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Spring 2015 Vol. 8, Issue 1

in the Great Northeast

American Hemerocallis Society Region 4, Inc.

Inside:

2015 Region 4 Summer Meeting

Region 4 Photo Contest

Pop Poll Ballot

Connecticut • Maine • Massachusetts • New Brunswick • Newfoundland & Labrador • New Hampshire • New York • Nova Scotia • Ontario

• Prince Edward Island • Québec• Rhode Island • Vermont

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2014 AHS Region 4 Award Winners

Honorable MentionH. ‘Itsy Bitsy Spider’ (Bishop, H. 1990 )photo: Linda Kozloski

AHS Garden Judges support the AHS and hybridizers by voting for quality daylilies through the AHS Awards and Honors system. If you would like to learn how you can become a garden judge, please contact the Region 4 Garden Judge Liaison, Gary Jones at [email protected] or by contacting any of the garden judge instructors listed on page 3.

Honorable MentionH. ‘Victoria Park’ (Culver, B. 2002)photo: Charlotte Chamitoff

Above, members of AAHQ at a Garden Judge 2 Workshop at Roger-Van Den Hende Botanical Garden, Québec. Photo: François Paris

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AHS Region 4 Garden Judges

Scan the QR (Quick Response) Code at right with your smartphone and you’ll be taken directly to the AHS Region 4 Website!

Become a Garden JudgeA Garden Judge Workshop 2 will be held on July 19 during the Region 4 Summer Meeting in Connecticut. See pages 10-11 of this issue for more information on the Regional Meeting.

Join us!

CANADANova ScotiaBARBARA BIGELOW 2018CECIL DUNLAP 2018LILLIAN DUNLAP 2018BRAINARD FITZGERALD 2018DOREEN FITZGERALD 2018CAROL HARVEY 2018CORAL A KINCAID 2015KIM LIPSCOMB 2017 INORMAN PATTON 2018LOUISE PLOURDE 2019DAVID TROTT 2018MARY TROTT 2018

OntarioMURRAY BRUNSKILL 2016FAYE COLLINS 2015BRYAN CULVER 2018BRIAN DERRAH 2015ROSS DETTWEILER 2016JANE FISH 2016BETTY FRETZ 2015DAVID JEWELL 2018BRIAN JONES 2016DAVE MUSSAR 2018 IWENDOLYN NICHOLDS 2019KELLY NOEL 2016BRIAN SCHRAM 2016SALLY STELTER 2019GIL STELTER 2018MAUREEN STRONG 2019CHERYL TAYLOR 2016BARBARA WHITE 2018

Prince Edward IslandNANCY OAKES 2015

QuébecROBERT BEAUDOIN 2019JOCELYN BLOUIN 2018SYLVIE CHAMPAGNE 2020PIERRE FAGIOLO 2019DANIEL LIPPÉ 2019JUDITH MERCIER 2020FRANÇOIS PARIS 2018JOSETTE RATTÉ 2019LAURENT SAVOIE 2019RENÉE THIBAULT 2019

CONNECTICUTRUSSELL ALLEN 2016HELENE A FERRARI 2017RICH HOWARD 2018GARY M JONES 2017 I **DONALD P SMITH 2017NANCY SMITH 2017

MASSACHUSETTSEMMANUEL BAGHDAYAN 2018BOBBIE BROOKS 2017GAIL BUCKLEY 2018KARIN COOKE 2016GEORGE A DOORAKIAN 2019PAULA DOORAKIAN 2018ELIZABETH (NIKKI) DRICKEN 2019MARY COLLIER FISHER 2015 IZACHARY HICKEY 2019MIKE HUBEN 2017 IADELE KEOHAN 2018 ISALLYANN KING 2019ELLEN LAPRISE 2015DONALD K MARVIN HCURTIS NOEL 2019ROBERT SOBEK HKATHLEEN VIAMARI 2015DARLYN S WILKINSON 2018

MAINEPATRICIA BOISSONNEAULT 2017LISA D BOURRET 2017PAUL BOURRET 2017 IDOTTIE HOKKANEN 2016ROB LAFFIN 2019LISA LIPOMI 2019EDWARD NORTON 2017PATRICIA NORTON 2017THOMAS RICCIO 2019SUSAN SHAW 2016

NEW HAMPSHIREDOROTHY (DOTTIE) DEWITT HCAROLYN DICKEY 2018JOHN DICKEY 2018CARL D HARMON 2018CAMERON STERN 2019KIMBERLY WALTERS 2019 I

NEW YORKMELODYE CAMPBELL 2018GRACE CANHAM 2015

SHIRLEY CAPPIELLO 2018FRANK H CHALOUPECKY 2018 ILAURA C CHALOUPECKY 2018 IDEBI CHOWDHURY 2015LESLIE FRIEDMAN 2018CAROL HAJ 2016ANTHONY HAJ 2018PAUL LIMMER 2015JOAN-ANN LUNDIN 2017LUANNE MADDEN 2016MELANIE MASON 2016 IPAM MILLIKEN 2016GENE A MOGLIA 2015LOUISE PELUSO 2015CHRISTINE PETERSEN 2017 IJACK PINE HANTOINETTE RAIMONDI 2017DOUGLAS RAIMONDI 2017GEORGE RASMUSSEN 2015 IJOAN RASMUSSEN 2015GEORGE RIEHLE 2018JAMES ROBINOWITZ 2015KATHY ROOD 2016TOM ROOD 2016 IDONALD SALHOFF 2016PATRICIA SALHOFF 2016ROBERT SAVAGE HCHRISTL SCHMIDT 2019JOAN TURANO 2017MARGARET WALRATH HCYRIL WELLER 2015WILLIAM WURSTER 2019CAROLYN YOUNG 2016CHARLES JR ZETTEK 2016JUDITH ZETTEK 2017

RHODE ISLANDPATSY CUNNINGHAM 2019RACHEL FLAKSMAN 2015KATHERINE REED 2019 I

VERMONTCHARMAINE RICH 2016

LEGEND20XX = GJ Status expirationI = Instructor ** = Regional Garden Judge LiaisonH = Honorary

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American Hemerocallis Society OfficersNational President

Julie Covington

4909 Labradore Drive

Roanoke, VA 24012-853

[email protected]

Executive Secretary

Pat Mercer

PO Box 10

Dexter, GA 31019

[email protected]

Editor, The Daylily Journal

Meg McKenzie Ryan

1936 Wensley Avenue

El Centro, CA 92243

[email protected]

AHS Region 4 Director

Melodye Campbell

21 Ambleside Drive

Fairport, NY 14450

[email protected]

Region 4 Officers and LiaisonsRegional President (RP)Kim Walters154 Main St.Sandown, NH [email protected]

Regional Publicity Director (RPD)Dave Mussar4083 Watson Road South,Puslinch, OntarioCanada N0B [email protected]

Regional SecretaryPat Wessling 21 Pinehurst Drive Wareham, MA [email protected]

Regional TreasurerDan PessoniP.O. Box 1083East Orleans, MA [email protected]

Regional EditorAdele Keohan304 Lowell StWakefield, MA [email protected]

Region 4 WebmasterKelly Noel19 Orville Kemp StOttawa, ON K1T [email protected]

Region 4 Garden Judge LiaisonGary Jones40 Woodstock MeadowsWoodstock, CT [email protected]

Region 4 Exhibition Judge LiaisonElliot Turkiew11 Edward StreetBethpage, NY [email protected]

Region 4 Scientific LiaisonSue BergeronRR3 Almonte OntarioK0A 1A0 [email protected]

AHS Endowment Fund Liaison-open

Youth LiaisonElliot Turkiew11 Edward StreetBethpage, NY [email protected]

American Hemerocallis SocietyMembership RatesIndividual (1 year) $25.00Individual (3 years) $70.00Dual Membership (1 year)* $30.00Dual Membership (3 years)* $83.00Life Membership $500.00Dual life Membership $750.00Youth $10.00

* Dual membership means two persons living in the same household.

Dues are to be paid by January 1 of each year.Make checks payable to the AHS and mail to AHS Secretary, Pat MercerP.O. Box 10Dexter, GA 31019

or pay online at http://www.daylilies.org/AHSmemb.html

The AHS Region 4 Newsletter is presented herein as a ser-vice to Region 4 Members and is not necessarily endorsed by the AHS or by the editor. Rights to material published in this newsletter remain with the author; to reprint or otherwise reproduce material published in this newsletter, please obtain permission from the author.

The American Hemerocallis Society, Inc. is a non-profit organization. Said corporation is organized exclusively for educational and scientific purposes, and especially to pro-mote, encourage and foster the development and improve-ment of the genus Hemerocallis and public interest there-in. The purposes are expressly limited so that AHS qualifies as an exempt organization under section 501 (c)(3) of the Internal revenue Code of 1954 or the corresponding provi-sion of any future U.S. Internal Revenue Law.

On the cover:

The garden of Pat Sayers

Photo: Chris Petersen

Editorial PolicyThe editorial focus of this publication centers on the genus Hemero-callis, AHS and Region 4 events, Region 4 members and hybridizers.Submissions are encouraged. The editor reserves the right to edit for space, grammar, clarity and content. Submission GuidelinesPlease submit: • High resolution photographs• Reports on Region 4 club news and events• Articles on daylilies• Garden write ups• Non-commercial profiles on Region 4 hybridizersSubmit material via email. Please send text as a file attachment in Word. Send photographs as separate attachments. Obtain copyright/consent form from editor, sign and return.If you have inquiries regarding submissions, articles, photos or correc-tions, please email the Region 4 Newsletter Editor at [email protected] or call 781-245-7551.


Daylilies in the Great NortheastSpring 2015 Vol. 8, Issue 1

Connecticut • Maine • Massachusetts • New Brunswick, Newfoundland & Labrador • New Hampshire • New York • Nova Scotia • Ontario • Prince Edward Island • Québec • Rhode Island • Vermont

Subscription and Advertising RatesOut-of -Region Subscriptions:$10 per year in USA$12.50 per year outside of USMake checks payable to AHS Region 4 and mail to Region 4 treasurer:Dan PessoniP.O. Box 1083 East Orleans, MA 02643

Advertising:Rates for inside pages B&W ColorFull page.......................................$85 $175 Half Page......................................$50 $100Quarter Page..............................$30 $50Make checks payable to AHS Region 4 and send it with your

advertising request to the Editor.

AHS Honorable Mention winners....................................................... 2

2014 R4 Garden Judges..................................................................... 3

Region 4 Officers and Liaisons........................................................... 4

Reports from the Region 4 Officers.................................................... 6-7

Region 4 Financial Report................................................................. 8-9

2015 Region 4 Summer Meeting in CT................................................ 10-11

2015 R4 Exhibition Judges................................................................. 12

AHS Youth News .............................................................................. 12

Can-Am Classic Registration Form..................................................... 13

AHS Region 4 Display Gardens........................................................... 14

Newsletter Survey............................................................................ 15

Region 4 Photo Contest Rules ........................................................... 16

Ballot for election of Region 4 President............................................. 17

Regional Service Award: Coral Kincaid ............................................ 18

2014 Popularity Poll Ballot............................................................... 19

Calling all Region 4 Hybridizers...................................................... 20

Photos to daydream by................... ................................................20-21

Eyes on Don Stevens by Rachel Flaksman......................................... 22-23

Region 4 Club News........................................................................ 24-32

2016 Region 4 Meeting announcement ........................................... 32

Featured Region 4 Garden-Pat Sayers ............................................. 33-35

Quest for the Perfect Little Daylily .................................................. 36-38

Welcome New Region 4 Members ................................................... 38

Region 4 Local Organizations.......................................................... 39

Advertisements

Harmon Hill Farm, Hudson, New Hampshire .................................... 9

Thanks to all who sent submissions for this issue of Daylilies In The Great Northeast as well as those

who offered advice and support!

A special thanks to the following people for their invaluable help and assistance:

Jocelyn Blouin Marlene HarmonMelodye Campbell Pat Mercer Mary Collier Fisher Chris Petersen Rachel Flaksman Pat SayersCharlie Zettek

Thank you!

Proofreaders: Jocelyn Blouin, Mary Collier Fisher.

Table of Contents

Submissions Deadline for Fall Issue: October 1


AHS Region 4 Officer ReportsDirector - Melodye CampbellNews from the AHS Boardroom

The Fall 2014 AHS Board of Directors meeting was held in Louisville, KY (the location of the 2016 National Convention). After a full day of going over committee reports, the cultivar award winners for 2014 were announced. It’s always an exciting time for me, especially when some of our Region 4 hybridizers win awards. For 2014, Harry Bishop’s adorable ‘Itsy Bitsy Spider’ and Bryan Culver’s stellar performer, ‘Victoria Park’ won Honorable Mention Awards. These awards will be presented at the National Convention in Atlanta.

More about the Board meeting . . . the AHS has a new publication, An Illustrated Guide to Daylilies. This new publication is a revision of the old AHS classic, with up-to-date information. I ordered my copy as soon as it was available and take my word for it, you will want this book! In addition to all the updated information about growing daylilies, it is full of beautiful full color photography, many of which are from our own Region 4 members. There is a special club price, be sure to take a look at the Publications section of the Members Only Portal, https://daylilies.site-ym.com/default.asp?page=Books. Plans are underway to publish other similar publications, an update of the Spiders and Unusual Forms book that was published many years ago and also one on Doubles. Finally, for all our exhibition judges, Region 2 Director, Nikki Schmith, is working on exhibition judges training videos. The Board was treated to a viewing of Part 1 and once these videos are completed, they will be a great teaching tool for our instructors and very informative for the student judges.

Now onto a Regional matter, for the past few years, club contributions from public plant sales have decreased significantly. One issue of the Region 4 newsletter costs about $4000 and our current income from club public plant sales doesn’t even cover the cost of just one issue. In the last few years we have been using money from the regional bank account to cover the shortfall, but it is not fiscally responsible to continue to do so. What are our options? We need your input about YOUR newsletter, so please take a few minutes and fill out the survey on page 15 You can also submit the survey electronically. Just go to

this link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YRM6TT6

By the time you read my letter, I hope we’re on our way to a great gardening season. Hope to see you at the Can-Am in May, at the Region 4 summer meeting or at the National!

Mel

Regional President - Kim WaltersI hope by the time everyone is reading this, all the

snow we have is melting. They say Spring is coming. I’ll believe it when my little car can make it out of my driveway.

Assuming the snow melts by May, I’ll be heading to The Can Am Classic. They always have first rate speakers and a fabulous plant auction. I arrive in time for the open dinner across the street and always stay for the optional Saturday night dinner. At meals or in the hospitality suite, there are opportunities to have conversations with other daylily enthusiasts. The National is once again off -peak. It will be in June in Atlanta, Georgia. I always have a great time at the National. It’s great to see daylilies in bloom in early June, and we won’t miss any of our bloom season here.

Don’t forget about the 2015 Region 4 Peak Bloom Regional hosted by the Connecticut Daylily Society. There will be garden tours, an auction, friends and a lot of fun (see elsewhere in the newsletter for details and registration form). I’ll never forget the last CDS Regional; it was a dear friend’s first event. Now she goes to many events. A regional is a little like a cat, one leads to another and another….

In 2016 NEDS will step up to host the peak bloom regional. We are still looking for clubs to host in 2017 and beyond. The region will help in any way possible so even the smaller clubs can host a regional. We can do as much or a little as you like on the regional level. If all you have are tour gardens, we can do the rest.

Garden Judges will be sent renewal forms if your term is up this year. You can re-fresh at the National or Regional. Remember to email or snail mail me your renewal forms.

Regional Publicity Director- Dave MussarAs I write this message we are in the throes of yet

another deep freeze and while we have more than


AHS Region 4 Officer Reportsenough snow cover we have not been as “blessed” as our friends on the east coast or in the Buffalo area. As hard as it may be to imagine now the calendar tells me that the official start to spring is only a month away, spring training for baseball is about to start so it does seem that spring is on its way despite all evidence to the contrary.

Many of us have spent hours drooling over the latest introductions and have inflicted some damage to the bank account. Visions of new blooms, new seedlings and new acquisitions are dancing in our heads replacing those of sugar plums that held residence there not so long ago. It is time now to start to plan your daylily excursions for the upcoming season. Kicking off the season is Region 4’s Can-Am Classic at a new location in Mississauga Ontario the weekend of May 1st – 3rd. There is a great line up of speakers many making their first appearance at the Can-Am Classic. See the ad in this issue for further details.

The AHS National convention will be held in Atlanta Georgia, June 10th – 14th. Registration is limited to 600 attendees and is filling up quickly so if you plan to go please get your registration in quickly. The Region 4 Summer Meeting will be hosted by the Connecticut Daylily Society with the theme of Celebrating 25 Years of Flowers and Friends. This will be a great event with fabulous gardens to see. The more the merrier so see if there is interest in a group from your club attending. Many friends car-pool or take a bus and group road trips are always a good time! Hope to see you there.

In this issue you will also see the ballot for the Region 4 Popularity Poll for 2015. The ballot includes all cultivars that received 3 or more votes last year. Every Region 4 member may vote for up to 10 cultivars which may include up to 5 write-in cultivars. Each year a number of write-in cultivars receive sufficient votes to become part of the ballot the following year and several newer cultivars are reaching the top 10 in terms of popularity. We are looking for your favourite garden performers, the ones that you would recommend to others in our Region. Growers do look at the results from all the AHS regions and while there are always regional favourites it is not surprising that certain cultivars are top favourites regardless of where they are grown.

Attention all Facebook members! AHS Region 4 is on Facebook. There is a Facebook page for the Region but even better there is an AHS Region 4 Group. The

group allows us as Region 4 members to promote our club activities, regional events, promote our gardens and plants to others within the Region and just to have constructive dialogue. Please search for the AHS Region 4 group and send a message that you would like to join. Membership is restricted to Region 4 members alone.

Regional Editor - Adele KeohanHello! Bonjour! Greetings from Massachusetts,

where five consecutive weekends of snowfall have left my garden four feet under. I await the spring and hope that the snow will melt and disappear altogether by May.

While we wait for spring to arrive, we can look forward to attending some excellent Region 4 events in 2015, such as the Can-Am classic in May (see page 13) and the 2015 Region 4 Summer meeting in July which will be hosted by the Connecticut Daylily Society (see page 10).

Printing costs are dear and so we ask you to give us feedback regarding the method by which we should make the Region 4 Newsletter, Daylilies in the Great Northeast, available to region 4 members. Please take the survey found on page 15 and let us know what you think is best.

There are two ballots in this issue: the 2015 popularity poll ballot on page 19, and the ballot for the election of a new Region 4 President which can be found on page 17.

In this issue, we have three wonderful articles by Region 4 members: Rachel Flaksman’s article on Don Stevens (page 20); and the featured Region 4 Garden of Pat Sayers in New York (page 31), and Charlie Zettek’s article about Region 4 hybridizers’ efforts to breed “little” daylilies (page 34). I hope you enjoy these features. As always, you can find news from many clubs in Region 4, and contact information from Region 4 organizations and Region 4 officers.

Once again, I’m looking for submissions to the Region 4 photo contest (rules on page 16)) and daylily-related articles by members of region 4. This is your newsletter, Region 4, and I hope you will share your daylily stories and adventures with others. You are most welcome to send these my way at [email protected] thanks, Adele


Region 4 Financial ReportAMERICAN HEMEROCALLIS SOCIETY REGION 4

Statement of Income and Expenses January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2014 Respectfully submitted, Dan Pessoni, Region 4 Treasurer

Funds available on January 1, 2014 - $32,015.88

INCOMEClub Sales:BADS $ 400.00CDS 500.00FIELDS 329.65HADS 700.57HVIDS 50.00LIDS 500.00NEDS 499.00NSDS (includes $647.83 from 2013) 1,006.89ODS 675.00 $ 4,661.11AHS Postage Reimbursement $1,911.80Subscriptions 10.00Newsletter Ads 100.00 Region 4 Picnic 740.00Auction 585.30 TOTAL INCOME $8,008.21$5,000 transferred from DWS Money Market to Checking Account

EXPENSESReg. Director $ 1,250.00Reg. President 750.00RPD 500.00Newsletter Editor 500.00Insurance 234.35Newsletter 6,874.00US/Canadian Postage & Mailing Service 2,997.11Indiana Entity Filing Fee 7.14Web Hosting 61.00Region 4 Picnic 637.69 TOTAL EXPENSES $13,811.19

NET LOSS - $ 5,802.98

Assets: Cape Cod 5 Checking Account $ 3,693.14 Interest earned - $1.92

DWS Money Market $22,535.10 Interest earned - $13.42Funds available on January 1, 2015 $26,228.24

Youth Funds Available 2014 (CDS) $530.00 (Included in General Funds)


Carl & Marlene Harmon49 Ledge Road

Hudson, NH 03051603-880-6228

[email protected] Hill Farm

Over 3,500 cultivars on display and 1,000+ varieties listed for sale

Currently taking Canadian orders to hand deliver or mail from Canada at the CAN -AM - 1 May 2015.

We are the new introduction source for Huben, Sobek, Matzek, Maher and L. Jones.

See our pricelist at www.harmonhillfarm.com

Region 4 Financial ReportAMERICAN HEMEROCALLIS SOCIETY REGION 4

Budget – Calendar Year 2015INCOMEClub Sales & Convention Contributions $6,220.00AHS Newsletter Reimbursement 2,000.00Newsletter Advertisements/Subscriptions 300.00Interest 15.00

$8,535.00

EXPENSESDirector $1,250.00RVP 750.00RPD 500.00Newsletter Editor 500.00AHS Insurance 250.00Newsletter 3,500.00US/Canadian Postage & Mailing Service 1,500.00Awards 125.00Website 60.00Miscellaneous (Supplies, mailings, software) 100.00

$ 8,535.00


2015 Region 4 Convention in CTThe Connecticut Daylily Society welcomes you to attend on July 17, 18 and 19!

CDS is celebrating its 25th birthday this July, and we invite all of Region 4 to be part of the festivities! Please join us for an extraordinary weekend of fabulous tour gardens, fun-filled banquets, lively auction excitement, boutique treasures, exhibition judge clinics, garden judge workshops, open gardens and more!Home base is the Springfield/South Enfield, CT Holiday Inn. Make plans to attend, and be sure to contact the hotel directly and soon, as our block of specially-priced rooms will go fast. The convention room rate of $105 includes a full hot buffet breakfast. See our registration form opposite for more details. The inimitable Paul Owen will be our guest speaker and auctioneer. Paul’s reputation of keeping it lively is renowned, and you won’t want to miss a moment of the fun!

Friday: Registration, Banquet, Auction and more on Friday.

Saturday: Tour gardens will include Terrace Hill Farm, the home of Cheryl Fox and Philip Douville, in Bloomfield, CT. Connecticut Daylily and the garden of Richard Howard in Wallingford, CT. The gardens of Peggy and Roland Corbeil of Wilbraham, MA. Knoll Cottage Daylilies, the garden of Lori-Ann Jones, in Southampton, MA.

Sunday: Visit open gardens and area attractions at your leisure.

Donations appreciatively accepted for our live auction, silent auction, and bargain daylily table. Please email Charmaine Rich at [email protected]

For further information, event updates and much more, please go to http://cdsregional.weebly.com

Convention HotelHoliday Inn Springfield/Enfield You must make your own reservations before June 17, 2015 to receive the special nightly rate of $105.00 (plus applicable CT taxes). Don’t delay, as these specially priced rooms, as well as the hotel’s regularly priced rooms, are limited and could sell out.Call the Holiday Inn at -860-741-2211 or reserve online at: http://bit.ly/1rQbfbO

Our group name for reservations is:Connecticut Daylily Society Our group block code is: LIL

Guest Speaker and Auctioneer, Paul OwenSlightly Different Nursery, Shelby, NC


CDS…Celebrating 25 Years of Flowers and Friendship

Region 4 Summer Meeting July 17 – 19, 2015Holiday Inn Springfield/ South Enfield, 1 Bright Meadow Boulevard, Enfield, CT 06082

Registration includes bus trips, open gardens, Friday and Saturday evening dinners and Saturday boxed lunch. Contact hotel directly for special room rates. Mention Connecticut Daylily Society, block code - LIL

Please mail this form with payment to Cheryl Fox, 27 Duncaster Road, Bloomfield, CT 06002

Checks payable to Connecticut Daylily Society. Regretfully, we are unable to accept electronic payment. Cancellations received by June 16 will receive full refund. More information at http://cdsregional.weebly.com/

Yes, I will attend! Please find my enclosed payment of _________________________________(in U.S. dollars)

____$120.00 (U.S. Dollars) Registration per person received BEFORE June 16, 2015

____$140.00 (U.S. Dollars) Late Registration per person received after June 16, 2015

____$100.00 (U.S. Dollars) Youth Registration

Name:__________________________________________(Name 2):__________________________________

Street: ___________________________________________Email Address: _____________________________

City/State/Prov.:____________________________________Zip:__________Phone:_____________________

Please indicate your menu selections by circling your three choices below:

Friday DinnerBaked Scrod, Ritz Cracker Crumbs ~ Chicken Florentine ~ Sliced Roast Sirloin, Brandied Peppercorn Sauce

Saturday DinnerTraditional Chicken Parmesan ~ Apple & Cranberry Stuffed Pork Tenderloin ~ Tortellini Primavera

Saturday Boxed LunchSmoked Turkey, Swiss, Dijonniase & Romaine on French Bread ~ Chicken Tarragon & Avocado wrapTomato, Mozzarella & Pesto on French Bread ~ Roast Beef, horseradish cream & watercress on French bread

We will inform the hotel/caterer of dietary restrictions. Please

specify:___________________________________

Exhibition Judge Clinics and Garden Judge Workshops: Optional; please indicate if you expect to attend.

Exhibition Judge Clinic 1_____Clinic 2_____Clinic 3______Garden Judge Workshop 1_____Workshop 2______

$5.00 Clinic/Workshop fee will be collected at the door. Each attendee should obtain a copy of AHS Garden Judges found on the AHS Members Portal and review the material beforehand.


There are a lot of fun and exciting opportunities for our Youth Members in the AHS! Youth members, have you visited the Youth Group on the AHS members only Portal at http://www.daylilynetwork.org ? To participate, you must sign on to the Portal with your membership number and password. If you have any problem signing on, contact the Youth Chairperson, Kathy D’Alessandro *The Youth News is a newsletter for AHS youth members. It is issued two times per year; spring/summer and fall/winter. If you do not receive your copies, please contact the Youth Chairperson.

Spring Surprise Contest - January 1 to June 1Send your name to the *Youth Chair for a chance to win a surprise gift. A drawing will be held June 2, 2015.Entries can be sent by regular mail, email or the Portal’s message center. Multiple entries will be accepted, but not more than one per month. *Youth Chair, 2076 Silo Lane, East Greenville, PA 18041, [email protected]

BINGO on the AHS Portal – March 1 to September 1Perform the required tasks in the Youth Group to obtain the letters B I N G O.Repeat the process to obtain more BINGO’s.

The one with the most BINGO’s is the winner.There will be a second and third place too.Prize daylilies donated by Mike & Sandy Holmes of River Bend Daylily Gardens. Official rules are posted on the Youth Group homepage, www.daylilynetwork.org

Important Deadlines: Christine Erin Stamile youth award application period - January 1 to March 31 Bertie Ferris scholarship application period - January 1 to March 31 Mabel Matthews scholarship deadline - April 1

Contest, award and scholarship requirements appear on the AHS website www.daylilies.org

Region 4 Youth News Submission Guidelines: Reports about and by Youth Members, Youth awards and achievements. Interviews with hybridizers. Articles about daylilies and hybridizing. Contact the editor with questions. Photo Consent Forms: A photo release form must be on file with AHS as well as a minor consent form. Contact the Region 4 Newsletter Editor for this form, complete and return. Deadline for submissions to this column is October 1 for the Fall 2015 issue.

AHS Region 4 Youth News

AHS Region 4 Exhibition JudgesThis list of Exhibition Judges was provided by AHS Exhibition Judges Records Chair, Joann Stewart.

To contact any of the Exhibition Judges listed below, please email your Regional Exhibition Judge Liaison, Elliot Turkiew, at [email protected]

CANADANova ScotiaYVONNE CHUTE Student 2015 BRAINARD FITZGERALD Student 2015 DOREEN FITZGERALD Student 2015KIMBERLY LIPSCOMB Senior 2016WENDOLYN NICHOLS Student 2017

MAINELISA BOURRET Junior 2015

MASSACHUSETTS NICK CHASE Senior 2015 MARY COLLIER FISHER Senior 2017 I CHARLES HUBBELL Senior 2015 ADELE KEOHAN Student 2015 DONALD K MARVIN 0 H DANIEL PESSONI Senior 2015

NEW YORKBARBARA BRUCE Senior 2017 LAURA CHALOUPECKY Senior 2018 FRANK CHALOUPECKY Senior 2018ANTHONY HAJ Junior 2017 CAROL HAJ Junior 2017 PAUL LIMMER Senior 2017 JOAN-ANN LUNDIN Junior 2016 LUANNE MADDEN Senior 2018 I DANIEL J. MAHONY Senior 2018 IPAM MILLIKEN Senior 2018

GENE MOGLIA Junior 2018ROBERT J. MORGENWECK Senior 2016 CHRISTINE PETERSEN Senior 2018 I ANTOINETTE RAIMONDI Student 2016 DOUGLAS RAIMONDI Student 2016 GEORGE RASMUSSEN Senior 2016 JOAN RASMUSSEN Senior 2016 ROBERT O. STANTON Senior 2018 I JOAN TURANO Junior 2016 RACHEL TURKIEW Senior 2018 ELLIOTT TURKIEW Senior 2018 I** SUSAN WEITZMAN Junior 2016

RHODE ISLANDRACHEL FLAKSMAN Junior 2017 KATHERINE L. REED Senior 2017 I

VERMONTCHARMAINE RICH Student 2015 LEGEND20XX = EJ Status expirationI = Instructor ** = Regional Exhibition Judge LiaisonH = Honorary


An AHS Region 4 Event19th ANNUAL CAN-AM

DAYLILY CLASSICMay 1 - 3, 2015

Featuring: BRYAN CULVER – Waterford, Ontario TIM FEHR – Eau Claire, WisconsinJAMIE GOSSARD – Galloway, OhioSANDY HOLMES – Bellbrook, OhioSTUART KENDIG – York, Pennsylvania BOB SELMAN – Alexander, North CarolinaPAT WESSLING – Acushnet, MassachusettsFRIDAY 7:00 p.m. - Region 4 Business Meeting8:00 p.m. - Speaker PresentationsSATURDAY 8:00 a.m. - Registration and continental breakfast 9:00 a.m. - Full day’s program of speakers, includes lunch plus: Plant Sale, Live Auction, Silent Auction, Chinese Auction and lots of fun!6:00 p.m. - Evening banquet–dine with the speakers (optional)SUNDAY 9:00 a.m. - Garden Judges’ Workshop I Registration - $100 (Cdn. or US) postmarked before April 1st; After April 1st - $110 Youth - $50Registrars: Gabriele and Ross Dettweiler5003 Fountain St. N., Breslau, Ontario N0B 1M0Phone 519-648-2408 or e-mail: [email protected] Hotel, 3670 Hurontario St., Mississauga, Ontario. L5B 1P3 (right across Burnhamthorpe Road West from Square One Mall) Phone: 905-896-1000.For further details or to register online please visit: http://www.ontariodaylily.on.ca

REGISTRATION FORM19th ANNUAL CAN-AM DAYLILY CLASSIC

May 1 - 3, 2015Please make your cheque payable to Ontario Daylily Society and mail it along with this form to: Gabriele and Ross Dettweiler5003 Fountain St. N., Breslau, Ontario N0B 1M0

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Additional registrants and their addresses: _____________________________________ _____________________________________

Early Bird registration (before April 1/15) _____ x [$100 Cdn. or US] = $_________(# of people)

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Please check here if you would like your contact information (address, phone number and email address) to show on the meeting roster list.________


The following list was compiled by Display Gardens Chair, Mary Lou Lundblade, 511 W Ness St., Valley Center, KS 67147-4920. Telephone 316-755-1964. E-mail [email protected]. This list is not an advertisement and it is not intended to serve as a mailing list but rather to provide information on the location of official AHS Display Gardens for visitation purposes. Never visit a private garden without telephoning in advance. Never let yourself into a garden if the owner is not at home. Please ask before bringing small children. Check the AHS website Home Page for updated information.

CANADANOVA SCOTIABlue Rock Gardens, Brian C. Smith, 1766 Hammonds Plains Rd., Hammonds Plains, NS, Canada B4B 1P5 [email protected] (902) 835-7469

Nova Scotia Daylilies, Coral Kincaid, 42 Pickings Lane, Upper La Have, Bridgewater, NS, B4V 2W2, Canada [email protected] (902) 543-1988

ONTARIOFloral and Hardy Garden, Betty Fretz, 6729 Leslie Lane, Moorefield, ON, Canada, N0G 2K0 [email protected] (519) 638-3937

Gryphon Gardens (Historic Garden), Gil and Sally Stelter, 7 Orchard Crescent, Guelph, ON, Canada N1E1W9 [email protected] (519) 821-9267

Barbara & Nick White, 6798 Ninth Line, RR 2, Beeton, ON, Canada L0G 1A0 [email protected] (905) 729-2718

Whitehouse Perennials, Suzanne Patry & Bruce Trites, 594 Rae Road, Almonte, ON Canada K0A 1A0 [email protected] (613) 256-3406

QUEBECHemerocallia, Michel Levesque, 5470 Louis-Badaillac, Carignan, QC Canada J3L 4A7 [email protected] (450) 447-1987

Hemerocallis Montfort, Linda Lagroix, 308 ch. Lac-Millette, Saint Sauveur, QC J0R 1R6 Canada [email protected] (450) 227-7684

Les Jardins d’ Emmarocalles, Michel Tardif & Mireille Albert1068 Route 317, Ripon, QC, Canada, J0V 1V0 [email protected] (819) 983-6476

Montreal Botanical Garden, 4101 East Sherbrooke Street, Montreal, QC, Canada H1x 2B2, [email protected], liaison Reggie Millette, 62 -7th Avenue, St. Ambroise de Kildare, QC, Canada, J0K 1C0 (450) 756-4803

NEW ENGLAND STATESCONNECTICUTCT Daylily, Richard Howard, 76 Anderson Road, Wallingford, CT 06492 [email protected] (203) 294-9520

MAINEBlue Hill Country Garden, Donald & Susan Church, 1175 Pleasant St., Blue Hill, ME 04614 [email protected] (207) 374-3580

MASSACHUSETTS

Berkshire Botanical Garden, (Historic Garden) Liaison Dorthe Hviid, Routes 102 & 183, Stockbridge, MA 01262 [email protected] (413) 298-3926

Chrusciel Gardens, Joan M. Chrusciel, 164 Brookwood Road, Hanover, MA 02339 [email protected] (781) 878-4839

Collamore Field Gardens, Janet & Stephen Tooker, 397 Tilden Road, Scituate, MA 02066 [email protected] (781) 545-5175

Driftwood Gardens, Dan Pessoni, (PO Box 1083) 4 Driftwood Lane, East Orleans, Cape Cod, MA, 02643 [email protected] (508) 255-9348

Flower Trail Gardens, Linda S. Burnett, 278 Mendon Rd, Sutton, MA 01590 [email protected] (508) 865-7971

Heritage Museums and Gardens, Grove Street, Sandwich, MA - Cape Cod, contact Liaison Leslie Nolan, [email protected] (401) 215-6419

New England Daylily Society at Elm Bank, Liaison: Barbara Provest, 13 Overbrook Dreve E, Framingham, MA 01701 [email protected](508) 877-0913

Pleasant Garden Daylilies, Sallyann & Bruce King, 111 Coventry Wood Road, Bolton, MA 01740 [email protected] (978) 779-5035

NEW HAMPSHIREBirchwood Farm, Anna R. Kay, 45 Littleworth Rd. Dover, NH 03820 [email protected] (603) 742-1991

Parsonage Daylilies, John & Carolyn Dickey, 8 High Street, (Rt. 107 & High St), Gilmanton, NH 03237 [email protected] (603) 267-6098

NEW YORKBrookside Gardens, John & Muriel Stahl, 2049 Windsor Road, Baldwin, NY 11510 [email protected] (516) 223-5007

Clark Botanic Garden, 193 I. U. Willets Road, Albertson, NY 11507, Liaison Ryan Torres [email protected] (516) 869-7637

Cobbs Hill Daylily Garden, Charles Zettek, Jr., 1 Hillside Avenue, Rochester, NY 14610 [email protected] (585) 461-3317

Cottage Gardens, Brent & Deborah Ross, 4540 East Shelby Road, Medina, NY 14103 [email protected] (585) 798-5441

Daylily Days, Deborah Landrio3261 State Hwy 29, Johnstown, NY, 12095 [email protected] (518) 762-5853

Daylily Dreams, Robert and Raphaela Consigli, 1599 Ct Hwy 33, Cooperstown, NY [email protected] (607) 547-1888

Dutch Hill Daylilies, Karen Barber, 9954 Dutch Hill Road, Fillmore, NY 14735 [email protected] (585) 567-4599

Garden of Peggy and Frank Almquist, Peggy & Frank Almquist, 107 Beth Drive, Kingston, NY 12401 [email protected] (845) 339-3671

Grace Gardens, Tom & Kathy Rood, 1064 Angus Road, Penn Yan, NY 14527 [email protected] (315) 536-2556

Hidden Harbor, Christine Petersen, 167 Asharoken Avenue, Northport, NY 11768 [email protected] (631)757-0043

Hudson Adirondack Daylily Society Display Garden, Don & Pat Salhoff (Chairmen) Cornell Cooperative Extension

of Albany County, Martin Rd., Voorheesville, NY 12186-9699 [email protected] (518) 439-1484

Lilli O’Dae Gardens, Thomas Slocum, 108 Shunk Road, Ames, NY 13317 (518) 673-2390

Limmer Garden, Paul Limmer, 214 Tinton Place, East Northport, NY 11731 [email protected] (631) 266-2728

New York Botanical Gardens, Liaison: Kristin M. Schleiter, 200th Street & Kazimiroff Blvd., Bronx, NY 10458-5126 [email protected] (718) 817-8077

Planting Fields Arboretum, Liaison Pam Milliken, Long Island Daylily Society, Planting Fields Road, Oyster Bay, NY [email protected] (516) 759-6691

QB Daylily Gardens, Dennis & Mary Quackenbush, 557 Sand Hill Rd, Caledonia, NY 14423 [email protected] (585) 538-4525

Slate Hill Farm, Craig & Mary Barnes, 203 East Broadway, Salem, NY 12865 [email protected] (518)-854-7460

Sunshine In The Garden Daylilies, Christine Quataert, 12 Saveria Dr. Hilton, NY 14468 [email protected] (585) 766-5949

Tappan Hill Gardens, Audrey Jean Zeh and Christl Schmidt, 23 Tanners Lane, Rensselaer, NY [email protected] (518) 462-3120

VERMONTCross View Gardens, Leila & Harold Cross, 1801 Lower Elmore Mountain Road, Morrisville, VT 05661 [email protected] (802) 888-2409

Holdn’ Heaven Daylily Garden, Charmaine Rich, 1383 Quail John Rd, East Thetford, VT 05043 [email protected] (802) 785-2916

2015 AHS Region 4 Display Gardens


We need your input and ideas about the future of the Region 4 newsletter!

Thank you for participating in our survey below. Possible options for delivery of the Region 4 newsletter are being explored and we need your input. From the list of options in the last question, please select the one that you would prefer. Use the comment box if you have other solutions. Please circle your answers.

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Think about how you would like your Region 4 newsletter delivered. From the list below, select your top preference.o Full color print issue in the spring. Online color fall issue. Snail mail members wouldReceive a black & white issue in the fall.o Full color spring and fall issues published online only. Snail mail members would receive black & white issues.o Print 2 black & white issues with color covers for delivery by snail mail to all members. Make full color issues available online as pdf files so they could be viewed online or printed out.o Print 2 black & white issues. Make full color issues available online as pdf files so they could be printed out. Make issues available in CD format for members without internet access.o Print 2 black and white issues with color covers for delivery by snail mail to all members.

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2015 AHS Region 4 Photo ContestThis summer, take some photos of Region 4 hybridized daylilies and Region 4 landscapes featuring daylilies and enter them in the 2015 Region 4 Photo Contest. All entries must be emailed to the editor by September 15, 2015.Photos may include: garden critters/pets, insects, garden art. Images must not include people.

Photo Contest Categories 1. Single or Multiple Blooms - may include clump shot.

2. Artistic Close-up - Be creative! Capture all or part of a daylily bloom in a photo. [At right, closeup of‘Greywoods Tallyho’ (Wilkinson, 2005) Photo by John Stahl]3. Landscape Shot - Any Region 4 garden will do, but daylilies must be featured in the photo.

Contest Rules

Region 4 AHS members of any age may enter.

Up to 6 entries total will be accepted per member.

All photo entries must have been taken by the member submitting them.

All photo entries must have been taken in 2015.

Photo Requirements

Submit high resolution, full size digital photo images in .jpg format only. Individual image size should be 1MB or larger.

Each photo submitted should be labeled as follows:

cultivar (hybridizer, year) photo[your name]

Example: Toy Trumpets (Sobek, 1984 ) photo Adele Keohan.jpg

Labeling on landscape photos: Garden name/ owner name, photo your name.jpg

Cultivar names need not be capitalized.

Use digital photography software sparingly when editing your images; please do not make alterations to your original images other than to crop or make subtle color corrections. Please do not put borders around images.

Email photo entries to : Adele Keohan, Regional Editor at [email protected]

An independent panel of three judges will consider all entries and select the winning photos. The winning photos (and other photo entries) will be published in the Fall 2015 issue of the Region 4 Newsletter, Daylilies In The Great Northeast. Photo entries may appear in a future issue of Daylilies In The Great Northeast.Submitting a photo entry grants the American Hemerocallis Society and its regions the right to republish or reprint photos in any of the newsletters or journals published by the AHS or any of its Regions; to publish such photograph(s) on any website maintained by or on behalf of AHS or any of its Regions; and to publish such photograph(s) in any other publication published by AHS or any of its Regions.

Prizes

Daylily prizes will be awarded to the first place winners in each of the three photo contest categories.

1st Place Winners of the 2014 Region 4 Photo Contest

Above, Hemerocallis ‘Yellow Pinwheel’ (Stevens, D., 1978) Photo by Jerry Gantar

Above, H. ‘Rose F. Kennedy’ (Doorakian, 2007)Photo by Claudia Conway. Below, “Garden of Pat Sayers” Photo by Chris Petersen


Region 4 Mail-In Ballot for Election of Regional

President on July 17, 2015

Nominating Committee: David Jewell (Chair), Lisa Bourret, Leslie Nolan

Nominating Committee Recommended Candidate for Regional President:

Pat Wessling, Acushnet, MA, 2-Year Term 1/1/2016 - 12/31/2017

This mail-in ballot is for election of the Regional President of Region 4 for the term of office indicated above. The ballot must be signed and returned to the Chair of the Nominating Committee, hand delivered or postmarked no later than fifteen (15) days prior to the date of the annual Regional Meeting (due Friday, July 17, 2015). The Nominating Committee shall count the ballots and ascertain that all ballots are from active members of the Region as certified by the Secretary of AHS. Those members who do not vote by mail shall have the additional opportunity to cast their vote at the annual AHS Region 4 Regional Meeting, and all balloting at the annual Regional Meeting shall be conducted by means of written ballot with space to write in the names of candidates nominated after the floor has been opened for additional nominations. The officer’s term begins January 1, 2016. Only Region 4 AHS members may vote. Mark your choice with an X for the officer to be elected by this ballot in the box below.

_________ A vote for the nominee for Regional President recommended by the nominating committee (above)

_________ ______________________________________ (Write-in candidate for Regional President)

Signature: ________________________________________________________ Date: ________________

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Ballot for Second AHS Region 4 Family Member (must be an AHS member): ________ A vote for the nominee for Regional President recommended by the nominating committee (above)

________ ______________________________________ (Write-in candidate for Regional President)

Signature: ________________________________________________________ Date: ________________

Complete and send ballot to: David Jewell, 99 Russell St W, Lindsay, Ontario K9V 2X5 [Note: extra postage necessary to Canada ]

Or scan ballot/take a photo and email to David at: [email protected]

Time to VOTE• • • • Time to VOTE• • • • Time toVOTE


Regional Service Award - Coral Kincaid

Coral Kincaid joined the AHS in 2000 and is a Life Member. She was involved in the creation of The Nova Scotia Daylily Society (NSDS), now a thriving daylily society that meets the needs of the many daylily lovers in the Atlantic Provinces of Canada. She was instrumental in helping the club grow from 6 members to over 100 members in just a few short years. I believe it is common for most if not all NSDS members to refer to her as our “resident expert.” Coral has held a position on the club Executive Board for all but one year of the NSDS existence. She has been coordinator of the club’s Babysitting Plant Program since its commencement, and for a lot of those years the committee was a committee of one! Coral organized the selection vote, purchased the plants, coordinated the distribution and maintained the records all on her own during the early years. It has just been the past 3-5 years that she was assisted by other committee members.

Coral is tremendously generous, whether it is through her day-lily sales or her generous plant donations to many causes. She has donated plants not only within the daylily community but also to many local charities such as the IWK Children's Hospital (Nova Scotia's Provincial Chil-dren's Hospital), many, many Garden Clubs within the province as well as local charities within her home town of Bridgewater. Simply put, Coral is THE Daylily “go to” person within Nova Scotia! Coral serves as a garden judge and also maintains an official AHS display garden.

Through her extensive network of friendships in the AHS, Coral brought the Nethertons from Georgia to help with the first Accredited Daylily Show and Exhibition in Canada. Coral also brought Melanie Mason to Nova Scotia as the club’s first Garden Judge Instructor.

In addition to being a founding member of the NSDS, Coral is also an active member of the Ontario Daylily Society. Despite the great distance she must travel to Ontario, she is a regular attendee at the annual CAN-AM Classic. She almost always contributes plants to the sales table...labeled, priced and with pictures no less, and is always willing to pitch in and help and make new or less knowledgeable members feel comfortable. But perhaps one of her greatest contribution to AHS and daylily culture was as editor of The Region 4 Newsletter, Daylilies in the Great Northeast. She taught herself the publishing software and put together an appealing and informative newsletter for several years.


Adorable TigerAll American ChiefAllegheny SkylineAlways a PleasureAlways AfternoonAstral VoyagerBali WatercolorBarbara MitchellBarbara WhiteBeautiful EdgingsBela LugosiBelle CookBelle of AshwoodBermuda CoralBig GeorgeBill NorrisBlueberry BreakfastBordello QueenBoundless BeautyCarnival in MexicoChristmas RibbonColeman HawkinsCreature of the NightDangling ParticipleDestined to SeeDiane CrawfordDragon SoDublin ElaineEl DesperadoElegant CandyElsie StelterEmerald StarburstEntwined in the Vine

Flying TrapezeFree Wheelin’Greywoods River DancerHeartbeat of HeavenHeavenly Angel IceHeavenly United We StandHer Best BloomersHoliday PartyIntelligent DesignIsland CardinalJade PrincessJane TrimmerJanice BrownJerry HyattJoan DerifieldJocelyn’s OddityJoshua SlocumKing GeorgeKing’s Golden TreasureLaura HarwoodMabouMargo Reed IndeedMary’s GoldMoonlit MasqueradeMystical RainbowNancy BritzNeon FlamingoNorth Wind DancerOld King ColeOrchid CorsagePatsy ClinePeggy JeffcoatPersian Ruby

Potala TapestryPrimal ScreamPumpkin PrinceRed SuspendersRed VolunteerRock SolidRose F. KennedyRuby SpiderSandra ElizabethScrambled LegsShores of TimeSkinwalkerSouth SeasSpirit FoxSpirit ZoneStella’s Ruffled FingersStrutter’s BallSummer FarewellSun PandaSuzy Cream CheeseSwallow Tail KiteTaosThe Band Played OnTruly AngelicTuscawilla TigressVatican CityVictoria ParkVictorian LaceWeb of IntrigueWebster’s Pink WonderWhite Eyes Pink Dragon

2015 AHS Region 4 Popularity Poll BallotEvery AHS member can vote for up to ten registered cultivars! Circle up to 10, or you may write-in up to five personal choices making a total of 10. Votes by email may be sent to Dave Mussar RPD at [email protected] Or submit your choices on the AHS website at http://www.daylilies.org/PopPoll/ballot.html Or by regular mail, postmarked by September 1, 2015 to either of the appropriate addresses below.

Write-in Votes Below

1.________________________________________

2.________________________________________

3.________________________________________

4.________________________________________

5.________________________________________

In the USA, mail ballot to:Kim Walters154 Main StSandown, NH 03873

In Canada, send/email ballot to:Dave Mussar4083 Watson Road SouthPuslinch, Ontario N0B 2J0 [email protected]


Calling all Region 4 Hybridizers!Calling all Hybridizers for the 2017 AHS National Convention!

The Tidewater Daylily Society (TDS) is hosting the 2017 AHS National Convention from June 21-24 in Nor-folk, Virginia. Members from all regions of the United States and the world will be coming to celebrate the daylily and enjoy the beautiful gardens of the Tidewater area of Virginia.TDS has invited all 15 AHS regions to participate in the 2017 National AHS Convention by sending them 15-25 daylilies hybridized and introduced by individuals in each region. These daylilies will be featured in Regional Display Beds at one of the national tour gardens. This is your opportunity to highlight the achievements and history of hybridizing in our region. Some of you may have seen the Women Hybridiz-ers garden in Columbus at the 2012 convention -- our vision is a garden that showcases the best daylilies from each region!The Tidewater area of Virginia is located on the Atlantic Ocean and the Chesapeake Bay, and the growing conditions fall into USDA Plant Hardiness Zones 7-8. Daylily lovers in the Tidewater area typically can grow plants hybridized in all regions of the nation, and they should be experiencing peak mid-season bloom at the time of the convention.So, how does Region 4 participate? • All Region 4 hybridizers may send up to 2 introductions for our Region 4 bed. The daylilies selected

may have won awards, may be older or newer, and may be any color, form or size. The only require-ment is that they are registered and that they were hybridized in our region.

• Melodye Campbell has notified Dianna Driver from TDS that our region wants to sponsor a Regional Display Bed at the 2017 National Convention. She will work with TDS contact, Diana Driver, ([email protected]) to coordinate delivery and return of the plants.

• Hybridizers will mail their 2 selections to Dianna Driver ([email protected]) no later than June 1, 2015. Hybridizers are also asked to develop a “fact sheet” that explains the significance of each daylily he/she selected and submit this along with the plants. TDS will be making a notebook of the “fact sheets” to display during the convention.

• Plants must be delivered or arrangements made to deliver to TDS no

Bloom season is right around the corner...Wishful thinking? Yes, but while we may be surrounded by snow it is pleasant to think and dream of the blooms we will see when spring and summer returns. Here are some photos of Region 4 hybridized daylilies for your daydreaming pleasure. Adele Keohan, editor


Opposite page: Mick Morry Seedlings, photos: Lanny Morry.

This page, clockwise from top: A George Doorakian seedling.

photo: Nick Chase; Doorakian seedling. photo: George Doora-

kian; H. ‘Greywoods Dottie Doolittle’ (Wilkinson, 2004), photo:

Betsy Thompson; ‘Jeanne Fitton’ (Rasmussen, 91). photo: John

Stahl; ‘Bruce Morgan’ (Lorrain-Lycett, 2009). photo: PeggyAnne

Pineau; ‘Windham Love Child’ (Matzek, 2006). photo” Chris

Petersen.


Eyes on Don Stevens by Rachel Flaksman, Rhode IslandDon C. Stevens,

educator, artist, and daylily hybridizer, was born April 7, 1930 in Reading, Massachu-setts and was raised in New Hampshire.

Mr. Stevens was a trailblazer who expanded the genetic potential of daylilies, greatly. His wide eyed, solid beauties were unique and initially unconventional to the hemerocallis collector. In 1970, Mr. Stevens spoke at the Science Day event of the New England Daylily Society held in

Worcester, Massachusetts, about hybridizing tetraploids, crediting breeding lines from Virginia Peck. In 1999, Sally Millman-Taft wrote to the AHS E-Mail Robin about a Region 4 daylily meeting in New Haven, Connecticut wherein Mr. Stevens gave a slideshow presentation. “Viewing all those eyed and blotched daylilies was a bit of a surprise to most of us who hadn’t seen the range and variety of that type before...” In testament to Ms. Millman-Taft’s observation, Stout Medal Winner ‘Fooled Me’ (Reilly-Hein, 1990) was from a cross of two $3 dollar seedlings that Mr. Stevens declined to keep for his breeding use. Peck’s H. ‘Dance Ballerina Dance’ was in the lineage of both seedlings.

Cultivars that interested him included ‘Rocket City’ (Har-dy, 1967), ‘Darius’ (Harris –H., 1974), and ‘Dance Ballerina Dance’ (Peck, 1976). Other hybridizers that interested him included James Marsh, Bro. Charles Reckamp, and Pauline Henry.

Mr. Stevens was awarded three Junior Citations for cultivars ‘Bandit Man’, ‘Hot Town’, and ‘Love Is’. He was awarded Honorable Mentions for the above mentioned as well as for ‘Black Eyed Susan’, ‘Classic Caper’, ‘Cool One’, ‘Flaming Delight’, ‘Holiday Delight’, ‘Looking Up’, ‘Outra-geous’, and ‘Sandra Elizabeth’. Registration is shared with Bob Seawright for ‘Jerusalem’ and ‘Margaret Seawright’, both also Honorable Mention winners.

In 1985 the American Hemerocallis Society announced the first winner of the newly established the Don C. Stevens Award for hybridizing, H. ‘Siloam Bertie Ferris’ (Henry-P., 1981). Nominated cultivars are voted on by Garden Judges only and represent what the judges believe to be the most

outstanding eyed or banded cultivar.Mr. Stevens taught reading and English in a junior high

school in Bedford, Massachusetts for 27 years. Upon re-tirement, his year was split in half; from April to October, he gardened, and in the “off –season”, October to April he was self-employed, concerning himself with custom faceting of gemstones and silversmithing for jewelry. In 1980, his garden was part of the National Convention garden tours. He became ill between the years of 1981 and 1982, but still hybridized until his last summer, 1983. Mr. Bob Seawright retained the seeds and planted them. Don Stevens passed away at the age of 53, in Reading, Massa-chusetts.

A 1952 photo of Don Stevens taken while a student at the Massachusetts Agricultural College, Amherst, MA.

Above, top to bottom: Hemerocallis ‘Bandit Man’ (Stevens, D. 1979), photo: Marlene Harmon; H. ‘Sandra Elizabeth’ (Stevens, D. 1983), photo: Chris Petersen


Eyes on Don Stevens

Top row, left to right: ‘Cool One’ (Stevens, D. 1976), ‘Margaret Seawright’ (Stevens, D. 1985). photos: Chris Petersen Middle row, left to right: ‘Outrageous’ (Stevens, D. 1978), ‘Classic Caper’ (Stevens, D. 1983). photos: Chris Petersen; ‘Holiday Delight’ (Ste-vens, D. 1978), photo: Marlene Harmon.Bottom row, left to right: ‘Sandra Elizabeth’ (Stevens, D. 1983); ‘Jerusalem’ (Stevens, D. 1985). photos: Marlene Harmon


AAHQAssociation des Amateurs d’Hémérocalles du QuébecDes nouvelles en provenance de la communauté francophone de la région 4.

Par M. François Paris et M. Jocelyn Blouin

Membres du comité administratif :Mme Judith Mercier, présidenteM. Yves Pomerleau, vice-présidentMme Sylvie Champagne, trésorièreM. François Paris, secrétaireMme Chantal Nadeau, administratriceM. Jocelyn Blouin, administrateurM. Jacques Hallé, administrateurM. Jean-Sébastien Poulin, administrateur

Membres collaborateurs:Mme Julie Chouinard, photographeMme Renée Thibault, coordonnatrice de la journée de l’hémérocalleM. Laurent Savoie, responsable de la plate-bande de démonstration

Une année 2014 bien remplie s’est terminée avec un brunch de fin de saison où M. Jocelyn Blouin nous a présenté la deuxième partie des points essentiels à l’enregistrement d’un cultivar auprès de l’AHS. Le nouveau Calendrier 2015 a aussi été présenté aux membres qui ont élu le nouveau comité d’administration de l’association.

À l’été 2014, Mme Adele Keohan nous a de nouveau fait l’honneur de sa présence. Sa visite a permis d’offrir une deuxième formation de Juges de Jardins où 6 de nos membres ont pu bénéficier de son expertise de Juge Instructeur. De nouveaux juges de jardins ont ainsi pu obtenir leur certification de l’AHS et quelques autres pourront la demander dès la fin de la présente année.

En mai 2014 quelques représentants de l’AAHQ se sont rendus à Toronto pour assister au fameux Annual Can-Am Classic, réunissant des passionnées d’hémérocalles des Etats-Unis et du Canada. Nous y avons fait de belles rencontres. Bien sûr, impossible de ne pas en profiter pour rapporter quelques trésors à la maison…

Un merci très spécial à Mme Adele Keohan qui, par sa générosité légendaire, nous a introduit à plein de gens intéressants. Merci aussi à tous ceux qui nous ont fait nous sentir les bienvenus. The Annual Can-Am Classic: une découverte et une expérience à renouveler!

Concours de l’hybride :

Cette année, les règles pour notre concours de l’hybride ont été revues. Le concours comporte désormais 2 volets. Un premier volet est destiné au Coup de Cœur 2015 où les membres présentent leurs plus beaux hybrides et où la fleur est à l’honneur. La fleur récoltant le plus grand nombre de votes venant des membres remporte le prix de 50$. Un deuxième volet récompense le plus bel hybride en tenant compte bien sûr de la fleur, mais aussi du plant et de l’embranchement. Pour cette catégorie, nous avons mis à profit les compétences de nos membres ayant réussi la formation de Juges de Jardins et de ceux étant déjà certifiés. Nos membres ont présentés 59 fleurs pour le volet Coup de Cœur 2015 et 14 hybrides pour l’Hybride de l’Année 2015. Au moment d’écrire ces lignes, la période de votation vient tout juste de se terminer. Voici donc, en primeur, nos grands gagnants 2015 :

Hybride de l’Année 2015 : M. Serge Goulet(Carefree Sunset X The Hulk)

Coup de Cœur 2015 : Mme Josette Ratté(Precious Candy X Born to Run)

Toutes nos félicitations aux gagnants et merci à tous les membres participants.

Après une année bien remplie, nous amorçons une nouvelle saison tout aussi palpitante. La vente des calendriers de 2015 est en cours et les commandes de groupe sont déjà presque terminées au moment d’écrire ces lignes.

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CONCOURS : Coup de Cœur et Hybride de l’Année : Concours présentant les plus beaux hybrides de nos membres. L’inscription est du 14 au 24 janvier 2015. La période de votation par les membres de l’AAHQ est du 7 au 15 février et le dévoilement des gagnants se fera lors de l’Héméro-Brunch en mars.

LE JOURNAL L’AMIROCALLIS : Publication annuelle d’articles de nos membres. La date de tombée pour la réception des articles est fixée au 28 février. La parution du journal est prévue pour le début mai.

COMMANDES DE GROUPE : Cette année encore, l’association facilite l’acquisition pour nos membres de magnifiques hémérocalles auprès de deux fournisseurs américains, CT Daylily et Guidry’s Daylily Garden. La date limite pour commander a été devancée au 15 février 2015.

HÉMÉRO-BRUNCH : C’est le samedi 15 mars 2015 à l’Envirotron à compter de 10 :45 que les membres sont attendus pour le lancement officiel de la saison 2015. Les gagnants du concours de l’AAHQ 2015 seront annoncés et il y aura des présentations sur la plate-bande de démonstration de l’AAHQ du Jardin botanique Roger-Van den Hende. Une nouvelle orientation de la plate-bande sera annoncée aux membres. Activité ouverte à tous (réservation requise).

BASE DE DONNÉES DE L’AAHQ : La date limite pour envoyer vos mises à jour à M. Blouin est le 15 avril 2015.

HÉMÉROCALLEMENT VÔTRE : Une nouvelle formule de rencontre/échange hybrideurs-collectionneurs sera mise de l’avant. Les membres pourront acquérir de nouvelles connaissances et échanger avec des hybrideurs-membres sur leurs pratiques. L’activité aura lieu le 29 avril 2015 et le lieu et les hybrideurs participants seront annoncés plus tard.

PLANTATION DE CULTIVARS : Le samedi 30 mai (ou le dimanche 31, date à confirmer) il y aura plantation de cultivars enregistrés par les membres et de cultivars servant à illustrer les diverses catégories d’hémérocalles, le tout en lien avec la nouvelle orientation de la plate-bande de démonstration de l’AAHQ au

Jardin botanique Roger-Van den Hende de l’Université Laval.

JOURNÉE DE L’HÉMÉROCALLE : C’est le samedi 1er août 2015 qu’aura lieu la journée de l’hémérocalle 2015 dans la municipalité de Saint-Hubert-de-Rivière-du-Loup. Nos hôtes seront Mme Gaétane Thériault et M. Antonio Morin. Rencontres, discussions, encan et divers concours au programme.

VISITE DE JARDINS : L’Équipe du CA souhaite profiter de la sortie dans la belle région de Rivière-du-Loup, pour visiter des jardins sur le chemin du retour le lendemain de la journée de l’hémérocalle, soit le dimanche 2 août 2015.

PLANTATIONS DES HYBRIDES : La plantation des hybrides à la plate-bande de démonstration de l’AAHQ du Jardin Roger-Van den Hende aura lieu le samedi 29 août 2015. Les membres pourront choisir au cours de l’été les hybrides de qualité qu’ils veulent y placer.

RENCONTRE DE FIN DE SAISON : À la fin septembre 2015 se tiendra une rencontre informelle entre les membres pour échanger sur notre saison de floraison 2015. Le lieu, la date et la forme que prendra cette rencontre seront déterminés un peu plus tard en saison.

ASSEMBLÉE GÉNÉRALE & CONFÉRENCE : C’est à l’Envirotron de l’Université Laval que se tiendra l’assemblée générale de l’association le dimanche 22 novembre 2015. Comme l’an passé, un déjeuner sera servi. Nous donnant ainsi l’occasion de se raconter d’autres belles histoires d’hémérocalles. Le bilan de l’année y sera présenté ainsi que le nouveau conseil d’administration fraîchement élu par les membres. Suivra une conférence par M. Jocelyn Blouin dont le sujet devrait porter sur la photographie.

AAHQ : Association des Amateurs d’Hémérocalles du Québec.News from our francophone community of Region 4.

By Mr. François Paris et Mr. Jocelyn Blouin

2014 has been a very important year again, ending with a presentation by Mr. Jocelyn Blouin on the second

part of essential points to register a cultivar to AHS. The new edition of the calendar for 2015 was presented and the members elected the new administrative committee.

In summer 2014, Ms. Adele Keohan honoured us with her presence for a second year in a row. Six members were trained by her expertise as a Garden Judge Instructor. Consequently, new Garden Judges received their certification from AHS and some more will be able to obtain it by the end of the year.

In May 2014 some members from AAHQ attended the Annual Can-Am Classic where daylilies lovers from both US and Canada can meet together. Meeting nice people was something we will not forget and on top of it, we couldn’t come back home with empty hands. So we brought back home some treasures…

A special thanks should be given to Adele Keohan who, with her legendary generosity, introduced us to many interesting people at the meeting. We also want to take this opportunity to thank everyone who welcomed us and made us feel at home. The Annual Can-Am Classic: has been a discovery which needs to be repeated!

Seedling Contest:

This year, rules were revisited and revised. The contest has now two different sections. Coup de Cœur 2015 is the contest where members can show the pictures of their seedlings and where the flower itself is honored. The seedling that earns the greatest number of votes from the members is recognized with a 50$ prize. The second section of the contest recognizes the flower and also the entire plant as well as the branching. For this section of the contest, AAHQ members who took Garden Judge training or those who are official AHS Garden Judges, judge the plants by viewing photos and giving points based on appropriate criteria. 59 flower pictures were presented under the Coup de Cœur 2015 and 14 for Hybride de l’Année 2015. While this report is being written, the voting period has just ended and the winners for the 2015 contest are:Hybride de l’Année 2015 : M. Serge Goulet (Carefree Sunset X The Hulk)

Coup de Cœur 2015 : Mme Josette Ratté (Precious Candy X Born to Run)


Congratulations to the winners and thank you to all participants.

After a very busy year, the next one promises to be as exciting. The sale of the 2015 calendar is already going on and the Club plants purchase is almost ended at this writing.

Programming 2015 at AAHQ CONTEST: Coup de Cœur and Hybride de l’Année: The contest presenting the best seedlings of the members. Submission of pictures for the contest from January 14 to January 24th. Voting period from AAHQ members is from February 7th to February 15th. At the Daylily Brunch on March 15th, the winners will be announced to the members.

JOURNAL AMIROCALLIS: Annual publication of articles on daylilies from members. The deadline date for text submission is February 28th. Publication should occur beginning of May.

CLUB PLANTS PURCHASE: This year again, AAHQ facilitates the acquisition of splendid daylilies for our members from two US suppliers, CT Daylily and Guidry’s Daylily Garden. The deadline to submit the orders is February 15th, 2015.

DAYLILY-BRUNCH: Saturday, March 15th, 2015 at Envirotron starting at 10:45 the members will meet and the announcement of the programs for 2015 will be revealed. Winners for the Contest will also be rewarded and a presentation at the demonstration flower bed of AAHQ at the Jardin botanique Roger-Van den Hende will take place. A new orientation of the flower bed will be presented to members. This activity is open to all (reservation required).

AAHQ DATABASE: Please submit your updates to Jocelyn Blouin no later than April 15.

HÉMÉROCALLEMENT VÔTRE: A new formula for meeting/exchanging between hybridizers and collectors will be put forward. Members will improve their knowledge and discuss with hybridizer-members on their practice. The activity will be held on April 29, 2015 but the place and hybridizers are still to be confirmed.

PLANTING OF CULTIVARS : Saturday May 30 (or Sunday May 31, date to be confirmed) The planting of cultivars registered by members as well as

cultivars which illustrate the wide variety of daylily forms is planned. This is in connection with the new orientation of the AAHQ demonstration flower bed at Jardin botanique Roger-Van den Hende of University Laval.

DAYLILY DAY: Saturday August 1st, 2015. The Daylily Day will be held in the municipality of Saint-Hubert-de-Rivière-du-Loup. Our guests are Gaétane Thériault and Antonio Morin. Meetings, discussions, an auction and various contests are on the agenda.

GARDEN VISITS: The CA Team is looking to invite members to visit gardens in the Rivière-du-Loup area, on the way back home on Sunday August 2nd, 2015.

SEEDLINGS PLANTING: The seedlings planting is schedule for August 29, 2015 at the demonstration flower bed of AAHQ in Jardin Roger-Van den Hende; during the summer, members will have the necessary time to select the best hybrids they want to plant.

SEASON ENDING MEETING: End of September is the time to hold this informal meeting between members to discuss our flowering season of 2015. Final location, format and date for this meeting will be determined.

ANNUAL MEETING AND CONFERENCE: On Sunday November 22nd, 2015, the annual meeting for members of AAHQ will take place. Like last year, a brunch will be available and new daylily stories will be exchanged. Reporting and the newly elected administrative committee will be presented to members. This will be followed by a presentation by Jocelyn Blouin which will focus on the subject of photography.

CDSConnecticut Daylily SocietySubmitted by Russ Allen, President

The Connecticut Daylily Society (CDS) invites all daylily enthusiasts to attend our meetings which are held at the Avon Senior Center, located about 8 miles west of Hartford at 635 West Avon Road in Avon, CT. We have no dues – just a lot of great daylily related events, wonderful friendly people, and great food. So just come to our meetings and enhance your appreciation for daylilies!

November 1st Meeting -- Our nationally recognized guest hybridizer speaker was Michael Bouman [below, with Tina Cotter] of Daylily Lay in St. Peters, Missouri. Mr. Bouman presented his daylily hybridizing program with photos from the over 1,000 daylily cultivars in his garden. His garden is located in zone 5b so his daylilies should be hardy throughout Connecticut. Mr. Bouman’s beautiful daylilies can be viewed on his website: http://www.daylilylay.com/index.htm

January 17th, 2015 Meeting -- Our annual “Soup’s On” meeting featured popular New England hybridizer Lori-Ann Jones of Knoll Cottage Daylilies located in Westfield, Mass. Lori-Ann’s presentation included photos of many of the cultivars she crossed in her hybridizing program and the resulting gorgeous new cultivars. She is particularly well known for her “Honking Big” line of large flowered daylilies which are as impactful in the garden as they are beautiful. See Lori-Ann Jones’ beautiful daylily creations at her website: http://www.knollcottagedaylilies.com

Connecticut Flower and Garden Show CDS Booth -- On February 19th - 22nd the Club will again have a booth at the popular Connecticut Flower and Garden Show in the Hartford Convention Center. The theme for our custom-designed booth this year is “Weigh Anchor” as part of the broader Ports of Call theme for the Flower Show...and our booth will as always feature some spectacular daylily photos. Particular thanks are due to the over 20 volunteers who have agreed to staff our booth throughout the show to extol the virtues of daylilies and hopefully recruit some new members for the Club! Don’t miss this year’s Flower Show! The show is generally open between 10AM and 6PM+ each day and is well worth the visit!



Region 4 Club News Region 4 Club NewsMarch 21 Meeting -- Our guest speaker will be Dan Pessoni whose gardens in Cape Cod are renowned for their beauty. Dan is a past president of the New England Daylily Society, as well as a treasurer for the American Rhododendron Society’s Cape Cod chapter. He will be sharing his experience with building his beautiful gardens incorporating daylilies. Please note that we’ll be also requesting sign-ups for our New England Open Garden Program at this meeting which is from noon - 3PM.

May 16 CDS Plant Sale -- Our annual Daylily and Plant Sale will be on Saturday, May 16th from 10AM-2PM rain or shine at our regular Avon Senior Center location. Club members bring beautiful daylilies which have flourished in their gardens to sell -- with half of their proceeds donated to support our CDS activities. This is our primary fund raiser to support club activities for the entire year so please participate in this sale! Please mark this date on your calendar and be sure to bring your friends to purchase a wide assortment of daylilies at our annual plant sale at great prices! We really appreciate all the tremendous work done by our Club volunteers to make this a successful event!

2015 AHS Region 4 Summer Meeting -- We are thrilled to be hosting the 2015 AHS Region 4 Summer Meeting this year for daylily lovers throughout New England and Eastern Canada! If you have never attended a fabulous Regional Meeting, you have got to join us for this unforgettable and fun event! The meeting begins on the afternoon of Friday July 17th with a Boutique, Silent Auction, and Garden Judge activities leading to a 6PM Dinner Banquet and Daylily Auction with Paul Owen as our nationally recognized guest speaker! Saturday includes a BUS TOUR of four fabulous daylily gardens in the area culminating in a final Banquet and Daylily Auction hosted by Paul Owen. All attendees also receive a free new gorgeous daylily from a Region 4 hybridizer! Please refer to Meeting registration details and Hotel reservation information for the Holiday Inn Springfield-South Enfield found elsewhere in this newsletter. We strongly encourage anyone that may have interest in attending to make your registration

and hotel reservation as early as possible to assure space and facilitate our meeting planning! Good food, good flowers, good times are awaiting! Act now to register!

Summer 2014 Open Garden Program -- Plans are underway for this summer’s open garden program The open garden program is designed to allow participating home or commercial gardeners to open their gardens to visitors during designated days without any advance notification -- with the understanding that gardens do not need to have all cultivars labeled or dead headed as would be the case with a formal American Hemerocallis Society event. The sign-up to participate as an open home garden host will be during March through early June, with a final list of participating gardens to be shared with our members by mid-June. The dates for open gardens located anywhere throughout the New England region will be July 8 (Wed.), July 11 (Sat.), July 22 (Wed), July 24 (Friday), July 26, (Sunday), July 29 (Wed.), Aug 1 (Sat.), Aug. 5 (Wed), and Aug. 8 (Sat.). Don’t miss this opportunity to plan a trip to see some marvelous gardens this summer throughout New England! Program details will be announced in the Spring. [Below, Gary Jones and Helene Ferrari].

Summer Picnic & Annual Business Meeting -- Due to our focus on the Regional Meeting this July, the Club voted to delay our regular annual meeting until the Sept. 12 meeting -- with meeting details yet to be announced. Our annual meeting will include election of officers for the Club with Tina Cotter chairing the nominating committee.

Current Club Officers & Committee Chairs:President - Russ AllenVice President & Program Chair - Gary Jones

Secretary - Cheryl FoxTreasurer - Phillip DouvillePublicity Chair - Tina CotterHospitality Co-Chairs: Linda Kozloski & Linda HunterTechnology Chair- Richard HowardCDS Blog Chair - Kim KrodelEducation Chair - Rebecca NisleyMembership Chair - Regine Randall

Other: We also appreciate the wonderful contributions to our activities of so many other volunteers not mentioned above who contribute to the success of our Club!

Be sure to check out our web and blog sites for more details at http://www.ctdaylily.com/CDS.html and www.ctdaylilysociety.wordpress.com

We are looking forward to seeing you and your friends at CDS meetings during the coming year!

FieLDSFinger Lakes Daylily SocietySubmitted by Jane Ryan, Chairperson

It was another great year for daylilies in Upstate New York. Our regular meetings are held at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Canandaigua.

We kicked off the year on February 22nd with our annual Souper Meeting. After the usual long cold winter, it was great to get together with daylily friends to enjoy lots of homemade soup, desserts and subs. Our speaker this year was Tim Boebel, nursery manager at Wayside Garden Center in Macedon, NY. Tim is a nationally recognized expert on growing hydrangeas. What a great way to start dreaming about Spring!

On March 22nd, Margo Reed and Jim Murphy from Woodhenge Gardens in Virginia joined us to share slide shows and insights into their hybridizing programs. Such amazing daylilies! They were also kind enough to meet us for dinner the prior evening.

The Silent Auction was held on May 17th featuring a selection of plants from Browns Ferry Gardens. Since planting season is right around the corner, we were excited to bid high and bid often on some great cultivars. We also had a selection of babysitter plants ready for new homes. Anyone returning a babysitter plant was eligible for a new one.

The Public Plant Sale was held on


August 9th. Once again Bristol’s Garden Center in Victor, NY generously provided the venue. With good weather and advertising, we had a good turnout and a successful sale. Thanks to our members, we were able to offer a large selection of daylilies at very affordable prices.

The Members Auction and Picnic was held on August 24th. This year, Tom & Kathy Rood played host at Grace Gardens located near beautiful Seneca Lake in Penn Yan. It was a fantastic day to tour the gardens, eat some great food and bid on a wonderful selection of new daylilies.

Our Annual Banquet was held on September 28th at Burgundy Basin Inn in Pittsford, NY. The highlight of the evening was our featured speaker Lori-Ann Jones from Knoll Cottage Daylily Garden in Westfield, MA. Lori-Ann’s main goal has been to hybridize for Tetraploid Unusual Forms and Spiders that are pod & pollen fertile and that can stand zone 5 winters. She produces amazing results on a tiny piece of land!

We met at the Webster Arboretum on October 11th to weed and put the daylily display garden to bed for the winter.

The Planning Meeting for 2015 was held at the Penfield Public Library on November 2nd.

Meeting Schedule for 2015

February 28 – “Souper Meeting”. Featured speaker is one of our own members, Charlie Zettek

March 28 – Featured speaker is Dave Mussar from Guelph, Ontario, Canada. His presentation will be: Speckles, Spots and Stripes – Emerging Patterns in Daylilies

April 25 – Clean-up day at the Webster Arboretum

May 16 – Silent Auction

August 8 – Public Plant Sale at Bristol’s

August 22 – Members Auction & Picnic at QB Daylily Gardens in Caledonia, NY

October 4 – Annual Banquet at Burgundy Basin Inn

HADSHudson Adirondack Daylily SocietySubmitted by Debi Chowdhury, past HADS chair

With two feet of snow outside, I was

staring at the birdbath and the lonely finch sitting there. I could hear the wind howling and the little bird just sitting. Though the area had a few trees covering the birdbath, it was still outside and cold. I figured I should take some hot water out there and did. The bird looked quite frozen. I put a bowl of hot water on the ice, and watched the bird slowly move around in it.

In the fall I had put a bunch of birdhouses in different shapes and colors outside and now everything was covered with snow, including all the pine branches. I could hear the other little birds hiding between the pine trees outside, chirping away. Everything was suddenly bright and sunny and I started thinking about spring, when the glorious spring bulbs will be in bloom.

In the fall we had Lori Jones, a member of our club, speak about her hybridizing program. In December, Debi Chowdhury and Kathryn Fruhauf talked about their South Africa trip and garden trail. In January, Frank Almquist, another HADS member, talked about his trip to Costa Rica. In February, we had our “Winter Doldrums” meeting where four gardening groups came together to talk about gardening. This year our speaker was the head gardener from Mohonk Mountain, who came and spoke of the famous quarry garden created there and the gorgeous flowers that are raised there. The four groups that attended this meeting were: HADS, CHIS the Iris society, HOSTA society and NENYOS the orchid society. It had snowed another six inches and it was blowing all over. We were worried that we might have to cancel but they came. It was a wonderful get together with so many door prizes and so much food. We ate most of the food, as well as gave most of the door prizes away.

2015 Meeting Schedule

March 27-29 – HVCC flower show

April 18 – flowers of Copper Canyon

May 9 – Member sales

June 20 – Babysitting plants are given out

July 11 – Picnic and the

July 17-19 – Region 4 meeting, Enfield, CT

August 15 – Plant sale at Faddegon’s

September 19 – TBD

October 17 – TBD

November 21 – TBD

December 19 – Holiday party with a speaker talking about an overseas trip.

HVIDSHudson Valley Iris and Daylily Society Report and photos submitted by Jim Robinowitz

HVIDS OfficersPresident, Jim Robinowitz 845-454-6415Vice President, Georgette Martin 845-473-6276Treasurer, Frank Sorbello 845-561-5279Secretary, Sue Rivard 845-214-0724

HVIDS September 2014 Meeting at “Alice Pond”

Our first autumnal meeting was on September 7th at the home of Linda Roper. She shared her secret garden sanctuary, Alice Pond, a wonderful Japanese Zen garden. Upon entering the garden, peace and serenity permeated the energy of the space, enfolding visitors in the calm embrace of being one with nature.

“Daylilies in the garden – A Judge’s Perspective”

On October 5, 2014, the Hudson Valley Iris & Daylily Society hosted a lecture given by Carolyn Young, a nationally certified AHS Exhibition and Garden Judge. She has been growing daylilies since the 1980’s and has three large gardens. Her lecture was on a Judge’s perspective of Daylilies in the garden touching on that interesting point of view.

Landscaping with Rhododendrons” by Bruce Feller

Bruce has served as President of the ARS New York Chapter, Director of District 7 Chapters, and Eastern Vice President. He is a member of the Long Island Horticultural Society, the Azalea Society of America and the American Conifer Society (ACS). In 2004, he chaired a successful initiative to establish a special “legacy” collection of rhododendron cultivars hybridized by Long Island gardeners at Planting Fields Arboretum in Oyster Bay. Bruce has been published on several occasions in the ARS Journal. Most recently he was invited to become a member of the New York Hortus group.



Region 4 Club News Region 4 Club NewsHe gave a very informative presentation which made most of us want to consider adding some to our gardens!

UPCOMING CLUB EVENTS

March 1, 2015 Frank Almquist will present a lecture on hybridizing our own daylilies. Besides our club, Frank is a member of the Long Island and Hudson Adirondack Daylily Societies. Frank has an outstanding garden which has been on the HVIDS garden tour for two years.

April 12, 2015 (NOT first Sunday which is Easter) Amanda Chase the owner of Something to Crow About Dahlias will present a lecture on Dahlias. Amanda’s garden in Sharon, Conn. has approx. 1700 dahlia flowers. Amanda’s passion is Dahlia’s and there will be tubers for door prizes!

MAY 2015 We have again decided to have an “IRIS Show Weekend” concept. The plan includes having our traditional Annual Iris Show on May 23 at the Poughkeepsie Galleria, followed by a dinner meeting at a local restaurant. M.J. Urist, one of our judges, who is from central New York, will talk on “The Louisana Iris”. Our traditional HVIDS Open Gardens will be presented on Sunday.

OCTOBER 2015HVIDS is hosting the annual AIS Region 2 Meeting on the first weekend in October at the Fishkill Ramada Inn. The featured Guest Speaker is Chuck Chapman, hybridizer from Ontario, Canada.

LIDSLong Island Daylily SocietyReport and photos submitted by Gene MogliaPresident- Luanne Madden [email protected] President- Christine Petersen [email protected] Barbara Schenk Recording Secretary- Joan Lundin Corresponding Secretary- Joan Turano Newsletter Editor- Gene MogliaMember-at-Large- Susan WeitzmanChairperson of Nominations- Pam Milliken2014 in Review

January 2014 started our New Year off with our annual buffet luncheon at the Clarion Hotel in Ronkonkoma, NY. About

55 members braved the cold to enjoy renewing our friendships and having a fine meal. Our speaker was the inimitable and irrepressible Nikki Schmith, now vice-president of the AHS. Anyone who has met Nikki in a garden knows she takes a prodigious number of great pictures. She entertained and enlightened us with her presentation, showing gardens, people and daylilies, including some unusual shots of daylilies at different times and from different angles. She concluded her talk with a small auction, which included her newest registration.

Our March meeting was at our usual venue, Planting Fields Arboretum in Oyster Bay, NY. Our speaker was our current AHS president, Julie Covington. She had visited us during the 2006 AHS Convention on Long Island and she gave us a pictorial tour of Region 3 gardens, starting with the gardens that will be on tour for the 2017 AHS Convention in the Tidewater area of Virginia. Julie also introduced us to a few of the accomplished hybridizers of Region 3, many of whom give us great hardy plants for our own Region 4. Margo Reed and Jim Murphy from North Garden, Virginia, Don Herr from Lancaster, PA, and Stu Kendig from York, PA are well-known to us, but she also showed us the work and gardens of some lesser known hybriziders and growers, such as Tracy Bastian, James Stauffer, Dave Guleke and Bud Bennett, who is a long-time hybridizer from Maryland. Julie ended with views of her own garden in Roanoke, Virginia, which has now been effectively deer-proofed by an unobtrusive fence. She just hopes her neighbors don’t drive through her yard again.

April is the cruelest month, according to T.S. Eliot, but it’s also the time when one can really work in the garden. We had our annual spring clean-up of our display gardens at Planting Fields, where we fertilize, divide and spruce-up the plants, relying on our members to volunteer to maintain the gardens to show the general public just what is a modern daylily. After lunch, we had Bill Waldrop of Marietta, GA, as our speaker. He extended an invitation to the 2015 AHS Convention based in Atlanta, and his Kennesaw Mountain Garden will be on tour. Bill showed us his hybridizing program; many of his registrations bear the prefix Kennesaw. Bill likes green throats and works on green edges as

well, despite being down South, he tried to introduce hardiness into his lines. His ‘Mystic Amethyst’ is a dormant that needs cold. His daylilies run the gamut from round and ruffled to unusual forms. Bill concluded his talk with a spirited auction of his plants, including some of his newest introductions.

May is the only month when we don’t meet on a Saturday, as it is our annual auction. We had a good showing of members to purchase newer plants from Karol Emmerich, Bob Schwarz and Lori-Ann Jones, as well as some older classics. We also include a 50/50 auction, where members can bring in newer daylilies and share the proceeds with LIDS. This is our major fund-raising venture and we had a successful night.

June’s meeting is dedicated to preparation for our annual flower show, with tips on grooming and transportation and flower-arranging. We also had our 50/50 plant sale, where members can bring in plants from their garden to sell, sharing their bounty and going home with a little cash.

July is our busiest month, with our Flower Show and Garden Tours. This year on July 19 our visits were to the gardens of Rachel, Dave and Elliot Turkiew in Bethpage, Joan and George Rasmussen in Farmingdale, and Muriel and John Stahl in Baldwin. [Below, John Stahl in his garden with LIDS members.]

The gardens were all impeccably groomed and full of fabulous plants. On July 20, Chris Petersen and Pat Sayers opened their gardens as well. Chris lives in Asharoken on the Huntington Bay and grows a great variety of daylilies and other perennials and other plant material. The damage from the successive years’ hurricanes of Irene and Sandy were barely visible, as Chris has done a tremendous job restoring the garden to its glory. Pat


Sayers is also in Huntington, and many members from LIDS and other garden societies visited to see her garden, which has changed greatly from the 2006 Convention due to the pruning efforts of the same hurricanes, opening up her garden. Pat has an extensive hybridizing program and has many unusual daylilies which aren’t easily obtained, though coveted by many connoisseurs of daylilies.

August is another month to replenish our treasury by holding our annual public sale at Farmingdale State College. To have a successful sale we need plants and this year we changed our format from ‘Split ‘n’ Splash’ to ‘Bag and Tag’, depending on our members to donate cleaned, divided plants. And we were successful, with members bringing over 600 plants to the Rasmussen’s home to be individually bagged, labeled and priced. We also changed our sales format, from grouping plants according to price to grouping them by color, as we have found the general public is more interested in color. We used pink, blue, white, yellow and orange plastic table cloths to designate the majority of the plants and found that we were able to sell out of plants before our designated closing time. It was bad luck for those late-comers who look for bargains, but good for our treasury and our donation to Region 4, though the halcyon days of almost $10K are long gone due to competition from the big box stores.

This year our annual picnic to thank our members for their support was held at Joan Turano’s home in Oakdale. Good weather saw a good crowd enjoying the food. Kudos to our hostess, Joan Turano, and our Master Chef, Joan Lundin.

October found us back at Planting Fields, where we heard Vinnie Simeone, Director of the Arboretum State Park. He spoke on ‘Grow More With Less, his newest book on sustainable garden methods and then led the hardiest members on a tour of the Arboretum, beginning at the new, under-construction Welcome Center, which will include a new sensory garden for the physically and visually impaired.

We ended 2014 with our annual business meeting and covered-dish lunch. We elect officers, adopt a budget and, most importantly, eat! We also have a great variety of food and no one ever leaves hungry.

January 2015 saw us back at the Clarion Hotel for our January meeting. This year we were entertained by Bob Faulkner of Dayton, Ohio, [below, Bob Faulkner with George Rasmussen] who has been working on patterned daylilies as his passion. Bob

started hybridizing in 1990 after visiting John Benz’ garden and balking at paying $50 for ‘Fooled Me’ figuring he could produce his own plants. After investing in various supplies, cameras and computers, he found he spent far more than the fifty bucks, but he was hooked. Some of his earliest work used the genetics of ‘Angel’s Smile’, ‘Always Afternoon’ and ‘Siloam David Kirchhoff’ and he gleaned knowledge from Shirley Farmer, Steve Moldovan and Roy Woodhull, to name a few. He visited Jack Carpenter in Center, Texas and somehow convinced Jack to part with ten seedlings, no mean feat, as Jack was renowned for preferring to keep the seedlings others picked out! Bob says patterns tend to be recessive and worked mainly in diploids in the beginning. He starts his seedlings under fluorescent lights in a covered porch maintained at 55-60 degrees Farenheit. He has many interests, feeling brown daylilies are underappreciated and works on bi-tones, reverse bi-tones and veining. His main criteria for selection are daylilies that stay open late, have good substance so they don’t melt and good plant habit, including multiple buds and branching. He illustrated his interests in this PowerPoint program, with one great daylily after another. One caveat, though, is one shouldn’t sit too close to Mare Miller during a presentation of one knock-out after another, as her gasps and wows accompany each picture. Bob concluded his talk with a small auction of his plants and some seeds from John Kulpa.

Chris Petersen has put together some great programs for 2015. Updates and

information can be obtained from the LIDS website at www.lidaylily.org.

2015 LIDS’ CALENDAR OF EVENTS

January 17- 12 PM- Luncheon-“Patterned Daylilies”, Bob Faulkner, Natural Selection Daylilies, Dayton, OH Clarion Hotel, RonkonkomaMarch 28 – 1 PM: “New or Underused Annuals, Perennials and Shrubs”- Tom Stemmler, Daisy Garden, Bayport (G)February – No meetingApril 18 – 10 AM Spring Gardens Spruce-up, 1 PM- “Hybridizing Program of Richard Norris”, Ashwood Garden, Glouster, OH (G)May 12 – Tuesday, 7 PM, May Daylily Auction (HC)June 11-13 – AHS National Convention, Atlanta, GAJune 20 – 12 PM- Member’s Plant Sale, 1PM Program: Flower Show Preparation (HC)July 11 –9:30 AM: Flower Show Set-up (HC)July 12 – 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM Annual Flower Show. Theme: The Secret Garden (HC)July 17-19 – Region 4 Summer Meeting, CTJuly 26 – LIDS Garden ToursAugust 15 –Public Daylily Sale and Clinic on Growing DayliliesAugust 26 –Garden Clean-up DaySeptember 12 – 12 PM LIDS Annual Picnic at the home of Joan Turano, Oakdale, NYOctober 24 – 1 PM: Program TBA (G)November 21 – 12 PM: Pot-Luck Luncheon, Annual Business Meeting, Photos from Members’ Gardens (G)December – No Meeting Meetings are held in the Main Greenhouse (G) or the Horticultural Center (HC) at Planting Fields Arboretum in Oyster Bay, NY. Please check the LIDS website for more information: www.lidaylily.org.

NEDSNew England Daylily Societywww.nedaylily.org

Submitted by Kathy Viamari, secretaryNEDS OFFICERS:President- Paul TarmasewiczTreasurer - Tom RiccioSecretary- Kathy Viamari

2015 Spring-Summer Schedule

March 14 AM: Daylily Bingo, PM: Guest



Region 4 Club News Region 4 Club NewsSpeaker- Charmaine Rich of Thetford, VT

April 11 Pot Luck Lunch and Guest Speaker Curt Hanson from Crintonic Gardens Ohio

May 16 Member’s Plant Sale at The Gardeners’ Fair, Elm Bank

July 25 Daylily Exhibition at Tower Hill Botanical Garden

August 22 Public Daylily Sale and Auction, Wakefield MA

Visit nedaylily.org for details and directions to meeting location, Tower Hill Botanic Garden in Boylston, MA.

ODS Ontario Daylily SocietySubmitted by Dave Mussar, president

After a long cold winter we are looking forward to a new season and the opportunity to dabble in the garden once again. To help make it through the winter we had an ODS meeting on January 17th where club member Brian Schram presented “Some Like it Red”. Brian’s goal is to produce a blue-red daylily with a white edge and he shared his favourite cultivars and seedlings with us. He has some real beauties coming! On February 21st we had our Escape the Winter Doldrums meeting. Unfortunately the weather conspired against us limiting attendance. Given the recent passing of Roy Woodhall and the closure and sale of the Moldovan Gardens property it seemed like a timely idea to revisit a presentation that Roy had given at the Can-Am Classic a number of years ago. It was great to see the garden in its beauty, the flowers and the friends of Moldovan Gardens once again.

On Sunday March 22nd we will host our 5th Annual Hybridizer’s Forum at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington Ontario. There will be short presentations on a variety of topics and a number of people will share their breeding programs. The event will be open to all so if you are in the area, please drop by.

The Can-Am Classic will be the weekend of May 1st – 3rd this year. We will be at a new location this year, still

in Mississauga and have a terrific group of speakers scheduled. Several will be making the Can-Am Classic debuts. The Can-Am is a rite of spring for many and in addition to our speakers you will find a who’s who of hybridizers in attendance so it is a great opportunity to meet old friends and to get all your daylily questions answered. Great plants will be in the auction and available on the sales table, there will be a birdhouse contest, silent auctions, door prizes and so much more. Please see the ad elsewhere in this publication for registration details.

June 6th will be our annual babysitting plant and member plant sale. This year we will be featuring plants from Sandy Holmes of Riverbend Gardens for the babysitting program.

July 25th will be the ODS Picnic in the garden of member David Retallick in Millbrook, Ontario, near Peterborough. Always a great and relaxing time and David’s garden will be at peak bloom so you won’t want to miss it.

Our Fall meeting and AGM will be held on September 19th. Location to be announced. The plan is to do something smaller scale than we have been doing in the past.

October 24th will be the Autumn Get Together with member Jane Fish presenting her Daylily Ensemble Garden which is an AHS Display Garden in St. Thomas Ontario.

November 28th will be the annual Holiday Meeting and will feature Faye Collins presenting “It’s Daylilies Naturally – The Mad Gardener’s Collection”.

For times, locations and further details please visit the Ontario Daylily Society website at: http://www.ontariodaylily.on.ca/

PDSPatriot Daylily Society Spring/Summer 2014 ActivitiesSubmitted by Patsy Cunningham, presidentOfficers: President: Patsy CunninghamVice President: Phil WarbasseSecretary and Past President: Nick ChaseTreasurer: Mary Collier FisherDirectors: George Doorakian and Bonnie Brown

In February we had our annual photography contest, in which the

winners in each category have their winning photos published as picture-of-the-month in the Patriot Daylily Society calendar.

The April meeting of the Patriot Daylily Society will feature two local hybridizers. We will be having presentations both by George Doorakian and Claudia Conway. We meet at the Bedford library. All are welcome

A reminder and invitation: Our meetings are the first Saturday of each month, October through May, at the Bedford (Mass.) Library, noon to 3 PM (or later, sometimes). Do come join us!Visit the PDS website: http://patriotdaylilysociety.org/

SMDHSSouthern Maine Daylily and Hosta Society Submitted by Rex Beisel, President

We’re looking forward to another great year here at SMDHS. New officers were elected for 2015-2016. They are Rex Beisel, President, Paul Bourret, Vice-President and Leslie Barteaux, Treasurer. Our 4th annual SMDHS “Lobstah Classic” will be held on August 15. Our featured speakers this year will be Jeff Miller, from Land of the Giants Hosta Farm in Wisconsin and Lori-Ann Jones from Knoll Cottage Daylilies in Massachusetts. In addition to our speakers, the “Lobstah Classic” will feature a silent auction, a live auction and a delicious Maine lobster dinner. Last year’s successful event drew a near capacity crowd. If you are interested in joining us for the “Lobstah Classic”, there is a registration form on our website, www.SMDHS.info/

Here is a list of our other events for 2015:

March 21 Annual Photo Contest. Get ready for spring by reliving last year’s garden beauty.April 18 We welcome Darlyn Wilkinson from Greywood Farm and Curt Turner from A-Daylily-A-Day Farm. Spring Pot-Luck Luncheon.May 9 Daylily Bed RebuildMay 17 (Sunday) Public Plant Sale, 8 AM – Noon. Please bring plants to sell to help support the club. Sellers can keep up to 50% of sales. Your plant donations to this event helps us to bring in speakers.June 6 Member / Guest Auction


July 17-19, 2015 AHS (Hemerocallis) Region 4 Annual Meeting. Meeting is being hosted by the Connecticut Daylily Society (CDS) and will take place in Enfield, CT. Paul Owen from Slightly Different Nursery in North Carolina is the guest speaker.July 25 – TBD Club Garden TourAugust 15 – Fourth Annual SMDHS “Lobstah Classic”October 3 – Garden cleanup and Fall Soup SocialNovember 7 – Annual SMDHS Business Meeting / BingoDecember 5 – Holiday Party / Pot Luck Luncheon / Yankee Swap

SMDSSoutheastern Massachusetts Daylily SocietySubmitted by Pat Wessling, PresidentHello all,

Here is looking forward to another successful year of daylily club functions. I hope you all had a pleasant and productive blooming season last year. This year is looking like it should shape

up pretty well. We have to thank Nina Lapierre for her years of outstanding service in producing an amazing newsletter for the club. Stephen Tooker has assumed the responsibilities of the newsletter and we are grateful for his efforts.

We had a wonderful and productive meeting in November, with Bob Faulkner speaking and donating quite a few plants. There is a small story about him and what was donated in our SMDS Newsletter.

This year’s meetings will hopefully result in building the membership. The more the merrier as they say. We are donating two “Landscaping with Daylilies” books to a local gardening event for a raffle or door prizes. Hopefully we will be giving out schedules of SMDS meetings at that event and get more exposure with the gardening community. I was hoping to donate a one-year AHS membership at that event also. This may produce another member for our club.

As you can see, I am thinking about building membership. Any and all suggestions to this end will be greatly appreciated. Anyone interested in being the SMDS Membership Chair is cordially

invited to contact me or any member of the Board.

Our meeting scheduled for February 15, 2015 @1:00 PM at which Chuck from Cochato Nursery would have been speaking was cancelled due to inclement weather. We are looking at the possibility of rescheduling on a date in April to be announced later! At our March meeting we will be hosting Rich Howard of Connecticut Daylilies. Should be great fun!

If you have any questions you can contact me via email, [email protected] or at my home phone 508-995-0362.

Region 4 Club News

2016 Region 4 Meeting--join us!The New England Daylily Society will host the 2016 Region 4 Meeting

in Nashua, New Hampshire on July 22-24, 2016 Guest speakers will be Heidi and Charles Douglas of Browns Ferry Garden, Georgetown, SCFor details and registration information, visit the Region 4 website at ahsregion4.org or the

NEDS website at nedaylily.org in May

Above, left to right: ‘Brown’s Ferry Creme Supreme’ (Douglas, C. 2015); ‘Larry’s Candy Stripe Swizzle’ (Douglas, H. 2015).

See more of their daylilies at www.brownsferrygardens.com.


Featured Region 4 Garden-Pat SayersBy Pat Sayers, Huntington, NYPhotos by Pat Sayers and Chris Petersen

Summer vacations were spent on Grandpa’s farm pollinating tomatoes and squash, grafting, rooting cuttings and making seeds. So I suppose farming is in my blood. When I started gardening, it came rather naturally, as did hybridizing.

Whispering Hills is located in the hills of Huntington, on Long Island’s north shore. I carved this garden from just over an acre of dense woods using much of the existing naturalized plant material to make garden rooms of dappled shade.. And, since Hurricane Sandy, it has evolved into a sunnier place.

Early in the 80’s, a friend brought me a great big clump of hemerocallis citrina from her family garden. It was love

at first sight, and that beautiful, pale yellow flowered plant is still a favorite of mine, with its bud count of 50, showing its lovely face in my moon garden at night. As I started to collect daylilies, I collected mostly unnamed “throw aways”

and older plants that put a smile on my face just by looking at them. I only kept plants that grew well in my area, bloomed well after my cool nights, and bloomed enough to make a show. After all, I’m a gardener. If it doesn’t bloom well, it’s out. If the color is muddy, it’s out. If it’s ugly, it’s... oh well, I suppose it depends upon how interesting that plant is. Maybe... especially if it’s tall. I do like tall.

Yes, I occasionally did buy expensive plants... and I still have a few of the ones that lived, but there weren’t too many of those. It’s hard to grow plants here, because the freeze thaw cycle during spring is brutal. The last freeze is May 22, and by that time we’ve had daytime temperatures up in the 90’s. So anything that grows here has to be hardy... very, very hardy.

In 1989 I bloomed my first cross, and within the next few years, became a willing slave to the passion of hybridizing. By 1995, I was lining out 5000 plants every June, and did this every year thru 2001, when health issues forced me to slow down. My time in the garden since is for pleasure. I still dabble, after all there are crosses I just can’t not do, but now I use the garden much like an artist uses a canvas. It’s where I play with color, shape, form and

Top photo, H. ‘Wicked White Witch’ (Sayers, 2013.

Above, left: ‘Whispering Water Nymph’ (Sayers, 2007). Photos: Pat Sayers

At Left, a view of the Sayers garden. Photo: Chris Petersen


movement.And, I love the moving, swaying, swirling look that

happens with the use of tall plants. My style is lush, and overblown, much like a formal garden, gone a bit wild. But, the constant through all is, that no matter what plant I grow, all of my colors are clean clear and bright. And about this I am ruthless.As mentioned earlier, my garden is a series of rooms. Each different from the next. Some have formal geometric walkways accented with boxwood, as in the Daylily Walk. Others meander and wander through perennial beds. The Rose Garden has a formal brick walkway, built around a circle of daylilies. There’s a Fernery overflowing with giant ostrich ferns. And, the hush of the Fairy Circle, edged with stone benches, where it’s shady and quiet. The Friendship Garden is home to all the lovely gifts from my special friends.

But, there really isn’t much difference between my garden style and my hybridizing program. Just as I learned the fundamentals of gardening, I also did the same with hybridizing, because, to me, hybridizing is a blending of art and science. Without Mendel and my microscope, I would have been lost.

So, I now walk my seedling beds, and if I’m lucky, it’s with a friend like Chris Petersen, who prods me to do something with those seedlings, and inspires me to play again... to go back out there, and see what I can coax from all of those little things I’ve discovered, and how far I can take them again. I suppose my program is wild, like my garden, and without direction... but I really can’t wait to see what blooms this summer.

Featured Region 4 Garden-Pat Sayers


Opposite page, left, top to bottom: A future Sayers introduction; H. ‘Onslows Powder Puff Toy’ (Sayers, 2013), photos: Pat Sayers ; ‘Whispering White Waltz’ (Sayers, 2013), photo: Chris Peters-en; A future Sayers introduction, photo: Pat Sayers.

Photos this page, clockwise from top left: a clump of ‘Isabel Hibbard’s Whisper’ (Sayers, 2013), photo: Chris Petersen; a Sayers seedling, photo: Pat Sayers; the “Daylily Walk”; a view of the Sayers garden, photos: Chris Petersen.

Featured Region 4 Garden-Pat Sayers


By Charlie Zettek, Rochester, NYBigger, taller and unusual form

daylilies have captured the attention of the daylily world, and for good reason. Big daylilies hit you between the eyes (sometimes literally at eye level) and shout “look at me!” For example, the 2014 Stout Medal Winner, “Webster’s Pink Wonder” (Webster-Cobb, 2003), is registered with a flower size of 13 inches!

Despite this trend, however, a few intrepid Region Four hybridizers have been taking a much different approach as they pursue their quest for the perfect daylily. I have been hybridizing for little daylilies for fifteen years, and thought it would be interesting to find out how other Region Four hybridizers with similar goals have approached their craft. After talking with a cross section of Region 4 leaders, I found that four names consistently came up as hybridizers with a reputation for creating small and miniature daylilies and who are still active in Region 4: Curt Turner, Bob Sobek, and Mike Huben, all of whom live in Massachusetts and have been active with NEDS, and Kathy Rood from Penn Yan, New York, an active member of FieLDS. Mike Patterson, a longstanding member of ODS, is also well known for his interest in little daylilies, although he has yet to register any of his own crosses. This article is based on my interviews with and research about these five hybridizers as well as my own experience.

Perhaps the place to start is to ask – why are these hybridizers interested in little daylilies? But there is an even more fundamental question that quickly came up as I started my interviews, which is – what do

we mean by “little”? I intentionally refer to “little” daylilies in order to encourage discussion about the whole plant, not just flower size. However, when most daylily folks refer to “small” or “mini” daylilies, they are thinking about the size of the flower. This mirrors the focus of the AHS on flower size as represented by our two awards for smaller daylilies. The Donn Fischer Memorial Award is given to a hybridizer of the most outstanding miniature cultivar, where “To qualify as miniature, the flower must be less than 3” in diameter.”* The Annie T. Giles Award is given “for a small flowered daylily officially defined as one whose greatest width is 3” or more, but less than 4 ½”.*

The differences in taste and approach among our Region 4 hybridizers reflect the range of options afforded by the way the AHS awards are defined. Curt Turner’s “Gabriel’s Weathervane” (Turner-C., 2006), registered as a 4” flower on a 42” scape [below, clump and bottom, bloom closeup. photos:Darlyn Wilkinson] is a completely different plant form than

“Cobbs Hill Charmer” (Zettek, 2012) which is registered as a 3” flower on a 16” scape [above, photo: C. Zettek]. But, both meet the qualifications for the Annie T. Giles Award.

It turns out, then, that there are two camps in terms of what these hybridizers are trying to achieve. Curt, Mike and Bob are mostly looking for tall daylilies with little flowers. One reason, Curt says, is “because the tall little ones hold up really well and don’t bend or break”. Another reason also reflects Curt’s practical side – “in my seedling beds where everything is close together, it is the tall ones that pop out and catch my eye.” On the other hand, Kathy Rood and I are more focused on small plants with short scapes and little flowers. I have to admit that Curt is right about the seedling bed problem, however. I basically have to get on my hands and knees and intentionally look in between the tall daylilies of a cross to find little plants that might stand out on their own if not buried by their big siblings.

As is well known, tastes and interests can change over time. Mike Huben told me that the very first idea that he wanted to achieve was a white re-bloomer – basically a white Stella. But his next big inspiration was “Echo the Sun” (Sobek, 1990), which was registered as a 3.25” flower on a 41” scape, after which Mike started

Region 4 Hybridizers and Their Quest for the Perfect Little Daylily


focusing on tall daylilies with small flowers. Mike Patterson has his feet in both camps. To Mike, “small” refers to the size of the bloom. But, he makes a useful distinction when thinking about the whole plant by incorporating the size of the scape into his definition. Thus, he thinks of Small Flowers on Short Scapes (SoS) as compared to Small Flowers on Tall Scapes (SoT). Mike’s example of a Small on Short is “Three Seasons” (Sobek, 1990) registered as a 2.62” flower on a 21” scape [below, photo: A. Keohan] as compared to a Small on

Tall such as “Gabriel’s Weathervane”.So, the first major distinction

among our hybridizers is scape height. But there are clearly a number of other distinctions that reflect the unique interests of each person. In response to my question “What specific characteristics are you looking for in your hybridizing program?” Mike Huben’s answer was crystal clear – “Northern continuous bloom above all else”. Of course he doesn’t stop there – “After that, clear colors without yellow. After that, I have a huge list of good plant qualities that I want but that we seldom see all at one time: great foliage, erect scapes with branching and bud count, rapid increase, good flower form, sun fastness, good clump structure, disease and pest resistance, etc. After rebloom, I’m also looking for tall-and-small, dark scapes, sunfast red and purples, extra early, trumpet form and bud building. These are separate goals, but they do overlap a bit.”

Curt Turner answered this question

with a different perspective – he is seeking to achieve “Great bloom presentation with well-spaced branching and reasonable bud count.” What Curt wants to do is create “a balanced plant with complementary blooms, branching, bud count and foliage” where “the blooms present features that enhance the state of the daylily for Region Four breeders and collectors.” Kathy Rood has yet a third perspective – “Good form, clean colors, substance, branching, 20 inches or less in height, and extended bloom. Rebloom is desirable and so is fragrance though both do not always appear. Beauty and good plant habit are the top considerations.” Kathy was the only hybridizer to explicitly identify shorter scapes and fragrance as objectives in her program.

My own interest is easily summarized as “little earlies”, but I have a specific picture of the type of plant I am trying to achieve, which is this – an early daylily that looks like a chrysanthemum. In other words, small and compact with a profusion of color that would look as good in a pot as it would in the front of a small garden. A daylily like this will require relatively short scapes, relatively high bud count, clear distinct colors, and another characteristic not mentioned yet – high scape density. My observations of small diploids (which is primarily what our hybridizers are creating) is that shorter scapes have lower bud counts. To offset the lower bud count, a high number of scapes in a small plant can obtain the effect of a mass of blooms open at the same time.

Progress in achieving short, densely flowered daylilies can be seen in “Brilliant Bouquet” (Huben, 2013) [top, right. photo: M. Huben] and Cobbs Hill Joy (Zettek, 2012) [second photo from top, right. photo: C. Zettek]. Both of these daylilies are registered at 28” tall, with flowers in the 3.5” to 3.75” range and are early to early-mid season. An excellent example of the opposite approach

is “One If By Land” [Turner-C, 2008) [below. photos: Darlyn Wilkinson]. Here, Curt has created a 49” tall early

with a 4.5” flower that also achieves a high degree of garden presence, but with a much different look than the shorter, denser varieties.

So, what is on the horizon for our


Region 4 small flower hybridizers? More color for sure. We’re getting really nice reds now – see “Indelible Blood” (Huben, 2013), a 44” velvety

red self [above. photo: A. Keohan] and “Crazy Kids” (Sobek, 2012) which is only 19” tall [above, right. photo: A. Keohan]. Kathy has also incorporated color into her little plants – “Sweet Seneca Petite” (Rood-K, 2008) is only 10” tall with a 2” pink flower with a raspberry eye [far right, top. photo: Kathy Rood]. We may also see small doubles, for example Kathy’s “Sweet

Seneca Party Dress” (Rood-K, 2008) [bottom, right. photo: Kathy Rood]. Some of these hybridizers are also starting to explore small tetraploids.

To conclude, I hope this brief introduction to the journeys these Region 4 hybridizers are taking has piqued your own interest in the world of little daylilies. * From the 2011 AHS Garden Judges Handbook, pg. 12

Welcome New Members to AHS and Region 4ConnecticutGEORGE McTYRE

RUTHANN McTYRE

Massachusetts LINDSAY BARUS

MAUREEN DEVANEY

MARY LEE HARRINGTON

LYNN HAWES

MARY LOU OSWELL

DENISE RUSZALA

ROBERT RUSZALA

SYLVIA SMIGIEL

JOHN ALLEN TANNER

ELIZABETH TOTH

New Hampshire CHRISSY MORELL

TERESA OSGOOD

New YorkMARY BARNES

HOLLY DELRE

LARRY FUSCHSER

PATRICIA GOLDER

CAROLYN HUGGINS

RICHARD LOUGHLIN

OLIVIA MERZ

CHERYL B MILLER

JANE RYAN

JILL TOBY

Nova ScotiaREBECCA CAMERON

ANDREW CAMERON

MYRA KNIGHT

JOHN ROZEE

NORMA SWEET

SALLY WALSH

QuébecNATHALIE LAJEUNESSE

PIERRETTE LAVALLEE

JEAN-SEBASTIEN POULIN

Rhode IslandDAVID HULL


AHS Region 4 Local Organizations

Visit the Region 4 WebsiteFor: information and links to all Region 4 Daylily Clubs, Garden and Exhibition Judges, Popularity Poll ballots and results, AHS Official Display Gardens, Daylily Sellers, Hybridizers, National and Regional Awards, and much more! Webmaster: Kelly Noel of Ottawa, Ontario

http://www.ahsregion4.org/

To All Region 4 Members: Please share your daylily experiences with

your fellow Region 4 members.

Write an article about how you came to be a member of the AHS, share your thoughts on any daylily-related topic, or write about your

daylily garden visits.

Your photos of daylilies are always welcome!

Send your submissions to the

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Scan the QR (Quick Response) Code at right with your smartphone and you’ll be taken directly to the AHS Region 4 Website!

Association des Amateurs d’Hémérocalles du Québec (l’AAHQ)Judith Mercier95 rang Saint-Joseph,Cap-Santé,Québec, CanadaG0A [email protected]

Buffalo Area Daylily Society (BADS)Raymond Eldermayer III38 Foisset Ave.Cheektowaga, NY [email protected]

Anne Herman 2141 Colvin Blvd. Tonawanda, NY [email protected]

Canadian Hemerocallis Society (CHS)John Peat16 Douville Ct. Toronto, OntarioM5A 4E7 [email protected]

Connecticut Daylily Society (CDS)Russ Allen18 Point Arrowhead RoadGuilford, CT [email protected]

Finger Lakes Daylily Society (FIELDS)Jane Ryan282 Rawlinson RoadRochester, NY [email protected]

Hudson-Adirondack Daylily Society (HADS)William Wurster, HADS Co-chair13 Monroe Ave, Latham NY 12110 518-786-3105 [email protected]

Hudson Valley Iris & Daylily Society (HVIDS)Jim Robinowitz10 Baldwin RoadPoughkeepsie, NY 12603 845-454-6415 [email protected]

Long Island Daylily Society (LIDS)Luanne Madden19 Bryce AvenueGlen Cove, NY [email protected]

Maine Daylily SocietySusan Shaw13 Mill St.Camden, ME [email protected]

New England Daylily Society (NEDS)Paul Tarmasewicz8 Wilson DriveWestminster, MA [email protected]

Nova Scotia Daylily Society (NSDS)Wayne Ward165 Pereau Road, R.R. # 1, Canning, NS B0P 1H0 [email protected]

Ontario Daylily Society (ODS)Dave Mussar4083 Watson Road South RR#1Puslinch, Ontario N0B [email protected]

Patriot Daylily Society (PDS)Patsy Cunningham54 Mt Vernon BlvdPawtucket, RI [email protected]

Société Québécoise des Hostas et des Hémérocalles/ Quebec Hostas & Hemerocal-lis Society (SQHH/QHHS) Reggie D. Millette62 7th AvenueSt-Ambroise De KildareQuebec JOK ICOCanada 450-756-4893 [email protected]

Southern Maine Daylily & Hosta Society (SMDHS)Rex BeiselP.O. Box 245Casco, ME [email protected]

Southeastern Massachusetts Daylily Society (SMDS)Pat Wessling320 Mendall RoadAcushnet, MA [email protected]

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Hemerocallis ‘Cobbs Hill Jester’ (Zettek, C. 2012) Photo: Chris Petersen

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