www.beausejourdaylilygardens.com

• August 8, 2009   9AM – 4:00PM
• starts at  Beausejour Daylily Gardens
  1st St. N. Beausejour
  30 min. N.E. of Winnipeg

Tour Map/Derby Hands are $10 each or 3/$20. Buy your hands now – you can win even if you can’t be present!

For info or derby hands:

• Email: pokerderby [a] efree.mb.ca
• Phone: (204) 268-3950
• http://www.townofbeausejour.com/info

Hosted by the Friends of the Beausejour Daylily Gardens
Registration:

• Beausejour Daylily Gardens: a 2-acre American Hemerocallis Society Display Garden with thousands of daylilies, peonies, iris, lilies, prairie hardy fruit trees, and picnic site. Self guided tours.

Checkpoints

1. Train Whistle Park: restored caboose, huge boulders from Lake Agassiz basin.  Picnic site.
2. St. Mary R.C. Church & Our Lady of La Salette Shrine: Leo Mol, world-renowned sculptor, painted the ceiling of St. Mary in 1951.  Pathway along Stations of the Cross to shrine.    Picnic site.
3. Manitoba Glass Works Historical Site: the first glass container factory in Western Canada.  and Chryplywy Nature Trails: enjoy native flowers and wildlife from 2 km. of paved trails (62 acre site).
4. Pioneer Village Museum: 18 buildings, including the childhood home of former Governor General, Edward Schreyer, 1000s of artifacts of pioneers from Galicia, Volhynia and other countries.  Self guided tours.
5. SunGro Art Show: Paintings, pottery, photography, literature & textile creations by exceptional Manitoba artists

Bonus Prizes:

• 2 x 9 holes at Beausejour Golf Course
• day pass to Great Woods Blues/Rock/Roots   Aug. 7 - 9
• day pass to Pioneer Village Heritage Day  Aug. 9
• day pass to Double B Rodeo at CPTC  Sept. 5 - 7

Beausejour – home of the only AHS Display Garden on the Canadian Prairies

Dates/time:

• June 20, July 18, and Aug. 15
• 11 am – 4pm

Fee:

• $5 includes map, refreshments, and a chance to win a 3-person patio swing/lounger

Each tour showcases different private gardens, amazing artists, and the fabulous Beausejour Daylily Gardens.

Questions:

• email: beaudlg [a] mts.net
• http://www.townofbeausejour.com
• http://www.manitobaart.com

Dates/time:

• June 19, July 17, Aug. 14
• 10 am to 3 pm

Fee:

• $20 per person based on a group of 20 or more
• Includes admissions, local transportation and guide

Stops:

• Beausejour Daylily Gardens (wheelchair friendly)
• Train Whistle Park (Lake Agassiz boulders & caboose)
• Pioneer Village Museum (includes Schreyer home)
• Fabulous noon lunch at the Seniors Centre

To book Day-Trips:  Call 204-268-3950 or Fax 204-268-4077

Questions:

• email: beaudlg [at] mts.net
• http://www.townofbeausejour.com
• http://www.manitobaart.com

Visit the two-acre Beausejour Daylily Gardens, the only American Hemerocallis Society (AHS) Display Garden on the Canadian Prairies

• June – iris, peonies, lilac, and cherry blossoms.
• July – lilies, delphiniums, and daylilies
• August – daylilies, mums, picnic site, lawn checkers, bocce, and tourist information

Daylily Newsletter February 2009

Thank you

• to everyone who supported the derby.
• to the volunteers who made it happen
• to the checkpoint ambassadors

Thank you to Beausejour Coop, Beausejour Golf Course, Great Woods Music Festival,  Heritage Museum, Eastman Artists, Beautification,and the ladies of  CWL

The winners for this years Poker Derby are:

• 1st prize winner Wm. Relf
• 2nd prize winner Joan Soluk
• 3rd prize winner Jack Kowalchuk

Bonus Prizes

1. Passes to Double B Rodeo (Bill Relf)
2. Passes to Heritage Day (Diane Dumas & Mary Veldman
3. Two Green Fees-Beausejour Golf Course went to Jack Kowalchuk (re Charlie the cat) and Deb Bargenda.
4. Sunday Passes to Great Woods Music Festival (Lydia Ewasko)

We’ll see you next year  in August for our Poker Derby 2009!

We meet every 3rd Monday of every month exept May. 7:30 pm at the Beausejour Town office, 639 Park Avenue. All are welcome.

Support the Daylily Gardens and win a 3-Person Garden Swing/Lounger.   Draw Date is July 18th 2009 and tickets are only $2.00 each or 4/$5.00. Tickets are on sale now.    We need ticket sellers too - can you help?   Please call Joyce at 268-4105 for books.

Get your set of Hasty Notes that use 6 pictures from the Daylily Gardens. Sets are on sale at the Town Office, Superior Inn, and Bergie’s.

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The Beausejour Daylily Gardens is a zone 2b American Hemerocallis Society Display Garden. It must be well maintained or lose the AHS designation. Thankfully, we have Garden Angels. These are community volunteers who adopt sections of the gardens, and maintain them to display garden standards.

Each adopted section is marked by a wooden folk art angel with the number of the plot and name of the angel. Local artists will paint 6 angels based on the winning designs. Winners will have their name on the angel , win a daylily, and have their work shown at the August 11th Poker Derby at Sun Gro Centre.

The winners of this year Design a Garden Angel Contest are:
category 14-under ( in no order)

• Rodney Schultz from Garson
• Katriana Usipiuk from Beausejour
• Danika Dawson from Tyndall

14+ over category (in no order)

• Carman Usipiuk from Beausejour
• Sylvia Mroz from Beausejour
• Deb Bargenda from Beausejour

Thanks to everyone who took the time to participate.

Thank-you angels for all your hard work. The gardens are looking great! We need your continual support. Check your site for any weeds that have popped up, deadheading, etc.

On september 10th please join us at 6:00 pm at the daylily gardens. Bring your gloves and a trowel.

Whatever you have planned for this summer, be sure to include a trip
to the second American Hemerocallis Society (AHS) Display
Garden on the Canadian Prairies located in Beausejour, Manitoba, an easy
30 minute drive from Winnipeg…

You can read the rest of this article by downloading the entire Prairie Gardener Daylily Article .pdf file. You may also wish to visit the Prairie Gardener website at prairiegarden.ca.

The Beausejour Daylily Gardens, is the coldest American Hemerocallis Society Display Garden on the planet, and the 2nd AHS Display Garden on the Canadian Prairies.

This amazing community garden carved from canola fields in the R.M. of Brokenhead, is just 30 minutes east of Winnipeg at the north entrance to Beausejour (20 Km. N. on Hwy 59 and 24 km. E. on Hwy. 44). Beausejour is a vibrant rural community, and justly proud of the two-acre Eden that contains 400 daylily cultivars, in 11,000 sq. ft. of raised beds.

The purpose of an AHS Display Garden is to - show all kinds, and colours of daylilies, representing different hybridizers, and demonstrate how they can be used in today’s low maintenance, eco friendly, landscaping. A display garden must be open to the public, identify each daylily cultivar, and be well maintained.

The BGD is more than daylilies. Image a picnic site with dozens of prairie hardy fruit trees, ornamental shrubs, 150 iris cultivars, 40 different peonies, over 50 varieties of lilies, and thousands of other perennials. This unsheltered Zone 2b garden is a perfect test garden for new daylilies and other plants, such as the U of SK. dwarf cherries. Plants that thrive here are tough!

The BDG are a demonstration site environmental responsibility. Crushed glass is used to control weeds between the shrubs on the berm and on the walkway. It conserves water, remains inert, does not pack down, or deplete nitrogen; rodents, and slugs hate it. It makes attractive pathways, but must be mixed with sand and then packed.

More than 3000 aluminum drink tins, and metal coat hangers have been recycled into the permanent daylily markers.

Perhaps the greatest benefit has been the “Garden Angel Program”. Although the “Friends” of the BDG are responsible for the plants that go into the park, and the Town provides some maintenance, it is the ” Garden Angels” who maintain it to AHS Display Garden standards. Each section has a folk art sign with its number and the name of the “Angel” looking after it. Some angels provide special services such as the 249 Beausejour Squadron Air Cadets. They have since been joined by individuals, families, Prairie Roots Garden Club, the Beautification Committee, and St. Mary Catholic Women’s League. The BDG has about thirty “angels” now, and still needs a few more. The benefits include fresh air, sunshine, and friendship. All angels receive free horticulture therapy. If you are looking for wings, please call (204) 268-3950.