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Region 11 American Hemerocallis Society

MOKANOK Fall/Winter 2014

Daylily

Gateway to

Gorgeous!

Summer in

St. Louis 2014

~ 2 ~ MoKanOk Daylily Fall/Winter

2014 regional AWARDS cONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THESE WINNERS

Oscie Whatley Award for Best Seedling 2014 presented to Craig Plahn

Photo - John Eiseman

2014 Hybridizer Award presented to Kathy Kratti by President Michael Bouman for Mary Lou Farrow, grown in the Bouman Garden (photos at left)

Photo - Becky Bates Clump Photo - Michael Bouman Heavenly Dark Matter - Sharron Gregory

Best Seedling #C9P13T1 Photo - Craig Plahn

Clump Photo - Michael Bouman Photo - Becky Bates

The 2014 Wilma Award for Best Grown Clump presented to Mi-chael & Kathy Bouman by Clint Barnes for clump of Heavenly Dark Matter

Photo - Sharron Gregory

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Inside The MoKanOk Daylily TABLE OF CONTENTS

“Gateway to Gorgeous” Photos by Glenda Webster. . . . . . . . . . . . .Cover Awards--Summer Meeting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Table of Contents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Officers Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-6 Treasurer’s Report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Publicity Director Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Pop Poll Results/Lily Auction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Winter Gathering Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10-13 Photo Contest Rules/Club Websites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 A View from a Flower Farmer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 2014 Summer Meeting Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-27 Club Happenings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28-33 Donations/Memorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Illustrated Guide to Daylilies Ad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 2015 National/Region 11 Officers, Committee Chairs & Liaisons . . . . . . .36 Editorial Policy/Membership Info. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 2015 Region 11 Club Presidents/Future National Meetings. . . . . . . . . . . 38 2013 AHS Region 11 Awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Future Summer Regionals . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . Back Cover

NOTE FROM THE EDITORS

Well, we are back with a brief stint as editors of this combined Summer/Fall/Winter addition. Due to an illness, Faye was unable to complete the Summer issue and we still had the software on our computer so stepped in to help. A big thanks to all who updated and re-sent articles and photos. We were so blessed to have a fellow club member and relatively new Region 11 partici-pant share her file of Summer Regional pictures. She is a wonderful photog-rapher as you will see in the many photos we used in this issue. Our very special THANKS to Glenda Webster! We could not have done it without you!!

Sharron & Harry Gregory


Lois Hart Regional Director

The daylilies will be sleeping by the time you read the MoKanOk. I believe this has been my best bloom season ever…wonder if the hard winter helped? The convention in St. Louis featured six beautiful gardens and Mike Wells wins the “garden art” award. Asheville was wonderful with thousands of daylilies at Paul Owen’s and Bob Selman’s. They extended registration and with 715 people on 13 buses it was a challenge. Sign up early for Atlanta (600 limit)…it will be popular with great gardens.

Board meeting highlights: THE CHALLENGE...an anonymous donor issued a challenge to help offset the an-nual shortfall in the AHS budget. There has been a deficit for seven years. If AHS could raise $10,000 by 12/31/14, the donor would give $20,000. Consider a donation to the “General Fund”.

PUBLICATIONS: Did you complete your survey that was on the Journal wrap? NO? Not too late. The survey was also distributed at Asheville to see the interest in up-coming publications. Scott Elliott will be doing a doubles book and Oliver Billingslea will redo the spider book. Nan Ripley will do a beginning hybridizing book. Send me sug-gestions for other publications or articles for the Journal.

NEW PUBLICATION: The Illustrated Guide is now available for $15 + $5 shipping. The club discount is 10 or more at $12 each plus shipping. The new guide has nine additional chapters and new information on diseases, pests and beneficial insects. A new chapter lists all the Lening-ton award winners. Even if you have an old copy you will appreciate the updated information and wonderful pictures.

MEMBERSHIP: Over 1200 members did not renew for 2014. Region 11 is down 51% since 2002. Tell your club members about the great journals and MoKanOk’s they will receive and the $25 voucher for new members. Accept the challenge to become a Silver(75%), Gold(90%) or Platinum(100%) level club… Congratulations to the Topeka club for reaching the Gold level. Platinum & Gold qualify for a $500 yearly prize. Consider holding an off- scape show at a local mall to generate interest in your club if you are not now holding a show.

REGISTRATIONS: 2014 should end with about 3000 cultivars added for a total of 78,000. There are now 33,500 photos in the data base. If you have an older culti-var, check the data base and if there is no picture, contact the registrar about submitting your photo.

C U S T O M E M -BROIDER Y: AHS signed a contract with Bobbin Along for custom shirts, T’s, caps, aprons, etc. Order thru the AHS store on the portal.

ELECTRONIC MEDIA AWARD: The board estab-lished a new award to recognize individuals who have de-signed and created websites, blogs, electronic magazines, mobile apps & emerging technologies. Nominations due by Sept. 1st each year.

DISPLAY GARDENS: We have 319 display and 16 historic gardens, down several from last year. Consider adding your garden next year.

Miss the EUREKA? Charles Dorsey has set up “thedaylilyaddict.com” as a replacement for Eureka…check it out.

EXHIBITION JUDGES: Region 11 had five accred-ited shows this summer: Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Columbia, Topeka and Wichita. Due to illness the region has lost sev-eral judges. Please consider taking the clinics…traveling to shows and meeting the club members is very rewarding.

GARDEN JUDGES: Do you visit a few gardens every year…why not become a garden judge so you can vote the ballot for the Awards & Honors. You can help decide the Stout Medal winner, the Awards of Merit, Hon-orable Mentions as well as 10 categories ranging from miniature to best pattern. Clinic 1 is an easy class and test at Winter Gathering and Clinic 2 is held in a garden at Summer Regional and does not include a test. You just look at pretty flowers and vigorous plants.

KATHY BOUMAN MEMORIAL FUND: The $1300 collected should cover the cost of digitizing journals from 1960-2008. Over 21,000 pages have been scanned and will be available to view on the portal as searchable PDF’s. Thanks for your donations.

POPULARITY POLL: Only 99 of 385 Region 11 members returned their ballots. This is 16% less than last year. The poll “presents a true picture of which daylilies perform well in a given area and which are best liked by the membership”. This helps daylily growers select the best cultivars for their area. Please vote!!!

Contact me if you have any questions about AHS or suggestions I can take to the board meetings. Lois Hart


A Gathering of Champions

This morning Diana Plahn joined me in teaching Gar-den Judges Workshops I and II in my garden for three in-terested people. One was very new to daylilies, one was an experienced hybridizer, and one had been a Junior Exhibi-tion Judge some years ago. I offered this special set of workshops so that Diana could complete her accreditation as an instructor. We badly need instructors in Garden Judging and Exhibition judging! Diana will be a fine addi-tion.

I stress the “human development” angle of judge train-ing. All of us are works-in-progress as collectors, growers, garden designers, and judges. We’re learning all the time. We’re thinking about what we should try to do better.

In plant evaluation, the best way to speed the learning process is to make sure your collection contains examples of “champion performance.” You can do this for about $5 a plant. Champion performance has been around for many decades; we just keep tweaking what is fashionable. So on a small budget and with a small space, you can surround yourself with wonders.

These are plants that display clean and beautiful foli-age from March through November. If you look at the ground to see how they multiply (as we did over and over in the workshop today), you’ll not see self-choking growth or multiplication in a straight line in a champion. If you look at the scapes and the presentation of the flowers, you won’t see either a zany every-which-way presentation of the scapes or a demolition derby up where the flowers bloom.

Do you need to count branches or buds? I seldom do. I don’t see the point, The only number that really matters is the number of days I am happy with the plant. A daylily that is consistently wonderful earns tenure in my garden. A daylily with a disqualifying flaw can stay only if I need it for breeding. I wince when I see disqualifying flaws.

Diana and I both approach awards judging as a sudden-death game. It’s not about point-scoring and awarding a vote to whatever garners enough overall points. It’s about thinking of how a national champion should perform and excluding all that fail to come up to the standard we have set. So we think in terms of disqualifying flaws, and hav-ing said “no” to a cultivar for one of those, we need give it no further consideration. An Honorable Mention vote is two steps away from the Stout Medal. To earn our HM vote, a cultivar has to appear competitive for the top prize,

period. HMs are not badges of encouragement or a form of Halloween candy. They point to a potential national cham-pion.

As it turns out, a great many of the champions in my collection were created by Steve Moldovan twenty and thirty years ago, and I got most of them on the Lily Auc-tion from Gene and Penny Stormann in Topeka. FLYING TRAPEZE cost $300 a plant when it came out in 2005 and it remains one of the most impressive cultivars in our gar-den. So is RON VALENTE. So is TREVI FOUNTAIN. So is UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG. So are BOM-BAY SILK, BLESSED ART THOU, MERCHANT MA-RINE, VERTICAL HORIZON.

It is not a step back in time to collect Steve Moldovan daylilies. Their garden value is unsurpassed. Likewise, in my library, the Moldovan catalogues are right up there with the best of Bill Munson’s for teaching me how to think about color and plant performance.

Garden judge training teaches a person how to see bet-ter, see more fully, see with more brain power. It’s a good class to take even if you have no interest in judging for the national awards. It will open you up.

Michael Bouman Regional President

FLYING TRAPEZE - photo Michael Bouman


Mary Niemeyer Treasurer

Minutes of the 2014 Annual Meeting of AHS Region 11

The meeting took place during the regional meet-

ing at the St. Louis Airport Marriott Hotel on Sunday, June 22, 2014 at about 12:45 pm.

President Michael Bouman called the meeting to order and asked Secretary Laura Hood to read the minutes of the previous annual meeting. The member-ship approved the minutes.

Nominations Chair Ron Azzanni reported on the ballot election of the President for a two-year term beginning January 1, 2015. Michael Bouman has been elected for a second term.

The President presented a proposed Region 11 budget for 2015 and moved for its adoption. He ex-plained that the budget includes a continued fund for support of subsidizing youth members to attend Win-

ter Gathering, the Regional Meeting, or the AHS Na-tional. There were no requests in 2014, so he is not bringing up a bylaws change until there is some ex-perience. The motion was seconded and it carried on a voice vote. The meeting adjourned.

There were announcements regarding regional awards in the tour gardens. Craig Plahn won the Oscie Whatley seedling award. Kathy Krattli won the Re-gion 11 Hybridizer Award for her MARY LOU FARROW. Michael and Kathy Bouman received the Wilma Award for the best-grown daylily for Ryan Gossard's HEAVENLY DARK MATTER.

Respectfully submitted, Laura Hood, Region 11 Secretary

Laura Hood Secretary

The 2014 financial picture for Region 11 is look-ing very healthy. As shown on the balance sheet there is a net gain of $10,378.96 for the year. Thanks to all the members who support the on-line Lily Auctions by donating plants and purchasing plants. A special thanks to Lois Hart who works very hard making the auctions a success. The total for the fall Lily Auction was $4,345. Winter Gathering is another way Region 11 members can get together for a daylily weekend

and help support the Region through the plant auc-tions.

Thanks also to Central Oklahoma Hemerocallis Society and Prairie Winds Daylily Society for their contributions to the MoKanOk fund. The Greater St. Louis Daylily Society sent a memorial contribution for deceased member Belva Shields and Mo-Kan Daylily Society sent a memorial contribution for de-ceased member Bob Lenington.

“Winter, a lingering season, is a time to gather golden moments, embark upon a sentimental journey, and

enjoy every idle hour.” - John Boswell


CHECKING ACCOUNT BALANCE 1/1/1014 $ 45,629.80

FINANCIAL ACTIVITY

MOKANOK INCOME EXPENSES NET Advertising

Donations $ 3,600.00

Out of region subscriptions

2013 Postage Reimbursement-AHS $ 804.95

Printing and mailing $ (2,036.76)

Production-Editor $ (800.00)

TOTAL/NET $ 4,404.95 $ (2,836.76) $ 1,568.19

WINTER GATHERING

Registration $ 4,899.00

Plant Auction $ 6,078.00 $ (2,721.70)

Silent Auction

Chinese Auction $ 684.00

Photo Contest $ (395.02)

Speaker's travel-hotel $ (1,056.60)

Speaker's fee $ (1,000.00)

Hotel Expense $ (2,892.73)

Awards plaques $ (243.83)

Miscellaneous expenses $ (515.44)

Airfare 2015 Winter Gathering

TOTAL/NET $ 11,661.00 $ (8,825.32) $ 2,835.68

INTERNET AUCTION

Internet auction-Spring $ 3,663.24 $ (510.71)

Internet auction-Fall $ 5,301.34 $ (856.17)

Lily auction listing fees $ (225.00)

TOTAL/NET $ 8,964.58 $ (1,591.88) $ 7,372.70

MISCELLANEOUS OPERATING EXPENSES

Director's Expense $ (1,100.96)

RPD Expense

AHS Insurance

Donations-Memorials $ 200.00 $ (500.00)

Interest $ 3.35

Office Expense

TOTAL/NET $ 203.35 $ (1,600.96) $ (1,397.61)

CHECKING ACCOUNT BALANCE 6/3/2014 E 9/30/2014 $ 25,233.88 $ (14,854.92) $ 56,008.76

TOTAL ACTIVITY $ 10,378.96


Rick Pearce Regional Publicity Director

As I write this, I am looking at my late bloomers and all the perennials. It has been an exciting bloom season. I thought of writing all about the blooms in the gardens I visited this summer but there is a more pressing matter, membership in the AHS and our local clubs.

I don’t think it is any secret that membership has dropped and each of us as individuals and local clubs need to be ambassadors for our beloved daylily and our clubs.

Up until this year, Renrick Farm and Gardens has been a working nursery and flower farm. We trial all the perennials the year before we grow for our mar-kets to ensure that they thrive in our harsh climate. All the perennials including daylilies are in nice square

beds, plants labeled for ease of hybridizing and pho-tography. We are a natural grower and firmly believe in stewardship of the land and the wildlife. Every day we experience something new. If we want to attract others to the AHS, we have to let them experience what we experience every year, bloom season. It also helps to expose them to other perennials interplanted with the daylilies.

During the Fall of 2013 and Spring 2014, Renee and I started working on display gardens and actually moving away from some of the straight lines, Inter-planting annuals & perennials to showcase our day-lilies, hibiscus and iris.

The purpose was to open our garden to everyone (customers, clubs and the general public). Besides be-ing a hemaholic, I am also a plant addict and wanted to share my passion for gardening and the life in the garden, including some of the creepy crawlies.

Renee, my better half and also the creative one, laid out the plan. To help with motivation and finish in time for bloom season, we were on our local club’s garden tour. Renee and I work better with goals and deadlines. I have a deep respect for all the tour gar-dens I have visited over the years. It is a lot of work, but well worth all the smiles that blooms of any flower generate.

I also printed postcards on cardstock about our open garden and placed them in visitor racks at two turnpike stops, one northbound and one southbound; created Craig’s List ads about the open garden and handed out flyers at the farmer’s markets/herbal events during April – June. To the public visitors we handed out information including local club meeting times and AHS info. We had over 70 visitors this year during June. Next year I will have applications for both local and AHS at our open garden and events. Other ideas to grow our membership:

1. Have a pollination party for scouts or 4-H

youth. 2. Deliver a presentation about your garden for

other clubs in your area. The garden council is a great place to start.

3. Create a video of your garden using Windows Movie Maker (free) and put on You Tube and post on Facebook pages. The AHS also has PowerPoints you can use on multiple topics.

4. Have a booth at the big plant events in your area, also a great time to have a plant sale.

Let me know the events in your area (calendar) so

I can add them to the Facebook page. Rick

http://perennials.It/

http://season.It/

http://years.It/


It was an interesting voting year. A total of 99 ballots were received, which is 31% of the AHS Re-gion 11 membership.

This is a drop from last two years. Below are the results. The top four clubs by percentage of voting members were:

Central Oklahoma 72%

Prairie Winds 69%

Flint Hills 65%

Wichita Club 52%

I would encourage all members to go to the Por-tal and update their membership information with their club affiliation and contact information.

Members could also check and update their in-formation when they renew their AHS membership.

Rick Pearce

Below are the top 13 for 2014:

Kansas Kitten 24

Primal Scream 24

A Green Desire 21

Carnival In Mexico 17

Webster's Pink Wonder 17

North Wind Dancer 15

Bela Lugosi 14

Heavenly Angel Ice 14

Holiday Party 14

Rocket Blast 14

Trickster 14

Gasping For Breath 13

Siloam Double Classic 13

Popularity Poll

Last spring I tried to evoke Noah’s ark…donate 2 by 2 by 2…to get lots of you to donate two day-lilies to the online lily auction to benefit Region 11. Well 14 members stepped up and donated 164 plants in the spring ($3152.53 net) and for the fall auction we had 15 donors of 250 plants ($4445.17 net)…Michael out did himself. For spring 2015 let’s try to imitate the United Way campaign…everyone give a plant. We have 268 individual members and 63 dual memberships in our region. That would be 331 plants if we all gave ONE (1), Uno! The 2014 bloom season has seen our plants bursting out of their assigned area…give that increase to the auc-tion.

The only income sources for our region are the club donations, Winter Gathering and the Lily Auc-tion. Your AHS dues do not come to the region. The Winter Gathering income was down this year so we need to make that up with the auction. The spring auction saw 58 distinct buyers…only 25% of the net came from our members. The fall auction had 67 buyers and 28% were from Region 11. It is great that

about 75% of our sales come from outside the re-gion. The Lily Auction has a “want” list you can check and that donation will probably sell immedi-ately. Lily Auction: www.daylily.com

Please check your garden in March and find those over-performers. They are begging to be sent to a lovely garden across the US of A. We will reim-burse your postage if requested. It is easy to get a non-flat rate box and package one plant for shipping. The next auction runs April with May shipping. Send a list to: [email protected].

Thanks to the following donors: Brenda Jindra, Jess Danner, Michael Bouman, Carol Fischer, Ashton Loop, David Hoffman, Clint Barnes, Mary Lou Lundblade, Carl Hamilton, Faye Yoder, Gayle Yelenik, Stephen Durham, Bettye Coughenour, Dan & JoAnn White, Gary McKenzie, Irene Johnson, Randall Barron, Seajay Mock, Jim Muller, Laura Hood, Kathy Krattli, Patti Waterman, Loreta Kno-che, Marcia Waite, Lois Hart.

Lois Hart

LILY AUCTION – “UNITED WAY CAMPAIGN”

http://www.daylily.com

mailto:[email protected]


AHS Region 11 cordially invites all people inter-ested in growing daylilies to attend our annual Winter Gathering in Independence, Missouri at the beautiful Hilton Garden Inn, conveniently located on Interstate 70, with easy access to a variety of restaurants, shop-ping areas, and the National Frontier Trails Museum or the Harry S Truman Presidential Library. Geneal-ogy buffs will want to arrive early and visit the new Midwest Genealogy Center just minutes away from the hotel, part of the Midcontinent Public Library sys-tem. Additional points of interest in the Kansas City area include the Nelson-Atkins Museum, the Kemper Museum, the Arabia Steamboat Museum, and the Na-tional World War I Museum, a modern exhibition that meets world-class standards.

In other words, come early or stay late and treat yourself to some of the extra benefits of a winter get-away to the KC Metro area!

Our Winter Gathering is filled with programs of broad interest to gardeners. Since most registrants ar-rive before dinner time on Friday night, we have scheduled a fascinating program after the dinner hour on “Sneezles and Wheezles: Fads and New Directions in Hybridizing, with Pitfalls and Pratfalls” by re-nowned speaker and hybridizer, Melanie Mason (North Country Gardens).

AHS members who want to train as Garden or Exhibition Judges can take advantage of workshops and classes beginning late Friday afternoon.

Our principal speakers on daylilies are Melanie Mason, Bill Waldrop (Kennesaw Mountain Daylily Gardens), and Will Marchant (Druid City Daylily

Garden). In addition, we are pleased to welcome Susan Dorris, a Master Gardener from Kirkwood, Missouri, who will give a program of general interest to all gardeners.

Melanie Mason will return as our dinner speaker Saturday night and as our auctioneer. The Winter Gathering Auction is a bountiful opportunity, not to be missed!

Our Sunday morning activities include presenta-tions of new work by Region 11 hybridizers. Rick Pearce, our Regional Publicity Director, will coordi-nate the slide presentations, and Ann Redmon will moderate.

Photo Contest

The local MoKan Daylily Club is helping organ-ize and mount the Region 11 photo contest open to any member of a Region 11 daylily club. Attendance at Winter Gathering is not required. Contest rules will be posted in a separate sheet on the AHS Region 11 Web Site in November. See Page 13 in this magazine.

Registration Prizes

We will set aside three choice daylilies from among those donated for our auctions to give a prizes in drawings for early registration. One drawing will include the first 25 registrants. Another will be for the first 50 (excluding the winner from the first 25), and a third will be for everybody else! The “Braggin’ Bell” prize will be awarded to the daylily club with the highest percentage of membership attending. Do plan to join us for a wonderful weekend getaway. Make it a Valentine’s Day present for someone special!

2015 AHS Region 11 Winter Gathering February 13-15, 2015 - Hilton Garden Inn - Independence, Missouri

With all the hectic activities in the month ahead, don’t forget to send in your Winter Gather-ing Registration Form (printed on the wrapper) ASAP. You have a chance to win one of three gorgeous daylilies (see above notes). Wouldn’t it be wonderful to look forward to a new day-

lily arriving in the mail as your garden awakens in the Spring!!


MELANIE MASON

Melanie came to daylilies in a round-about way. Her first career was as an art teacher, but after determining that she preferred children in small quan-tities, she went back to school for a degree in orna-mental horticulture. She worked in the landscaping business for several years, and through a chance meeting with Pat and Grace Stamile, discovered the wonders of daylilies. With Pat and Grace’s encour-agement, she began hybridizing. That was nearly 20 years ago, and in the period since, she has registered over 120 daylilies, won 11 Honorable Mentions and one Award of Merit for ‘Mabou’. Melanie served in Region 4 as RVP for four years, on the AHS Board of Directors for six, and is on the AHS Registration committee. She continues to hybridize at the farm that she and husband Bob have in Upstate NY. There they raise Black Angus cattle as well as the day-lilies. With 450 acres, over 120 cattle, four Labrador retrievers, and nearly 1100 daylilies, they stay pretty busy!

SUSAN DORRIS

Susan Dorris, a Master Gardener from Kirkwood, Missouri will be will be giving a general interest pro-gram that will interest all gardeners.

Susan admits that it was not daylilies that drew her to gardening at a very early age; it was eggplants. Her father grew a Victory Garden, and showed her the magical progression from seed to green plant, then flower, then the growing fruit, tiny to purple and enor-mous. That magical gift has shaped her life.

As a young adult, Susan moved to the Colorado mountains to ski, and when the snow melted, she planted a garden. She was told that nothing would grow, it was too cold at 9,600 feet altitude. Well, let-tuce, spinach, chard, beets, and peas loved it. Toma-toes did not. Then she discovered that many perenni-als loved the cool temperatures and intense sunlight. Delphinium, columbine, campanula, poppies, and

many others grew and blossomed, as did her garden.

When she moved back to Saint Louis, she bought a tiny house with a large, al-most empty yard. She took the MOBOT mas-ter gardener class and started digging and planting vegetables, fruit trees, shrubs, and flowers. She met a daylily enthusiast on an online music forum and bought quite a few daylilies from her. Her new friend sent seeds as well. She was also a speaker at the Re-gion 11 Winter Gathering and invited Susan to attend. Susan then joined GSLDS and AHS and has been planting daylilies ever since!

MEET OUR WONDERFUL SPEAKERS


BILL WALDROP

Bill Waldrop began growing daylilies in 1995 and began to hybridize in 1996. He joined AHS in 1997 and served as General Counsel from 2000 until 2005. Bill and Diana's Kennesaw Mountain Daylily Garden is spread out on a five-acre plot that includes two greenhouses. Thus far Bill has registered over 50 daylilies. Bill enjoys converting the best diploids to tetraploid and has enjoyed great success with the results.

His best-known work

includes IRISH HALO, KENNESAW MOUNTAIN HAYRIDE, PASTOR LAURIE ANN MOELLER, and one of the best reds in recent years, BLAZING CANNONS.

WILL MARCHANT

Will relates he was born with gardening in his blood. His grandparents on both side of his family were gardeners and his paternal grandparents operated a large farm in Alabama. This love of gardening was also instilled in his father who continues to be an avid gardener. You might say that Will was born with a green thumb. His father in his role as minister spent a great deal of time visiting his congregation and often would return home from a visit with a “start” of some perennial or other. So Will grew up surrounded by beautiful flowers.

Twenty years ago, he was introduced to the world of named daylilies and daylily gardens by the princi-pal who gave him his first teaching job. His first order was to Gilbert Wild’s Daylily Garden where the plants

were priced at a few dollars per division, enabling him to purchase around 25 plants at a total cost of some-where in the neighborhood of $75! Never did he dream that he would become infected with the “daylily bug” and begin to spend hundreds of dollars on a single plant. Over the years, Will would spend tens of thousands of dollars purchasing the latest and greatest daylily introductions. He would also learn to make his own crosses and grow his own unique seed-lings.

In 2002, he registered and introduced his first named daylilies. Since then, he has named, registered, and introduced 30 unique cultivars. In the time since he began growing daylilies, he has established two gardens. The first one was in Tuscaloosa, AL where he lived for 10 years. After completing his leadership degree at the University of Alabama, he moved to Douglasville where he became the assistant principal at Sweetwater Elementary in Lithia Springs. He had to uproot his daylily garden and, after purchasing a new property in Douglasville, reestablished his Druid City Daylily Garden in its current location just off Chapel Hill Rd.

Now beginning his eighth year as principal at Lithia Springs Elementary School, Will spends most of his free time in his garden. He has quite a few fu-ture daylily introductions currently increasing in his garden and starts approximately 1200 new seedlings each season. He loves to talk school and daylilies; and visitors are always welcome in the garden.


Winter Gathering 2015 Hilton Garden Inn - Independence, MO Committee: Michael Bouman *** Ron Azzanni *** Connie Snow

Date Time Event Leader Room

Friday (Feb 13)

3:00 - 8:00 PM (Dinner on your own)

Registration in lobby Ron Azzanni Lobby

4:00 - 6:00 PM Garden Judge Work-shop 1

Michael Bouman Independence B

4:00 - 6:00 PM Exhibition Clinic 3 Lois Hart Independence C

8:00 - 9:00 PM Sneezles and Wheezles: Fads and New Direc-tions in Hybridizing, with Pitfalls and Prat-falls

Melanie Mason Independence A

Saturday (Feb 14)

7:00 - 8:00 AM (Breakfast with Regis-tration)

Registration in Lobby Ron Azzanni Lobby

7:30 - 9:00 AM Region and Club Offi-cers' Meeting

Michael Bouman Santa Fe

9:30 - 10:30 AM Principals of Hybridiz-ing

Will Marchant Santa Fe

11:00- Noon A Gardener's Garden Susan Dorris Santa Fe

12:00 - 1:30 LUNCH (Lunch On Your Own)

1:30 - 3:00 PM Kennesaw Mountain Dazzle

Bill Waldrop Santa Fe

3:30 - 5:00 PM Hybridizer Panel: Mar-chant, Mason, Waldrop

Ann Redmon and Mi-chael Bouman

Santa Fe A

5:30 - 6:00 PM Social Gathering Cash Bar in Dining Room

Oregon Room

6:00 - 7:30 PM Dinner Oregon Room

7:30 - 8:30 PM Of Daylilies, Dogs, and Calves

Melanie Mason Oregon Room

8:30 - 10:00 AUCTION Melanie Mason Oregon Room

SUNDAY (FEB 15)

7:00 - 8:00 AM Breakfast (Included in Registration)

8:30 - 10:30 Hybridizers' Introduc-tions

Ann Redmon Santa Fe

11:00 - 12:00 Noon Membership Meeting: Prizes, Awards, Invita-tion to Regional

Michael Bouman Santa Fe

Noon ADJOURN


RULES: Photos are to be 8x10 glossy, no border. No people in photos. Cropping allowed. No Photoshop. Photos must be taken by person submitting but do not have to be of their flowers and can be of any year. One or two photos may be entered in each category. CATEGORIES: "Single Bloom"-cultivar must be registered and true to form and color. "Multi Bloom"-cultivar must be registered and true to form and color. "Landscape"-must include some daylilies. Please print your name on the back of each photo entered along with the registered name of the daylily pictured if entering in Single or Multi Category.

If entering Landscape Category print name only on the back of each photo entered. Please write gently on back of photo so impression will not show on front of picture. Make sure no date or time is on front of photo. Include a sheet of paper with your name, address, phone number and name of your Daylily Club MAIL PHOTOS TO: Mary Niemeyer 8041 Belleview Avenue Kansas City, Missouri 64114 816-822-7723 or Carl Hamilton 520 Sunset Lane Belton, Missouri 64012 816-844-2161 Photos must be postmarked by January 23, 2015

Winter Gathering Photography Contest

Bluestem Daylily Society www.bluestemdaylilysociety.com Central Missouri Hemerocallis Society centralmodaylily.org www.facebook.com/CentralMissouriHemerocallisSociety

Central Oklahoma Hemerocallis Society www.facebook.com/cohs2

Flint Hills Daylily Society www.flinthillsdaylily.org/#!

Greater St. Louis Daylily Society www.safehavengardens.com/gsds.html

Mo-Kan Daylily Society www.facebook.com/pages/Mo-Kan-Daylily-Society/ 646188985474161

Ozark Daylily Society ozarkdaylily.org www.facebook.com/OzarkDaylilySociety Prairie Winds Daylily Society prairiewindsdaylilysociety.weebly.com

Tulsa Area Daylily Club tulsadaylily.org West County Daylily Club westcountydaylilyclub.com

Wichita Daylily Club wichitadaylilyclub.webs.com

Region 11 Daylily Clubs Websites/Facebook Pages

http://www.bluestemdaylilysociety.com

http://centralmodaylily.org

https://www.facebook.com/CentralMissouriHemerocallisSociety

https://www.facebook.com/cohs2

http://www.flinthillsdaylily.org/

http://www.safehavengardens.com/gsds.html

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Mo-Kan-Daylily-Society/646188985474161




http://ozarkdaylily.org

https://www.facebook.com/OzarkDaylilySociety

http://prairiewindsdaylilysociety.weebly.com

http://westcountydaylilyclub.com


I missed the Regional in St. Louis due to my daughters 10th anniversary event in Florida. From the images, stories and descriptions I missed an out-standing meeting, well-planned and beautiful gardens galore. Hats off to the St Louis members for their great planning and execution. In all the meetings I have attended, I appreciate all the hard work that goes into the event and the gardens. I have not been disap-pointed at any event I have attended.

This year, I opened our garden to the general pub-lic. Renee and I are flower farmers, growing 100s of perennials, not counting Renee’s TB iris collection of 200+ and my 500+ daylilies. We grow over 400 per-ennials at Renrick’s Farm and Gardens.

All of the tour gardens over the years have in-spired us to move away from the rows of plants to one of display beds. I am not one that can paint with plants, a beautiful Monet scene. It doesn’t come natu-rally to me, but we are working on showcasing the daylilies by framing the beds with hardy hibiscus and backdrops of tall perennials and biennials (hibiscus, hollyhocks, cypress plants, ironweed, coneflowers, etc…..interplanting the beds with multiple hardy per-ennials and border plants.

In late summer Renee and I visited several of the liner growers that supply Renricks. It is an opportu-nity to see mature plantings of plants and the new in-troductions. There are a lot of exciting new perennials in the future and some already released like Midnight Marvel Hibiscus. Midnight Marvel is the first indeter-minate hardy hibiscus (continual blooming) and (AAS) Echinacea Cheyenne Spirit (wide range of col-

ors from pink to yellow to scarlet). Both thrive in Oklahoma. They should thrive across Region 11.

The highlight of our visits was at Walters Gardens in Michigan. We toured their introduction green-houses, display beds and farms. We saw Chris Myers select seedlings and the value of root pruning before lining out. All of the daylilies are by division at Wal-ters. As a natural perennial grower, it is exciting to see all the new plants and the future of our daylilies companions. 2015 will be a great year for daylilies and the chorus of perennials to support the main show. Below are a few resources to help you select your companion plants.

Denver Botanical’ s Plant Select award plantselect.org/category/award-winning-plants/

Oklahoma’s Proven: oklahomaproven.okstate.edu/

Texas Tough Plants:

www.dallasplanttrials.org/index.cfm/ f u s e a c -tion/home.showpage/pageID/40/index.htm

Kansas State: www.prairiestarflowers.com/

Missouri and Midwest:

www.greenhousegrower.com/varieties/variety-trials/

A View from a Flower Farmer

by Rick Pearce

http://plantselect.org/category/award-winning-plants/

http://oklahomaproven.okstate.edu/

http://www.dallasplanttrials.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/home.showpage/pageID/40/index.htm




http://www.prairiestarflowers.com/

http://www.greenhousegrower.com/varieties/variety-trials/





Gateway to Gorgeous -- Hosted by the Greater St. Louis Daylily Society --

St. Louis, Missouri

As I boarded the bus on Sunday morning I had some regrets about not being at my regular place of worship. But as I sat down to look at the day’s itiner-ary, I remembered with delight that we were going first to the Bouman garden, home of daylilies with the names “Come Down O Love Divine”, “Bible Grove” and “Meeting at the River”.

The visit was indeed a chance to immerse myself in such beauty of creation that a sense of blessing could be felt. A neat stone wall rimmed the driveway and echoed the lines of the home. The wall provided a fine backdrop for a stunning display of “Ayr” (Tankesley-Clarke, 2007) vying for votes for best grown clump. But a peek above that wall beck-oned me on across a bridge to the left side of the yard where several islands of great daylilies were attracting admirers at street level.

A turn to my right followed the drainage culvert

and revealed an awesome backyard sloping downhill to Hidden Lake. The pie-shaped lot seemed to funnel the eye to a wide rim of lakeshore flower beds and the dock beyond. The flower beds contained a collection of some of the best daylily cultivars, in all colors shapes and sizes! It was here that I saw what would be voted the Wilma Award for best grown clump – “Heavenly Dark Matter” hybridized by young Ryan Gossard (2008). Behind the daylilies a grouping of rectangular vegetable beds radiated back toward the house.

Michael & Kathy

Bouman’s

Daylily Lay Garden

Article & Photos by Nancy Rold


But wait, there was more! The uphill sweep of the 1.5 acre yard is balanced on the far side yard by an amphitheater of long arcing seedling beds to hold Mi-chael and Kathy’s latest creations. The beds were so perfectly edged and mulched that one would never suspect the effort it took to prepare them. Ask Mi-chael sometime to entertain you with the story of the highway rubble “fill” that he found just under the clay “top soil” and of the excavation of a coffin-sized rock!

There were so many beautiful blooms to admire.

“Butter Cream” by Michael’s mentor, Oscie Whatley (1998), was a huge clump. Michael’s “Liz Paine” (2011) was radiant in rose pink, edged in gold and bejeweled with lingering raindrops. “Humungousaur” (Gossard, 2013) really stood out to me and represented Kathy’s interest in the large open forms. Her first crop of seedlings was ready to ex-plode into bloom as the season progressed.

Back up to the house for a visit with Kathy I learned of the un-do and re-do of the house itself in 2010 that demanded their attention upon first moving in and delayed the garden bed installations. But as Kathy says, delays are not always a bad thing, and they used the time to refine the master plan for such extensive landscaping. So many flowers all neatly marked with labels delighted us, but apparently baf-fled the suburban neighbors at first (“No one does that!”), as they worried that it was a business and not a home. What a place to live it must be! Views from the deck or dock must be spectacular from dawn to dusk.

Reluctantly heading back to the bus I noted the 100+ pots of Bouman seedlings along the driveway - waiting in the wings for their turn in the amphitheater to sing a new chorus of blessings.


Braxton & Laura DeGarmo’s Cristen Haus Garden

by Sharron Gregory

Except where noted, all photos by Sharron Gregory

Visiting Cristen Haus, the beautiful home and garden of Braxton and Laura DeGarmo, was like seeing a glimpse of a time long past. What a joy to see their wonder-ful turn of the century home, built 110 years ago by Joseph Cristen. The DeGarmos acquired the property 24 years ago and began the time-consuming task of resto-ration. The care and love they put into their new

home is evident when looking at the pristine condition of the house today. It was only after this initial work was done that they were more recently able to focus on the outside elements and start on the garden.

The front bed is terraced from street level (see cover photo) giving space for even more plantings and making many of their gorgeous daylilies visible to visitors passing by. Here we could enjoy John Shooter’s bright, twirling Ribbons and Curls and a lovely clump of Karol Emmerich’s Seventy Times Seven. Stately trees and beautiful shrubs plus a myriad

of shade and sun-loving perennials are woven throughout the landscape, giving a tranquil feeling to the entire area.

One of the gems of the house is the inviting front porch where hang-ing baskets and filled flower pots welcomed us. Imagine having such a wonderful shady place for rest and reflection or for sharing time with friends and family. Sometimes we may for-get there were once sum-mers without air condi-tioning!

Photo - Glenda Webster


P e r f e c t l y placed hard-s c a p i n g throughout the property en-riched the de-sign. The sepa-rate shop in the back is a mod-ern use for the original carriage house.

There are so many spots where you want to take time to view the plant-ings and enjoy bits of nature

like birds, butterflies or the koi pond with its soothing waterfall.

Throughout we were able to enjoy dozens of amazingly lush hostas and other companion perenni-als--all along with their approximately 500 daylilies! Among those blooming were Patrick Stamile’s Wild and Wonderful, John Peat’s Aerial Applique and Ras-mussen’s Simply Gorgeous. Besides the daylilies, one interesting plant that drew much attention was a strik-ing specimen of blooming bear’s breeches.

This garden was also the site of the Oscie Whatley bed. Located with easy access to our left as we stepped off our bus, it was a perfect location. Every-one could make a quick stop there to view each entry and place their vote in a convenient ballot box before continuing into the garden.

Clockwise from top left: Simply Gorgeous, Wild and Wonderful, Aerial Appliqué

and Bear’s Breeches





David Hoffman’s Woodland Way Garden

Article & Photos by Dean Reusser

When visiting David Hoffman's garden, take time to notice the ar-chitecture of homes in the his-toric neighbor-hood of Pasadena Hills and the me-dians landscaped with daylilies w h e n t u r n -ing onto Wood-land Way. Hoff-man's house was surrounded with

gardens full of various heights, forms, and colors of daylily cultivars. Looking up onto the simplified American traditional red brick home with chimneys on each end, the original wooden lintel above the door frame remains carved and decorated with an owl hidden in the center fleur de lis with a stool on the left and a man on the right, done as a sort of play on the name of original owners Conrad and Gladys Stuhlman. Stacked brick frame the doorway with a Tudor style influenced brickwork and heavy timber lattice design above. The beautiful red brick house has garden green shutters and a bay window on the first story accented in the same garden green. The house is anchored with an oak leaf hydrangea out front to the left and a grand sized urn outside the front door on the porch draped with chartreuse sweet potato vine grow-ing out of the top. This home sits in the center of the property, an island surrounded by daylily beds. It was early bloom season in St. Louis this year during Re-gionals which gave a focus on flowers beginning the bloom season all over the garden.

One couldn't help notice such fancy ruffles on blooms of Sink Into Your Eyes (L Lambertson 2003) and Christy Joy (D Hansen 2013) or the bright blue eye on Blue Pearl (T Petit 2011). Walking to the left side of the house towards the backyard, one finds a nice double daylily, Clearly a Thrill (J Joiner

2007), and the deep color and bold contrast of Blissful Blackberry Pie (J Salter 2005).

The backyard was full of daylilies with a deck off the back porch and brick-paved paths in between the beds between the fence and house. The far left corner had a beautiful garden in the understory of the surrounding trees with Japanese maple, hosta, and a

tall pagoda lantern garden statue. The center of the backyard had a beautiful variety of hosta surround-ing two small dogwood trees and thriving in their shade. Many flowers stood out among the sea of day-lilies yet to bloom, Frog's Eye (M Stamile 2004) was a personal favorite, appearing as a creamy white unusual form daylily with a green throat jumping out and extended onto the petals. An-other favorite was discovered by the back fence,

Blue Pearl Blissful Blackberry Pie


Diana Grenfell (M L Morss 2003), a nice dark re-curved beauty. Many new varieties were growing such as Ribbons of Color (H Douglas 2010) which is as the name describes, For the Love of David (P Owen 2013), and Blonde on the Inside (H Douglas 2012) with a distinctly separated lightest of pas-tel peach, lavender, and yellow. There were plenty of hot bold colored daylilies such as Wispy Rays (J Joiner 1998), Tierra Del Fuego (Stamile 2004), Dark Monkey (J Gossard 2004), Pat Garrity (P M Stamile 2003), and Dusty Dirty Road (G Tanner 2011).

Coming up along the other side of the house, one finds long tiered daylily beds between the Hoffman property and the house next door. The steps leading

up to the front of the house were ornamented expertly with a whimsical ceramic frog and various planters with a perfect mix of color and texture in-cluding dusty miller, Pur-ple Flash ornamental pep-per, other purple, white, and yellow annual flow-ers, with light airy pink guara in the center pot flying out above.. A flower bed to the side of the driveway near the ga-rage had the most sublime combination of color with Purple Flash pepper, more

dusty miller, rosy powdery pink petunias, and blue-green eucalyptus, so simply done and so perfect, a landscape accent success!

Alas, there are always more daylilies to be seen, yet garden tour bus stops are scheduled to limited time. Other outstanding blooms not to be missed in-cluded the magically rich colors of Mystic Jellyfish (J Gossard 2007) swimming gracefully high above the beds, with a delicately drawn violet edge outlining each creamy white bloom. With so many different daylilies and such a welcoming friendly host, what a delight it must be to experience the Hoffman garden all summer long!

Photos top to bottom: Frog’s Eye

Dusty Dirt Road Clearly a Thrill

Amber Christina Scott

David & Emily Elliott


Tom and Laura Hood’s Nature’s Melody Garden

By Kathy Krattli

Except where noted, all photos by Glenda Webster

I’ve had the privilege of being able to watch these three acres evolve from a bare palate, when they first purchased this home in 2011, to the masterpiece it is today. Since the daylily peak season was late this year, we had to be content to enjoy the early bloom-ing daylilies. However, Laura has planted many com-panion plants that were blooming beautifully along with interesting yard art for everyone to enjoy. I es-pecially like the tall giraffe that looks out over the garden.

If it got too warm in the sun, we could sit in one of the many shade gardens. Laura and Tom have quite a selection of hostas, ferns and other shade-loving plants. They also have quite a collection of Japanese Maple trees.

Tom serenaded us with soft guitar music the whole time. He also had made up a batch of his fa-mous ginger tea which was very refreshing along with delicious home-made cookies. Christopher Moody

Photos Above & Below - Harry Gregory


Photo - Harry Gregory

Wild & Wonderful (above), Pistachio Eyes (lower right)



Craig and Diana Plahn Cat’s Paw Garden

by Ann Large

Except where noted, all photos by Glenda Webster

Descending down the Plahn’s driveway, what would we find? It had to be something unique and special in this traditional neighborhood.

And sure enough, carved out of a hillside along Sugar Creek we discovered a half acre lot of serene beauty.

The Plahns have a passion for gardening and have incorporated all sorts of perennials and conifers along their winding pathways. This wooded lot is ideal for their large collection of hostas and shade loving plants. Still, there is plenty of sun for the daylilies and magnificent specimen trees. When I asked Craig “what’s the most special thing about your garden”, he replies “it’s the trees” and I couldn’t agree more. Ter-raced gardens can present their challenges but offer a special palette for a landscaper/gardener. You hear the waterfall that spills over into the pond before you round the corner and stumbled upon it. There are so many paths to explore and most vignettes are accented with lots of hardscape critters, mushrooms and blown glass art.



I’ll admit I took more pictures of the landscap-ing, trees and hostas but there were many out-standing daylilies, including the Plahns own Cat’s Paw cultivars. These caught my eye and the camera: H. Orange Electric by Pat Stamile 2003, and H. Blue Eyed Phantom by Bonnie Holley 2010, lastly, H. Lavender Green Eyed Lady by Dan White 2010. Dan White is a Region 11 hybridizer and was also present at the Plahn garden when we toured.

Not to be missed are the individual potted or-chids hanging from a tree branch and covered with Spanish moss. Just around the corner you’ll find the orchid’s summer hothouse, a sight to behold. Craig and Diana are accredited American Orchid Society judges. If you blink, you’ll miss something special in the multi-faceted Cat’s Paw Garden.

A Peek Into the Orchid Shed

Ledgewood’s Fire Cracker (above)

Pink Party Dress (top right)

Midnight Tango (bottom) Photo - Harry Gregory

Pumpkin Prince


Have you ever felt like there was too much too see and not enough time to take it all in? That is ex-actly the feeling I had when I stepped off the bus at Mike Well’s garden. As you looked around and saw the size of the area, you asked yourself “where do I start first?”. At the front of the yard you were greeted by a huge flag on the flag pole that set the stage for the rest of the yard.

As the numerous daylilies that were in bloom to catch your attention, there were also numerous metal sculptures that also said “hey, look at me”; these ranged from small to large. Some of these objects that caught my attention (besides the 40’ windmill that was visible from inside the bus) were the bottle tree, butterflies, sunflower, ostrich, the turtle and kids metal sculpture, the frog musical band, bird houses, wind sculptures and the fountain.

The saying that I saw on a stone says it all, “An hour in the garden will put life’s problems in per-spective”.

The Wells Family Garden by Becky Bates

Except where noted, all photos by

Glenda Webster


Photo - Becky Bates

Photo - Sharron Gregory

Viva Pinata (right),

Mint Octopus (below)

Cloud Chaser (left)

Photo - Becky Bates


Bluestem Daylily Society by Becky Bates

The Bluestem Daylily Society had their spring daylily sale on May 10th with average results. The at-tendance this year was down due to high school graduation being held the same day.

The off-scape daylily bloom show was held July 12th at the Central Mall in Salina. There were over 200 different varieties on display with “PRICKLED PETALS” winning the popularity vote by only 1 vote and “JUDY FARGUHAR” coming in as runner up. This year’s show was very successful with a lot of folks stopping by to visit and learn about daylilies.

Our September meeting was held at the Oxbow Park in Salina with our Silent Auction being held that evening. Election of officers was held at our October meeting at the Salina Library.

Our next meeting will be December 9th at the Sa-lina Public Library. This is our Christmas potluck without a formal meeting. Our officers for 2015 are as follows.

Co-presidents = Faye W. and Becky Bates Treasurer = Becky Bates Secretary = Bernice Knotts

If you are in the Salina area on a meeting night; please feel welcome to come and visit our meeting.

Central Missouri Hemerocallis Society

by Leslie Rule

We had a pretty busy year overall. Our Spring speaker was Nan Ripley from Iowa. What a joy she is! We really enjoyed her visit and presentation. We had a successful sale in May. Everyone was tired of winter and ready to get outside! The club took a trip to Homestead Farms in Owensville, MO in June. It was a beautiful day and the daylilies were blooming in profusion! August came with another good sale for us. Patti from the University of Missouri Plant Diag-nostic Clinic gave us a special presentation in Septem-

ber. She was very informative and even took home some daylilies (maybe we can start her addic-tion). For 2015, our officers will remain the same, except for the president. I will be moving out-of-state and the club will be looking for someone to replace me.

Central Oklahoma Hemerocallis Society

by Lois DeCamp

What a wonderful summer we have had here in central Oklahoma. Good rains coupled with many days of cooler than average temperatures have made for good blooms and reblooms in the daylily garden.

COHS started the summer with a local member’s tour on Saturday, June 7th. We toured four gardens including the garden of one of our youth members Michael Kowalchyk. It is always interesting to see what other members grow and how those cultivars do in our Oklahoma weather.

The Central Oklahoma Hemerocallis Society held its annual American Hemerocallis Society accredited flower show Saturday June 14th at the Will Rogers Garden Exhibition Center in Oklahoma City. The show included both on-scape and off-scape blooms. A total of 131 entries were judged.

Upcoming events:

September 13th was our annual Fall Daylily Sale held at the Will Rogers Garden Exhibition Center at 3400 N.W. 36th in Oklahoma City starting at 8:00 am until sold out.

September 19th was a potluck dinner starting at 6:00 pm at the WRGC. COHS has a Plants for Mem-bers program where members receive newer cultivars to grow for two seasons and then return the increase to the club to be auctioned at the September meeting. There is always lively bidding and fall is a great time to add some newer plants to our daylily garden.

The program included a slide show of our sum-mer travels. In addition to the Local Members tour

CLUB HAPPENINGS


and the summer Regional in St Louis, nine of our club members attended the AHS National in Asheville North Carolina. This was the first National for some of our club members and what a wonderful time we had. Beautiful scenery and gardens and wonderful cool June weather!

October 17th was a catered dinner at Will Rogers Garden Center at 6:00 pm.

November 8th will closed out our meetings for 2014. A potluck luncheon was held starting at 12:00 pm at the Will Rogers Garden Exhibition Center.

Flint Hills Hemerocallis Society

by Carla K. Bishop

The FLINT HILLS DAYLILY SOCIETY met on September 22, 2014 where our Annual Banquet was held. Thirty members gathered for social interac-tion beginning at 6:00 pm at the Senior Service Cen-ter, 4th & Leavenworth, Manhattan, KS. HyVee ca-tered the meal with herbed chicken, scalloped pota-toes, green beans, tossed salad and rolls. Create-your-own sundaes followed for the dessert.

A brief meeting was held and the budget for 2015 was presented and accepted.

Elections were held with the ballot of officers ac-cepted as presented.

President - Kathy Foster Vice-President - Chris Renner Secretary - Carla Bishop Treasurer - Ruby Zabel During the social half-hour, members voted on the

daylily photographs submitted. Winners were an-nounced and received a special daylily plant.

Drawings were conducted for plants 1.) Purchased by FHDS; 2.) Babysitting plants that were returned by members; and 3.) Member exchange plants.

Our first meeting for 2015 will be February 2.

The Greater St. Louis Daylily Society

by Kathy Krattli

In April we had Julie Covington give a very inter-esting presentation on small and miniature daylilies. That got me thinking that maybe I ought to add a few mini’s to my garden – which I have done since. She brought some with her to give out as attendance prizes.

In June we hosted the Region 11 meeting and I

think that we did a pretty good job considering we didn’t have much notice. Nikki Schmith did a smash-up job! She had to step in at the last minute for Kathy Bouman because of illness. My only regret is that our daylily blooming season was late this year so we only got to see the early cultivars in bloom. But that’s not all bad, usually we miss them completely. And most of the gardens had a lot of other beautiful perennials in bloom for the attendees to enjoy.

A few of us enjoyed being in Asheville for the

AHS National Convention. Such a beautiful area of our country!

Nichole DeVito gave our program for our Sep-

tember meeting. She is doing a lot with patterned eyes and really has come up with some beauties. After her program we had an auction of our returned gift-certificate plants as well as daylily plants that Nichole brought with her and also plants that Scott Elliott sent.

Our club’s annual picnic at Tower Grove Park

was October 4th and fun was had by all! Lots of good food as usual and we always enjoy playing “Rob Your Neighbor” with the wrapped gifts we brought. The only drawback was the very cold and windy day. We all dressed in layers but we were still cold!

Our meeting on Oct. 17th had Scott Elliott here to

give the program. Happy Holidays to all!


Mo-Kan Daylily Society by Mary Niemeyer

Mo-Kan had a successful spring plant sale and our

August 23rd plant sale held at Loose Park Garden Center was also a big success. This year we really ex-panded the use of publicity to bring more customers to the sale by putting up signs; members writing arti-cles for local garden publications; listing the event in several community calendars (including on Time Warner’s not-for-profit TV channel) and providing members with a press release and postcard size an-nouncements to distribute. We expanded the educa-tional component of our sale through more print mate-rials and audio-visual displays. Customers were able to see how to plant a daylily, learn about the different forms and varieties, see examples of garden markers, and get tips on caring for and landscaping with day-lilies.

Another form of publicity was placing an infor-

mation handout box with the plant sale postcards next to the Mo-Kan daylily display garden at Loose Park. We are very pleased by the many blooms for only be-ing the second year at the park. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that the park has a sprinkler system and the plants get plenty of sun.

Andrea Weaver was kind enough to come to Kan-

sas City in May and teach a photography class for our members. We’ll be having our annual club photo con-test at the December meeting. Mo-Kan members will also have the chance to enter the AHS photo contest and the 2015 Winter Gathering photo contest.

In September Mo-Kan participated with many

other garden clubs in a day-long Garden Faire held at the Loose Park Garden Center. Connie Snow and Carl Hamilton presented a slideshow highlighting our Re-gion 11 daylily display garden.

Dan Trimmer from Water Mills Garden in Enter-

prise, Florida was our featured guest speaker at the October 5th meeting. Along with his program was an auction of 30 of his plants. We had a full house for the meeting along with guests from the Wichita and Flint Hills clubs.

Ozark Daylily Club by Bev Long

The last six months have been busy for our club

with many events: Bob Faulkner, hybridizer from Natural Selection

Daylilies in Dayton, Ohio, was the speaker at our April 12, 2014 meeting. Bob talked about his hybrid-izing program which is dedicated to creating patterns and colors in daylilies that are not already on the mar-ket. He uses older and not widely used daylilies from his crosses and has been very successful. See for yourself at www.naturalselectiondaylilies.com Bob also told of his other hobbies – breeding roller pi-geons and making zinnia crosses.

We had a great meeting that was attended by 25

people including visitors from St. Louis and Arkansas and we even enrolled two new members!

We held our April 26, 2013 Daylily Sale in con-

junction with the Master Gardener’s Sale at the Bo-tanical Center and sold out within three hours.

With the advent of wonderful weather, our Day-

lily Garden at the Botanical Center had had one of the best bloom season’s ever. With the help of many club members and community volunteers the beds have remained clear and ready for public viewing, espe-cially on weekends.

On June 21st, ten club members toured four mem-

ber’s gardens to see the numerous daylilies in bloom and see the various gardening displays at each home.

Four of our club members attended the National

Convention in Ashville in late June and found it to be all that was promised – beautiful gardens, wonderful weather, and great fun. Additionally, we met Dennis and Sue Calbreath who were attending the convention with their Georgia Club, but have moved to Republic and are planning to be active in our club.

One of our most popular events for the past three

years has been our Daylily Display at the Botanical Center, which was held this year on July 5, 2014. We had more than 200 people view our daylily exhibit with 173 taking time to vote for their favorites. In the Daylily Garden there was a steady stream of visitors

http://www.naturalselectiondaylilies.com/


talking with club members about such topics as how to get a new daylily, different styles of daylilies, when do we have sales, how did we become a display gar-den, and how to care for daylilies. As a result of the display, Frieda Alexander was interviewed by channel 10 TV station, and the club gained publicity from two TV channels. Due to all of these activities, we met our goal of educating Springfield about daylilies.

Since July we have had many garden work days

and many club members and community volunteers including MSU students have helped care for the beds at the garden.

Daylily Popularity Poll Results: 1. 31 votes - Sunday Sandals - Grace-Smith

2003 2&3. 17 votes each - Stargate E. Shooter 2000

and Charlotte Thomas S. Holly 2012

Officers: President: Cindy Arrowood 417-881-5996 [email protected] Vice President: Becky White 417-891-2195 [email protected] Secretary: Bev Long 417-886-7939 [email protected] Treasurer: Bi l l White 417-891-2195 [email protected] Website: www.ozarkdaylily.org

Prairie Winds Daylily Society

by Andrea Weaver

It's hard to believe, our year is quickly coming to a close! Summer is gone and fall is now upon us.

What a wonderful bloom season we had here in Wichita this year, with cooler temps and much needed moisture! Prairie Winds has been very busy, with many fun activities! In early June, we held a “Butterflies and Blooms Show”. What we lacked in the amount of blooms we more than made up for with enthusiasm from all our members. We featured many beautiful daylily arrangements, and had a marvelous guest speaker, Lenora Larson, who spoke about the marvelous benefits of encouraging butterflies to your garden. She had her audience in stitches with her

sense of humor, educating as well as making everyone laugh. Then a few weeks later, we had a Club field trip to Oklahoma to visit Bob Scott and see his gar-dens and daylilies. Everyone brought something new home with them for their gardens. Then the big events, our Region 11 Summer Meeting in St. Louis, and National in North Carolina, both well attended by our members. We have had many outstanding pro-grams at our meetings, including presentations from our own very talented members, Terry Pitts, on his hybridizing program, and Floanna Crowley on floral arrangements. We even got a little "crafty" and learned how to make hand-made paper with flower blooms! We paid a long-anticipated visit to Terry Pitts garden to see his up and coming seedlings in per-son! In September, we took another field trip to Lenora Larson's, just outside Kansas City. All of us who went thoroughly enjoyed seeing her garden, es-pecially cultivated to encourage butterflies.

In August, Prairie Winds turned six years old, and we celebrated with much laughter and birthday cake.

It's hard to say good-bye to another year and bloom season, but we'll be dreaming of next year’s blooms and all the fun we'll have!

Topeka Daylily Club by Jess Danner

. July 5 was the date of the tour of club members’

gardens. We started at Jim & Helen Fry's spacious country garden west of Rossville. Then we went to the city garden of Judy Briggs in Topeka. This was followed by the city garden of Jess & Margaret Danner and we ended with the large suburban garden of Dale & Bobbi Vail. (They sell vegetables, daylilies etc at a booth at Farmer's Market in downtown Topeka every Saturday morning.) The tour ended with a delicious dinner catered by Vail's daughter.

The next activity was the Topeka Daylily Club Flower Show. Report follows:

The Topeka Daylily Club held its annual Ameri-can Hemerocallis Society accredited flower show Sat-urday, July 12, 2014, at the Fairlawn Plaza Mall in Topeka. About 250 free daylilies were given to atten-dees.




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A total of 136 entries were judged in the horticul-ture division. The horticulture division judges were: Lois Hart, Margie Roehr, Dennis White, Marian Quinlan, Mary Lou Lundblade and Cindy Lindquist. American Hemerocallis rosettes went to:

Dale Vail, best extra large flower: BOUND-LESS BEAUTY

James Fry, best large flower: ASHWOOD DARK SIDE

Judy Briggs, best double flower: ZELLA VIR-GINIA

Chris Tyler, best spider MEMORIES OF OZ and best unusual form: SHUFFLE THE DECK

Tatiana Nicole Hulupa, best youth entry: EM-BROIDERY STITCHING

The best in show award went to James Fry for his large flower, ASHWOOD DARK SIDE. (photo - left) The sweep-stakes award went to Chris Ty-ler.

Purple ribbons also were awarded as follows: one to Dale Vail; two to Tatiana Nicole Hu-lupa; Jess Danner and Helen Fry; four to James Fry; six to Judy Briggs and eight to Chris Tyler.

The design division had twelve entries with two blue ribbons going to Floanna Crowley and

one blue ribbon and the top design award, the Tri-Color Award, going to Maggie Warren. The design judges were National Garden Club Judges: Caroline Wittman, Janette Lassiter-Smith, and Elaine Holmstrom.

The Photo Contest had 53 entries with one blue ribbon to Helen Fry and two blue r i b b o n s t o W i l l i a m Gahnstrom and one purple ribbon (the overall winner) g o i n g t o W i l l i a m Gahnstrom. Also red ribbons going to Rick Tyler, Emilie Gahns t rom and Rob in Rusco. The photo contest judges were members of the Topeka Camera Club.

The Peoples Choice Award, which the public voted for their favorite entry, went to Chris Tyler for Horticulture, Jess Danner for Design and Sandy Fry for Photography.

We had attendance of about 300. We again gave away free daylilies to those who voted for People's Choice Awards. We also sold daylilies to cover ex-penses. The mall provided space for the judges and workers lunch as well as for the show and tables and chairs at no expense.

Our third event was our annual plant sale held Saturday, August 16, 2014 at the Farmers Market in Topeka. Our chairmen were Jim and Helen Fry. We had cleaned and tagged plants the previous Thursday and Friday at Rick Knight’s. By Saturday we had a break in the heat, with light showers which made the day great for the sale. We very nearly sold out and had a very successful sale. We sell bare root and had a photo album of photos of those cultivars whose names were turned in early by members. Our prices were 1/2 Eureka, with minimum of $5.00 for yellow and orange, $6.00 for everything else. We had tables broken down into basic colors, a double table, and spiders and unusual forms table. Our gross income was $4354 and net was $3723.55. Our main expenses were booth rental and Kansas sales tax.

Tri-Color Winner Maggie Warren


Tulsa Area Daylily Society by Susan Snodgrass

In the spring we hosted booths at the

Tulsa Garden Center's Info Fair and the Spring Fling and also at the Tulsa Community College EcoFair.

Member Sharan Gilchrist presented an interesting and informative program on hybridizing for our June lunch time event at the Garden Center

In September we joined with three other unique gardening organizations for our bare root sale at the Tulsa Garden Center. This was an opportunity to pre-sent our plants and organization to a broader market with excellent results.

We enjoyed a presentation by Oklahoma City hy-bridizer Hugh Stout at our November meeting.

Our membership is up, we are welcoming a new President; Regina Jones and we are looking forward to an amazing year of marvelous new hybrids in 2015.

Wichita Daylily Club by Sharon Lupton

Five members of Wichita Daylily Club flew to

North Carolina to attend the National Convention. Paul Owen's place was everything he promised. Eve-rything was very tastefully done. Bob Selman and Paul Owen very generously donated the door and bus plants. All were 2013 or 2014 introductions. Selmon's place was a typical hybridizers garden, but very well organized. The rows and rows of flowers were more than beautiful.

In July the club took a day trip to Sterling, KS to see the garden and hybridizing efforts of Terry Pitts. Terry also sold and dug plants that day, and several club members took advantage of the opportunity to acquire some lovely new additions to their daylily beds. In August, we held our annual club's Birthday Dinner, with guest speaker David Niswonger. David shared photos of many of the gorgeous daylilies he has developed, as well as a great deal of information about them.

The Club held its annual sale in September, and it was a great success. At the September meeting, the

Club held a mini-auction of plants donated by one of its members. At October’s meeting, members enjoyed a PowerPoint presentation of photographs from the St. Louis Regional, which was attended by several mem-bers of the club. They reported that the gardens were great, the auction was fabulous, and a great time was had by all while seeing old friends and making new ones.

The entire Club is looking forward with anticipa-tion to hosting the 2016 Regional in Wichita. We hope that everyone in our Region and beyond will consider attending.

****Important Reminder**** 2016 Oscie Whatley Seedling Bed

Send plants as early in the Spring as you can to Richard & Jackie Longberg

10828 Southwest Blvd, Wichita, KS 67215 [email protected]

316-522-2444 home 316-619-7866 cell



BETTY MARCY – charter member of the Hemerocallis Society of Kansas City passed away May 9th at the age of 90.

Betty held various positions in the club including co-chairwoman of the first accredited flower show. Betty was Regional Publicity Director in 1989, chaired the Regional in KC in 1988 and received the Mavis Smith Region 11 Service Award at the Tulsa Regional in 2001.

She attended many national conventions and her garden was on the regional tours. Betty grew daylilies for over 40 years on her farm in Belton, Mo. Betty said she never paid over $100 for a daylily but she

never told Fred (her husband) how many $100 day-lilies she bought!

The Mo-Kan flower shows thrived with Betty, Bettye Coughenour and Betty Tevan competing for Best of Show.

When Betty moved into a patio home in 2001 she took Betty C. and Lois Hart with her to the farm to collect her 30 favorites. Low and behold the new owner had goats roaming in the yard. She had Lois guest the daylilies until she could get a new bed ready…she never did pick them up…lucky Lois. Betty had the latest collections and grew them to per-fection. We have lost another wonderful gardener….

2014 CONTRIBUTIONS TO AHS Contributions to the AHS Archives Fund In Memory of Kathy Bouman - AHS Region 11 - Gold level In Memory of Kathy Bouman - Mr. Michael Bouman - Silver level In Memory of Kathy Bouman - Greater St. Louis Day lily Society - Silver level In Memory of Kathy Bouman & Pauline Howard - MO-KAN Daylily Society - Silver level In Memory of Kathy Bouman - Ozark Daylily Society - Silver level In Memory of Kathy Bouman - Ms. Laurie Barger - Supporting level In Memory of Kathy Bouman - Central Missouri Hemerocallis Society - Supporting level In Memory of Kathy Bouman - Topeka Daylily Club - Supporting level In Memory of Kathy Bouman - Ms. Judith Harbaugh - Other Donor level In Memory of Kathy Bouman - Ms. Judy Branson Contribution to the Erin Stamile Youth Fund In honor of Meg Ryan - Lois Hart - Supporting level Contributions to the AHS General Fund 2 for 1 Matching Gift Campaign Michael & Kathy Bouman - Silver level

Brenda Jindra - Silver level Mary Lou Lundblade - Silver level In Memory of Tom Jakoplic - Prairie Winds Daylily Society - Silver level Mr. Clinton Barnes - Supporting level Lois Hart - Supporting level Mr. & Mrs. Richard McMurray - Supporting level In Memory of Betty Marcy - MO-KAN Daylily Society - Supporting level Mr. Dave Niswonger - Supporting level Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Scurlock (Kathy) - Supporting level Contribution to the Mabel Matthews Endowment Scholarship Fund Wichita Daylily Club - Silver level Contributions to the William E. Monroe Endow-ment Fund In Memory of Marilyn Lovelace & Bob Lenington Topeka Daylily Club - Silver level In Memory of Richard Dixon - Central Missouri Hemerocallis Society - Supporting level In Memory of Dean Manderscheid - Central Okla homa Hemerocallis Society - Supporting level Norma Fogelbach - Supporting level

In Memory of Betty Marcy


2015 Region 11—Officers, Committee Chairs and Liaisons

American Hemerocallis Society Officers

President Julie Covington 4909 Labrador Drive Roanoke VA 24012-8537 (540) 977-1704 [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 (760) 235-8243 [email protected]

Region 11 Director Lois Hart PO Box 100 Louisburg, Ks 66053-0100 (913) 837-5209 [email protected]

President Michael Bouman 624 Hidden Lake Drive St. Peters, MO 63376 (636) 284-7745 [email protected]

Regional Publicity Director Rick Pearce PO Box 488 Chickasha, OK 73023-0488 (405) 222-2800 [email protected]

Secretary Laura Hood 21300 Mark’s Crossing Circle Warrenton, MO 63383 (636) 887-0119 [email protected]

Treasurer Carol Schultz 1670 Welsh Lane Fulton, MO 65251 (573) 642-9706 [email protected]

Newsletter Editor Sue Calbreath 513 North Pine Avenue Republic, MO 65838 (678) 637-2059 [email protected]

Auction Chairman Lois Hart (see Region 11 Director information at the left) [email protected]

Exhibition Judges Liaison Eileen Garrison 1719 S Washington Street Clinton, MO 64735 (660) 885-2863 [email protected]

Garden Judges Liaison Diana Plahn 1911 Westview Avenue Kirkwood, MO 63122 (314) 965-5007 [email protected] Historian Brenda Jindra RR 1 Box 198 Cashion, OK 73016-9748 (405) 433-2217 [email protected]

Hybridizer Liaison Ann Redmon 2232 Cedar Acres Drive Manhattan, KS 66502 (785) 341-0705 [email protected]

New Member Liaison Susan Dorris 11 Wrenwood Court Webster, MO 63119 [email protected]

Science Liaison Dr. Steve Thien, Professor of Soils Science KSU 3400 Windsor Court Manhattan, KS 66503-0335 (785) 539-6868 [email protected] Service Award Chair Steve & Jane Amy 611 Adam Drive Wamego, KS 66547 (785) 456-7053 [email protected] Webmaster/AHS Portal Liaison John Eiseman 10133 Springwood Drive St. Louis, MO 63124-1225 (314) 991-2838 [email protected] Winter Gathering Manager Ron Azzanni PO Box 1239 Florissant, MO 63031 (314) 839-2418 [email protected]

Youth Committee Chair Terry Lopp 6910 N Anderson Road Spencer, OK 73084 (405) 399-5591 [email protected]


Looking Ahead Summer Regionals

2015 Flint Hills Daylily Society - July 10-12

2016 Wichita Daylily Club - June 24-26 2017 Central Oklahoma - June 16-18

Submission of articles, club updates and pic-tures is very important to keeping The MoKanOk Daylily interesting to all members of Region 11. Please share local happenings and items of in-terest. All submissions are given equal consid-eration and will be published if at all possible. Submit all articles and photos to [email protected]

Out of Region Subscription Rates: $18.00 per year. Please send check to the editors payable to AHS Region 11.

Editorial Policy The American Hemerocallis Society Region 11 / The MoKanOk Daylily is published for the benefit of the American Hemerocallis Society members residing in Region 11. As such, the editorial focus of the publication centers on: 1) Hemerocallis, 2) AHS and Region 11 events, or 3) Region 11 mem-bers and hybridizers.

Submissions are encouraged. The editors reserve the right to edit for space, grammar, and focus on the three criteria cited above.

Submission Deadline Issue Publication Date

March 15 Spring April 15

July 15 Summer/Fall September 1

October 15 Winter December 1

Advertising Rates:

One issue -- Full Page - $100 Half Page - $75 Quarter Page - $30

Yearly -- Full Page $250 Half Page - $200 Quarter Page - $75

Region 11 Website: ahsregion11.org

Rates and Editorial Policy

New members are eligible to par-ticipate in the AHS voucher pro-gram.

Send all dues, address changes, and membership inquiries to:

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

Make all checks payable to the American Hemerocallis Society.

Membership is on the calendar year: January to December.

Individual

One year $25.00

Three years $70.00

Youth $10.00

Life $500.00

Dual

(2 people, same household)

One year $30.00

Three years $83.00

Life $750.00

AHS Website: http://www.daylilies.org

AHS Membership


Future National AHS Meetings

2015 The Daylily Society of Greater Atlanta & The Cobb County Daylily Society, Atlanta, GA June 10-13, 2015 - Region 5

2016 The Daylily Society of Louisville and the Louisville Area daylily

Society, Louisville, KY June 29 - July 2, 2016 - Region 5

2017 The Tidewater Daylily Society (TDS), Norfolk, VA June 21-24, 2017 - Region 3

Note: Dates are subject to change.

Region 11 Club Presidents

Wichita Daylily Club Sherryl Fitzpatrick 2869 N Tee Time Court Wichita, KS 67205 316.721.4810 [email protected]

If you are not yet a Daylily E-News subscriber, you can sign up via the AHS website www.daylilies.org.

Bluestem Daylily Society Becky Bates (Co-President Faye W.) 909 Merrill Street Salina, KS 67401 785.825.2874 [email protected]

Central Missouri Hemerocallis Society Leslie Rule (moving soon) 2508 Glenn Drive Columbia, MO 65202 573.356.4000 [email protected]

Central Oklahoma Hemerocallis Society Stephen Durham 8517 Brownfield Street Norman, OK 73026 405.213.6900 [email protected]

Flint Hills Daylily Society Kathy Foster 6521 W 71st Avenue Manhattan, KS 66503 785.776.5457 [email protected]

Greater St. Louis Daylily Society Bob Riggs 7 Romaine Spring Bend Fenton, MO 63026 636.305.7948 [email protected]

Mineral Area Hemerocallis Society Bob Skaggs 5425 Peaceful Ridge House Springs MO 63051 314.706.3701 [email protected]

Mo-Kan Daylily Society Connie Snow 817 NE Orchard Drive Lee’s Summit, MO 64063 816.524.2733 [email protected] New president TBA in Jan.

Ozark Daylily Club Cindy Arrowood 3230 S Clay Avenue Springfield, MO 65807-5079 417.881.5996 [email protected]

Prairie Winds Daylily Society Andrea Weaver 1110 N Woodrow Wichita KS 67203 316.683.5877 [email protected]

Topeka Daylily Club Dale Vail 5850 SW 58th Street Topeka, KS 66619 785.862.9093 [email protected]

Tulsa Area Daylily Club Regina Jones 10013 N 108th E Ave. Owasso, OK 74055 918.609.6388 [email protected]

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



ahs national 2013 AWARDS Sharron and Harry Gregory, from Wichita Kansas, were presented the 2013 AHS Region 11 Service Award. Following is the nomination letter. “They have been active members of the American Hemerocallis Society for several years. During that time they have demonstrated their love for daylilies, educated others about cultivars and provided enthusiasm and encouragement through their local club, regional and national activities, which include the following:

1. Founding members of Prairie Winds Daylily Society 2. Served as Treasurer, Vice-President and currently President of local club 3. Editor of the PWDS newsletter The Twister 4. Organizer of “First Bloom Show” for PWDS 5. Editors of AHS Region 11 newsletter MOKANOK 6. AHS accredited garden judges 7. One of three judges for AHS Photography Contest

Sharron and Harry helped co-found the Prairie Winds Daylily Society. Sharron has faithfully served on the board as treasurer, Vice-President, and now is the current Presi-dent of Prairie Winds Daylily Society. Sharron has organized and chaired the FIRST BLOOM SHOW for PWDS. Harry is our scientific go-to-person. Harry always heads up the hands-on and the what-to-do-with-my daylily-when-I-get it home part of any PWDS event or Show. Harry publishes the club newsletter, The Twister. Harry is always willing to help other members, with everything from building projects, to digging daylilies. If anyone has a need all they have to do is ask and the Gregorys are both there to help with willing spirits. Harry and Sharron served as editors of the Region 11 newsletter MOKANOK faithfully for four years. They bravely undertook this job with no previous experience in publishing a periodical. Not only did they both persevere to learn the software, but also made great strides in the publishing end, keeping costs down while creating a dynamic and exciting newsletter. They made a great effort to meet and connect with members of the Region outside their own Club. They attended every Regional and Winter Gathering, and were such a positive influence to all. They set the bar high for future editors of the MOKANOK. Harry currently serves as one of three judges for the AHS Photography Contest. Harry and Sharron are AHS accredited Garden Judges. I can’t think of a more deserving couple to receive this Service Award than Sharron and Harry. Their contributions are a testimony to their love of Region 11 and AHS and their passion for daylilies!”

2013 AHS Photographic Awards Third Place Multi-Bloom

Lyndell’s Vanity” (Tomlinson, 2004)

-- Carl Hamilton Photo

2013 AHS Newsletter Awards

Best Article About a Hybridizer Faye Yoder, “Hybridizer Interview with Bob and Eric Tankesley-Clarke” MOKANOK Daylily,

Fall/Winter 2013

Editorial Special Award Michael Bouman, “Concepts for a ‘Garden Will’.”

MOKANOK Daylily, Fall/Winter 2013


FUTURE SUMMER REGIONALS 2017

Announcing OKC Daylily Bling in 2017

Plan to participate in "OKC Daylily Bling in 2017!" The Central Oklahoma Hemerocallis Society is pleased to announce that the AHS 2017 Region 11 Summer Meeting will be held in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on Friday-Sunday, June 16-18, 2017.

Plans are well underway for great Daylily Bling in tour gardens and open gar-dens, an outstanding plant auction, interesting educational sessions, tantalizing national speakers, fun activities in Oklahoma City's wonderful Bricktown district, and other optional activities throughout the Capitol city.

Hybridizers are invited to send Daylily Seedlings for growing in the Oscie Whatley Seedling Bed, located in good sunlight. Send Seedlings for delivery on or after September 25, 2014, to: Laurie Barger, Barger Garden of Hope, 2004 Rolling Creek Road, Edmond, OK 73034, [email protected], 405-341-6369.

Hybridizers are also invited to send Daylily Guest Plants for growing in the 2017 Summer Meeting tour gardens. Send Guest Plants for delivery on or after Sep-tember 25, 2014, to: Clint Barnes, Prairie Lace Gardens, 13991 N. 2220 Road, Hobart, OK 73651, [email protected], 580-682-0955.

All plant shipments should include the hybridizer name and contact informa-tion, each plant's name or seedling number, and directions for disposition of the plants after the 2017 Summer Meeting, especially if not intended for donation to the host gardener.

The Chair of the 2017 Summer Meeting is: Emily Elliott, PO Box 119, Pawnee, OK

2015 Fantasy in the Flint Hills

The 2015 Regional Meeting is scheduled for July 10-12, 2015 in Manhattan, Kansas. David Kirchhoff of Daylily World http://www.daylilyworld.net will be the guest speaker. The theme has been selected by the members to be “Fantasy in the Flint Hills”. Six wonderful gardens will be on tour-- several have not been on tour previ-ously. We promise a fun visit to the Flints Hills of Kansas! More information to fol-low as we get closer,

Steve Amy, Chairperson, 2015 Region 11 Summer Meeting



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