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AHS Region 6Newsletter
Fall/Winter 2010Volume 10, Number 3
EditorBinion Amerson
ContributorsEddie Raye AndrewsMalcolm AvarittMark CarpenterTim ClossMary and Eddie GageLoris GarrettRay HoustonBonnie and Hooker NicholsDonna PeckJim PettyRozanne and Alan TuffnellMaureen and Robert ValenzaBeth ZimpelmanRegion 6 Club ReportersRegion 6 Hybridizers
Cover PhotographsRegion 6 Hybridizers
Special ThanksHelen Reynolds, Proofreader
The AHS Region 6 Newsletter is pre-sented herein as a service to mem-bers and is not necessarily endorsedby the AHS or by the Editor. Rights tomaterial published in this newsletterremain with the author; to reprint orotherwise reproduce material, pleaseobtain permission from the author.
Please send all inquires regardingarticles, photographs, or correctionsto the Editor of the AHS Region 6Newsletter:
Region 6 Officer Reports 4Director 4President 5Newsletter Editor 5Publicity Director 6Exhibition Judges Liaison 6Membership 7Archivist/Historian & Webmaster 7
Region 6 Annual Budget 8Ask The Ombudsman 9New Trends in Daylily Hybridizing 10Region 6 Hybridizer Seedlings 11
Leon and Paula Payne 11Jack Carpenter 12Tim Closs 12Marcus and Patricia Dugas 13Doug McKemie and Sandra Perkins 14Chris von Kohn 15Hooker Nichols 16Tana Tomlinson 16Ray Houston 17Nickie Knight 17Loris Garrett 18Ed Travis 18Lee Causey 19Tim Thompson 20John Turrentine 21Mary Gage 22Don Licatovich 22Suzanne Ussery 22Michelle Swan 23Marlow Shubert 24Wilma Smith 24Vernon Wallis 25Bill Jarvis 25Art Imperial 26
Region 6 New Members 28Region 6 Club News 29Region 6 Daylily Societies, Presidents, & Meeting Schedules 31
INSERT: 2011 Region 6 Albuquerque Meeting Flyer & Registration Form
Editor’s Corner:Articles, Reports, and DeadlinesWe appreciate everyone’s participation in creating this Newsletter and look forward togreat stories from our members. As you may be aware, we have deadlines for finalizingnewsletters. They are: Spring, February 1; Summer, July 1; and Fall/Winter, October1. However, if your report or article is ready early, send it as soon as possible.Up-Coming Events• AHS 2011 National Convention
Hosted by Baton Rouge Daylily Society and all of Region 13Baton Rouge, Louisiana, May 25-28, 2011http://www.2011ahsnational.com/
• AHS 2011 Region 6 MeetingHosted by Albuquerque Daylily SocietyJune 30-July 2, 2011Albuquerque, New Mexicohttp://www.ahsregion6.org/regional_meeting.htm
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REGION 6 DIRECTOR REPORTDonna Peck
Donna Peck Admires Hemerocallis ‘Red Chile Rendezvous’
Maryott’s 2011 Introduction.
The week I’m writing this has me a littledizzy. My Director’s report is due for theAgenda book for our Fall Board Meetingin October. Since I’m the Ombudsman, Ineed one report for that position, and asChairman of Policies and Procedures, Ineed another one. I need to finalize dataon the AHS Calendar and try to get theAHS Policy and Procedures documentupdated. I need to get my “Ask TheOmbudsman” column to all the editorsof the regional newsletters. And I thinkto myself: “didn’t I just send the last oneto Binion a couple of days ago? Is thatdeadline coming already?”
Also, as with all the daylily gardeners, Ineed to winterize my daylilies…andwhat is so strange for me is that I hadseven daylilies blooming today (Septem-ber 11). And they are all beautiful. Wehad such a strange year. A very cold win-ter, an extra dry and hot summer and nowsuddenly our monsoon and beautifulweather. The daylilies think it is summeragain! Hemerocallis ‘Topguns LolaScott’ is reblooming and is prettier thanever. H. ‘Spacecoast Extreme Fashion’ isalso blooming and is spectacular. A num-ber of Bill Maryott’s introductions,which I received only a month ago, havelarge scapes and are blooming. Yes, Iknow I should cut those off and not letthem bloom, but I had to see what they
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look like! He wanted some special day-lilies in my garden for his workshop herefor the regional next year. Just wait untilyou see H. ‘Berry Cheesecake’, ‘StarWoman’, and ‘Red Chile Rendezvous’.You will all want them in your garden.The lucky members who come to ourregional next year will all get the free‘Red Chile Rendezvous’ (a Maryott2011 introduction) as your registrationplant. Check out my picture holding‘Red Chile Rendezvous’ blooming in mygarden this year.
Our club is working very hard to makenext year’s regional special. We have awonderful newly renovated Sheraton forour meeting at only $89.00 a night. Thatis half the price of what they originallycharge. We will be having the best NMfood at El Pinto for one lunch and thebest NM BBQ for the other lunch. Ourtwo workshops by Bill Maryott are goingto be very educational as well as enter-taining. The one at the hotel on Thursdaywill also have our local member, PeteMcGrath, showing his new, blue daylilyseedlings. The other Maryott workshopis at our home, which has never been ontour. We live on a hill up 6,000 feetabove sea level and no bus will daredrive up here. So on Friday after the reg-ular garden tours, we have contracted fora shuttle to drive those who are interestedto see our beautiful view and daylilies.Bill Maryott will be up to discuss “devel-oping observation skills with daylilies - ahands-on approach.” That sure puts pres-sure on my gardening next year, doesn’tit? And I’ll even take you inside to giveyou a short tour of our all-adobe South-western home.
Other optional trips will be to Old Town,or our Botanical Gardens, and if enoughpeople are interested, we will organize atrain ride into Santa Fe on Sunday. TheSheraton is near a new outdoor Mall withwonderful shopping and restaurantswhich you can walk to and stroll around.
Our keynote speaker, by special request,will make his second appearance as the
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speaker at a Region 6 Meeting banquet.And for a fee of two small Snickers bars,he said he would be happy to be ourspeaker again. He’s informative, enjoystelling stories and lives here, RichardPeck. The title of his talk is “The OtherRichard Peck, Part 2.”
Our eight gardens are small and intimateand gardened with love and care. Ourone display garden in NM is Rozanneand Alan Tuffnell’s. And when you seethe pond Alan put in last year…after tak-ing out a huge peach tree… by himself…and designing and building the pond…by himself… you will be amazed.
I know I digressed from discussing myposition as Region 6 Director, but somany exciting things are happening righthere.
The Fall AHS Board Meeting will beheld in Columbus, Ohio. At our fallmeeting we vote on the LenningtonAward and the Region’s Service Awardsamong other prestigious awards. Theprominent concern, now, is to increasemembership. The voucher system hasworked, but now we have stabilized. Sowe need to think of new ways to get peo-ple to join, and then to have them stay inour daylily clubs and AHS.
That should be Region’s 6 emphasis nextyear as well. Let’s each find two gardenfriends, and have them join the localDaylily club and AHS. That will beemphasized next year. As of September1st, we have 571 members. Last year atthis time we had 585 members, a loss of14 members. Let’s try our best to be agood example to the other regions andhave a tremendous increase in 2011.
I will report on the Fall Board Meetingdiscussions in our spring issue. In themeantime, find at least two members tojoin your daylily club as well as AHS.Also, mark your calendar for June 30-July 2… I’ll see you there!
Respectively submitted,Donna Peck, DirectorAHS Region 6
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AHS REGION 6 PRESIDENTREPORT
NEWSLETTER EDITOR
Binion Amerson
I sure hope you enjoy seeing all the beau-tiful new daylily seedlings from Region6 hybridizers as much as I have enjoyedreceiving, resizing, and inserting thephotographs in the newsletter. Yes, thereare 177 photographs from 24 hybridiz-ers. Last Fall, we only had 40 photo-graphs from 10 hybridizers. That’s a bigincrease. And, the hybridizer commentsand new trends information are certainlyvaluable to everyone.
Best Seedling Straw PollI would like for everyone to look at eachhybridizer’s seedling photographs andselect the one you like best. Then, selectthe best overall from the 24 hybridizers.Please write this information down andemail it to me along with any commentsyou may have about their seedlings. Iwill summarize this in a future newslet-ter issue.
Region 6 Newsletter SurveyThe results of the 2010 Region 6 News-letter Survey have been tallied and willbe presented in the Spring issue. In all,54 members completed and returned thesurvey form. Looks as if these memberslike the Newsletter and want to keep itpretty much the way it is. We will be ana-lyzing this information and using it infuture decisions about the Newsletter.Thanks to all who responded.
Regards,Binion AmersonRegion 6 Newsletter Editor
Maureen ValenzaWe have made it through another hotsummer with August exceptionally hotand dry. The nights are beginning to cooland this change is a welcome relief forour plants. Soon we will be out in thegarden again planting, dividing, andmoving the daylilies.
You will be amazed at this fall/winternewsletter edition with great pictures ofnew seedlings from our regional hybrid-izers. They are really lovely with distinc-tive features. And talk about distinctive,Donna Peck won by a landslide with 84votes for our Director for 2011-2013.Congratulations to Donna!!! We lookforward to her continued success. Wehave a new Exhibition Chairman withGwen Pennington (Southlake) replacingMary Gage. We want to thank Mary forher service and also for leading theDirector Nominating committee withEddie Raye Andrews and Nell Shimek.Thank you all for your service to theregion.
In this issue you will see preliminaryinformation on the 2011 Regional Meet-ing in Albuquerque. This meeting will beterrific and we ask that you seriouslyconsider traveling to New Mexico nextyear. In addition, the Lufkin Hemerocal-lis Society has agreed to sponsor the2012 meeting and we are looking foryour support with helping this small clubfor this event to be a success. We stillneed clubs to sponsor the 2013, 2014,and 2015 meetings. The sooner the clubvolunteers the more time they have toplan.
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I would like to have a warm welcome toour 76 new members for 2010 (theirnames are listed on Page 28). Welcometo Region 6 and we are very excited tohave you participate in the AHS. You aresurrounded by many daylily enthusiastsand we look forward to your suggestionsto make this region better!!!
And for those of you who responded tothe Popularity Poll, Director Ballot, andnewsletter survey, we sincerely thankyou for your participation. We will havethe results of the newsletter surveys inthe spring edition since this fall edition isfocused on showcasing our regionalhybridizers. In addition, Binion and I arebenchmarking all regional newslettereditors to obtain cost and other informa-tion regarding newsletters and we willpresent our results to you in the springedition.
To help us be more effective as a region,I am requesting that each club presidentsend me their latest club yearbooks andplanned programs for the 2010-2011 sea-son for us to compile a club page ofevents for each club so that membershave information on plant sales and auc-tions for each club in their area on theRegion 6 website. Ray Houston is doinga superb job in keeping the website up todate. Make sure that all members havetheir email addresses since we only have20% of the members email addresses andsending notices to each member at $0.44adds up quickly for the budget. This willhelp us communicate more effectively incase we need to get information to youvery quickly.
On the national front, I was saddened tohear that Kay Day Pricola has resignedas Director for Region 7 and AHSRegional Officers Chair for personal rea-sons. We want to thank Kay for her sup-port of our region and wish her well.
Sincerely, Maureen Valenza On behalf of the ExecutiveCommittee for Region 6
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PUBLICITY
Rozanne TuffnellSummer bloom is over and fall isapproaching. The Popularity Poll resultsare in and we had more votes than thelast two years, even though our member-ship has declined. Here are the results forthe last three years.Year Members # Voted Turnout2008 636 132 20.8%2009 570 146 25.6%2010 558 185 33.15%
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As you can see we have had increase inour participation, thanks to all of youwho took the time to vote.
Now for the winners for 2010:Cultivar Name Votes Rank‘Red Volunteer’ 51 1‘How Beautiful Heaven
I hope to have even better participationnext year. Remember Region 6 is thebest Region in AHS, and we can do bet-ter next year. Albuquerque, had the larg-est vote turn out in the region. Do youthink I had some influence?
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As most of you know by now, the nextAHS Region 6 Meeting will be held inAlbuquerque, New Mexico. Mark yourcalendar now so you don’t miss the “RedChile Rendezvous,” June 30 throughJuly 2, 2011. We will have eight gardenson tour over two days. We will also havespecial hybridizing clinics by Bill Mary-ott. The Region Meeting will be held atthe Sheraton Uptown Hotel with a greatrate of $89 per night. We have madearrangements for the Region Meetinghotel rate to be extended through the July4 holiday for those wishing to stay overand extend their visit through the holi-day. Shopping and restaurants are withinwalking distance of the hotel.
The registration form is included as aninsert in this newsletter as well as a flyerpromoting this event. So mark your cal-endars now and plan to attend this event.
Should you have any questions or sug-gestions I can be reached at:[email protected].
Rozanne Tuffnell, RPDAHS Region 6
ATTENTIONALL REGION 6
MEMBERS
WE NEED MORE EXHIBITION
JUDGES
Mary Gage
Our Exhibition Judges Clinics were asuccess again at the Region 6 Meeting inAustin this past May. We now have 52Senior Exhibition Judges, 4 JuniorJudges, 8 Students-in-Training, and 7Honorary Judges. It is likely that 2seniors will retire from judging and askfor honorary status.
I am very pleased to tell you all that afterone year back as Exhibition Judges Liai-son, I am again stepping down and thatGwen Pennington will be our new Liai-son in 2011. Gwen and I are workingtogether on plans for the ExhibitionJudges Clinics at the 2011 Regional inAlbuquerque and will have more on it inthe spring newsletter.
As promised in the last issue, I am backto begging and wheedling. Please, clubs,encourage your members to becomeExhibition Judges. It may seem like wehave plenty, but with the number offlower shows we have it is sometimesdifficult to find enough available at theright time and place. Exhibition JudgesClinic I is a Power Point Presentationwithout the need for fresh flowers; there-fore it may be held early in the year priorto bloom season and students can be pre-pared to take Clinic II with the RegionalMeeting the same year. We always holdthese Clinics at Regional Meetings butclubs may also sponsor them locally.Instructions are in the 2010 handbook,Judging Daylilies, page 57. Inform your
Exhibition Judges Liaison at least sev-eral months ahead of time for assistancewith planning and obtaining instructors.
I am so happy that Gwen wanted to takeon the job of Exhibition Judges Liaisonfor Region 6 (no arm twisting there). Iknow that under her leadership theregion will continue to keep a roster ofstrong judges and instructors who will beready to answer her call to duty.
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MEMBERSHIP
NominatingCommitteeReportVoting by Region 6 members for the2011-2013 term for our representative onthe AHS Board of Directors was accom-
Loris Garrett
The start of a new year is just around thecorner and, with the end of this yearapproaching, I would like to remind
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everyone again that if you are not amember of the AHS, 2011 would be agreat time to join. There is so much greatinformation in both the AHS DaylilyJournal and the Region 6 Daylilies of theSouthwest newsletter and again with thesubscription price possibly going up thisyear for the newsletter, the $25 price forjoining the AHS is a real bargain.
For those of you that are already AHSmembers or have just joined please besure that if you change your address forwhatever reason that you notify the AHSof those changes. Likewise, for thosethat are not AHS members and your clubpays for subscriptions, please be surethat you keep your club updated.
Note: Just a quick reminder to all theclubs that pay for subscriptions for theirmembers don’t forget to email me any
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address updates or new club members inExcel format to [email protected] no later than December 31, 2010.
Please welcome 76 new AHS memberswho have joined Region 6 Clubs sinceJanuary 1, 2010. The list is found onPage 28.
Thanks,Loris GarrettMembership Chairman, Region 6.
plished on September 15. Donna Peck,our nominee for a second term, received84 votes and there were no write-ins.
Mary Collier Fisher, AHS President,Kay Day Pricola, Regional OfficersChair, and Maureen Valenza were noti-fied and the results will be presented atthe fall meeting of the AHS Board ofDirectors.
Years ago, somewhere around 1990, wedid not elect our representative but newdirectors were chosen by each currentBoard of Directors. Now, I am happy tosay, all members have a voice is select-ing their representatives. This is theAmerican way.
The nominating committee thanks allthose who participated in this electionand voted. We also thank Donna for soably serving these last three years and foragreeing to serve another term as ourdirector.
Thanks,Mary Gage, Nominating
Committee ChairNell ShimekEddie Raye Andrews
and WEB
Ray Houston
Visit the AHS Region 6 web site at:http://www.ahsregion6.org/ The following new items have beenadded to the web site.• 2010 Region 6 Bill Ater Design
Award Winner - Ruth Ruiz:http://www.ahsregion6.org/awards_Bill_Ater_Design-2010.htm
• Links to Region 6 Club Calendars:http://www.ahsregion6.org/calendar.htm
• Link to the 2011 Region 6 Meeting:http://www.ahsregion6.org/regional_meeting.htm
With Binion Amerson’s assistance, wehave collected the electronic copies of
the Daylily Growers of Dallas club’snewsletters dating 1999 to present. Ihave added these to the Region 6archives so they are now available forsearching. This will be an ongoingproject for the Region. I am asking therest of the clubs to submit their clubnewsletters so they can also be added tothe Region 6 archives. The club newslet-ters contain a wealth of information thatis not contained in the Region 6 newslet-ters. If you do not have electronic news-letter files, you may send hard copies ofthem to me at my address listed in thefront of this newsletter, and I will scanthem into my computer and return thehard copies to you.
If you need information from past or cur-rent newsletters and don’t know where tolook, contact me at [email protected] call me at (979) 297-5814. I can per-form electronic searches of the newslet-ter archives dating 1961 to present foryou in a matter of minutes.
Thanks,Ray HoustonArchivist/Historian & Webmaster
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AHS REGION 6 ANNUAL BUDGETFinancial Report Period: Jan. 01, 2010 to Dec. 31, 2010. Compiled by Malcolm Avaritt and Maureen Valenza.
* Notes: (1) Committee Registrations commence 2011(2) No costs required until after 2013 Regional for Bill Ater, Giles, Lankart + printed ballots - no budget item required. (3) Actual cost shown is for Spring Issue only
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ASK THE OMBUDSMAN—Donna Peck
ATTENTIONHYBRIDIZERS2011 Region 6 Award BedsThe Annie T. Giles and Edna LankartAwards Beds for the 2011 Region 6Meeting in Albuquerque, NM, will be inMimi Glover’s Daylily Garden. There isa limit of four plants per hybridizer. Sendyour seedlings to:
Mimi Glover110 Santa MariaCorrales, NM 87048Phone: 505-897-7456Email: [email protected]
2012 Region 6 Award BedsSend daylily seedlings for the Annie T.Giles and Edna Lankart Awards Beds atthe 2012 Region 6 Meeting in Nacogdo-ches, TX, to:
Lois Powell1052 Peach Tree RoadPollok, TX 75969Phone: 936-853-4722Email: [email protected]
Please note that there is a limit of fourplants per hybridizer.
Donna Peck, the AHS Ombudsman, hasbeen writing “Ask The Ombudsman”columns for the regional newsletters, theEmail news, and now the columns are onthe AHS website. The question this timeconcerns Daylily Round Robins. Donnawas urged to join the general Robin threeyears ago when she was asked to be theOmbudsman. She has learned a greatdeal from the information and the ques-tions that AHS members ask. This col-umn is written with the assistance of GailKorn who is the Chair of Round Robins.At this time there are only a handful ofRegion 6 members that belong to theRobin.
QUESTION: I’ve heard many memberstalk about the Daylily Round Robin.What exactly is it?
RESPONSE: The dictionary defines around robin “as a letter sent among mem-bers of a group, often with commentsadded by each member in turn.” Anotherdescription of a robin is a group conver-sation that has shared information. TheDaylily Round Robin does exactly thesethings. AHS members sign up to sharetheir daylily knowledge with other day-lily growers, as well as ask questions thatthey need answered.
Here’s a little history about the DaylilyRound Robin. Prior to 1992, the onlyround robins were those sent through themail. Each member is given a “FlightList,” a list of all the participants withtheir addresses and phone numbers.When each member gets the packet ofletters, that member takes out his or herold letter, writes a new one and sends theentire packet along to the next person onthe list. Friendships are formed andinformation exchanged. Pictures areoften included. Sometimes plant tradesare arranged. Getting a robin packet fullof letters from 7 to 11 other daylily grow-ers is a special treat. It’s great to get toknow gardeners around the country!
QUESTION: How do I join a Robin?
RESPONSE: It’s as simple as contact-
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ing the Robin Chairman. Currently thechair is Gail Korn and her email addressis [email protected][email protected]. If you pre-fer to send her a note, write to Gail Korn,85261 Hwy 15, Wayne, NE 68787.
Gail will forward your request to theleader of the robin you are interested in.Membership in a robin is a benefit ofbelonging to AHS and is a way to get toknow other members and to get answersto your questions. (The Ombudsman willanswer them also, but the Robin hasaccess to many seasoned daylily garden-ers and hybridizers.)
QUESTION: It sounds as if there ismore than one Round Robin. Can youtell me my choices?
RESPONSE: There are nine paper rob-ins for which you would write a letterand send it with the other letters to theRobin member that is the next person onthe list. In general, membership in one ofthese robins will require you to writebetween 3 and 5 letters per year. Theadvantage to the paper robins is that peo-ple write real letters about their experi-ences and experiments. You get to knowthe members and they become a circle offriends. These paper robins were dis-cussed above in the first question. Twoof these robins—Daylilies All Over andthe Region 1 Robin (for members wholive in Region 1)—are general interestrobins and anything concerning dayliliesmay be written about. Others are aboutmore specific topics. They include Dou-bles, Landscaping, Nostalgia, Rust, Sea-son Extenders, Spiders/Unusual Forms,and Tetrobin. For your information, theTetrobin discusses hybridizing tetra-ploids.
Several email robins exist also. Theadvantage is that answers can comeimmediately. To join the big email robin(with over 1,300 members); send arequest to Tim Fehr at [email protected][email protected]. It is a gen-eral interest robin and anything andeverything about daylilies is discussed.
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To join this or one of the smaller emailrobins, send an email to Gail Korn andshe will forward your request to theleader. The small email robins haveabout 30 members in each and participa-tion is required at least once a month.Some of them are general interest robinsbut specific to regions of the country.They include Region 2, the Mid-Atlan-tic, the Pacific Northwest, Mini-daylil-ies, and the South EMail Robins. Othersare about specific topics. They includeHistorical Daylilies, sculptured daylilies,and patterned Daylilies. One can joinmore that one robin.
Note: Gail Korn currently participates intwo paper robins and three email robins.Gail mentions that if a paper robin packethappens to arrive at a very busy time forher, it’s okay to just pass it on. Writingeach time is not mandatory.
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NEW TRENDS IN DAYLILY HYBRIDIZINGBy Binion Amerson with Input from AHS Region 6 Hybridizers.
Each year when buying new daylilies,when judging flower shows, and whenreviewing candidates for the Awards andHonors Ballot and Popularity Poll Bal-lot, I find myself asking “What are theNew Trends in Daylilies?”
I highly recommend that you read the“How to Hybridize” series of articles byvarious authors that have recentlyappeared in The Daylily Journal. Themost recent Summer 2010 issue (pages8-10) contains “Part 5” written by DavidKirchhoff. This informative article dis-cusses “Breaks” in daylily hybridizingand how to recognize them.
To go along with all the beautiful photo-graphs of seedings being developed byTexas and New Mexico hybridizers, Iasked a number of hybridizers for theirthoughts on “New Trends In DaylilyHybridizing.” Below are their responses.
Mark Carpenter, The Lily Farm, Center, TX“Among the new trends in DaylilyHybridizing that I am excited about is themovement of exotic patterns into largespiders and unusual forms. This is anarea that is ripe for expansion in the day-lily world. The incredible patterns out ofthings such as Jack Carpenter’s Kaleido-scope series, using some of his narrowseedlings, offer an exciting future intopatterned spiders and unusual forms.Huge size in full-formed tets and dips isalso an area that continues to offer excit-ing opportunity for hybridizers. Thegene pool now has many more 7.5, 8, and8.5 inch full-formed tets on the market.So, 10 inch full-formed tets in varied col-ors are only a few years away hopefully!Last, I continue to see edges that nolonger ‘appear green’ but actually aregreen. One of the very best I have seen isJeff Salter’s H. ‘Emerald Dream’. It isonly a matter of time until that greenedge goes on a deep red flower. Can youimagine? I can!”
Lee Causey, Flower Mound, TX“My opinion on where daylily hybridiz-
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ing is going is that you must ‘think out-side the box.’ Crossing spiders withdoubles, unusual forms with extra large,emphasis on incredible color, etc. Itdoesn’t mean you still can’t go for beau-tiful pastels. New introductions certainlyneed to be unique. Getting that specialand unique daylily is still very tough.”
Marcus and Patricia Dugas, Dololly’s, Brookeland, TX“My wife Patricia and I started hybridiz-ing in 2006 and in general based ourefforts on making crosses between thebest genetics we could obtain. Myemphasis at that time was on large fullforms with saturated colors. Pat tendedto emphasize contrast between base andeye-edge colors. We both followed ser-endipity guides whenever there were twoflowers that struck our fancy, and we stilldo so today. We have been able to focusa little better on trends by incorporating‘toothy’ genetics into many of ourcrosses, but remain convinced that seren-dipity provides the greatest surprises andpleasures.
Recently, we have had the good fortuneof obtaining two severely variegatedfoliage ‘sports’ which we are intenselyinvestigating. Both are tetraploid andhave the larger type plant habit. One hasflowered this year, producing large flow-ers which so far have fertile pollen butdidn’t produce any self sets. (We didn’ttry to pollinate the variegated plant withany others.) We don’t know whethereither will pass this characteristic on tooffspring or whether they are chimeras,but we aim to find out. Other than that,we still adhere to using the best geneticspossible while having fun. We call our 9-acre daylily garden Dololly’s to reflectour southern, Cajun, and humorous atti-tudes. We are located in Brookeland, TX.It is sandwiched between county roads219 and 220, and about 50 miles south ofCarpenter’s daylily farm along StateHighway 96.”Editor’s Note. Check their online links:http://sites.studioline.net/Users/6048364-721a/dololly-s-2010/default.htmhttp://sites.studioline.net/Users/6048364-721a/dololly-s-futures/default.htm
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Suzanne Walker Ussery, Sister Belle Gardens, Grand Saline, TX“The only trend I see is a lot more peoplehybridizing. Also, it seems to me, thatsome register every flower they have.Beauty is a matter of opinion, but for me,I will only register the truly unique or forfriends who pick one for a gift. I giveaway more than I keep.
My goal is to create (with a little helpfrom the Man upstairs) a flower thattakes my breath away. One that wouldleave a lasting impression. I am oldenough to know you can’t please all thepeople all the time. So, since this is ahobby, I will work to please myself. Oth-erwise it becomes work and don’t wehave enough of that? I’d rather be out-side working in the yard, playing withthe flower, or fishing than inside doinganything.”
Bill Jarvis, Houston, TX“While registering daylilies is a rela-tively easy process, selecting daylilies toregister is not. To me it is important thatadditional criteria are met before a seed-ling will even be considered for registra-tion. A good daylily must not only havea pretty face and good color, but shouldalso have at least 20 buds per scape andbe a good grower. I also look at any neg-atives the daylily may possess. The realdeciding factor however is to ask thequestion ‘would I be happy if I pur-chased this daylily and it was someoneelse’s introduction.’ This takes into con-sideration a multitude of little factors. Nodaylily will ever be perfect but carefulweighing of the pros and cons is impor-tant in the final decision.”Editor’s Note. Bill’s web page with allhis introductions may be seen at:http://www.ofts.com/bill/introductions.html.
Michelle Swan, Southlake, TX“I am a small backyard hybridizer, wholoves to explore all sizes of daylilies.2010 will be my third year hybridizingon my own. My garden is full of perenni-als as well as daylilies, but my flower
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Tet., #08-66-3, (‘Border Music’ x ‘God Save The Queen’), Large
Tet., #08-66-5, (‘Border Music’ x‘God Save The Queen’), Large
Tet., #08-91-6, (‘Montana Sky’ x‘Blue Hippo’), Large
Tet., #BF-60-2, (‘Huckleberry Candy’ x‘Delta Blues’), Large
Tet., #T-61-3, (‘Satan’s Fire’ x‘Heart’s Of Fire’), Large
Tet., #BF-93-14, (‘Mister Lucky’ x‘Dance Bojangles Dance’), Large
Tet., #BF-119-1, (‘Sailing At Dawn’ x‘Bella Sera’), Large
Tet., #T-119-1, (‘J. T. Davis’ x‘Wild Irish’), Large
Tet., #T-150-4, (‘Wonder Of It All’ x ‘Taos’), Large
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Dip., #08-28-8, (‘Connie Burton’ x ‘Terry Lyninger’), Large
Tet., #08-31-2, (‘Rock Solid’ x ‘God Save The Queen’), Medium-Large
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Dip., [(‘Beaming Blessings’ x ‘Dinett Sue’) x ‘Dixie Blues’], 3.5”
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von Kohn SeedlingsChris von Kohn, Arlington, TX
Dip., [(‘Dinett Sue’ x ‘Our Friend Tom Wilson’) x Sib.], 5”
Dip., ‘Dinett Sue’ Sdlg., 7” Dip., [(‘Beaming Blessings’ x ‘Dinett Sue’) x Unk.], 5”; & Close-up of Edge
Dip., ‘Dinett Sue’ Sdlg., 5.5” Dip., [(‘Dinett Sue’ x ‘Our Friend Tom Wilson’) x ‘Pomp Perfect’], 5”
Tet., #12009 (‘Some Sweet Day’ x ‘Leslie Renee’), 5”
Tet., #109, (‘Oceans Eleven’ x ‘Through The Looking Glass’), 4.5”
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Editor’s Note: Christopher von Kohn, amember of the North Texas DaylilySociety, was the recipient of the AHSMabel Matthews Scholarship in 2009.He is a student at Texas A & M Univer-sity. During summer 2010, he worked asan intern at Ball Horticultural Company(parent company of Burpee Seed andPanAmerican Seed, developer of WavePetunias, etc.) in Chicago, IL.
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Nichols SeedlingsHooker Nichols, Dallas, TX
Tet., #HN01, (‘My Special Angel’ x ‘Ed Brown’), Lg.
Tet., #F10a, (‘John Peat’ x Unk.), 5.25” Tet., #F2, (‘Time In A Bottle’ x ‘Mike Longo'), 5.25” Tet., #F7c, (Unk. x Unk.), 5.25”
Tet., #F4, (‘Forbidden Fantasy’ x ‘Eye of the Matrix’), 5.5”
Tet., #mmb1, (‘Moonlit Masquerade’ x ‘Mysterious Eyes’), 5”
Tet., #db110, (‘Spacecoast Blast Off’ x ‘Copperhead Road’), 6.25”
Tet., #sb209, (Sdlg. 388 x ‘Orchid Blush’), 5” Tet., #F6, (Unk. x Unk.), 5” Tet., #F1, (Unk. x Unk.), 5”Continued on Page 17.
Tet., #HN02, (‘Desirable Duchess’ x ‘Ed Brown’), Lg.
Tet., #HN03, (‘Web of Intrigue’ x Unk.), Lg.
Tomlinson SeedlingsTana Tomlinson, Granbury, TX
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Houston SeedlingsRay Houston, Lake Jackson, TX
Dip., RH06-4B, (‘Lavender Blue Baby’ x ‘Hall’s Fiftieth Anniversary’), Large
Dip., RH06-4C, (‘Lavender Blue Baby’ x ‘Hall’s Fiftieth Anniversary’), Large
I am a backyard hybridizer and crossdaylilies purely for the fun of it. I nevermake more than half a dozen daylilycrosses in a year, and purposely attemptcrosses that would make no sense tomost people.
In this article, I have displayed somerecent results of my hybridizing efforts.As you can see, some interesting colorcombinations were produced by crossingtwo daylilies with contrasting colors.
There is nothing like walking into thegarden in the morning and seeing a newseedling blooming for the first time.
I will never register a daylily unless Ibelieve it to be truly distinctive and canbe recognized anywhere in the worldwithout benefit of a label.
Ray HoustonLake Jackson, TX
Dip., RH06-4D, (‘Lavender Blue Baby’ x ‘Hall’s Fiftieth Anniversary’), Large
Dip., RH06-3A, (‘Lavender Blue Baby’ x ‘Elfin Illusion’), Large
MORE HYBRIDIZERS: Knight SeedlingsNickie Knight, Burleson, TX
I am working in tetraploid spiders andunusual forms. This a sample of some ofwhat I have done. I am also working ontetraploid miniatures. I have a couple
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Tet., #NK01, (‘On The Web’ x Sdlg.), 8”
that look promising, but it is hard to findenough parents with which to work.
I want to have more teeth on my spidersand green throats. I love the differentunusual forms but most are diploids. I
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Tet., #NK02, (‘Octopus Hugs’ x ‘Light Forbes’), 10”
hope to have some of these forms in tet-raploids.
This is mostly a hobby with me, but it isfun to try different things.
Nickie KnightBurleson, TX
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Tet., #NK03, (‘Cretaceous Crunch’ x ‘Mildred Mitchell’), 6”
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Dip., #2010-02, (‘All American Gold’ x ‘Brookwood Jack’s Favorite’), 4.75”
Tet., #07-BWSB-03, (‘Bali Watercolor’ x ‘Hill Street Blues’), 5.5”
Tet., #07-CBHSB-02, (‘Captain Blue’ x ‘Hill Street Blues’), 6”
Tet., #N08-AZ-02, (‘Amethyst Veil’ x ‘Zahadoom’), 5.5”
Dip., #B08-BB-04, (‘Blue Ribbon Roundup’ x ‘Blue Oasis’), 4.25”
Dip., #B08-BB-05, (‘Blue Ribbon Roundup’ x ‘Blue Oasis’), 4.25”
Tet., #I08-BL-02, (‘Bluegrass Music’ x ‘Linda Sierra’), 5.5”
Tet., S5047, ('Sweet Summer Heat' x ‘Ruffled Dude'), 6”
Tet., #S7009, (Sdlg. x 'Great White'), 6” Dip., #2010-0, (‘All American Gold’ x ‘Brookwood Jack’s Favorite’), 5.25”
Tet., #2010-03, (‘Mister Lucky’ x ‘J.T. Davis’), 4.5”
Tet., #2010-06, (Unk. x Unk.), 6”
MORE HYBRIDIZERS: Travis SeedlingsEd. Travis, Chigger Creek Daylilies, Friendswood, TX
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Tet., #LC01, (‘Sergeant Major’ x ‘Thin Man’), UFO.
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Causey SeedlingsLee Causey, Flower Mound, TX
Tet., #LC02, (Unk. x Unk.), Lg. Tet., #LC03, (Unk. x Unk.), UFO.
Tet., #LC04, (Unk. x Unk.), ELg Tet., #LC05, (Unk. x Unk.), Lg. Tet., #LC06, (Unk. x Unk.), Sm.
Tet., #LC07, (Unk. x Unk.), Lg. Tet., #LC08, (Unk. x Unk.), Lg. Tet., #LC09, (Unk. x Unk.), Min.
Tet., #LC10, (Unk. x Unk.), ELg. Tet., #LC11, (Unk. x Unk.), ELg. Tet., #LC12, (Unk. x Unk.), ELg.
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Tet., #TT085, (‘Glory In Red’ x ‘Sherry Lane Carr’)
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Thompson SeedlingsTim Thompson, Three Creek Garden, Celina, TX
Dip., #TT001, (’Bitsy’ x Unk.) #TT005, (Unk. x Unk.) #TT009, (Unk. x Unk.)
#TT020, (Unk. x Unk.) #TT009, (Unk. x Unk.) #TT049, (Unk. x Unk.)
Tet., #TT072, (‘Cerise Beauty’ x Tet. ‘El Desperado’)
Tet., #TT080, (‘Spacecoast Gold Bonanza’ x ‘Rock Solid’)
#TT003, (Unk. x Unk.)
Tet., #TT096, (‘South Georgia Peaches’ x ‘Hot Ember’)
#TT105, (Unk. x Unk.) probably ‘Flaming Tongues’
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Tet., #DL08-42, (Sdlg. #DL07-14 x Sdlg. #VC7) 5.5”
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Dip., #P-204-E, {[(‘Gentle Shepherd’ x ‘Dresden Beauty’) x ‘Forsyth Tepaled
Double’] x (‘Four Star’ x ‘Joan Senior’)}, 5”
Dip., #P-205-B, [Unk. Sdlg. x (‘Four Star’ x ‘Joan Senior’)], 6”, 50% Poly.
Dip., #99-118-A, (‘Phydau’ x ‘Cajun Gambler’), 6”
Turrentine SeedlingsJohn Turrentine, Grand Prairie, TX
MORE HYBRIDIZERS: Gage SeedlingsMary Gage, Spring, TX
Dip., MG 12-07, (‘Color Me Happy’ x Unk.), 5.5“
Dip., MG 20-03, (‘Color Me Happy’ x ‘Scarlet Shadows’), 4.75”
Spring Creek Daylily GardenEditor’s Note: Mary Gage registered herfirst daylily in 1981. To date, she has regis-tered seven daylilies. Her daylily ‘ColorMe Happy’ (Gage 2000) is again on theRegion 6 Popularity Poll for this year. Shewrites: “Daylilies came into my life in themid to late 1950’s and I have loved themever since. I have dabbled a bit in hybridiz-ing, but actually named only just a few so Idon’t really call myself a hybridizer eventhough early on that was my intention”
MORE HYBRIDIZERS: Licatovich SeedlingsDon Licatovich, Lindale, TX
Tet., #DL09-45, (Sdlg. #DL03-23 x ‘Spacecoast Starburst’), 6”
Tet., #DL08-49, (‘Glory In Red’ x Sdlg. #VC7), 5.5”
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Tet., #2010-14/11-47, (‘Elvin King’ x ‘Key To My Heart’), 6”
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Ussery SeedlingsSuzanne Walker Ussery, Grand Saline, TX
Tet., #2010-48-50, (‘Ed Brown’ x ‘Canadian Border Patrol’), 5”
Tet., #2010-74-16, (‘Ed Brown’ x ‘Thunder and Lightning’), 5.5”
Tet., #2010-13-26, (‘Canadian Border Patrol’ x ‘Fortune’s Dearest’), 7”
I don’t have much of a hybridizing pro-gram. I have a mama bed for hybridizing,a baby bed for the seeds, and another bedfor the “teenagers” (i.e., seedlings) whenthey are ready to bloom. I only use theflowers I like for some reason or another.Strong plant, unusual color, whateversuits me. I like unique flowers.
I’m starting to work with the metallicthis year. I will be registering more, but Iwas set back a few years because of relo-cating to this area. I had to leave most of
Daylilies
Tet., #2010-73-19, (‘Ed Brown’ x ‘Thunder and Lightning’), 6”
Tet., #2010-5-27, (‘Canadian Border Patrol’ x ‘Her Majesty’s Wizard’), 6”
Tet., #2010-43/36-93, (‘Pumpkin Pie Spice’ x ‘Fortune’s Dearest’), 6”
mine and start anew.
As far as myself, I work full-time Mon-day through Friday and have dogs, cats,lovebirds, and aquariums. Out back Ihave a small pond, about 1.5 acres, andraise ducks and geese. Good thing I haveraised planting beds in the greenhouse!
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Tet., #2010-37-22. (‘Ed Brown’ x ‘Thunder and Lightning’), 6”
Tet., #2010-64-32, (‘Ed Brown’ x ‘Thunder and Lightning’), 6.5”
Tet., #2010-39-9 (‘Ed Brown’ x ‘Her Majesty’s Wizard’), 4”
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MS10, {[(‘Clothed In Glory’ x ‘Elizabeth’s Magic’) x ‘John Peat’] x ‘I Wanna Piranha’} EM, 4.5”
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Swan SeedlingsMichelle Swan, Southlake, TX
Tet., MS01, (‘Unvanquished’ x ‘Hi Ho Silver’), M Re 5.5”
MS02, Siblings of (‘Half Moon Key’ x ‘Musical Medley’), 3.5” - 5”
Tet., MS03, (‘Set Me Free’ x ‘Green Revolution’), 6+”
Tet., MS04, (‘Half Moon Key’ x ‘Mildred Mitchell’), 5+”
MS05, (‘Fluff and Stuff’ x ‘Shores of Time’), 7.5 - 8”
Tet., MS06, (‘Look Into My Eyes’ x ‘Jerry Hyatt’), 6”,
Tet., MS07, [(‘Royal Renaissance’ x ‘John Peat’) x ‘I Wanna Piranha’], EM, 4.5”
Tet., MS08, (Mark Breaux Sdlg. x Mark Breaux Sdlg.) E, 4.5”
Tet., MS09, (‘Raspberry Fantasy’ x ‘Art Gallery Fringe’), EM, 3.5”, Re
MS11, (‘Hurricane Swirls’ x ‘Wild Irish’), EM, 5” MS12, (‘Pancho Villa’ x ‘Create Your Dream’), EM, 6”
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Shubert SeedlingsRev. Marlow H. Shubert, Huntington, TX
Tet., T-01-09, (‘Halloween Masquerade’ x Unk.), 5.5”
Tet., MS-01, (Unk. x Unk.) 4.5” Tet., T-04-10, (Carpenter Unk. x Sdlg.), 6”
Tet., T-02-10 (‘Ellis Powell’ x Unk.), 5” Tet., T-03-10, (Sdlg. x Sdlg.), 6.5” Tet., MS-02, (Unk. x Unk.), 6”
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Dip., #WS01, (Unk. x Unk.), Lg.
Dip., #WS02, (Unk. x Unk.), Lg.
Smith SeedlingsWilma Smith, Allen, TX
My Goals and the qualities that I want togive new plants.• Good bud count• Ruffles• Gold edging• Clear vibrant colors• Plants that can take the heat• I have concentrated on smaller plants
for several years now.
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Dip., #WS03, (Unk. x Unk.), Lg.
Favorite plants I have used to hybridizewith:• ‘Ed Young’ (for its edging qualities)• ‘Roses with Peaches’ - Size and Color• ‘Rose Fever’ - Color• ‘Celebration of Angels’ - Eye
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Tet., #05-044, (‘Ed Brown’ x ‘Victorian Lace’), 6”
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Tet., #08-052, (‘Dream Runner’ x ‘J.T. Davis’), 5” Tet., #09-055, (‘Time For Eternity’ x ‘Darla Anita’), 5.5”
I have been growing daylilies for about25 years and have been hybridizing forpretty much the entire time. Because myfavorite daylilies are wide petaled withan edge, that’s mostly what I hybridizefor. Currently I’m trying to get brighterpink colors while increasing the size ofthe gold edges. I’m also working withdouble edges in various colors.
Bill JarvisHouston, TX
Tet., #08-029, (‘Sheer Excitement’ x ‘Zephyr’s Song’), 7”
Tet., #08-011, (‘Johnny Cash’ x ‘Alexa Kathryn’), 6”
Tet., #07-006, (‘Orange Electric’ x ‘Spacecoast Gold Bonanza’), 6”
Wallis SeedlingsVernon Wallis, Azle, TX
Dip., #VW’01, (‘Purple Avenger’ x ‘Trahlyta’), Lg. Dip., #VW02, (‘Casual Pleasure’ x ‘Little Wayne’), Lg.
Dip., #VW03, (‘Casual Pleasure’ x ‘Little Wayne’), Lg.
MORE HYBRIDIZERS: Jarvis SeedlingsBill Jarvis, Houston, TX
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Tet., #2007-036, (Unk. x Unk.), UFO, 6-6.5”
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Imperial SeedlingsArturo D. Imperial, MD, Lake Jackson, TX
Tet., #2006-054, (Unk. x Unk.), 6-6.5” Tet., #2004-287, (Unk. x Unk.), 5” Tet., #2009-012, (Unk. x Unk.), 6”
#AI006, (Unk. x Unk.), 8-8.5” Dip., #AI009, (Unk. x Unk.), 3.5” Dip., #AI011, (Unk. x Unk.), UFO, 7-7.5”
Dip., #AI013, (Unk. x Unk.), UFO, 6-6.5” #AI017, (Unk. x Unk.), UFO, 7-7.5” #AI018, (Unk. x Unk.), DBL., 4.5”
Dip., #2006-180, (Unk. x Unk.), UFO, 7” Tet., #2005-266, (Unk. x Unk.), 6-6.5”
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beds have been quickly filled by myobsession and love for this very specialflower. My goals are unusual patterned/colored eye-zones, unique edges (such asteeth, feathering, tendrils) on a flowerwith vibrant, clear colors, and a heavysubstance. I like to work within the pink,purple, violet, and lavender range, butsometimes special things pop out in adifferent color. I am also fascinated bythe blues and grays showing up in theeye-zones. It is important to me to makesure that my flowers have strong scapes,well-spaced branching, and a healthy,well-sized plant to support them.”
Wilma Smith, Allen, TX“Keeping Records: Each plant used inany given year is assigned a colored wireor colored paper clip. Example:
‘ED BROWN’ - YELLOW CLIP‘ROSE FEVER’ - GREEN CLIPSDLG. #25 - RED CLIPS
When I run out of colors I can take twowires of different colors and twist themtogether.
Harvesting Seed Pods: Soon as a seedpod ripens (must harvest before the podsplits) they are place in individual smallenvelopes with information of the podand the pollen parent noted. I have hadexcellent results with planting theseseeds the very same season harvested,which gains me a whole growing season.They are planted is a germination mix ina Styrofoam box. As soon as plants arewell rooted they are then lined-out in myplanting beds with their information ofparentage
Problems: Now here is where the prob-lems begin! Keeping tags and markerswith the plants for the next few years!Gardening helpers, one husband, andseveral very well meaning grandsons canabsolutely demolish the very best ofrecords. Therefore, I have learned not tomake everyone hate me. Just give up andenjoy the lovely blooms. Do I really needto know for sure the parentage of everysingle plant?”
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Rev. Marlow H. Shubert, Huntington, TX“As for my hybridizing efforts and goals,what I’d like to do is to see disease resis-tant, well-branched, and long-bloomingplants. Also, I want nice foliage andplants that will take our Texas hot heatand still perform. I feel, and I hope, thatother hybridizers want the same things:plants that are beautiful, strong, and thatdo well all over the country.”
Ed Travis, Chigger Creek Daylilies, Friendswood, TX“My name is Ed Travis. My wife Beckyand I live in Friendswood, Texas, 31miles from the Gulf of Mexico. I retiredfrom my business career in 2001 andrediscovered the love of gardening. Ibegan actively building gardens to sup-port our wildlife. Sometime in the1970’s, my wife’s mother, Lahoma Rob-inson, gave us some daylilies. I cross-pollinated them at the time, raised someseedlings, and enjoyed all the diversityof forms and colors. But I then becametoo busy in my career and neglectedthem. In 2001, I noticed that one daylily,through moves and neglect had some-how persevered. I thought it would be anexcellent choice around which to build adaylily hybridizing program. Unfortu-nately, around 2003 rust arrived in mygarden. It was devastating! It was alsodisappointing because my keystone plantwas very susceptible to rust. My gardensare on very flat land with a hard dark claysoil. I suffered through learning to dealwith rust and crown rot and soon beganbuilding raised beds to improve mydrainage.
These challenges changed my perspec-tive about daylilies and my hybridizinggoals. After a period of angst, I decided Iwould try to create cultivars with a highresistance to daylily rust and crown rot.While it’s not too difficult to find daylil-ies with good plant habits, there aren’tmany with modern faces. I am pleasedthat some of my creations are beginningto give me the fancy looks, which I like,while maintaining the reputation thedaylily once had for easy care. I am for-tunate to live in an area where there are anumber of active daylily hybridizers andenthusiasts. I belong to the Lone Star
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Daylily Society, a very active, dynamicclub, in Alvin, Texas. I enjoy the annualFlower Show competition and othergroup activities. We have a fun, knowl-edgeable group of members, all crazyabout the daylily.
I have mixed feelings about the future ofthe daylily, at least in the south wheredaylily rust is endemic. The time andexpense required to combat rust, crownrot, and now leaf miners makes dayliliesless apt to find their place in the modernsouthern garden. By hybridizing for rustand rot resistance, I hope I am able tocontribute to a continuing future for thedaylily in our southern gardens.”
Don Licatovich, Lindale, TX“My goals on hybridizing are to have agood flower on a strong plant with a highbud count, good branching, rebloom, andfertile both ways. The most importantfeature for a good flower is good strongcolor. While eyes, ruffles, and water-marks are good characteristics, strongcolor beats them all.”
Mary Gage, Spring TX“My involvement with daylilies grew inmany ways, mainly opening SpringCreek Daylily Garden. Then came work-ing with daylilies and clubs on all levels:local, regional, and national, especiallyregarding exhibitions and judging.
My best registration is H. ‘Color MeHappy’ (Gage 2000), certainly not newanymore but has many qualities I lookfor in a flower. These are: staying powerunder sun and rain, good growing habits,repeat blooming, and clear color. Whenrust came upon us, CMH proved to havea good degree of resistance. The twoseedlings pictured on Page 21 are CMHbabies, both of which exhibit those char-acteristics. My time, space, and strengthonly allow me a limited hybridizing pro-gram and I cannot compete with thosewho bring us the wide range of exoticfaces and forms of today that are soexciting. In dealing directly with home-owners, I am always happy when I canrecommend a variety that has at leastsome degree of rust resistance so thatquality is high on my priority list.”
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AMERICAN HEMEROCALLIS SOCIETY REGION 6 NEW MEMBERSPlease welcome the following new Region 6 members who have joined AHS since January 1, 2010. Congratulations to all!
NAME STREET ADDRESS CITY, STATE, & ZIP CODEAgee. Claire 2702 Lawtherwood, Ct. Dallas, TX 75214-3807Barnes, Donald 1535 Helen Dr. Spring, TX 77386Behrens, Joe 1046 Fieldstone Dr. Cedar Hill, TX 75104Boram, Helen 1909 Vineyard Bend Ct. Pearland, TX 77581Boren, Johanna 6337 Antares Road NE Albuquerque, NM 87111Brown, Linda Ray 13951 McGregor Rd. Conroe, TX 77302Caffey, Mary E. 201 Wrangler Way Clovis, NM 88101Calhoun, Kitty 3226 Avenue J Santa Fe, TX 77510Camplen, Robert 218 Winchester Dr. Bergheim, TX 78004Chiapetta, Vanessa L. 4520 Eagle Feather Dr. Austin, TX 78735Chiapetta, Valissa R. 8307 Real Rd. San Antonio, TX 78263Collier, Beth 2302 Fuente Cove Austin, TX 78745Conder, Cheddie 4605 Small Dr. Austin, TX 78731Davis, Michael V. 523 Camino de la Tierra Corrales, NM 87048DeJongh, Vada 124 E. Larkspur Dr. Alvin, TX 77511Dobbs, Jerry and Janice 14411 Magic River Cypress, TX 77429Fisher, Deborah 4103 Aqua Verde Austin, TX 78746Flaherty, Ross 2415 Rockaway Ln. San Antonio, TX 78232Gathright, Patricia 104 Valona Dr. Cibolo, TX 78108Good, Mary R. 1300 Northwood Jasper, TX 75951Grayson, Christopher 9102 N. Allegro St. Houston, TX 77080Hardy, Kristen and Eric 1531 Jordan St. Amarillo, TX 79106Hoffman, Kevin & Dawnvolyn, Callahan 13500 Country Rd. 3300 Brownsboro, TX 75756-3522Horne, Nancy 1514 Lahn Rd. New Braunfels, TX 78130Hough, Robin 915 Oak Vista Ct. Friendswood, TX 77546Keeling, Jim D., and Maria 3123 Lawrence Houston, TX 77018-8329Key, Robin 1410 Arcadia Ave. Austin, TX 78757Kirby, Diana C. 11016 Swelfling Terr. Austin, TX 78737Kirkland, Holly 18986 FM 1484 Rd. Conroe, TX 77303-4742Koopmans, Dorothy 393 Dennis Dr. NE Los Lunas, NM 87031Lee, Clifford 315 E. Helms Rd. Houston, TX 77037-1603Lilly, Lillian 1105 FM 2112 Nacogdoches, TX 75961-0312Littlefield, Beth 14 Muirfield Ln. Amarillo, TX 79124Manire, Carey 8725 Cedardale Ln. Houston, TX 77055-4808Meisetschlaeger, Sharon 5806 Crystell Ln. Houston, TX 77092Meynard, Sidney 3229 Glade Pointe Ct. Hurst, TX 76054Misch, Linda 1301 39th St. Lubbock, TX 79412-1818Mosely, Hazel 3933 Hawthorne Ave. Dallas, TX 75219Munro, George, and Annette 494 Hostetter Rd. New Waverly, TX 77358Pierson, Milton 5254 Stillbroke Dr. Houston, TX 77096-6200Pruitt, Victoria 609 Richardson Rd. Lufkin, TX 75904Purvis, Troy 2520 Avenida Loop Irving, TX 75062Ray, Jeanette, and Sam 911 Westwood St. Victoria, TX 77901-4750Renner, Jennifer 9613 A Sugar Hill Dr. Austin, TX 78748Rice, Bonnie 279 Roadrunner Ln. Floresville, TX 78114-3449Riedy, Richard 260 Gensen Dr. SW Los Lunas, NM 87031-7314Roberts, Sandy 509 Huckleberry Dr. Lake Jackson, TX 77566-4346Rodgers, Don 2480 AN Country Rd. 463 Montalba, TX 75853-2924Sanchez, Kimberly 11016 Buffalo River Rd. SE Albuquerque, NM 87123-5975Schmidt, Joan H. 1002 Woodhaven Ct. Euless, TX 76039Simmang, Mary Ellen 1519 Country Rd. 223 Giddings, TX 78942Skrasek, Dolores 3433 Kingsbury Ave. Richland Hills, TX 76118Spencer, Jenifer 18959 N. Dallas Parkway, Apt. 1014 Dallas, TX 75287-3171Sykes, Darlene 10104 Countryside Dr. Denton, TX 76207Taylor, Shannon 902 Gilmore St. Taylor, TX 76574Thompson, Charles and Kathleen 497 Country Rd. 1233 Omaha, TX 75571Threatte, J. Bruce and Jerre 30210 Oakmont Dr. Georgetown, TX 78628Wade, Kathy 4304 Vista Ridge Ln. Alvarado, TX 76009-5120Ware, April and John 13751 Lakeland Dr. Montgomery, TX 77356Warrick, David, and Elizabeth A. 6606 Firebrook Ct. Spring, TX 77389-4401Weaver, Nancy 1608 McDonald Rd. NW Albuquerque, NM 87107-1021Wier, Brad San Antonio Botanical Gardens, 555 Funston Pl. San Antonio, TX 78209Wilkin, Matthew 412 Sunset Dr. Cleburne, TX 76033Wolny, Paula 2711 Cypress St. Pasadena, TX 77502Youslf, Carole 11130B San Luis Pass Galveston, TX 77554
NOTE: Please double check all the information for your name. If any information is incorrect or if anything changes, please email or call Loris Garrett, AHS Region 6 Membership Chairman, at [email protected] or 281-469-4109.
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Cypress Creek Daylily SocietyVicki Barnes, Club ReporterOur club had no meetings during thesummer. We adjourned after our Aprilmeeting and eagerly await our nextmeeting on the 4th Sunday of September.
San Antonio Daylily SocietyGermaine Tuff, Club ReporterThe annual daylily picnic headed SADSactivities for late summer. Marty,JoNelle, Jeanne, and Jed Zager invited usto their lovely home in Floresville, TXon Saturday, July 17. Marty grilled ham-burgers and hotdogs. We all brought sal-ads, desserts, and other “sides.” The planwas to picnic outdoors under the oaks.The day was very hot and humid.JoNelle was more than gracious to invitethis noisy gang into the air-conditioningfor our picnic lunch.
Tim Kirkland, photographer and photog-rapher judge, spoke to us at the Augustmeeting. Daylily Photo competition wasadded as a new category at our show inMay. Since the category was new for us,we asked him to give us some pointers tomake next year’s competition better.
The annual auction was held at the Sep-tember 19 meeting at the San AntonioBotanical Garden Education Building.Daylily Bingo will follow in October.The November 21 meeting will be awrap up for the year.
The new officers will be sworn in duringthe December Christmas Party luncheonfestivities. SADS Year 2010 will come toa close and we will look forward to theNew Daylily Year.
Lufkin Hemerocallis SocietyMarilyn Fischer, Club ReporterThe September meeting was called toorder and we discussed very importantbusiness. It was decided that our club,along with the help of other area clubsand Mark Carpenter (The Lily Farm),will host the 2012 Regional Meeting tobe held in Nacogdoches, TX. We are asmall club and there is a lot of work to bedone! The next item of business was 2011
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Officer Elections. After the successfulyear that we had last year, it was decidedthat we would keep our officers anotheryear! They are as follows: President LoisPowell, 1st VP Donna Chicoine, 2nd VPTracie Pruitt, and Treasurer ConnieHugon. The club regretfully accepted PatLevens’ resignation as Secretary. Thatposition will be filled by Marilyn Fis-cher. With that settled, we moved on toour plans for the coming year.
Tracie Pruitt, our Program Chairman,announced some very exciting and infor-mative programs that she is planning forus. We are very excited about havingMark Carpenter speak with us nextmonth. At that time we will also have aplant auction! In November we will havea slide show and club plant exchange.That is always fun! It will be Decemberbefore we know it. That is always such aspecial time of year for our club. OurChristmas luncheon is always the best!
Lone Star Daylily SocietyPaula Payne, Club ReporterJuly was HOT! Our club enjoyed one ofthe AHS CD programs and it was on theAHS 2008 National Convention on‘Eyes, Bands, and Halos’ narrated byNikki Schmith. Of course this was of biginterest to all our members since we wereone of the host clubs.
August was HOTTER! And dry! Ourmeeting was a new experiment but Ihope it will be something that we’ll con-tinue on an annual basis. We played Day-lily Bingo. Our meetings are held at asenior center and they provided thebingo cards and equipment and the waythe game rules were devised, I thinkalmost everybody went home with atleast one daylily prize.
The September meeting was presentedby Loris Garrett of the lovely BenvenutiGarden. Our September meeting is alsothe time our members get to ‘spend’ theirdaylily bucks. It’s sort of a club rewardfor participation. Members use theirbucks to choose daylilies from selectedsellers. When the plants are received,members split the divisions with the
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member getting part and the club gettingpart. The club part is then auctioned offin our annual October auction. Thisallows our members a chance to bid andpurchase some of the latest daylilies forbargain prices. It seems that a lot ofmembers go home in September withsmiles on their faces as well. Isn’t thatthe way it’s supposed to be? Stay cool.Fall will be here—sometime.
Gulf Coast Daylily SocietyDeane Spradley, PresidentWe are in the process of trying to find anew club reporter. We will have a com-plete update for the Spring newsletter.
Houston Hemerocallis SocietyHershal Theilen, Club ReporterThere were not any scheduled activitiesduring the 2010 summer. Our September23 meeting program was presented byLoris Garrett and prepared our club forthe fall planting season. Bill Jarvis hasupdated our club web site at:http://www.ofts.com/hhs/for all to view. We are looking forward toan exciting 2010-2011 daylily year.
Houston Area Daylily SocietySharon Shackelford, Club ReporterAfter having a meetingless summer, weare back on track for fall meetings anddaylily fun. At the September meeting,we held the election for 2011 officers:President Eddie Gage, First VP DarlaOakes, Second VP Sara Chumley,Recording Secretary Mary Gage, Trea-surer Leslie Wong, and Historian Cathe-rine Neal. Loris Garrett presented ourprogram.
The last weekend of September, wejoined Cypress Creek Daylily Club in aplant sale with Mercer Arboretum'sannual “Garden Faire.” October will beour annual Daylily Auction. In Novem-ber, we will reminisce as we view a slideshow of Margaret Brukner’s garden.Margaret was a much loved memberwho sadly passed away in 2009. Decem-ber will find us celebrating with a Christ-mas party and installation of officers.
Nacogdoches Daylily SocietyJean Consford, Club ReporterOur first meeting of the Fall season was
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for dinner at the home of Regina Moe-hring. On October 1st, we look forwardto a “culinary adventure to delight oursenses with a beautiful presentation of adelicious, gourmet herbal luncheon”(from the web site of the PineywoodsHerb Farm in Kennard, Texas). Our nextmeeting in October will be at the homeof Margie Slay. We will meet at a restau-rant in November and Linda Clifton hasgraciously invited us to her home forChristmas.
Golden Spread Daylily SocietyJoan Avampato, Club ReporterWe just finished our annual fall daylilysale, which was held on Saturday, Sep-tember 11, at the Amarillo BotanicalGardens. Our members put in a lot ofpreparation for the sale and we thank allfor their dedication, especially DonGlenn, Douglas Smith, Betty Palmer,Frances Dauner, Ruth Malacara,Leonore Jensen, Joan Avampato, JeanMoss, and Sherry Ward. Special thanksto Don Glenn who contributed most ofthe daylilies from his extensive garden,to Douglas Smith for some additionalplants, and to the Amarillo BotanicalGardens for the use of their facilities.The June meeting was held at DonGlenn’s extensive gardens and membersbrought their favorite picnic food for apot luck lunch which was enjoyed by all.Members took a field trip to see all thedaylilies at the Randall County (TexasAgriLife) Extension office building forthe July meeting. The year will come toa close in October when we will meet forour annual dinner. The New Year forGSDS will start in February 2011.
East Texas Daylily SocietyBill Pace, Club ReporterOn June 6, the club held a daylily showat the Broadway Square Mall in Tyler.As in 2009, it was organized as an infor-mal (i.e., non-judged) show with onlyone division: horticulture on scape. NineETDS members supplied over 100 beau-tiful blooms for our display tables. Forty-five percent of these were entered in the“seedling or unknown” section andtwenty-eight percent in the “Large” sec-
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tion. The public enjoyed the blooms andwe hope we recruited several new mem-bers during the course of the show.
Mickey Licatovich and Clyde Elliot helping a show patron while their spouses converse.
Daylily hybridizing techniques, as prac-ticed by ETDS member Don Licatovich,were the subject of our June meeting. AQ&A session followed. Although manyof our daylilies continued to bloom, ourclub took July, August, and Septemberoff. Meetings resume in October with aplant, bulb, and seed exchange. InNovember, we are anticipating an inter-esting program from Ken Breeden fromDaylilies of Kenefick. We’ll round out2010 with a holiday luncheon.
Albuquerque Daylily SocietyJim Petty, Club ReporterAs our summer season came to an end,our last meeting was held at one of thelocal nurseries that specializes in xericplants and items that have been collectedto work well in the high desert regions.Our main focus, however, has been get-ting ready for the 2011 Region 6 Meet-ing. At this point, we think we are readyfor you all to start making your reserva-tions. We have 8 gardens set up for toursalong with great food—bringing back ElPinto’s super Mexican food and wonder-ful atmosphere. We think our hotel—theSheraton Uptown—is one of the best intown and located close to some of thebest shopping and restaurants. In addi-tion, they have given you rates that areless than we had ten years ago! BillMaryott has been very generous to ourclub and named a new introduction espe-cially for the get-together. You will eachreceive one in your packet when youcheck in. In addition, you will see manyof his most recent introductions in thetour gardens; the ones in my garden havebeen spectacular. See you in Albuquer-que next summer!
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Daylily Growers of DallasSteve Guynes, Club ReporterAs with members of most other Texasdaylily clubs, we had to deal with above-average temperatures over the summer.We nursed our plants through this stress-ful time, however, and the cooler tempsand a bit of rain arriving in late Septem-ber perked them up and rekindled ourenthusiasm for gardening. Our Septem-ber meeting featured Tim Thompson, alocal grower and club member, who pro-vided an interesting narrative to accom-pany the AHS Media Library slidepresentation “Gardening With Daylil-ies.” Two new club members were addedat the meeting. Our fall daylily sale isscheduled for October 2.
North Texas Daylily SocietyBob Harper, Club ReporterOn Memorial Day, NTDS members tooka carpool trip to The Lily Farm in Center,TX. After enjoying the beautiful daylil-ies, we met for lunch on the way home totalk about all the great cultivars we sawand those that we were taking home. Ourannual summer “picnic” was held at theCatfish & Company Restaurant in Hurst,TX on June 26. We resumed our meet-ings in August with members complet-ing their AHS Region 6 Popularity Pollentries. Bob Harper presented a Power-Point presentation and discussion of the2010 NTDS Daylily Show. At the Sep-tember 16 meeting, Mark Carpenter toldabout his first year as owner of The LilyFarm. We concluded the month with avery successful club daylily sale at theFort Worth Botanic Garden on Septem-ber 25. We have another daylily plantsale on October 9.
Brazosport Daylily SocietyShelly Stasney, Club ReporterAll is winding down for the BrazosportDaylily Society as most of our bloomsbegan to fade in late June. Our one sum-mer meeting was a slide show presenta-tion of the beautiful flowers that wereseen at Nationals. In August, we werepresented with a slide show, Jewels ofthe Garden—Garden Art. Then in Sep-tember, M. A. Caskey presented a pro-gram on gourds. In the fall, the club willbe selecting a new committee of officersand having our club auction. All arelooking forward to the cooler weather!
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REGION 6 DAYLILY SOCIETIES, PRESIDENTS, AND MEETING SCHEDULES
North Texas Daylily Society-Fort WorthPresident: Kenneth Long116 Encino Springs Lane, Weatherford, TX 76088-3805(817) 341-1297, [email protected] Monthly: 3rd Thursday, 7:30 p.m., Fort Worth Botanic Center, http://www.northtexasdaylilysociety.org/
San Antonio Daylily SocietyPresident: Ray Elizondo1315 Mary’s Cove, New Braunfels, TX 78130(830) 606-0198, [email protected]: Monthly, 3rd Sunday, 2 p.m.,San Antonio Botanical Garden Education Buildinghttp://www.sadaylilies.com/
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