Michigan Dahlia Association

Affiliated with

AMERICAN DAHLIA ASSOCIATION and MID-WEST DAHLIA CONFERENCE

May 2014 Newsletter

Greetings,

Reminder, our Annual Plant Sale is coming soon. Hope you have some plants started for the sale. I also hope your plants are doing better than mine. This cool weather makes for slow growing. Details below come early to help us set up.

2014 Michigan Dahlia Association Calendar of Events

May 17, 2014 – Saturday, 10 am – 2 pm, set up at 9 am

Annual Plant Sale, same date as Dexter Garden Club sale

Dexter Mill, Dexter Michigan. Dexter Garden Club is providing a table for a display for the other garden clubs downtown, this will give us the opportunity to answer questions and direct Dahlia interest to the Dexter Mill. We need volunteers for ½ to 1 hour slots to man the table. Currently plan to have a poster of the Plant Sale, MDA Show, Dahlia care handouts and maybe a couple of plants. We need everyone’s help.

May 31, 2014 – Saturday, starts at 10 am, plant auction at 12:15 pm

Midwest Dahlia Conference Meeting and Plant Sale

High Dive Pavilion, 500 E. Beardsley, Elkhart, Indiana

Presentation: Growing Dahlias with a selected panel. The panelists will be:

Ron Miner, Tony Evangelista, Don Warden and Charles Craig.

For reservations, please send $14.00 for the Essenhaus lunch to:

Mac Boyer

16816 County Road #10

Bristol, IN 46507

For more information the Midwest Dahlia Conference Web Page is:

August 9, 2014 – Saturday

Midwest Dahlia Conference Judging Seminar

Bonneville Trial Gardens at Bonneville Mill County Park in Elkhart, Indiana

The Midwest Dahlia Conference Web Page is:

August 10, 2014 – Sunday, starts at 1:30 pm

Whine & Wine Garden Tour and Dahlia Staging Demonstration

1:30 – 3:30 pm Darin Robert, 734-660-9990

1020 Wing Drive

Ann Arbor, MI 48103

4:00 – 6:30 pm Ed & Marge Robert, 734-459-1453

51000 Warren Road

Canton, MI 48187

We have invited Southeastern Michigan Dahlia Society to join us and look forward to their participation.

Please RSVP to Robert’s if you plan to attend.

August 29 – 31, 2014 – Friday – Sunday

Michigan Dahlia Association Show

Monroe, MichiganFlower of the Year – Any light blend Dahlia

September 21, 2014 – Sunday

After Show Picnic and Dahlia Seedling Judging at 2 pm

Jim & Shirley Grobbel, 586-751-4254

5140 Martin Road

Warren, MI 48092

We have invited Southeastern Michigan Dahlia Society to join us and look forward to their participation.

Please RSVP to Grobbel’s if you plan to attend.

October 11, 2014 – Saturday

MDA Awards Banquet

Location: Hungarian Rhapsody

Late October/November 2014 – A Fall Tuber dividing demonstration – TBD.

Other Events

August 23 - West Michigan Dahlia Society Annual Show – Meijer Gardens, Grand Rapids, MI

September 6 – Southeastern Michigan Dahlia Society Annual Show – Orchard Mall, West Bloomfield, MI

September 13 – Midwest Dahlia Conference Show, Mahoning Valley Dahlia Society – Youngstown, OH

Thank you to all who showed up and helped make our Tuber Sale a success. A special thanks to all who helped Annise with the coffee, refreshments and recording the tuber count.

At the first two meetings we started a 2014 Lost Tuber List for those who were looking to retrieve some lost Dahlias. If you have any of these, please consider sharing. Here is our list so far:

  • Don WardenCountry Rose & Country Cutie
  • Tom RumpleStella R & Danae
  • Ed Robert & Fred NicholasMary Karen Z
  • Jim NeubacherVicki
  • Ernie FischerLois Walcher

Reminder: MDA By-Laws revisions were distributed for review, by the General Membership, at our March 29 meeting. All recommendations for change are due by May 17, 2014 our Plant Sale. The complete revised By-Laws will be voted on by the General Membership on August 10, 2014 at the Whine & Wine at Ed & Marge Robert’s home. The new By-Laws for the MDA will be distributed to the General Membership on October 11, 2014 at the Awards Banquet.

See you May 17,

Fred Nicholas