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Spring 2018 Vol. 11, Issue 1
in the Great Northeast
Inside: 22nd Annual Can-Am Classic registration
Pop PollPhoto Contest RulesFeatured Region 4 Garden
Connecticut • Maine • Massachusetts • New Brunswick • Newfoundland & Labrador • New Hampshire • New York • Nova Scotia • Ontario
• Prince Edward Island • Québec• Rhode Island • Vermont
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Please may it be known that the American Hemerocallis Society has made available newly updated resources for 2018. “Daylily Exhibitions: A Practical Guide for daylily exhibitions, judges, and show chairs 2018” is a must for all daylily exhibition participants. “Judging Daylilies in the Garden (2018)” enhances earlier handbooks for garden judges with color photographs of daylily forms as well as additional material. The books are the work of AHS Education Chair Scott Elliott and his committees. All new judging students-to-be are encouraged to acquire his or her individual copy of the appropriate handbook(s) before taking exhibition judge clinics or garden judge workshops. All current exhibition judges, garden judges, and instructors should
always have a copy handy for refer-ence.Both books are avail-able as free, print-your-own files from the AHS Portal. The respective links are https://daylilies.site-ym.com/page/ExhibitionJudging and https://daylilies.site-ym.com/page/GardenJudgesHome Anyone preferring bound copies may order either handbook, or both, from Amazon.com. “Daylily Exhibitions” is priced at $19.99, while “Judging Daylilies” is offered at $9.99. A reasonable shipping fee is additional. Amazon.com offers the publications via their print-on-demand book service, so allow additional time for delivery. The Amazon.com link is: https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=-search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=judging+daylilies Serving as an American Hemerocallis Society Exhibition Judge or Garden Judge does require training, including a test for each discipline, dedication, time, effort and atten-dance. There are responsibilities and requirements to fol-
low. But what fun as well! Daylilies to be seen, shows to view, and gardens to tour! Friendships to be made and plenty of daylily camaraderie! And you earn the appreciation of the American Hemerocallis Society for a job well done!
Thank you!Gary M. Jones
AHS Garden Judge Workshop Expediter & Region 4 Garden Judge Liaison
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American Hemerocallis Society OfficersNational President
Judie Branson
2301 Woodland Avenue
Springdale, AR 72762
Membership Manager
Beverly Winkelman
17103 Herridge Road
Pearland, Texas 77584
Editor, The Daylily JournalMeg McKenzie Ryan
1936 Wensley Avenue
El Centro, CA 92243
AHS Region 4 DirectorRuss Allen
18 Point Arrowhead
Road, Guilford, CT 06437
Region 4 Officers and LiaisonsRegional President (RP)Luanne Madden19 Bryce Ave.Glen Cove, NY [email protected]
Regional Publicity Director (RPD)Dave Mussar4083 Watson Road South,Puslinch, OntarioCanada N0B [email protected]
Regional SecretaryMarlene Harmon49 Ledge RoadHudson, NH [email protected]
Regional TreasurerDan PessoniP.O. Box 1083East Orleans, MA [email protected]
Regional EditorAdele Keohan304 Lowell StWakefield, MA [email protected]
Region 4 WebmasterKelly Noel101-727 Richmond RoadOttawa, ON K2A [email protected]
Region 4 Garden Judge LiaisonGary Jones40 Woodstock MeadowsWoodstock, CT [email protected]
Region 4 Exhibition Judge LiaisonElliot Turkiew11 Edward StreetBethpage, NY [email protected]
Region 4 Scientific LiaisonSue BergeronRR3 Almonte OntarioK0A 1A0 [email protected]
AHS Endowment Fund Liaison-open
Youth LiaisonElliot Turkiew11 Edward StreetBethpage, NY [email protected]
American Hemerocallis SocietyMembership RatesIndividual (1 year) $25.00Individual (3 years) $70.00Dual Membership (1 year)* $30.00Dual Membership (3 years)* $83.00Life Membership $500.00Dual life Membership $750.00Youth $10.00
* Dual membership means two persons living in the same household.
Dues are to be paid by January 1 of each year.Make checks payable to the AHS and mail to: AHS Secretary, Beverly Winkelman17103 Herridge RoadPearland, Texas [email protected]
or pay online at http://www.daylilies.org/AHSmemb.html
The AHS Region 4 Newsletter is presented herein as a ser-vice to Region 4 Members and is not necessarily endorsed by the AHS or by the editor. Rights to material published in this newsletter remain with the author; to reprint or otherwise reproduce material published in this newsletter, please obtain permission from the author.
The American Hemerocallis Society, Inc. is a non-profit organization. Said corporation is organized exclusively for educational and scientific purposes, and especially to pro-mote, encourage and foster the development and improve-ment of the genus Hemerocallis and public interest there-in. The purposes are expressly limited so that AHS qualifies as an exempt organization under section 501 (c)(3) of the Internal revenue Code of 1954 or the corresponding provi-sion of any future U.S. Internal Revenue Law.
On the cover:
"Le Projet Hémérocalle"
Photo: Jean-Sébastien Poulin
Editorial PolicyThe editorial focus of this publication centers on the genus Hemero-callis, AHS and Region 4 events, Region 4 members and hybridizers.Submissions are encouraged. The editor reserves the right to edit for space, grammar, clarity and content. Submission GuidelinesPlease submit: • High resolution photographs• Reports on Region 4 club news and events• Articles on daylilies• Garden write ups• Non-commercial profiles on Region 4 hybridizersSubmit material via email. Please send text as a file attachment in Word. Send photographs as separate attachments. Obtain copyright/consent form from editor, sign and return.If you have inquiries regarding submissions, articles, photos or correc-tions, please email the Region 4 Newsletter Editor at [email protected].
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Daylilies in the Great NortheastSpring 2018 Vol. 11, Issue 1
Connecticut • Maine • Massachusetts • New Brunswick • Newfoundland & Labrador • New Hampshire • New York • Nova Scotia • Ontario • Prince Edward Island • Québec • Rhode Island • Vermont
Attention: AHS Exhibition and Garden Judges.............................. 2
Region 4 Officers and Liaisons..................................................... 4
Reports from the Region 4 Officers.............................................. 6
2018 Region 4 Hybridizer Award Nominees....................................9
Region 4 Financial Report............................................................12
AHS Youth News ..................................................................... ... 13
22nd Annual Can-Am Classic- Agenda............................................. 14
22nd Annual Can-Am Classic- Registration Form............................. 15
2018 Regional: Nova Scotia......................................................... 16
Thank you, George and Mary! by Melodye Campbell......................... 17
New AHS Daylily Ambassador Program by Melodye Campbell ........... 18
In Memoriam: Dr. Betty Fretz ..................................................... 19
AHS Region 4 Display Gardens..................................................... 20
AHS Region 4 Garden Judges...................................................... 21
AHS Region 4 Exhibition Judges......................................... . . ...... 22
AHS Endowments from Region 4 members.................................. 22
2018 Popularity Poll Ballot ......................................................... 23
Featured Region 4 Garden: Sheltara............................................. 24
Echo From the North: Profile of a Hybridizerby Jean-Sébastien Poulin............................................................. 28
2018 Region 4 Photo Contest Rules .............................................. 32
Praise of the Promotion or the Art of Dreaming a Silver Medal..... 33
Éloge de la promotion ou l’art de rêver une médaille d’argent.... . . 36 by Jean-Sébastien Poulin
10 Strategies That Hook Your Kids Into Becoming Passionate Gardeners by Brian and Diane Jones.........................................39
Sharing Daylily Genetics Around the World by Maureen Strong and Jacob Braun..............................................................................42
Rognvaldursson by John Stahl ................................................43
Ancient History, Modern Times.................................................... 45Temps Anciens, Temps Modernes ............................................... 46by Roland R. Tremblay, PhD
How I Became a Dining Room/Backyard Hybridizer by Russ Allen ................................................................................ 47
Optimal Process for the Cold Temperature Treatment of Dormant Daylily Seeds by Greg Haggett ....................................................... 50
Hemerocallis Gall Midge Now in Region 4 by Sue Bergeron .............. 51
The Chase, Conquest and a New Bucket List: Where Will the Future Take Me? by Lori -Ann Jones ........................................................... 52
Did You Know? by Helen Nordvall .................................................... 55
Region 4 Club News..................................................................... 56
Kentucky Gents Visit the Island by Chris Petersen ........................... 59
Region 4 Local Organizations........................................................ 62
Interactive Ad rates ................................................................. 63
2019 Region 4 Stanley Saxton Seedling Award.............................. 64
Welcome New Members of Region 4!............................................ 65
AdvertisementsGreywood Farm, Topsfield, Massachusetts............................ 3
Harmon Hill Farm, Hudson, New Hampshire................................. 3
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AHS Region 4 Officer ReportsDirector - Russ AllenNews from the AHS Boardroom
Newly elected directors in their positions only three months like myself have a lot to learn – including items such as remembering when to write my first Director’s report! A lot has been happening, however, so let me share a few highlights.
American Daylily Society – Sharing Our Love for Daylilies with the World – The American Hemerocallis Society’s Board of Directors recently unanimously approved “the greater emphasis and use of ‘American Daylily Society’ in marketing, education, and outreach efforts.” This change will importantly be reflected throughout the extensive update of the Daylily Society’s website now in progress. While changing our Society’s name across our awards, medals, books, logo, and posters etc. will be gradually implemented over time, there is no plan to eliminate the use of our historical American Hemerocallis Society name entirely. So don’t be surprised to see the American Daylily Society (or its abbreviation ADS) show up in the future.
Daylily Society Mission Update – The strategic planning committee has been working on updating the mission and key strategies for the Society, and one change has been to reflect a stronger focus on outreach initiatives to gardeners and local daylily club members. A related administrative action on my part has been to update the responsibilities for the Chair of the Marketing Committee to also include much greater emphasis on fostering outreach initiatives aimed at broadening the appeal of daylilies amongst the gardening public. I believe the best long term strategy for building Daylily Society membership (which has recently declined to about 5,800) is to build greater awareness of the joys of daylilies with gardeners in general, as well as greater appreciation for the benefits of membership among local daylily club members – many of whom aren’t currently ADS members. We also need to better communicate why daylilies are the most rewarding perennial flower one can grow!
Marketing Committee Activity – As Chair for the Marketing Committee (which includes key Region 4 contributors Melodye Campbell and Adele Keohan), we have also begun some outreach initiatives which you may begin to see. We began a cross-membership recruitment initiative with the American Horticultural Society (which
has over 20,000 members) with placement of three small ads in their society’s journal (The American Gardener) during 1H18 [the first half of 2018]. This outreach initiative will be expanded during the next several months as we exchange full page ads in our respective journals and send membership invitation emails to our respective memberships during 2Q18 [second quarter, 2018]. Consider joining the Horticultural Society if you haven’t already done so. Hopefully some of the Horticultural Society members will soon be joining our ranks as well – so be prepared to welcome them on board!
Daylily Authors and YouTube Creators Needed – Another area of great interest in our outreach efforts is to build a small cadre of volunteer authors who can work with leading consumer and gardening magazines to publish articles on daylilies to be seen by millions. We are delighted to report that during the first half of 2018 excellent articles on daylilies by Nikki Schmith will be published in Garden Gate and Garden Design magazines. Any persons willing to volunteer to work on outreach initiatives including assisting in daylily article creation, high quality YouTube video creation, or other social media content, please contact me! I’d like to lend as much assistance as possible to aid such efforts! Your help would be greatly appreciated!
Building Connectedness Between the National, Regional, and Local Club Levels – Another on-going area of interest is to increase the “connectedness” between the national, regional and local daylily club levels for sharing daylily related information, news and inspiration. The Daylily Journal and Regional Newsletters play extremely important roles in this effort since at the national level the Daylily Society does NOT have a usable email data base which can reach most folks attending local daylily club meetings. We look forward in the future to the assistance of RPDs in passing along items of interest to all their local daylily club presidents for dissemination to their local daylily club members. Work is being done to address this email challenge, but it will not be something fixed in the near future.
New Daylily Ambassador Program – Kudos to Melodye Campbell for great progress in connection with the new Daylily Ambassador Program – providing recognition and mutually beneficial PR to cities supporting daylily related garden activities.
Daylily E-News – If you haven’t already done so, consider subscribing to the free Daylily E-News which helps keep
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AHS Region 4 Officer Reportsyou up to date on daylily related news across the country.
Nova Scotia Regional Meeting (July 27-29) – I’m very much looking forward to attending the Nova Scotia Regional meeting and hope to see many of your there! It will be a marvelous excursion to visit Nova Scotia for the first time – as well as to visit another daylily club in our Region.
National Convention (June 6-9) –Also looking forward to attending the Myrtle Beach National Convention in early June. There’s still room available last I heard. Attending a national convention is a spectacular memory you’ll never forget!
Closing Observation – In closing, the volunteering spirit throughout the Daylily Society never ceases to amaze me! With only a handful of paid staff to help keep the Society running at the national level, it’s up to each one of us volunteers to help our clubs be successful in our mission to share our love for daylilies with the world!
Russ
Regional President - Luanne MaddenAs Spring approaches, it is time to start thinking about
our own gardens but also some fun activities coming up.
First of all, I would like to thank former club presidents for service to their clubs and to Region 4. Thanks to new club presidents stepping up and serving in this position. A special thanks to Region 4 Officers for those new and those continuing to serve on the Board:
Russ Allen: Regional Director
Adele Keohan: Newsletter Editor
Dave Mussar: Regional Publicity Director
Dan Pessoni: Regional Treasurer
Marlene Harmon: Regional Secretary
Kelly Noel: Regional Webmaster
They have been helpful and supportive as I have been learning the ins and outs of my current position.
Now is the time for clubs to start thinking about hosting a Daylily Exhibition. Currently, Region 4 has 2 exhibitions during the year. It takes a few members to get the exhibitionorganized but a lot of members to run it. My own experience with the LIDS exhibition is, it gets many of the club’s quiet members involved. If nothing else, entering daylilies is what is necessary to run the exhibition. It is also a major platform to
show off the “wonders” of daylilies to the public.I am so excited about the Region 4 Meeting being held in
Nova Scotia, Canada during July. Greg Sutcliffe and Michele Mercier have put together a wonderful program for us. I hadthe honor of visiting and judging the first Nova Scotia Club Daylily Exhibition several years ago.
My fellow judges and travelers (Kate Reed and Mary Collier Fisher) and I were well taken care of for several days. Not only did we have the opportunity to judge at the show, but we were invited to visit several of the outstanding gardens in Nova Scotia. I felt very welcomed by many of the club members and saw first hand how a club that works together could host a wonderful Daylily Exhibition. I look forward to seeing some of the members previously met and meeting many more. So please do not miss the Regional Meeting. Check out their site on the Region 4 website.
Also, on the Region 4 event list to attend is the Annual Can-Am in Toronto, Canada hosted by the Ontario Daylily Society. I went for the first time last year and had great fun as well as met old and new friends. Check out information about both events in this issue of the Region 4 Newsletter.
I am told Spring will come (depending on which groundhog you believe). Hoping to see many of you at the Can-Am and/or the Region 4 Meeting in Nova Scotia.
Warmest regards,
Luanne
Regional Publicity Director - Dave MussarThe calendar says spring has arrived but apparently
Mother Nature has not received the message. While it has been unusually cold and snowy in much of the northeast through the end of March and into early April surely warmer weather and better growing conditions will return soon.
In this edition, as always in the spring newsletter you will find the ballot for the Region 4 Popularity Poll. Most of us vote the poll on line at the AHS website but it is always nice to review the ballot in advance of voting. Based upon considerable discussion between the RPDs of all the regions and a subcommittee charged with re-invigorating the pop poll process, some changes have been implemented this year in all regions. One of the key recommendations to keep the ballot fresh was to elevate all of the Region’s previous pop poll winners to a Hall of Fame so that a cultivar would only win the poll once, then would be moved to the Hall of Fame and would no longer
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appear on future ballots thereby ensuring a new winner every year. For Region 4, six cultivars have dominated the pop poll for the past 20 years and a seventh achieved a winning tie once. The following cultivars will be elevated to the Region 4 Popularity Poll Hall of Fame: Strawberry Candy (5 time winner), Primal Scream (5 time winner), Sun Panda (current and 4 time winner), Fooled Me (3 times), Ruby Spider (2 times), Custard Candy (one time) and Webster’s Pink Wonder (tied once).
As in the past, all cultivars receiving 3 or more votes in the prior year (excluding previous winners) were added to the basic ballot. Another recommendation by the subcommittee was to add to the ballot award winning cultivars from the Region that for some reason may not have appeared on the ballot in the past year. To that end, added to the ballot this year are a number of Region 4 hybridized plants that have won AHS cultivar or specialty awards as well as some that have won Region 4 awards such as the Elizabeth Nesmith Award or the Region 4 Hybridizer’s Award if they have not been a previous pop poll winner. As always the pop poll ballot has room to write in up to 5 cultivars that do not already appear on the ballot. These changes will help ensure a fresh and changing ballot with a new winner every year. Please ensure that you vote for your favourite best Region 4 performers this year at: http://www.daylilies.org/PopPoll/ballot.html
We also have two exciting Region 4 events coming up in the near future. First up is the 22nd annual Can-Am Classic running the weekend of May 4th – 5th in Mississauga Ontario. We have a great line up of speakers, great plants, free phytos for guests from the USA and a great time is guaranteed! See the ad in this edition for further details and how to register.
The Region 4 Conference and summer tour will be hosted by the Nova Scotia Daylily Society on July 27th – 29th in Halifax Nova Scotia. It is a great and exciting location with lots to see and do! I know the club has been working extremely hard preparing for their first regional. Do yourself a favour and plan to go to the Regional this summer, you won’t regret it! Hope to see many of you at both of these events.
Dave
Regional Editor - Adele KeohanHello! Bonjour! Spring is here!
Please enjoy this interactive spring issue of the Region 4 Newsletter, Daylilies in the Great Northeast!
Throughout this interactive newsletter, you will find hyperlinks that will allow you to visit websites or contact someone via email at the touch/ click of a button.
Interactive features ...Click on any item on the Table of Contents
page [page 5] and you will be taken directly to that item without having to scroll through the pages.At the bottom of each page, you will see a blue Table of Contents button.
Clicking on the "Table of Contents" button will allow you to quickly return to the Table of Contents page without scrolling back through many pages to get there.
Also on page 5, you will see thumbnail photos such as the one at left. Clicking on any of these photos will bring you to its related article.
Interactive Ads such as the one for Greywoods Farm and Harmon Hill Farm [on page 3] can introduce you to a reader via your website, daylily sales garden or daylily-related product at the touch of a button! Ad rates may be found on page 64. The Region 4 Newsletter is sent to AHS officers in all 15 regions, and it is available for anyone in the world to read via the Region 4 website, www.ahsregion4.org.
My sincere thanks to those of you who contributed club reports, photographs and articles to this newsletter; we have an informative, interesting and quality publication because of your submissions.
I believe that you will find this interactive newsletter easy to navigate. Enjoy the photos, the great feature articles and club reports in this issue, and do let me know what you think!
I wish you all a wonderful summer.
AHS Region 4 Officer Reports
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2018 Region 4 Hybridizer Award Nominees
H. ‘Forever The Optimist’ (Longton, D. 2009)
H. ‘Labyrinth Design’ (Jaimes, J. 2018)
H. ‘Greywoods Rainbow Equus’ (Wilkin-son, D. 2016)
H. ‘Gryphon Hankow Legacy’ (Stelter, G. 2012)
H. ‘Jayne Thomas Memorial’ (Gellatly, P. 2017)
H. ‘Choumy’ (Thibault-Lippé 2017)
Each hybridizer residing in Region 4 may nominate one of his/her cultivars in a given year. The eligible cultivar must have been registered in the last ten years, including the year in which nominated. A cultivar may be re-nominated for up to three consecutive years. If a cultivar does not
win within that period of time, it becomes ineligible in future years.
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H. ‘Miss Holly Go Lightly’ (Stahl, J. 2015)
H. ‘Modeling Ava’ (Turner, C. 2018) H. ‘Rosemary Mussar ’ (Mussar, D. 2013)
H. 'Whip City Tizzie' (Jones, L. 2011)
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2018 Region 4 Hybridizer Award Nominees
H. ‘Trésor Précieux' (Ratté, J. 2017)
Additional information posted on the Region 4 Website at www.ahsregion4.org. All photos of nominated cultivars on these two pages were taken by the hybridizer unless otherwise specified.
Deadline Oct 1. All AHS members are permitted to vote. One vote per member. 3 ways to vote!
1. Vote ONLINE on the region 4 website, www.ahsregion4.org [Each member's vote will be sent directly to Luanne Madden]
OR2. EMAIL votes to Luanne Madden at [email protected]
OR3. By postal mail: mail completed ballot to Dave Mussar if you reside in Canada or to Luanne Madden if you reside in the US.
In US, EMAIL or mail to: Luanne Madden 19 Bryce Ave. Glen Cove, NY 11542-2013 [email protected]
In Canada, mail only to:Dave Mussar4083 Watson Road South, RR1Puslinch, OntarioCanada N0B 2J0
H. 'Corde Pareille' (Sobek, B. 2014)
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2018 Region 4 Hybridizer Award BallotMember Member
#1 #2
1. ______ _______ ‘Choumy’ (Thibault-Lippé 2017)
2. ______ ______ ‘Forever The Optimist’ (Longton, D. 2009)
3. ______ ______ ‘Greywoods Rainbow Equus’ (Wilkinson, D. 2016)
4. ______ ______ ‘Gryphon Hankow Legacy’ (Stelter, G. 2012)
5. ______ ______ ‘Jayne Thomas Memorial’ (Gellatly, P. 2017)
6. ______ ______ ‘Labyrinth Design’ (Jaimes, J. 2018)
7. ______ ______ ‘Miss Holly Go Lightly’
(Stahl, J. 2015)
8. ______ ______ ‘Modeling Ava’ (Turner, C. 2018)
9. ______ ______ ‘Rosemary Mussar ’ (Mussar, D. 2013)
10. ______ ______ ‘Trésor Précieux' (Ratté, J. 2017)
11. ______ ______ 'Whip City Tizzie' (Jones, L. 2011)12. 'Corde Pareille' (Sobek, 2014)
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Region 4 Financial ReportAMERICAN HEMEROCALLIS SOCIETY REGION 4
Statement of Income and Expenses January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2017 Respectfully submitted, Dan Pessoni, Region 4 Treasurer
Funds available on January 1, 2018 - $20,333.82
INCOMEClub Sales:BADS $ 400.00CDS 500.00HADS 924.31LIDS 500.00NEDS 120.25ODS 1,375.00 $ 3,819.56AHS Postage Reimbursement 1,643.00
Melodye Campbell Facebook Auction Donation 1,750.00 $3,393.00 TOTAL INCOME $7,212.56
EXPENSESReg. Director $1,250.00*RPD 0.00Newsletter Editor & Adobe 1,137.32Insurance 194.25Newsletter 3,519.00US/Canadian Postage & Mailing Service 465.44Web Hosting 77.97Andrew Reilly, Youth Convention Reimbursement 159.00Mary Collier Fisher, Nor'East Daylily Shipping 18.89Nova Scotia, Convention Seed Money 2,000.00*RPD Dave Mussar has donated his $500 Expenses to the Region 4 General Fund TOTAL EXPENSES $8,821.87 NET LOSS $1,609.31
Assets: Cape Cod 5 Checking Account $12,677.86 Interest earned - $7.46
Deutsche Money Market $ 7,655.96 Interest earned - $61.56
Funds available on January 1, 2018 $20,333.82
Youth Funds Available 2018 (CDS) $871.00 (Included in General Funds)
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Region 4 Financial ReportAMERICAN HEMEROCALLIS SOCIETY REGION 4
Budget – Calendar Year 2018INCOMEClub Sales & Convention Contributions $6,905.00AHS Newsletter Reimbursement 825.00Newsletter Advertisements/Subscriptions 300.00Interest 70.00
$8,100.00
EXPENSESDirector $1,250.00RP 750.00RPD 500.00Newsletter Editor & Adobe 1,150.00AHS Insurance 210.00Newsletter 3,600.00US/Canadian Postage & Mailing Service 470.00Website 70.00Miscellaneous (Supplies, mailings, software) 100.00
$ 8,100.00
Respectfully Submitted,Dan PessoniTreasurer, Region 4
There are a lot of fun and exciting opportunities for our Youth Members in the AHS! Youth members, have you visited the Youth Group on the AHS members only Portal at http://www.daylilynetwork.org ? To participate, you must sign on to the Portal with your membership number and password. If you have any problem signing on, contact the Youth Chairperson, Kathy D’Alessandro at [email protected] new contest will be advertised in the upcoming issue of the Youth News: A chance to win a youth registration (or reimbursement) to a 2018 Regional Summer meetingAsking youth hybridizers that have registered any of their daylilies to donate one of their registrations to the 2018 AHS National Convention live daylily auction. If able to donate, contact the Youth Chair, [email protected]:
August 1 is the deadline for submissions to the Youth News. Contribute to the newsletter to receive a free daylily!
Above, the cover slide from a new Power Point presentation available via the AHS Members Portal
https://daylilies.site-ym.com/store/ListProducts.aspx?catid=107150&p=1
The Youth News is a newsletter for AHS youth members. It is issued two times per year; spring/summer and fall/winter. If you do not receive your copies, please contact the Youth Chairperson.
Deadline for submissions to this column is October 1 for the Fall 2018 issue.
AHS Region 4 Youth News
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22nd ANNUAL CAN-AM DAYLILY CLASSICMay 4th - 5th, 2018
Featuring:
CLAUDIA CONWAY – Canterbury, New HampshireBOB FAULKNER – Dayton, OhioTIM HOBBS – Warkworth, OntarioTOM POLSTON – Dayton, OhioJEAN-SÉBASTIEN POULIN – Levis, QuebecERIC SIMPSON – Alexander, North Carolina
FRIDAY 7:30 p.m. – Speaker Presentations9:00 p.m. – Live Auction (part 1)
SATURDAY 8:00 a.m. - Registration and continental breakfast 9:00 a.m. - Full day's program of speakers
- includes lunch plus Plant Sale, Live Auction, Silent Auction, Chinese Auction and lots of fun!
6:00 p.m. - Evening banquet–dine with the speakers (optional)
Registration - $110 postmarked before April 1stAfter April 1st - $125; Youth - $50
(all prices in Canadian dollars)
Registrars: Gabriele and Ross Dettweiler, 5003 Fountain St. N.,Breslau, Ontario N0B 1M0
Phone 519-648-2408 or e-mail: [email protected]
Doubletree Toronto Airport West Hotel, 5444 Dixie Road, (1 block south of the 401),
Mississauga, Ontario. L4W 2L2Phone: 800-737-3211 or 905-624-1144
For further details or to register on-line please visit:http://www.ontariodaylily.on.ca
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REGISTRATION FORM
An AHS Region 4 Event22nd ANNUAL CAN-AM DAYLILY CLASSIC
Please make your cheque payable to Ontario Daylily Society and mail it along with thisform to:
Gabriele and Ross Dettweiler5003 Fountain St. N., Breslau, Ontario N0B 1M0
Name_________________________________________________________________
Street_______________________________________City_______________________
Prov./State_______________________Postal Code/Zip_________________________
Phone_____________________________E-mail______________________________
Additional registrants and their addresses:_________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
Early Bird registration (before April 1/18) _____ x [$110 Cdn] = $______ (# of people)
Registration (postmarked after April 1/18) _____ x [$125 Cdn] = $______(# of people)
Youth registration _____ x [$50 Cdn] = $______ (# of people)
Saturday Evening Banquet – (at Hotel) _____ x [$45 Cdn] = $______(# of people)
Saturday Banquet entrée choice - - - - - Chicken ( ) Beef ( ) Fish ( )
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Please check here if you would like your contact information (address, phone number and email address) to show on the meeting roster list. ______
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Hello Everyone from Nova Scotia! We have some exciting updates for the AHS Regional 4 Conference this summer being held in Halifax Nova Scotia!Please don't forget to register before the early bird deadline of Friday May 25th!
nsdsregion4.com
Announcing our Friday Night Speaker Michael FalconerFalhaven Farm in Ontario
Michael has always been an avid gardener and attributes this passion to his late paternal grandmother whom he followed around the garden at a very young age. Over the years he has collected irises, lilies, dahlias, glads and many spring bulbs but his true passion has become daylilies and hostas. In true Canadian fashion he has been crossbreeding northern to southern and has used plants from well known hybridizers such as Bill Waldrop, Pat Stamile, Frank Smith, Larry Grace, Phil Korth, Jack Carpenter, Karol Emmerich, Bryan Culver and Henry Lorrain. He is a member of the Ontario Daylily Society and currently serves as Vice President of ODS and of course he is also a member of AHS and enjoys attending as many Nationals as possible to tour the gardens and make new friends in the daylily world. Michael looks forward to sharing his passion of the flower we all love from Falhaven Farm on “ Ontario’s West Coast.”
Two Tour Gardens added to the agenda for Saturday!
Cecil and Lilian Dunlap Pheasant Gardens, Truro NS
Pheasant Gardens is owned by Cecil & Lillian Dunlap located in Truro, NS. The land we purchased in 2007 was devoid of trees and topsoil. After many truckloads of topsoil, compost and horse manure, we began building the gardens. In the beginning, Cecil would travel from Halifax to work in the gardens, and then we built our home and moved to Truro in 2010. Our garden name was chosen because we were constantly visited by two cock pheasants while we constructed the gardens. Currently we grow 650 plus registered daylilies, along with Cecil’s half dozen seedling beds.
Norm and Heather PattonSight for Sore Eyes Garden - Truro, NS
This compact residential garden has a foundation of gravelled pathways, conifers, boxwood, barberry hedges, & Japanese maples, among wooden structures. All designed in concert to highlight 15 years of daylily & perennial plantings. Various pieces of garden art contrast between the seamless blend and strikingly visual, to enhance the viewing experience. Stroll the many paths and relax at seating venues as you absorb sights & sounds in what some have suggested … 'a garden of little rooms.'
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Thank you! Gracias! Merci! Grazie! Danke!
Region 4 member, our Stout Silver medal winner George Doorakian, is severely limiting his hybrid-izing of daylilies. He and Mary Collier Fisher of Nor’East Daylilies, who sells his introductions, donated a number of Doorakian daylily introduc-tions to Region 4. In fact, George and Mary very generously offered his introductions to all 15 AHS regions.
Carl Harmon stepped up and offered to plant the daylilies at Harmon Hill until the Region 4 offi-cers made a decision about distribution. Carl said, "They came here on August 2nd, 2017 and were planted right away, Cameron Stern helped. Planted in a good spot and after about 3 weeks I noticed they had settled in and taken off really well." That’s great news, Carl and Cameron!
Region 4 officers made the decision to auction some of the recent introductions at the 2018 Can-Am Classic. Proceeds will benefit Region 4. The rest will be distributed between the Region 4 clubs that have contributed por-tions of their public plant sales back to the Region. Region 4 depends upon those contributions to keep running, so thank you to HADS, BADS, CDS, ODS, NEDS, LIDS, HVIDS, NSDS and FieLDS for all your support through the years!
A few of the plants that will be shared with the clubs are TERESA A. MOSHER (2017)[below, left], GREEN ICON (2015)[below, right], WELLESLEY COLLEGE (2015), COSMIC EXPLOSION (2014)[below, center], PHILL WARBASSE (2012), SENATOR EDWARD M. KENNEDY (2012) and many more. You can see images of George’s daylilies on the Nor’East Daylilies website, http://www.noreastdaylilies.com/2017_intros.htm.
Thank you, everyone, who made this happen! Melodye Campbell
Thank you, George and Mary!
[Above, left to right: Paula Doorakian, George Doorakian and Mary Collier Fisher.]
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Submitted by Melodye Campbell
Every year during bloom season there are lots of festivals and events that aren’t hosted by a daylily club or AHS members. Whether or not they are involved with the AHS, these folks SHARE OUR PASSION for daylilies. The mission of the new Daylily Ambassador program is to recognize and celebrate those folks – AHS members or not – that go above and beyond to promote daylilies to the general public.
AHS is honored and humbled to recognize The Flag City Daylily Tour in Findlay, Ohio as the first Daylily Ambas-sador! In 2017, over 500 people from eleven states and Canada visited the 6 gardens on the tour. Put July 6 - 8 on your calendar for the third annual 2018 Flag City Daylily Tour. For more information, go to their Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/flag.city.daylily.tour/
Do you know people or organizations that make an extraordinary effort to promote daylilies to the general public? Read more about the program and download the nomination form from the links on the AHS home page. Or contact Melodye Campbell for more information about the program, [email protected].
New AHS Daylily Ambassador Program!
Photo by Mike Anders
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In MemoriamBetty Fretz, a long time member of the ODS passed away in March of this year. On behalf of the ODS I extend con-dolences to her husband Marv and her family.
Dr. Betty FRETZ, of Moorefield, died on Monday, March 26, 2018 in her 69th year. Wife of Marv Fretz. Daughter of Mary Rempel of Mission, B.C. Remembered by her sisters Cathy and Steve Krauchi of Prince George, B.C., Lynda and Al-lan Mantler of Abbotsford, B.C., Lorraine Stobbe and Greg Dunford of Vancouver, B.C., and their families. Betty will be loved and remembered for the many lives she touched.Don BlakelyPresident, Ontario Daylily Society
Betty Fretz, a long time member of the Ontario Daylily Society died on March 26, 2018. Best remembered by at-tendees of the ODS CanAm Classic, she was always regis-
tration #1, and during the live auction if she had her heart set on a certain cultivar, good luck in trying to outbid her.Although we only knew her through ODS, she was a warm individual who always made us feel welcome at differ-ent events. Carol had the opportunity to visit her gardens 'Floral And Hardy Gardens' during one of the Region 4 Summer Meetings. The daylily 'Lady Betty Fretz' (Petit, 2005) is named in her honor, as is the somewhat whimsical 'Not Named After Betty Fretz' (Georges-M, 2015).Our condolences to her husband and family, she will be missed.Anthony and Carol Haj, New York
'Lady Betty Fretz' (Petit, 2005) 'Not Named After Betty Fretz' (Georges-M, 2015)
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This list is not an advertisement and it is not intended to serve as a mailing list but rather to provide information on the location of official AHS Display Gardens for visitation purposes. Never visit a private garden without telephoning in advance. Never let yourself into a garden if the owner is not at home. Please ask before bringing small children. Check the AHS website Home Page for updated information.
CANADANOVA SCOTIABlue Rock Gardens, Brian C. Smith, 1766 Hammonds Plains Rd., Hammonds Plains, NS, Canada B4B 1P5 [email protected] (902) 835-7469
Chestnut HIl Farm (Historic Garden), Greg Sutcliffe 1244 Shore Road, Shelburne, NS, Canada B0T 1W0 [email protected] (902) 875-3902
Garden at the End of the Road, David and Mary Trott, 12 Spinnaker Drive, Halifax, NS, Canada B3N 38A [email protected] (902) 477-5321
ONTARIODaylily Ensemble Gardens, Jane Fish, 25 Mendeville Road, St. Thomas, ON N5R [email protected](519) 631-8927
Gryphon Gardens (Historic Garden), Gil and Sally Stelter, 7 Orchard Crescent, Guelph, ON, Canada N1E1W9 [email protected] (519) 821-9267
Barbara & Nick White, 6798 Ninth Line, RR 2, Beeton, ON, Canada L0G 1A0 [email protected] (905) 729-2718
Whitehouse Perennials, Suzanne Patry & Bruce Trites, 594 Rae Road, Almonte, ON Canada K0A 1A0 [email protected] (613) 256-3406
QUEBEC
Montreal Botanical Garden, 4101 East Sherbrooke Street, Montreal, QC, Canada H1x 2B2, [email protected], liaison Reggie Millette, 62 -7th Avenue, St. Ambroise de Kildare, QC, Canada, J0K 1C0 (450) 756-4803
NEW ENGLAND STATESCONNECTICUTCT Daylily, Richard Howard, 76 Anderson Road, Wallingford, CT 06492 [email protected] (203) 294-9520
MAINEBlue Hill Country Garden, Donald & Susan Church, 1175 Pleasant St., Blue Hill, ME 04614 [email protected] (207) 374-3580
MASSACHUSETTS
Berkshire Botanical Garden, (Historic Garden) Liaison Dorthe Hviid, Routes 102 & 183, Stockbridge, MA 01262 [email protected] (413) 298-3926
Chrusciel Gardens, Joan M. Chrusciel, 164 Brookwood Road, Hanover, MA 02339 [email protected] (781) 878-4839
Collamore Field Gardens, Janet & Stephen Tooker, 397 Tilden Road, Scituate, MA 02066 [email protected] (781) 545-5175
Driftwood Gardens, Dan Pessoni, (PO Box 1083) 4 Driftwood Lane, East Orleans, Cape Cod, MA, 02643 [email protected] (508) 255-9348
Flower Trail Gardens, Linda S. Burnett, 278 Mendon Rd, Sutton, MA 01590 [email protected] (508) 865-7971
Heritage Museums and Gardens, Grove Street, Sandwich, MA - Cape Cod, contact Liaison Leslie Nolan, [email protected]. [email protected] (508) 888-3300, (781) 588-8370
Pleasant Garden Daylilies, Sallyann & Bruce King, 111 Coventry Wood Road, Bolton, MA 01740 [email protected] (978) 779-5035
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Harmon Hill Farm, Carl and Marlene Harmon, 49 Ledge Rd., Hudson, NH 03051 [email protected] (603) 880-6228
Parsonage Daylilies, John & Carolyn Dickey, 8 High Street, (Rt. 107 & High St), Gilmanton, NH 03237 [email protected] (603) 267-6098
NEW YORKBrookside Gardens, John & Muriel Stahl, 2049 Windsor Road, Baldwin, NY 11510 [email protected] (516) 223-5007
Cobbs Hill Daylily Garden, Charles Zettek, Jr., 1 Hillside Avenue, Rochester, NY 14610 [email protected] (585) 461-3317
Cottage Gardens, Brent & Deborah Ross, 4540 East Shelby Road, Medina, NY 14103 [email protected] (585) 798-5441
Daylily Days, Deborah Landrio3261 State Hwy 29, Johnstown, NY, 12095 [email protected] (518) 762-5853
Diggers Den Daylilies, Ross Kenyon, 580 Cohocton Road, Corfu, NY 14036 [email protected] (585) 599-4207
Dutch Hill Daylilies, Karen Barber, 9954 Dutch Hill Road, Fillmore, NY 14735 [email protected] (585) 567-4599
Garden of Peggy and Frank Almquist, Peggy & Frank Almquist, 107 Beth Drive, Kingston, NY 12401 [email protected] (845) 339-3671
Grace Gardens, Tom & Kathy Rood, 1064 Angus Road, Penn Yan, NY 14527 [email protected] (315) 694-0123
Hidden Harbor, Christine Petersen, 167 Asharoken Avenue, Northport, NY 11768 [email protected] (631)757-0043; (631)880-9750
Hudson Adirondack Daylily Society Display Garden, Don & Pat Salhoff (Chairmen) Cornell Cooperative Extension of Albany County, Martin Rd., Voorheesville, NY 12186-9699 [email protected] (518) 439-1484
Lilli O’Dae Gardens, Thomas Slocum, 108 Shunk Road, Ames, NY 13317 (518) 673-2390
Limmer Garden, Paul Limmer214 Tinton Place, East Northport, NY 11731 [email protected] (631) 266-2728
Planting Fields Arboretum, Liaison Pam Milliken, Long Island Daylily Society, Planting Fields Road, Oyster Bay, NY [email protected] (516) 759-6691
QB Daylily Gardens, Dennis & Mary Quackenbush, 557 Sand Hill Rd, Caledonia, NY 14423 [email protected] (585) 538-4525, (860) 378-4742
Slate Hill Farm, Craig & Mary Barnes, 203 East Broadway, Salem, NY 12865 [email protected] (518)-854-7460
Webster Arboretum, Liaison, Melodye Campbell, 1700 Schlegel Road, Webster, NY 14580 [email protected]
VERMONTCross View Gardens, Leila & Harold Cross, 1801 Lower Elmore Mountain Road, Morrisville, VT 05661 [email protected] (802) 888-2409
Holdn’ Heaven Daylily Garden, Charmaine Rich, 1383 Quail John Rd, East Thetford, VT 05043 [email protected] (802) 785-2916
2018 AHS Region 4 Display Gardens
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AHS Garden Judges support the AHS and hybridizers by voting for quality daylilies through the AHS Awards and Honors system. If you would like to learn how you can become a garden judge, please contact the Region 4 Garden Judge Liaison, Gary Jones at [email protected] or by contacting any of the garden judge instructors listed here.
CANADANova ScotiaCORAL A KINCAID 2020KIM LIPSCOMB 2018 ILOUISE PLOURDE 2019DAVID TROTT 2018MARY TROTT 2018
OntarioMURRAY BRUNSKILL 2021FAYE COLLINS 2020BRYAN CULVER 2018BRIAN DERRAH 2022JANE FISH 2021BETTY FRETZ 2019DAVID JEWELL 2018CHRISTINE LONGPRE 2021DAVE MUSSAR 2018 IWENDOLYN NICHOLDS 2019KELLY NOEL 2021SALLY STELTER 2019GIL STELTER 2018MAUREEN STRONG 2019CHERYL TAYLOR 2021LOUISE TAYLOR 2019BARBARA WHITE 2018
QuébecJOCELYN BLOUIN 2018SYLVIE CHAMPAGNE 2020PIERRE FAGIOLO 2019JUDITH MERCIER 2020FRANÇOIS PARIS 2018JEAN-SÉBASTIEN POULIN 2020RENÉE THIBAULT 2019
CONNECTICUTRUSSELL ALLEN 2021RICH HOWARD 2018GARY M JONES 2022 I **DONALD P SMITH 2018NANCY SMITH 2018
MASSACHUSETTSEMMANUEL BAGHDAYAN 2018GAIL BUCKLEY 2018GEORGE A DOORAKIAN 2019PAULA DOORAKIAN 2018ELIZABETH (NIKKI) DRICKEN 2019MARY COLLIER FISHER 2020 IKEN FREDA 2021LINDA FREDA 2021ZACHARY HICKEY 2019MIKE HUBEN 2018 IADELE KEOHAN 2018 ISALLYANN KING 2019LISA LIPOMI 2019ELISABETH MURPHY 2020CURTIS NOËL 2019ANDREW REILLY 2021THOMAS RICCIO 2019ROBERT SOBEK HKATHLEEN VIAMARI 2020DARLYN S WILKINSON 2018MAINEREX BEISEL 2020LISA D BOURRET 2018PAUL BOURRET 2018 ICRAIG COTE 2020CHERI ELLENBERGER 2022ROB LAFFIN 2019NEW HAMPSHIREDOROTHY (DOTTIE) DEWITT HCAROLYN DICKEY 2018JOHN DICKEY 2018CARL D HARMON 2018CAMERON STERN 2019KIMBERLY WALTERS 2019 INEW YORKMELODYE CAMPBELL 2018SHIRLEY CAPPIELLO 2018FRANK H CHALOUPECKY 2018 ILAURA C CHALOUPECKY 2018 IDEBI CHOWDHURY 2020CAROL HAJ 2021
ANTHONY HAJ 2018PAUL LIMMER 2022JOAN-ANN LUNDIN 2022LUANNE MADDEN 2021CAROL MALANEY 2021MELANIE MASON 2017 IPAM MILLIKEN 2021GENE A MOGLIA 2021LOUISE PELUSO HCHRISTINE PETERSEN 2022 IJACK PINE HANTOINETTE RAIMONDI 2020DOUGLAS RAIMONDI 2020GEORGE RIEHLE 2018KENYON ROSS 2021DONALD SALHOFF 2021PATRICIA SALHOFF 2021ROBERT SAVAGE HJOAN TURANO 2022MARGARET WALRATH HCYRIL WELLER 2019WILLIAM WURSTER 2019CHARLES ZETTEK 2021JUDITH ZETTEK 2022RHODE ISLANDPATSY CUNNINGHAM 2019KATHERINE REED 2019 I
LEGEND20XX = GJ Status expirationI = Instructor ** = Regional Garden Judge LiaisonH = Honorary
AHS Region 4 Garden Judges
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AHS Region 4 Exhibition JudgesTo contact any of the Exhibition Judges listed below, please email your Regional Exhibition Judge Liaison,
Elliot Turkiew, at [email protected]
MASSACHUSETTS
NICK CHASE Senior 2019MARY COLLIER FISHER Senior 2020 ISALLYANN KING Senior 2019ELIZABETH MURPHY Student 2019DANIEL PESSONI Senior 2019SHIRLEY ANN ROBBINS Student 2019
NEW YORKBARBARA BRUCE Senior 2020 LAURA CHALOUPECKY Senior 2018 FRANK CHALOUPECKY Senior 2018ANTHONY HAJ Junior 2020CAROL HAJ Junior 2020STEVE KORALESKI Student 2018PAUL LIMMER Senior 2021 JOAN-ANN LUNDIN Senior 2020LUANNE MADDEN Senior 2021 I PAM MILLIKEN Senior 2021GENE MOGLIA Senior 2021
CHRISTINE PETERSEN Senior 2020 IANTOINETTE RAIMONDI Junior 2020DOUGLAS RAIMONDI Junior 2017ELIZABETH SHAW-KORALESKI Student 2018ROBERT O. STANTON Senior 2020 I JOAN TURANO Senior 2020 RACHEL TURKIEW Senior 2019 ELLIOTT TURKIEW Senior 2019 I**
RHODE ISLANDKATHERINE L. REED Senior 2021 I
LEGEND20XX = EJ Status expirationI = Instructor ** = Regional Exhibition Judge LiaisonH = Honorary
AHS Region 4 EndowmentsSubmitted by Kathleen Schloeder
Endowment ChairA contribution has been made to the Facebook Auc-
tion for the AHS General Fund by: Ms. Melodye Campbell
Fairport, NYMs. Katherine Reed
Pawtucket, RIMr. Russ Allen
Gilford, CTA contribution at the Supporting level has been made to the William E. Monroe Endowment Fund Trust by
Long Island Daylily Societyc/o Barbara Schenk, Treasurer
Halesite, NYThe donation is in memory of Enea Redding.
A contribution has been made to the 100 Giving $100 campaign for the AHS General Fund by
Ms. Melodye CampbellFairport, NY
The donation is in honor of Claude Carpenter.A contribution at the Silver level has been made to the
AHS General Fund for youth programs by Pod Setters Facebook Group
c/o Claudia ConwayCanterbury, NH
A contribution at the Supporting level has been made to the AHS General Fund by
Ms. Judith DeeneExeter, NH
A contribution has been made to the AHS General Fund by
Ms. Ruth WoodfordAvon, CN
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2018 AHS Region 4 Popularity Poll Ballot
Write in Votes:
1. ______________________________________
2. ______________________________________
3. ______________________________________
4. ______________________________________
5. ______________________________________
Ballots may also be mailed
to the address below:
Dave Mussar 4083 Watson Road South Puslinch, Ontario, Canada. N0B 2J0 [email protected]
Every AHS member can vote for up to ten registered cultivars. Circle up to 10, or you may write-in up to five personal choices making a total of 10.
Submit your choices on the AHS website at http://www.daylilies.org/PopPoll/ballot.html Alternatively, votes by email may be sent to Dave Mussar RPD at [email protected] or by regular
mail, postmarked by September 1, 2018 to the address below.
All American ChiefAstral VoyagerBali WatercolorBarbara MitchellBarbara WhiteBeautiful EdgingsBela LugosiBelle of AshwoodBig GeorgeBordello QueenBoundless BeautyCarnival in MexicoCosmic LegacyCreature of the NightCurtis NoelDangling ParticipleDestined to SeeDiane CrawfordDublin ElaineElsie StelterEmerald StarburstEnchanted PrincessEntwined in the VineExplosion in the Paint FactoryFlaming FlamingoFlying TrapezeFree Wheelin'
Green IconGreywoods River DancerGryphon Hankow LegacyHeartbeat of HeavenHeavenly Angel IceHeavenly United We StandHer Best BloomersIgor F. Palacios, M.D.Intelligent DesignIsabelle RoseItsy Bitsy SpiderJacqueline Kennedy OnassisJade PrincessJerry HyattJoan Derifield Kim's LaughterKing GeorgeKing's Golden TreasureLaura HarwoodLiz SchreinerLord TricksterMabouMoonlit MasqueradeNancy BritzNeon FlamingoNorth Wind DancerOld King Cole
Orchid CorsagePeggy JeffcoatPersian RubyPotala TapestryRed VolunteerRock SolidRose F. KennedyRosemary MussarSandra ElizabethShores of TimeSouth SeasSpirit FoxSpirit ZoneSupermodelSuzy Cream CheeseSwallow Tail KiteTaosToy TrumpetsTruly AngelicTuscawilla TigressVictoria ParkWhite Eyes Pink DragonWigglesworthZachary S. Hickey
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Featured Region 4 Garden:Sheltara
[Editor's Note: This garden was the featured "Inter-national Garden of the Week" during the week of December 16, 2017 on the Charlotte's Daylily Diary website, http://www.daylilydiary.com/ The text and photos are reprinted here by kind permission of He-lene Ferrari, Greg Haggett and Charlotte Chamitoff.]
"Welcome to Sheltara"by Helene and Frank Ferrari, Chester, CTPhotos by Greg Haggett
Sheltara is the home of Frank and Helene Ferrari. It is also the home for shelties, wildlife, flowers, and na-ture in abundance.
Many years ago, in the front of the property, Frank dug a pond with an island connected to the main land via a Japanese bridge. He also built stone walls along parts of the pond as well as the brook flowing into the pond.
Daylily gardens, together with trees, shrubs, and mixed perennials, border the pond and brook. Helene has hybridized and developed a few thousand daylilies, and has introduced six, one of which, Hemerocallis 'Sheltara Lady Cheri', is pictured below. Rhododendrons, azaleas, and spring bulbs, including myriad daffodils, are scattered about on the eleven acres. In summer, there are many potted annual arrangements.
In front of the house there is a meditation garden, nestled under a large oak, that overlooks the brook. It is a special place for thought and peace.
Behind the house there is another daylily garden, as well as a fairy garden for children of all ages. There are also many garden statues and whimsical adventures to enjoy.
In July, the gardens are open to the public for viewing. Many garden clubs, including the Connecticut Daylily Society, have visited and have enjoyed the serenity and quiet of the gardens and surrounding nature.
Gardens of all kinds give happiness to the world. Take time to view nature and enjoy its beauty.
Above, Helene and Frank Ferrari. Photo: Linda Kozloski
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The bridge over the brook and the waterfall at the edge of the pond.
In late Spring, the brook with rhododendrons blooming. This is the view from the meditation garden in front of the house.
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Canada geese and other wildlife enjoy the pond. Deer enjoyed the daylilies and hostas until we put up a tall fence several years ago.
The daylily and mixed perennial garden behind the house, with a small gazebo.
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A stone bench overlooking the daylilies and mixed perennials on both sides of the pond.
One of the main seedling beds and garden shed reflected in the pond.
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Name / Nom complet : Renée ThibaultResidence / Lieu de résidence : Québec, Canada
Hybridizing since / Pratique l’hybridation depuis : 2007
First registration / Premier enregistrement : 2016
Number of registrations since 12-31-17 / Nombre d’enregistrement au 2017-12-31 :
27
Average annual number of seedlings in the last three years /Moyenne annuelle d’hybrides dans les trois dernières années :
1200
Garden name / Nom du jardin : Jardin de la Doucefolie
Favorite cultivar/ Cultivar préféré : Too Many Teeth
Garden Judge since / Juge de jardin depuis : 2014
Quick interview :
Jean-Sébastien Poulin : Many Quebec hybridizers dedicate their daylily programs to tetraploid, but you are among those who also have a nice diploid program, why is it still relevant to continue to evolve them according to you?Renée Thibault : Above all else, I especially like unusu-al forms, both diploid or tetraploid forms. Hybridiza-tion of diploids has imposed itself to me, without any real will on my part. During my morning walks in the garden, I observed the flowers that had potential for hybridization: good opening, sharpness of the color, a good behavior of the stem, multiple blooms, and it seems the diploids most often meet these criteria.I am looking for rustic plants under our climate, which bloom abundantly and spread out quickly. Again, diploids stand out. I like their lightness, their simplici-ty, their perfection. They are the incarnation of plants without problems. JSP : You also hybridize tetraploids. What is your goal with these?RT : For tetraploids, I look for large unusual form flow-ers, pinched crispate with teeth or an accentuated frizzy border. I did several crosses with Dan Hansen's superb H. Like a Gee Six and I got great results. As H. 'Like a Gee Six' is a persistent [evergreen], and although it performs well in our garden, I am currently working to cross its descendants with dormant plants.
JSP : How do you proceed in your programs, do you make several distinct crosses or do you concentrate on repeated crosses of the same parents ("long cross")? RT : <Sigh> ... I must admit that I am of the "impul-sive" kind. In winter, I prepare a great game plan, with
objective criteria, visions of what I want to do. But then, when the garden is in full bloom, I lose control of myself. I follow the inspiration of the moment (but
Hybride (Too Many Teeth X Like a Gee Six) photo Renée Thibault
Echo from the North: Profile of a HybridizerÉcho du nord, profil d’hybrideur
collected by / propos recueillis par Jean-Sébastien Poulin
Renée Thibault
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keeping in mind some criteria like the dormancy and beauty of the flower anyway).I try, as much as possible, to use my seedlings during hybridization. My only relevant goal is to create a distinctive, easily recognizable lineage. But I'm still far from this goal. What fills me most is to contemplate the offspring of my babies. The third and fourth generation should be great in 2018!I tried to use the database that Jocelyn Blouin and Robert Muckle have developed, but I'm not disci-plined enough to complete it regularly. So I have noted my hybridizations in a notebook since 2007. I do not note any statistics of my success rate, or the number of seeds planted in the ground in the sum-mer, etc.I make a localization plan of my seedling beds after planting. During the flowering, I give a garden name to my favorites and I note, most of the time, the par-ents in another small garden notepad.The truth is that when I look at the photos taken of my hybrids afterward, it happens quite often that I do not really know who the plant is, and where it is located on my schemas! I admit that sometimes, I have to wait until the following year to locate them. Fortunately, the most exceptional are usually better identified. JSP : Outside Quebec, who is the hybridizer whose work interests you more, and why?
RT : I really like the work of Karol Emmerich. In ad-dition to being mostly dormant, and being beautiful flowers that perform well here, Emmerich’s cultivars are usually easily recognizable. We see a flower and we say, "This is Emmerich's! ". She also pays special attention to the names she gives to her plants. My resolution for the next few years would be to find a distinctive designation, names that have a certain re-lationship with each other. I have a small "marin" lin-eage, but I would like to go further in that research... Maybe it will wait for my work retirement when I have more time for myself.JSP : Same question, but inside Québec?RT : I have several cultivars from Quebec hybridizers. It's important for me to encourage the people here. The one that stands out, in my opinion, is Daniel Matton. The plants that come from his programs are among the most rustic of my garden. They are tall,
the flower stalks far exceed the foliage. For exam-ple, the H. Lonkero cultivar. This last has the form of a fountain, it is green and very healthy. In addition, Matton plants spread rapidly, unlike plants that come from hybridizers who create plants in warmer regions, which sometimes take up to 3-4 years to settle here.The flowers of Matton always open perfectly, the colors are stable and the teeth are present, even on cooler days. These are performing cultivars, very well adapted to our climate. JSP : Many of your registration since 2016 bear the signature Thibault-Lippé, is this signature the result of a planned common program? RT : The garden and hybridization work are the result of a four-handed effort.I started hybridizing just to have fun, but it quickly became a passion! It was Daniel (Lippé) who suggest-ed me to start producing and hybridizing daylilies. We started by buying a lot of seeds on Lily Auction be-tween 2011 and 2013. These purchases allowed us to establish a genetic basis for our work. Several cultivars are not accessible (Ex: Greywood Kiwi Frog), or over-priced.We share the work in the garden, even if Daniel is mainly responsible for heavy work (preparation of flowerbeds, pulling large plants, weeding) he also makes some hybridizations. It is also Daniel who created and maintains the website. For my part, I take care of customer service, plantations, divisions and potting. I do not have the entrepreneurial fiber at all. My true happiness is hybridization!
When first registering our cultivars at the AHS, we had a discussion about the recognition of the work done in the garden by both partners. It must also be taken into account that many of these plants are from purchased seeds. We have therefore chosen a com-promise and the two names are now used in most of our recordings.
JSP : Thanks for your time Renée!
Interview express :
Jean-Sébastien Poulin : Plusieurs hybrideurs Québé-cois s’investissent dans les programmes tétraploïdes, mais tu fais partie de celles qui ont aussi un beau programme diploïde, pourquoi est-ce encore perti-nent de continuer à les faire évoluer selon toi?
Renée Thibault : J’aime avant tout les formes inhabi-
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tuelles, diploïdes ou tétraploïdes. L’hybridation des diploïdes s’est imposée à moi, sans véritable volonté de ma part. Lors de mes promenades matinales dans le jardin, j’observais les fleurs qui avaient un potentiel pour l’hybridation : une bonne ouverture, la netteté de la couleur, une bonne tenue de la tige, des florai-sons multiples, et ce sont les diploïdes qui répondent le plus souvent à ces critères.
Je recherche des plants rustiques sous notre climat, qui fleurissent abondamment et qui s’étalent rapide-ment. Là encore, les diploïdes se démarquent. J’aime leur « légèreté », leur simplicité, leur perfection. Elles sont l’incarnation de plantes sans problèmes.
JSP : Tu fais également l’hybridation des tétraploïdes, quel est ton objectif avec ces dernières?
RT : Pour les tétraploïdes, je recherche de grosses fleurs, de forme inhabituelle, crispées-pincées avec des dents ou une bordure à froufrou. J’ai fait plusieurs croisements avec la superbe H. Like a Gee Six de Dan Hansen et j’ai obtenu de beaux résultats. Comme H. Like a Gee Six est une persistante, et même si elle per-forme bien dans notre jardin, je travaille actuellement à croiser ses rejetons avec des plants dormants.
JSP : Comment procèdes-tu dans tes programmes, est-ce que tu effectues plusieurs croisements dis-tincts ou bien tu te concentres sur des croisements répétés de mêmes parents (« long cross »)?
RT : <Soupir>… Je dois admettre que je suis du genre « impulsive ». En hiver, je me prépare un beau plan de match, avec des critères objectifs, des visions de ce que je veux faire.
Quand le jardin est en pleine floraison, je perds tout contrôle de moi. Je butine ici et là (en gardant en tête certains critères comme la dormance et la beauté de la fleur quand même).
J’essaie, le plus possible, d’utiliser mes semis lors de l’hybridation. Mon seul objectif pertinent étant de créer une lignée distinctive, facilement reconnais-sable. Mais je suis encore loin de cet objectif. Ce qui me comble le plus, c’est de contempler les rejetons de mes bébés. La troisième et la quatrième génération devraient être géniales en 2018!
J’ai tenté d’utiliser la base de données que Jocelyn Blouin et Robert Muckle ont développée, mais je ne suis pas suffisamment disciplinée pour la compléter régulièrement. Alors je note mes hybridations dans un cahier depuis 2007. Je ne fais aucune statistique de mon taux de réussite, du nombre de graines plantées en terre à l’été, etc.
Je fais des plans des plates-bandes de semis, après la plantation. Lors des floraisons, je donne un nom de jardin à mes coups de cœur et je note, la plupart du temps 😊, les parents dans un autre petit calepin de jardin.
Renée Thibault, photo by JS Poulin
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La plate vérité, c’est que lorsque je consulte les pho-tos prises de mes hybrides, il arrive assez souvent que je ne sache plus vraiment qui elle est, et où elle se trouve! J’avoue que parfois, je doive attendre à l’année suivante pour les localiser. Heureusement, les plus exceptionnelles sont habituellement mieux répertoriées.
JSP : Hors Québec, qui est l’hybrideur dont le travail t’intéresse davantage, et pourquoi?
RT : J’aime beaucoup le travail de Karol Emmerich. En plus d’être majoritairement dormants, d’avoir de belles fleurs qui performent bien ici, ses cultivars sont habituellement facilement reconnaissables. On voit une fleur et on se dit : « Ça c’est du Emmerich!!! ». Elle apporte aussi une attention particulière aux noms qu’elle donne à ses plants. Ma résolution pour les prochaines années serait de me trouver un filon, des noms qui ont un certain rapport entre eux. J’ai une petite lignée « marin », mais j’aimerais pousser plus loin dans ce sens… Ça attendra peut-être la retraite, quand j’aurai plus de temps à moi.
JSP : Même question, mais au Québec?
RT : J’ai plusieurs cultivars d’hybrideurs du Québec. C’est important pour moi d’encourager les gens de chez nous. Celui qui se démarque, selon moi, c’est Daniel Matton. Les plants qui proviennent de chez lui sont parmi les plus rustiques de mon jardin. Ils sont hauts, les tiges florales dépassent largement le feuil-lage. Je pense, entre autres, au plant H. Lonkero. Ce dernier à la forme d’une fontaine, il est vert et très sain. De plus, les plants de Matton s’étalent rapide-ment, contrairement aux plants qui proviennent des hybrideurs de régions plus chaudes qui prennent parfois jusqu’à 3-4 ans pour s’établir ici.
Les fleurs des plants de Matton ouvrent toujours par-faitement, les couleurs sont stables et les dents sont présentes, même lors des journées plus fraiches. Ce sont des cultivars évolués, très bien adaptés à notre climat.
JSP : Plusieurs de tes plants enregistrés depuis 2016 portent la signature Thibault-Lippé, est-ce que cette signature est le fruit d’un programme commun pla-nifié?
RT : Le jardin et le travail d’hybridation sont le résultat d’un effort à 4 mains.
J’ai commencé l’hybridation juste pour m’amuser,
mais c’est vite devenu une passion! C’est Daniel (Lippé) qui m’a proposé de nous lancer dans la pro-duction et l’hybridation des hémérocalles. Nous avons commencé par acheter beaucoup de graines sur Lily Auction entre 2011 et 2013. Ces achats nous ont permis d’établir une base génétique pour notre travail. Plusieurs cultivars n’étant pas accessibles (Ex : H. Greywood Kiwi Frog), ou bien hors de prix.
Nous partageons le travail au jardin, même si Daniel se charge principalement des travaux lourds (prépa-ration des plates-bandes, arrachage des gros plants, sarclage) il fait aussi quelques hybridations. C’est aussi Daniel qui a créé et qui fait l’entretien du site internet. De mon côté, je m’occupe du service à la clientèle, des plantations, des divisions et de l’empotage. Je n’ai pas du tout la fibre entrepreneuriale. Mon véritable bonheur, c’est l’hybridation!
Lors de l’enregistrement de nos cultivars à l’AHS, nous avons eu une discussion sur la reconnaissance du travail effectué au jardin par les deux partenaires. Il fallait aussi tenir compte que plusieurs de ces plants sont issus de graines achetées.
Nous avons donc choisi un compromis et les deux noms sont dorénavant utilisés dans la plupart de nos enregistrements.
JSP : Merci pour ta participation Renée!
Editor's note: To see more of Renée's daylilies, visithttp://www.jardindeladoucefolie.com/
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2018 AHS Region 4 Photo ContestThis summer, take some photos of Region 4 hybridized daylilies and Region 4 landscapes featuring daylilies and enter them in the 2018 Region 4 Photo Contest. All entries must be emailed to the editor by September 15, 2018.Photos may include: garden critters/pets, insects, garden art.Images must not include people.
Photo Contest Categories 1. Single or Multiple Blooms - may include clump shot.
2. Artistic Close-up - Be creative! Capture all or part of a daylily bloom in a photo. At right, a closeup of H. ‘Maya Blue’ (Townsend-Conway, 2012), Photo by Greg Haggett.
3. Landscape Shot - Any garden from any region [or any country for that matter] will do, but daylilies must be featured in the photo.
Contest Rules
Region 4 AHS members of any age may enter.
Up to 6 entries total will be accepted per member.
All photo entries must have been taken by the member submitting them.
All photo entries must have been taken in 2018.
Photo Requirements
Submit high resolution, full size digital photo images in .jpg format only. Individual image size should be 1MB or larger.
Each photo submitted should be labeled as follows:
cultivar (hybridizer, year) photo [your name]
Example: Toy Trumpets (Sobek, 1984 ) photo Adele Keohan.jpg
Labeling on landscape photos: Garden name/ owner name, photo your name.jpg
Cultivar names need not be capitalized.
Use digital photography software sparingly when editing your images; please do not make alterations to your original images other than to crop or make subtle color corrections. Please do not put borders around images.
Email photo entries to : Adele Keohan, Regional Editor at [email protected]
An independent panel of three judges will consider all entries and select the winning photos. The winning photos (and other photo entries) will be published in the Fall 2018 issue of the Region 4 Newsletter, Daylilies In The Great Northeast. Photo entries may appear in a future issue of Daylilies In The Great Northeast.Submitting a photo entry grants the American Hemerocallis Society and its regions the right to republish or reprint photos in any of the newsletters or journals published by the AHS or any of its Regions; to publish such photograph(s) on any website maintained by or on behalf of AHS or any of its Regions; and to publish such photograph(s) in any other publication published by AHS or any of its Regions.
Prizes
Daylily prizes will be awarded to the first place winners in each of the three photo contest categories.
1st Place Winners of the 2017 Region 4 Photo Contest
Above, Artistic 1st close-up- Hemerocallis Maya Blue (Townsend-Conway, 2012), photo Greg Haggett
Above, Seedling 14-09a-4 unregistered (Gan-tar) Photo by Jerry Gantar
Above, Helene Ferrari Garden- Photo by Greg Haggett
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by Jean-Sébastien Poulin
“We do not understand a par-ticular truth when we have not seen how it relates to others. Do you know a build-ing when we showed you, in advance, all the stones? i »
- Henri Bergson
Initial reverie.
Walk the daylily flower beds early in the morning. Discover the perfect hybrid. Follow up on its evolu-tion for several years. See it break the norm by its exemplary behavior. Check that the unique beauty of the whole plant is constant year after year. Register the plant to the AHS. Win a first prize of esteem after three years - "Honorable Mention (HM)". Become a little known hybridizer. Develop your program around the star plant. See the star plant win another prize of esteem after six years - "Award of Merit (AM)". Become an established hybridizer. Register to the AHS other good plants from your program. See the star plant win the "Stout medal" after nine years. See the consecration of your work. Become a renowned hybridizer.
Okay... It may not be everyone's dream. If you only hybridize for pleasure, for pure disinterestedness, the registration of your plants to earn an AHS merit later is probably not in your plans. The authors of
novels admit it with-out embarrassment, they write to be read and… sell books. And what they write only for themselves, they do not publish!
Through a rather informal non-scientific poll, I have probed the members of the "Day-lily Project" i i on the subject, I simply asked them: what are the reasons that a hybridiz-
er registers a plant with the AHS? The result was very instructive. The tendency of the answers was as fol-lows: for pleasure, to protect intellectual property, to honor a loved one during his lifetime or for the mem-ory of a missing person, to simply register his work for posterity, etc. In fact, no one wanted to say de facto that the registration process would allow them to put their plant in the potential race for the awards/merits of AHS, as described in my initial reverie.
The wording of the question may at first glance appear very clumsy, since it is to be expected that few people are inclined to publicly assert, by modesty or humility, that they register [daylily hybrids] with the AHS to obtain honors. In our Western civilizations, in fact, recognition is often acquired indirectly, after-ward, and it cannot be asked... It's a cultural trait. This restraint, however, disappears when the object or action becomes motivated by a commercial or artistic interest. We then do the opposite and we put more energy into making this object known at all costs. So, the activity processes fall into marketing and PROMOTION.
When I started my practice in 2012, I wondered why no registered Quebec cultivar had so far won an AHS award. Did we not have some exceptional plants too iii? In fact, the whole assumption of this article is based on this assertion: that promotion in Quebec may not yet be well established in our values, in the sense that we have not yet glimpsed the full potential of diffusion related to the annual merits of AHS. It is my opinion that as soon as one of our cultivars goes up in the pyramid of honors, we can only see all the benefits that this achievement will bring, and this, not only for the hybridizer recipient of the award, but also
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for the entire hybrid community of Quebecers.It's a beautiful project, but what my initial dream
did not describe earlier is all the promotional work I see behind this rise of popularity in the AHS merit pyramid. Indeed, for some honors, the nomination system requires cultivars to obtain the esteem vote of garden judges from several separate AHS regions. For example: four (4) regions for HM and eight (8) regions for AM. It is therefore necessary that the hybridizer be quite certain that the notoriety of the cultivar is well established, before submitting it to the vote of the garden judges. Recall that it is the hybridizer who must submit their own cultivars for merits.
Below is an excerpt from the solicitation letter for the AHS 2018 awards and honors.
Dear Hybridizers: For several years, it has been AHS practice to have you nominate your own cultivars for the Awards and Honors ballot. This has accom-plished our goal of creating a manageable list of quality cultivars for consideration by the AHS Garden Judges. It is now time to submit your nominations for the 2018 Ballot. […] iv
When I ran through my 2017 ballot to fulfill my annual “Garden Judge Privilege”, and vote for the cultivars that were eligible for the various honors of the AHS, I was amazed that the majority of cultivars appearing in the AM and HM categories were com-pletely unknown to me. Worse, in all the specialized categories, I did not know any of them. Since the daylily world is my full-time hobby for more than five (5) years, and I consider that I still know several cultivars, I was able to take a concrete measure of the very large number of registrations per year. But I mostly thought: the promotion of these cultivars may not have yet allowed them to reach Quebec or the websites that I consult. How long did it take for the promotion of a cultivar to elevate it to "recognized" cultivar status in most AHS regions?
In the winter of 2016, after reading the article "Fast climb to the top" of the Daylily Journalv, article about the winner of the Stout silver medal, I stayed for a long time thinking about this little paragraph that described how a friend of Mr. George Doorakian had participated in the promotion of "H. Rose F. Kennedy vi " by shipping more than one hundred (100) divisions
of this cultivar throughout the United States.My reasoning led me to identify five (5) major steps
in the process, which I hope could help me achieve my initial reverie. Established hybridizers who have already won AHS prizes will obviously be able to add other steps, but I rely on the indulgence of these peo-ple, who will see in my exercise, a lot of enthusiasm and very little pretension. That being said, I am open to all constructive comments.
• Identification: select a candidate cultivar typ-ical of the Quebec climate, efficient and original. The exercise seems trivial, but it is the most important and difficult step. Is it better to choose a cultivar already established in your garden for a few years, or a hybrid about to be registered that is brimming with new genetics? As the road to certain merits spans many years, you must project your candidate in time and ask if its value will be sustainable. Another important point, in my opinion, is that the candidate will have a catchy registered name that is easy to remember and / or has a universal or very distinctive connotation.
• Multiplication: multiply the daylily candidate intensively to obtain at least fifty divisions. Let's say I have six (6) fans at the start and I manage to double them each year. I will have my fifty divisions in year 4, approximately;
• Distribution: search and find the right con-tacts, to be able to ship a division of the candidate cultivar into the circles of influence of all AHS regions. Let’s be honest, the best promoters are hybridizers, collectors and garden judges and not necessarily tradespeople. Let's not forget that my goal is not to sell my plant to enrich myself, but to make it known
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to people who will become promoters in their turn, and ultimately, who will vote for this plant the day it will be on the list of nominees. As a plant takes two to four years to properly establish itself in a new envi-ronment, the benefit to be gained from this stage is harvested in the medium term. In monetary terms, this is probably the most expensive step since it will cost a lot to deliver the cultivars, not to mention the phytosanitary requirements that apply when a plant crosses the border to the United States.
• Promotion: talk about the cultivar in the usual channels. Register the candidate in the popularity contests. Write interest notes on Facebook groups fre-quented by daylily lovers. Publish articles in "newslet-ters". Follow-up on the garden satisfaction of the new owners of the candidate. Let's not forget that I do not have any notoriety at this stage, my name is not yet associated with a pledge of quality. The good news is that I can do all these promotional activities alongside the distribution of the cultivar.
• Nomination: subscribe the cultivar (registered with the AHS for at least 3 years) on the list of HM nominees or any of the specialized awards. This step is the easiest if the previous steps have been conduct-ed in a serious way. The only question is: when do you know if the promotion of a cultivar has made it known enough for garden judges to recognize it as soon as they see its name on the annual ballot?
And the contribution of our local daylily clubs in all this beautiful process? The collaboration of your local
club members could enrich the overall experience and act as a catalyst to speed up most of the steps. To facilitate promotion, could we imagine a system of sponsorship between clubs from different AHS regions who would exchange promising cultivars each year? Imagine for a moment how much time could be saved if members of your club participated in the volunteer multiplication of your candidate cultivar? Even if the goal is not to promote the clubs themselves, but more to highlight the work of the hybridizers that compose it, the process described in this article can only have a positive effect on the club because of the good publicity that the success of its realization could bring.
It's almost a business plan that I have just described in this article. The promotion of a first cultivar appears to me as a specific project that can spread over the medium-long term, with its costs and constraints. This whole process, you guessed it, is universal and could apply to any market. The goal is simply to expose more of the fruits of our work, to make known excep-tional hybridization programs and people. In the next few years, when you see a Quebec cultivar cross the border in search of legitimacy, open the doors of your garden, and if you like it, do not hesitate to become in your turn ... a promoter.
i Free translation of Henri Bergson, La spécialité, Edition Rivages poche/Petite bibliothèque : « On ne comprend pas une vérité particulière quand on n’a pas aperçu les rapports qu’elle peut avoir avec les autres. Connaissez-vous un édifice quand on vous en a montré, d’avance, toutes les pierres? »ii www.facebook.com/groups/hemerocallesiii Near 1000 Quebecers cultivars have been registered between 1999-2017iv 2018_Awards_Nomination_Form.pdfv The Daylily Journal, Vol. 71 No.4 – Winter 2016.vi H. Rose F. Kennedy (D, Doorakian, 2007).
[The daylily seedlings pictured on pages 33 and 35 are hybrids/seedlings by Jean-Sébastien Poulin. The hybrid pic-tured on page 33 recently won first place in the category of diploids in the contest "Coup de coeur 2018" de l'AAHQ (le 15 avril dernier). The hybrid on page 35 won third place in the same category. Photos: Jean-Sébastien Poulin]
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par Jean-Sébastien Poulin
“On ne comprend pas une vé-rité particulière quand on n’a pas aperçu les rapports qu’elle peut avoir avec les autres. Connaissez-vous un édifice quand on vous en a montré, d’avance, toutes les pierres?i »- Henri Bergson
Rêverie de départ.
Parcourir la plate-bande d’hémérocalles de bon matin. Y découvrir l’hybride parfait. Faire le suivi de son évolution pendant plusieurs années. Le voir briser la norme par son comportement exemplaire. Vérifier que la beauté unique de son ensemble est constante année après année. En-registrer le plant à l’AHS. Remporter un premier prix d’es-time après trois ans - « Honorable mention (HM) ». Devenir un hybrideur un peu connu. Développer sa pratique autour du plant vedette. Voir le plant vedette remporter un autre prix d’estime après six ans - « Award of merit (AW) ». De-venir un hybrideur établi. Enregistrer d’autres plants d’ex-ceptions issus d’un bon programme. Voir le plant vedette remporter la « Stout medal» après neuf ans. Obtenir la consécration. Devenir un hybrideur renommé.
Bon d’accord… Ce n’est peut-être pas le rêve de tout un chacun. Si vous hybridez seulement pour le plaisir, par pur désintéressement, l’enregistrement de vos plants pour remporter ultérieurement un mérite AHS n’est probable-ment pas dans vos projets. Les auteurs de romans l’avouent sans gêne, ils écrivent pour être lus et vendre des livres. Et ce qu’ils écrivent seulement pour eux-mêmes, ils ne le publient pas!
En sondant de manière informelle et non scientifique les membres du « Projet Hémérocalle »ii sur le sujet, je leur demandais tout simplement : quelles sont les raisons qui font qu’un hybrideur enregistre un plant à l’AHS? Le résultat fut fort instructif. La tendance des réponses allait comme suit : pour le plaisir, pour protéger la propriété intellectuelle, pour honorer un proche de son vivant ou par respect pour la mémoire d’un disparu, pour tout simplement inscrire son travail dans la postérité, etc. En fait, personne n’a voulu affirmé de facto que le processus d’enregistrement leur permettrait d’inscrire leur plant dans la course potentielle aux mérites de l’AHS, tel que décrit dans ma rêverie initiale.
La formulation de la question pourra de prime abord apparaître fort malhabile, puisqu’il faut s’attendre à ce que peu de gens soient enclin à affirmer publiquement, par modestie ou par humilité, qu’ils enregistrent à l’AHS pour obtenir des honneurs. Dans nos civilisations occidentales, en effet, la reconnaissance s’acquiert souvent de manière indirecte, après coup, et ne se demande pas… C’est un trait culturel. Cette retenue disparait toutefois quand l’objet ou l’action devient motivé par un intérêt commercial ou artistique. Nous faisons alors tout le contraire et nous mettons davantage d’énergie à faire connaître à tout prix cet objet. L’activité verse dès lors dans le marketing et la PROMOTION.
Lorsque j’ai commencé ma pratique en 2012, je me suis demandé pourquoi aucun cultivar québécois enregistré n’avait à ce jour remporté un prix de l’AHS. N’avions-nous pas des plants d’exception nous aussi iii? En fait, tout le postulat du présent article repose sur cette affirmation : que la pro-motion chez nous n’est peut-être pas encore bien implantée dans nos valeurs, dans le sens où nous n’avons pas encore entrevu le potentiel de diffusion lié aux mérites annuels AHS. Il m’est avis qu’à partir du moment où l’un de nos cultivars va grimper dans la pyramide des honneurs, nous ne pourrons que constater tous les bienfaits que cette réalisation apportera, et ce, non seulement pour l’hybrideur récipiendaire du prix, mais aussi pour toute la collectivité d’hybrideurs Québécois.
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C’est un beau projet, mais ce que ma rêverie de dé-part ne décrivait pas, c’est tout le travail de promotion que j’entrevois derrière cette montée en popularité dans la pyramide des mérites AHS. En effet, pour certains honneurs, le système de nomination exige que les culti-vars obtiennent le vote d’estime de juges de jardin de plusieurs régions AHS distinctes. Par exemple : quatre (4) régions pour le HM et huit (8) régions pour le AM. Il faut donc que l’hybrideur soit certain que la notoriété du cultivar est bien établie, avant de soumettre celui-ci au vote des juges de jardin. Rappelons que ce sont les hybri-deurs qui doivent soumettre leurs propres cultivars pour les mérites.
Extrait de la lettre de sollicitation pour les mérites AHS 2018
Dear Hybridizers: For several years, it has been AHS practice to have you nominate your own cultivars for the Awards and Honors ballot. This has accomplished our goal of creating a manageable list of quality cultivars for consideration by the AHS Garden Judges. It is now time to submit your nominations for the 2018 Ballot. […] iv
Lorsque j’ai parcouru mon bulletin de vote 2017, afin d’exercer mon privilège annuel de juge de jardin et ultimement voter pour les cultivars qui étaient éligibles aux différents honneurs de l’AHS, j’ai constaté avec stupéfac-tion que la majorité des cultivars apparaissant dans les catégories AM et HM m’étaient complètement inconnus. Pire encore, dans toutes les catégories spécialisées, je n’en connaissais aucun. Comme le monde de l’héméro-calle est mon hobby à temps plein depuis plus de cinq (5) ans et que je considère connaître quand même plusieurs cultivars, j’ai pu prendre la mesure du très grand nombre d’enregistrements par année. Mais je me suis surtout fait la réflexion suivante : la promotion de ces cultivars n’avait peut-être pas encore permis à ceux-ci d’atteindre le Québec ou les sites web d’intérêts que je consulte. Combien de temps alors fallait-il pour que la promotion d’un cultivar le hisse au statut de cultivar « reconnu » dans la majorité des régions AHS?
À l’hiver 2016, suivant la lecture de l’article « Fast climb to the top » du Daylily Journalv , article traitant du récipiendaire de la médaille d’argent Stout, je suis demeuré pendant de longues minutes à réfléchir à ce petit paragraphe qui décrivait comment une amie de Monsieur Georges Doorakian avait participé à la promo-tion de « H. Rose F. Kennedyvi » en expédiant plus de cent (100) exemplaires de ce cultivar dans tous les État-Unis.
Ma réflexion m’amena à identifier cinq (5) grandes étapes au processus qui, je l’espère, pourraient m’aider à réaliser ma rêverie initiale. Les hybrideurs établis qui ont déjà remporté des prix AHS pourront évidemment ajouter d’autres étapes, mais je me fie sur l’indulgence de ces personnes qui sauront voir, dans mon exercice, beaucoup d’enthousiasme et fort peu de prétention. Ceci étant dit, je suis ouvert à tous les commentaires constructifs.
• L’identification : sélectionner un cultivar candidat typique au climat québécois, performant et original. L’exercice semble trivial, mais c’est l’étape la plus importante et la plus difficile. Est-ce qu’il est préférable de choisir un cultivar déjà établi dans son jardin depuis quelques années, ou bien un hybride sur le point d’être enregistré qui déborde de nouvelle génétique? Comme la route vers certains mérites s’étale sur de nombreuses années, vous devez projeter votre candidat dans le temps et vous demandez si sa valeur sera pérenne. Autre point non négligeable, à mon sens, le candidat devra avoir un nom d’enregistrement accrocheur, qui est facile à retenir et/ou ayant une connotation universelle ou très dis-tinctive.• La multiplication : multiplier le candidat de manière intensive afin d’en obtenir une cinquantaine d’exemplaires. Posons que je dispose de six (6) éventails au départ et que je parviens à les doubler chaque année. J’aurai donc mes cinquante exemplaires à l’année 4, approximativement.• La distribution : rechercher et trouver les bons contacts qui permettront d’expédier un exemplaire du cultivar candidat dans les cercles d’influence de toutes les régions AHS. Il ne faut pas se raconter d’histoire, les meilleurs promo-teurs sont les hybrideurs, les collectionneurs et les juges de jar-din et non pas nécessairement les commerçants. N’oublions pas que mon objectif n’est pas de vendre mon plant pour m’enrichir, mais de le faire connaître à des gens qui vont devenir des promoteurs à leur tour et, ultimement, qui vont
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voter pour ce plant le jour où il sera sur la liste des nominés. Comme un plant prend deux à quatre années avant de s’établir correctement dans un nouvel environnement, le bénéfice à retirer de cette étape se récolte à moyen terme. Sur le plan monétaire, c’est probablement l’étape la plus onéreuse puisqu’il faudra débourser beaucoup pour effectuer la livraison des plants, sans compter les exigences phytosani-taires qui s’appliquent quand un plant traverse la frontière vers les États-Unis. • La promotion : faire parler du cultivar dans les canaux habituels. Inscrire le candidat dans les concours de popularité. Rédiger des billets d’intérêts sur les groupes Facebook fréquentés par les amoureux des hémérocalles. Publier des articles dans les « newsletters ». Faire un suivi sur la satisfaction au jardin des nouveaux propriétaires du candidat. N’oublions pas que je n’ai pas de notoriété à ce stade, mon nom n’est pas encore associé à un gage de qualité. La bonne nouvelle, c’est que je peux effectuer toutes ces activités de promotion en parallèle de la distribution.• L’inscription : inscrire le cultivar (enregistré à l’AHS depuis au moins 3 ans) sur la liste des nominés pour le mérite HM ou l’un ou l’autre des mérites spécialisés. Cette étape est la plus facile si les étapes précédentes ont été conduites de manière sérieuse. En effet, à quel moment sait-on si la promotion d’un cultivar est parvenue à le faire connaître assez pour que les juges de jardin le reconnaissent aussitôt qu’ils voient son nom sur le bulletin de vote annuel?
Et l’apport de nos clubs d’hémérocalles locaux dans tout ce beau processus? La collaboration des membres de votre club local pourrait enrichir l’expérience globale et agir
comme catalyseur pour accélérer la plupart des étapes. Pour faciliter la promotion, pourrait-on imaginer un sys-tème de parrainage entre clubs de différentes régions AHS qui s’échangeraient des cultivars prometteurs à chaque année? Imaginer un instant le gain de temps si les membres de votre club participaient à la multiplication bénévole de votre cultivar candidat? Même si le but n’est pas de promouvoir les clubs eux-mêmes, mais davantage de mettre en valeur le travail des hybrideurs qui le composent, le processus décrit dans le présent article ne pourra avoir qu’un effet positif sur le club par la bonne publicité et le succès que sa réalisation pourrait apporter.
C’est presque un plan d’affaire que je viens de décrire dans cet article. La promotion d’un premier cultivar m’ap-paraît comme un projet précis qui peut s’étaler sur le moyen-long terme, avec ses coûts et ses contraintes. Tout ce processus, vous l’aurez deviné, a une portée universelle qui pourrait s’appliquer à n’importe quel marché. L’objectif est simplement d’exposer davantage le fruit de notre tra-vail, soit de faire connaître des programmes d’hybridation et des gens exceptionnels, mais peu connus. Dans les pro-chaines années, lorsque vous verrez un cultivar québécois traverser la frontière en quête de légitimité, ouvrez-lui les portes de votre jardin, et si vous l’appréciez, n’hésitez pas à devenir à votre tour… un promoteur.
i Henri Bergson, La spécialité, Edition Rivages poche/Petite bi-bliothèqueii www.facebook.com/groups/hemerocallesiii Il y a eu un peu moins de 1000 enregistrements de cultivars Québécois de 1999-2017.iv 2018_Awards_Nomination_Form.pdfv The Daylily Journal, Vol. 71 No.4 – Winter 2016.vi H. Rose F. Kennedy (D, Doorakian, 2007).
Toutes les photos de cet article sont de Jean-Sébastien Poulin.
Note de l'éditrice: L'hybride de Jean-Sébastien en page 33 (version en anglais) s'est mérité la première position de la catégorie diploïde lors du concours Coup de Coeur 2018 de l'AAHQ le 15 avril dernier. Son hybride en page 35 a terminé en troisième position dans cette même catégorie.
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10 strategies that hook your kids into becoming passionate gardeners By Brian and Diane Jones (Ontario Daylily Society)http://www.daylilydiary.com/5_BrianDianeJones/index.html
We purchased our new home in 1996 in Greenbank, On-tario. The one acre property contained three gardens full of impatiens, petunia, and goutweed. Over the years we raised our two daughters, Emily and Lauren, in this rural Ontario hamlet. Now, twenty-two years later the property [below] has over twenty-five gardens, three mini fish ponds, over 500 registered daylilies, 150+ hostas and about 100 different perennials, and two adult daughters who both love the outdoors and gardens.
With the competition of TV, internet games, elec-tronics, and other social influences we used these ten strategies starting from a young age, and through their teenage years, to instill in our daughters a love for gardening and to ensure their passion for garden-ing grew. Success is measured, not by what we did, but by what Emily and Lauren did through our guidance and support.
1. Shopping at Garden Centres: The excitement our daughters had when we were out at garden
centres as we told them, “here’s $10 - Buy any plants you want and we’ll plant it once we get home,” was a delight to see. Emily and Lauren would explore, comparing prices, examining growing condition tags, and companion plants. Some years we already had the plant holes dug in various locations around the gardens, not knowing what plants would be bought at the garden centre. We didn’t care what plants our daughters would purchase, but we knew we would love them because our girls had chosen them. Once home it was the girls’ responsibility to plant their new purchases, water them and care for the plants. 2. Seed Catalogues: As winter would come to an end, we would give the girls one of the yearly seed catalogues and say, “Can you order the seeds this year? Pick 5-10 different kinds of seed packages and we can plant them.” It was always fantastic to see the catalogues earmarked with post-its, highlighter circles, and folded corners. Almost as exciting as see-ing the Christmas wish book earmarked. Yes, it may have cost us $30 in seeds plus shipping, but it was always well worth it to see the enthusiasm with which the girls would carefully select and mark each seed package they wanted. We also discovered seeds we didn’t know existed (Tithonia Mexican Sunflowers and Gomphrena seeds) thanks to the girls. 3. Auction Bidding: At Ontario Daylily Society meetings we would take the risk and tell the girls, “you decide on what we should bid on at the auction. What colour of daylily do we need in the garden?” They each had their bid limit and knew that anything over their bid limit was going to be purchased by a daylily collector anyway. We didn’t mind what they purchased as long as they were doing the bidding, and their little hands were always quick to raise the bid enough to win themselves a new daylily. 4. Drag Them to Other Daylily Gardens: Getting the girls in a car and surprising them with a visit to a daylily garden an hour or two away was never a popular strategy, until we paid a visit to Bryan Culver’s garden while he was downsizing his field of daylilies, and said to twelve year-old Emily, “you seem to be admiring that clump of Mahogany Belle...You can take a clump home and you can take as much as you can carry.” That’s all she needed to hear - She dragged,
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carried, hauled, and pushed that clump across the field to our vehicle independently. Once home, she divided and planted the numerous fans in her own garden. Now, it’s one of our best growing daylilies in the garden. 5. Plant a pet memorial garden: We’ve gone through a few good bunnies in our time, and after they’d passed we would say to the girls, “that spot you buried your pet fish, hamster, hermit crab, and bunny, should be a memorial garden. What plants should go there?” Not only would the girls bury their own pets (and hold a full funeral), they would de-cide upon appropriate plants to grow in that specific garden too. Emily even dug her own mini gold fish pond (3’x2’x3’) with a shovel in honour of her dearly departed twelve year-old Goldfish, Sushi.6. Pollen Dabbers: The girls loved walking through the garden in the morning with us as we would ask them, “If we put this pollen on this other plant, I wonder what the new flower will look like?” By the end of the summer our entire garden had co-loured paper-clips dangling on hundreds of daylilies to identify what pollen we had mixed with what flower. We didn’t mind what the girls were mixing, as long as they were having fun doing it. They learned about dip and tet crosses, the parts of the plants, the best time to hybridize in the day and plant genetics. Seeing their crosses grow and bloom was exciting. The morning rit-ual during peak bloom season usually consisted of the girls racing to the gardens and competing to get their specific crosses made first or to see their seedlings’ first bloom [below, Lauren at age 8 with a bloom from her first seedling]. Even when the girls worked away
from home during summer months we were asked to photograph their blooms and email them the photos. [Below, Emily at age 14, hybridizing.]
7. Plant Entries at Fairs: One year we said to the girls, “did you know you can get prize money at local fairs just by entering your plants in a competition?” It didn’t take long for the sisters to enter their plant blooms, grasses, and leafs in our local Port Perry fair. The prize money was minimal, but the comments from neighbours, friends, and relatives ignited an enthusiasm in growing, and caring for plants. When their entry didn’t place, they would compare their en-try to the winning ones to see the criteria comparison that allowed the judges to make a final decision. The next year, they were sure to beat out the competition from before. 8. Plant Your Own Theme Garden: One year we decided to do something big with the girls. “Where should we dig a new garden that is just for your plants?” We really didn’t mind where the girls wanted their own garden - Who needs grass? Emily’s collec-tion of Food Coneflowers (milkshake, tomato soup, marmalade, gum ball, etc) needed their own garden space. Lauren’s troll garden needed space for all her own daylilies. Structures needed to be built as climb-ing towers for Lauren’s clematis plants. Today, the two gardens are a couple of the fullest gardens in our yard. 9. Tour Guides: When peak season would arrive we’d tell our guests, “Either Emily or Lauren will tour you around the garden and demonstrate why there are paper clips hanging from some of the plants”.
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10 strategies that hook your kids into becoming passionate gardenersBoth Emily and Lauren took great pride as garden know-it-alls demonstrating how to hybridize daylilies to garden guests. During our open gardens we always sold potted blooming seedlings. The money raised was usually donated to a charity of Emily or Lauren’s choice. Over the years the girls donated Daylily money to animal shelters, a food bank, local hospital, and a Guatemala mission trip. The more pots we sold the more money was donated in their name - And these two girls were always great salespeople. 10. Plants as Gifts: Our summers are full of birth-days and BBQs so we would tell the girls, “we’ve got these extra potted plants, who do you want to give them to?” Over the girls’ elementary and secondary school years both Emily and Lauren gave dozens of plants away. Recipients included school bus drivers, school teachers and assistants, coaches, neighbours, friends, relatives, and complete strangers. Each lucky recipient was most grateful for the unique gift grown and given by our girls.
The neat thing about these 10 strategies is that the girls don’t recall many of them as intentional actions that instilled a love for horticulture. Both girls ended up taking a horticulture course in high school and out-door nature education classes in university. Both still have their own gardens on our property with bloom-ing seedlings. Emily [below, at age 23] has taken it one step further and has her own plant website Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/littleplantbuddies
and enjoys propagating cactus and succulents.
She also sells her cre-ative plant drawings on commercial products https://linktr.ee/little-plantbuddies
Lauren [above right, at age 19] was the proud recipi-
ent this past year at the Ontario Daylily Society Lycett Daylily competition for her unusual form class seed-ling http://www.ontariodaylily.on.ca/pages/Lycettpag-es/LycettAward2016.html
She is continuing her studies at Lakehead Uni-versity in Thunder Bay’s Outdoor Recreation with a focus in Environmental and General Science as well as Education.
When they eventually get settled in their own place, we are confident that they’ll want their plants relocated. That’s okay with us, leaving more garden holes for our plants.
If grandchildren are in the future, then rest assured that G-pa and G-ma Jones will be repeating these 10 strategies with grandkids to ensure the gardening passion continues for the next generation.
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by Maureen Strong and Jacob BraunDid you know that there is an International Seed
Bank for daylily seeds? The purpose is to help share daylily genetics across international borders, where regulations might not otherwise make it convenient to share mature plants. Through Facebook and other electronic communications, the passion for daylilies is spreading all over the world. This seed bank is just one of the ways we can keep things growing overseas.
Maureen Strong has been leading our efforts to share new daylily genetics since 2007, but this effort has been on-going for many years. In the Spring 2007 edition of the Daylily Journal, Eric Bijl (from The Neth-erlands) explained that the origin of the Seed Bank is not clear, but it goes way back into the 1960’s and may-be even further. (This article is quite good, and it can be found on page 75.)
Maureen explains the need for the seed bank: “We in Canada and the US have easy access to live daylil-ies, while everyone else around the world […] faces in-creasing security and safety aspects imposed by their country’s agriculture departments. Ag inspections and permit costs, sometimes applicable to both exporter and importer, plus the expense of First Class airmail shipping can make the importation of daylily plants rather stressful and difficult, particularly for those un-familiar with all the procedures. Some countries will no longer accept any live plant material at all.”
In contrast, seeds can be sent to most countries with only a simple Customs Declaration on the envelope.
So how does the International Seed Bank work?Hybridizers from all over send donations to Mau-
reen, with each cross packaged separately and show-ing names of the pod and pollen parents. Maureen logs the parentages and the quantity of seeds into a master spreadsheet, then using the AHS Database, adds the registration information and plant traits. Once com-pleted, this spreadsheet is available by email and par-ticipants choose crosses according to their interests and suitability for their own climate. Who can request seeds from the International Seed Bank?
Anyone who is outside the US and Canada, and in-terested in daylilies, is welcome to request seeds, since
that is the specific intention of this program. Often times, there are more seeds available in the bank than have been requested, so they can be made available to North American daylily enthusiasts that might live too remotely to participate in local daylily clubs. New day-lily clubs can also request seeds to support outreach efforts, as can other garden organizations that might be looking for a new way to get their members inter-ested in daylilies.How can I support the International Seed Bank?
You can always spread the word about the Seed Bank with your friends, especially those that live in other countries. Perhaps you can post a note in your favorite daylily group on Facebook, encouraging your international friends to contact Maureen. Or maybe you can send a note to your favorite relative living overseas, encouraging them to look into growing some new varieties of daylilies in their garden.
You can also donate your extra seeds. There aren’t any requirements on what seeds can be donated, but crosses of known parents are often the first to be adopt-ed. If photos of seedling parents are available by email from the donor, these crosses are popular with many recipients. Even if only one parent is known, its poten-tial may be gauged from other offerings of that donor. The crosses don’t have to be the latest-and-greatest, since these seeds are often sent to new enthusiasts who are eager to just grow new daylilies without any preference towards the latest trends. So, whether you’re a backyard hybridizer with too many seeds to plant or a well-known hybridizer with seeds that didn’t sell in an auction, your donations would be truly wel-come!
Maureen is always interested in sharing stories about the AHS International Seed Bank, and she says that she loves to hear about the experiences from both donors and recipients. If you have any interest in learn-ing more about the International Seed Bank, please contact Maureen, and she will undoubtedly share her enthusiasm with you.
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by John StahlRognvaldursson...now there’s a mouthful. It’s also
the name of one of Brian Mahieu’s introductions. While the name is unusual and unique, at a regis-tered height of 78 inches, it’s also one of the tallest daylilies to have been introduced. H. ‘Rognvaldurs-son’ has been in our garden for ten years, and while it has never reached the stratospheric (well maybe tropospheric) height of 78 inches, it generally hovers in the 66 to 70 inch range.
Certainly there are other very tall hems in the world. Some are just that...very tall, with but a few redeemable features. There are several by leading hybridizers which have good form and color, and I certainly appreciate their qualities. H. ‘Rognvaldurs-son’, however, has smitten me to the point of obses-sion. In terms of photographing daylilies, the number of images I have of it is second only to H. ‘Lovely Pink Lady’, which is another obsession, but that topic is for another time.
As to the name Rognvaldursson, it means son of Rognvaldur. Both were Nordic leaders in Normandy, circa 800-900 A.D. Brian’s name is French, and is con-centrated in the northwestern corner of France, so he felt a connection to these names and perhaps thisgroup of Vikings on a genetic level. Brian introduced H. ‘Rognvaldur’ in 2003 and its sibling H. ’Rogn-valdursson’ in 2007. The two are similar in height only, with H. ‘Rognvaldur’ coming in at only 70 inches.The statistics for each are: Rognvaldur (Mahieu 2003)- 70 inches, 6.5 in., MLa, Dormant, Diploid, Very fragrant, 24 buds, 3 branches, Smoky violet with purple chevron band above creamy lemon to lime green throat. (H. citrina x Rosy Lights) x Persian Pattern.Rognvaldursson (Mahieu-Burris 2007)- 78 inches, 8.5 in., MLa, Dormant, Diploid, 30 buds, 5 branch-es, Unusual Form Cascade, Violet purple blend with deep purple chevron band above lemon throat. (Rognvaldur x Clairvoyant Lady)
Brian indicated to me that his theory of H. ‘citrina’ producing height and great branching seems to be borne out by Rognvaldursson’s fea-tures. In addition, he also thinks that H. ‘Rosy Lights’ and H. ‘Persian Pattern’ also have H. ‘citrina’
in their backgrounds.Now for the fun part of this discussion. I spend
inordinate amounts of time each season photo-graphing daylilies. Tall and very tall plants offer both advantages and disadvantages to the photographer as do short plants. I am fairly tall at 5 ft. 11 inches, so I am physically equipped much better than those who might be ‘height challenged’. (I use this term so that I will not be accused of being politically incor-rect for using the term “short”). What this means is that I rarely have to use a step ladder in order to get decent images. In fact, the position of the blooms on very tall daylilies offers me the possibility of plan-ning varied backgrounds. I particularly like to keep the background as unobtrusive as possible so the individual bloom image is accented. By changing my position relative to the flower I am able to have back-grounds ranging from blurred to near black.
In order to obtain excellent images with short and very short plants, my position can range from awkward to downright comical. At times I have been nearly prone to compose an image. I have yet to use supination in my quest for a decent shot but I imag-ine that time may come. There is no doubt that the old knees and lumbar region are stressed at times to the point where it takes some time to be able to stand erect after a photo shoot.
As for the photos of the flowers itself, I offer sever-al examples.Photo No. 1 [below] demonstrates a nearly black background, one that I try for quite often as it is very dramatic.
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RognvaldurssonPhoto No. 2 [below] shows a background that is known as bokeh, an out of focus zone to the rear of the sub-ject, outside the depth of field. It is often manifested as it is here with reflections and points of light.
Photo No. 3 [at left] has a combination of black back-ground with less defined areas of bokeh. In all three images, the flower is emphasized while the background is subdued.
Photo No. 4 [at right] shows the excellent branching of this plant. H. ‘Rognvaldursson’ is at the top of my list of more than 550 cultivars in my garden.
Armed as you now are with a multitiude of facts, go forth and plant some tall and very tall daylilies. Don’t relegate them to the back border either. Place them smack in the middle of a bed as I do with many of mine.
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ANCIENT HISTORY, MODERN TIMESby Roland R. Tremblay PhDResearch Unit in ReproductionAssociation des amateurs d’héméro-calles du Québec (AAHQ) Canada
The origin of today’s plants can be dated with relative exactitude using paleontologic data: the science of studying living forms that existed during ancient geo-logic periods. This science is mainly based on fossil evidence and aims to describe phenomena of the past and to reconstruct their causes. The most important tool to determine ancient life is based on radiometric dating using the C14/C total ratio that is estimated by mass spectrometry with less than 1 mg of tissue. This technology is accurate to within 0.5 %.
In addition to the time factor, it is necessary to estimate the prevailing ambient temperature of 200 million years ago prior to discussing life. This param-eter is obtained by measuring the ratio between two oxygen isotopes (1) either in bones or in the teeth of animal fossils. During the inferior Cretaceae, the tem-perature ranged between 6 and 14 degrees Celsius.
Finally, the molecular clock model or molecular phylogenetics was developed in 1960 (2) and is based on the observation that deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is constantly exposed to «small mutations». Thus, the plant genome is modified during evolution and this clock allows us to estimate the moment when plants diverged. However, phylogenetics have limitations associated with the quality of DNA extracted from fossils. It is known as a supportive approach to recon-struct evolutionary family trees.
Such ancient mutations frequently occurred under dramatic conditions leading to species extinction and the disappearance of numerous plants under volcanic ash or continental deluges. Such a pattern of evolu-tion/mutation is quite different from that advocated by natural selection. The latter has occurred gradually over recent centuries on an empirical basis. Thus, knowledge of the DNA or chromatin role in the phe-notypic orientations of plants is not a landmark of the Cambrian revolution (this period lasted about 50 mil-lion years and was characterized by major evolution-ary changes in life on Earth), but from the research
conducted by Watson and Crick in 1953 (3).This raises the following question: how to place our
daylilies in geological time?Most probably during the Cretaceous period (−145
to −66 million years) along with the appearance of flowering plants also known as angiosperm plants. To be realistic, the biologic progression of the an-giosperms remains speculative, but the epigenetic strengths (4) were certainly much more forceful than those used with our cultivars over recent decades.
I do not overestimate the impact of the actual cli-matic undulations, but the approach I actually recom-mend for controlled epigenetic mutations with daylilies relies on the receptacle administration of mutagenic substances. For example, 5-Azacitidine (5-AZA) induces methylation changes that shape genomic evolution and architecture. Thus, the genome remains intact.
To conclude, the gardener pays attention to a flower because of its beauty, its form, its color and fragrance; the hybridizer is also concerned by the genetics of the whole plant and of its flower.
ADDENDUM The methylome of my cultivars exposed to 5-AZA
during the summer of 2017 is under evaluation in an American University. New molecular technologies allow the analysis of several mechanisms involved in epigenetic regulation, namely microRNA, the methyl-ation of CpG and the interactions between DNA and proteins. REFERENCES1. Sterb, M et al. : Les Mondes perdus. Une nouvelle préhistoire, Éditions Glénat, p.942. Sterb, M.et al. : Les Mondes perdus. Une nouvelle préhistoire, Éditions Glénat, p.623. Watson, J.D. and Crick, F.H.C. : Nature, vol. 171, p. 738, 19534. Sadava, D. et al. : Life, The Science of Biology, Epi-genetics, p 357-358, 2016
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TEMPS ANCIENS, TEMPS MODERNESpar Roland R. Tremblay PhDLaval University, Canada
Les plantes d’aujourd’hui ont une origine que l’on peut modeste-ment préciser à l’aide des données de la paléontologie, science des vivants sur la Terre lors du temps géologique. Elle se fonde sur l’étude des créatures fossilisées et demeure en partie conjecturelle. Ses principaux éléments de marquage des temps anciens sont la datation au carbone-14/carbone total par spectrométrie de masse et requiert moins d’un mg de tissu animal ou végétal.
En sus du vecteur temps, la température qui régnait il y a 200 millions d’années est primordiale à connaitre pour disserter sur la vie. On l’évalue en mesurant le rapport entre deux isotopes de l’oxygène (1) dans les dents ou les os fossiles. Au Crétacé inférieur, la température oscillait entre 6 et 14 degrés Celsius.
Finalement, il y a l’horloge moléculaire, modèle développé en 1960 (2) et basé sur l’observation que l’acide désoxyribonucléique (ADN) subit sans cesse de « petites modifications » au hasard des mutations. Ainsi, l’ADN d’une plante se métamorphose en cours du temps et permet d’appréhender la diversification d’une espèce; mais, la phylogénétique a de toute évidence ses limites en raison de la qualité souvent médiocre de l’ADN ancien des spécimens et apporte simplement un complément d’information à l’obser-vation des fossiles.
Qui plus est, ces mutations se sont produites très souvent dans des conditions dramatiques qui ont conduit à l’extinction d’espèces ou l’enfouissement de plantes sous les cendres de volcans ou de majestueuses inondations continentales. On ne parle plus alors de petites mutations au même titre que celles impliquées dans la sélection naturelle. Cette sélection s’est opérée tout doucement depuis plusieurs siècles sur des bases empiriques ou observationnelles; ainsi, le rôle des acides nucléiques dans l’orientation des phénotypes ne date pas du Précambrien, mais des recherches menées par Watson et Crick en 1953 (3).
Où se situent nos hémérocalles dans le temps géologique ? Sans doute au Crétacé (-145 à
-66 millions d’années) avec l’apparition des plantes à fleurs ou angiospermes. On peut spéculer longtemps sur le cheminement biologique de ces fleurs; elles ont connu des expositions épigénétiques (4) forcément plus contraignantes que celles que nous avons imposées à nos cultivars depuis un quart de siècle. Nous ne négligeons pas l’impact des changements climatiques actuels sur divers continents, mais l’approche que je préconise actuellement réside dans l’injection de substances mutagènes dans le réceptacle, à faibles concentrations, pour induire des changements phéno-typiques sans compromettre le génome de mes culti-vars. Le jardinier regarde une fleur pour sa beauté, ses formes, son parfum; l’hybrideur a le souci des interac-tions génomiques sous jacentes à la même fleur.
Addendum; le méthylome de mes cultivars traités avec 5-Azacitidine en cours de 2017 est en cours d’analyse dans une université des États Unis d’Amérique. Les nouvelles technologies moléculaires permettent, en effet, d’analyser les différents mécanismes de régulation épigénétique dont les miARN, la méthylation des CpG et les interactions protéine/ADN.
RÉFÉRENCES
1. Sterb, M. et al. : Les mondes perdus. Une nou-velle préhistoire. Éditions Glénat, p.94.
2. Sterb, M. et al. : Les mondes perdus. Une nou-velle préhistoire. Éditions Glénat, p. 62
3. Watson, J.D. et Crick, F.H.C. : Nature, vol.171, p.738, 1953
4. Sadava, D. et al. : Life, The Science of Biology, Epigenetics, p.357-358.
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By Russ Allen
Whenever I heard anyone explain how easy it was to hybridize daylilies, my immediate thought was that saying this means it clearly must not be that easy. This is the short story on how I became a backyard daylily hybridizer based on the use of a window ledge in our dining room for several months each year.Starting Up - It all began back in 2003 after I had joined the Connecticut Daylily Society and attended a few meetings. Naturally since I was highly suspicious of any claims that hybridizing daylilies was easy, I made the less than audacious first step by purchasing several dozen seeds on the internet involving crosses of daylilies which looked appealing to me (i.e. which were more expensive cultivars than I would have ever considered buying for myself). I figured that if the seedlings resulting from the cross looked at all like EITHER parent, that I’d get a real bargain by raising them from seed. Great rationale, I thought.Dining Room Hybridizing Requirements – So what’s required to get started? After the purchased seed arrived, I threw them in the refrigerator just to be sure they all thought they had survived a Conn. win-ter. Then I decided that I’d plant the seeds on about New Year’s Day 2004 to get the New Year started on a propitious note. In preparation for this historic day, I assembled the following essential items:• 3” square fiber pots, seedling starter mix (mainly peat moss)• Plastic seedling trays, heating mat, and fluo-rescent light stand with 24 hour timer • A watering can (gallon size minimum), some run of the mill fertilizer to mix in the water• A cheap notebook to record seedling number for all the seeds being planted with their parents list-ed so I could track the survivors; my seedling number-ing system was the year planted outside in the garden followed by my seed number.• Last, but by no means least, was permission from my spouse to take over the dining room bay window ledge adding a nice, dirty, greenhouse-like ambiance to our dining room.Initial Discoveries – My earliest recollections of the post-seed planting occasion on New Year’s Day and
related trepidations included the following:• I wondered whether any seeds would sprout – since I wasn’t sure how deep to plant them I used a shot gun approach of planting some deeper than others – generally around 1/2.”• After two weeks several seeds had sprouted but the others had not! How would I know when to give up waiting? The suspense was killing me!• I waited and waited and to my pleasant sur-prise almost all the seeds sprouted! Of course, after paying good money for them on the internet I thought that at least the seeds should at least sprout since the sellers must know that diploids can’t be crossed with tetraploids.• Qualities required of a dining room hybridizer include: a) always remembering to water the fiber pots every day or two without fail or everything wilts and dies, b) regard your seedlings like a family dog – anytime you want to go away for a weekend or a vaca-tion you need a house sitter – to water the seedlings! At least they don’t eat as much as a dog…and don’t need to go for a walk! c) a ruthless ability to throw out pots where the seedlings for some unknown rea-son died shortly after germination! (Good riddance I thought!), and d) considerable patience to wait until Spring!
Spring Planting Time – After seeing the seedlings continue to grow taller and look rather stringy and have ravenous appetite for my watering can, two weeks following the last frost arrived and I rushed to get the seedlings out of the dining room and into the garden. This, I think, was sometime in April my first
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year. The key requirements for the seedling planting holiday included: a) having space in the garden where one could plant the seedlings (always a challenge), b) having all weather plant markers made with each seedling number and parentage (otherwise I wouldn’t have a clue what cross led to a wonderful cultivar), and c) having some humus to throw in each hole to give the seedlings a better chance at life.
The key challenge in seedling planting is to esti-mate how far apart to plant them, since clearly there isn’t enough available open space in one’s garden to accommodate several dozen anything. I made the mental leap that 8” to 10” apart would be fine since I assumed that a lot of the seedlings might die and by default improve the spacing. Turns out I was right about that. My first year I think about 25% of the seeds didn’t sprout or survive early seedlinghood, and another 25% didn’t survive the first winter in the gar-den. The other thing I quickly learned was that if you don’t trim the top half of the fiber pots when plant-ing, they will quickly wick out all the moisture and kill your seedlings. Oh well, perhaps they wouldn’t have survived anyway! But, in my case, once a dining room hybridizer, always a dining room hybridizer.Waiting Time -- No one really impressed upon me how much patience is required to hybridize. No instant gratification here for sure. Not only did none of the seedlings bloom the first summer, but half of them didn’t even bloom the second summer. Now that requires a whole lot of patience! No wonder hybridizers flock to more southern locations. (Note: for those wishing to take the easy way out, which had never occurred to me I’m sorry to say, you can skip all the steps noted above – except for labeling – by planting your daylily seeds directly in the ground and simply seeing what comes up on its own!)First Bloom Nirvana? - The anticipation of awaiting the first bloom of a seedling after at least 18 months is pretty severe. Each day I’d go out to the garden to see if any buds had opened and finally nirvana! A couple buds opened! Ugh! What ugly blooms they were. Splotchy, lacking in distinctiveness, and under-whelming compared to pictures we see at our daylily meetings. But wait, after a couple more seedlings had their first bloom suddenly my spirits were uplifted as I discovered some blooms that made my heart melt!
Wow, is that beautiful I thought! Perhaps not that dis-tinctive, and no fancy ruffles, but it’s unique and it’s my baby and it’s beautiful! That’s the eureka moment which hybridizers live for and which cultivates unend-ing optimism that maybe the next seedling will be the most beautiful one in the whole world! In any case, it worked for me. Forget about all the road kill on the way to the survivors! Revel in the new creation which has some point of distinction (however invisible this might be to the casual viewer) which warms one’s heart and makes it glorious to behold!Making a Hybridizing Tradition – All you need out of a batch of seedlings is at least one that makes your heart soar! My first seedling which did this was #04-40 (see below). While it did not have any spectacular characteristics, nevertheless the longer I looked at its flowers the better they looked! And virtually every flower was perfect every time!Below: Photos of seedling rla #04-40 h.Noble Lady x h.Spacecoast Cool Deal (purchased seed)
All it takes is one or two seedlings to knock you off your chair to draw you into a life devoted to seeking the next “high” from daylily creation.
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Below: Another early hybridizing favorite –h.Palace Garden Beauty x h.Violet Tranquility rla #07-24 (pur-chased seed)
In my case this simply meant having several trays of pots in my dining room for the past 14 years with transfers each Spring to the garden. After my first years of buying seed on-line, I eventually took the leap to do my own crosses. Hybridizing Philosophy - My hybridizing philosophy is rather simple since I have no aspirations to become a commercial daylily grower or internet seed selling impresario like Rich Howard – it’s simply to cross sev-eral of my absolutely best garden performing cultivars each year and see what I get. It may not yield dra-matic new “breaks” in daylily genetics, but it can be very satisfying. My initial focus was behind crossing 'Bahama Butterscotch' (Salter 1990), pictured below, with other cultivars since this was such an awesome garden plant for me (e.g., floribundant, very rapid multiplier, unique butterscotch color, and perfect blooms).
Above: A favorite Bahama photo seedling: h.Ruby Spider x h.Bahama Butterscotch rla#10-01 Bringing Seedling Blooms Inside - Now my routine is to visit the garden each day and pick a selection of daylily blooms to bring into the kitchen – sometimes selecting ONLY seedlings – to better appreciate these special flowers. The selections change every day based on what’s putting on the most glorious show so it’s very inspiring to bring the garden inside each day! Remember to put some “daylight spectrum” bulbs in your kitchen so the colors of your daylily blooms you bring inside remain true to nature!Selecting Cultivars for Registration – I’m still in the evaluation stage to determine which seedlings may warrant reg-istration, but most of my favorite seedlings lack the full set of char-acteristics (like high bud count or speed of division) which would be required for excellent commercial prospects, but I am looking forward to naming some of my very best cultivars for special people in my life. My first registration threshold appears to be fast approaching, which will hopefully culminate, in retro-spect, in a most rewarding journey by a dining room hybridizer. So what I’d say is for anyone with a little space in their dining room – go for it!
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Optimal Process for the Cold Temperature Treatment of Dormant Daylily Seeds
By Greg Haggett
Based on a literature search and personal experience, the optimal processfor the cold temperature treatment of dormant daylily seeds is noted below.This process applies to dormant seeds (but it may be applied to nondormant seeds without harm). Use of this process should result in germination rates of 90+ percent.
1) After harvest, seeds should be air-dried in a cool and dryenvironment (ideally in paper envelopes) for 1-2 days.2) Thereafter, seeds should be stored in a cool (not frozen) and dryenvironment (ideally in sealed plastic bags in a refrigerator) until coldtreatment.3) Before cold treatment, each seed should be checked (squeezed) tomake sure it is viable (firm).4) Cold treatment should be done in a refrigerator (not outdoors or someother uncontrolled environment).5) Seeds should be immersed in moist perlite/vermiculite (not instanding water) inside sealed plastic bags during cold treatment.6) The temperature during cold treatment should be 34-38 °F (1-3°C) (notfreezing).7) The length of cold treatment should be 4-5 weeks.8) After 3 weeks of cold treatment, seeds should be checked forgermination every few days (any seeds that have germinated andhave an epicotyl (green stem) that is 1/8-3/8" long should be removedfrom the plastic bag and planted).9) After 4-5 weeks of cold treatment, seeds should be incubated at65-75 °F (18-24°C) and checked every few days (again, any seeds thathave germinated and have an epicotyl that is 1/8-3/8" long should beremoved from the plastic bag and planted).10) After one or more seeds have germinated in a particular bag, it maybe easier to remove the rest of the seeds from that bag and sow themall at once instead of planting them individually.After 1-2 weeks of incubation, nearly all of the seeds should havegerminated.
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by Sue Bergeron ODH (Dip.Hort.Guelph), AHS Scientific Studies Committee and Region 4 Scientific Liaison
Those of us in Region 4 may have been lulled into think-ing that the Hemerocallis gall midge was safely confined to areas west of the Rocky Mountains in BC and Washington State, and so we were not at risk this far away. Reports are now surfacing, however, of its presence in our Region, both in north-western Ontario and Nova Scotia. The accompa-nying pictures were taken in Don Longton’s garden in Nova Scotia, where he found larvae still in buds as late as August this year (see picture).
We have to commend people like Don who have re-ported this pest east of the Rockies, because otherwise we have no idea where the midge is making itself at home, and it also tells us that the pest can survive pretty cold winters! Of course it could also be present in other places as well that we have not heard about, so what can we do to avoid starting a new area of infestation before it would arrive naturally?
Since we don’t know where else it might be, the safest way is to assume that any new daylily is a potential risk. Knowing the life cycle of the pest enables us to have some avoidance ideas.
The adult fly lays its eggs on developing daylily buds where the resulting maggots feed before dropping to the ground to pupate until the following year, when they will then emerge as adults to repeat the cycle. So, to break this cycle, we would have to avoid keeping any soil or media that came with the daylily. Bare-root purchases are safer in this regard and if you must buy daylilies in pots, wash off all the potting mix and dispose of it. The same applies to “dug on demand” daylilies - if you can wash the soil off
in the garden of origin so much the better. These practices will reduce the risk of introducing any larvae or pupae that might be in the soil or potting mix. Obviously you do not want to add any of this soil or potting mix to your garden or compost pile because the larvae could simply continue to pupate there and emerge as adults to attack your daylil-ies the next spring.
The really hard part is going to be cutting off any scapes already visible on new plants! But this is necessary because buds may be infest-ed with just a small number of larvae and not give much indication of their presence. Plus, if the pest is new to you, any slight abnormal-ity may not be as ob-vious as if you have prior experience of the pest. Again, do not leave the cut scapes in the garden or compost pile.
If the daylily gall midge does find your garden somehow, whether naturally or because someone has introduced it to the area, you will from then on need to remove and destroy infested buds in order to keep the population as low as possible.
This is a particularly significant daylily pest because it ruins the flowers, the main purpose for which we grow our favourite plant. If attacked, the buds may inflate and rot, filled with whitish maggots, or dry up and abort. Because there is only one generation of the pest each year, and that affects the earlier flowers, later-flowering daylilies are typically able to open normally but we do not know yet how late flowering they have to be to escape the midge in Region 4. As mentioned above, Don Longton found mag-gots in buds in the early part of August.
Natural spread of the pest will be slow, so lets try not to give it a helping hand to get around more quickly! Hybrid-izers might also want to consider breeding for later-flower-ing daylilies based on the assumption that eventually the midge will become more widespread on this continent.
[Photos: Don Longton]
Hemerocallis Gall Midge now in Region 4
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By Lori-Ann JonesYears ago my hybridizing efforts for Spiders and
Unusual Forms went forward when one of my hybrid-izing buddies, Richard Blanchard, brought over a pot of ‘Orchid Waterfall’ (Stamile, 2004) for me to use in my program. ‘Orchid Waterfall’ was then crossed to seedling # 03-283, later introduced as ‘Whip City Coochie Coochie Coo’ (Jones-L., 2011). One of the results of that cross was ‘Whip City Vickanator’ (Jones-L., 2013). These are 2 different looks for ‘Whip City Vickanator’[below].
In the mid to late 1990's, at a New England Daylily So-ciety meeting, Phil Reilly spoke about knowing the history of the parents you were going to use in your hybridizing program, what they have produced, what was produced from them by other hybridizers and what was in their background that could show up unexpectedly.
When looking into the genetics of ‘Orchid Waterfall’ you can find that it has ‘Tet. Skinwalker’ in its background and that has helped to introduce thin petals into my Unusual Forms. My next cross was: (‘Whip City Vickanator’, (Jones-L., 2013) X ‘Whammer Jammer’, (Hansen-D, 1992)) [‘Whammer Jammer’ (Han-sen-D, 1992) pictured below]
This cross yielded seedling # 11-1154, seedling # 11-1157 ‘Whip City Walks on Air’ (Jones-L., 2018) and seedling # 11-1161. All 3 have measure as Spiders. [Below, Seedling # 11-1154]
[Below, Seedling # 11-1157‘Whip City Walks on Air’ (Jones-L., ’18) [Spider Ratio 4.67]]
[Below, Seedling # 11-1161]
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Some pod parents started to show what they could do when crossed with the right pollen parent. I was using the pollen of seedling # 11-1157 ‘Whip City Walks on Air’ in 2012 in hybridizing for my 2013 seedlings and by 2014 I was observing some exciting results. Not only did ‘Whammer Jammer’ have Spiders and Eyes in its genetics but it also had ‘Last Flight Out’ (Hansen’92), an earlier pattern in its background explaining why some of the 2013 seedlings also began exhibiting patterns, not as we see patterns today with the rippling effect, but patterns nonetheless. When you think of genetics in Tetraploid daylilies, think of the lottery and ‘Power Ball’ where the balls are bounced around in the cage and one by one the numbers are drawn to get a winner. Basically, it is the same with Tetraploid genetics because you are dealing with 44 chromosomes. What you think you are going to get is in the ‘luck of the draw’. The following 2013 seedling photos represent what I have been observing since their maiden blooms in 2014. [Below, Seedling. # 13-236]
[Below, Seedling. # 13-237]
[Below, Seedling # 13-312, registered as ‘Whip City Glides on an Airstream’ (Jones-L., 2018) [Spi-der Ratio 4.33]]
[Below, Seedling # 13-238]
[Below, Seedling # 13-241, registered as‘Whip City Twisting in the Wind’ (Jones-L., 2018)Won ‘Best Seedling’ 2017, AHS Exhibition, Tower Hill, MA
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[Below, Seedling # 13-278, registered as ‘Whip City Sea Breeze’ (Jones-L., 2018)]
For me, using ‘Whip City Walks on Air’ as the pollen parent has created...and is creating some of the best Spi-ders and Unusual Forms as a result of that cross of (Whip City Vickanator X Whammer Jammer). The heritable mix is immeasurable! With time, patience, perseverance, commitment and attentiveness, unexpected but superb results can be realized from a ‘small hybridizing program’. How did I know that ‘Whip City Walks on Air’ would be a great parent out of the 5 other siblings? Was it luck or an instinct bred from a culmination of hybridizing experienc-es since 1993? As you can see from my small backyard programs, the unattainable is attainable with persever-ance and the size of your imagination is only limited by your desires. Hopefully, when you choose which parents to cross or which seeds to plant or which seedlings to keep and evaluate, you also have the courage to take a, ‘Leap of Faith’.
And where am I going from here? 2012 was the year that I became unfocused to the extreme. I wanted teeth and ruffles on my Unusual Forms and Spiders but then seedlings that bloomed in 2015 were seeds acquired from one of my hybridizing buddies and there were blues and patterns. In 2016 my neighbor, friend and new hybridizer, Jillian Delude, received some seeds from my buddy that had parents that produced blues, patterns and bubbly edges. These are some of the pictures of seedlings blooming in 2017 [at right], a year after being started and then planted in her seedling bed. I believe now I am refocused because I went crazy for the blues, patterns and triple edges that match the eye, so that is my new direction that is now on my bucket list.
[Below, Seedling # JD 16-316]
[Below, Seedling # JD 16-323]
[Below, Seedling # JD 16-324]
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Jillian is leaning more toward the bubbly edges. Not quite sure if she will be putting them on my Unusual Forms, but either way she goes, it will be interesting.[Below, Seedling # JD 16-350]
What I want to see now are blues and patterns in my Spiders and Unusual Forms as well as my "Big Honking"
Daylilies. Will this goal happen? Only time will tell, but I am well on my way and should see some results next year in 2019 when this year’s batch of seedlings bloom.
*** ‘The northern quest’ ‘From seeds to blooms in just over a year’ By Lori-Ann Jones, The Daylily Journal, Vol. 66 No. 4 .Winter 2011.*** Hybridizing: Is it for you? By Lori-Ann Jones, Daylilies in the Great Northeast, Fall 2013This article received an award from the American Hem-erocallis Society for: BEST ARTICLE ABOUT HYBRIDIZING
Both articles can be found on Lori’s Blog: http://knollcottagedaylilies.blogspot.com/
Did you know...?Submitted by Helen Nordvall
Did you know that hosta and daylilies at one time were classified as the same genus? They were both considered part of genus hemerocallis until 1812.
The father of modern daylily hybridizing in North America is Dr. Arlow Burdette Stout. Hence, The Stout Silver Medal, awarded by the American Hemerocallis Society and given to the daylily receiving the highest number of votes by AHS Garden Judges each year, is named after Dr. Stout.
Common names for H. Europa fulva, include "Ditch-Lily" and "Outhouse Lily".
'Jaune Grenouille' (Thibault, 2016)photo: A. Keohan
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AAHQAssociation des Amateurs d’Hémérocalles du QuébecSubmitted by Roland Tremblay, President
CONSEIL D’ADMINISTRATION DE L’AAHQ (2018-2019)Roland R. Tremblay, président et secrétaireMaurice Paradis, vice-présidentRoland Dufour, trésorierMichel Goulet, administrateurDenise Simard, administratrice
L'HÉMÉROBRUNCH ANNUEL -15 avril 2018Petit déjeuner (Restaurant Pacini, Québec).
Conférence du professeur Charles Goulet, Département de Phytologie, UniversitéLaval, "La génétique au service de la beauté".
Gagnants du concours "COUP DE COEUR 2018". Responsable: monsieur Michel Goulet.
LE JOURNAL L'AMIROCALLISL'édition de ce numéro débutera le 1er mars et comprendra 6 articles.À ne pas manquer !
JOURNÉE DE L'HÉMÉROCALLE -29 juillet 2018Planification en cours pour tenir cette rencontre en même temps que la Journée dédiée au Domaine Joly-de-Lotbinière.
En anglais...ANNUAL HEMEROBRUNCH-April 15, 2018Breakfast (Pacini Restaurant, Quebec).Lecture by Professor Charles Goulet, Department of Phytology, Laval University, "Genetics at the service of beauty".Winners of the "COUP DE COEUR 2018" contest. Responsible: Mr. Michel Goulet.
THE AMIROCALLIS JOURNALThe edition of this issue will begin March 1st and will include 6 articles.Do not miss !
DAYLILY DAY -July 29, 2018Planning in progress to hold this meeting at the same time as the Day dedicated to Domaine Joly-de-Lotbinière.
BADSBuffalo Area Daylily SocietySubmitted by Kathy Guest Shadrack2018 ReportMay 20th-Spring Meeting & Plantapalooza East Aurora Senior Center
This is where we bring in plants from our luncheon speaker and offer them to our members at special member pricing. The sale is by lottery so nobody has an advantage over another. This is also where we will be distributing our babysitting plants - reviving a program that has been sleeping for a few years.
June 30 & July 1- Buffalo Garden Art & Plant Society AvenueBuffalo & Erie County Botanical Gardens
This is our first outreach opportunity of the year - the Garden Art Sale attracts over a thousand gardeners in a festival atmosphere. We are part of a Plant Society Avenue where we are able to offer informational handouts and memberships.
July 22nd – DAYLILY DAYLasting Dreams Daylily Farm – 11 am-2 pm, Plus optional gardens.
Each year, we choose a cluster of gardens in an area and create an event around them. This year Lasting Dreams is hosting DAYLILY DAY. There will be short, educational talks, seedling evaluation, discounts and free plants, refreshments. From 2 until 5, nearby gardens will be open: Gladsome Gardens (Kris Weitz), Smug Creek Gardens (Shadrack) and others TBD.
August 4th- Members’ PicnicChestnut Ridge Park
The picnic is a great day of food, games and daylilies. We have daylilies for purchase with BADS Bux (and cash) and lots of other fun things to do.
August 25th- Annual Public SaleBuffalo & Erie County Botanical Gardens
Our big fund raiser each year. We have them lined up at the door.
October 20th- BADS Annual LuncheonSPEAKER: Pat Sayers, Huntington, NYForest View Restaurant
Pat's talk will be "Sex in the Garden". The luncheon is also our Annual Meeting.
December 2nd-Holiday Meeting & Cookie ExchangeEast Aurora Senior Center
A social meeting, generally with a speaker (TBA) and each member is asked to bring a tray of cookies to share.
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CDSConnecticut Daylily SocietySubmitted by Greg Haggett, President
On November 4, Dan Bachman from the Valley of the Daylilies in Lebanon, Ohio shared his daylily knowledge and breathtaking blooms with CDS. Dan’s substantial property has several commercial growing fields and is an official AHS display garden. VOTD offers an enormous selection of spider and unusual form daylilies, an extensive listing of historic pre-1980 varieties, plus many of the newest cutting-edge cultivars. Dan hybridizes both diploids and tetraploids, with unusual forms comprising the majority of his 231 registrations to date.
Also, prior to Dan’s presentation, Adele Keohan taught a Garden Judge Workshop 1 at our meeting facility, the Avon Senior Center. We are pleased to report that CDS members Linda Kozloski and Helen Nordvall [below, left to right]passed the test with flying colors and are in the process of completing their applications to become Garden Judges. Many thanks to Adele for supporting their quest.
On December 16, Charlotte Chamitoff, creator of the award-winning Charlotte’s Daylily Diary, featured Sheltara, the
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phenomenal garden of Frank and Helen Ferrari in Chester, CT, in the 12th Winter Series (2017-18) of her International Garden of the Week program. Frank and Helen developed their garden over five decades, and it shows, from early Spring through late Fall. It received rave reviews from all over North America. Of most interest was the Monet-like image of the Japanese bridge, with daylilies in the background reflected under the bridge and water lilies in the foreground. To view this featured garden, go to daylilydiary.com or ctdaylilyclub.com.
On January 20, Nick Chase from the Patriot Daylily Society gave two presentations on a multitude of gardens. They focused on the open and tour gardens for the 2016 Region 4 Conference in Nashua, NH and such gardens for the 2017 AHS Conference in Norfolk, VA. The first one featured the gardens of Lis Murphy, Cameron and Nancy Stern, Carl and Marlene Harmon, Janet McOsker, Jean Doherty, Lori-Ann Jones, Kim Krodell, Cheryl Fox and Phil Douville, Bonnie and Chris Szarek, Don and Nancy Smith, Darlyn Wilkinson, Tower Hill Botanic Garden, and Noel’s Nursery. The second one featured the gardens of Pinkham, Sterrett, Norfolk Botanical Garden, Margo Reed and Jim Murphy, Stonecrop Gardens, Lasdon Park Gardens, Skylands Botanical Garden, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Tyler Arboretum, and Colonial
Park Gardens. Many thanks to Nick for his top-rate photos and commentary.
On February 22-25, CDS hosted an educational exhibit at the CT Flower & Garden Show at the CT Convention Center in Hartford, CT. [Above, Bob & Kathy Musson at the CDS booth] Many thanks to Kim Krodell, Rebecca Nisley, Cheryl Fox, Phil Douville, and others for creating, setting up, and hosting the exhibit. The Show was well-attended and we answered myriad questions about daylilies. In addition, more than 50 attendees signed up for future emails and blog postings about CDS and its activities.
On March 17, Stuart Kendig from Perfect Perennials in York, PA will give his presentation on “Whites, Stripes, and Garden Sights” to CDS. He and his wife, Diane, have a 3-acre AHS display garden with flower beds surrounding a large pond. They have been hybridizing daylilies for 20 years and have developed a line of high-performing, cold-hardy, red-edged daylilies among their 77 registrations to date. Stuart is also interested in white daylilies and authored a four-page article on this subject in the Winter 2017 issue of The Daylily Journal.
On May 19, CDS plans to hold its ever-popular annual daylily sale at the Avon Senior Center. Daylily lovers come from far and wide to this event, our major fundraiser, every year to refresh their gardens with a wide selection of daylilies.
They are well-priced: most of the daylilies typically sell for less than $10. We hope to see you there.
On July 15, CDS plans to hold its annual Business Meeting and Picnic at Terrace Hill Farm in Bloomfield, CT. This will be during the peak daylily bloom season, so it should be a good time for all. CDS members will also hold a number of open gardens during peak bloom season.
On September 29, Margo Reed and Jim Murphy from Woodhenge Gardens in North Garden, VA will give their presentations to CDS.
As reported earlier, Kim Krodell developed a Scout Initiative in which Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts seeking to earn a gardening-related merit badge can learn about hybridizing and growing daylilies. This could well be the prototype for similar programs throughout the country and we are proud to report that Kim authored a two-page article on this subject in the Winter 2017 issue of The Daylily Journal. More information on this program is also available on our website.
The Connecticut Daylily Society welcomes gardeners of all experience levels to our free meetings at the Avon Senior Center/Sycamore Hills Recreation Center, 635 West Avon Road (Rt. 167) at the junction of Sycamore Hills and Scoville Roads in Avon, CT. Visit www.ctdaylilyclub.com for our event calendar and up-to-date club info, and friend us on Facebook to stay connected at www.facebook.com/ct.daylilysociety. With flowers, friends, and fantastic food, our gatherings are worth the trip from anywhere!
FieLDSFinger Lakes Daylily SocietySubmitted by Melodye Campbell2018 Meeting schedule
FieLDS kicked off 2018 with the annual Souper Bowl Meeting on February 17. Members bring homemade soups and desserts for lunch after the meeting. Instead of inviting one speaker, Charlie and Judy Zettek organized a hybridizer roundtable – or as Judy called it – a “homegrown” presentation! The Finger Lakes area of Upstate NY is a hotbed of daylily hybridizing! 10 hybridizers in the club participated in this roundtable. Each
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Region 4 Club Newswas allotted 5 minutes to tell us about their program. Charlie had put together a slide show of the hybridizers’ daylily seedlings and/or registrations. Members participating in the roundtable were: Kathy and Tom Rood, Mike Fleche, Karla Krogstad, Ross Kenyon, Anthony and Carol Haj, Anna Carlson, Brent Ross and Charlie Zettek. Following the roundtable, members broke for lunch and daylily talk!
Here are a few nuggets of wisdom that were shared with us!
• Kathy Rood’s inspiration for hybridizing little daylilies is Pauline Henry. In 2017 Kathy registered a true miniature, ‘A Fairy’s Touch.” The bloom is the size of a quarter and is only 13” tall!
• Although retired from garden judge instruction, Tom imparted his advice – anyone growing daylilies will benefit from taking the Garden Judge workshops. They teach you to look at the entire plant, not just the flower!
• Mike Fleche has been a member of FieLDS for 20 years and has been hybridizing for all of those years! He named one of his new registrations, ‘Beach City Blues,’ in honor of the 2018 Myrtle Beach National Convention so if you are attending, you’ll be able to see it growing in the tour gardens!
• Karla Krogstad’s mentor and inspiration was Dick Bennett, former Region 4 Director.
• Ross Kenyon loves large flowers and is focused on great plant habit.
• Carol and Anthony Haj never met a pod they didn’t keep! Carol loves the pastel palette of colors.
• Anna Carlson was excited to show us images of her ‘Ravencroft Sun Streaks.’ This unique daylily has linear sculpting in the petals and a corduroy texture.
• Brent Ross is getting some interesting seedlings out of ‘Rose F. Kennedy’ breeding.
• A strong focus for Charlie Zettek is breeding for daylilies with high scape density and high flower density. One of his early blooming diploids has 47 scapes!
Here is the FIeLDS meeting schedule for the rest of 2018:
The March and May meetings will begin at 10am at: Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 320 S. Pearl Street, Canandaigua, NY 14424
March 17 Meeting- Eric Simpson & Bob Selman will speak about their hybridizing programs. Bob and Eric are from Blue Ridge Daylilies in Alexander, NC. Following their presentation, they will hold a 50/50 auction featuring some of their newer cultivars! (Shipped to us in May)
TBD: Webster Arboretum Spring Clean-up
May 26 Meeting- Silent Auction of daylilies from Carl Harmon of Harmon Hill Farm in NH; Babysitter Plant Raffle of daylilies from Curt Hanson; Perennial Exchange
July 21- Garden Stay - Summer grooming at Webster Arboretum
August 11- Members Picnic & Plant Auction will be hosted by Ross Kenyon at his garden in Corfu, NY. Ross has one of the newest Region 4 Display Gardens, Diggers Den Daylilies.
September 23- Annual Fall banquet at Burgundy Basin Inn in Pittsford, NY. Our speaker will be Gil Stelter of Gryphon Gardens in Guelph, Ontario, Canada
HADSHudson Adirondack Daylily SocietySubmitted by Debi Chowdhury, past HADS chairwww.hudsonadirondackdaylilysociety.org2018 Calendar of EventsMarch 24th - Meeting at the Capital District Garden and Flower Show at HVCC, 10 am
April 21st - Frank Almquist – “Soils – What’s Under Your Boots”
May 4th-5th - Can Am Classic, Mississauga, Ontario
May 12th - Members’ Auction
June 6th - 9th - National Convention, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
June 16th - Babysitter Distribution
July 21st - picnic
July 27th-29th- Regional Meeting, Halifax, Nova Scotia
August 18th- Annual Sale at Faddegon’s
September 15th - TBD
October 20th - combined meeting with Hosta Society - Amy Ziffer, speaker
HVIDSHudson Valley Iris and Daylily Society Submitted by Sondra Tillou, [email protected]
HVIDS 2018 – Full year calendarMarch 4 - Sunday 1:30 pm social, 2:00 pm Monthly Meeting, Marlboro Library
April 8 - Sunday 1:30 pm social, 2:00 pm Monthly Meeting, Marlboro Library (April 1st is Easter)
May 6 - Sunday 1:30 pm social, 2:00 pm Monthly Meeting, Marlboro Library
May 19 - HVIDS Iris Exhibition (Poughkeepsie Galleria)
July 21- HVIDS Daylily Exhibition (Poughkeepsie Galleria)
August 9 - Thursday (rain date 8/11th, Saturday) Iris Prep Day at Sondra Tillou’s Home (Kingston)
August 16 - Thursday (rain date 8/17th, Friday) Daylily Prep Day (rain date) @ Ray Rivard’s Home (Staatsburg)
August 18 - HVIDS Sale @ Poughkeepsie Galleria
HVIDS Sale @ one or more of following:August 19, 25, 26- Adams Poughkeepsie, Adams Newburgh, Middletown Galleria
Sept 9 - Sunday 1:30 pm social, 2:00 pm Monthly Meeting, Marlboro Library (Sept 2 Labor Day weekend)
Oct 7 - Sunday 1:30 pm social, 2:00 pm Monthly Meeting, Marlboro Library
Nov 7 - Sunday 1:30 pm social, 2:00 pm Monthly Meeting, Marlboro Library
Dec 2 - Sunday, Time TBD: HVIDS Holiday Party
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Spotlight on: LIDS"Kentucky Gents Visit the Island"By Chris Petersen
Long Island Daylily Society had the pleasure of hosting “The Boys” aka David Kirchhoff and Mort Morss at our March Luncheon. They are such an amiable duo and they shared stories and photos with a good sized crowd of LIDS folks. We heard Dave’s story about how his dad, a gladiolus grower, decided to go into the daylily business because new daylilies were so expensive to buy! Daylily World originated in 1960 in Sanford, Florida. The daylilies thrived and many award winners were created. Integrated pest management kept everything in balance until rust showed up in 2001. Then, a spray program began to keep the dreaded rust at bay.
After 35 years in Florida, Dave and Mort decided to make the move to Lawrenceburg, Kentucky. Sixty thousand daylilies were potted up and put into moving vans, only to find out that the vans couldn’t make it up to their hilly property! Everything had to be transferred by five people to smaller vehicles that could handle the route! David remarked that the five acres on Abbots Hill had very little level ground. He was afraid of falling off one of the steep slopes and ending up in West Virginia! However, the soil was rich and a neighbor with a mountain of aged manure got the daylilies off to a good start. That is until the plants experienced their first -20 degree Kentucky winter, after which fifty percent of the daylilies bit the dust! The lack of snow coverage in winter doesn’t make gardening in Kentucky any easier either.
Mort said that he never thought of trees as being part of a garden until they moved. The whole experience was so different that the guys remarked that they might as well have moved to Mars! With the help of a friend who hap-pened to be a landscape designer, Dave and Mort started planning a garden instead of the straight rows they tended
in Florida. They also had to start thinking about growing northern hardy plants. Gone were the days of the Florida plants that easily attained budcounts of 30. In Kentucky those same plants achieved more modest budcounts of 17.
Although their hybridizing goals have changed, Dave and Mort love their peaceful hillside paradise that they share with their two canines and hordes of visitors! Luckily, their neighbor keeps the deer over at his place by feeding them. Even still, Dave and Mort have installed electric fences on the property.
No daylily meeting would be complete without an auction. Dave and Mort generously offered a ton of their new introductions, plus many other plants, up for bid-ding. Dave is a great auctioneer and LIDS’ members will be growing many of their beautiful creations this sum-mer. As one LIDS’ member said, “It was great to be with friends old and new seeing beautiful daylilies! Spectacu-lar day!”
[Back row, left to right: David Kirchhoff, Mort Morss, David and Laura Chaloupecky, Pam Milliken. Front row, seated left to right, Luanne Madden and Barbara Schenk.]
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LIDSLong Island Daylily SocietySubmitted by Chris Petersen, president2018 LIDS’ CALENDAR OF EVENTS
March 24 - 12 PM- Luncheon- David Kirchhoff & Mort Morss, Daylily World, Lawrenceburg, KY (Clarion Hotel, Ronkonkoma)
April 21 - 10 AM- Spring Garden Spruce-up, 1 PM: Dan Pessoni, Driftwood Gardens, Cape Cod, MA (G)
April 28 & 29 - 11 -4PM- LIDS Booth for Arbor Day (Planting Fields Arboretum)
May 8 - 10 - 11-4 PM Spring Plant Sale at Farmingdale University (Farmingdale, NY)
May 15 (Tuesday) - 9AM-5 PM: May Daylily Auction (G)
June 6 - 9 - AHS National Convention, Myrtle Beach, SC
June 16 - 10 AM- LIDS Garden Spruce-up, 12 PM-Member’s Plant Sale, 1 PM Business Meeting (G)
July 7 - 9:30 AM- LIDS’ Flower Show Set-up (HC)
July 8 - 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM: LIDS’ Flower Show (HC)
July 21 -22- LIDS Member Garden Tours (TBA)
July 27 - 29- AHS Region 4 Meeting, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
August -Public Daylily Sale and Clinic on Growing Daylilies (TBA)
August -Garden Clean-up Day- (TBA)
September 15 - 12:00 - LIDS Barbeque (Place TBA)
October 27 - Margo Reed and Jim Murphy, Woodhenge Gardens, North Garden, VA (G)
November 17 - 12PM- Pot-Luck Luncheon, Annual Business Meeting, Members’ Garden Photos (G)
Meetings are held in the Main Greenhouse (G) or the Horticultural Center (HC) at Planting Fields Arboretum in Oyster Bay, NY. Please check the LIDS website or our Facebook page for more information: www.lidaylily.org.
NEDSNew England Daylily Societywww.nedaylily.org
Submitted by Marlene Harmon, NEDS Webmaster
The weatherman was predicting bad weather on the date of our January meeting so we hope you checked our website or facebook before you left home to find out that our meeting had been cancelled. Please know that we made every effort to let people know about the cancellation. We apologize if you didn’t get the message. The photo contest scheduled for January will be held at the March meeting.
2018 Calendar of Events
March 10 - NEDS Meeting at Tower Hill, Boylston, MA – Since our January meeting was cancelled due to inclement weather, we will have our annual daylily photo contest in the morning. Following the potluck luncheon, our guest speaker will be William Marchant from Druid City Daylily Garden, Douglasville, GA. William likes to work with dormants and has produced many plants with good hardiness, rust resistance and great plant habit. Visit his website to see some of his intros. http://druidcitydaylilies.blogspot.com/
April 14 - NEDS Meeting at Tower Hill – We have two speakers lined up for the April meeting. In the morning we’ll hear from NEDS member and hybridizer Bob Sobek. Bob has been hybridizing since 1972 and has focused his efforts in these areas:*rebloom lines in colors other than yellows* mid-season pink diploids* early red dips* trumpets in colors other than yellows* greenish-yellows dips and tets, in any season* lates and very lates in all colors, both dips and tets.
Bring a dish to share for lunch then stay for the presentation by David Jewel from Ontario, Canada. David’s garden, named “On Russel” for the street he is on, has 4 water features which include a running bird bath water feature, a Koi pond, a gentle stream and a waterfall. Visit David’s website http://www.onrussell.com to browse through 40+
cultivars he has introduced. We hope you will join us.
July 14 - Judged AHS Daylily Show and Exhibition at Tower Hill – Bring your scapes and enter them for judging in the show or just come and enjoy and maybe volunteer to help. The exhibition allows us to showcase our favorite flower for the many visitors that day – gardeners and non-gardeners from around New England. Check the NEDS website and newsletter before July for details about entering the exhibition.
July 21 - NEDS Picnic. Steve & Ruth Greene have graciously volunteered to host the picnic in their garden Greene Acre, 36 Elaine Rd., Sudbury MA. Please bring a dish to share and join us for some good food, daylily friendship and a great auction where you can pick up a few new cultivars at very reasonable prices. Spend time enjoying Greene Acre which features over 500 daylilies and 300 hosta in a garden where sun transitions to shade. Recent addition of more dwarf conifers and hydrangeas as well as modification in the cottage garden, have created more diversity. Several sculptures by Marie Zoe Greene-Mercier are featured, including a new 9 foot modification of a collage created in 1946. Four g-scale trains operate in the front side yard. I can’t wait to see it! Please check our website near the time of the picnic for further details.
July 27-29 - AHS Region 4 Regional in Halifax, Nova Scotia. We hope you’ll join us in Canada for the Region4 Summer Meeting
November 10 - NEDS Meeting at Tower Hill
Please visit our website www.nedaylily.org for up-to-date info and schedule of upcoming events. Like us on facebook - New England Daylily Society – NEDS to stay informed of upcoming events.
Meetings at Tower Hill Botanic Garden11 French DriveBoylston, Ma 01505
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NSDSNova Scotia Daylily SocietyPresident - Greg SutcliffeVice President - Louise PlourdeTreasurer - Dianne MacMillanSecretary - Yvonne ChuteDirector at Large - Carol HarveyDirector at Large - Michelle MercierProgram Chair (ex officio) - Cecil DunlapPast President (ex officio) - Mary Ridgley
Editor's Note: NSDS is busy preparing to welcome you to the 2018 Region 4 Meeting! See page 16 for details or visit http://nsdsregion4.com/register.html
ODSOntario Daylily SocietySubmitted by Don Blakely, president
A full slate of activities is underway for 2018. For our January meeting Dave Mussar gave a photo presentation of the gardens on display at the AHS National Meeting. Our March meeting was the Annual Hybridizer’s Forum, which is an all-day program with several speakers discussing all aspects of daylily growing.
Future events for 2018 are as follows:
May 4-5 – 22nd Can-Am Classic to be held at the Doubletree by Hilton Toronto Airport West Hotel, Mississauga. There is a full list of interesting speakers, plant auction and plant sale table. Go to the ODS website for full details and registration.
June 2 – Babysitting Program and Plant Sale featuring plants Jamie Gossard
July 21 – ODS Picnic, John Burgener, Dynamic Daylilies, Beamsville
September 22 – Annual Meeting, speakers, plant auction and sale table. Brooklin United Church Hall
October 20 – Autumn Get Together, speaker Michael Falconer
November 24 – Holiday Potluck and meeting, speaker Sandra Lex
Consult the ODS website for meeting details and updates (www.ontariodaylily.on.ca).
PDSPatriot Daylily Society Spring/Summer 2018 ActivitiesSubmitted by Mary Collier Fisher, presidentAll meetings are held in the Bedford Public Libary, 4 Mudge Way, Bedford (off of Rt. 4/225), Massachusetts from 12 - 4 p.m Visitors are most welcome.
We had a fabulous meeting on February 3 with two presentations to lighten the winter doldrums. Our own award winning Region 4 editor, Adele Keohan, shared with us some great pictures of her travels to Wisconsin and to Canada to participate in some great daylily and gardening events. Adele offered her presentation as suggestions on ways in which daylily clubs both large and small can make it enjoyable for their members, and provide outreach to teach others about daylilies.
Nick Chase sent along his excellent presentation on gardens both at and en route to last year's American Hemerocallis Society convention in Virginia. We are lucky he sent them in advance as the locomotive on his car train from Florida broke down delaying his arrival by a day. He had gone through a ton of work recording information on most of the slides identifying the location of the great shots, and even sent along a typed document as well.
June 2- Annual John R. Pike Photo Contest Please send your slides for inclusion to Patsy Cunningham ([email protected]) by May 1st if you would like to enter our contest.
October 6 and November 3 (Program to be determined)
SMDHSSouthern Maine Daylily and Hosta Society Submitted by Cheri Ellenberger, President2018 Officers and MeetingsPresident Cheri Ellenberger [email protected] Vice President Leslie BartreauxTreasurer Paul Bourret
The April 8 meeting featured our annual photo contest, and a professional photographer, Mike Leonard, to help us improve our photos.
Our Annual Plant Sale is BACK !!!
Our May meeting will be Sunday, May 20 at our old location at the Hort Building at SMCC. Our doors will be open for you to set up your plants to sell to the public at 6:30 AM. Please email Cheri at [email protected] to reserve a table.
This event will be advertised.
Please bring your coffee, plastic bags, lunch, and plan to help cleanup at the end (around noon).
As in the past you may elect to keep the entire amount of your sales. Or divvy 50/50 with the club.
On June 10, we will meet at the home of Paul and Lisa Bourret in Newfield for our annual member only plant swap. Please bring a picnic lunch.
The annual Hosta Convention is being held in Philly this year June 20-23.
We will be co-sponsoring our local garden tours this year with the Maine Hosta Society on July 29. If you would consider having us tour your garden, please email Cheri.
Aug 11- Lobster Classic -We need volunteers !!! Registration forms available soon. Again at SMCC Jewitt Hall and Culinary Arts Building.
Speakers include Brian Culver, Daylilies
September Meeting- Faux Judges Training TBA in garden
Oct 7 - Annual Meeting. Speaker will be Rex Beisel on Hybridizing Daylilies
Dec 2 - Annual Holiday Party
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AHS Region 4 Local Organizations
Visit the Region 4 WebsiteFor: information and links to all Region 4 Daylily Clubs, Garden and Exhibition Judges,
Popularity Poll ballots and results, AHS Official Display Gardens, Daylily Sellers, Hybridizers,
National and Regional Awards, and much more! Webmaster: Kelly Noel of Ottawa, Ontario
http://www.ahsregion4.org/
CanadaAssociation des Amateurs d’Hémérocalles duQuébec (l’AAHQ)Roland R. Tremblay [email protected]
Nova Scotia Daylily Society (NSDS)Gregory Sutcliffe, president [email protected]
Ontario Daylily Society (ODS)Don Blakely, [email protected]
Société Québécoise des Hostas et des Hémérocalles/ Quebec Hostas & Hemerocallis Society (SQHH/QHHS) Reggie D. [email protected]
ConnecticutConnecticut Daylily Society (CDS)Greg Haggett, [email protected]
New YorkBuffalo Area Daylily Society (BADS)Kathy Shadrack, communications [email protected]
Finger Lakes Daylily Society (FIELDS)Melodye Campbell, club [email protected]
Hudson-Adirondack Daylily Society (HADS)Bill Wurster, [email protected] Jones, [email protected]
Hudson Valley Iris & Daylily Soci-ety (HVIDS)Sondra Tillou, [email protected]
Long Island Daylily Society (LIDS)Chris Petersen, [email protected]
MaineMaine Daylily SocietySusan [email protected]
Southern Maine Daylily & Hosta Society (SMDHS)Cheri [email protected]
MassachusettsNew England Daylily Society (NEDS)Kathy Viamari, [email protected]
Patriot Daylily Society (PDS)Mary Collier Fisher, president [email protected]
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2019 REGION 4STANLEY SAXTONSEEDLING AWARD
LIDS would like to invite Region 4 hybridizers to contribute their most promising unregistered daylily
seedlings to compete for the 2019 Stanley Saxton Seedling Award. This award will be voted on during the
2019 Regional on Long Island, NY.Hybridizers must send plants this spring to allow
the daylilies to acclimate. Five fan clumps are recommended.
Space is very limited. Seedlings will be accepted on a first come, first served basis.
For more information please contact: Christine Petersen [email protected]
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ConnecticutKENNETH EVERDINGDOROTHY FOX MICHELLE SONSKI
Maine
CANDANCE J SNOW
Massachusetts
JILLIAN DULUDEDAVID EBITSON DONNA KOSKI DON KOSKIBARBARA ROLFES MARILYN SANDSONPAUL SPANO
New Hampshire
DIANNE L HOLMESLINDA MOREAU
New York
MAUREEN COUCHETOM HABDO CLAUDIA KOLBE-HAWTHORNEJEFF PEASE NANCY PEASECARLA SYLVESTER BETH WILLIAMSSUSIE WILLIAMS
Nova Scotia
ROBYN BRADBURY PAUL HARNISH MICHELLE MERCIER HEATHER CASELEY
OntarioPAUL GELLATLY
VermontERICA PAWLUSIAK
Welcome, New Members of Region 4!
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American Hemerocallis Society
Adele Keohan, Region 4 Editor
'Lasting Dreams Daylilies' Photo: Carol Haj
Thanks to all who sent submissions for this issue of Daylilies In The Great Northeast
as well as those who offered advice and support!
Proofreaders: Mary Collier Fisher, Kelly Noel, Jocelyn Blouin, Maureen Strong, Melodye Campbell, Greg Haggett
Thank you!
Submissions Deadline for Winter Issue: October 1
Hybridizers: Enter your seedlings to compete for the 2019 Region 4 Stanley Saxton Seedling Award
(See page 64 for details.)
