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Calendar of Events for 2011 |
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| March 27 | Annual Membership Social and Education Meeting Michael L. Heger, along with his wife Jean, owns Ambergate Gardens located near Chaska, MN. Though a foreign language major in college, his love of the outdoors brought him into 15+ years of employment with the University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. Ambergate Gardens was started in 1985 while he was still employed at the Arboretum. In 1988, it became a full time business for Mike and Jean. Ambergate Gardens is a retail mail order/walk-in business devoted entirely to herbaceous perennial flowers. It also offers a line of wholesale containerized perennials to local designers and landscapers. Mike is a past president of the North Star Lily Society and is active in numerous plant societies and trade organizations related to perennial flowers. He has lectured on a wide variety of gardening topics throughout the northern tier of states. Mike is also the author of “Perennials A to Z”, a series of articles that were originally published in Minnesota Horticulturist and coauthor of “Growing Perennials in Cold Climates”. A revised edition of this highly regarded book, written specifically for the colder regions of this country, is being released in Spring of 2011. |
| April 22 | Spring Bulb Sale Wrap/set-up This is a closed society event Time and place to be determined |
| April 23 | Spring Bulb Sale Bachman's Heritage Room 6010 Lyndale Avenue South, Minneapolis 9:00am - Members Only Pre-sale 10:00am - Open to the public until sold out In April we'll be looking forward to warm Spring breezes, thawing ground and the first blossoms of the season. It will also give us time to acquire more color for our Summer landscape. Our Spring bulb sale will have a colorful collection of Asiatic, Trumpet and Interdivisional hybrids like Orienpets, LA hybrids and LO's, AT's and more. We'll also feature a special collection of big-blossomed and heavenly fragrant Oriental lilies. For folks who are looking for a more diminutive lily that would be great in pots or at the front of their garden beds, we'll have beautiful selections of 'Pixie'-sized lilies. Don't miss this sale! Members allowed early access to the sale and a 10% discount. For membership information click on the "Join Us" link. |
| July 8-10 | North Star Lily Show
NSLS LILY SHOW FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC: Come and help us celebrate the season with a visit to our lily show. Members will enter their favorite lilies in competition and you'll be able to see a beautiful variety of lilium color and flower form as individual stems, in artistic arrangements and as the center of interest in photographs. Members will also share their best lily culture advice so bring your questions, your camera and vote for your favorite stems in our Popularity Poll. We'll try to acquire top vote getters for our Fall Lily Bulb Sale in October. Don't miss our favorite Summer gardening event! |
| July 13 - 17 | The 2011 North American Lily Society |
| October 7 | Fall bulb sale wrap/set-up This is a closed society event Time and place to be determined |
| October 8 | Fall Bulb Sale Fall is the optimum time to plant lilies and this sale will offer a special collection of shade-loving martagon lilies along with favorites from our Summer Lily Show Popularity Poll and some of the latest "interdivisional" lilies like Orienpets and LA hybrids and traditional Asiatic and Trumpet favorites. With interest growing in martagon lilies and knowing that they can be a higher investment in garden color we are holding a free educational event on how to protect your lilies. One way is to prevent underground destruction by mice and voles by building little cages for your lily bulbs. Don’t miss this sale! |
| November 5 | NSLS Fall Educational Meeting “Fascinating Developments in Lily Culture” Noon: Business meeting: 1:00pm Educational Presentation Guest speaker: Dr. David C. Zlesak Rondo Community Library 461 N. Dale St., St. Paul (Intersection of University and Dale St.) Parking available under the building. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have re-blooming lilies in our gardens? Did you know that there is research going on at the U of M with just that in mind? Dr. David Zlesak studied the inheritance of this trait for his Ph.D. research within the Flower Breeding and Genetics Laboratory of Dr. Neil Anderson. David will come and share his findings with us on this flowering trait in lilies and its practical application to lily lovers. When he was contacted about speaking, his L. formosanum were in bloom in late August! David's presentation also highlight some of his tissue culture work and will show us some of his lilies from the lab. Dr. David C. Zlesak is an Assistant Professor of Horticulture at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls where he teaches courses including plant propagation, plant tissue culture, nursery management, and woody plant identification. David’s research has primarily focused on the breeding and development of new plant cultivars. Along with his work with lilies, he has been breeding roses since his youth (cultivars include: HoneybeeTM, ‘Catherine Guelda’, ‘September Celebration.’David has also worked on the breeding and development of potatoes, ninebark (Little DevilTM), heliopsis (‘Tuscan Sun’), and ageratum (MonarchTM series). |