4 categories:

1. Lilies & daylilies
2. Winter in the garden (snow/frost) (any garden)
3. The Colour Purple in the garden (any garden)
4. Photos taken in the Beausejour Daylily Gardens

Entries will be accepted between July 1st and August 31st

Photographs can be sent to:

Photo Contest
Box 20 GRP 112 RR1
Beausejour, MB
R0E 0C0

If there are any questions, call Melanie at (204) 266-1322. Contestants should include their name, address and telephone number with their photographs. Maximum 1 entry per category. Photographs will not be returned unless envelope with return postage is included. Judging will take place in September. Prizes will be awarded to the top photo in each category, and the winning photos will be featured in the local newspapers.

The winner of our St. Patrick’s Day 50 50 draw is Vera Mclean of Beausejour. Vera won $600.00! Thanks to everyone who purchased a ticket(s).

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

Please help us get the word out regarding our St. Patricks Day  March 17th 50- 50 raffle draw. Tickets are $2.00 each or 4/$5.00. Contact Joyce at 268-4105 to get yours. Tickets are on sale now.

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.