Re: Iris Club
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- Subject: Re: Iris Club
- From: G* S* <g*@loop.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 22:14:16 -0600 (MDT)
janet & shan wrote:
>
> I found you on the Iris-L. I am president of the Big Sky Iris Club. Our
> big event for the season is our Iris Sale. Each member donates their iris
> as we divide in the summer and the 2nd & 3rd week of Aug we sell at the
> farmers market as a fund raiser for the Club. I am interested in projects
> that other clubs are involved in. What do you do to keep interest up and
> recruit new members? Thanks, Janet
To (try to) keep interest up, we have monthly meetings. Around 5 of them
have speakers, with 2 or 3 of those from outside our area. Topics (other
than iris) can be general gardening or specific other plants, e.g.
daylilies or roses. We always have at least one slide show by a member,
two potlucks, iris bingo (very popular--winners get a bag of rhizomes
left over from our fall sale), and a presentation on preparing iris for
the spring show. We also have a regional auction and a club auction
(purchases and contributions--nothing older than four years).
Most new members join at the spring show or at the fall sale (held at
the same mall as the sale. We also have a late-spring/early summer sale,
this year at a farmer's market (a few consecutive Sundays). A recent
addition to our major moneymakers is a plant table at each non-potluck
meeting. People contribute plants of any kind, pots, books, .... The
plant table has been paying for rental of the meeting room and more the
last year or so.
About 10% of our hundred-some members are active, i.e., do more than
attend meetings. Our biggest problem is the aging of the membership, and
the dearth of young new members.
--
gcsnyd@loop.com AIS Region 15
Warm, winterless Los Angeles
President of San Fernando Valley Iris Society
My work? Helping generate data for http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo
