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Region 11 American Hemerocallis Society

MOKANOK Summer 2010

Daylily

After twisting Andrea’s arm to send us a photo of her first seedling, hers was the very first photo we received for the Spring Hybridizers issue of the MoKanOk. Then due to a major error on our part, we failed to include it. A huge apology to Andrea and here is her much overdo photo!

(Techny Spider X Primal Scream) 31” x 6” M DOR Gold Yellow Self

Andrea Weaver’s 1st Seedling

Oscie Whatley Seedling Award 1st Place Winner by Al Apsher Hybridizer Number N-357

Wilma Award for Best Grown Clump

Boundless Beauty by David Hoffman

COVER PHOTO

Hybridizer’s Award 2010 went to Dan White for “A GREEN DESIRE”

Photo by Andrea Weaver

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Inside The MoKanOk Daylily TABLE OF CONTENTS Recognitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 A Note From the Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Officers Reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5 Regional Minutes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Treasurer’s Report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 The Seedling Patch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 Ask the Ombudsman. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-9 Club Happenings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10, 19-23 Summer Meeting Gardens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-18 Region 11 Officers & Committee Chairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24 Editorial Policy/Membership Info. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Region 11 Club Presidents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Earlybird Daylilies Advertisement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Summer Memories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Back Cover MoKanOk Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Inside Front Wrapper Popularity Poll Ballot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Inside Back Wrapper

Note from the Editors

A huge thank you to the Greater St. Louis Daylily Society for hosting a fabulous Regional in June.. And our special thanks to everyone who helped us out by writing such great garden reviews and for sending along their beautiful photos for use in this issue. Photos cannot, however, replace actually experiencing all the lovely gardens and awesome plantings. Hope you didn’t miss out!

Thank you for the club photos that were submitted. Due to spacing we were unable to print them all. However, we encourage you to continue to send pictures of special club events and we will try to use as many as possible.

We are continuing to work on improving the MoKanOk. We have learned a lot but dis-cover new shortcuts each time we work on a new issue. We have included a survey with this summer issue. You can find it on the front inside page of the wrapper. We always appreci-ate your comments and hope you can take time to complete the survey so we can get a bet-ter feeling for what you want for the future.

Thanks for your ongoing support and happy gardening, Sharron & Harry Gregory

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Mary Lou Lundblade Regional Director

B y now you may know that we have a new Registrar, Kevin Walek. All registration information can be sent electronically, including photos. You may pay by PayPal or check. If you have questions, email Kevin at [email protected] or leave a mes-sage on his answering machine as he has a day job. 403-646-4904.

Due to an error, the House Fund has had a correction in the name. The new correct name is The Joe W. House Scientific Studies Fund.

Effective with the 2011 season the A. D. Roquermore Photography Award will be discontinued. However, there will be a new award. “Multi-bloom Photography Award”. The photo for this award is to have 2 or more blooms, or a clump shot.

Another new award is the ”Artistic

Garden Shots Photography Award”. This can be anything in the garden except people. Art, critters, but pri-marily daylilies.

Since we are talking about photos and photography awards, Andrea Weaver has be appointed to the sub-committee for photography and vid-eos. Congratulations Andrea.

Did you know that AHS has an International Seed Bank? Even if you don’t hybridize, you can donate those bee pods. Write the name of the pod parent on a paper envelope, X seed-ling. When dry, send your seeds to Maureen Strong, International Mem-bership Ch., 48 Lakeshore Dr., Stoney Creek, ON Canada L8E 5C7.

Did you know that AHS has a Me-

dia Library? If you need a program, look to see what is available. Most are a $10 rental. There are programs for all interests.

The new AHS Online Database has more pho tos . Check i t out.www.daylilydatabase.org

Till next time. Your AHS Board member, at your

service. Mary Lou Lundblade, [email protected] 316-755-1964

Steve Amy Regional President

President’s Final Article 2010

A s I type this final article as your President of the past four years, I reflect upon all the things you mem-bers have done for the Region.

Our clubs hosted four wonderful Summer Meeting events. Each one was attended well by you as members and you showed your support for those

efforts. The meetings are not small tasks but are rewarding to all when they take place.

I do want to offer a note of thank you to the Greater St. Louis Daylily Society for their most recent contribu-tion to the Summer Meetings. It was another wonderful event. We saw ex-cellent gardens we had not known pre-viously. We met new people and made new friends along the way.

We had fun and successful Winter Gatherings AFTER the first event dur-ing my term which was cancelled and rescheduled due to the terrible ice storm that hit Joplin and the surround-

ing area. Gratefully none of our mem-bers or any of their families met with serious hardship due to our Midwest-ern weather extremes.

We have added new members to the Region while we did lose some members due to the economy and un-fortunately … age. You established new clubs and all are working to be-come stronger with great success.

Our Region 11 Hybridizers are getting more nationwide attention and recognition in the receipt of Awards of Merit and Honorable Mentions as their cultivars move up the ladder toward the Stout Silver Medal. We have


gained several new Garden Judges and the Exhibition Judges are gaining numbers as well.

The MoKanOk has a new team of editors who have taken on the project from Bob and Kelly Riggs who were the editors when I took office and had done a great job of editing and pub-lishing the MoKanOk. Harry and Sharron Gregory are building upon the work of Bob and Kelly.

All of this could not have been done without the hard work and efforts of so many of you. You all deserve a big round of applause and thank you from each other.

I want to offer special thanks and appreciation for everyone who helped me as an officer or chairperson, Ann

Large – RPD, Jim Mueller – Treasurer-Auction Chair, Andrea Weaver – Sec-retary, Elaine Holmstrom – Exhibition Judges Liaison, Michael Bouman – Garden Judges Liaison, Linda Farris - Membership Liaison, Dr. Steve (Dirt) Thien – Science Liaison, Cindy Lindquist – Service Awards Chair, Bob Tankesley-Clarke - Hybridizer Liaison, Brenda Jindra – Region Histo-rian, John Eiseman – Electronic Com-munications and Web Master, Hank Riggs – Editorial Advisory. All these people worked for you, the Member-ship of Region 11. I could not have done these four years without them.

We have a new President Elect, Randall Barron, who is already work-ing diligently to make his term in of-

fice a good experience for all of you. He has some good ideas to bring Re-gion 11 even farther forward than you all have done thus far. Step up and offer him your input and volunteer to help in any manner you may be able. Give him all the support you can and our Region will be even better in the next few years.

Thank you for allowing me to be your President. -- Steve

PS: Most of all I need to thank my

wonderful wife, Jane, for putting up with the clutter in the computer room and especially for helping keep me on track and on schedule as much as she could.

Ann Large Regional Publicity Director

A s the summer bloom season winds down, I hope you took advan-tage of all the daylily experiences made available to you by the National Society and your local/regional clubs. A special thanks to the Greater Saint Louis Daylily Society for hosting the 2010 Regional meeting. What fabu-lous new gardens they entertained us with over two touring days. The fea-tured speaker, Karol Emmerich, made herself available for questions and an-swers Saturday afternoon and then thrilled us with her unique story of how she started in daylilies. Make plans now to attend the 2011 Regional held in Columbia, MO., June 24 – 26.

The 2010 Region 11 Popularity Poll is in its final days. Have you sent

in your ballot or voted online? Re-member the deadline for voting is Sep-tember 1, 2010 and you must be a cur-rent AHS member for your vote to count in the Popularity Poll. The 2010 ballot is comprised of the top votes from the 2009 ballot. In order for our ballot to remain fresh, we need your 5 cultivar write-in votes. My suggestion for 2010 is to look over your notes from 2010 and pick your top favorites. Then go to the ballot and see if other regional members agree with your se-lections. If we just vote the ballot and don’t use our 5 write-in cultivates, we’ll be seeing the same cultivars year after year. Having done this Popularity ballot for a number of years now, I know your good at writing in votes…keep up the good work Region 11.

This poll has many uses and is a testa-ment to daylilies that grow well in our region. You are also helping to deter-mine an AHS accredited show divi-sion known as the Popularity Poll se-lection. I’ll be looking for your ballot before September 1st.

Don’t forget to check out our Re-g i o n 1 1 w e b s i t e a t www.ahsregion11.org. Remember, this website is only as good as the in-formation supplied to the site. Our local reporters should add their meet-ing schedules and notes of interest to this site to keep it up-to-date and infor-mative.

Happy Fall gardening -- Ann

ATTENTION GARDEN JUDGES………

Don’t forget to get your ballots mailed by the September 1 deadline.


Region 11 Business Meeting

June 27, 2010 St. Louis, MO

R egional President Steve Amy called the meeting to order. Steve thanked the Greater St. Louis Daylily Society for hosting this years’ out-standing event.

Steve did a roll call by individual Clubs in the Region, and recognized all that were in attendance.

Old Business: Jim Mueller gave the Treasurer’s Report. The balance was $24, 421.48. The total income for the first half of the year was $10, 344.85. Expenses were $7,746.69. The MoKanOk had a deficit spending of $2329.00. We are waiting for dona-tions from the Clubs to come in. Win-ter Gathering this year had a signifi-cant gain of $5377.98. Miscellaneous operating expenses showed a loss of $451.00. Steve asked for a motion to be made to accept the Treasurer’s Re-port. Marion Quinlan motioned to do so, Ron Azzani seconded the motion, all were in favor, and the motion was approved. Jim made an appeal to the attendees for donations for the internet Auction, www.daylily.com, which is vital to our operation, and the only fund raiser we do.

Steve announced that the last issue of the MoKanOk had the minutes from Winter Gathering in it. He asked for a motion to accept the minutes from the previous meeting as printed. Dave Niswonger made a motion to accept the minutes, Helen Jones sec-onded the motion, and the motion was approved.

New Business: Harry Gregory thanked everyone on behalf of Sharron and himself, who contributed in the past to the MoKanOk. Harry thanked the reporters that were covering the event this weekend, and will look for their reports in the coming weeks. He asked for any photos taken this week-end to be sent to him, and to be sure to

identify the cultivar and the garden it was taken in. Harry will be making a DVD of the Summer meeting this year, and hoped to have it available soon. He and Sharron continue to strive to improve each issue of the MoKanOk.

This was Steve’s last year as our Regional President. Steve acknowl-edged and thanked the board members and committee chairs:

Jim Mueller – Treasurer Ann Large – Regional Publicity

Director Andrea Weaver - Secretary Harry and Sharron Gregory – Mo-

KanOk Editors Steve Thien – Science Committee

Chair Linda Farris – Membership Liai-

son The nominating committee, Helen

Jones, Dan White and Robin Calderon, selected a nominee for the new Regional President, which was voted on by the membership by paper ballot, located on the inside paper cover of the MoKanOk. Helen Jones came forward and announced the new President, Randall Barron.

The results for the Region 11 Hy-bridizer Award grown in a tour gar-den were:

Second runner up – H. Topguns Widow Maker, hybridized by Bob Scott

First runner up - H. Glowing In ferno, hybridized by Al Apsher

Winner – H. A Green Desire, hybridized by Dan White Brenda Jindra presented the

Wilma Award, given by the Central Oklahoma Hemerocallis Society for the best grown daylily of three or more fans planted for at least two growing seasons, and seen in a garden at the Regional convention and voted

on by those in attendance. The win-ners were:

Second runner up – (tie) H. Chicken on the Run, from the Poos garden and

H. Belle of Missouri, seen in the Gooden garden

First runner up – H. A Green Desire, grown in the White garden

Winner – H. Boundless Beauty, seen in the Hoffman garden

Then Oscie Whatley Seedling

Award was presented by Larry Gooden of the Greater St. Louis Day-lily Society.

Second runner up – John Eise- man (seedling E)

First runner up – Jolyene Apsher (seedling L)

Winner – Al Apsher (seedling O ) # N-357

The 2011 Regional will be in Co-

lumbia, MO hosted by the Central Missouri Daylily Club on June 24, 25, and 26 at the Hilton Garden Inn. Patty Waterman warmly invited all to at-tend. The featured speaker will be Jan Joiner. Bob McConnell is handling the guest plants, and Steve Winter will be hosting the Oscie Whatley seedling bed.

The MoKan Daylily Club will be hosting the 2012 Regional in Kansas City, MO on June 29, 30 and July 1. There will be five new gardens on tour that weekend, and the speaker will be Don Herr.

Steve again thanked everyone for coming, wished them a safe trip home, and adjourned the meeting.

Respectfully submitted, Andrea Weaver Secretary


Treasurer’s Report

Jan. 01 to Jun. 30, 2009 Jan. 01 to Jun. 30, 2010 2010 vs 2009 Inc. Exp. Net Inc. Exp. Net Inc. Exp. Net MOKANOK Donation - MOKANOK $900 0 $1000 0 $100 0 Advertising 140 0 50 0 (90) 0 Postage Reimbursement (AHS) 0 0 0 0 0 0 Out of Region Subscriptions 17 0 0 0 (17) 0 Production & Distribution 0 ($3511) 0 ($3379) 132 Total/Net $1057 ($3511) ($2454) $1050 ($3379) ($2329) ($7) ($132) $125 Winter Gathering Registration $2665 (22) $2265 ($64) ($400) ($43) Plant Auction 3499 (241) 6600 (148) 3101 93 Silent Auction 0 0 349 0 349 0 Chinese Auction/Raffle 0 (26) 0 0 0 26 Speakers/Seminars Fees 0 (2079) 0 (1200) 0 879 Banquet 0 (2100) 0 (2298) 0 (198) Operating Expenses 0 0 0 (125) 0 (125) Total/Net $6164 ($4468) $1696 $9214 ($3836) $5378 $3050 $632 $3682 Miscellaneous Operations Directors Expenses 0 ($777) 0 0 0 $777 RVP Expenses 0 (652) 0 (501) 0 150 Annual Awards 0 0 0 0 0 0 Internet Auction 0 (36) 0 0 0 0 AHS Insurance 0 0 0 0 0 0 Interest 5 0 1 0 (3) 0 Donations - Operations 0 0 0 0 0 0 Donations - Memorials 1393 0 0 0 0 0 Donations - Amy Challenge 50 0 0 0 (1390) 0 Judging Publications 0 0 0 0 (50) 0 AHS Training 0 0 0 0 0 0 Club Support 0 0 0 0 0 0 Other 0 0 80 (31) 80 (31) Total/Net $1447 ($1464) ($17) $81 ($532) ($451) ($1366) 932 ($434) Grand Total $8668 ($9443) ($775) $10345 ($7747) $2595 $1677 $1696 ($3373)

Garden Judge Corrections. Due to using an outdated source, the Garden Judge list published in the Spring MoKanOk was incorrect. Here are the corrections.

John Eiseman - term ends 2010 Steve Amy - Term ends 2013 Diana Plahn - Tern ends 2014 Kelly Riggs - Term ends 2014 Robert E. Riggs - Term ends 2014

Mary Lou Lundblade - Life Member Marilyn Mason - Life Member Missing from roster - Carol Schultz, 2014, Fulton, MO Missing from roster - JoAnn Reagan ,2014, Montgomery City, MO Parry Waterman - Should be Patti Duane Cookson - Not on roster We apologize for the errors.


H ot and Dry...Steamy and Humid, this defines Summer in Region 11. Some days it seems too ‘bad’ to venture outside for long – let alone get work done in the gardens. We plead for rain and then get it copiously, seem-ingly too much. BUT THE GLORIOUS BLOOM!! And the thrill of seeing the newer seedlings, counting the branches and buds, taking photos and making notes and dreaming of names and introduction dates. Once it is in our blood it is hard if not impossible to shake.

Summer 2010 is no different. Except that this year I have NO rowed out seedlings for maiden bloom next year! Can I go cold turkey and not plant the seed I have saved? Not set any more pods or harvest seed? Heaven knows I have enough seedlings only ‘partially’ selected to produce registered cultivars for years and years to come. (Two bad falls on uneven concrete sidewalks in June have slowed me down even more).

In our space this issue I want to address the Oscie Whatley Region 11 Seedling Award.

A few years ago the region agreed to give an annual award for the best seedling grown at the Summer Regional. This award is held in many regions. St. Louis stepped up and volunteered to fund the award and write the ‘rules’ for the award and to name it for one of their hybridizers, Oscie Whatley. The award has been voted on three times. In Wichita, Manhattan and St. Louis.

Now is the time to select your best seedling for the 2011 Regional in Columbia. MO for the Oscie Whatley Seedling Bed Send it to Steve Winters, 2601 Bluffcreek Dr, Columbia, MO 65201. For the regional in 2012 the entries are to be sent to the Kansas City club.

Remember the rules as established by St. Louis and

ratified by the region: one seedling per hybridizer, submit up to 5 fans, to be grown in the designated garden for up to 3 years, labeled by a number with absolute secrecy as to the originator.

This year there were 15 entries, I am told. Five (!) were blooming the day of the tour and the vote. I saw a photo of the winner. It was spectacular, we would all be proud to have it in our garden. It was submitted by Al Apsher of Rolla. Congratulations!

Rather than go on about the winner I would like to comment on the TEN not flowering the day of the tour/vote. I know it is the luck of weather etc., but really some-thing is amiss in my opinion. Convention goers voting on only one-third of the entries?! I believe this is demeaning to ALL REGION 11 HYBRIDIZERS. Lots of hard work went into those 15 seedlings. I am not wanting to detract at all from Al’s Award. The rules which only allow one entry per breeder regardless of the number of fans need to be examined. Could it be that this is not a ‘fair fight’? (I real-ize that is harsh and not at all diplomatic.) I suggest, please, that the region officers consider forming a commit-tee to review the rules and make recommendations.

Columbia and Kansas City will also accept other seed-lings to be planted in tour gardens. An AHS Junior Citation Award is awarded to seedlings receiving 10 or more votes from Garden Judges on their required AHS Awards and Honors Ballot. (That’s how I got one at the Wichita Re-gional for ‘Honoring Kropf’. Get those seedlings out there and seen! – or invite 10 judges to your garden and be charming.)

THE SEEDLING PATCH By Bob Tankesley-Clarke,

Hybridizer Liaison

ASK THE OMBUDSMAN SUBJECT: DISPLAY GARDENS by Donna Peck, Ombudsman for AHS

Donna Peck has been the AHS Ombudsman for the past three years. She has been writing Ombudsman col-

umns for regional newsletters answering questions that AHS members have asked. This question came from Kathy Figueroa from Region 4 in Bancroft, Ontario. When she knew Donna was going to use her question, Kathy contacted other members to help make this column helpful to those who have display gardens. I think we found many good ideas and hope they help those of you with display gardens. Any further questions should be addressed to Mary Lou Lundblade, who is chairman of Display gardens ([email protected]).

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QUESTION: I’ve heard members talk about “display gardens.” Can you explain just what a display garden is?

RESPONSE: According to the AHS website, this is

the explanation. “An AHS Display Garden is established to display the very best daylily cultivars to the general public. Its purpose is to educate the visitor about modern daylilies and how they can be used effectively in landscapes.”

If it is an approved AHS Display Garden, it has to meet

certain criteria. Again, check on the AHS www.daylilies.org) for a complete list. But here are a few of the criteria:

The owner must be a member of AHS for at least 2 years

The garden must include a wide variety of daylilies The garden must be well maintained Plant markers should have the name of both cultivar

and hybridizer The garden should be open to the public The RP of each region or a designated representative

should visit each Display Garden in the region at least once every 2 years.

QUESTION: Now that I have a display garden, are

there any pointers that people could provide me with about what do with it?

RESPONSE: Kathy Figueroa (who as this is written

has applied to be a display garden, but hasn’t received the final notice) holds a big annual open garden “flower festi-val” on the first long weekend in August. She is also hoping that her garden will be included in a local art studies tour where her photography, which, of course, features mainly daylilies, would be on display. Sometimes she provides her visitors with a small gift perennial in a 4 inch peat moss pot. During this open garden, she sets out patio tables and chairs, has a musician or two at the garden and invites peo-ple to bring their cameras to photograph the flowers. She also gives an informal talk on daylilies. Her garden is “pet friendly’. She offers water for the pets and the welcoming committee consists of three very sociable cats! She is hop-ing to officially become a display garden soon.

Kathy d’Alessandro from Pennsylvania says she also has an open house and has a table on her covered patio with the following materials: Daylily photo albums for anyone unable to walk about the large garden, AHS and local club pamphlets with membership information, and her business cards. Providing food isn’t necessary but a nice gesture and of course water is essential.

Elizabeth Trotter says “I love having an AHS garden. Having an official sign out front designating our garden is a great incentive.” When she knows she is having visitors she has cold water, lemonade or tea, some goodies like cookies

or scones. If someone visits who is totally new to daylilies she sends them home with one. She says, “I usually have daylilies potted up for the club events and perennials also so I can use those for gifts to visitors.” When Elizabeth was doing PR for the Blue Grass Hemerocallis Society last year, she gave the reporter a potted daylily as a thank you. The Society got a front page spread in the Garden Section! She also tried to promote their local club and AHS by showing visitors a copy of the Daylily Journal and their Daylily Ap-peal (region 10 newsletter). Elizabeth says, “When I show visitors such quality, attractive publications, it’s not hard to convince them to join.”

Another comment from Judy in Mechanicville, Virginia was that she has an annual plant swap which draws over a hundred people (each bringing a minimum of 5 plants – most bring 10) who love to swap any type of plant. She pro-vides lots of homemade refreshments and since her home was built in 1820, she gives a tour of her home as well as her gardens. A local garden club also held their meeting during bloom season in her garden and her daughter catered a luncheon for them. They paid $10.00 and Judy said “they certainly got their money’s worth.” The other thing that Judy does is to put a sign beside her road during bloom sea-son, just is case someone wants to drop by.

Rozanne Tuffnell, owner of the only display garden in New Mexico, has had a variety of experiences. The local garden clubs love to meet in her garden, and then Rozanne gives a talk about daylilies, how to grow them and on vari-ous companion plants. She, along with her husband, Alan, was part of a fund raising tour for local gardens. She gets many phone calls from a variety of people, who just want to come over, see the garden and “talk about daylilies.”

If any of the rest of you have suggestions, let me know and I’ll add them to the next Ask the Ombudsman column. The next column will be about AHS Robins. If any of you have anything to say about your experiences, I’d love to hear about them. Email me at [email protected].

One bit of trivia. Did you know that there are more than 330 AHS Display Gardens throughout the US and parts of Canada?

AHS Photography Awards

Region 11’s own Andrea Weaver is the New Special Chairman for AHS Photography and Video Awards.(Congratulations Andrea!) Members should send all entries for AHS Photography and Video Awards to:

Andrea Weaver, Special Chair

6935 E 35 ST N Wichita, KS 67226 (Ph) 316-683-5877

[email protected]


Bluestem Daylily Society By Faye Yoder

Where have all the flowers gone……..well, I have

some left, but not many. It’s rather depressing to see the blooms dwindle to a few stragglers. Which is why I am busy making a list of late bloomers to add to my garden. I have decided I do not have enough! Speaking of blooms…..

BDS had our first show July 10th, at the Central Mall in Salina. We decided to have an off scape, non-juried show because of our inexperience, and to keep expenses down. It went very well and we had a good time visiting with everyone who stopped to look at the different blooms. The most common remark we heard was “I had no idea there were so many different daylilies.” We had a total of 222 blooms on display! Our popularity poll garnered some interesting results:

Gavin Petit Hurricane Bob Matchless Fire tied with Africa Fires of Fuji tied with Marian Tyus and Mildred

Mitchell Fifth place was a 5-way tie between Zoro’s Blade,

Cherokee Pass, Peggy Jeffcoat, Primal Scream, and Milk Chocolate.

Our second annual potluck supper and plant swap was June 3rd in Oxbow Park. The food was delicious, the so-cializing great, and the plant swap super fun!

We have had a delay with our display garden plans but hopefully everything can be resolved and plants put in the ground this fall.

Our sale in May went very well, plus we had repeat customers from last year. I want to thank everyone who donated daylilies for our sale. I hope you know how much we appreciate the help. It is hard getting a new club going and building up funds.

Our next meeting is Thursday, September 2nd. In Octo-ber we plan to travel to Grassland Gardens near Miltonvale, north of Salina. It is a wonderful ornamental grass nursery.

For more details about our meetings, programs, and other activities check out our website at www.hybridizer.net/bluestemdaylilysociety.html. Visitors are always welcome. Meetings are held the first Thursday of the month at the Carver Center, 315 N. 2nd St., in Sa-lina, 6:30pm unless otherwise stated on our website.

Before I end this report I would like to tell you one of our members was informed by a co-worker she needed an

INTERVENTION. (Care to guess why)? We’re all still chuckling over that one!

Central Missouri Hemerocallis Society

By Alice Havard & Cathy M. Turner

Our AHS accredited CMHS show was held at the Co-lumbia Public Library on Saturday, July 10 was an "African Safari"; complete with air conditioning and day-lilies.

Show Results. Best in Show - Femininity (Reinke,J.) J. Wayne

Merrill Large Flower - Fringy (Stamile) Julia Semon Small Flower - New in Town (Santa Lucia) Nancy

Rold Double Flower - Double Dinette (Carpenter) Bob

McConnell Spider - Femininity (Reinke,J.) J. Wayne Merrill Unusual Form - Big Birds Friend (Gossard) Marie

Pasley Tri-colory Award - Yvonne Calvin Seedling - by Jesse Emmons Dan and Audrey Judy were repeat sweepstakes win-

ners with 14 blue ribbons. Our local award, showcasing the cultivars of Mavis Smith, was won by Leemer Cernoh-lavek.

A safari is a photographer's dream, as are daylilies. CMHS added a daylily photo display/people’s choice award to the show. Leemer Cernohlavek took the honors.

The design division tricolor was won again by Yvonne Calvin, with her interpretation of Botswana: The Bush. Her design featured hot colored daylilies and lush foliage.

Open gardens on Sunday July 11 were those of Carolyn Kemper, Blaise Brazos, Ron and Cathy Turner, Julia Semon, and Karl and Cecy Rice. We had a great weekend safari!

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CLUB HAPPENINGS

Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible ex-ception of a moose singing “Embraceable You” in spats. -- Woody Allen


The Garden of Jo Ann & Dan White-Kinder Place By Brenda Jindra

We can only wonder what Civil War Captain Jacob Kinder would think of the transformation of his homestead into the show place that it is today. Jo Ann and Dan White purchased three acres of his homestead including his barn built in 1864. The property lies east of the Mississippi River near Glen Carbon, Illinois. It retains its rural charac-

ter with the large red barn as the focal point although hous-ing additions and an interstate highway are not far away.

The Whites built a beautiful split level home on the property and have a deck that serves as the roof for a patio. The patio provides a serene setting to view the beautiful gardens beside the lake. Soft music and tinkling wind chimes add ambiance to the view. Terraced plant-ings with a wide stone walkway lead from the home towards the lake. A special display bed con-tained daylilies hybridized by members of the Greater St. Louis Daylily Society. I was delighted to see Hemerocallis ‘Supreme Tangerine’ (Mock, 2009) that I had purchased at the auction the night before.

Hollyhocks growing beside the large red barn brought back memories of times long ago. Numerous decorative birdhouses were also seen. The flowerbeds around the barn were deep and well planted with clumps of daylilies. H. ‘Holiday Party’ (Kropf, 1996) was especially stunning. Other daylilies that I photographed included ‘Topguns Grim Reaper’ (Scott-B, 2005) and ‘Entwined In the Vine’ (Emmerich, 2007) that were both showing their toothed edges. ‘Heavenly Angel Ice’ (Gossard, 2004) looked cool and refreshing on a hot day.

Brenda Jindra

Burgundy Sun Light

Sharron Gregory

Sharron Gregory

Sharron Gregory


Not to be out done by other hybridizers, Dan White’s own creations were a treat to see. I especially liked ‘Burgundy Sun Light’ (2006), ‘Lavender Green Eyed Lady’ (2008), and ‘Yard Sale Queen’ (2006).

Many people were delighted to see the antiques for

sale in the Yard Sale Queen’s barn. On our drive back to Oklahoma City I asked for comments about the trip. Ann Large said, “Dan and Jo Ann White’s garden was paradise. The icing on the cake for me, was the Yard Sale Queen’s sale barn … fabulous. And Betty Pischel commented, “Each garden was a joy to see! Kinder Place with the Yard Sale Queen had the beauty of the lake, daylilies, and an-tiques (I live and love antiques in my home), bird-houses (which I collect) had it all!

A well done

regional from start to finish!”

Lavender Green Eyed Lady

A Green Desire --- *Region 11 Hybridizer’s Winner 2010*

Sharron Gregory

Sharron Gregory

Andrea Weaver

Andrea Weaver

Sharron Gregory


The Garden of Pat Kiesel and Larry Gooden By Ann Redmon

After traveling down a long private road through the

woods, we first caught sight of a lovely lake surrounded by wooded hills. As we rounded a corner, we were treated to a hillside ablaze with daylilies—the Kiesel/Gooden garden. Amazingly, this garden is only 3 years old. Much of the garden is underneath tall trees offering cool shade while still allowing enough light for good daylily bloom.

A shade bed, with many hostas and other shade loving plants graced the rear of the property. All of the beds are edged with over 20 tons of granite stones brought in by Larry. Interspersed with the daylilies were many other per-ennials, annuals and ornamental trees and shrubs which enhanced the extraordinarily lovely lake setting. A fairy garden featured many miniature plants and figurines—truly enchanting!

Also in this side yard, a clump of ARNETTE ZAPEL captured my fancy—along with many others In the back yard AARON BROWN caught my eye with 2 huge red water-marked blooms showing off under the canopy of trees. Sunnier beds lined the driveways leading down toward the lake.

Aaron Brown

Arnette Zapel

Sharron Gregory

Sharron Gregory

Ann Redmon

Ann Redmon

Sharron Gregory

Sharron Gregory


Here, I noticed a lovely clump of JOSHUA SLOCUM. In the front gardens so many daylilies tempted me with their gorgeous faces that it’s hard to know where to start! A tall blazing yellow-FUN IN ACAPULCO, glowing coral-CORAL MAJOR-I T Y , h o t o r a n g e -HEAVENLY DRAGON FIRE, intriguing purple unusual form-FE, FI, FO, FUM, and so many more of the latest, greatest day-lilies by many different hybridizers were vying for my attention. Several peo-ple were clustered around an intriguing small pink daylily with a vivid green throat trying to figure out what it was. Larry satisfied

our curiosity. It was the appropriately named GREEN TREAT by Elizabeth Salter.

A lovely shaded terrace offered a chance to cool off, look over ‘want lists’, chat with friends, both new and old, and enjoy a cool drink and some fantastic butter cookies and luscious fresh berries! What a wonderful treat of daylilies and refresh-ment provided by our hosts Pat Keisel and Larry Gooden!

Andrea

Coral Majority

Heavenly Dragon Fire

Fee, Fie, Fo, Fum

My Sunny Valentine

Southern Dazzler

Sharron Gregory

Andrea Weaver

Ann Redmon

Ann Redmon

Ann Redmon

Ann Redmon

Ice Dragon

Andrea Weaver

Andrea Weaver


The Garden of Dave and Joan Poos By Jerry Mix

The garden of Dave and Joan Poos was the second tour garden for the passengers of the Red Bus on Saturday morning. We were met and welcomed by our gracious gar-den hosts. The passengers were anxious to get to the back garden of the residence due to the pre-tour hype. Several of us walked around the left side of the home and it opened to a wonderful vista of large tall oak trees on both sides of the beautifully landscaped and manicured garden that sloped down to the rear of the property. The oaks offer a high canopy that allows under-plantings of other shade loving second story trees such as dogwoods, red buds, and many shrubs and bushes that add color and dimension throughout

the season. The first daylily I came upon that caught my eye was a very nice well grown planting of ‘Ruby Spider’-Stamile, 1991 (photo below).

Chicken On The Run-Bachman, 2001 (photo below)

presented a very nice bright flowered clump that just glowed in the garden.

The hosta is the number one perennial planted in the

shaded areas of the garden. David is probably better known for his hostas than the daylilies he grows. The hosta beds were located on sides of the garden were the shade was more prevalent . The hosta beds are interspersed with other shade loving varieties such as ferns, hardy begonias, heuchera, and many other perennials that add color to the garden throughout the growing season. David also placed his hosta cultivars wherever there was shade in the daylily beds. You could easily see where the sun-shade transition lines were in the beds by their plantings.

One of the Hostas that attracted a lot of attention was

‘Empress Wu’ which is relatively new on the scene and matures into a very large plant. Jane Amy just had to have one and found one at a local nursery that afternoon when the garden tours were over. Another Hosta ‘Millennium’ attracted many admirers.

Andrea Weaver

Jerry Mix

Sharron Gregory

Jerry Mix


The water garden was a very unique feature with a

stream cascading over three waterfalls into the pond be-low filled with fish, water lilies, water hyacinth, papyrus, iris, and other water loving plants. A very large oak leaf hydrangea dominated the area at the top of the waterfall.

Everyone had to take pictures and look at the “Garden Shed” that was made famous by the article in the Country Garden Magazine.

Another unique feature was David’s row of birdhouses perched on antique decorative spindles and rods. Dave mentioned that he placed the birdhouses against the wall because it was in the full sun and that he could not get any-thing to grow there

The Poos’ garden has been nine years of the making.

Through their creativeness and hard work they designed a place of beauty for themselves and others to enjoy. We who toured the garden appreciate all your efforts and hard work that you and members of the Greater St. Louis Daylily So-ciety accomplished in preparing your garden for our visit.

All Con-suming Fire (left)

Lord of Rings (right) Dixie Duddleston

Ruby Rigsby

Sharron Gregory

Jerry Mix

Jerry Mix

Sharron Gregory

Andrea Weaver Andrea Weaver

Andrea Weaver

Andrea Weaver


Visitors to David Hoff-man’s Woodland Way Gar-den were greeted to a mas-sive bouquet of daylilies filling a residential lot in a most unique section of St. Louis. David’s brick home perfectly captures the theme that places this attractive Pasadena Hills neighbor-hood on the National His-toric Registry. A large and stunning wreath adorned the front door, showcasing David’s talents as a floral decorator.

If capable of taking one’s eyes off the stunning display of flowers, it quickly became obvious that David grows daylilies in their completeness. Beds were meticulously maintained and presented. Clumps were clean and well-presented. Having seriously started his daylily collection in 2002, David admits to still being acutely “intoxicated by

daylilyitis”; a condition that even his collection of 1200 plants hasn’t abated.

David grows all forms of daylilies and showcases many newer ones. He donates and sells plants to many clubs but only passes along those with good growing habits to com-plement showy flowers.

He fertilizes heavily each spring relying on compost, leaf mulch and organic fertilizers to provide a high nitrogen

diet. Soil tests have shown his soil does not require additional phosphorus or potas-sium. In back, the gar-den has multiple lev-els with stone walls and winding paths to guide visitors past yet another amazing array of daylilies and enough other peren-nials and container plants to keep the cameras clicking.

This garden dis-

played so many great flowers (and other plants) one kept wondering what could possibly be waiting ahead.

The Garden of David Hoffman – Woodland Way By Steve & Maureen Thien

Steve Thien

Fire on the Mountain

Maureen Thien

Topguns Widowmaker

Steve Thien

Guadalahara

Maureen Thien

Sharron Gregory

Sharron Gregory

Early Early Truffle

Maureen Thien


The Region 11 summer meeting had a deli-cious lunch at Villa Marie Winery & Banquet Center in Maryville, Illinois on Saturday, June 26, following a visit to Dan White’s extensive daylily gardens nearby. The winery and banquet hall, inspired by Tuscany and surrounded by beautiful vineyards, has Tuscan-style architecture, food in the Tuscan tradition, plus a lovely setting beside a manmade lake. Region 11 conventioneers enjoyed a fine buf-fet lunch of ravioli e insalata e torta di cioccolato; staff members were very courteous and accommo-dating. Wine tasting was also available for those with an interest in local wines. Although the vine-yards look very Italian, the proprietor, Judy Drost-Wieman, assures us that she obtained her stock from upstate New York, so that the grapevines are well-suited to winters in Illinois.

In addition to her other talents, Judy is a mas-ter gardener and appreciates the beauty of day-lilies, several varieties of which were blooming along the entryway and interspersed with roses by the entrance to the banquet hall. (A personal note: after viewing countless attractive daylilies during the morning, my eyes enjoyed the ‘empty space’ between one daylily and the next, which allowed me to appreciate each plant in its entirety. Some-times “Less is more!”)

Villa Marie Winery & Banquet Center is the venue for numerous weddings, and a wedding was scheduled for immediately after the lunch of the daylily crowd. It’s a beautiful location and we all enjoyed the food, the ambiance, and the flowering plants.

~ 18 ~ MoKanOk Daylily Summer While all of his day-

lilies were perfectly groomed and showy, some vying for, and wor-thy of, a “most photo-genic” appeal award were :

H. Fire on the Moun-tain (J. Carpenter, 2004), H. Homemade Peach Ice Cream (T. Bell, 2006), H. Guadalajara (J. Carpenter, 2004), H. Early Early Truffle (Kirchoff, 2004), H. Top-

guns Widow Maker (B. Scott, 2004) ), H. Forever Re-deemed (J. Carpenter, 2003), H. Neon Angel (Niswonger, 2001), H. Westward Wind (Stamile, 1990) and H. Chan-neled Aggression (C. Hanson, 1998).

A walk through David Hoffman’s garden not only provides an uncontested defi-nition of beauty but ultimately stimulates one to appreciate the commitment, care, and culture nurtured onto this site. How fortunate we were that

David shared his love of us-ing daylilies to beautify the places we occupy.

Everyone came away enriched with memories of a St. Louis daylily paradise. Thank you, David. Channeled Aggression

Andrea Weaver

Homemade Peach Ice Cream

Maureen Thien

Westward Wind

Andrea Weaver

Neon Angel

Andrea Weaver

Forever Redeemed

Andrea Weaver

Lunch at Villa Marie Winery & Banquet Center

By Seajay Mock

Central Oklahoma

Hemerocallis Society By Theresa Beecham

Our annual spring plant sale held in April was very

successful. We thank all who helped with preparations and those who donated plants!

Joan Wikoff, our membership chairperson, happily reported at our May meeting that we have 14 new mem-bers since February. Welcome to all new members! Also at our May meeting, Dean Reusser, our program chairper-son, gave an informative presentation on "Preparing to Exhibit Daylilies." We were all encouraged to enter the June 19th "Summertime Splendor" Daylily Flower Show. Our May meeting also included the distribution of Plants-for-Members to "members in good standing". I was one of the lucky recipients and am hoping these new daylilies flourish and are soon ready to be divided to share with oth-ers.

We had 133 beautiful scapes displayed in our "Summertime Splendor" Daylily Flower Show, and it was a splendid show! Our Show Chairman was Laurie Barger. Her enthusiasm carried everyone along with her to a day of beautiful blooms and daylily camaraderie. We had many first time exhibitors. For an insightful, funny description of a newbie's experience based on our f lower show, go to Dee Nash 's b log , www.reddirtramblings.com, and read her June 20, 2010, post "Why enter daylily shows?" We're happy to have Dee as one of our local members. A big thank you to all who made the show a resounding success. What fun to see all those beautiful blooms in one room!

Our Summertime Splendor Daylily Flower Show re-

sults were as follows: Best In Show - King Kahuna, Crochet, 1994, Clint

Barnes Large Flower - Siloam Pink Platinum, Henry,

P. 1998, Clint Barnes Small Flower - Flash Force, Santa Lucia, 1995,

Laurie Barger Miniature Flower - Siloam Tom Howard, Henry,

P. 1985, Clint Barnes Double, Polymerous and Multiform Flower - King

Kahuna, Crochet, 1994, Clint Barnes Spider Flower - Rococo, Biery, 1972, Brenda Jindra Unusual Form Flower - Karen's Curls, Reinke,

1997, Laurie Barger We also have local award - the Howard Memorial

Award - Peach Whisper, Stamile, 1991, Exhibitor Judy Farabough.

HOWARD MEMORIAL AWARD -- a Central Oklahoma Hemerocallis Society Local

Award. This local award was established in 2001 and memori-

alizes two long serviced members: Howard Estes and How-ard Brown. The cultivar selected by the judges must be a Purple Ribbon winner exhibited in Division I, Section 2: Registered Large Flower. In addition to having the winning exhibitor's name added to the Howard Memorial plaque, the exhibitor shall be awarded a $25.00 daylily gift certifi-cate.

Our club took a bus to the June Region 11 Conven-tion and Garden Tours. Along the way, we picked up peo-ple from Tulsa and Springfield, MO, spending the night in Springfield. We thank all those in the Greater St. Louis Daylily Society who organized the Convention and those who opened their gardens for our viewing pleasure.

Saturday, September 11th, 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. will be our Fall Daylily Sale. Friday, Sept. 10th, will be the set up and preparation day. Help needed and appreciated. Also on September 17th, 6:00 p.m., we will have a club meeting with Plants for Members Auction and a slide show of the National and Regional conventions. We never tire of look-ing at those beautiful blooms! There will be a covered dish dinner, always yummy!

Friday, October 8th, at 9:30 a.m. will be the OKC Council of Garden Clubs meeting. COHS is responsible for nametags, table decorations, refreshments and door prizes. Our last meeting for the year will be at 6 p.m. on Oct. 15th at the Will Rogers Garden Exhibition Center, 3400 N.W. 36th. There will be a catered dinner and pro-gram.

Flint Hills Hemerocallis Society

By Ruby Zabel

LAND OF AHS! Flint Hills Daylily Blossom Display

Dorothy and Toto, Entwined on the Vine, Wild and Wonderful, Get Jiggy, True to Whim, When Bears Fly.

Red Volunteer, Trickster, Smoke Scream, Speedo, Glory in Red., Zuni Thunderbird, Celestial Eyes, Stack the Deck, Chang Dynasty, Harem House?

These were just a few of MY personal favorites, in the

Land of Ahs! The Flint Hills Daylily Society held their annual Blos-

som Display at the Manhattan Town Center Mall on Satur-day, July 3. With table after table of beautiful daylily blos-


soms displayed for viewing, FHDS members shared infor-mation with interested browsers about the history and evo-lution of the daylily, and the blossoms on display. Some were interested in membership and the activities of our club, some in our upcoming Fall Sale at the Farmer’s Mar-ket in downtown Manhattan, and some just wanted to browse and enjoy the beauty and diversity of the blossoms on display.

Over 200 ballots were collected from browsers who were asked to vote for their favorite blossom, with the day’s best deemed Chang Dynasty. Glory in Red and Walking on Coals placed second and third. Honorable mention included Northern Giant, Imperial Lemon, Spacecoast Devil’s Eye, and All American Chief.

The day was fun-- perhaps the most fun was seeing the children, some no more than pre-schoolers, so en-thralled with the beauty of blossoms. I see a future gar-dener, here in the Land of Ahs….

Take a look for yourself!

The Greater St. Louis Daylily Society

By Kathy Krattli

It’s a lot of work hosting a regional meeting but all the hard work paid off. Our Region 11 meeting turned out very well, at least that’s the feedback we’ve gotten. Thanks to all those that worked so hard to make this a success and to all the daylily enthusiasts that attended. I had put in a re-quest for cooler weather but apparently it got lost some-where. But in spite of the heat, the gardens all looked great!

Our next big event will be our club’s annual picnic at Tower Grove Park on August 28th.

Then on September 10th we’ll be bagging and tagging for our big annual sale at the Missouri Botanical Gardens on Saturday, September 11th.

Our September meeting will be on the 17th. Program to be announced.

For our October 15th meeting we will have an ice cream social.

We meet at the Creve Coeur Government Center, 300 N. New Ballas Rd., Creve Coeur, Mo. Our regular meet-ings are at 7:30 on the 3rd Friday of the month, February through April, and September and October.

Mineral Area Hemerocallis Society Judy Skaggs

The Mineral Area Hemerocallis Society continues to maintain 90+ members, meeting at the Ozark Federal Building in Farmington, MO. We love to see new members and always welcome new faces. Our largest fund raiser of the year, held in April, is the member’s only annual Day lily Auction. This year the auction featured 2010 introduc-tion plants from the Floyd Cove Garden, The Kinnebrew Daylily Garden, and a beautiful selection of daylilies from the Nicole Harry Garden. The auction was a success in the funds that it raised and the number of members it brought out for bidding, fun and fellowship.

Our annual July garden tour included two gardens that were new to the tour agenda, the Dennis and Sharon Cordray garden and the Ron and Barb Gault garden. Glenn and Rita Shelton hosted the last garden of the day. The tour group sat on their back deck in the shade, enjoying sack lunches and numerous deserts provided by the club. While the Shelton garden boasts some of the most beautiful and current daylily varieties; at the end of the afternoon their were as many pictures of their hummingbird population as their blooms. Although difficult to count, there were over 50 hummingbirds eating their lunch less than a foot from the daylily enthusiasts.

The MAHS annual public auction is scheduled for Au-gust 28th, at Farmington Sr. Center. A 1:30 pm meeting is planned with the auction to follow. Please join us for the opportunity to purchase old and new daylily varieties and enjoy the company of others that have a passion for garden-ing.

The official end to the daylily year comes with the MAHS annual Fall Banquet, held Oct 23, featuring Bill Maryott, of Maryott’s Daylily Gardens.

Mo-Kan Daylily Society By Judith Durham

Summer has come and gone and along with it another beautiful bloom season. This summer was so varied with 90 degree days starting in June and torrents of rain throughout.

By July 10th most of the blooms were gone. Our spring plant sale was on May 8th on the Independ-

ence Square. Everyone has a good time selling plants but by 2 pm we're wheeling and dealing to sell the last few. This year the last plants were donated to the City of Independ-ence Parks Department.

The speaker at our June meeting was Chris Parsons of Manhattan, Kansas. Chris has an infectious love for hybrid-izing and passed that enthusiasm to those in attendance.

Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January. -- Hal Borland


Ten of our members made the trip to St. Louis for the Regional. The highlight was seeing the beautiful gardens and many new daylilies on display. St. Louis was a won-derful host city and it will be hard to match it.

Our club did not have a flower or display show this year. But, we did have a very nice garden tour on July 3rd. It started at Zena Purdum's garden in Raytown, MO. Zena has grown daylilies for years and many of us bought our first plants from her. From there we carpooled to Lois Hart's house in Louisburg, Kansas and ended at Loreta and Elroy's garden in Harrisonville, MO for a BBQ. It was a wonderful tour and the day was beautiful.

Our next meeting will be on Sunday, Oct. 10th at the Loose Park Garden Center. Lunch at 12:30 followed by the meeting at 1:30 pm. Everyone is invited to attend.

Ozark Daylily Society By Bev Long

SUMMER 2010 - Daylily Programs: Our April program featured club member, Dr William

Roston, who provided a fascinating slide show about the Butterfly House and the ongoing development of the Bo-tanical Center. We were amazed at the information Dr Roston provided about the different types of butterflies in Missouri and at the Butterfly House.

Our June meeting featured a bar-b-que with lots of good food provided by club members. The highlight of the meeting was club member Marjorie Gayer’s program on Lilies. Several of us then went to the Library Center to view the Lily Show. Since most of us knew very little about lilies, this was a wonderful experience to see many varieties of amazing lilies in full bloom.

Our August 14th meeting program will feature Jane Mahan, from Arkansas. Several of us visited her garden last year. Jane will be presenting a Beginning Hybridizing Program.

Jane lives in Elm Springs, adjacent to Springdale, in Northwest Arkansas.

She states that in 2001, when she first became inter-ested in daylilies as not just another perennial, she knew nothing about them except that they would thrive under almost any conditions. “Easy Care” was always part of the descriptions.

Jane submitted her first seven seedlings for American Hemerocallis Society (AHS) Registration in 2008. These are: Hemerocallis ‘Arkansas Baby Jane’, H. ‘Arkansas Semper Fi’, H. ‘Bahia Honda’, H. ‘Betty’s Rose’, H. ‘Haley’s Charm’, H. ‘John’s Hot Sauce’, H. ‘Wart Hog’. She has written about daylilies in The Canadian Daylily Journal, The AHS Journal, and The ArkLa Region 13 magazine.

In addition to daylilies, she a small collection of azal-eas, clematis, iris, both tall bearded, Siberian, and Louisi-ana iris, shrubs, bulbs, and other perennials. In the winter, she enjoys a window garden which includes 5 miniature cymbidium orchids, a very large Elephant-Foot Dracena, a Bird of Paradise plant that has bloomed every December for over 35 years ago, and a Calamondin Orange that is 50 years old.

Daylily Garden: While the daylilies are nearly finished blooming at

Close Memorial Park, we plan to hold a sale from the gar-den in conjunction with the Butterfly Festival July 24 and 25. As we clear out large unnamed clumps of flowers through this sale, we plan to redesign a couple more beds this year in our ongoing effort to ensure that all the daylilies are named and have space for continued growth.

Daylily Garden at Close Memorial Park video link: h t t p : / / w w w . y o u t u b e . c o m / u s e r / h i l t r u d w e b b e r ?feature=mhw4#p/u/3/1gAf3syM6EE

Region 11 Meeting: Six of our club members attended the Region 11 Meet-

ing in St Louis June 25-27. The gardens were lovely and the speaker, meals, and activities were wonderful. We look forward to next year’s meeting in Columbia.

Local Garden Tour: On July 3rd, eleven members of our club visited four

member gardens to share the beauty of our various gardens. Although the tour was spur of the moment, it was very en-joyable and gave us all ideas for our own gardens.

Prairie Winds Daylily

Society By Connie Larkin

Our spring and summer activities have kept us busy this

year. We had a very good representation at Regionals in St.

Louis. The gardens were great and the welcome feeling from the St. Louis club made it a wonderful weekend.

Our June meeting was in member Don Franz's garden where he gave a talk on his hybridizing program.

The July meeting was on container water gardening. We met at Scenic Landscapes in Wichita. Our first ever bloom show was held July 17th at the

Sedgwick Co. Extension Building. Twenty-two members brought over 500 blossoms. Four hundred twenty four of the blossoms were put on display in various categories from Small flowers to Spider varieties. Special tables were set up for Reckamps and for Stout Medal winners and nominees.

The show had two exhibit features - Table Settings and Arrangement Displays - and three demonstration areas.


The demonstrations included ‘Planting a Daylily Chil-dren’s Booth’ where children were given a daylily, a pot and soil - and help with planting. They then took the potted plant home for their garden. The second demonstration was ‘Digging, Dividing and Planting Your Daylily’, and the third was ‘Tips on Design - easy ways to use daylilies in fresh flower arrangements at home’.

The public was invited to vote on their favorite blos-soms, their favorite Table Setting and the Best Arrange-ment in each of three categories. Their ballots were then entered into a drawing to win one of two featured daylilies.

The winners were: Virginia Kimball took first place in ‘Windmill Blades’

and ‘Rocky Road’ divisions and Floanna Crowley took first place in ‘Crazy Quilt’ and Table Design divisions.

Favorite blossoms were:

7 Votes each 4 Votes Africa Red Volunteer When I Dream 61 other cultivars received from 1-3 votes each In the garden, Connie Larkin

Topeka Daylily Club By Caryn Sheets

We started our summer activities with an exciting and

successful members' daylily auction in May. With plants of all price ranges, bidding was lively.

Andrea Weaver of Wichita was our guest speaker at a special club meeting on June 22. Andrea presented a work-shop on taking digital pictures for entry in the flower show. Elaine Holmstrom also demonstrated preparing daylilies for show. She presented the opportunity for hands-on prac-tice.

Daylilies started blooming a couple of weeks early and our flower show was a week later than normal but our Chairman Jess Danner reported a very successful flower event.

The Topeka Daylily Club held its annual American Hemerocallis Society accredited flower show on Saturday, July 10, 2010, at the Fairlawn Plaza Mall.

In the horticulture division 17 individuals made 154 entries. The horticulture judges were Jerry Mix, Lois Hart, Rudy and Dianne Wilkie, Margie Roehr, and Dennis White. American Hemerocallis Society Rosettes went to:

Extra Large Flower - CARRICK WILDON Jess

Danner Large Flower - TAKE MY HAND Ralph Gale

Miniature Flower - PARDON ME Judy Briggs Spider Flower - WILSON SPIDER Judy Briggs Double Flower - MISSOURI MOON Helen Fry Unusual flower - FIRESTORM Colette Peel Youth entry - DACQUIRI Rachel Kennedy Best in Show - PARDON ME Judy Briggs The Sweepstakes Award went to Richard Knight Purple ribbons also were awarded as follows: two to

Jess Danner, Helen Fry, Colette Peel, and Chris Tyler; three to Ralph Gale, Rachel Kennedy; four to Debra Cole, Jim Fry, and Judy Briggs; five to Richard Knight.

The design division had eleven entries, with two blue ribbons going to Elaine Holmstrom and two to Jess Danner. Insufficient number of entries to award the Tricolor. The design judges were National Garden Clubs judges Caroline Wittman, Irene Louk, and Janette Lassiter-Smith.

In our first daylily photo contest (which we were trying out and did not have in approved AHS schedule), we had 15 individuals make 50 entries. Blue ribbons went to Jim Fry, Emilie Gahnstrom, and Ken Ferrell (not a member, we opened to public). The purple ribbon, judged best of the three blue ribbons, went to Ken Ferrell. So the photo con-test drew more participation than design.

The People's Choice Awards, which the public voted for their favorite entries, went to Chris Tyler for individual flower JEALOUS JAKE, Elaine Holmstrom for design, and the photo contest to Jim Fry.

We had attendance of over 300. We again gave away free daylilies to those who voted for People's Choice Awards, and that was about 250. We also sold daylilies to cover expenses. The mall provided an empty store for the judges and workers lunch and space in the mall for the show and tables and chairs at no cost. Our show was later than usual and the daylilies started blooming 2 to 3 weeks earlier but we had rains which saved us and actually turned out to be a little larger than last years show.

Our summer club activities will continue with our day-lily sale at the Topeka Farmer's Market on Saturday, August 14. The two days spent cleaning and labeling plants for the sale is fun and a great opportunity to get better acquainted with members and learn more about daylilies.

Our September meeting will be a potluck held on Sun-day afternoon Sept. 26 at Ward Meade.

‘Just living is not enough’ said the butterfly, ‘one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.’ --Hans Christian Anderson


Tulsa Area Daylily Society by Katy Brocksmith

Seldom do we see a complete sweep of the categories for a National Show for AHS as we have witnessed this year 2010. The Tulsa Area Daylily Society congratulates the Barrons for their collective purpose and efforts to af-fect such a grand fall sweep of events.

Randall Barron, his wife Marvel Barron and the grand-daughter Rebecca Barron took all honors during the con-test held June 19, 2010. We would be remiss, however to overlook the seedling category which was contested by others but won by our very own President, Dennis Voss.

Here are the short-list results of the Daylily Show just as they were submitted to AHS. Show Chairman Randall Barron, Co-Chairman Dennis Voss.

Extra Large - To God Be The Glory Carpenter-J 2006

Randall Barron Large - American Freedom Grace-Smith 2003 Ran-

dall Barron Small None Miniature None Double - Poly Micro Chip Trimmer-J 2005 Marvel

Barron Spider - Free Wheelin’ Stamile 2004 Marvel Barron Unusual Form - Follow the Yellow Brick Road Gos-

sard 2007 Marvel Barron Youth - Spice Hunter Trimmer 2002 Rebecca Barron Popularity Poll - Bela Lugosi Hanson-C 1995 Randall

Barron Seedling - Dennis Voss Exhibitor Best-in-show - Bela Lugosi; Winner of Sweepstakes Rosette - Randall Barron The local "Dale Satterwhite Award" sponsored by Ann

Large, of Edmond Oklahoma was give to the winner of the large flower classification, AMERICAN FREEDOM, shown by Randall Barron.

The duties that remain ahead of us now are to bring off the annual bare-root Daylily sale, on September 11th, 2010. We will need many members at hand to make this last event of the year go smoothly. We hope we can count on our 54 listed members of TADS to make this event suc-cessful.

We would like to welcome Barbara Gardner-Aikman, as TADS new Vice-president. She will be filling in for Bill Miller, who stepped down due to health complica-tions.

Wichita Daylily Club By Marilyn Browne

It’s been a busy but fun summer for members of the Wichita Daylily Club. We’ve enjoyed a great bloom season for our favorite flower and many gardeners are experienc-ing more re-bloom this year than usual. Many of our mem-bers attended the regional meeting in St. Louis. Our club chartered a bus and picked up daylily friends along the way, including Topeka, Kansas City, and Columbia. Those attending enjoyed great conversations on the bus as well as beautiful gardens and renewal of friendships with other daylily enthusiasts.

After returning from regional, members caught their breath and busily prepared for the local tour on July 3rd and the annual show on July 4th. Mother Nature decided to turn on her sprinklers over the holiday weekend. While the rain was a welcome relief, it made cutting for the show a bit of a challenge. All in all, we had a successful show and mini sale. Congratulations to winners:

Sweepstakes award: Mary Lou Lundblade; Tricolor award in design: Floanna Crowley; Best of Show and Best extra large flower - Laura Har-

wood Sally McNees Large flower - Eggplant Escapade Pamela Jakop- lic Small flower - Sunny Eyes Sally Miniature flower - Brookwood Black Kitten Pam-

ela Jakoplic Double - Zella Virginia Virginia Kimball Spider- Journey On Ann Harrod Unusual form - All American Windmill Sherryl

Fitzpatrick Popularity poll award - Cherokee Pass Virginia K i m -

ball We moved the site of our July meeting to member Con-

nie True’s garden. Everyone enjoyed the outing which in-cluded a pot-luck dinner and a tour of Connie’s lovely gar-den. Thank you, Connie, for hosting the meeting and thanks to Mary Lou Lundblade, Ted and Jan Eberle, Betty Lou Bowlin, Marilyn, Deana, & Lisa Fitzsimmons, and Cindi McMurray for hosting the local tours on July 3rd!

We’re looking forward to celebrating the 40th anniver-sary of the Wichita Daylily Club at our annual birthday dinner at Botanica on Monday, August 9th at 6:30 pm and welcome guests to join founding members, Betty Lou Bow-lin and Betty Jean Bowlin, and club members in our cele-bration! Since Mother Nature hasn’t graced us with much rain since the 4th of July, members continue to water-water-water in preparation for digging some lovely plants for our annual sale at Botanica from 10 am to 3 pm on August 28th. We’ll again dedicate a table of plants as the club’s contribution to Region 11. Come join us.

Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is a flower. -- John Harrigan


American Hemerocallis Society Officers

President Mary C. Fisher 32 Mylod Street Walpole, MA 02081-4026 508.668.7399 [email protected]

Executive Secretary Pat Mercer P.O. Box 10 Dexter, GA 31019-0010 478-875-4110 [email protected]

Editor - Daylily Journal Meg McKenzie Ryan 1936 Wensley Ave El Centro, CA 92243 760235-8243 [email protected]

2010 Region 11—Officers, Committee Chairs and Liaisons Region 11 Director Mary Lou Lundblade 511 W Ness Valley Center, KS 67147 Tel: 316-755-1964 Email: [email protected] RP - Steve Amy 611 Adam Dr Wamego, KS 66547 Tel: 785-456-7053 Email: [email protected] RPD – Ann Large 2217 Silver Crest Dr Edmond, OK 73003-1739 Tel: 405-348 4746 Email: [email protected] Treasurer - Jim Mueller 36 Wagon Wheel Trail Fenton, MO 63026-4552 Tel: 636-343-6271 Email: [email protected] Secretary - Andrea Weaver 6935 E 35th St N Wichita, KS 67226 Tel: 316-683-5877 Email: [email protected] Newsletter Editors Harry & Sharron Gregory 1138 Amidon Ave Wichita, KS 67203 Tel: 316-263-7608 Email: [email protected]

Auction Co-Chairs Jim Mueller (see above) Lisa Fitzsimmons 4820 N Glendale St Bel Aire, KS 66220 Tel: 316-744-2789 Email: [email protected] Electronic Communications Chair - John R. Eiseman 10133 Springwood Dr St. Louis, MO 63124-1225 Tel: 314-991-2838 Email: [email protected] Exhibition Judges Liaison Elaine Holmstrom 4042 SE 34th St Topeka, KS 66605-3052 Tel: 785 267-6316 Email: [email protected] Garden Judges Liaison Michael Bouman 7155 Cambridge Ave St. Louis, MO 63130-2303 Tel: 314 725-1811 Email: [email protected] Historian - Brenda Jindra RR 1 Box 198 Cashion, OK 73016-9748 Tel: 405 433-2217 Email: [email protected]

New Member Liaison Linda Farris 15726 SW 143Rd St Rose Hill, KS 67133 Tel: 316-733-4608 Email: [email protected] Science Liaison Dr. Steve Thien, Professor of Soils Science KSU 3400 Windsor Court Manhattan, KS 66503-0335 Email: [email protected] Service Award Chair Cindy Lindquist 5507 SE 96th St Valley Center, KS 67147 Tel: 316 799-2374 Hybridizer Liaison Bob Tankesley-Clarke 31642 Wieneke Branch Rd. California, MO 65018-4044 Tel: 573-796-3829 Email: [email protected] Editorial Advisory Committee Chair - Hank Riggs Jr. 904 Cowan Dr. Columbia, MO 65203-2306 Tel: 573- 875-2464 Email: [email protected]


Looking Ahead--Summer Regionals 2011 Central Missouri Daylily Society - June 24-26

2012 MoKan Daylily Club - June 29-July 1

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Notice to Regional 11 Hybridizers:

All qualified Region 11 hybridizers are invited to send a select seedling for the 2011-12 Re-gional Oscie Whatley Seedling Award Bed. Entries should be submitted to: 2011 2012 Steve and Reng Winters Elroy & Loreta Knoche 2601 Bluffcreek Drive 26901 S Stockman Rd Columbia MO 65201 Harrisonville, MO 64701

Full information on the Oscie Whatley Award may be found at www.ahsregion11.org/oscie.html.

Wichita Daylily Club Floanna Crowley 1341 N Valleyview St Wichita KS 67212 316.722.8868 [email protected]

Bluestem Daylily Society Faye Yoder 111 N Connecticut Salina, KS 67401 785.404.2456 [email protected]

Central Missouri Hemerocallis Society Bob McConnell 1601 Earthland Road Columbia MO 65202-9919 573.445.4074 [email protected]

Central Oklahoma Hemerocallis Society Brenda Jindra RR1, Box 198 Cashion, OK 73016-9748 405.433.2217

Flint Hills Hemerocallis Society Ernie Minton 724 Gillespie Dr. Manhattan, KS 66502 785.537.8981 [email protected]

Greater St. Louis Daylily Society Larry Gooden 6459 Westway Rd St. Louis, MO 63109-3366 W 314.351.5500 [email protected]

Mineral Area Hemerocallis Society Bob Skaggs 5425 Peaceful Ridge House Springs, MO 63051-2843 314.369.0149 [email protected]

MoKan Daylily Society Elroy Knoche 26901 S Stockman rd Harrisonville, MO 64701 816.380.4114

Ozark Daylily Club Frieda Alexander 4211 S Sulgrove Avenue Springfield, MO 65804 417.877.9406 [email protected]

Prairie Winds Daylily Society Andrea Weaver 6935 E 35th Street N Wichita, KS 67226 316.683.5877 [email protected]

Topeka Daylily Club Chris Tyler 5415 SW Lincolnshire Cir Topeka, KS 66610 785.862.9882 [email protected]

Tulsa Area Daylily Club Dennis Voss PO Box 690865 Tulsa, OK 74169-0865 918.625.8159 [email protected]

West County Daylily Club Bill Lenz 5260 Ozarkglen Drive St. Louis, MO 63128 314.487.6588 [email protected]

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Northwind Dancer

Unusual Forms to Doubles

Old Favorites to

New Trends

Classic to Crazy

Healthy, Multi-fan Plants

Bold One

Party Crasher

Michael’s Sword

Forsyth Patricia Ann

Wigged Out


Tulsa Area Daylily Society, Marvel Barron

Summer Memories TRICOLOR AWARDS

Yvonne Calvin, Central MO Hemerocallis Society

Floanna Crowley, Wichita Daylily

Club

Speaker--Karol Emmerich Friday Night Auction

CLUB SHOWS

Central Okla-homa Hemerocallis Society : Clint Barnes and Laurie Barger

Randall Barron-incoming Presi-dent and Steve Amy-outgoing President

Some Regional Awards

Oscie Whatley Award to Al Aspher by Larry Gooden (photo above)

Wilma Award to David Hoffman by Brenda Jindra (photo at left)

Regional Presidents

REGIONAL 2010

Dee Nash

Dee Nash

Sharron Gregory Sharron Gregory

Sharron Gregory

Sharron Gregory

Sharron Gregory

Nancy Rold

Sherryl Fitzpatrick David Barron

Documents

Summer 2010 MOKANOK Daylily 2010.pdfsage on his answering machine as he has a day job. 403-646-4904. Due to an error, the House Fund has had a correction in the name. The new correct