Dont' forget REFRESHMENTS! My home club meets on Sat mornings at 10am. I drive about an hour to get there, but it's all back roads (well, it's a state route, but feels like a back road), and I get there early to help set up, so I'm leaving home at 8am on a Saturday on club day. (ugh) It helps a lot knowing there will be home-baked goodies there
Door prizes don't have to just be DLs -- companion plants make great door prizes too. And our club is big enough to have a show each year, and a plant sale with the show. Nothing like DLs for $5-10 each. Add in the points we get for attending meetings, etc, and we have an auction in the fall with those points. Last year I brought home over $300 worth of DLs (I think), and after spending my points on them, I only spent about $80 out of my pocket. I got Black Velvet Baby for FREE.
At our winter meeting in Macon, Paul Owen (I think that's his name -- A Slightly Different Nursery) was the speaker. He said that when he lived in the Poconos, he had to drive
four hours to a DL meeting, because the closest one was in Philly. All I can say to that is UGH.
