Hi Mary,
lovemyhouse said, "From what I understand of the Daylily meetings, all you have to do is show up and someone will start talking to YOU and then someone else will and then you start to feel more comfortable and then, away we go..." She is right. The meetings are structured with a program and some business to be conducted. There will be a short refreshment break. If you come to next Saturday's NWGDS meeting in Cartersville, you will learn about how to grow daylilies. This small club added 12 new members in 2011 with most of these being master gardeners and new to daylilies. We are still getting to know each other with so many new members. We will be structuring some of our programs to them. You may find this helpful. If you come to the Cobb County meeting which is Feb. 12, you will be laughing a lot. The speakers are Don and Nancy Eller, hybridizers from S. Ga.
http://donellerdaylilies.com/b... Don is a HOOT! He chooses names for his daylilies that have "duck" or duck related words in the name (Duck's Dark Side, Wise Quaker, etc.) because his nickname in school was "Duck". The founders of the Cobb County club are Bill and Diana Waldrop of Kennesaw Mountain Daylily Garden.
http://kennesawmountaindaylily... Bill was a lawyer and loves to talk. We get tickled at him because his wife has to tell him to quit talking. We went to our first CCDS meeting a few years ago when hybridizer Larry Grace was speaking. We were very impressed with how friendly everyone was. We have made lots of new daylily friends there. Each club has meetings to promote fun and fellowship. Both clubs have added reward/incentive programs to give points to members for attending meetings and doing anything that helps the club. These points can later be redeemed for daylilies! There is so much that I can tell you but hope you will come to both meetings to see how it all works and how you like it. If you have time to meet for lunch one day, I can probably work that into my schedule and meet you somewhere in Canton.
I used to be shy, even though I was a high school teacher for 10 years. I was comfortable in front of a classroom of students. I still consider myself to be an introvert by nature but have outgrown my shyness. Sometimes I need to keep my mouth shut when I say more than I should. The NWGDS was our first daylily club. We did not get very involved for the first couple of years, just attending the meetings and helping with the daylily shows. Since then, we have taken more active rolls with each of us being an officer. I am the treasurer and David is the secretary. We go to lots of Region 5 meetings (Ga. is Region 5 of the AHS) and bring back new ideas for the club to try. We have seen the club grow and members having more fun. Can you tell that we like to have fun at these meetings? If it is not fun and people do not feel welcome, who is going to come back? I did not tell you about getting free daylilies and being able to buy really nice daylilies for great prices!
Also, both clubs share members who are also from Cherokee County. Two live around Buffington/Macedonia and a couple more live between Cartersville and Canton.
Doris
