference Center, we will hold our annual Daylily Auction and Host Program. This is the time to purchase expensive daylilies at reasonable prices. Also, if you’ve been a member for two (2) or more years, you can take home a plant to baby-sit for two years, keeping one fan and returning the rest to the club for the auction.
SEPTEMBER 21 - 1 PM Toledo Botanical Garden Conference Center
PROGRAM: Members Roundtable with Moderator, John Krukemyer, Agronomist Mid-Wood Pro, Bowling Green, OH John has been with Mid-Wood for 43 years- the last 38 years as the store manager. Has attended numerous seminars, trainings and other meetings on Lawn & Garden in General. Currently teaching Lawn Care & Maintenance for the Wood County Master Gardeners. If John doesn’t know the answer, rest assured he will find you the answer or refer you to someone that can help you.
OCTOBER 12 - 1 PM Toledo Botanical Garden Conference Center
TERESA BYINGTON, President-INDIANAPOLIS ROSE SOCIETY, American Rose Society’s Editor “ROSES & YOU”
PROGRAM: “NEW ROSES FOR TODAY'S GARDEN” The Knock Out Rose was released in 2000, changing the world of roses forever. We now have so many options when it comes to sustainable easy care roses. Teresa tests many of the new varieties in her garden and will share her experiences and recommendations.
NOVEMBER 9 - Noon Toledo Botanical Garden Conference Center BLACK SWAMP SOCIETY YEAR-END POTLUCK - Just bring a side dish to share. Everything else provided.
2018 Events calendar
JANUARY 27, 2018 – 11:30 AM LUNCHEON MEETING AT HEATHERDOWN COUNTRY CLUB
TOPIC: DOUG BEILSTEIN, National Known Hosta Hybridizer and Co-Owner of HostaWorks, Mansfield, OH Presentation titled “REDS-THEY’RE COMING”. Beilstein first noticed hostas more than eighteen years ago. Since then, he has developed a keen interest and appreciation for the “friendship plant”. This interest led him to invest in thousands of hostas and, more recently, to devote his efforts to hybridizing them. In 2003, Doug and Mardy Beilstein started HostaWorks in order to share the fruits of their labors with other hosta enthusiasts. Their website, www.hostaworks.com, opened for business in Fall 2007. To date, Doug has registered 69 hostas with the American Hosta Society.
FEBRUARY 10, 2018 - 1 PM Toledo Botanical Garden Conference Center
TOPIC: DON RAWSON, Grand Rapids, MI Presentation titled “TOP PERFORMERS IN THE RAWSON GARDEN” This PowerPoint will walk you through the Rawson garden beginning in early spring and show you photos of the most outstanding hostas and perennials in their gardens. You will certainly find some to add to your own personal wish list!
MARCH 10, 2018 - 1 PM Toledo Botanical Garden Conference Center
TOPIC: GINNY PEARCE-GARDEN PATH PERENNIALS, GRAND RAPIDS, MI
Presentation titled “HYBRIDIZING ON A SHOESTRING AND A POSTAGE STAMP”
Ginny has been a gardener all her life. Not having the funds to purchase the daylilies she yearned for in sellers' catalogs, she decided to apply her horticultural education to create her own pretty faces. Fast forward through 21 years of hybridizing, she now has 24 daylily introductions with a few more coming for 2018. She was the 2017 winner of the Region 2 Englerth Award for Hybridizing Excellence. Her hybridizing objectives are to create very hardy, robust, and northern reblooming tetraploid daylilies with large flowers of great color, substance, and form displayed as a minimum of 20 buds per well-branched scape. During her program, she will share promising seedlings along with her introductions and easy to replicate method for growing seedlings.
APRIL 28, 2018 1 PM Toledo Botanical Garden Conference Center and Hosta AM Workday
TOPIC: Hosta Workday, 9 AM – 12 Noon in the Shade Garden. Meeting begins at 1 PM to discuss Tissue Culture Program, Plant Sale & Daylily Expo. This is a very busy and important meeting for those members who want to learn about the tissue culture plant program presented by Phil Parsons, chairman. Those members needing tags for the May plant sale or having questions about what to bring or buy, this is the meeting to get information from Betty Moore and Charlene Patz, Plant Sale Committee Co-chairs. Will also be discussing plans for the July 8th Daylily Expo.
MAY 19, 2018 8 AM TO 1 PM Churchill’s Supermarket Parking Lot, Perrysburg, OH
TOPIC: PLANT SALE at Churchill’s Parking Lot, 26625 N. Dixie Highway, Perrysburg, OH.
SUNDAY, JULY 8 – DAYLILY EXPO 1 – 4 PM TOLEDO BOTANICAL GARDEN CONFERENCE CENTER
AUGUST 18, 2018 Toledo Botanical Garden Daylily Walk Workday and Auction From 9 am – noon, members of Black Swamp dig up, divide, and replant daylilies that are in Toledo Botanical Garden’s Daylily Walk. This is a great opportunity to learn about varieties of daylilies, the different awards, how to divide and grow them properly. You may want to park in the Bancroft parking lot.
At 12:30 PM behind the Conference Center, we have our annual Daylily Auction and Host Program. This is the time to purchase expensive daylilies at reasonable prices. Also, if you’ve been a member for two (2) or more years, you can take home a plant to baby-sit for two years, keeping one fan and returning the rest to the club for the auction.
SEPTEMBER 22, 2018 - 1 PM Metroparks Hall at Wildwood Preserve, 5100 W. Central Avenue, Toledo
SPEAKER: RICHARD NORRIS – ASHWOOD GARDEN, GLOUSTER, OH
Presentation titled “MOVING FORWARD AT ASHWOOD” Richard’s presentation is titled “MOVING FORWARD AT ASHWOOD” and will tell us about several new and/or improved forms of daylily blooms that Richard is working on in his hybridization program.
OCTOBER 13, 2018 - 1 PM Toledo Botanical Garden Conference Center
TOPIC: DOUG CONLEY, Horticultural Services Supervisor, Toledo Botanical Garden Presentation titled “BEAUTY BY DESIGN: THE FORD HOUSE COLLABORATION” Hear how Edsel and Eleanor Ford collaborated with Jens Jensen (Landscape Architect) and Albert Kahn (Architect) to design their family home. Particular emphasis is on how Jensen designed the landscape for different experiences.
NOVEMBER 10, 2018 - Noon Toledo Botanical Garden Conference Center
TOPIC: Black Swamp Society Year-End Potluck at Noon. Just bring a side dish to share. Everything else provided.
TOPIC: DOUG BEILSTEIN, National Known Hosta Hybridizer and Co-Owner of HostaWorks, Mansfield, OH Presentation titled “REDS-THEY’RE COMING”. Beilstein first noticed hostas more than eighteen years ago. Since then, he has developed a keen interest and appreciation for the “friendship plant”. This interest led him to invest in thousands of hostas and, more recently, to devote his efforts to hybridizing them. In 2003, Doug and Mardy Beilstein started HostaWorks in order to share the fruits of their labors with other hosta enthusiasts. Their website, www.hostaworks.com, opened for business in Fall 2007. To date, Doug has registered 69 hostas with the American Hosta Society.
FEBRUARY 10, 2018 - 1 PM Toledo Botanical Garden Conference Center
TOPIC: DON RAWSON, Grand Rapids, MI Presentation titled “TOP PERFORMERS IN THE RAWSON GARDEN” This PowerPoint will walk you through the Rawson garden beginning in early spring and show you photos of the most outstanding hostas and perennials in their gardens. You will certainly find some to add to your own personal wish list!
MARCH 10, 2018 - 1 PM Toledo Botanical Garden Conference Center
TOPIC: GINNY PEARCE-GARDEN PATH PERENNIALS, GRAND RAPIDS, MI
Presentation titled “HYBRIDIZING ON A SHOESTRING AND A POSTAGE STAMP”
Ginny has been a gardener all her life. Not having the funds to purchase the daylilies she yearned for in sellers' catalogs, she decided to apply her horticultural education to create her own pretty faces. Fast forward through 21 years of hybridizing, she now has 24 daylily introductions with a few more coming for 2018. She was the 2017 winner of the Region 2 Englerth Award for Hybridizing Excellence. Her hybridizing objectives are to create very hardy, robust, and northern reblooming tetraploid daylilies with large flowers of great color, substance, and form displayed as a minimum of 20 buds per well-branched scape. During her program, she will share promising seedlings along with her introductions and easy to replicate method for growing seedlings.
APRIL 28, 2018 1 PM Toledo Botanical Garden Conference Center and Hosta AM Workday
TOPIC: Hosta Workday, 9 AM – 12 Noon in the Shade Garden. Meeting begins at 1 PM to discuss Tissue Culture Program, Plant Sale & Daylily Expo. This is a very busy and important meeting for those members who want to learn about the tissue culture plant program presented by Phil Parsons, chairman. Those members needing tags for the May plant sale or having questions about what to bring or buy, this is the meeting to get information from Betty Moore and Charlene Patz, Plant Sale Committee Co-chairs. Will also be discussing plans for the July 8th Daylily Expo.
MAY 19, 2018 8 AM TO 1 PM Churchill’s Supermarket Parking Lot, Perrysburg, OH
TOPIC: PLANT SALE at Churchill’s Parking Lot, 26625 N. Dixie Highway, Perrysburg, OH.
SUNDAY, JULY 8 – DAYLILY EXPO 1 – 4 PM TOLEDO BOTANICAL GARDEN CONFERENCE CENTER
AUGUST 18, 2018 Toledo Botanical Garden Daylily Walk Workday and Auction From 9 am – noon, members of Black Swamp dig up, divide, and replant daylilies that are in Toledo Botanical Garden’s Daylily Walk. This is a great opportunity to learn about varieties of daylilies, the different awards, how to divide and grow them properly. You may want to park in the Bancroft parking lot.
At 12:30 PM behind the Conference Center, we have our annual Daylily Auction and Host Program. This is the time to purchase expensive daylilies at reasonable prices. Also, if you’ve been a member for two (2) or more years, you can take home a plant to baby-sit for two years, keeping one fan and returning the rest to the club for the auction.
SEPTEMBER 22, 2018 - 1 PM Metroparks Hall at Wildwood Preserve, 5100 W. Central Avenue, Toledo
SPEAKER: RICHARD NORRIS – ASHWOOD GARDEN, GLOUSTER, OH
Presentation titled “MOVING FORWARD AT ASHWOOD” Richard’s presentation is titled “MOVING FORWARD AT ASHWOOD” and will tell us about several new and/or improved forms of daylily blooms that Richard is working on in his hybridization program.
OCTOBER 13, 2018 - 1 PM Toledo Botanical Garden Conference Center
TOPIC: DOUG CONLEY, Horticultural Services Supervisor, Toledo Botanical Garden Presentation titled “BEAUTY BY DESIGN: THE FORD HOUSE COLLABORATION” Hear how Edsel and Eleanor Ford collaborated with Jens Jensen (Landscape Architect) and Albert Kahn (Architect) to design their family home. Particular emphasis is on how Jensen designed the landscape for different experiences.
NOVEMBER 10, 2018 - Noon Toledo Botanical Garden Conference Center
TOPIC: Black Swamp Society Year-End Potluck at Noon. Just bring a side dish to share. Everything else provided.
| 2018_black_swamp_schedule_with_meeting_info_1.5.2018.pdf |
