MIDS meeting
Join us at Jericho Public Library for our monthly meeting. Refreshments served at 6.30 pm
Freeport Memorial Library: Cornell Cooperative Extension discussion on "Selecting and Planting Trees and Shrubs."
Cornell Cooperative Extension is coming to Freeport Memorial Library to teach patrons about "Selecting and Planting Trees and Shrubs." This program is scheduled for Wednesday, April 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM. There is still plenty of space available to sign up. Come on into the library to sign up or call us 516-379-3274 to sign up. You can also email me directly at cbisonette@freeportlibrary.info or at the reference email at ask@freeportlibrary.info.
Planting Fields Arbor Day
The Arbor Day Festival returns to Planting Fields Arboretum for a weekend of family fun! Learn about and celebrate the essential role that trees play in sustaining our planet. MIDS will be selling tubers from our gardens at this event!
Planting Fields Arbor Day
The Arbor Day Festival returns to Planting Fields Arboretum for a weekend of family fun! Learn about and celebrate the essential role that trees play in sustaining our planet. MIDS will be selling tubers from our gardens at this event!
MIDS meeting
Join us at Jericho Public Library for our monthly meeting. Refreshments served at 6.30 pm
MIDS meeting
Join us at Jericho Public Library for our monthly meeting. Refreshments served at 6.30 pm
MIDS Annual BBQ
Our BBQ will be held in Eisenhower Park. details to follow.
Eisenhower Park is home to our Display Garden and an American Dahlia Society Eastern Trial Garden. The gardens are located by the administration building.
MIDS meeting
Join us at Jericho Public Library for our monthly meeting. Refreshments served at 6.30 pm
Long Island Dahlia Society (LIDS) Annual Exhibition Show
The first of the local 2025 dahlia shows will be at Bayard Cutting Arboretum. Bring your blooms for exhibition or enjoy your visit surrounded by beautiful blooms. Don’t forget to stop by the the William Wolkoff Dahlia Garden while at Bayard.
MIDS meeting
Join us at Jericho Public Library for monthly meeting. Refreshments served at 6.30 pm
MIDS meeting
Join us at Jericho Public Library for our monthly meeting. Refreshments served at 6.30 pm
MIDS meeting
Join us at Jericho Public Library for the first meeting of the 2025 dahlia season. Refreshments served at 6.30 pm
Tuber Dividing Workshop
Tuber Dividing Workshop 2. Thanks to all who came to the March 14th workshop. We will meet again on March 21st from 9 - 11am at
Cornell/EMF ; 832 Merrick Ave; East Meadow.
All are welcome
Planting Fields Volunteer Training
Reminder to all Callahan Garden volunteers: The mandatory training dates for all volunteers have been set for Wednesday or Thursday, March 19, or 20th, 10am to noon, in the Hay Barn. You need to attend one of the two days.
Please RSVP Donna Moramarco you date selection.
Vernal Equinox
The 2025 spring equinox, which takes place on March 20 at 5:01 a.m. EDT, marks the moment when the sun sits directly over the Earth's equator as it heads northward. The spring equinox is a time of rebirth and renewal in many mythologies. Bear Creek Farm offers some insights into your gardening here.
Planting Fields Volunteer Training
Reminder to all Callahan Garden volunteers: The mandatory training dates for all volunteers have been set for Wednesday or Thursday, March 19, or 20th, 10am to noon, in the Hay Barn. You need to attend one of the two days.
Please RSVP Donna Moramarco you date selection.
Tuber Separating Seminar
Please note date change.
Come on over to Cornell/East Meadow Farm! We’re having a dahlia division event where we’ll learn from experts how to divide the club’s dahlias. It’ll be a warm and cozy indoor event, so you don’t have to worry about the weather.
Please bring hand pruners and a permanent Sharpie to label tubers. If you have an ADS classification handbook, bring it along .
Winter Solstice
The winter solstice represents the turning point where the days start getting longer, signifying a new cycle of growth and potential.
For 6 months the days have been getting shorter as the darkness grew. But on the Winter Solstice, the Light returns. From here the days will continue to grow longer, brighter, warmer until the Sun is strong enough to return life to everything in nature. (The Seasonal Soul)
Holiday Party
Join us at Piccolo Cantina Bay; 18A Bayville Ave; Locust Valley, 11560. Continue reading for details.
November meeting
Join us at the Jericho Public Library, with refreshments @6.30. Agenda
October MIDS Meeting
Agenda: Discussion items
Dahlia Show; December Holiday Luncheon.
We need vases for bloom sales. Please bring any you no longer use to the meeting.
Mid Island Dahlia Society Exhibition Show
The 58th annual Mid Island Dahlia Society Exhibition Show will be held on September 14th and 15th in the Burns Horticultural Conference Center, Planting Fields Arboretum.
Show Book
September Meeting
Join us, at Jericho Public Library, as we discuss final preparations for our 58th Annual Show. On Thursday, September 12, 2024, at 9am we will set up the Planting Fields Hort Center for our show. We are looking for volunteers to help with Thursday's set up and at the Shows on Saturday and Sunday.
Please bring any of your unwanted vases to our meeting. We will use them for the bloom sales at our show.
Old Bethpage Village Restoration Long Island Fair starts Sept 6
Old Bethpage Village Restoration Long Island Fair celebrates its 182nd year in 2024. Enjoy traditional fair rides, booths and food to name a few activities. Enter your crafts, vegetables, garden blooms (including dahlias), animal husbandry and more to win a blue ribbon. It's an inexpensive way to have some fun and enjoy this remarkable fair.
August MIDS meeting
Join us at Jericho Public Library, 7 pm. Refreshments served @ 6:30
Join us at the annual MIDS BBQ
Please save the date of Sunday July 28th for the annual MIDS BBQ. It will be held at Eisenhower Park between 11:00 - 2:00. It is in parking Field 3 which is the Public Safety lot. We will be to the left of the field house (bathrooms.) ***Rain date is the following Sunday August 4th (same time and place).
The society will provide hamburgers, hot dogs, water and soft drinks. If you would like to share something you made you are welcome to bring it as well as a desert for the desert table. Bring a lawn chair and hope for a nice day weather wise.
Eisenhower volunteers needed June 16th
With the Eisenhower Park closure due to the World Cricket Matches for the pass twelve(12) days we have been unable to do any maintenance on our dahlia garden there. The garden will certainly need some extra TLC this Sunday.
Please consider coming this Sun. June 16th between 9:00 - 11:00. I know it is Father's Day so we will keep you on schedule.