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The 2024-2025 LUCKY DIP SEED EXCHANGE IS OPEN!

The Lucky Dip (the second stage of the Seed Exchange is open to the public):  There will be a surplus seed distribution starting on February 6, 2025.  The seed list will be updated to all seed that has not sold out.  It is open to both members and non-members. 

Seed Exchange Ordering Instructions here

Seed List here

For members, you can order either 10, 20, 30 or 40 packets of surplus seeds. The cost to members is $4.00 per 10 packets.

For non-members, you can order either 10, 20, or 30 packets of surplus seeds.  Non-members pay $8.00 per 10 packets. 

Basically, the selection is ours: hence, “Lucky Dip.”  However, you should indicate your preferences by numbers or sections.

When placing your preference by number (section), list the printed number in SEQUENTIAL (NUMERICAL) ORDER, left to right,  top to bottom.

Failure to follow this request will result in your order being placed at the bottom of the order list. (When order numbers are placed in random order it makes it harder to fill the order.)   

There will be a fixed postage fee of $4.00 per order.  

Lucky Dip Seed Orders will be mailed out starting the first week of March 2025.

Surplus seed orders are accepted until mid – late February or until seeds are sold out, whichever comes first.

The 2024-2025 Seed Exchange Closed!

Thank you members who participated.

The second stage of the 2024-2025 Seed Exchange LUCKY DIP will open sometime on Thursday, February 6, 2025.

Seed Exchange will Close on Wednesday, February 5, 2025. Lucky Dip will Open on Thursday, February 6

Last Chance for members to order seeds.  Seed List here.  Read the Seed Exchange Ordering Instructions  here.  The first stage of the Seed Exchange will close on Wednesday, February 5, 2025.

On Thursday, February 6, the Lucky Dip will open.   The Lucky Dip is the second stage and open to the public.   This will be a surplus seed distribution.   It is open to both members and non-members. You can order either 10, 20, 30 or 40 packets of surplus seeds. The cost to members is $4.00 per 10 packets. Non-members pay $8.00 per ten packets.  Basically, the selection is ours: hence, “Lucky Dip.”

Winter Quarterly is Available!

The Winter Quarterly is now available for digital subscribers and members to read here

People can read the “Excerpt from the Current Issue” here

Members and Digital Subscribers can read all the Quarterlies published since 1941 here

 

Garden Treasures: Primroses and other Primula for the American Garden – Zoom Meeting February 5, 2025 – 7:00 – 8:00 pm EST

The New England Chapter of The American Primrose Society (APS) invites you for a discussion of primroses, cowslips, and candelabras.  We’ll take a look at the amazing diversity within the genus Primula and identify those species and varieties that can perform well in American gardens. Whether or not you’re familiar with names like Sieboldii, Cowichan, and Juliana, we hope you’ll join us for a colorful winter diversion among the primroses.

Wednesday, February 5, 2025, 7:00 – 8:00 pm, EST

Presented by Dean Wiegert of the Midwest Group, APS

To register, email ne***********@gm***.com

Organized and sponsored by the New England Chapter of the American Primrose Society, Zoom hosting courtesy of the American Primrose Society

2024 DOROTHY DICKSON AWARD

The Dorothy Stredicke Dickson Memorial Award of the American Primrose Society shall be awarded to an individual deemed by the American Primrose Society’s Board as being worthy of recognition for their creative work of a pre-eminent nature in the advancement and  understanding of primroses and / or outstanding contributions to the American Primrose Society.  The American Primrose Society’s Dorothy Dickson Award Recipient will be awarded the Dorothy Dickson Medal.

To view past recipients of the Dorothy Dickson Award, login and go to the Members Section, click on the Dorothy Dickson Award.

If you know of an individual who has made outstanding contributions to the American Primrose Society who deserves recognition, send your recommendations with a brief explanation to the President of the American Primrose Society at  pr*******@am*********************.org