EVENTS: Tina’s Daylilies to host garden party for 11th annual MS fundraiser

Once again Tina’s Daylilies will be hosting their annual garden party fundraiser which is open to the public. This is the eleventh year Tina’s Daylilies has held this event. They will have door prizes, refreshments, live music and Tina says “we will have lots of blooms!”

Each year 20 percent of the proceeds that day is donated to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society for MS research. Along with donations folks give throughout the season, people can also go online to Tina’s Daylilies website anytime to donate. “Research for a cure is what we really need”, Tina says.

Multiple Sclerosis is an incurable, progressive disease that attacks the central nervous system. It is now estimated that one million people in the United States have been diagnosed with MS. This disease most
often appears in people between ages 20 to 50, with two to three times more women than men receiving the diagnosis.

Owner Tina White who is someone who lives with MS, has raised money for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society every year since her diagnosis in 2012. “I have participated in MS walks and in the MS Plane Pull at the Portland Jet Port, but for the past 11 years I have held this event as part of my business.

I have people who come back each year to the event just to support MS research whether they buy daylilies or not.” White reports.

The event will be Saturday, July 19, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at Tina’s Daylilies, located at 310 East Pond Road, in Jefferson. If you are unable to attend the event but would like to donate to the fundraiser you may go to the event page at www.tinasdaylilies.com and click on the “Donate to NMSS” button. Tina’s Daylilies is open June, July and August each year, they offer over 100 varieties of daylilies which are field grown right here in Maine. They always have a donation can there or the online page accepts donation until the end of the calendar year.