Whether you're a member of Black Swamp Hosta and Daylily Society, or a resident of the Toledo area, you're likely busy preparing for our 24th Annual Plant Sale.

Some of us are checking the list of hostas we currently own and making a list of hostas we hope to buy at the sale. Others have decided this year they want to pick up some BIG hostas, minis, multi-shade varieties, or healthy ferns or Astilbes.

Members who are bringing plants are making their tags, looking up prices, and punching holes in their pots to tie the tags on. AND they're wondering if all of the plants they're bringing will fit in the back of their car! (Maybe two trips at 7AM will be necessary.)

This sale is not limited to hostas. It is limited to perennials. So you will find a nice assortments of healthy daylilies, astilbes, ferns, Jack-in-the-Pulpit, etc.

The plants at our sale are all from our members' gardens.

And, finally, please note that half of the proceeds from the sale go to our society to support our work at Toledo Botanical Garden, Perrysburg's 577 Foundation's hosta garden, and Bowling Green's Simpson Garden Park's daylily and hosta beds.

Come and join us!

Just 2 weeks until our sale! Members have promised 1500 hostas, daylilies, and other perennials form their gardens. The show begins at 8AM. Please join us!

We invited you to join our organization, too. It's just $10 per family per year. Ask any BSHDS volunteer during the sale.

Member Eileen Hoffman will once again be selling her botanical note cards with 80% of the sale price going directly to BSHDS.

This garden tour takes place on Sunday, June 23rd, in the Old Orchard neighborhood, just north of the University of Toledo campus.

Click on the button to go to the tour's website.

Black Swamp Hosta and Daylily members and friends will gather at Toledo Botanical Garden this Saturday morning at 9AM. Following a few minutes of socializing, enjoying fresh doughnuts, and getting instructions from TBG staffer Jonathan Milbrodt and team leader Jim Boldt, we'll grab our tools and head to the hosta beds to spruce them up for the season.

We'll end our work session about noon in order to grab lunch and attend the BSHDS meeting in the TBG Conference Center at 1PM.
The public is welcome at our work day AND our meeting.

Perhaps you'll join our organization for the year. Membership is just $10 a year per family!

I came upon an article from Fine Gardening that is quite extensive on tips for dividing perennials. Since my husband and I focus on hostas and daylilies we often divide them. We sell plants at the annual BSHDS Plant Sale in Perrysburg, OH each May and we donated plants to Simpson Garden Park in Bowling Green, OH.
Janet Macunovich is very thorough in these tips, includes photos, and provides video as well.

Click on the button to reach the link. Enjoy!

What's my GDD? I had no idea! I didn't even know what GDD stood for.

So I followed a link and read Amy Stone's informative article. Amy is an Ohio State University Extension Educator, and she explains that GDD stands for growing degree days, which are a measurement of the growth and development of plants and insects during a full year.

Click on the button below to read Amy's article published on April 17, 2019.

4 May 2019, Saturday. Entries accepted 8:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.. Open to the public 12:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.. Hosted by the Central Florida Daylily Society in the Orlando Garden Club, 710 East Rollins Street, Orlando. FL. General Show Chair C J Gregory, cvgregory@mpinet.net. Region 12
11 May 2019, Saturday. Entries accepted 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.. Open to the public 2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.. Presented by The Albany Hemerocallis Society, Inc, in cooperation with The Albany Mall Merchants Association in the Albany Mall, 2601 Dawson Road, Albany, GA. General Show Chair Kaye Fearneyhough, fearneyhough@kkdaylilies.com. Co-Chair, Marlon Brown. Region 5

11 May 2019, Saturday. Entries accepted 8:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.. Open to the public 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.. Presented by the Brazosport Daylily Society in the St. Mark Lutheran Church, 501 Willow Drive, Lake Jackson, TX. General Show Chair Chris Crainer, emcrainer@aol.com. Co-Chair, Joanne Berry. Region 6

11 May 2019, Saturday. Entries accepted 8:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.. Open to the public 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.. Presented by The Houston Area Daylily Society, The Houston Hemerocallis Society and The Cypress Creek Daylily Club in the Gethsemane Lutheran Church, 4040 Watonga Boulevard, Houston, TX. General Show Co-Chairs Leslie Wong, leslie.j.wong@gmail.com, and Hershal Theilen, 713.681.2644. Region 6

11 May 2019, Saturday. Entries accepted 7:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.. Open to the public 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.. Presented by the North Florida Daylily Society in the Courtyard by Marriott, 610 Wells Road, Orange Park, FL. General Show Chair Roy Wensell, RTCritter1@Bellsouth.net. Region 12

18 May 2019, Saturday. Entries accepted 7:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.. Open to the public 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.. Presented by the Lone Star Daylily Society in the Epiphany Lutheran Church, 5515 West Broadway, Pearland, TX. General Show Chair Beki Spearman, fsandbs@att.net. Co-Chair, Sharon Shafer. Region 6

18 May 2019, Saturday. Entries accepted 8:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.. Open to the public 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.. Presented by the Mississippi Gulf Coast Daylily Society in the Edgewater Mall, 2600 Beach Boulevard, Biloxi, MS. General Show Chair Debbie D. Smith, debdahlsmith@hughes.net. Co-Chair, Bonnie Lingel. Region 14

18 May 2019, Saturday. Entries accepted 7:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.. Open to the public 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.. Presented by the Ogeechee Daylily Society's annual Mobile Show in the Maneki Neko Gardens, 658 Edward Smith Road, Ellabell, GA. General Show Chair Scott Elliott, scottelliottdaylilies@yahoo.com. Co-Chair, Kevin McClinton. Region 5

18 May 2019, Saturday. Entries accepted 7:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.. Open to the public 12:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m.. Presented by the Wiregrass Daylily Society in the Dothan Area Botanical Gardens, 5130 Headland Avenue, Dothan, AL. General Show Chair Rita R. Moore, rita@jfmoore.org. Co-Chair, Linda Isley. Region 14

25 May 2019, Saturday. Entries accepted 8:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.. Open to the public 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.. Presented by the Dublin Area Hemerocallis Society in the Dublin Mall, 2005 Veterans Boulevard, Dublin, GA. General Show Chair Roy "Chip" Wood, royjr80@hotmail.com. Co-Chair, Tim Herrington. Region 5

25 May 2019, Saturday. Entries accepted 8:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.. Open to the public 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.. Presented by the Ogeechee Daylily Club in the Old Fellowship Baptist Church, 5526 Highway 80, Brooklet, GA. General Show Chair Kevin McClinton, kevinmcc73@yahoo.com. Co-Chair, Janene Kennedy. Region 5

1 June 2019, Saturday. Entries accepted 7:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.. Open to the public 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.. Presented by the Hattiesburg Daylily Society in the Lake Terrace Convention Center, 1 Convention Center Plaza, Hattiesburg, MS. General Show Chair Jon Tibbetts, jontibb.1.2.3@gmail.com. Co-Chair, Nancy Chain. Region 14

1 June 2019, Saturday. Entries accepted 8:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.. Open to the public 12:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.. Presented by the North Texas Daylily Society in Oak Hall in the Fort Worth Botanical Gardens, 3220 Botanic Boulevard, Fort Worth, TX. General Show Chair Nickie Knight, nicednight@gmail.com. Co-Chair, Ken Long. Region 6

4 June 2019, Tuesday. Entries accepted 8:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.. Open to the public 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.. Presented by the Central Georgia Daylily Club, Inc. in the Baldwin County Recreation Department, Georgia Highway 22, Milledgeville, GA. General Show Chair Jack Brock, jackbecky154@charter.net. Co-Chair, Kay Sheppard. Region 5

8 June 2019, Saturday. Entries accepted 7:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m.. Open to the public 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.. Presented by the Cobb County Daylily Society in the First United Methodist Church of Marietta, 56 Whitlock Avenue, Marietta, GA General Show Chair Donald Bodnar, BodnardDon1@gmail.com. Co-Chair, Gail Knight. Region 5

It's National Volunteer Week and we are proud of our many BSHDS members who spend their time making the world more beautiful.
We are proud of our club leaders and appreciate the time they dedicate to the organization.
We are proud of the folks who get dirty each week helping maintain the National Display Gardens at Toledo Botanical Garden, 577 Foundation, and Simpson Garden Park.
We are proud of the members who assemble each spring for Hosta Work Day at TBG, and then return in late summer to help with Dayllily Work Day. Many hands make the work go faster.
We thank those who run our annual plant sale, our Daylily Expo, and our "River of Leaves" hosta show, and our Tissue Culture Program.
We have wonderful folks who organize potlucks, set up our annual luncheon, and arrange for our informative speakers, bus trips, and members' garden tours.
There are really too many tasks to name!

KUDOS to our generous volunteers!

Bowling Green, OH

Master Gardeners will host their annual Spring Plant Exchange beginning at 10AM on April 27. Visitors are encouraged to bring plants.

BSHDS members, Linda and Rich Nagy, will be manning an informational table for our society at the exchange this year.