Note from the President- This newsletter will be shorter than normal
due to the fact that I have been working on the June 13th, 2015
Michigan Hosta Society Garden Walk
hosted by Eastern Michigan Hosta Society.
A full color Tour booklet complete with directions to each tour site and
a description of each site has been completed and printed. Flyers have also been made with the tour
information on the front and directions on the back. On the flyer there is a QR Code that can be
scanned and will take you to the EMHS blog site which has all the tour
information.
For those of you that receive your newsletter by email you
will find the tour guide and the flyer as attachments to this newsletter. I am sending the tour booklet in an email
format which is not printer friendly, if you want the printer friendly format
please email me and I will send it out to you.
Marlene is making sign-up sheets to have the membership volunteer
to make cookies and work at a site the day of the tour. Please consider making a few dozen cookies
and giving a few hours of your time the day of the tour to help out at one or
more of the tour sites. Help is needed
to make sure refreshments are kept supplied, help direct people at the tour
site, answer questions, etc.
For those members that help out the day of the tour we will
have a private tour of our own on Sunday June 14th, 2015. This tour will start at the Hodgson’s in
Lapeer at 11:00 AM and end at Pace Gardens in Clio. At Pace Gardens we will have a lunch to
celebrate the tour.
Our speaker the May 14th meeting will be Dr.
Stuart Swan. Dr. Swan is a Doctor of Chiropractic Medicine
practicing in Davison, MI. Dr. Swan will
present Gardening Without Pain.
This program should give all of us a few bits of information on how to
prevent injury during the spring clean-up of our gardens.
Since I missed conducting the vote at the last meeting we
will discuss and conduct a vote of the by-law changes at the May 14th
meeting. You will find the changes in
more detail later in this newsletter.
The 2015 EMHS Plant Sale orders will be delivered at the May
14th meeting. Please be
present to pick up your order. If you
will not be at the meeting, please make prior arrangements with Glen.
See you at the May 14th meeting,
Glen Pace
EMHS President
EMHS Annual Plant Sale- Your orders will be delivered at the May 14, 2015 meeting. If you ordered plants, please plan on
attending the meeting or make arrangements with Glen to have somebody else pick
up your order.
Next Meeting- will be held on May 14th,
2015 at the Mayfield Twp. Hall, 1900 N. Saginaw, Lapeer, MI 48446. This is our regular meeting place located
just south of the point of M-24 and N. Saginaw, (the driveway just north of the
Cemetery). The doors will open at 5:00
PM for Networking, Dinner at 6:00 PM, Presentation at 7:00 PM, short break at
8:00, and the Business Meeting at 8:15 PM.
2015 Calendar of Events
May 14- Mayfield Twp. Hall,
Dr. Stuart Swan, Gardening
without Pain
June 11- no meeting, members
will
work Garden Walk on June 13th.
June 13- MHS
Garden Walk hosted by EMHS
June 18/20- AHS
Convention at the
Solberg’s in North Carolina
June 27- MHS Leaf
Show/Sale at MSU
July 09- Member Garden Tour, at
Melva Bond’s in
Bridgeport, MI
August 13- Member Garden Tour at
Dyane Moore’s in Vassar
September 10- Annual Plant Exchange, at
the Martilla’s in
Lapeer
Oct 08- Mayfield Twp. Hall, EMHS/SVHS
Speaker Gene Bush
Nov 12- Annual Board Meeting
December 10- Christmas Party at Mayfield Twp. Hall
Meeting Minutes- please review the April 9th Meeting
Minutes on the blog. We will vote to
accept the minutes at the May 14th, 2015 meeting.
By Laws changes- At the February 12th, 2015
Board Member meeting a decision was made to recommend
two by-laws clarifications (clarifications as these topics are not covered in
the current by-laws) as follows;
Subject - Amount the
President is authorized to spend (in the interest of the club) without board
approval.
Board approved - $500 with
an amendment to by laws be made.
Subject – Amount EMHS
will pay (as a general amount) to a regular speaker.
Board approved - $100
(unless speaker is traveling a distance over 30 miles, then fee will be $125).
This subject will be discussed at the
meeting with a vote ensuing to make the by-law changes.
MHS Garden Walk- EMHS will be hosting the 2015 MHS Garden Walk on June 13th. The sites have been chosen, the
demonstrations for each site decided, and most details worked out.
Information
of the tour has been given to Michigan Gardening Magazine, as well as the
Community Calendars of Channels 12, 5 and 25.
We are in
need of EMHS volunteers to help at each of the sites and to make refreshments
for each of the tour sites. Marlene is
making sign-up sheets to have at the May 14th meeting so you can chose
where to help on tour day.
Name Badges- If you need one of the new EMHS name
badges, please put your printed name
on the sign-up sheet at any meeting or you can email Glen with your
request. Glen will try to have your name
badge at the next meeting.
The
EMHS T-shirts featuring Joseph
Tychonievich's Hosta Addiction self-test are $18.00 each for an EMHS
Member and $20.00 each for a non-member. Sizes available are XXL and
XXXL.
The proceeds from the sale of this shirt go to
promote our “Purpose” which is, to promote the interest of hostas and
shade gardening; to extend horticultural education and activities to its
members and the community.
Comments to the EMHS
blog: I am mentioning blog posting to let you know that your
comments to the blog can be published too. All you have to do is go to
the EMHS blog at http://easternmichiganhostasociety.blogspot.com/ and comment to a blog
posting which will alert me that you have made a comment. Once I deem the
comment valid for publishing I will okay and it will automatically be
posted. Please note that I cannot edit or spell check your comments, all
I can do is to publish, ignore, or delete your comments. All comments
will be screened by me to deter any vulgarity or inappropriate comments being
published to the EMHS blog. Glen
EMHS Business Cards- are still available for members to
take for promoting the club. Ask any Board
Member for details.
Club Members selling Hosta or related products;
Please call or email to set an appointment before visiting
Pickard, Carolyn- Daylilies, Hosta.
Websites of Interest:
American Hosta Society-
American Hosta Society Convention- http://www.americanhostasociety.org/Activities/Conventions.htm
Hosta College Website-
Hosta Society Membership info-
American Hosta Society, $30 individual, $57/2 years, $34 family, $62/2 years
Send dues to: Sandie Markland, AHS Membership Secretary, Post Office Box 7539, Kill Devil Hills, NC 27948
Michigan Hosta Society, Dues are $15 per household for up to two people, good for 2 years. Make checks payable to: The Michigan Hosta Society and send to; Michigan Hosta Society, 2509 Wembly Lane, Troy, MI 48084-1280
Eastern Michigan Hosta Society, Dues $5 per year per household, Make check payable to EMHS and mail to: Barb Hunter, EMHS Treasurer, 316 Davis Lake Rd. Lapeer, MI 48746
Saginaw Valley Hosta Society, Dues $20 per year per household, Make check payable to SVHS and mail to: Marge Greskowiak, SVHS Treasurer, 10025 Lakewood Dr., Saginaw, MI 48609
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