Meet Dorothian Meyer!
She has accepted the challenge to be the Regional Publicity Director for the largest region in AHS! The primary responsibilities of the RPD are to be the champion of the Popularity Poll in our region, maintain good communications between the local clubs and the AHS and contribute to the regional newsletter and events. The RPD also generally promotes events in our region to our regional membership and the regional community at-large. Local clubs should send a copy of their local newsletter to her, as she is a voting member of the board who chooses the Newsletter Award each year! If you are a president of a Region 2 local club, please contact her with your updated officers for 2011. Whew! Being the RPD is a very important job!
Dorothian sent in this bio, letting us get to know her a bit better. You can meet her at this years National Convention or this summers Region 2 Summer Meeting being hosted in her home state of Michigan. Her garden is listed as an open garden for the event.
BIOGRAPHY: I grew up in a small town in western Michigan and we always had a small garden. There were some vegetables and mostly flowers, usually annuals. When I got married and moved to Bad Axe, Michigan had children I started a fairly large vegetable garden to help with the expense of feeding the family. After my children were grown I took a couple years off from gardening. My sister asked me to come to her house in 1982 and help her get her garden ready for the Region 11 garden tour and I came home with an extra suitcase full of daylilies. The addiction just kept growing from there. I grow 700 varieties both older and newer varieties on my 100x200 foot property in the country and it is an AHS Display Garden. I am a Michigan Advanced Master Gardener, a Daylily Exhibition Judge and a Garden Judge. I also belong to 3 daylily clubs, 2 in Michigan and 1 in Florida. I am a plant collector and love to collect unusual perennials and shrubs that will grow in my zone 5 garden (where I am fast running out of room). I belong to the Rose Society and also a local garden club in Florida where I spend the winter.
My garden is open for visits in July and August, but please call ahead to make sure I will be home.
Dorothian Meyer
1963 Van Dyke
Bad Axe, Michigan
48413
863-273-9335
Thank you for volunteering, Dorothian! And an extra special thank you to the outgoing RPD, Joyce Hersh. She has been a real asset to this region for several years, and we will miss her greatly when she moves to Florida! Thank you, Joyce - from all of us!
