Welcome to the Buffalo Area Daylily Society web site

BADS is hosting the 2009 Region 4 Regional Meeting. For more details, please see the 2009 Regional page.

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Welcome to our daylily club...

Founded to educate gardeners in the Western New York Area on the
beauty, culture, and usefulness of Daylilies in the garden.

















Buffalo maybe most recognized for its perceived reputation for snow and cold, it can get cold and we
can have some snow but we also have fabulous daylily gardens and warm and generous club members.
Speaking of snow we were founded on a cold January evening in 1995 by a few enthusiasts who
enamored with the beauty and hardiness of the daylily came together to form the Buffalo Area Daylily
Society. Our mission that we chose to accept was to promote and educate the general gardening public
about the fine qualities and diversity of this wonderful perennial.

We have grown significantly over the past decade and have hosted one Regional and are planning
another one, with garden tours as well as help organized other daylily clubs, most significant among them the
Ontario Daylily Society. Together we founded the original Canadian American Daylily Muster that has
grown to become one of the best annual symposiums in North America.

Our goal is to bring to our members the best in plant material through our acquisition program as
well as educational opportunities by way of noted hybridizers and daylily notables at our meetings and events.
So please join in the hospitality and make some new garden friends with the BADS folk and learn more
about daylilies.

Linda Bennett
President
Buffalo Area Daylily Society


 2009 Club Schedule

December 7, 2008
2 pm to 5 pm, Cookie Exchange Meeting
East Aurora Senior Center

March 22, 2009 (New Date)
Souper Bowl
Guest Speaker - Curt Hanson
Crintonic Gardens
http://crintonicgardens.net/

April 24-25, 2009
Reg. 4 Can-Am Classic
Mississauga, Ontario

May 20-24, 2009
AHS National Convention
Lake Mary, Florida

May 17, 2009
Spring Meeting & Plant Sale
Tour Garden Presentation
Get a sneak peek of the gardens on tour for the Regional Meeting

East Aurora Senior Center

July 17 - 18, 2009
Region 4 Meeting
Buffalo, NY

August 1, 2009
Picnic Meeting, BADS Bux market,
Holland, NY

August 22, 2009
Public Sale, VFW Post
West Seneca

September 5, 2009
President's Cross-Pollination Pot Luck
Boston, NY

October 2, 2009
BADS Banquet.
Fairdale Banquet Facility
Speakers:
Rod Kroemer and Jim Wuersch
5 Acre Farm- The Legacy of Ron Valente


Club Officers

PRESIDENT
Linda Bennett 

 VICE PRESIDENT
Dick Derr

SECRETARY
Barbara Whitney

TREASURER
Dolores Galbo

LIBRARIAN
Marge Jasinski

MEMBER REPRESENTATIVES:
Kevin Bennett
Paula Burkard
Mary Beth Wagner

Editor - The BADS News
Kathy Guest Shadrack

Webmaster
Pam Hoffman

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