Joining the AHS does have lots of benefits. You will be invited to join robins where you can communicate with other people that share your interests. You will receive 4 Daylily Journals annually full of information about daylilies. For your membership fee, you will receive a voucher for free daylilies. You will receive your regional newsletters. You will be placed on the AHS Membership list and unless you exclude your information, you will receive catalogs from the various growers, introducing their newest introductions. I personally have never felt inundated with them. And AHS just started delivering a Newsletter via email; very nicely done I might add. Most of the people that run AHS are volunteers, and they work for AHS because of their love for daylilies and the people that love them. Please give them a little more patience than you would someone doing this for pay. I currently belong to a local club which charges a membership fee. The membership fee barely covers the cost of making an annual yearbook and postage costs. If the local club holds a Flower Show, AHS will support the effort but does require that half the Club members be AHS members. I am considering joining a second club and feel the information I get from the meetings and networking with other members to be invaluable. I have also been able to meet most of the noted hybridizers at the Club meetings. So if you're interested in Daylilies, you can't beat doing both! Ed

I've been a member for years. I mostly just read. I'm a mom of three, work part time, and I'm a musician on the side for fun. I'm quiet in a large crowd, fairly anxious in general, my friends call me chop chop, and I have a very healthy sense of humor. I'm also quite opinionated. I like coming here because sometimes I just want my own personal water cooler - I'm quite entertained at times here! :P

Oh Jennana, what a lovely sentiment. I'll have to agree with you. Thanks for the reminder that this is a great bunch of people.

"Do you see xxxxx xxxxx ( Houzz) or xxxxx xxxxx (Facebook)? I wonder if that is because I usually log in with Facebook?" Is the ability to see a user's real name (or whatever they used as a real name to signup) new? I thought it was always appended to the end of ones profile URL and visible by visiting the user's profile or hovering their display name? If that's what you mean, it can be changed. Up to two times per year it says. https://www.houzz.com/changeUsername Edit: I see this was posted elsewhere but... I'll post it anyway. And no, my real name isn't chuggerguy. And it has nothing to do with drinking. I'm a slowpoke and sort of "chug" along, especially while backpacking uphill. :-)