T President’s Letter Hosta Happenings NOVEMBER 2017 SPECIAL EDITION 2017/2018 CALENDAR AT A GLANCE • Dec 3, Holiday Party @ Kerry Perry’s home in West Chicago • Mar, Spring Pot Luck & Garden Tool Swap, date & loc TBD • Late April/May, Spring Symposium & Plant Pickup, date & loc TBD • June 20-23, AHS 50 Year Celebra- tion Convention, Valley Forge, PA • July 12-14, MRHS Convention in Peoria, IL The Newsleer of the Northern Illinois Hosta Society In this Issue: President’s Leer 1 Dec. Holiday Party 3 25th Anniv Celebraon 4-6 Fall in the Hosta Garden 7 Dee Brown’s Sale! 7 Plaque Rock Install 8 Officers & Directors 8 As I enter my first weeks as Presi- dent, I must thank all those people who preceded me in making and growing the Northern Illinois Hosta Society (NIHS). That includes Tom Michele, Laurie Skrzenta, John Van Ostrand, and Lou Horton. Also, a big thank you to Barbara King for work- ing relessly the past 6 years in growing the NIHS to where it is to- day. If you did not have the opportunity to aend our 25 th Anniversary Cele- braon at Cangny Park, you missed an outstanding event. Tom Michel- e, Founding Father of the NIHS, was our keynote speaker. We hon- ored our 5 previous NIHS presidents idenfied above. We also heard from Mark Zilis and Bob Solberg. Bob hybridized and presented a new hosta culvar (h. Tom Terrific) named to honor Tom Michele. Aendees also received one of the new “Tom Terrific” hostas which will be a large upright gold hosta. Barba- ra King and her support team did an outstanding job in pung on this event. As some of you may remember, I was the NIHS Membership Secretary for three years before taking a year off. I look forward to this new op- portunity to work with a talented group of individuals that are current- ly on the NIHS Board. It is my hope to connue the tradion set by the people before me. Connued on page 2 A Cangny Work Day on Halloween shows our AHS Naonal Hosta Display Garden in its fall colors. The volunteers, bundled in their worker costumes, are (leſt to right) Linda Lood, Diane Barrowman, Nancy Huck & Barbara King. June Vandervest took the photo. H. ‘Night Before Christmas’
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President’s Letter
Hosta Happenings N O V E M B E R 2 0 1 7 S P E C I A L E D I T I O N
2 0 1 7 / 2 0 1 8 C A L E N D A R A T A
G L A N C E
• Dec 3, Holiday Party @ Kerry
Perry’s home in West Chicago
• Mar, Spring Pot Luck & Garden
Tool Swap, date & loc TBD
• Late April/May, Spring Symposium
& Plant Pickup, date & loc TBD
• June 20-23, AHS 50 Year Celebra-
tion Convention, Valley Forge, PA
• July 12-14, MRHS Convention in
Peoria, IL
The Newsletter of the Northern Illinois Hosta Society
In this Issue:
President’s Letter 1
Dec. Holiday Party 3
25th Anniv Celebration 4-6
Fall in the Hosta Garden 7
Dee Brown’s Sale! 7
Plaque Rock Install 8
Officers & Directors 8
As I enter my first weeks as Presi-dent, I must thank all those people who preceded me in making and growing the Northern Illinois Hosta Society (NIHS). That includes Tom Micheletti, Laurie Skrzenta, John Van Ostrand, and Lou Horton. Also, a big thank you to Barbara King for work-ing tirelessly the past 6 years in growing the NIHS to where it is to-day.
If you did not have the opportunity to attend our 25th Anniversary Cele-bration at Cantigny Park, you missed an outstanding event. Tom Michel-etti, Founding Father of the NIHS, was our keynote speaker. We hon-ored our 5 previous NIHS presidents identified above. We also heard from Mark Zilis and Bob Solberg. Bob hybridized and presented a new hosta cultivar (h. Tom Terrific) named to honor Tom Micheletti. Attendees also received one of the new “Tom Terrific” hostas which will be a large upright gold hosta. Barba-ra King and her support team did an outstanding job in putting on this event.
As some of you may remember, I was the NIHS Membership Secretary for three years before taking a year off. I look forward to this new op-portunity to work with a talented group of individuals that are current-ly on the NIHS Board. It is my hope to continue the tradition set by the people before me.
Continued on page 2
A Cantigny Work Day on Halloween shows our
AHS National Hosta Display Garden in its fall
colors. The volunteers, bundled in their worker
costumes, are (left to right) Linda Lood, Diane
Barrowman, Nancy Huck & Barbara King. June
Vandervest took the photo. H. ‘Night Before Christmas’
P A G E 2
H O S T A H A P P E N I N G S
During my time in this position, I would like to promote getting more individuals involved working with the Board on various committees. Therefore, I am asking each of you to give sincere consideration to volunteer-ing and becoming a member of “the team”. Some of you are already volunteers at our AHS National Display Garden at Cantigny Park. We have volunteers hosting our potluck dinners in March, September and Decem-ber. Individuals volunteer at our Leaf Display and Plant Sale in June, our Bus Tour and members open their beautiful gardens for our Hosta Garden Walks each summer. A big thank you to these people. But when you look, many times you see the same people volun-teering across multiple activities over and over. What makes the Northern Illinois Hosta Society “GREAT” are the people who participate. As volunteers and a mem-
ber of “the team” we should all “enjoy” accomplish-ing our goals together. The Cantigny Park hosta garden is a prime example of that. We will be cre-ating a list of volunteer opportunities soon and pre-sent them in our “award winning” Newsletter, as well as, post them on our website. It is my hope that we will have some additional new participants in 2018.
The Holidays are right around the corner and our annual Holiday Party is set for December 3rd. This year’s host is Kerry Perry. Kerry is in West Chicago. This is a wonderful time of the year and the annual Holiday Party is especially festive and fun. Look for the Holiday Party details on Page 3. Please bring a non-perishable food donation to the party that will help some of our less fortunate neighbors enjoy their holiday season. I look forward to seeing you there. Lenny and I would like to send best wishes to you all for a happy holiday season as we look for-ward to an even better 2018.
Mike Kraus
President’s Letter continued
N O R T H E R N I L L I N O I S H O S T A S O C I E T Y
HO S T A H A P P E N I N G S
P A G E 3
Holiday Party Food & Fun Sunday Dec 3
O ur annual NIHS Holiday Party is rapidly
approaching on Sunday Dec 3. Plan to
join in the fun! Festivities will begin at 1:00 pm at
HOW TO GET THERE: Your destina-tion: 3N640 Lakeview Court, West Chicago From the intersection of IL-59 (N Nelt-nor Blvd / Pramukh Swami Maharaj Rd) and IL-64 / North Avenue, go north 0.5 mile then turn left at the stop light on-to Diversey Pkwy. St. Andrews Golf Club is on the right. Go west 0.1 mile and turn right onto Mulberry Drive. Go 0.3 mile and turn right onto Lakeview Ct. Proceed 300 feet to the last house on the left. Hope to see you there!
N O R T H E R N I L L I N O I S H O S T A S O C I E T Y
HO S T A H A P P E N I N G S
P A G E 1 7
1 9 1 8
25th Anniversary Celebration
Welcome & Program
Chairperson Barbara King, top left, welcomed the
hosta crowd along with Cantigny Director Joy
Kaminsky , middle left. Tom Micheletti , top right,
delivered the illuminating keynote program on
hostas - Back To The Beginning. Sherry Hughes,
center, Jim King, right, & Nancy Slove, left.
Pics by Ron Asselborn
P A G E 4
N O R T H E R N I L L I N O I S H O S T A S O C I E T Y
HO S T A H A P P E N I N G S
P A G E 5
25th Anniversary Celebration
Refreshments and Hosta Garden
Pics by Ron
Asselborn
N O R T H E R N I L L I N O I S H O S T A S O C I E T Y
HO S T A H A P P E N I N G S
P A G E 6
25th Anniversary Celebration
Dinner & Awards
Past NIHS Presidents Lou Horton, Barba-
ra King, John Van Ostrand, & Tom Michel-
etti were awarded lifetime memberships.
Bob Solberg & Mark Zilis toasted Tom
Micheletti’s hosta leadership and found-
ing of NIHS. Bob presented Tom and
members his new Hosta ‘Tom Terrific’.
Pics by Ron
Asselborn
N O R T H E R N I L L I N O I S H O S T A S O C I E T Y
HO S T A H A P P E N I N G S
P A G E 7
Fall in the Hosta Garden June Vandervest
Did you ever wish you had more “gold” in your Hosta garden? Wait until fall and your wish will come true without spending anything extra. Who knew that H. ‘Blue Hawaii’, H. ‘Jabulani’, H. ‘Rainforest Sunrise’, H. ‘Plantaginea’ would be-come undulating, glowing shades of gold? Even H. ‘Candy Hearts’ rivals its neighbor H. ‘Sun
Power’ in my garden. Enjoy the fall splendor while you
can. Soon it will be just a memory nestled under a