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Region 12 of the American Hemerocallis Society

Spring 2013 • Vol. 6, No. 1

“Spring Regional Registration” Insert

“Meet Michelle Peterson” Page 5

“Tour Gardens” 3

“POP Poll” Pages 16-17

“New & Future Intros” Pages 20-24

In This Issue…

AHS PresidentJulie Covington 4909 Labradore Dr., Roanoke, VA 24012-8537540-977-1704

Vice PresidentBrenda Macy109 W Poplar St., Elizabethtown, KY [email protected] or [email protected]

Chief Financial OfficerJohn H. Martin (Bob)1636 Sunset Ave., Orange City, FL [email protected](386) 775-0726

Executive SecretaryPat MercerPO Box 10, Dexter, GA [email protected]

EditorMeg McKenzie1936 Wensley Ave., El Centro, CA [email protected]

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Region 12 PresidentRay Wensell1900 St. George Ct.Middleburg, Florida [email protected] Regional DirectorBob Martin1636 Sunset Ave.Orange City, Florida [email protected] TreasurerMark Headley1110 West Cason St.Plant City, FL 33565(863) [email protected] SecretaryKay Smith232 Gulf Blvd.Indian Rocks Bch., FL 33785(727) [email protected] Exhibition Judge LiaisonFloyd Sewell1831 Ocean Dr. S.Jacksonville Beach, Florida(904) [email protected] Garden Judges LiaisonJoe Agosta7444 Creekridge Cr.Tallahassee, FL 32309(850) [email protected]

Science ChairFloyd Sewell1831 Ocean Dr. S.Jacksonville Beach, [email protected] New Members LiaisonGayle Nipper7502 Swindon Rd.Tampa, Florida [email protected]

HistorianSandy Soderburg903 Jungle Ave. NSt. Petersberg, FL 33710(727) [email protected] Newsletter EditorGreg Crane4251 14th Lane NESt. Petersburg, FL [email protected]

Regional Publicity DirectorMichelle Peterson 772 NW Avens St.Port St. Lucie, FL 34983-1106 [email protected]

Ways and MeansRandy Flemming9431 North Holland RoadPanama City, FL [email protected] W.E. Monroe Endowment Fund LiaisonOttis Houston2147 SW State Road 47Lake City, Florida 32025386-752-4654 Awards and HonorsGene Perry226 SW Whippoorwill WayLake City, Florida [email protected]

Cover Photo- Mark Sattlemeier seedling for future introduction. Photo by Mark Sattlemeier.

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RP’s Message…

Ray Wensell Region 12 President

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It’s time to start getting our Gardens in shape for the spring, which is always a

lot of work, pulling weeds, putting down fresh fertilizer and mulch for those that use mulch. Over the past 10+ years of growing Daylilies I have come up with some ideas that work very well in North Florida. A couple of growers in southwest Florida have been using one of the products that I use in North Florida. This product is widely used on golf courses. Quantum Growth is like having a fertilizer factory making 10-5-2 continually. Having healty soil is the key to strong plants. If you have healthy soil you will have strong plants which will produce good blooms with great color. Regular use restores nature’s microorganisms to the soil allowing the plants to absorb the nutrients it needs to reach its full growth potential. Quantum Growth is 100% natural, and plants tested with Quantun Growth need-ed lass water and fertilizer. It’s a win-win for our plants. If any member of Region 12 would like to use this product, I will be

able to bring the Quantum Growth with me to the Spring Regional Meeting in St. Pete. If you have any questions please call me. My home phone is 904-215-9457.

For the Spring Regional we need to have a good showing from all our clubs.

Ray Wensell

A contributionat

the Supporting Levelhas been made

to theWilliam E. MonroeEndowment Fund

by theTallahassee Hemerocallis

Society,c/o Opal Howell,

926 Rosemary Terrace,Tallahassee, FL 32303

The contribution is in memory of:

Emily Hawthorne

Battle with Warm and Cold Weather WeedsBy Floyd Sewell

For flower beds one of the best preventive I have worked with is Snap Shot, which you can spread over the top of your plants. So after clearing out all the weeds, apply mulch if you have not already done so and then use any of the other following products:

Atrazine, oryzalin (Surflan), benefin (Sta-Green Crabgrass Preventer), benefin + trifulralin (Sta-Green Crabgrass Preventer, Hi-Yeild Crab-grass Preventer), bensulide (Pro Turf Weegrass, Presan, Green Light Betasan Crabgrass Preventer, or pendimethalin (Pre-M, Turfweedgrass Contral, Pendulum, Halts Crebgrass Preventer.

All of the above will only last 60-90 days, so will need to reapply to prevent seed germination

To Region 12 Regional President and Endowments Liaison

A contributionat

the Supporting levelhas been made


by theCentral Florida Daylily

Society,c/o Kermit Gay, Treasurer,

3538 Cullen Lake Shore Dr. Belle Isle, FL 32812

The contributionis in memory of:Bill Norris

A contributionat

the Silver levelhas been made


by theSuwannee Valley

Hemerocallis Soceity,c/o Ottis Houston

2147 SW State Road 47Lake City, FL 32025.

The contributionis in memory of:Steve Hoenich

RPD Corner

Once again we come to the end of a very successful year. The Daylilies

are now in their winter garb and look very green and luscious. Dormants are just peeping out of the ground, weeds are at a minimum and we all look forward to the next season, which begins for me in early February with a feeding to kick start the plants into growth. Throughout the winter we have attended meetings, learned about soil management, fertilization and general Daylily management and we are now ready to put what we have learned into practice.

The highlights of 2012 were of course the Spring Regional in Jacksonville/ Orange Park where the Jacksonville club astounded us further south members with an outstanding show of blooms in April. Very well done Ray your club members did us proud. This was followed by a fall meeting in Tampa/St Pete where the pre- meeting at Kay and Ivan’s house on the Gulf Coast will long be remembered for the magnificent view, the show of hospital-ity and the dinner that followed at Crabby Bills. Who also can forget the Popularity poll? With its winner of Spacecoast Seashells, by John Kinnebrew and 2nd place to Joe Agosta’s for Mark’s Bouquet; two magnificent Daylilies both hybridized right here in Florida.

At the National Convention in Columbus OH Dan Trimmer received an Honorable Mention for Calamity Jane, Fashion Police. Isabel’s Spider, Martin Blondeel and Parrots of the Caribbean. While Jane received honorable mentions for Discarded Beauty, Firebird Suite, Ginger Swallowtail, Microchip and Microwave. John Kinnebrew received honorable Mentions for Spacecoast Irish Illumination, Spacecoast Lunatic Fringe and Spacecoast Ojo Rojo. The late Bob Carr received an honorable mention for Wonder of it All. Ted Petit received an Honorable Mention for Just Fabulous and Ted’s Tribute to Linda, while Elizabeth Salter received an Honorable Mention for Fairy Firecracker. I wish to congratulate all the hybridizers on such a good show and may 2013 prove to be an even better year.

Congratulations to Joe Agosta for winning the Region 12 Service Award, very well done Joe, thank you for your extensive service to Region 12.

Greg Crane received an award for the best article printed in The Daylilian about Daylily Personalities, for his Article named The Tallahassee Queens. Well done Greg. We will always remember these fine ladies.

I would like to draw your attention now if I may to some of the many new changes

that have occurred in the AHS this past year. Did you know that paid members of AHS can now get the AHS Daylily Journal on line at the AHS Website? All show materials are on the AHS web site and soon to be available on the Members Portal. Many of the previously printed AHS documents are also available on line, and this streamlining is designed not only for membership ease but also to cut the cost of postage, that has helped cause some financial issues for the AHS.

I wish you all a great growing season, may all your blooms be fantastic and win many prizes, God bless you all.

Bob MartinDir. Region 12 AHS

Bob MartinRegional Director

NewS aBout the

AHS Bertie Ferris Youth Scholarship

At the November 10, 2012 AHS Board meeting, the Board approved changes to the Bertie Ferris Scholarship guidelines and

application form, effective January 1, 2013.

The updated guidelines include the following:

1) A $1,000.00 scholarship is to be offered annually unless there was no winner the previous year, then two $1,000.00 scholarships will be offered.

2) The qualification of a high school student enrolled in a dual credit program was added. The application form has been simplified. The application form and complete details of the scholarship are on the AHS web site www.daylilies.org

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an obsession in Its Infancy

Growing up in Pennsylvania and see-ing miles of country roadsides lined

with masses of orange daylilies was a breathtaking sight. Many a summer day my grandmother would shout to halt the car. She’d drop down on her knees by a mass of blooming daylilies. Her pristine nurse’s fingernails would dig deep into the soil. Her fingers would expertly loosen the dirt. And her hands would emerge with a clump of trumpet-shaped blooms and dark green foliage, their fleshy golden roots peeking though her handful of rich, black earth. The apricot daylilies would be taken home and added to a corner of her garden, along with her many other roadside acquisitions. And so my interest in daylilies began.

Throughout the years I’ve always had a small variety of daylilies in my garden. Daylilies were a perennial garden staple – something I looked forward to seeing year after year. Daylilies always grew and thrived … until I moved to south Florida.

At first I noticed that daylilies were dif-ficult to find. Local nurseries rarely offered anything except Stella Doro. So I made a few bare root purchases online, and planted

them hoping for my usual success. Howev-er few hemerocallis survived a full growing season in my garden.

Daylilies weren’t the only plants that did not do well for me. Sadly, it seemed that my green thumb had come to Florida to retire. So off I went to my local county ex-tension office to seek help. There I found out about the Florida Master Gardener pro-gram. A few months later I was a “certified” Master Gardener. And I learned that I knew very little about gardening. The fertile soil and amble rains of Pennsylvania did not prepare me for the challenges of the poor, sandy soil and extreme heat of St. Lucie County.

After a little research, I discovered that I could grow daylilies in my hot Florida gar-den, they just had to be the right kind. I discovered importance of foliage – dormant daylilies will not grow in my area and ever-greens do best. I discovered the importance of amending the soil with organic matter to provide a good foundation. I discovered the importance of mulching and watering and feeding. I also discovered the variety of different sizes and forms and colors and

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patterns and textures and substance and branching. And soon I discovered that my interest in daylilies was moving to another level.

I now have over 100 different varieties of daylilies growing in my south Florida gar-den. Much to my husband’s despair, I know I won’t stop there. My wish list seems to be growing exponentially. Sadly, I know that this obsession is only in its infancy. Happily, I know that it will become a rather magnificent obsession.

Michelle PetersonRegional Publicity Director

Michelle PetersonRegional Publicity Director

MEET OUR NEW RPD

Michelle Peterson has 20+ professional years experience in

non-profit marketing, communications and fundraising. She earned her Master’s in Business Administration from Lehigh University, completed two years of Arts Administration graduate studies at the University of Cincinnati College- Conservatory of Music, and received her Bachelor of Arts in Theater Management at Moravian College. She has been certified in Customer Service Excellence by the Disney Institute, and received certificates of recognition on the state and local level for her achievements in community and public relations in San Diego, California. As a Florida Master Gardener and

Florida Advanced Beekeeper, Michelle leverages her skills in writing and leadership training. She has published a number of articles, serves on the Newsletter Committee of the St. Lucie County Master Gardeners, and performs continuous outreach and public speaking about gardening and the importance of bees and other pollinators. She has been videotaped for television, and has appeared on local radio programs. She presented at the March 2012 University of Florida Bee College in St. Augustine, FL, and at the 32nd Annual Florida Master Gardener Conference in Clearwater, FL in October, 2012. She is scheduled to speak at the Florida Federation of Garden Clubs/

University of Florida Short Course in June 2013. Michelle serves as a Board of Director and co-chairs the Horticulture Committee for the Friends of the Port Saint Lucie Botanical Gardens. She recently co-founded and is Secretary for the Treasure Coast Hibiscus Society. In 2011, she founded the Treasure Coast Beekeepers Association, and currently serves as president, as well as a board of manager for the Florida State Beekeep-ers Association. She is also a member of the American Hemerocallis Society, the Florida Native Plant Society, and the Heathcote Botanical Gardens in Fort Pierce.

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Bill Norris was a prince of a fella. Low key, quiet, liked to stay in the back-

ground but he was always willing to help when it came to promoting daylilies. When you got in a conversation with Bill, the sub-ject of daylilies would soon be woven in. My most memorable time with Bill was when I had made plans to organize a daylily club in

A TRIBUTE TO BILL NORRIS

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With the December 29, 2012, death of William “Bill” Norris, Region 12

lost a venerable daylily icon. Born May 18, 1931, Bill was a member of Region 12 since the early 1960’s and Sunbelt Daylily Chap-ter since 1979. As a founding member of the Sunbelt club, Bill was an active participant, holding vari-ous club offices from time to time. He also headed AHS national conventions held in Florida and was awarded the highest AHS service award, the Helen Field Fischer Gold Medal in 2010. Partnered with his wife Jean, Bill traveled to various national locations as an exhibi-tion judge, a garden judge, and an accred-ited clinic instructor. In these roles he was called upon for his extensive knowledge of various daylily awards, cultivars, and ter-minology. Region 12 and AHS will miss this dedicated member deeply.

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the Lake City area. I immediately thought of him when someone with experience was needed to answer our questions. A group of 10 local people met at my house around our dining table with Bill to begin the process of organizing a club. As anticipated, he gave a short talk on what we could expect and what we needed to do to get

the club activated. We were all fired up after that and we got off to a great start, thanks to his motivating talk. At the end of our meeting, he reached under the table and pulled out a daylily he had brought to auction to get our treasurey started. He would not tell us the name of the plant until after the plant sold. It was a very recent introduction and sold for $35. Thanks, Bill!

Ottis Houston

Region 12Photography Contest

We are going to have a Photography contest for the region and for all

of you who are photographers and take pictures of Daylilies, now’s your chance to show off. Here are the particulars and it is the hope of many that you become involved. You may just get the opportunity to have your photograph published and win a prize at that.Rules for the contest are as follows: •Youmustbeanactivememberin

your local Daylily Club •Anentrantmaysubmitonlyfive(5)

digital images in each category.

•Eachentrymaybesubmittedinonly one category.

•DeadlinefortheentrywillbeMay1st

•Allentriesshouldbesubmittedbyemail to Greg Crane - [email protected]

•Nobordersortextsshouldbeusedon the photos.

•Noentrantmaywintheawardinany contest more than three times within a five year period

•Apanelofjudgeswillevaluateallentries. Of these, two must be members of the AHS and serve as garden or exhibition judges on the local level.

•Allentriesmustbein.jpgformat

only. Full sizes are preferred. Only reduce if they exceed the email limitations.

•Individualimagesizemustnotexceed 1 MB.

Categories include •Individualbloom •Multiplebloom •Daylilycompanions(thisisfor

flowers with other items along side or in. (i.e. butterflies, bees, bugs, dogs, cats, etc.

Get those camera’s out and start snapping!Who knows, you might have more talent than you thought!

Greg CraneEditor

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A Road Less Traveled

Somewhere between Bonifay Florida and Hartford Alabama there lies a hid-

den treasure of daylilies pretty much in the middle of nowhere. These out-of-the way places seem to always harbor a bounty of beautiful beds of flowers that never seem to disappoint. Such is the case with the gar-den of Mark Sattelmeier.

I’m of the opinion that every daylily grower needs at least one garden dog. Pref-erably, the non-digging breed. Mark has two dogs, Shadow- a lab mix of some sort that showed no sign of unearthing clumps. It might be that Shadow had passed his prime. Now, he would make you think twice about coming onto the property, however once we made friends passage was allowed. Then, I met Bam. This little fellow was a wired-hair terrier mix that had the whitest teeth of any canine critter I have ever seen. Seriously! It was if the dog had bleached his teeth. I’m all about good oral hygene, but this was taking it to the next level. Once Bam realized that I was a dog lover, I was immediately accepted as a friendly visitor. Did I mention that the dogs’ teeth were snow white??? Oh well, I digress. Back to daylilies…

Mark has lived in Bonifay now for some five years. He actually moved to Florida from Michigan to the warmer climate and bought his 12 acre spread. However, Mark got his start in Onions. Yes, Mark was growing onions and was about to take a load to the Farmer’s Market when someone told him “you might want to sell something else to kind of get people interested in your onions.” The suggestion was daylilies. They were easy to dig and sell and people knew the flower and were often eager to buy. So, he bought a bunch of daylilies from the Netherton’s and off to the market he went. There were ladies literally grabbing the daylilies out of his hands and not paying much attention to the onions. It didn’t take long for him to realize that daylilies was the path that he was to follow.

Mark is doing one thing that many of us need to start. He is mentoring a young hy-bridizer. That’s right, meet Dylan McClary. He lives next door to Mark and has already learned the art of hybridizing at the age of eight. Dylan likes reds and is trying to get something really special to introduce. He could possibly be one of the youngest hybridizers in Florida. Keep up the good

work Dylan and a big round of applause for Mark taking time to show Dylan the intri-cacies of hybridizing.

Mark has made some big changes to the property since I was last there a couple of years ago. He now has a good deal of his stock under a shade cloth. Since he doesn’t have too many trees except on the pere-miter of property this is something he re-ally needed.

Asked about some advice for growing and hybridizing, Mark said “when choosing

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Dylan McClarey

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A Road Less TraveledContinued from page 7

a plant, choose it because you like it, not because someone else says it good, or it does this or that. Use your eye to pick the flowers you want to grow or cross.” Mark uses Nutricote, Alfalfa pellets, and good soil in his pots. He has even tried running his sprinklers in a cold spell and coating them for protection, like the strawberry growers do down my way.

Mark introduced one flower this past year. He was so very kind to send us a double fan of it for our Fall Regional live auction last October. It is H. ‘A Tribute to Mary Gaskins’. Here is the remarkable thing about this cultivar…it opens around 9:00 PM at night and stays open until at least 24 hours the next night. It is 30 inches and

carries a 6 inch bloom that is a diamond dusted light pink blush that turns creamy white with yellow glittered ruffled edge with angel wings. It has six-way branching on a sturdy scape with up to 30 buds.

When he stores pollen, he has found that match boxes seem to be his best option. “Ever have a wet match out of one of those boxes?” he asks. Come to think of it, no. “Those boxes are made that way for a rea-son-to keep the matches dry. It also keeps your pollen really dry too!”

Mark has six seedlings coming out this year. One of them is featured on the front cover of the newsletter. You can tell by the photos that he has some seriously nice seedlings coming out that he is very excited about. Teeth, dark rich colors, and strong substance is what he is striving for.

He also does a big selling business on the

Let me start out by telling you that once upon a time I hated daylilies. I wouldn’t

have taken a daylily if it was given to me. I really don’t know why I didn’t like them, but I just didn’t. In 2009 I moved to a place that needed lots of TLC in the landscape. I set out to find plants that were easy to care for; ba-sically just plop them in the ground, wa-ter, and fertilize once in a while. I started searching the internet for “easy to care for” plants and Daylilies kept coming up in my searches. I started reading about them and what I was reading is that they were pest re-sistant and disease resistant; these were ge-neric gardening sites, not daylily sites and there were no photos. Now keep in mind that I hated daylilies so I just dismissed this carefree plant. One day I was at one of the big box stores looking in their garden center and I saw this beautiful flower in bloom and had to go investigate to see what it was all about. To my surprise it was a daylily, a pretty eyed one and they had several other varieties. I looked at the tags and liked the picture on them, however, I was NOT about to pay $5.00 for a plant. Each time I went back to look at other plants or buy potting soil I

kept eyeing these beautiful blooms but the $5.00 price tag kept me away. I was pay-ing this same price or more for other plants mind you, but these I was familiar with them and knew they would come back ev-ery year bigger and better. The sales paper came out one week and daylilies were on sale for $2.25 so I hurried to the store and bought 2 of each variety they had which gave me 10 daylilies. These daylilies all bloomed for me that year and I just fell in love with them. The following year, 2010, I was making more beds and I went to a local nursery who was having a sale on daylilies so I figured I buy some more. I bought 10 or 12 of the same ones for a clump effect; they were all “LIT-TLE WART” and I just loved the lavender color. They had a whole section of daylilies, but most of the tags were not on them or they were so faded you couldn’t read them. I bought a few of the ones that had tags and would stop in when I would pass by and see blooms open to see if I liked them. I bought several here and there because I just wanted landscape plants so it didn’t matter if I knew what the names were or not. I searched the internet for info on daylil-ies and just like most people, I had no idea

there were so many different colors and edges and eyes OH MY. I found photos and websites and message boards galore. I went on a quest searching for daylilies locally and did find some different ones at various places but was not satisfied with just buy-ing these. I found a few sales on these mes-sage boards and just went crazy weekly to see if they had more. I was still cruising the internet and came across one message board and decided to join since they had a daylily forum. Some-one from the board told me about the day-lily club meeting that was going to be held

Lily Auction. He sells some 5,000 plants a year. Perhaps if you buy from the auction you have seen his plants. He goes under the seller name of Abundantdaylilies. I have personally bought many flowers from Mark and I have never been disappointed in what he sends me. Always seems to be more fans than what I expected.

There are a couple of ways you can con-tact Mark. One – check out his flowers on Daylilies.net; or as earlier stated Lilyauction.com/abundantdaylilies.com. Or call and schedule a visit to his garden this spring. He can be reached at 850-547-0915.

Remember, those roads less traveled can sure turn up some gold mines of adven-tures. Take some time and see the awesome daylily garden of Mark and others around the wonderful state of Florida.

Greg CraneRegion 12

The ROAD TO MY ADDICTIONFROM 0 to 250 in 1.5 (years that is)By Michele taylor

Michele TaylorPensacola Daylily Club PresidentRegion 12

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Once or twice I have been told by a visitor “This looks like fun, but the

whole idea of setting up a seedling area like this is daunting.” I remember that feeling. So! I have agreed to reveal all my secrets!

Hint the first: none of this is secret.

Hint the second: you don’t have to do it the way I do. Do what makes the most sense to you.

For the purpose of this article, I presume that you have learned how to make day-lily seeds on your own plants. Until you know whether this part appeals to you, don’t bother creating a seedlings area. But you may already have those delightful little green spears coming up! Now what?

I started, at the old house, with a small selection of young seedlings gifted me an enabling friend. I planted them in a few raised beds (edged with lumber) and inad-equate soil. That original determination of bed dimensions hasn’t changed much, but I learned to amend the sand to create, you know, soil. Not only does good soil help plants grow, but, bonus!, it also discourages nematodes.

Area:

How much area do you need? It depends on how many seedlings you get. I usually have a 60-70% seed to seedling rate, and I usually make 300 or 400 seeds a season, from about 25 pod parents. Some years are better, some worse. This current batch looks to be not much over 200 seeds. Gen-erally, I can set out 80 to 90 new seedlings in a bed ten feet long by two and a half feet wide. The latter width is about as far

How to organize your seedlings area:Nature doesn’t care how orderly you want to be.By terri Jones

as I care to reach from one side, although it isn’t comfortable. I arrived at these mea-surements due to space constraints and my own body’s abilities. Your mileage may vary. Try not to be greedy. I once tried three foot wide beds. That was annoying. Be realistic. Paths also need to be wide enough that you can kneel without destroying seedlings be-hind you. Ask me how I know that…

Essentially, the area problem is a math problem, with several sometimes signifi-cant variables. My entire area is mulched, no grass. Grass competes. Baby daylilies do not need any competition. The plant-ing spacing and weed patrol are important. Once the plants are larger, their own shade inhibits some weeds.

Planting:

I never plant a seedling before it has three long leaves. Usually there are four. Florida soil is not the kindest soil for baby daylilies, and I want mine to have some small advan-tage. I had total loss when direct-sowing, so I never do that. Seeds are germinated in a 1% hydrogen peroxide solution, then planted in pots of fertilized potting soil. Until they sprout, they’re in a cold frame for moisture control. My cold frame is a big glass tank that used to be a mouse contain-er. It lives in Magnolia shade because glass in Florida magnifies heat when in sun. A cooked seed is a dead seed. Mark made a Plexiglas lid for the tank, but boards and a clear plastic bag worked pretty well before that. Improvise. And be careful about sun at this stage. In the wild, seeds germinate and grow at the pod parent’s base, in shade. Nature will tell you what works if you’ll

think about it.

When I plant out from the pots, the plastic labels I used in the pots are also transplanted, at the beginning of each row. If there’s more than one row, there is more than one label. This reduces confusion. That’s kind of my mantra. Life delivers enough free confusion as it is.

If you have so much trouble keeping your rows straight as you plant that you can’t avoid running them into each other as you progress along a row, use a yardstick or any piece of dimensional lumber as a guide. I can usually manage straight enough rows. But I began learning to do this by using a 1 x 4 that was about three feet long, which allowed a few inches on either side for the digging of that pair of rows. That works really well. Now I can use my hand as a measuring tool. That’s faster. But I recom-mend “cheating” with a guide until you learn how to do without. It’s annoying to be unable to tell which cross that pretty flower belongs to! I have a supply of bricks now, so I use the length of a brick (about 8”) to remind me where I’m headed to on the far side of a bed. It helps a lot, particularly when I am tired!

Baby daylilies sometimes have a real crown, so you need to plant those just like a mature daylily but on a small scale. It’s important to avoid breaking roots. Often a four-leaf seedling isn’t that far along yet. For those, you stab a vertical hole, rock the trowel to one side, lay the baby in so that its future crown will be just below the surface, gently remove the trowel, and tuck in soil

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around the plant. Be careful about depth. You can kill or stunt seedlings by planting them too deeply. They will also sometimes dig themselves in deeper as their roots grow, so you might need to re-set them later. But don’t set them in too shallowly either, or the roots will dry out and they may die. They are babies, so they are needier than the more mature plants.

During their first year, seedlings do well at four to six inches apart within a row, in rows six to eight inches apart. (Pay atten-tion to parentage though. Example: I set ‘Gravity Schmavity’ seedlings farther apart because GS passes its vigor on to its proge-ny.) I set each cross in its own row(s) across the width (the 2.5’ dimension) as much as possible, because that is less confusing than putting two crosses in one row. I use one tag per row per cross. If a cross fills up part of the next row, that partial row gets its own tag. Label, label, label. Also, Sharpies are not UV resistant. Use a garden marker, a pencil, a paint pen. Florida sun bleaches out lesser markings. And:

Tracking Part I:

I ALWAYS create a paper map of every seedling bed, updated as soon as I’m done each day. Tags go missing, or break, or fade. Baby daylilies look remarkably alike. And my memory has never been good. Ani-mals occasionally interfere with neatness… Once, an armadillo dug out part of a seed-lings bed, so be aware that nature also has a say in how accurate your seedlings notes get to be.

Every experienced hybridizer creates codes for parent plants. I learned from a hybridizer, so I started with a permanent code for each parent I use. New parent, new code. Because Excel has an excellent sort function, I can be quite sure I have not duplicated a code. So, a cross might be SOF* X MW* - that would be (Soldier of Fortune X Martian Walkabout)*. The codes are much faster to write on tags and notes and maps than full names are. This is particularly true once I started using my seedlings as parent plants. [(MRAJ) X ((AJ(KTMHWOW4)-1))]* is much shorter than writing the complete names of those seedlings’ cultivar parents. That would be five names, 13 words.

As seedlings become permanent mem-bers of my daylily tribe, they get their own label, with the cross code plus a number. You are the sole dictator of how you label your seedlings, so your code can include the year or anything else that you find use-ful. Just remember, brevity is the point.

This may all seem daunting to read. It isn’t daunting in practice. You’ll know your favorite pod parents as well as you know your address. It’s all just practice. It is okay to start small, and in fact I advise that.

I keep the seedlings more or less with their group per year, so that tracking first year bloomers is much easier. And tracking any improvements in second and third year bloomers is also easy. (Usually by the fourth bloom year, a seedling is either a keeper (parent stock), a keeper seedling destined for registration (pre-reg), or it has been culled.) The bigger the seedlings, the more room they need. I go from 80 per bed to closer to 50, for mature three and four year

old seedlings. If you have just one seedling bed, then group similar-aged plants, and adjust spacing according to the plants sizes. As long as the soil is good, daylilies don’t seem to mind crowding, plus it inhibits weed germination.

I want plants hardy in Florida’s unforgiv-ing summers, but I often use or buy seeds from northern-hardy parents. Deaths are normal.

Culling:

Culling must become a big part of hy-bridizing over time, mostly because day-lilies are generous. Should you continue hybridizing, you will need that valuable space. Getting rid of plants you don’t like or can’t use is critical.

I cull due to poor growth, ugliness (defi-nitions of ugly vary), and being boring. There is no excuse to keep boring daylil-ies, kids. Have you seen the catalogs? If you have three seedlings from the same cross and you can’t tell them apart, cull two, or all three for the crime of offering nothing new. If you make the same cross every year for ten years, and plant out at least ten seedlings from it every year, then you might get an idea of the genetic po-tential, if there is any. It’s a numbers game. Dull daylilies will quickly overwhelm your garden if you “can’t bear” to throw away the chaff. Remember, the plants don’t care. Nature assures more! Do the world a favor and cull what isn’t gorgeous or very useful toward gorgeous (to you).

Tracking Part II:

I use Excel for record keeping, because I can not only track the plants from parent-age to progeny, I can import photos. Full

How to Organize...Continued from page 9

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information AND a picture! There are other spreadsheet and database programs. Try some until you find what works for you.

I take photos of every seedling flower ev-ery day possible, and in beds order (I have eleven) to reduce confusion. I rename the photo files from notes upon download, be-cause my memory is terrible. I resize, crop, and file them so that, when they’re not blooming, I have references. This is a daily routine. This care is particularly important for registration and for culling purposes. Our minds are wonderful but not trustwor-thy. I create solid data from which to work and learn. My garden is my lab. Mistakes are made, but they are minimized.

The whole rhythm covers most of a year. Right now there are less than 200 2012 seedlings. But by planting time there will be a little over that. Some will not survive. That’s okay. They weren’t strong enough for

Florida, or they were genetically flawed, or the gardener damaged them during plant-ing and a pathogen got them. It’s all okay, nature is messy. There are more where that came from.

So, to sum up: My best advice is, begin. Do a little planning ahead. Sneak up on what you’ll actually need for a seedlings area. Or, sneak up on what you can actually handle. Both apply. My deliberate seedlings space limitations were very wise. I wish I’d done that with the rest of the garden… There are some things that gardeners never learn…

EXHIBITION JUDGES - REGION 12Last Name First Name Refresher Address City State Zip Phone Email AddressAlito Elaine EX-I 2014 6171 47th Ave, N Kenneth City FL 33709 727-544-9207 [email protected] Joan E/H 0 1322 SE Brewster Place Stuart FL 34997 772-288-6559Caldwell Martha S 2015 713 Dove Creek Cir. Orange Park FL 32073-4298 904-272-0018 [email protected] Edward EX 2013 1836 8th St Orlando FL 32820-2407 407-568-0956 [email protected] Susan EX 2013 1836 8th St Orlando FL 32820-2407 407-568-0956 [email protected] Greg EX 2013 4251 14th Lane NE St. Peterburg FL 33703 205-454-8116 [email protected] Joan EX 2015 5425 S. Landing Terrace Inverness FL 34450-7284 352-419-5087 [email protected] Thomas EX 2012 6700 Highway 99 Molino FL 32577 850-587-3029 [email protected], Jr. Fred W. EX-I 2013 10625 Point Overlook Dr Clermont FL 34711-7319 352-241-8070 [email protected] Curtis EX 2012 1729 Coulee Ave Jacksonville FL 32210 904-781-5092 [email protected] C.J. EX 2015 3801 Pelican Lane Orlando FL 32803-3030 407-896-9232 [email protected] Virginia EX 2015 3801 Pelican Lane Orlando FL 32803-3030 407-896-9232 [email protected] HarveyHarvey Emelina E/H 0 5341 Locksley Ave. Orlando FL 32810-4935 407-298-2161Harvey James H. EX 2013 5341 Locksley Ave. Orlando FL 32810-4935 407-298-2161Headley Mark EX-I 2015 1110 W. Cason Street Plant City FL 33565-0000 813-759-6924 [email protected] Gloria EX-J 2014 1 Key Capri Unit 312 E Treasure Island FL 33706-4912 727-432-0356 [email protected] Dennis EX 2013 6100 90th Ave Pinellas Park FL 33782 722-547-5345 [email protected] Ottis EX-I 2010 RT10 Box 841 6100 90th Ave Lake City FL 32025-9180 386-752-4654 [email protected] Opal EX-I 2014 926 Rosemary Terrace Tallahassee FL 32303-3909 850-386-1076 [email protected] Fern EX-I 2015 1651 Palm Ave Winter Park FL 32789-1648 407-647-7096 [email protected] Geoffrey S 2011 70 Lark Ave Brooksville FL 34601-1319 952-544-0330 [email protected] Wayne EX-I 2014 1651 Palm Ave Winter Park FL 32789-1648 407-647-7096 [email protected] John EX 2015 Box 224 Scottsmoor FL 32775-0224 321-267-7985 [email protected] Bob EX-J 2015 1636 Sunset Ave Orange City FL 32763 386-775-0726 [email protected] Sara EX-J 2015 1636 Sunset Ave Orange City FL 32764 386-775-0727 [email protected] Henry EX-I 2013 4224 Settlers Ct St. Cloud FL 34772-0000 407-957-7010 [email protected] Sara Jill EX 2014 364 Hickory Lane Havana FL 32333-0000 850-539-5775 [email protected] Gayle EX/J 2014 7502 Swindon Rd Tampa FL 33615 813-323-7571 [email protected] Richard EX 2014 6350 Allmont St. Port St. John FL 32927-8991 321-795-2228 [email protected] Gene EX 2014 226 SW Whippoorwill Way Lake City FL 32024 386-530-4768 [email protected] Tracy S 2014 1713 SW 82nd Dr Gainesville FL 32607 352-283-1944 [email protected] Maryzell EX-I 2014 1414 Idlewild Dr Tallahassee FL 32311-5310 850-878-0449 [email protected] Linda EX-I 2015 3603 Lightner Drive Tampa FL 33629-8231 813-831-8294 [email protected] Floyd EX-I 2014 1831 Ocean Dr. S Jacksonville Beach FL 32250-6242 904-246-6422 [email protected] Carolyn EX-I 2013 5418 Weller Pl Jacksonville FL 32211-6965 no listing [email protected] Kay EX-I 2012 232 Gulf Blvd Indian Rocks Beach FL 33785 727-595-5991 [email protected] Jennifer EX-I 2014 P.O. Box 136032 Clermont FL 34713-6032 863-258-2828 [email protected] Ray EX 2012 1900 St. George Ct. Middleburg FL 32068 904-215-9457 [email protected] Betty EX 2014 2511 W. Tharpe Street Tallahassee FL 32303-3307 850-385-2682

E/H = Honorary S = Student EX = Senior E/J = Junior I = Instructor Bold = Regional Liaison

While organizing old daylily catalogs, I came across Lady Bug Beautiful of

Winter Springs, FL, 1994, owner, Ra Han-sen.

I sat down immediately and started reading. Ra began her article with, “Dear Friends and New Customers” She wrote about her new Lady Bug Intros stating, “All the fancy adjectives in describing my new releases is not as effective as saying if not pleased just ask for replacement”. Ra thanked everyone for making her 12th year of shipping an-other great year. In the spring of 1994 she attended the National Convention in CA.

“I plan to pack a hard hat, sleep with my clothes on and tuck a flash light under my pillow in case the “big one” at 8.6 hits. I’ll skedaddle outta there fast, after only 3 days, back to my hurricanes!”

Continuing, Ra stated that she “WAS de-lighted to hear that when several Daylily Clubs did critiques on ’93 shippers; that Ladybug AGAIN ranked UP there for FAT healthy plants. I can read between the lines of her article and feel how happy she was”.

In the Spring of 1993, Ra broke her leg just 45 minutes before the Alabama Bus pulled up to tour her garden. “My kind hearted thoughtful Ocean Engineer son, Dan took a

hiatus from crawling around on the floor of the Pacific ocean to fly in to help me part of May, all June, (later all of September)”.

On page 3, “LADY BUG GARDENS USE NO PESTICIDES: Shipped Plants must be washed AND are dunked into a STINKY bleach. Boxes often retain this peculiar smell. Plants are often fan dried briefly be-fore wrapping. A wet plant can “heat boil” in shipments. For MANY years it has been UNLAWFUL and a FEDERAL Violation re-sulting in the closing down of Nurseries for any FL FIELD grown plants to be shipped out of

state with ANY soil attached…even hold-ing an Inspection Certificate because FL is a FIRE ANT QUARANTINE STATE. Eggs are very minute and hardly visible. Besides you won’t want even one little seed of FL’s strain of weeds! No mite or aphid hitches a ride… and WE don’t have to spray Poi-sons! We had armadillos raiding the worm filled beds – now if I could just dunk them in something stronger than bleach water I’d be forever grateful! The old devils took out 42 clumps of Charlie Pierce Memorial and over 20 Janet Gayles causing spoilage SO bad in our record breaking August heat that we had to destroy all the plants”.

REGION 12 – Archives/HistoryBy Sandy Soderberg

The old black and white catalog has given way to the beautiful colorful catalogs of to-day. On Dan’s web site he has posted many pages from his mother’s diaries. So very interesting to read the history of Lady Bug that if you have a moment log on. I found it fastinating.

I never met Ra but reading through her catalogs and Dan’s on-line excerpts from her diaries, I feel that I lost out on meeting a wonderful, personable, fun loving, and sincere person.

I am looking forward to Dan’s annual BBQ on May 16th beginning at 5:00 p.m., to kick off MECCA weekend. Hope to see many of you there.

NOTE: I am beginning to organize the Region 12 Daylilian magazines, past news letters, periodicals, old catalogs of our hy-bridizers, and, you know what I am going to ask. Yes, I will be attending the Spring Regional Meeting and will be available to collect any of the above plus anything else you would like to give me for our archives.

Favorite Recipe from my mother:

BBQ PoRK ChoPS

Cut Aluminum foil large enough to fit around and cover a

pork chop. Begin with cutting enough foil in round circles

for as many pork chops you have.

Place your favorite BBQ sauce in center of foil.

On top of that place one pork chop.

Sprinkle chops with pepper, chopped onion, green

pepper, and top with BBQ sauce.

Bring foil up and loosely pinch top of foil together.

Place all foil wrapped pork chops in a glass baking dish

and bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour.Sandy Soderberg

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In 1999 Ellen and I came across a classified advertisement for a home on 4.25 acres in Pinellas Park. The owners were selling their parents home that hadn’t been occupied

for over two years. After meeting the owners in the driveway, they said we would either love it or hate it. The property was over grown and there was a three foot oak tree grow-ing in the debris on the roof. The house was surrounded by a Brazilian pepper tree forest and ten oak trees within a foot of the foundation. There was a large pond that could not be seen through the trees from the house. I always wanted a lot of land to pursue my love of gardening. We thought it had great potential, but even the interior of the house had issues: green yellow shag carpet with plenty of stains, everything out dated or not operating and no garage or carport. The former owners were correct; in the thirteen years that we have lived here, we have loved it and hated it, but we wouldn’t give it up for anything.We named the garden “Little Lake Lily Gardens” referring to the small lake that was cov-ered in lake lettuce and my love for Daylilies and other lilies. Many times, I wanted to rename it the “Garden of Weedin”. We have had a nursery license for many years, but have rarely sold a single plant.The garden was at its best in 2005 when Ellen and I felt younger. Now, the garden has been down sized to mainly to the front yard. The side yard is host to a few thousand seedlings and a vertical hydroponic grow system. A couple of acres are still wooded and are home to wildlife, particularly unusual for a city environment. It is currently home to hawks, owls, night herons and plenty of ground critters.

Nipper’s Garden started about eight years ago as an attempt to cut back

on the amount of effort it took to mow a large corner lot. It began with the thought that a number of different clump grasses would look nice and wouldn’t requiremuch maintenance. The biggest problem with getting the garden going was some of the neighbor-hood kids deciding to cut cookies throughthe yard with their cars. This required placement of vehicle deterrents cleverly disguised as fence posts… and rocks. Once the locals were trained, additional vegetation was needed. Somewhere along the line, daylilies were discovered.Little did I realize the addiction to these beauties. Not having the means to buy the newer, sometimes fancier cultivars, Ibecame more interested in developing an

Little Lake Lily Gardens - Dennis Hoffman

Nipper’s Garden - Gayle Nipper

Molly and H. ‘Homemade Love’Bee at work on H. ‘Pink Lemonade Party’

“Twas The Day After Spring Regional”

By Hilda Sewell

“Twas the day after Spring Regional;

our garden ablaze with flowers.

We wonder where those blooms had

been yesterday

….you know, during tour hours.

Being on tour had been ever so much

fun, seeing old friends;

enjoying the breeze.

And we enjoyed meeting some

new gardeners

....you know, they can still bend

their knees.

The garden was groomed as never before;

the work had been so extensive.

The end result was worth every effort

but ….you know, a chiropractor can be

somewhat expensive.

All those months of prepping,

trying to make the garden a delight.

The neighbors must think we’re crazy….

….you know, they may be right.

Ah, well, ‘tis the day after

Spring Regional;

we rest and think now and then

that maybe …say 100 years from now?

….you know, we might do this again.

Spring Regional

“historic” daylily garden. Now it’s more of a game to find the older daylilies. So as the garden evolves, so do my abilities with the flowers. I may “toil in the soil” but the only work there is a joy anda constant work in progress.

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Our Regional 12 Spring Meeting will feature four of our BADS mem-ber gardens. The tour includes the gardens of Gayle Nipper, Linda Sample, Dennis Hoffman, and Greg Crane. We welcome you to the Tampa Bay area for this year’s Spring Tour.

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CLINIC’S OFFERED AT

SPRING REGIONAL MEETING

Clinic IIntroduction to Daylilies and Characteristics

This excellent session will be instructed by Fern Johnson and Jennifer Suarez. No two finer folks can get you started into Judging Daylilies. Clinic IIKnowing how to Judge Daylilies for Competition

This session we are very fortunate to have Virginia and CJ Gregory as our instructors. They are outstanding Judges who are willing to share their knowledge. Opal Howell and Maryzell Roberts are going to be our Master panel for this clinic. Clinic IIIRefresher for Exhibition Judges

This group of Exhibition Judges will sit in on Clinic II for a true refresher of material and then adjourn to cover what is new in Judging from AHS, plus improvements that can be made for bet-ter judging.

ALL bring current Exhibition Judges Handbook.

Floyd SewellRegion 12 Exhibition Judges Liaison

Greg Crane’s “A Little Bit of Heaven” garden is located in St. Petersburg. He grows 320± cultivars in city garden on a lot that only measures 80 x 100. Greg and Melanie have a lot of native Florida perennials and palms growing along side their extensive collection of daylilies. Plus, there are whimsical creations in the garden that they have picked up on their journey’s throughout the state and southern regions.Greg says, “you will still see an area of grass in the front yard of the garden, but don’t look for it to be there for too much longer as my addiction to daylilies just keeps on growing.”

A Little Bit of Heaven - Greg Crane

“Gray and I have lived on Lightner Dr. for the past 25 years and the “garden” includes Gray’s parents’ yard also. It’s the usual ‘garden in progress’ as I’m currently trying to fill in lower maintenance plants among the daylilies and trees that maintain the stability. I start-ed with 5 daylilies in 1986 from my mother’s garden in Hammond, LA and after reducing my inventory significantly I now have 198 of my own plus 24 lovelies growing great in the Munson Hybridizer Bed. The rest of the garden is a mish mash of what I like including some FL natives. We hope we can provide some eye candy for gardeners.”

Garden of Linda and Gray Sample

the ultimateExperience

peak bloom

Beginning at 8:30 a.m: Champagne Brunch hosted by Ted and Susan Petit’s LePetit Jardin. All visitors will receive a free gift plant named for this event.

Nearby open gardens with light refreshments: Rollingwood Gardens and CrossBorder Daylilies. (All listed gardens will be open during the entire celebration.)

Friday, May 17

Beginning at 6:00 p.m: Friday Evening Ice Cream Social and plant auction at theDeltona Community Center, 980 Lakeshore Dr., Deltona, Fla.

Saturday, May 18Beginning at 8:30 a.m.: Fourth Annual Breakfast in the Garden at Nicole’s Daylilies.All visitors will receive a free gift plant named for this event.

Nearby open gardens and light refreshments: Water Mill Gardens, Pete HarryDaylilies, Art Gallery Gardens, Reilly Daylily Gardens, Ladybug Daylilies,Ledgewood Gardens, Kinnebrew Daylily Gardens, Floyd Cove Nursery

For more information go to:www.DaylilyMecca.comor call (352) 589-6698

Sunday, May 19All gardens will be open for additional visits. Some gardens may be open onMonday, too. Please check with the hybridizers.

Open gardens all day on Friday,Saturday and Sunday:Art Gallery Gardens, Luddy and Rachel Lambertson(8:00 a.m. to 2:00)Cross Border Daylilies, John PeatFloyd Cove Nursery, Guy and Karen Pierce (7:00 a.m. to 1:00 )Kinnebrew Daylily Garden, John Kinnebrew, Jr. Ladybug Daylilies, Dan HansenLedgewood Gardens, Gunda and Tony AbajianLe Petit Jardin, Ted and Susan PetitNicole’s Daylilies, Nicole and Dave DeVitoPete Harry Daylilies (formerly Frank Smith), Pete Harry (7:30 a.m. to 2:00)Reilly Daylily Gardens, Phil and Pina Reilly (until 3:00 p.m.)Rollingwood Gardens, Jeff and Elizabeth SalterWater Mill Gardens, Dan and Jane Trimmer (8:00 a.m. to 2:00)

Thursday, May 16Beginning at 5:00 p.m: Ladybug’s Annual Southern BBQ Pre-Party hosted by DanHansen’s Ladybug Daylilies. BYOB and please RSVP to 407-349-0271

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adopt Some Mayan Madness & Vote!

There are many interpretations about the Mayan calendar and the auspicious date of 12/21/12. For many it prophesied the

end of the world. For others, it heralded a new era. Let’s say we Region 12 AHS members adopt the latter version, and herald in a new era for our annual daylily Popularity Poll!

I encourage you to vote in this year’s AHS Region 12 Popularity Poll, even if you’ve never done so before. The AHS has deter-mined that a preprinted ballot promotes more member participa-tion. The ballot is simple; included are the cultivars posted on last year’s ballot that received four or more votes, and write-ins that received two or more votes.

“Write in” votes are not a waste of time! In fact, they are encour-aged, and spaces are provided for your favorite cultivars that don’t appear on the list but you would like to recognize.

Now, here is some information provided by AHS about our regional Popularity Polls:

General Information:

As a service to its members and to the general public, each year the American Hemerocallis Society (AHS) conducts a popularity poll among its members to determine the favorite daylilies from each region. It is the hope of the AHS that this Popularity Poll presents a true picture of which daylilies perform well in a given area and which are best liked by the membership. Popularity polls are important to daylily growers -- both AHS members and non-members -- who make daylily selections for purchase.

Voting Requirements:

• AllAHSmembersareeligibletovoteandshouldparticipate.

• Voteforupto,butnomorethanten(10)cultivars.Note:avalid ballot may consist of only one vote.

• ForDualMemberships, thesecondmembershouldusean-other copy of the ballot unless their regional ballot provides a second column for votes.

• Price need not be considered. (This means that while youcan vote for expensive plants if you want to, but you are also encouraged to vote for inexpensive older varieties if they are your personal favorite.)

• Select your favorite registered, well established cultivars (no seedlings) which you have observed in your garden or immediate area.

• Mailoremailyourchoicestoyourregionaltabulator.Ifyourregion includes a form on your regional website, you may use that also.

• AllAHSmembersmayalsomailtheirchoicestotheirregionalPop Poll Tabulator.

• Whichever submission method you choose, please submityour ballot only once.

Group Voting:

The Popularity Poll is intended to be an individual’s own per-sonal vote for the member’s favorite daylilies. Independent voting ensures each member’s vote will carry equal weight in choosing the Region’s most popular daylilies. Group voting and other ac-tivities which influence the poll’s outcome are not allowed and may result in those ballots not being counted. Each individual member may vote one ballot regardless of the memberships held and the voting habits of their dual members. Clubs, corporations, and institutions shall not vote, nor shall they be included when determining participation.

So now that you know all there is to know about the Popularity Poll, it’s time to vote!

2013 Popularity Poll

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the next day in my area and invited me to go, this person is Fred Manning and one of the people I blame for where I am at today. I was hesitant to go to the meeting because I’m not good at going to new places alone and being the newbie. I started not to go, but then asked my best friend, the second person I blame for where I am at, if she would go with me. We went to the meeting together and somehow she struck up a hy-bridizing conversation with Fred Manning and James Hall. She decided she wanted to hybridize and since I had the space we began acquiring hybridizing plants. I re-ally had no idea what I was doing so I just

THE ROAD TO MY ADDICTIONContinued from page 8

bought daylilies I liked. Fred Manning and James Hall also gave us some daylilies that would be great for hybridizing and our journey began. By the fall of 2010 I had acquired around 200 daylilies from the various sales and lo-cal buying and the winter 2010 and spring 2011 I got in the hybridizing plants so I roughly had about 250 daylilies. This is the short version of how I went from 0 daylilies to 250 daylilies in 1.5 years. I had to move in the fall 2011 and had no garden space so I started downsizing my daylilies although I have added more this year since I was able to move my daylilies to James Hall’s place in 2012 so right now I have about 350 daylilies which are mainly for hybridizing.

My garden helpers, my best friend Kim and my 5 year old granddaughter Raven.

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American Hemerocallis Society Region 12 2013 Popularity Poll Ballot

Your new Popularity Poll ballot is printed here. Each cultivar below received at least four votes or two write-ins on last year’s ballot. An electronic ballot is also available on the AHS website at: www.daylilies.org/PopPoll. Mail or email your choices to your RPD (see below), or use the web-based ballot. Please submit your ballot only once. Votes must be postmarked by September 1, 2013.

Each AHS member can vote for up to ten (10) registered cultivars. A ballot with only one (1) vote is acceptable. In this new Popularity Poll ballot, you have the option of writing in up to ten (10) personal choices, should your choices not appear in the listing below. Daylilies receiving the most votes will appear on the next year’s ballot. Each AHS member is eligible to vote and is encouraged to do so.

PLEASE CHECK OFF OR WRITE IN YOUR CHOICES BELOW. Across The Universe Affair D'amour All about Eve Bali Watercolor Bela Lugosi Big Kiss Black Arrowhead Blue Illusion BOB MARTIN California Sunshine Clarion Call Course of action Crows Feet Crystal Blue Persuasion Cyber Zone Dixie Highway Dorothy and Toto Dr. Charles Molano Ed Brown Edd Elva White Grow English Witch Fairy Firecracker Fashion Police Fins to the left Firefly Frenzy

Forbidden Fantasy Geneva Rockin Robin J.T. Davis Jason Salter King Kahuna Lady Neva Laughing Feather Lava Flow Lemonberry Truffle Little Pink Cloud Madeline Nettles Eyes Magnificent Hummingbird Marks Bouquet Mary Ethel Anderson Maryzell Melvin Wayne Johnson MICHIGAN NICKI Midnight Magic Midnight Raider Odd Man Out Orange Velvet Over the line Parrots of the Caribbean Rosabelle Van Falkenburgh Samar Star Fire Sara Martin

Scouts Honor Sherry Lane Carr So Many Stars Spacecoast Behavior Pattern Spacecoast Gold Bonanza Spacecoast Miss Margaret Spacecoast Sea Shells Spacecoast Tiny Perfection Sweet Patootie Talladega Ten Gallon Hat Thin Man Your Choice WRITE INS:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Signature:

Printed Name:

Street:

City, State Zip:

Mail/Email To:

Michelle Peterson Region 12 RPD 772 NW Avens Street Port St. Lucie, FL 34983-1106 [email protected]

SPRING 2013

Minutes from Region 12Fall Business MeetingSeptember 29, 2012

Future Region 12 Meetings: Fall 2013 TBD

Region 12’s Fall Meeting was hosted by the Bay Area Daylily Society on September 29, 2012. The meeting was held at

the First Baptist Church of St. Petersburg.

After lunch, Regional President Ray Wensell called the meeting to order.

A discussion was held on the question of continuing to hold Fall Regional Meetings, as attendance is down. Members concurred that we should continue meeting twice a year. Discussion shifted to holding a meeting in a central location with alternating host clubs. Suwannee Valley will bring information on a venue in their area.

The North Florida Daylily Society lost close to $1000 in hosting the 2011 Fall Regional, due to few attendees. Joe Agosta made a motion to reimburse the North Florida Daylily Society. After discussion. Joe amended his motion to the region giving the host club $1000 as seed money to host the regional. Left over money would be given back to the region. Motion passed.

Virginia Gregory made the motion to reimburse North Florida for their short-fall from the 2011 Fall Regional. Seconded by Floyd. Motion passed.

Ray appointed 3 people to the nominating committee for Region 12 Regional Director: Elaine Alito, Floyd Sewell, and Virginia Gregory. Bob Martin’s term will be expiring.

Bob Martin announced that only 17% of AHS Region 12 members voted in the pop poll.

Bob Martin presented awards: Joe Agosta was presented with the Region 12 Service Award. Greg Crane won an award for an article printed in the Regional Newsletter.

Bob Martin announced that Ray Wensell was re-elected for a second term as Regional President.

Michelle Peterson accepted the position as Regional Publicity Director.

Ray would like a volunteer for Ways and Means Chair, and Scientific Chair.

Mark Headley gave the treasurer’s report.

The Spring Regional will be held on May 4th, at the First Baptist Church of St Petersburg.

Submitted by Kay Smith, Region 12 Secretary

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HS Region 12 Treasurer Report

Balance - 9/28/12Checking $10,561.22Savings $10.00CD $10,858.82Total $21,430.04

Deposits CheckingFall Regional Auction $2,845.00Regional Newsletter Allowance $570.50Total $3,415.50

Withdrawals CheckingBank Fee $15.00Munson Award $25.00Regional Speaker Auction Reimbursment $670.00Fall Newsletter $300.00Region 12 Board Meeting Reimbursment $430.27AHS Insurance $40.00Total $1,480.27

CD Dividend $10.85

Balance - 2/10/13Checking $12,496.45Savings $10.00CD $10,869.67Total $23,376.12

1319SPRING 2013

TheValdosta Daylily Clubis hosting theRegion 5 Spring Meetingon May 10 – 11, 2013at theValdosta Holiday Innand Conference Center.

The Regional meeting will have five gardens on tour; silent & liveauctions;dinner at Bell’s DaylilyGarden; bargain planttable; and a presentationby Savannah hybridizer,Scott Elliott.

The registration fee for this event is $99.00 for adults and $25.00 for AHS registered Youth. A special youth program will be offered on Saturday. Fee includes gift plant at registration; Friday evening dinner; Saturday bus tour of gardens; Saturday lunch and Saturday evening dinner / presentation. In addition, Exhibition and Garden Judge’s clinics will be available. Your Region 5 neighbors hope to see many of you there.

REGION 5 SPRING MEETINGMay 10 – 11, 2013 • Valdosta, GA

Host hotel for the meeting is the Holiday Inn Hotel & Conference Center, 10805 West Hill Avenue, Valdosta.

FRIDAY, May 108:00 – 5:00 Check-in, Bus sign up, seat/table selection for banquet.8:00 – 4:45 Silent Auction (VDS)10:00 Garden Judges Clinic I10:00 Exhibition Judges Clinic I12:00 – 4:45 Bargain Tables1:00 – 4:00 Hybridizer Presentations2:00 Garden Judges Clinic II (Gardens of Shirley & Forrest Williams)2:00 Exhibition Judges Clinic II5:00 Social Time/Car pooling – Lobby 6:30 Chicken Dinner – Bell’s Daylily Garden7:00 Plant Auction (Region 5)

SATURDAY, May 116:45 for 7:00 Load Buses for Garden Tours1:00 Lunch2:00 – 5:45 Silent Auction (VDS)2:00 – 5:00 Bargain Tables6:00 Social Hour (Cash Bar)7:00 Dinner/Presentation by Scott Elliott/Region 5 Business Meeting

SUNDAY, May 12Open Gardens on your own. List of participating gardens will be available at Check-in.

The Enman Joiner Seedling Bed is located at the Wynn’s Daylily Garden in Jasper, FL In addition, a Hybridizer’s Bed is also located at the Wynn’s and features Georgia Hybridizers’ favorite registered daylilies. Ballots will be in your registration packet.

Special programs will be available for our youth members on Saturday and will be held at the Wynn’s Daylily Garden.

Registration fee for this meeting is $99.00 for adults and $25.00 for youth members. Register EARLY, November 1 through March 15 and be entered in a drawing for $500 in daylilies. A LATE fee of $25.00 will be incurred for registering after April 15.

A block of 50 rooms have been reserved at the Holiday Inn and Conference Center for $89. Breakfast is not included but is available at the on-site restaurant. Additional rooms are available at the Holiday Inn Express for $92 (includes breakfast) and the Comfort Inn for $90 (includes breakfast. Contact hotels directly to make reservations.

Holiday Inn and Conference Center: 1-229 244-1111Holiday Inn Express: 1-229 249-8900Comfort Inn: 1-229 249-8005

Registration Form – Complete and mail with registration fee to:

Megan Smith, Valdosta 2013 Registrar, 404 Central Place, Valdosta, GA 31601

Name: E-mail:

Name for name tag (if different than above):

Tel #:

Address:

City: ST: Zip

Name of Additional Attendees (please indicate if Youth AHS Member):

# Adults: # Youth: Total Registration Fees: $

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Hybridizer’s Corner1 “Glorious Sunrise”

Phil Reilly 2013 30 inch scape, 6.5 inch bloom, EM, TET, 4 way branching, 20+ buds (Navigate the Sun x Forest-lake Ragamuffin) creamy orange with deeper picotee edging on all segments.

2 “Everlasting Blue” Phil Reilly 2013 29 inches high,

3.25 in. bloom, EM, TET, (Crystal Blue Persuasion x Kaleidoscope Intrigue) a bright blue eyezone surrounded by a magenta ring on a yellow creamy base.

3 “American Legend” Phil Reilly 2013 A very tall 33 inch

scape with a large 7 inch bloom. TET, 5 way branching with 29+ buds, EM, (Darla Anita x Best Edge) bright golden yellow with a small green throat.

4 “Harlequin Romance” Phil Reilly 2013 30 inches, 26+buds

on 4 branches, 6 inch bloom. EM, TET, (sdlg. x Lacy Lucy)

5 “Patriots Day” Phil Reilly 2013 Bright clear red with

whitish picotee (Cimarron Rose x Talladega) 36 inch scape, sturdy 7.5 inch blooms. A stunning show. M, TET, 30+ blooms

6 “Blue Monday” Phil Reilly 2013 30 inch scape, 30+

buds, 3 inch bloom. TET, E, an intense blue eye surrounded by a magenta ring on a creamy yellow background.

7 “Rum Raisin Pudding” Phil Reilly 2013 (sdlg. x Lacy Lucy) 26

inch scape, 5.5 inch bloom, 3 branches with 18+ buds EM, TET a beautifully delicate wine picotee and eye on an icy vanilla bloom.

8 “Rocketship Romance” Phil Reilly 2013 Very tall 35 inches, 6.5 inch bloom, 4 way branching, 19+ buds, M, TET, (Pink Aloha x Fantastic Fringe) bright golden yellow self.

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9 “Marathon Key” Phil Reilly 2013 33 inches high, 7 inch

bloom, M, TET, 32+ buds on 5 way branching! (Magellans Journey x sdlg) bright pink with deeper eyezone and golden edging

10 “Sixth Dimension” Phil Reilly 2013 28 inches high,

6.5 inch bloom, 32+ buds on 4 way branching, M, TET, (sdlg. x sdlg) a lavender eye and picotee on a parchment base

11 “Black Parrots” Dan Trimmer 2013 Tet 29” M Ev. Re.

6” 12 “Double Wide” Dan Trimmer 2013 Tet 22” M Re. Ev.

6” 13 “Tango Lessons” Dan Trimmer 2013 Tet 26 M. Sev. Re.

5” 14 “Strawberry Christmas” Dan Trimmer 2013 Tet 31” EM Re.

Sev. 6” 15 “Orange Spice” Dan Trimmer 2013 DIP 40” EM Re. E

8” 16 “West End Girls” Jane Trimmer Tet 42” EM Re. Ev. 8.5”

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17 “CJ” Dan Hansen 2013 Evergreen, 31”

scapes, early early season, re-blooms, 9” flowers, 3 way branching, 15 bud count, fertile both ways!

18 “Aurelia Lundergan” Dan Hansen 2013 Evergreen, 24”

scapes, mid season, re-blooms, 5.5” flowers, 4 way branching, 20 bud count, fertile both ways!

19 “Cake and Champagne” Dan Hansen 2013 Evergreen, 26”

scapes, early season, re-blooms, 6” flowers, 3 way branching, 15 bud count, fertile both ways!

20 “Lynnessa” Dan Hansen 2013 Evergreen, 27”

scapes early season, re-blooms, 6” flowers, 3 way branching 15 bu count, fertile both ways!

21 “Diane Goodall” Dan Hansen 2013 Evergreen, 26”

scapes, mid season, re-blooms, 5” flowers, 3 way branching, 15 bud count, fertile both ways!

22 “Devil Woman” Dan Hansen 2013 Evergreen, 40”

scapes, early early season, re-blooms, 7” flowers, 5 way branching, 25 bud count, fertile both ways!

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24 “Vampire Lipstick” Dan Hansen 2013 Evergreen, 28”


25 “Orange Kid” (Houston, O) Tet. 6” flower. 24” scape. Evergreen. Midseason. Recurrent. This brilliant shade of orange is both unique and challenging to photograph. None of my pictures do justice to this flower. Many visitors to the garden remarked on this being a very different color of orange. Fertile

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26 “MEX” (Houston, O) Diploid. 3” flower. 20” scape. Evergreen. Early mid-season. Recurrent. This bold rose with a red eye produces a great combination to grab your attention. This small diploid is another garden favorite that is fertile both ways.

27 MARY ANNE HOUSTON (Houston, O) Tet. 6 1/4” flower. 26” scape. Evergreen. Midseason. Recurrent. The base color is cream with hints of lavender and pink that are more vivid at times. A well branched scape that carries multiple blooms. Chosen by my wife, Mary Anne, to be her namesake. The substance is smooth and has great ruffling that intensifies during hotter weather. Fertile.

28 IVY (Houston, O) Tet. 6” flowers. 32” scapes. Dormant. Late mid-season. Recurrent. Even though this is a dormant, it grows, multiplies and reblooms with ease. The ribs are an added feature. Fertile.

28 IVA (Houston, O) Tet. 6” flower. 30” scape. Evergreen. Midseason. Recurrent. This rose self is one of the most striking flowers that I have produced. It can be easily seen from a distance. Reluctant pods, pollen fertile.

30 HALEY HOUSTON (Houston, O) Tet. 6 1/4” flower. 30” scapes. Evergreen. Early midseason. Recurrent. This lavender/pink was chosen by me to be named HALEY HOUSTON. Now a flower has been named for each of my four grandchildren. Fertile.

31 DAVID AND MORAG (Houston, O) Tet. 6” flower. 24” scape. Evergreen. Midseason. Recurrent. This flower is a yellow gold self with large very ruffled edge of a slightly darker yellow. Named for friends who lived in Houston, Scotland. Substance is smooth. Fertile.

32 HALEY ANNE (Houston, O) Tet. 5 3/4” flower. 26” scape. Evergreen. Midseason. Recurrent. This child of PRISCILLA’S SMILE was chosen by my 9 year old granddaughter to be named for her. The beautiful color and great scapes make a special addition to our garden. Very fertile.

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33 HAL (Houston, O) Dip. 4 3/4” flower. 30” scape. Evergreen. Early-midseason. Recurrent. This is an excellent grower and makes a beautiful clump of light lavender with a darker blue/lavender eye. One of myfavorites. Very fertile both ways.

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Bay Area Daylily Society

CLUBREPORTS

Tallahassee Daylily Society

The TDS club started the new season September 23, 2012. A very sick family pet kept our planned speakers, Charles

and Heidi Douglas of Browns Ferry Gardens, from being with us. Our October speakers, C. J. and Virginia Gregory, were kind enough to fill in the speaker slot for the meeting. As a result we had a tremendous auction with plants from C. J. and Virginia as well as plants sent to us by Charles and Heidi. If you haven’t experienced the Gregory’s presentation at your club you should consider them. Their recent introduction ‘Odd Man Out’ is

gathering rave reviews. Charles and Heidi will be at our September 2013 meeting. Past club president Randy Fleming of Dragonsmead Garden presented his new program at our October meeting and brought some fine plants for the auction. The November meeting found us enjoying a delicious potluck dinner and a “Dirty Santa” present swapping game.

Remaining programs for the year include:

January 27, 2013 – Ted Petit of Le Petit Jardin

February 24, 2013 – Tim Herrington of Herrington Daylily Gardens

March 24, 2013 – Jeff and Elizabeth Salter of Rollingwood Gardens

Our spring daylily display will be held at Dorothy Oven Park on May 11th. This venue continues to be a source of new members for the club. We have a lot of fun preparing and presenting it for the public.

We welcome visitors to our meetings. For more information go to the club website, http://www.thsgardens.org

Joe AgostaPresident

The BADS club opened the fall season as the host to the fall regional for Region 12. Kay Smith hosted a sea side reception

at her home on the Gulf of Mexico with appetizers and treats sup-plied by local members. Some members walked to nearby Crabby Bills for a seafood dinner later returning to view the sunset skies. Kay has a very beautiful view from her daylily garden.

The remainder of the fall regional was held at the First Baptist Church of St. Petersburg. Mark Carpenter was the speaker and he had a very entertaining program. The best quote was he “bought the farm”. Mark actually bought his uncle’s daylily farm.

The fall regional was well attended and we heard plenty of com-pliments from attendees. Using this experience from the fall re-gional, plans are being made to host the spring’s regional. Elaine Alito is the regional committee chair and is working hard to please the members of Region 12. For the spring regional, BADS decided to arrange for a bus to transport attending members to the four tour gardens.

In November, the owners of D & D Grower’s ; Donna & Dennis were our guest speakers. They spoke to our club about the herbs they grow and how to use them. They brought many interesting treats made with the herbs they grow and sell. I never thought cookies could be made with herbs.

As in the past several years, our December meeting was a Christmas Party hosted by Gloria Hite. She held the party at her condo’s clubhouse on Treasure Island. As always we shared great food. We had our normal dirty Santa gift exchange and good camaraderie.

We have plenty on our plates for the next few months as we plan for Greenfest in Tampa and the spring regional.

Dennis HoffmanPresident

H. ‘Odd Man Out’ Gregory-CJ & V., 2011

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Suwannee Valley Daylily Society

North Florida Daylily Society

Our club meets January-April on 2nd Sunday at 2PM at the Orange Park Library on Plainfield Ave, then May is for our

show and June is our awards luncheon. (The rest of the year, we just have to send spies to see what our competition for Best In Show might be doing).

Membership is holding steady, and for a small group, we get a lot done. We have 2 Regional officers in our club. Maybe we should adopt a motto, something like “The Few, The Proud”….oh, sorry, that one’s taken.

On May 11,2013 our Show & Sale will be held at the Court-yard by Marriott at 610 Wells Rd in Orange Park, which promises

to be a great venue for showing off any daylilies that might actu-ally bloom on show day (we’re ever hopeful) and for selling every single plant.

On June 9, 2013 , our catered Awards Luncheon will be held at the Wensell home (thank you Terri & Ray)and will include a Garden Judging workshop.

Stay tuned for results…

Submitted ByHilda Sewell

Central Florida Daylily Society

The Central Florida Daylily Society (CFDS) kicked off anoth-er daylily year in September with CJ Gregory presenting an

update on his hybridizing program. CJ’s focus is small unusual forms or spiders, and patterned daylilies, and even better if they are both! Club members then participated in a very informative question and answer session discussing problems and successes in the garden.

In October the club viewed the AHS Power Point presentation “Shapes of Distinction” (available for download from the AHS website). This presentation discussed the Sculpted form of day-lily including the three sub-groups of Pleated, Relief, and Cristate. The numerous photographs did a great job illustrating each and there was a lively discussion regarding if some were actually at-tractive!

In November the CFDS participated in the Holiday Market at the Orlando Garden Club by having a booth and selling pot-ted daylilies. Then at the November meeting Dana Venrick, a retired county extension agent, presented a program on organic

gardening and the merits of proper nutrients, especially minerals in producing strong healthy plants that resist disease. Mr. Ven-rick brought with him as door prizes: organic potting soil with Azomite, and tropical fruits grown with products from the organic nursery, Quality Green Specialists.

Our holiday party in December was truly a delight! CFDS potlucks can rival many a fine restaurant in terms of quality and quantity of food. We had a gift exchange of small garden-related items. A good time was had by all.

In the New Year we look forward to programs on container gardening and flower and landscape photography as well as the hybridizing programs of Don and Nancy Eller of Eller’s Sunshine Garden, in Albany, GA and Josh Jaques of Bayou Bend Daylilies, in Woodworth, LA. And before you know it May will be here and it will be show time!

Please see our website at http://www.centralfloridadaylilies.org/index.html and join us for a meeting. We’d love to see you!

Phill MarthPresident

The Daylilian

Our club meets on the third Sunday of each month at the Columbia County Library (Main Branch) in Lake City.

Each month we will have a main presentation, silent auction and a live auction of newer daylilies.

Our February presenters will be Wayne and Jo Taunton from Country Lane Daylilies, Sparks, Georgia. We hope to see pic-tures of their 2013 introductions. March will bring Ted Petite who always has an interesting presentation; April will see James Fennall from Georgia.

May 18th has been set aside for our Daylily Display and An-nual Plant Sale to be held at the Lake City Mall. Our winners are

selected by the viewing public with cash prizes being awarded to the daylilies receiving the most votes. Our 2012 display had 84 entries.

Our club lost one of our members on Christmas day. Steve Hoenich passed away at the Lake City VA Center. He was 73. Steve always manned our education table at our shows and helped recruit many of our members. He will be missed by us all. Steve is survived by his wife Carol.

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The Region 12 Nominating Committeeis proud to put in nomination for Region 12 the name of

Bob Martinfor a second term asRegional Director

Respectfully submitted by:

Elaine AlitoVirginia Gregory

Floyd Sewell

Please vote for ONE

Bob Martin _____________

(write in) _____________________________________

Please mail your completed ballot to:Floyd Sewell

1831OceanDr.S.•JacksonvilleBeach,Florida32250-6242

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Pensacola Daylily Club

SPRING 2013

Don’t forget to visit our new website www.pensacoladaylily-club.com

Our club year started in September with our “get everything in order” business meeting. Our club has an awards program where members can earn “club dollars” for participating in various func-tions such as our plant sales and daylily show or they can earn dollars for donating daylilies for door prizes or auctions, being an AHS member, growing off our club plants, and various other things. These club dollars are then tallied at our September meet-ing and the members can spend them on our club auction we hold at our October and/or November meeting. The daylilies that are auctioned off are new collections we purchase the previous Feb. or March. This is just a small way to reward our members for a job well done.

Our club auction was held in October; we had purchased some of Dan Hansen’s 2012 introductions for this.

Our Novemeber meeting a slide presentation was shown of the various hybridizer’s collections so we could decide on which col-lection we would purchase for the following year’s club auction. Everyone drooled over all the beauties available.

In December we held our Christmas dinner which was at McGuire’s Irish Pub; we had a record turnout of spouses joining us. We voted on the collection we will purchase for the following years club auction; everyone had a great time.

January we had C.P. Winters from Moss Point, MS as our speak-er. Her presentation “An Introduction to a Daylily Nut and her

garden!” was fabulous. Her program currently involves the setting up of beds, the dividing of daylilies, a tour of her yard with com-panion plants, Stout Medal flowers, daylilies by colors, catego-ries. Her garden is called God’s Glory Garden. Here are a couple of websites, one is an article from the Mississippi Press, so you can see some of her gardens and the hard work she does. http://mgcds.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=12975725 http://blog.gulflive.com/mississippi-press-news/2011/05/hurley_regis-tered_display_gard.html

February our guest speaker was Larry and Cindy Grace from Graceland Gardens, Newton, AL. Larry showed us his beautiful new introductions and the direction he is going with his seed-lings. He showed us some of his bridge plants and explained why he uses these to get to where he wants to go with his program. He also showed us some of the conversion work he’s doing. Lots of teeth, lots of green, and lots of patterns; just gorgeous!!!!!

We will have Tommy Maddox from Biloxi, MS for our February 11th meeting speaker.

March 11th we will have Nicole Devito from Nicole’s Daylilies as our speaker.

May 13th is when we will have our grooming clinic to get ready for our daylily show May 18th.

If anyone is in the area during one of our meetings we would be more than happy to have you join us. We hold our meetings the 2nd Monday each month at 6:30 pm at the Pensacola Garden Center café, 1850 N 9th Ave, Pensacola, Florida 32503

Michele TaylorPresident

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Region 12 of the American Hemerocallis Society4251 14th Lane NESt. Petersburg, Florida 33703

Deliver To:

Beach’n Daylilies REGION 12 SPRING Meeting May 3-4 Tampa Bay

Friday 3:00 PM til Kay Smith’s house party Dinner on your own.

SATURDAY:

6:30 am – 6:45 am Bus loads for Garden Tours | “Grab N Go” breakfast furnished

7:00 am – 12:00 pm Garden Tours | Garden Judges Workshop II will be held in the last Tour Garden 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Silent Auction in Heritage Hall

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch in Heritage Hall 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm Exhibition Judges Clinic I 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm Exhibition Judges Clinic II 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Exhibition Judges Clinic III Refresher 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Garden Judges Workshop I 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Dinner in Heritage Hall 7:00 pm Region 12 Business Meeting | Speaker -Tim Herrington | Region 12 Plant Auction

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