Benefits of Membership
Do I have to join?
No, Carolinas Dahlia Society (CDS) Meetings & Events are open to anyone.
But Member Benefits are for Members only.
"Member Benefits"?
Members get first pick of the available stock and at a discounted price before our Public Tuber Sales.
- Bulk Purchasing of Specialty Items
CDS makes bulk purchases at wholesale prices of things like clippers, i.d. tags, specialty fertilizers, propagation materials, etc.
and resells to Members at cost.
- Learning Opportunities
- Unstructured Opportunities abound with a Mentor program and public dahlia garden volunteer programs.
- We provide structured Dahlia Culture at all Meetings & Events, for all levels of expertise & interests.
- "Dahlias 101" for
absolute beginners
- "Growing to Win" for growers
needing or sharing advice.
- Propogation workshops
- Hybridization workshops
- Staging workshops for shows
- Junior & Novice Exhibitor through
Open Class/Large Grower competition
- Clerk training workshop
- Judges training workshop
adhering to ADS rules.
- American Dahlia Society (ADS) membership discount
Full ADS membership at a reduced cost when joining a local society as well.
ADS members receive
the
Quarterly Bulletin of the American Dahlia Society, annual show statistics of winning blooms
from every ADS sanctioned show in the U.S. and Canada, and the
Annual Classification and Handbook of Dahlias.