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Contact and Membership |
Bay Area Daylily Buds Activities for 2010
Click HERE for the latest issue of the B.A.D. BUDS Newsletter
Everyone is welcome to attend B.A.D. Buds’activities. No admission fee is charged. February 6, 1:00 pm March 19, 6:00 pm-8:00 pm & March 20, 1:00 pm-4:00 pm April 9 , 6:00 pm April 10, 8:30 am-11:30 am May 6, 6:00 pm July July August 14, 3:00 pm - 7:00 pm September 8, 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm September 10, 3:30 pm September 11, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Click HERE for images of a few of the cultivars offered at the 2010 fall sale November 13, 12:00 pm
Bad Bud Activities in a 'nutshell'.
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Member winter slide program (February meeting): Club members present slides of their gardens or ones that they have visited.
Speaker programs (April and November meetings and sometimes the February meeting): Hybridizers, growers, gardeners, travelers, and specialists. 
Ask the Experts Round Table (April): Members pose questions about the growing the hybridizing of daylilies to a regional hybridizer plus one or two club members who are also experienced daylily growers and hybridizers. 
Annual Club Plant Auction (May Meeting): Come early and look over the many possibilities. Opportunities to obtain daylilies at nearly 50% off.
Annual Club Adopt-a-Daylily Program (May Meeting): New cultivars are purchased by the club yearly and raffled to members. These plants are grown in member gardens for two to three years and then divided. The club member keeps a double fan and the excess is either sold at the annual auction or planted in the Green Bay Botanical Garden/B. A. D. Buds display beds.
Annual Club Garden Walk (July): Visitation to members’ home gardens. 
Club Daylily Hybridizing Workshop (July): A hand’s-on, in-the-garden introduction to the basics of hybridizing daylily cultivars.
Annual Club Garden Party (August): Members visit gardens of and enjoy a potluck picnic hosted by a club member.
Annual Club Daylily Plant Sale (September): Hundreds of cultivars from members' gardens and GBBG/B.A.D. Buds display beds.
Club Annual Banquet and Business Meeting (November): A banquet followed by the election of the Board of Directors and planning for the coming year’s activities followed by a featured speaker.