The Finger Lakes Daylily Society is a not for profit educational gathering of like-minded people who love daylilies and want to learn more about them and share their knowledge with others. Society members generally garden in west-central New York covering an area from Batavia to Syracuse. Meetings are usually held in the vicinities of Rochester or Canandaigua,NY.

Purpose: To enhance our love for daylilies, its culture and attributes, through mutual support in making friends, sharing ideas, learning new or different techniques, and finding and teaching new daylily friends.

Club Goals:

Work closely with AHS Region 4, Ontario (Toronto) Daylily (sister club) and Rochester Area Daylily Societies

Four regular meetings from March through October (Occasional Bonus Meetings).

Meetings generally on Saturdays

Maintains an Official AHS Daylily Display garden at the Webster Arboretum.

Planned meeting programs featuring guest speakers or knowledgeable club members

Door prizes

Public plant sale (fund raiser & recruiting tool)

July peak bloom garden tours followed by a family style picnic

Members only August plant auction (fund raiser)

Fall banquet -- featuring a noted hybridizer as a guest speaker

Publish club newsletters

Member's "baby sitter" program for club purchased daylilies

American Hemerocallis Society affiliated club

Club dues to cover newsletter, postage, and miscellaneous expenses: $10 for the first year and $5 years after per membership. A membership includes all persons living at one address.

To apply for membership or to obtain additional information, contact club Chairperson: Ginny Byers 585.659.8150 or Vice Chairperson Shirley Cappiello 585.381.4862