Activities
Bad Bud Activities in a 'nutshell'.
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Member winter slide program (January/February meeting): Club members present slides of their gardens or ones that they have visited.
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Speaker programs (March/April and November meetings and sometimes the February meeting): Hybridizers, growers, gardeners, travelers, and specialists.
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Annual Club Plant Auction (May Meeting): Come early and look over the many possibilities. Opportunities to obtain daylilies at nearly 50% off.
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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.
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Annual Club Garden Walk/Bus Trip (July): Visitation to members’ or regional gardens (Nothing planned for 2020)
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Annual Club Chit Chat (July): Fun evening at a member’s home garden.
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Club Daylily Hybridizing Workshop (July): A hand’s-on, in-the-garden introduction to the basics of hybridizing daylily cultivars.
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Annual Club Garden Picnic (August): Members visit gardens of and enjoy a potluck picnic hosted by a club member.
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Annual Club Daylily Plant Sale (September): Hundreds of cultivars from members' gardens and GBBG/B.A.D. Buds display beds.
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Club Annual Luncheon and Business Meeting (November): A luncheon followed by the election of the Board of Directors and planning for the coming year’s activities followed by a featured speaker.
January Meeting
Meeting followed by member presentations of local and regional gardens
Location: Green Bay Botanical Garden Visitor’s Center
CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER
Jan 18th, 2020 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Region 2 Winter Symposium
Come take a break and get your "Late Winter" Daylily fix!
Location: Crowne Plaza Indianapolis Airport, Indianapolis, IN
Feb. 28th, 29th, March 1st, 2020
April Meeting
Meeting followed by presentation by Amanda Kurowski of Beyond the Blooms Gardens.
Visit her Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/beyondtheblooms/
Location: Green Bay Botanical Garden Visitor’s Center
CANCELLED DUE TO THE CURRENT HEALTH CRISIS
April 4th, 2020 12:00 to 4:00 P.M.
May Dig
Weed & feed; clean-up of GBBG Daylily beds; dig for auction
Location: Green Bay Botanical Garden Visitor’s Center
CANCELLED DUE TO THE CURRENT HEALTH CRISIS
May 5th, 2020 3:30 to 6:00 P.M. RAIN DATE: May 6th, 2020
May Auction
The B.A.D. Buds annual Daylily Auction
Brief meeting followed by annual auction and adopt-a-daylily program drawing.
A great opportunity to purchase daylilies at nearly 50% off the asking price.
Location: Green Bay Botanical Garden Visitor Center
CANCELLED DUE TO THE CURRENT HEALTH CRISIS
May 7th 6:00 P.M. until finished
Daylily Society National Convention
Check the convention Website for details
Location: Savannah, GA
CANCELLED DUE TO THE CURRENT HEALTH CRISIS
May 25th-27th, 2020
July Chit Chat
Come and enjoy a leisurely stroll through a member's garden. Please bring chairs.
Location: Bob and Faith Petrick
July 23rd, 2020 6:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M.
Hands on Daylily Hybridizer Workshop
Dream of creating your own special daylily? Come join Jim and Sharon for a hands on daylily hybridizing workshop. You will use their daylilies for the workshop. If your hybridizing efforts are successful, Jim & Sharon will deliver the seeds to you. Contact Jim or Sharon to confirm and for more details.
Location: Jim & Sharon Prochaska's Foxwood Gardens
July 24th, 2020 9:00 A.M. to 11:00 A.M.
Annual Picnic
Come join fellow members for our annual picnic and enjoy the last blooms of the daylily season while strolling a member's garden. Bring a dish to pass and your own chairs.
Location: Terry and Mary Vertz
Aug 1st, 2020 4:00 P.M. to ?
Dig for Annual Sale
Come help dig daylilies from the B.A.D. Buds Daylily Gardens for our 21st Annual Daylily Sale. Earn BAD Bucks to spend at the sale or a future purchasing opportunity.
Location: Green Bay Botanical Gardens Daylily Beds
Sept 9th, 2020 3:30 PM to 6:30 PM. RAIN DATE: Sept 10th,
Annual Sale Bagging
Daylilies dug from the B.A.D. Buds Daylily Gardens and daylilies donated by club members will be bagged for our 21st Annual Daylily Sale. Come join in the fun and earn BAD Bucks to spend at the sale or a future purchasing opportunity.
Location: Larry's Bellevue Gardens
Sept 11th, 2020 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM.
Annual Sale Setup
Come help fellow members set up for our 21st annual sale. Activities include tagging and arranging the daylilies for display. Earn BAD Bucks to spend at the sale or a future purchasing opportunity.
Location: Larry's Bellevue Gardens
Sept 11th, 2020 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM.
Annual Sale
Our 21st annual sale will feature numerous cultivars: miniatures, small-flowered, large-flowered, doubles, spiders and unusual forms. Some are among the most popular in the upper Midwest.
(Larry's will be closed for the season and has graciously offered to host our annual sale)
Location: Larry's Bellevue Gardens
Sept 12th 2020 (Sat.) 9-4 Sept 13th 2020 ,(Sun) 11-3
Annual Luncheon and Business Meeting
Annual luncheon & social starting at 11:00 A.M. Business meeting starting at 12:30. Meeting will be
followed by a presentation by David Robinson of Heavy Petal Daylilies at approximately 1:15 PM
Location: Green Bay Botanical Garden Visitor’s Center
Nov 14th, 2020 11:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M.