American Hemerocallis Society Region 4, Inc. Daylilies in the Great Northeast
Volume 5, Issue 1 Spring/Summer 2012
AmericanAmerican HemerocallisHemerocallis SocietySociety Non-Profit RegionRegion 44 ~~ 21154 Ambleside Main St. Drive Organization Fairport,Sandown, NY NH 14450 03873 Permit No. 4 U.S. Postage Paid “Change“Change ServiceService Requested”Requested” Penn Yan, NY 14527 REGISTRATION FORM 2012 REGION 4 Off-Season ANNUAL MEETING Hosted by the Finger Lakes Daylily Society September 15-16, 2012
Registration Includes Saturday Evening Banquet
Exhibition Judges Clinic 1 Attendance- Sat 9am: Yes No Garden Judge Workshop 1 Attendance- Sat 9am: Yes No $5 clinic/workshop fees will be collected at the door. Each attendee should obtain a copy of "Judging Daylilies" and study the proper sections prior to attending either clinic/workshop.
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Mail to: Robin Wilson, Registrar 254 Mohawk St Rochester, NY 14621 Phone~ 585.727.2108 Email [email protected]
You are responsible for your own hotel reservations at ~ The Canandaigua Super 8 Motel
The Motel must receive your reservation by August 14, 2012 to guarantee Meeting discount rate of $82 Call (585).396.7224 and mention Finger Lakes Daylily Society for reservations. American Hemerocallis Society Region 4, Inc. Daylilies in the Great Northeast
Volume 5, Issue 1 Spring/Summer 2012 ‘Ice Trumpets’ Huben ‘Jinxy’ DeCaire ‘A Love Beyond Words’ Weitz
‘Promise to Behave’ Rich ‘Fraises Au Lait’ Sobek ‘Cobbs Hill Sparkler’ Zettek
‘Aha’ Brooks ‘Bonibrae Cotton Candy Swirls’ Matthie ‘Lord of Autumn’ Marvin
‘Julie Patchouly’ Maher ‘Big Honking Flaming Floozy’ Jones ‘Liar’s Poker’ Turner Region 4 Hybridizer’s Award Nominees
Who will win the next Region 4 Hybridizer Award? The cultivars are nominated by their hybridizers. Entries must have been registered in the last 10 years, and hybridized in Region 4. The daylilies hopefully should be in wide enough circulation so Region 4 members will have had a chance to see them in gardens to make informed decisions! Tear-off ballot is on page 29-30, reverse side of the Popularity Poll ballot, both due by Sept.1. Send your votes to Dave Mussar, Region 4 RPD or US mail to Kim Walters (addresses are below), or email Dave.Thanks for voting!
‘Aha!’(Brooks-BB, 2009) height 43", bloom 9", season M, Semi-Evergreen, Diploid, 18 buds, 3 branches, Unusual Form Cascade, Deep dark burgundy wine self above rich green throat. (Creature of the Night × Skinwalker)
‘Big Honking Flaming Floozy'(Jones-L., 2008) height 27", bloom 8", season E, Evergreen, Tetraploid, Fragrant, 13 buds, 3 branches, Bright red self. (Spider Man × Long Stocking)
‘Bonibrae Cotton Candy Swirls’ (Matthie, 2012) [details withheld until publication in 2013]
‘Ice Trumpets’ (Huben, 2007) height 30", bloom 3.5", season E, Dormant, Diploid, Fragrant, 21 buds, 4 branches, Near white self above large green throat. (Boston Symphony × (Snowed In × H. yezoensis))
‘Fraises au Lait’ (Sobek, 2003) height 36", bloom 3.75", season M, Dormant, Diploid, 23 buds, 4 branches, Clear pink with narrow rose band above yellow shading to green heart throat. ((Ice Carnival × Soothing Touch) × Lullaby Baby)
‘Cobbs Hill Sparkler’ (Zettek, 2004) height 12", bloom 2.5", season E, Rebloom, Dormant, Diploid, 10 buds, 3 branches, Ruffled lemon yellow with pink tint above yellow throat. (Petite One × Penny's Worth)
‘Jinxy’ (DeCaire, 2011) [details withheld until publication in 2012]
‘Julie Patchouly’ (Maher, 2011) [details withheld until publication in 2012]
‘Liar’s Poker’(Turner-C., 2010) height 34", bloom 7.5", season La, , Tetraploid, Fragrant, 17 buds, 3 branches, Plum purple with lavender-blue chalk eye above a green throat. (Wild Blue Yonder × unknown)
‘Lord of Autumn’ (Marvin, 2005) height 48", bloom 8", season VLa, Dormant, Tetraploid, 20 buds, 4 branches, Rose bronze blend with gold edge above yellow throat. ((Harvest Hue × Bruce) × (Malihini × sdlg))
‘Promise to Behave’ (Rich, 2008) height 32", bloom 5", season M, Dormant, Tetraploid, 20 buds, 4 branches, Cranberry grape purple with darker purple halo above green throat. (Raspberry Candy × Sapphire Skies)
‘A Love Beyond Words’ (Weitz, 2011) [details withheld until publication in 2012]
Dave Mussar Kim Walters 4083 Watson Road South Photos on inside front cover 154 Main St. Puslinch, Ontario Photo credits to the Hybridizers Sandown, NH 03873 Canada N0B 2J0 [email protected] [email protected]
______Spring/Summer 2012 1 The Great Escape! Adventure in the heart of the Finger Lakes ~ AHS Region 4's Fall 2012 Meeting in Canandaigua - The Center of the Universe Sponsored by the Finger Lakes Daylily Society September 15 and 16, 2012, Noon to Noon Steamboat Landing Convention Center www.steamboatlandingonline.com One-half hour from Rochester International Airport Featuring special guest speakers: *Curt Hanson* * Nikki Schmith* *Sandy and Mike Holmes* *Melanie Mason* *Kristina Weitz* Plus Daylilies galore from northern gardens! Free phytosanitary inspection for our Canadian friends.
There are 11 Finger Lakes: Seneca is king, being the largest. Cayuga is the longest, Keuka is the crooked one. But the queen of them all is the Canandaigua. Steam Boat Landing Convention Center, our meeting place, is on the water’s edge at the north end of Canandaigua Lake. Accommodations are across the street. Make your hotel reservations at ~The Canandaigua Super 8 Motel by August 14, 2012 to guarantee meeting discount rate of $82. Call 585-396-7224 and mention Finger Lakes Daylily Society for reservations!
Annual Regional Meeting Evening Awards Banquet Silent Auction Mennonite Raffle for new intros! Live Auction
Come early- stay late and enjoy our AREA ATTRACTIONS featuring: -A lake cruise on a real paddlewheel-driven tour boat -Over 100 area wineries producing great wines including world class Rieslings and Chardonnays -Casinos: Finger lakes Race Track, Turning Stone (Rome), Tioga Raceway (west of Oswego) -Shopping from mini street-side shops to a huge enclosed mall just minutes away -Hiking trails galore with breathtaking scenic lake views -Drive to the top of Bristol Mountain for a breathtaking panoramic view -Guided fishing trips on Canandaigua Lake where you might hook onto a 10 lb. Laker -Rent a lake-side cottage (through local realtor- Finger Lakes Realty) -Coming from the southeast? Corning Museum of Glass followed with Watkins Glen State Park (19 waterfalls) -The Windmill- A farmer's market and crafts just south of Penn Yan, on NY Rte 14A (Open Saturdays~ Visit the Windmill in the morning and still make the meeting in Canandaigua by 12:30 pm after a 45 minute drive). This is one of the largest farmer’s markets in the east, and mostly enclosed in several buildings! *Registration Form can be cut out of the inside back wrapper of the newsletter. Email: [email protected]* ______2 Daylilies in the Great Northeast American Hemerocallis Society Region 4, Inc. Daylilies in the Great Northeast Volume 5, Issue 1 Spring/Summer 2012
White Outsert ~ Region 4 Off-Season Meeting - Canandaigua, NY American Hemerocalis Societ Color Cover ~ Daylilies include: L-R.‘Dangling Participle’ Mason, ‘Amilia Sofia’ Shaw, Rt. Mid: ‘Granny’s Biscuits’ Mason (Shaw) AHS PRESIDENT Inside Color Cover - Nominees, 2012 Hybridizer’s Award Julie Covington 1. Region 4 Hybridizer’s Nominees 4909 Labradore Drive Roanoke, VA 24012-853 2. The Great Escape ~ Region 4 Off-season September Meeting 3. Table of Contents REGION 4 DIRECTOR Melodye Campbell 4. Newsletter Guidelines, Advertising, and AHS Subscription Rates 21 Ambleside Drive 5. AHS Region 4 Officers & Local Club Contact Information Fairport, NY 14450 6. Message from your Regional President ~ Kim Walters [email protected] 7. Words from the Boardroom ~ Melodye Campbell EXECUTIVE SECRETARY 8. RPD’s Message~ Dave Mussar Pat Mercer 9. Editor’s Journal ~ Susan Shaw PO Box 10 10. Welcome New Region 4 AHS Members! Seed Bank ~ Maureen Strong Dexter, GA 31019 [email protected] 12. Region 4 Wants You! ~ Gary Jones 13. Listing of Region 4 Garden Judges EDITOR, THE DAYLILY JOURNAL 14. Region 4 Business Meeting Reports, Treasurer’s Report ~ Dan Pessoni Meg McKenzie Ryan 18. Region 4 Service Award to Carl Harmon ~ Gary Jones 1936 Wensley Avenue El Centro, CA 92243 19. Youth Contest on the Portal! 20. Region Popularity Poll! Optional mail-in ballot on inner front wrapper REGION 4 PRESIDENT 21. Region 4 Club News ~ listed alphabetically, BADS - HADS Kim Walters 25. Color Photo Pages Ballot for Hybridizer’s Award, & Pop Poll! 154 Main St. Sandown, NH 03873 27. Insert: Tear-off pages; CAN-AM! Registration form on back [email protected] 29. Insert: Tear-off Ballots for Region 4 Popularity Poll, Hybridizer’s Award 31. Color Photo Pages REGION 4 EDITOR 33. Region 4 Club News, Continued, HVIDS - SMDS DAYLILIES IN THE GREAT NORTHEAST 48. Daylily Q & A ~ Daylily Quiz! ~ Sue Bergeron Susan Shaw 13 Mill Street 50. Ask The Ombudsman ~ ‘Members-Only Portal’ ~ Donna Peck Camden, ME 04843 52. Canada Issues Daylily Stamps! 53. 2013 Region 4 Off-Season Meeting on Long Island, NY REGIONAL PUBLICITY DIRECTOR Dave Mussar 54. Getting Dirty is Good For You? ~ Susan Shaw, Image/Video Info. 4083 Watson Road South 55. Photo Tips for Beginners ~ Susan Shaw Puslinch, ON Canada N0B 2J0 56. Info on AHS Photography Awards [email protected] Outsert ~ Landscaping With Daylilies Order Form, AHS Online Store AHS Region 4 Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Brunswick, Newfoundland & Labrador, New Hampshire, New York, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Rhode Island, Vermont ______Spring/Summer 2012 3 Submission Guidelines for Articles and Photos For Region 4 Newsletter
Please send submissions to our Incoming Region 4 Newsletter Editor!
Adele Keohan 304 Lowell Street Wakefield, MA 01880 Ph: 781-245-7551 [email protected]
Please send the photos as separate files if possible, not in the body of an article. Include the photographer’s name within the file name of each photo, so accurate credit can be given. Give a detailed description of each photo. Descriptions include first and last names of the people in the photo, their club, and the submitter’s name. Include author’s name with the heading of each written piece.
Please have any permissions you need, as in the case of reprinted articles, or photographs.
It will be helpful to have the AHS Copyright Consent form on record with AHS. It can be accessed and sent electronically ~ www.daylilies.org/ahsphotoawrds.html
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Mail to Treasurer: AHS Membership is offered by calendar year. Renewals are due on January 1st Dan Pessoni Remember to RENEW! P.O. Box 1083 East Orleans, MA 02643 Individual: $35/yr, $70/3yrs. Family: $30/yr, $83/3 yrs. Don’t forget the deadline Dates for submission of Life Membership: $500 Advertisements and Materials for the Newsletter; Dual Life Membership: $750 Spring/Summer Issue Youth Membership: $10 Due March 15th for Mailing May 1st PAYABLE in $U.S. to Pat Mercer Or ~ Pay Online! ~ http://www.daylilies.org/ Fall/Winter Issue AHSmemb.html Due September 15th for Mailing November 1st ______4 Daylilies in the Great Northeast AHS Region 4 Officers and Liaisons
Regional President (RP) AHS Endowment Fund Liaison Maine Daylily Society (MDS) Regional Historian open Susan Shaw, [email protected] Kim Walters Laura Evans, [email protected] 154 Main St. Youth Liaison Dottie Hokkanen - Co-chairs Sandown, NH 03873 Elliot Turkiew 43 Azalea Lane [email protected] 11 Edward Street Camden, ME 04843 Bethpage, NY 11714 [email protected] Regional Publicity Director (RPD) [email protected] Dave Mussar New England Daylily Society (NEDS) 4083 Watson Road South, Region 4 Clubs & Presidents Kim Walters Puslinch, ON Canada N0B 2J0 154 Main St. 519-822-9783 Sandown, NH 03873 Buffalo Area Daylily Society (BADS) [email protected] [email protected] Paula Burkard [email protected] Secretary Nova Scotia Daylily Society (NSDS) Peggy-Anne Pineau Pat Wessling Canadian Hemerocallis Society (CHS) PO Box 9106 21 Pinehurst Drive John Peat Halifax, NS B3K 5M7 Canada Wareham, MA 02571 16 Douville Ct. Toronto, Ontario 902-832-2832 508-291-1835 M5A 4E7 Canada [email protected] [email protected] 416-362-1682 [email protected] Treasurer Ontario Daylily Society (ODS)) Faye Collins Dan Pessoni Connecticut Daylily Society (CDS) 4745 Country Lane Rd. RR #2 P.O. Box 1083 Russ Allen Whitby, Ontario L1P 1Y6 Canada East Orleans, MA 02643 18 Point Arrowhead Road [email protected] 508-255-9348 Guilford, CT 06437 [email protected] 203-457-0121 Patriot Daylily Society (PDS) [email protected] AHS Region 4 Director Nick Chase 132 Moreland Street Melodye Campbell Finger Lakes Daylily Society (FIELDS) Worcester, MA 01609 21 Ambleside Drive David Schlossnagle [email protected] Fairport, NY 14450 96 State St. 585-749-7433 Manchester, NY 14504 Quebec Hostas & Hemerocallis Society [email protected] [email protected] (QHHS) Reggie D. Millette Newsletter Editor Hudson-Adirondack Daylily Society (HADS) 62 7th Avenue Susan Shaw Debi Chowdhury St-Ambroise De Kildare 13 Mill Street 518-786-1107 Quebec JOK ICO Canada Camden, ME 04843 [email protected] 207-236-4085 450-756-4893 [email protected] [email protected] Hudson Valley Iris & Daylily Society(HVIDS) (HVIDS) Rochester Area Daylily Society (RADS) Region 4 Webmaster Jim Robinowitz Ginny Byers Kelly Noel 10 Baldwin Road 1459 Norway Road 19 Orville Kemp St Poughkeepsie, NY 12603 Kendall, NY 14476 Ottawa, ON Canada K1T 3W8 845-454-6415 585-659-8150 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Region 4 Garden Judge Liaison L’Association Des Ameteurs Southeastern Massachusetts Daylily Gary Jones D’Hemerocallis de la Region de Quebec Society (SMDS) 40 Woodstock Meadows Roland R.Tremblay Pat Wessling Woodstock, CT 06281 780, Côteau des Roches 21 Pinehurst Drive 860-928-0198 Portneuf, Québec, Canada GOA 2ZO Wareham, MA 02571 [email protected] 418-286-3417 [email protected] [email protected] Region 4 Exhibition Judge Liaison Leslie Nolan 6 Homestead Road Dr. Robert Stanton Long Island Daylily Society (LIDS) Sagamore Beach, MA 02562 4 Brook Path Pam Milliken [email protected] Plainview, NY 11803-3710 19 Bryce Avenue [email protected] Glen Cove, NY 11542 Southern Maine Daylily & Hosta [email protected] Society(SMDHS) Region 4 Scientific Liaison Sue Bergeron Paul Bourret RR3 Almonte ON Canada K0A 1A0 11 Keepaway Lane [email protected] West Newfield, ME 04095-3322 207-793-4521 [email protected] Spring/Summer 2012 5 Message from your RP~ Kim Walters
Your President’s message . . .
I want to lead off with a warm round of thanks to Mary Collier Fisher and Mel Campbell. They have done a wonderful job representing Region 4 at the national level. I hope I can do as well.
In Southern New Hampshire, this was the winter that wasn’t. If you ignore the eight inches we got in October, we only had 1 major storm; and for most of the winter we didn’t have any snow on the ground. I’ve already spent the money I saved on heat on the Lily Auction. It’s time to expand the beds again. Who needs grass anyway? There is always room for more daylilies!
I’m looking forward to my annual trip to the Can-Am Classic. This is a great way to start off the daylily season. They have great speakers lined up. And they always have fabulous plants at the auction. Before you know it, it will be time for the National. It is within driving distance of most of the region. If you haven’t been to a National, I highly recommend it. The perfect ending to a daylily season will be the off-peak regional hosted by the Finger Lakes Daylily Society.
The heart and soul of the region is its local daylily clubs. I was honored to present Carl Harmon with the Region 4 service award at the last NEDS meeting. Many of you will remember Carl’s garden from the regional a couple years ago. With his service to the club and his championship of local hybridizer’s, I can’t think of a better choice. This is your region – does one of your club members go over and above? Any person can nominate someone for this award. All you have to do is write a letter explaining why they should win. And it isn’t due until December. Look around this summer, surely you know someone deserving of this honor.
Don’t forget to check out the nominees for the Region 4 hybridizer’s award. Twelve hybridizers have submitted cultivars for your consideration. They are printed here; and look for them this summer when you are visiting other gardens. Region 4 hybridizers have a wide variety of forms and colors: I’m sure there is something to strike your fancy. Don’t forget about the annual popularity poll. It’s always a hard decision for me. Many new members use this as a shopping list for daylilies that grow great in our area.
As AHS member we have a new tool, the members-only Portal. If you haven’t checked it out you should. It’s easy to post pictures, say hi to friends, and get helpful information. There are special areas for each region and for judges. There are also areas for you favorite topics. There are discussions about growing daylilies, hybridizing (with individual sections about spiders, teeth, and looking for blue, to name a few), and my personal favorite – your collection. If you are having problems, there is a contact us link on the main page (they are really quick about getting back to you). There’s a help link on the side bar. If you don’t remember your password (happens to me a lot), you can reset it easily enough.
Kim Walters, Regional President
______6 Daylilies in the Great Northeast News from the Boardroom
Boy, I thought that I had plenty of time to write my report for the spring newsletter, but the March deadline sure did sneak up on me! As in much of the Northeast, winter in upstate New York has been nearly nonexistent . . . knock on wood . . . there is still lots of time for a freak snowstorm!
As incoming Region 4 Director, I was invited to attend the AHS Board of Directors meeting last October. My new job is Awards and Honors Chair so I will be tabulating all those Garden Judge ballots this summer. I know September seems like a long time off, but please remember that September 1st is also the deadline for submitting nominations for the Bertrand Farr Award for Hybridizing, the Helen Field Fisher Award, the Steve Moldovan Mentoring Award and the AHS Region 4 Service Award. Don’t worry, I’ll be sending out reminders to clubs this summer!
Our outgoing President, Mary Collier Fisher, leaves behind a lasting legacy to the AHS. First, under her leadership, our membership numbers increased in 2011, for the first time in 9 years. The Trial membership program, which was started in 2011, was partly responsible for the increase in numbers as more than 200 individuals took advantage of the program. This program will continue in 2012, so beginning July 1st and continuing until the end of 2012, one can join the AHS for $15.00. Trial members receive two issues of the Daylily Journal, one issue of the Region 4 newsletter, and access to the AHS Portal. If the trial member decides to join the AHS at the end of the trial, they will be eligible for the daylily voucher program. It’s a win-win for everyone!
In another effort to increase membership, Mary was instrumental in instituting the AHS Members Only Portal which celebrated its first birthday this March. Even though Mary has “retired” as AHS president, she is continuing on as General Manager of the Portal. If you haven’t taken a look at the Portal, please give it a chance as there is a wealth of information that you can access. The direct link to the Portal is http://www.daylilynetwork.org. Another way is to go the the AHS website, http://www.daylilies.org/; look at the left hand side of the page and click on AHS Members Portal. Once you log in, you will have access to great discussion groups and forums, events calendars, photo galleries, member contact information, a fun store full of daylily merchandise (the daylily mugs make great door prizes for club meetings!) and much more. In fact, beginning with the Spring 2012 issue of the Daylily Journal, you will be able to read it online on the Portal. Also, you will have access to archived articles reprinted from past Journals. Finally, each region has its own page on the portal with news, photos and events calendar. Paul Bourret has done a great job maintaining our Region 4 page.
Also under Mary’s leadership, the AHS has a new book that will be published this spring, Landscaping with Daylilies, edited by Oliver Billingslea. At the Board meeting, we got a sneak preview and many Region 4 gardens are featured. The photographs are gorgeous – many taken by our exceptionally talented Region 4 photographers! It is definitely a must have book for your daylily library. Check out the Daylily Journal for details about ordering or you can order from the AHS Online store, https://daylilies.site-ym.com/store/list_products.asp?catid=107133.
Exciting upcoming events in 2012 include the 16th annual Can-Am Classic, May 4th-6th, and the National Convention in Columbus, Ohio, July 11-14th. Because of the National Convention being held in July, the Finger Lakes Daylily Society is hosting a fall Region 4 meeting, September 15 and 16th. If you haven’t attended a regional meeting or national convention, you are missing an incredible experience. Not only will you visit gorgeous tour gardens, hear fabulous speakers and learn new things, but you will make lifelong friends. I hope to see many of you at a daylily event this year.
To continue with Mary’s membership theme, I challenge each of you to bring in one new member to the AHS in 2012, whether a brand new daylily lover or a local club member who will join the AHS for the first time. Make your club meetings friendly and welcoming to newbies and increase our membership!
All the best in 2012,
Mel
Mel Campbell Director, AHS Region 4 Patsy Cunningham photo ______Spring/Summer 2012 7 RPD’s Message – Spring 2012
Dave Mussar
It will be my pleasure to serve all Region 4 members as the Regional Publicity Director for the next couple of years. To serve you well I will need your support and assistance. The role of the RPD extends well beyond tabulating and “getting the vote out” for the annual Regional Popularity Poll. A key element to the role of RPD is to publicize daylilies, events, and the AHS, both within the region and to the general public. This is where you come in as I will need your assistance to let me know the “daylily news” from your clubs and neighbourhoods. Let me know about events (shows, meetings, speakers, recognition, awards, etc.) to help get the word out across Region 4.
One tool that we have to communicate across the Region is the newly revamped Region 4 website (http://ahsregion4.org/). Have you seen it yet? It has a totally new look and here is where you can find all the club websites within Region 4 and can see many of the happenings within the Region. Many thanks to our new webmaster Kelly Noel for taking on this project and for doing such a great job!
Another great communication tool is the AHS Portal. Did you know that the Portal is now one year old? The Portal was created to provide you with extra value for your AHS membership. On the Portal you can access many things that you will not find on the AHS website (and a number of member-only items will be moved to the Portal from the website). Here you can find contact information for other AHS members. There are community forums (a bit like Tinker’s) where you can post questions, pictures and get advice from other AHS members. There is an on-line store to purchase daylily merchandise, AHS publications, presentations for your club, etc. You can renew your membership on-line. There are forums for garden and exhibition judges and now you can even download a copy of the AHS Journal to keep on your computer or reader (in case you can’t wait for the hard copy to arrive by mail!).
I’m guessing that many of you have not yet visited the Portal. It really is pretty simple to get started. Just go to the AHS website (www.daylilies.org) and you will see a link to the Portal on the left side. On the Portal site there is a link for first-time visitors to request a user-ID and password. Once you have access to the Portal, you can browse at your leisure. The community forums in particular will become “richer” when more of us participate. Hope to see you there soon!
The Region 4 Popularity Poll ballot for 2012 includes every cultivar that received 3 or more votes last year. We have several new additions to the ballot because they received write-in votes last year. As newer cultivars become better distributed and popular in their own right, they will earn their way onto the ballot as a result of your votes. So you can see that your votes do count! Let’s show the country which daylilies are the most popular in Region 4.
Looking forward to a great daylily season. All the best.
______8 Daylilies in the Great Northeast Editr’s Journal Dear Daylily Friends,
Spring is here in Region 4! Mutd wintr grays of eart shift t bright sap greens of grass and tny leaves. Daylily foliage pushes up, spiking tward te sun. Rosy tps of maple twigs hold high expectatons, prematurely forced t swel out a few weeks early by stange summer weater in March. Tousands of tny buds await one more warm breeze t unfrl flouncy peticoats, tp hats and tails, t make teir way t te celebraton dance of tis new awakening; rebirt of te eart in Eastrn Nort America. Already adorned in fair greenery, Birches and Wilows sweep te sky in windblown taceries. It is a beautfl tme of year.
I have been gratfl t have tis opportunit t offer my help t Region 4 as your Region 4 Newsleter editr. Tere was much t learn. I hope tese newsleters have been helpfl and supportve of your delightfl daylily addicton! What a great habit t share! So much pleasure in te beaut, te peace tat is found in our gardens, in te beautfl blooms of te myriad rainbow world of daylilies.
One ting tat would be a helpfl for our newsleter is t have a phot colecton t draw fom. It was a chalenge t come up wit phots tis spring, when very few phots were submited due t our excitng, but Off-Season Meetng. Phots of Region 4 cultvars would be great. We want t include al Region 4 hybridizers, present and past; showcasing, as much as possible, al of te talent, te color and diversit, in our beautfl gardens.
As I move on t creat more tme t devot t family and local daylily pursuits I am very happy t welcome Adele Keohan as incoming editr of te newsleter! Adele has been an actve member of NEDS and current editr of te montly New England Daylily Societ Buletn, a positon she has held for te last few years. She joined te AHS in 2006, and is a garden judge as wel as a certfied Mastr Gardener. In 2007, she won an AHS Regional Newsletter Award for the Best Article on a Non- Listed Topic, entitled “Newbie Engages in Daylily Exhibitonism”! Her backyard garden has become a hybridizer’s garden, where te “lawn is ever decreasing.” Besides daylilies, oter hardy perennials like iris, peonies, and hosta delight te eye and spirit. She enjoys al te colors and forms of daylilies.
Adele works as an elementary school classroom tacher. Anoter of her talents is music! She shares her voice in song as a church cantr, soloist and song leader. I hope we wil find tme t share our gardens, and some song to!
Anoter great announcement for Region 4: a new club! Te Souteastrn Massachusets Daylily Societ held teir first meetng tis February! Tey are off t a great start wit a busy season ahead of meetngs and actvites. Congratulatons t Pat Wessling, Pat Nolan, and Nina Lapierre!
Sincerely, Susan
Susan Shaw, [email protected] PS ~ Tere is a Tear-off copy of te Pop Pol. Te oter remains in te newsleter for a good Region 4 daylily guide! ______Spring/Summer 2012 9 WELCOME NEW MEMBERS!
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Horton Mary Fratini West Wareham, MA 02576 8 Chase Street 514 Parsons Drive Zachary Hickey Standish, ME 04084 Syracuse, NY 13219 280 Holtshire Road Cynthia Irving Richard & Anne Herman Orange, MA 01364 3001 West River Road 2141 Colvin Boulevard Joyce Holster Troy, ME 04987 Tonawanda, NY 14150 61 Great Neck Road Edie Jordan Noreen Holst East Wareham, MA 02538 PO Box 127 95 Whitson Road Constance Keith Blaine, ME 04734-0127 Huntington, NY 11746 1689 Northampton Street Wendy Kelly George Manolis & Holyoke, MA 01040 5 Flanders Knoll Louise Lamoureux Robyn Le Buff Stoneham, ME 04231 PO Box 2718 183 Storey Avenue Dr. Linwood Welch Plattsburgh, NY 12901 Newburyport, MA 01950 15 Katahdin Avenue Caroline Martone Karen Leavitt & Karen Coffelt Rockland, ME 04841 10 Center Street 33 11th Avenue Glen Cove, NY 11542 Halifax, MA 02338-1310 NEW HAMPSHIRE Kathleen & Charles Maynard Lisa Lipomi & Tom Riggio PO Box762 PO Box 763 Olcott, NY 14126 Dracut, MA 01826 Janet Moorhead Diane Nichols Julia MacKay & 9 Hawthorne Street 183 Forbes Avenue William Gledhill Plymouth, NH 03264 Tonawanda, NY 14150 117 Mayflower Ridge Drive Wareham, MA 02571 (Continued ) ______10 Daylilies in the Great Northeast NEW YORK Huguette La Plante & Richard Parisien Send Your Extra seeds Diane Nichols 913 Marcil 183 Forbes Avenue Granby, QC J2H 0S4 for the AHS Tonawanda, NY 14150 Gord Lookman International Seed William Preister 31 Stewart Mac Claren Road Bank! 150 East 71st Street Georgetown, ON L7G 5L8 New York, NY 10021 Gaelan Mac Kay David & Suzanne Scheirer 18 Charles Court As you are sorting your seeds for 4427 Carter Road Truro, NS B2N 2R6 storage, please remember that Fairport, NY 14450 Richard Morash this outreach program would love Carol Scheuer 1353 Cole Harbour Road to receive your extras. Through 363 Grand Boulevard Dartmouth, NS B1V the generosity of our North Massapequa Park, NY 11762-1633 François Paris American AHS members, we are Margarita Lopez Siberon 149 Du Petit-Hunier able to offer seeds of named St Augustin, QC G3A 2H5 581 Madison Avenue crosses to our International Baldwin, NY 11510 Karen Patterson 263 Rose Hip Lane members, friends, garden groups Lake Echo, NS B3E 1N3 and anyone else in a foreign CANADA John Rich country who may be interested in 123 Palace Street growing daylilies from seed. Marie Bigelow & Brian Moorse Whitby, ON L1N 5E9 Again this year, any domestic 1604 Ben Phinney Road RR # 1 Mary Ridgley daylily, garden or science group is Margaretsville, NS B0S 1N0 14 Sunnyview Terrace welcome to request seeds for Hammonds Plains, NS B3Z 1K6 Rosa Carr their projects. AHS membership Betty Rockwell 2 Officer Crescent is not required for requesting Beaverbank, NS B4G 1E2 RR 1, Atholl Site 2 Box C-7 Maggie Cashin Springhill, NS B0M 1X0 seeds, and there is no charge to 136 Hubbley Mill Lake Road Gene Sauer the recipients. Upper Tantallon, NS B3Z 1E8 12 Grosvenor Road Marilyn Cherot Halifax, NS B3M 2E2 Please support this important 2801 Walburn Road Walter & Marie Szumilak outreach program of the AHS! Kelowna, BC V1P 1E3 Conrod Settlement Road Louis Dubord Head of Chezzetcook, MS B0J 1N0 In sincere appreciation, 30 Des Tilleuls David & Mary Trott St.Jean-Sur-Richelieu, QC J2W 1B4 12 Spinnaker Drive, Unit 311 Jim & Sharon Feetham Halifax, NS B3N 3A8 Maureen Strong, AHS Site 9, Box 3, RR#9, International Membership Chair Mt. Uniacke, NS B0N 1Z0 Nancy Frappier 2712 Chemin des Patriotes St. Ours, QC J0G1P0 Michael George 76 Gilmour Road RR # 3 Maureen Strong Guelph, ON N1H 6H9 48 Lakeshore Drive Carla Heggie Stoney Creek, Ontario 629 Hemlock Drive Upper Tantallon, NS B3Z 1N3 Canada L8E 5C7 Elizabeth King 905-643-3271 4051 Barbican Drive Mississauga, ON L5L 2C3 Vickie Kline 114 Mountainview Crescent London, ON N6J 4M8 ______Spring/Summer 2012 11 Region 4 Wants You! Gary Jones questions is given. All the answers are included in the PowerPoint program. Judges-to-be need to Region 4 needs more accredited Garden score a grade of at least 72. Once Workshop 1 is Judges! Help vote daylilies through the American passed, it never needs to be repeated as long as a Hemerocallis Society’s Awards and Honors judge votes annually and maintains his or her program! Join dozens of your daylily friends AHS membership. throughout Region 4. Serving as a garden judge Workshop 2 takes place in a daylily garden has several rewards. You’ll save money on your during bloom season. Criteria for judging daylily purchasing as you will develop a sharper daylilies is further addressed, particularly the eye for the best daylilies growing in Region 4. importance of judging the whole plant, not just the You will be supporting the hybridizers of Region flower. Attendees trial judge daylilies using a 4 by recognizing their best introductions. You sample scoring process, and are encouraged to will share in the annual selection process that develop a consistent judging procedure that works recognizes the best daylilies for our gardens. You best for them. Upon completion of both will broaden your knowledge of daylilies, and will workshops, judges-to-be prepare a judgeship enjoy a new chapter in your daylily hobby. application, and forward it to the Regional Garden Judge training materials are President. currently available at the AHS web site Judgeships may be appointed after two www.daylilies.org. On July 1, 2012 they will be years of AHS membership. Judges need to attend available exclusively on the AHS Portal. The at least one AHS National or one Region 4 AHS publication formerly titled “Judging Regional meeting with garden tours during their Daylilies” has recently been divided into two five-year appointment. Judges must submit a files. Exhibition Judges now have their own ballot by September 1st each year, and maintain resource material. All AHS members interested their AHS affiliation. Judges should be growing in becoming Garden Judges should print out, read, award worthy cultivars, and should record 25 and maintain for reference, “AHS Garden garden visits to at least 15 daylily gardens during Judges.” Additionally, the AHS provides two their five-year appointment. Garden Judges are training workshops, which may be attended in any expected to repeat Workshop 2 as a “Refresher” order. before submitting their application for re- Workshop 1 consists of classroom training appointment. Additionally, garden judges may that includes the showing of a PowerPoint seek designation as a workshop instructor after presentation. The PowerPoint begins with a brief their first five-year experience. To do so, a judge history of the modern daylily, and proceeds to must assist in the teaching of both a Workshop 1 introduce the attendee to the Awards and Honors and a Workshop 2. Welcome aboard! Program. Attendees are shown examples of award winning daylilies as the differing awards Gary Jones is the Region 4 Garden Judge Liaison are discussed, and judging criteria is addressed. & AHS Garden Judge workshop Expediter Discussion points are brought up, and questions [email protected] are encouraged. A short review quiz of 25
______12 Daylilies in the Great Northeast THANKS TO ALL REGION 4 GARDEN JUDGES!
Term Judge We are fortunate to have so many Term Judge generous folks offering time and 2016 Russ Allen CT expertise to the AHS and Region 4. 2013 Coral Kincaid NS, Canada 2013 Emmanuel Baghdayan MA Region 4’s Garden Judge Liaison is 2013 Ellen Laprise MA 2012 Lisa D. Bourret ME Gary Jones of Connecticut. We 2015 Paul Limmer NY 2012 Paul Bourret ME welcome eight new garden judges to 2012 Kim Lipscomb NS, Canada 2012 Bobbie Brooks MA our region this season! 2016 Luanne Madden NY 2016 Murray Brunskill ON, Canada H Donald K. Marvin MA 2013 Melodye Campbell NY The 2012 Awards and Honors ballots 2016 Melanie Mason NY ~I 2015 Grace Canham NY have all been mailed by Melodye 2016 Pam Milliken NY 2013 Shirley Cappiello NY Campbell, who is the AHS Awards and 2015 Gene A. Moglia NY 2013 Frank H. Chaloupecky NY ~I Honors Chair. 2013 Dave Mussar ON, Canada 2013 Laura C. Chaloupecky NY ~I 2014 Wendolyn Nicholds ON,Canada 2015 Debi Chowdhury NY 2016 Kelly Noel ON, Canada 2013 Donald Church ME 2014 Nancy Oakes PEI, Canada 2015 Faye Collins ON, Canada If your term is listed at 2012, 2015 Louise Peluso NY 2016 Karin Cooke NH remember to RENEW your judgeship 2012 Christine Peterson NY 2013 Bryan Culver ON, Canada status with a fun refresher class. H Jack Pine NY 2014 Patsy Cunningham RI Classes are available at the AHS 2014 Barbara Provest NY 2013 Judith Deene NH National Convention in Columbus, 2015 George Rasmussen NY ~I 2015 Brian Derrah ON, Canada Ohio, and at our Off-Season Regional 2015 Joan Rasmussen NY 2016 Ross Dettweiler ON, Canada Convention listed in this newsletter. 2014 Katharine Reed RI ~I 2012 Dorothy DeWitt NH Both Garden Judge I and Garden 2016 Charmaine Rich VT 2013 Carolyn Dickey NH Judge II are offered at these 2013 George Riehle NY 2013 John Dickey NH conventions. Clubs bring in instructors 2015 Janes Robinowitz NY 2014 George Doorakian MA for training too! 2016 Kathy Rood NY 2013 Paula Doorakian MA 2016 Tom Rood NY ~I 2013 Deborah Dullahan NY Region 4 invites all AHS members to 2016 Donald Salhoff NY 2013 Cecil Dunlap NS, Canada consider becoming garden judges. The 2016 Patricia Salhoff NY 2015 Laura Evans ME short classes are very helpful in H Robert Savage NY 2012 Cheri Ferrari CT making your own decisions about 2014 Christl Schmidt NY 2012 Helene A. Ferrari CT what constitutes a great daylily. Most 2016 Brian Schram NS, Canada 2016 Jane Fish Canada of the AHS meetings and conventions 2016 Susan Shaw ME 2014 Mary Collier Fisher MA ~I throughout the country offer them too. 2013 Brian Smith NS, Canada 2013 Brainard Fitzgerald NS,Canada There is satisfaction in voting with 2012 Donald P. Smith CT 2013 Doreen Fitzgerald NS, Canada integrity and knowledge for daylilies 2012 Nancy Smith CT 2013 Rachel Flaksman RI deserving of AHS honors and awards. H Robert Sobek MA 2014 Betty Fretz ON,Canada 2013 Gil Stelter ON, Canada 2015 Jeffry A. Friedman NY 2013 Sally Stelter ON, Canada 2013 Leslie Friedman NY AHS Garden Judges~ 2013 Susan Stowe MA 2013 Delores Galbo NY Remember to send your ballots 2013 Maureen Strong ON, Canada 2016 Carol Haj NY postmarked no later than 2012 Robert Strong ON, Canada 2013 Carl D. Harmon NH September 1, 2012 to: 2016 Cheryl Taylor ON, Canada 2012 James Healey NY 2015 Kathleen Viamari MA H Isabel Hibbard NY Melodye Campbell H Margaret Walrath NY 2016 Dottie Hokkanen ME 21 Ambleside Drive 2014 Kimberly Walters NY ~I 2013 Rich Howard CT Fairport, NY 14450 2015 Lawrence Weisberg NY 2012 Charles Hubbell MA 585-749-7433 2014 Cyril Weller NY 2012 Mike Huben MA [email protected] 2012 Barbara White ON,Canada 2016 Brian Jones ON,Canada 2013 Darlyn S. Wilkinson MA 2012 **Gary M. Jones** CT ~I 2016 Carolyn Young NY 2013 Adele Keohan MA “H” signifies Honorary Judges. 2016 Charles Zettek Jr. NY “I” indicates Judge Instructors. ______Spring/Summer 2012 13 Region 4 Business Meeting
July 15, 2011 Guelph, Ontario
Region 4 Business Meeting July 15, 2011 R4 Service Award goes to Tina Cotter Guelph, Ontario (CDS).
Call to order Mildred Schlumpf Award for best photograph of a single bloom was • Increasing stipend for Newsletter editor awarded to Chris Petersen (LIDS). from $300 to $500. Many regions pay their newsletter editor up to $1000 per issue. • Recognition and thanks
• At the informal meeting at the CanAm • Announcements Classic, purchasing a dedicated garden Invitation to 2012 Region 4 meeting by sign for Stanley Saxton seedling bed was the Finger Lakes Daylily Society discussed. This sign would travel from host club to host club and would proudly • Adjourn designate the Saxton seedling bed. Region 2 does this for their Englerth Seedling bed. Need a committee to investigate vendors and cost. The Newsletter Wants YOU! We hope to include ALL Region 4 Clubs in the newsletter. Club news and photos help connect us to each other. • Change in nomination process for R4 We really learn by reading what other clubs are Service Award. Currently only club doing, and how they are doing it. We can’t travel presidents can nominate club members, to every garden in our short northern season. So why not open the nomination process up to share your ideas, and your delights with all of all club members? us!
• Currently do not have a host club for the Region 4 members are welcome to write a little 2013 R4 annual meeting. The 2013 synopsis of club events, daylily adventures or National is in July, so this gives a smaller mail in a club calendar, and a few photos! You club or a club without sufficient tour don’t have to be a club officer, a bit of daylily gardens an opportunity to host an off inspiration will do! season meeting. Propose a story, or an interview to the editor. • Election of RP and Director, Gary Jones, Take some colorful photos in summer to submit for the newsletter. Pictures are especially needed Chair of Nominating Committee. for the Spring/Summer issues. Long northern winters do not offer colorful daylily photo • New Business opportunities. But we sure like to see them during that often long cold spring. Who knows what the • Awards weather will do this year?! So take some photos to R4 hybridizer award for 2010 goes to share! Ellen Laprise for ISABELLE ROSE ______14 Daylilies in the Great Northeast AMERICAN HEMEROCALLIS SOCIETY REGION 4
Statement of Income and Expenses January 1, 2011 to December 31, 2011
Funds available on January 1, 2011 - $41,547.65
INCOME
Club Sales: BADS $ 350.00 CDS 458.45 FIELDS 295.00 HADS 900.81 HVIDS 120.00 LIDS 400.00 NEDS 875.00 ODS ‘10 500.00 $ 3,899.26
ODS ‘11 Convention Reimbursement $2,000.00 AHS Postage Reimbursement 933.05 Newsletter Advertising (Saxon) 25.00
$ 2,958.05 Donations:
ODS – Can Am Sale $ 610.00 $ 610.00
TOTAL INCOME $7,467.31
*Nova Scotia - $935.96 *SMDHS - $88.75
*2011 contributions received in 2012 are not included in Total Income. They will be included in the 2012 statement.
______Spring/Summer 2012 15 EXPENSES
Director $ 986.71 RVP 750.00 RPD 500.00 Newsletter Editor 500.00 Insurance 275.25 Newsletter/U.S. Postage 5,589.58 Color Newsletter (Inside Pages) 1,365.00 Canadian Postage 1,021.26 Postage Permit (Bulk) 185.00 ODS Auction Plants 500.00 ODS ’11 Reg. Convention Start up 2,000.00 Region 4 Hybridizer Award 40.00 Region 4 Service Award 100.00 Youth Fund 171.00 RVP Office Expenses 67.67 Start up – So. MA Daylily Society 300.00
TOTAL EXPENSES $14,351.47
NET :LOSS - $6,884.16
Assets: Cape Cod 5 Checking Account $ 3,247.50 Interest earned - $4.72 *DWS Money Market 31,455.11 $5,000 transferred to checking Interest earned - $34.40
*Scudder merged with DWS Money Market
Funds available on January 1, 2012 $34,702.61
Youth Funds Available 2012 (CDS) $679.00 (Included in General Funds)
Respectfully submitted, Dan Pessoni, Treasurer, Region 4
______16 Daylilies in the Great Northeast AMERICAN HEMEROCALLIS SOCIETY REGION 4
Budget – Calendar Year 2012
INCOME
Club Sales & Convention Contributions $11,385.00 AHS Newsletter Reimbursement 950.00 Newsletter Advertisements/Subscriptions 150.00 Interest 50.00 $12,535.00
EXPENSES Director $1,250.00 RVP 750.00 RPD 500.00 Newsletter Editor 500.00 AHS Insurance 275.00 Newsletter/U.S.Postage 5,600.00 Canadian Postage 1,025.00 Color Newsletter (Inside Pages) 1,375.00 Region Youth Award 100.00 Elizabeth Nesmith Award 100.00 Region 4 Service Award 100.00 Region 4 Hybridizer Award 50.00 Region 4 Convention Auction 500.00 Postage Permit (Bulk) 185.00 Website 125.00 Miscellaneous (Supplies, awards, software) 100.00
$12,535.00
Respectfully submitted, Dan Pessoni, Treasurer, Region 4
______Spring/Summer 2012 17 And the Region 4 Service Award goes to... Carl Harmon! 1998: Carl Harmon joins the American Hemerocallis Society. Classic scenario: Carl was hooked on daylilies. Head over Heels. Where would this road lead? To this nomination, no less! Fast forward: 2001. The New England Daylily Society is sponsoring the AHS National Convention. Every attendee is gifted a daylily. Carl grew them, preparing them for presentation to the convention attendees. It was a time when Carl never saw a daylily he didn’t like; his collection grew quickly. He befriends Steve Moldovan and Roy Woodhall. He begins traveling every year with other daylily friends to give Steve and Roy a hand with shipping out orders, lining out seedlings, and caring for their garden. Take a look at Steve Moldovan’s 2005 catalog: There is a picture of Carl and the crew. Carl had joined the New England Daylily Society early on. He offered to serve as coordinator of the club’s daylily “baby sitting” program, a role he has assumed for a decade now. He has continually volunteered with club activities, and particularly club auctions, and generously supported them with daylily donations and high bids. Fast forward to January 2005: Carl is elected to the club’s presidency, and serves a two- Fast forward: 2009. NEDS is hosting the year term, remaining on the Board for another two as Region 4 Regional. Carl is an important cog in the Past-President. Among the accomplishments of Carl’s planning. Carl is again growing the gift plants for the Presidency was a rejuvenation of enthusiasm among the attendees, and his garden is on tour. Then again, his members as well as the establishment of a NEDS garden had already become an annual day trip daylily display garden, which was to become an AHS destination for many New England daylily enthusiasts. National Historic Display garden, at Elm Bank in After Carl presented a daylily program on his garden Wellesley, MA. and his goals to the Connecticut Daylily Society in Along the way, Carl and his wife, Marlene, January of 2010, the club followed up with a peak began annual Florida trips each May, viewing the latest bloom bus trip, enjoyed fully by CDS members daylilies available, and never coming home without a attending, to Harmon Hill Farm. Carl graciously suitcase-full. Or maybe two. Carl became an AHS provided a chef and burgers as the CDS club celebrated th garden judge in 2003, supported by his rapidly its 20 anniversary with a picnic at his garden. increasing familiarity with daylilies both northern and Yes, Harmon Hill Farm. Carl’s role in southern. There was no question whether he was promoting the world of daylilies goes beyond the New growing a sufficient selection of daylilies required for England Daylily Society. Carl has established the finest the judgeship! collection of current daylilies of Region 4 hybridizers anywhere. ______18 Daylilies in the Great Northeast Carl Harmon (continued) Youth Group Contest on the AHS If a daylily introduced by a Region 4 Membership Portal hybridizer is up for auction at either a club, or https://daylilies.site-ym.com Regional, meeting, Carl’s hand is in the air. His sales garden includes numerous beds dedicated exclusively to the daylilies of specific regional hybridizers. At Contest runs from April 1 to July 31, 2012 Harmon Hill Farm the buyer or daylily enthusiast will find, among the Salters and the Stamiles, daylilies Every month there will be a drawing for a daylily introduced by Region 4 hybridizers including Nick donated by a member of the AHS Youth Committee. Barth, Philip Boucher, Jim Brennan, Howard Brooks, At the end of the contest, there will be a grand prize Bill Chambers, Don Church, Bryan Culver, Chris drawing for a new daylily from Minnesota hybridizer, Darrow, Gerald Deschenes, George Doorakian, Les Hegeman, Mike Huben, Lori-Ann Jones, Mary Karol Emmerich. Kreger, August Krupien, Bill Lachman, Henry Lefkovits, Henry Lorraine and Doug Lycett, Mike To qualify for the monthly drawing, perform the Maher, Don Marvin, Melanie Mason, Barry Matthie, monthly required tasks. Dan Matzek, Currier McEwen, George Rasmussen, To qualify for the grand prize drawing, perform the Phil Reilly, Ron Rose, Stanley Saxton, Bob Schwarz, monthly required tasks, every month, during the Susan Shaw, Bob Sobek, Don Stevens, Curt Turner, Ron Valente, Darlyn Wilkinson, Charlie Zettek, and – contest’s four month period. Carl Harmon. Required tasks must be performed within the youth Carl has truly been a steward, a mentor, and a group on the portal. kingpin of the New England Daylily Society for a decade. He shares his garden, his knowledge, his Each of these tasks must be done at least friendship, and his time, energy and enthusiasm, with once a month. all he meets. His impact on both the New England 1. Upload a photo. (Add a photo to the group album Daylily Society and Region 4 is deserving of recognition. His willingness to preserve, propagate, or your personal album.) and present the finest daylilies of Region 4 to his 2. Post to a forum. (Write a message or start a new hundreds of garden visitors yearly is a blessing to all topic.) daylily enthusiasts of the Northeast. Thank you Carl! 3. Post to the wall. (Write a message longer then two words.) Respectfully Submitted, Gary M. Jones Bonus task, for qualifying contestants, gives you an extra chance in the grand prize drawing: Add or change something in your profile, one time, during the contest’s four month period.
Official rules are posted on the portal. For questions or assistance, contact the Youth Chairperson. Refer to your AHS membership card, included with the Spring 2011 Daylily Journal, for portal help. Harmon Hill Farm is found online at: Or contact: http://www.harmonhillfarm.com/ Kathy D’Alessandro - AHS Youth Chair index.htm [email protected]
______Spring/Summer 2012 19 AHS Region 4 Popularity Poll Ballot Use the Tear-Off Ballot located on the Insert, page 29, to cast your votes!
Every AHS member can vote for up to ten registered cultivars! Circle up to 10. Or, you may write-in up to five personal choices making a total of 10. The Tear-Off Ballot is found on the Insert, pg. 29-30, ready to circle, In Canada In the US fill in, and send to the appropriate address. On the Dave Mussar Kim Walters other side, you can select your favorite for the 4083 Watson Road South 154 Main St. Hybridizer’s Award! Send the sheet in an envelope, or Puslinch, ON N0B 2J0 Sandown, NH 03873 choose to send your choices by email to Dave Mussar. [email protected] [email protected] ______20 Daylilies in the Great Northeast Region 4 Daylily Club News
Buffalo Area Daylily Society BADS Paula Burkard Calendar 2012 2012 BADSC Club Officers & Committee Chairs: May 4th - 6th 16th Annual Can-Am Daylily Classic Delta Toronto Airport West Hotel President: Paula Burkard 5444 Dixie Road, Mississauga [email protected] For more information: http://www.ontariodaylily.on.ca/ Vice President: Anne Herman [email protected] May 20, 2012 BADS Mecca Meeting & Plant Sale Secretary: Carol Haj East Aurora Senior Center [email protected]
June 23 to July 29 Treasurer: Dolores Galbo National Garden Festival in Buffalo. This event has [email protected] now grown into the largest garden walk in the country. It covers a 5 week period during peak bloom Member Representatives: Marilyn Barker & Ray time. Local garden clubs feature garden walks in Eldermayer their towns and a huge finale of the Buffalo Garden Walk with over 350 gardens on display. ~ And the Acquisitions: Pam Hoffman event is free! http://www.nationalgardenfestival.com/ [email protected]
July 11 - 14, 2012 Editor: The BADS News - Dick Derr AHS National Convention [email protected] For more information: http://www.columbusdaylilies.us/ Facebook: Bonnie Bowen 2012_daylily_convention.htm [email protected] Columbus, Ohio Hoop House: Dolores Galbo August 4th, 2012 Picnic Meeting, BADS Bux market, Membership: Maurice Malaney Place - Paula's Lake House on Chautauqua Lake [email protected]
August 2012, Date TBA Public Sale, Harvey Morin VFW Post Open Garden Book: Carolyn Schaffner 965 Center Road [email protected] West Seneca 9am to 2 pm Webmaster: Pam Hoffman Friday October 5th, 2012 BADS Banquet Website~ http://www.buffaloareadaylilysociety.com/ index.html ______Spring/Summer 2012 21 Connecticut Daylily Society CDS
Russ Allen The surprise winter storm certainly shut down our West Avon Road, Avon, CT normal club meeting plans for our November 5th meeting – with power location. We look forward to another excellent year for outages throughout the State lasting for days. But our Plant Sale based on our Club volunteering efforts. we’re pleased to confirm that our honored guest Please note that $5.00-off coupons were again hybridizer from Texas, Mark Carpenter, was able to be distributed to interested persons visiting our CDS rescheduled by Gary Jones to present at our Spring Booth at the Flower Show – so this is an excellent meeting as you’ll note below. opportunity to attract new members to our Club as well as increasing the public’s exposure to and The Jan. 22nd “Soup’s On” Meeting with a sharing of enthusiasm for daylilies. CDS Hybridizer Photos was a marvelous time, despite the one-day required postponement due to bad Our summer picnic is planned for Sunday, July 8th at weather. Local hybridizers sharing some of their the home and gardens of Mary Drews, 181 Quarry Hill favorite seedling photos included: Richard Blanchard, Road, Haddam Neck, CT 06424. The picnic will be Peggy Corbeil, Richard Daniel, Claire Henderson, held from 11AM – 2PM. We are looking for nearby Arlene Hoffman, Gary Jones, Lori-Ann Jones, Mark open gardens to tie-in with our picnic location. Labbe, and myself. We sincerely regret that several additional presentations of seedlings were unable to be Connecticut Open Garden Initiative: We’ll be shown due to software and travel scheduling problems. seeking to assemble a listing of dates and times that But we’re definitely already looking forward to the member gardens will be available for Club member local hybridizer program next year! visits during July. So if a willing Club member isn’t able to list some open garden dates and times for their The CDS Club had an outstanding showing at the Feb. garden at our March 17th meeting, please contact me at 23-26 Connecticut Flower Show where we once again [email protected] to do so. had a booth as part of the Federated Garden Clubs of Connecticut, educational exhibits section. We had Please remember that the AHS National Convention is club volunteers manning our booth for virtually the being held in Columbus, Ohio this year on July 12-14 entire time the Flower Show was open. They also for those of you who can make it. It is always a very encouragingly received requests for information about memorable event with lots of the most famous new the Club and our upcoming events, including the plant cultivars and national hybridizers in attendance. sale, totaling 2 ½ pages. Most impressively, our booth Information can always be found about our upcoming this year won two ribbons, including one blue, based events at www.ctdaylily.com/CDS.html. Details on our theme of “The Nifty 50 Daylilies – The 50 regarding our Sept. 8th and November 3rd meetings Most Popular Daylilies in the Northeast”. The will be held for a future newsletter. Please also dedication of our many members in supporting the remember that the Region 4 Meeting will be held in Club’s educational outreach activities at the Flower the Finger Lakes, NY area on Sept. 15-16. Hope to Show this year is greatly appreciated! Photos of our see you there! award wining booth are in the center of the newsletter. May 19 CDS Daylily Plant Sale 10-2 PM, Avon, CT The plans for the Club’s special expanded March 17th meeting include two notable hybridizer presentations. July 8 CDS Summer Picnic~181 Quarry Hill Rd, Bob Sobek from Westford, Mass. is a well known New Haddam Neck, CT 06424 England hybridizer. He will present in the morning at the meeting, which starts at 10:45AM. After our Sept. 8 AHS President Julie Covington guest speaker. normal “pot luck” lunch, Mark Carpenter from Center, Texas, will be our afternoon speaker. Mark’s Texas Nov. 3 Hybridizers Sandy and Mike Holmes. garden is named “The Lily Farm” and he will be presenting highlights from his hybridizing program. Correction: In the Fall/Winter issue, the CDS article stated that Mark Carpenter recently won the AHS The Club’s Annual Daylily and Plant Sale will be held Bertrand Farr Hybridizer award in 2008. In fact,it was on Saturday, May 19th from 10AM - 2PM at our 635 his uncle, Jack Carpenter, who won the award. ______22 Daylilies in the Great Northeast FINGER LAKES DAYLILY SOCIETY FieLDS
FINGER LAKES DAYLILY SOCIETY
May 19th: Spring Fling The Club Goals:
Members only Work closely with AHS Region 4, Ontario (Toronto) Daylily (sister club) and Silent Daylily Auction Rochester Area Daylily Societie.s plus Baby Sitter Raffle 9:30 AM Four regular meetings from March through October (Occasional Bonus Good Shepherd Lutheran Meetings) Church 320 South Pearl St. Meetings generally on Saturdays Canandaigua Maintains an Official AHS Daylily Display garden at the Webster Arboretum.
Planned meeting programs featuring guest speakers or knowledgeable club members July 22nd: FieLDS Annual Garden Tour Door prizes
A favorite event. Public plant sale (fundraiser & recruiting tool) See daylilies in beautiful gardens and enjoy the company of July peak bloom garden tours followed by a family style picnic fellow gardeners. Members only August plant auction (fund raiser) See summer issue of club newsletter for details and Fall banquet -- featuring a noted hybridizer as a guest speaker directions. Publish club newsletters
Member's "baby sitter" program for club purchased daylilies August 4th: American Hemerocallis Society affiliated club -Life Member Public Plant Sale Club dues to cover newsletter, postage, and miscellaneous expenses: Public Plant Sale at Bristol Nursery in Victor NY Rte 96 $10 for the first year and $5 years after per membership. (I-90 Exit 45 and turn East) A membership includes all persons living at one address. Wonderful opportunity to purchase beautiful named To apply for membership or to obtain additional information, cultivars at reasonable prices. please contact club Webmaster Chuck Wilson 585.381.4862 Website~
http://flds.weebly.com/
______Spring/Summer 2012 23 Hudson Area Daylily Society HADS
Debi Chowdhury HADS OFFICERS COMMITTEE CHAIRS
Chair - Debi Chowdhury Newsletter Editor - Stephanie Kronau [email protected] Hospitality - Sally Schuessler Secretary - Grace Hilt-Mack Sunshine - Mary Currie [email protected] Babysitter Plants - Frank Almquist Treasurer - Carol Volungus Display Garden - Pat & Don Salhoff [email protected] Website - Tom Rood Past Chair - Jim Healey Photographer - Cindi Jones [email protected] Publicity - Gretchen Kestner HADS Website - Programs-Local Speakers -Christl Schmidt www.hudack.org Programs-Out of town Speakers- Melanie Mason 2012 MEETING DATES - Meetings begin at 10 AM unless otherwise noted.
May 12 - Members Sale and Auction Albany Co. Cooperative Extension, Voorheesville, NY June 16 - Babysitter Plants July 14 - 11 AM Picnic at the Display gardens in Voorheesville, NY, Hats Required! July 21 - Member Garden Tour - Marge Moon’s Garden August 18 – Annual Sale at Faddegon’s Nursery September 14-16 – Regional meeting, Canandaigua. Bus trip? Sept 22 - Picnic 12 noon at Debi’s October 13 Speaker TBA November 3- Fred Moody will speak on photography December 1 - Holiday Party - William K Sanford Town Library
The Albany Co. Cooperative Extension is located at 24 Martin Road, Voorheesville, NY. 12186 The William K. Sanford Town Library is located at 629 Albany Shaker Road, Loudonville, NY 12211.
We started the year with a meeting in January, with our own club member, speaker Kathryn Mohr, on historical daylilies. In February we got together with the Hosta and the Iris society to have our annual get- together, hosted this year by HADS at the Cooperative Extension in Voorheesville. In March, our own members spoke on preparing soil. In April, David Chinery spoke on Ground Covers at the Sanford Town Library. Between meetings, we visited Longwood Gardens and the Philadelphia Flower show. Then we had our own flower show at Hudson Valley Community College. Our booth was very well complimented and we had a lot of people sign up. I’ve been raking, and digging, and fertilizing. I’ve been shooing the bunnies and chipmunks out of my garden and planting and sorting and having a good time. A few of us took a trip down to a HVIDS meeting at Marlboro library, to listen to a wonderful speaker. Next month, we will be in Voorheesville for our member auction/sales. I can’t wait! Lots of wonderful plants to buy. Oh, and then to have to plant it all! This year in July, we will get to see our display garden in bloom when we have our picnic at the Cooperative Extension Gazebo. Then the following week we’ll be having our annual member-garden tour hosted by our own Marge Moon. More goodies to buy. In August, we hold our own member sales and in September we are planning to attend the Regional. Then in October, our speaker is still to be announced and in November we will have a speaker on “How to take pictures of our favorite flower”. Meetings for December and January are set. We invite you to come visit us at any of our meetings. HADS Website - www.hudack.org ______24 Daylilies in the Great Northeast ‘Greywoods Dusty Buds‘ Wilkinson ‘Tuxedo Junction’ & ‘Twisted Sister’ Schwarz ‘Greywoods Great Dana’ Wilkinson
‘Split infinitive’ Mason ‘Longlesson Summer Gi ’ Mason, ‘Greywoods Fritzwilliam’ Wilkinson ‘Barbara White’ Culver
‘Frostbite Falls’ Church
‘Lime Frost’ Stamile in front of ‘Bordello Queen’ Mason
‘Rose Fiesta’ Culver
‘Lady Bandit’ Culver ‘Ragged Mountain Sunset’ Shaw
Region 4 Beauty
‘Violet Angel’ Culver ‘Greywoods’ Dixie Belle’ Wilkinson ‘Jade Princess’ Culver ‘Eskimo Island’ Mason Shaw photos Shaw
32 25 Region 4 Scrapbook!
26 Connecticut Daylily Society at the Flower Show this Region 4 Daylililes!‘Divine Inspiration’ & ‘Nancy Britz’ winter! The Ni y Fi y Daylilies Project. Doorakian, ‘Betty Devereaux’ & ‘Linda Spooner’ Culver, (Allen Photos) ‘Double Perfection’ Rasmussen (Shaw photos) ODS Ontario Daylily Society
16th ANNUAL CAN-AM CLASSIC May 4th - 6th, 2012
Featuring: DAN BACHMAN - Lebanon, Ohio JOHN BENZ - Cincinnati, Ohio MIKE GEORGES - Guelph, Ontario JAMIE GOSSARD - Columbus, Ohio LORI JONES - Westfield, Massachusetts BARRIE MATTHIE - Bloomfield, Ontario ROY WOODHALL - Avon, Ohio
FRIDAY 7:00 p.m. - Region 4 Business Meeting 8:00 p.m. - Speaker Presentations
SATURDAY 8:00 a.m. - Registration and Continental breakfast 9:00 a.m. - Full day’s program of speakers -Includes lunch plus Plant Sale, Live Auction, Silent Auction, Chinese Auction, and lots of fun! 6:00 p.m. - Evening Banquet - Dine with the speakers (Optional)
SUNDAY 9:00 a.m. - Garden Judges’ Workshop l
Registration - ( Online using Paypal, or by Mail) If Postmarked before April 1st - $90 (Cdn or US) After April 1st - $100: Youth - $50 Optional Banquet Saturday Night - $45
Registrars: Gabriele and Ross Dettweiler, 5003 Fountain St. N., Breslau, Ontario N0B 1M0 Phone 519-648-2408 or e-mail: [email protected]
Delta Toronto Airport West, 5444 Dixie Road, (1 block south of the 401), Mississauga, Ontario. L4W 2L2 Phone 905-624-1144
To find further details, mail-in registration form, or on-line registration, please visit: http://www.ontariodaylily.on.ca
At this late date, Please contact the Dettweilers
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REGISTRATION FORM
An AHS Region 4 Event
16th ANNUAL16TH ANNUAL CAN-AM CAN-AM DAYLILY CLASSIC CLASSIC
Note: (Note Online: ONLINE registration registration and and payment payment by bPayPaly PayPal can can be bedone done at atontariodaylily.on.ca ontariodaylily.on.ca)
Please make your cheque payable to Ontario Daylily Society and mail it along with this form to: Gabriele and Ross Dettweiler 5003 Fountain St. N., Breslau, Ontario N0B 1M0
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______28 Daylilies in the Great Northeast AHS Region 4 Popularity Poll Ballot Every AHS member can vote for up to ten registered cultivars! Circle up to 10. Or, you may write-in up to five personal choices making a total of 10. Votes by email are sent to Dave Mussar, [email protected]. Or submit your choices at http://www.daylilies.org/PopPoll/ballot.html Or postmarked by September 1, 2012, regular mail is sent to the appropriate address below.
Write-In Votes below: 1.______2.______In Canada In the US Dave Mussar Kim Walters 3.______4083 Watson Road South 154 Main St. Puslinch, ON N0B 2J0 Sandown, NH 03873 [email protected] [email protected] 5.______Spring/Summer 2012 29 Ballot for 2011 Region 4 Hybridizer’s Award Member Member #1 #2 #1 #2
______‘Aha’ (Brooks-BB, 2009) ______‘Jinxy’(Di DeCaire, 2011)
______‘Big Honking Flaming ______‘Julie Patchouly’(Maher, 2011) Floozy’ (Jones-L., 2008)
______‘Bonibrae Cotton Candy ______‘Liar’s Poker’(Turner-C., 2010) Swirls’ (Matthie, 2012)
______‘Ice Trumpets’(Huben, 2007) ______‘Lord of Autumn’(Marvin, 2005)
______‘Fraises au Lait’(Sobek, 2003) ______‘Promise to Behave’(Rich, 2008)
______‘Cobbs Hill Sparkler’(Zettek, ______‘A Love Beyond Words’(Weitz, 2004) 2011)
All AHS members are permitted to vote. Please vote for one cultivar per member. This vote does not require that you are a garden judge. Please feel free to send your votes in with this Rip-off protective wrapper which was designed to be removed from the outside of the newsletter. On the other side, you will find the Region 4 Popularity Poll, ready to be filled in as well. So make your choices, filling in both sides of this sheet. Send the envelope to Kim Walters if you are in the United States, and Dave Mussar if you reside in Canada. If you prefer, all emails, US and Canada, can be sent to Dave. Both Kim and Dave’s addresses are found on this page.
Both the Hybridizer’s and Popularity Polls are due September 1. Signatures: Member #1 ______Address______Member #2 ______
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Please mail your completed ballot to RPD Dave Mussar in Canada. If you prefer to send him an Email with your selection, label the e-mail subject line: “Region 4 Hybridizer’s Award 2012”. [email protected] by September 1. Mail in the US can be sent to Kim Walters. Dave Mussar Kim Walters 4083 Watson Road South 154 Main Street Puslinch, Ontario N0B 2J0 Sandown, New Hampshire 03873 ______30 Daylilies in the Great Northeast Region 4 Scrapbook!
Sue Bergeron’s Photo of Liatris and daylilies on the golf course
Gaelan McKay with Coral Kincaid at NSDS
“Gaelan is not only the youngest member of NSDS. He is a young man with many interests. Next month he will be graded for his 1 st. degree Black Belt in Karate,. He is entering year 7 in this program. We have been kayaking with our family for many years so he enjoys being on the water as well. Swimming, dirt biking and snow shoeing (if we could get enough snow in our area) are also fun things for us too. Gaelan enjoys academics as well, so far he has managed to maintain an honour roll average at school,” write James & Lisa MacKay.
NSDS Events! Allan Banks photos 31 ‘Watusi Warrior’ Chambers-Moldovan Harmon Hill Gardens feature many Region 4 Hybridizers including Mike Huben, Bob Sobek, Lori- Ann Jones, Mike Maher, Melanie Mason, Dan Matzek
Region 4 Service Award ~Thank-you, Carl Harmon! ‘Windham Love Child’ Matzek Carl & Marlene Harmon, Harmon Hill Gardens
Below: ‘Merlin’s Moth’ Sobek Hudson, New Hampshire Shaw photos Shaw
Shaw photos
32 Hudson Valley Iris & Daylily Society HVIDS Jim Robinowitz
President, Jim Robinowitz Vice President, Georgette Martin Secretary, Sue Rivard Treasurer, Frank Sorbello Hospitality, Irene Hutnick Webmaster, Jennifer Wagner
Find out more about HVIDS happenings at the following websites: HVIDS website - http://www.hvids.org Garden Happenings - http://www.hvgardencalendar.com Jim Robinowitz 845/454-6415 or [email protected] HVIDS meetings are held at the Marlboro Free Library unless otherwise noted. A social gathering begins at 1:30 PM, followed by a 2:00 meeting. So mark your calendar and plan on attending. See you there, and bring a friend. HVIDS EVENTS CALENDAR SPRING/SUMMER 2012
March 4 Planning and Planting a Kitchen Garden by Master Gardener Dora Wright will cover how to personalize your vegetable and herb garden to match your cooking style. Dora is with the Orange County Arboretum. The Mid Hudson Iris and Daylily Society meets at the Marlboro Free Library. Members begin gathering around 1:30PM for refreshments and socializing. At 2PM there is a short business meeting followed immediately by the talk. The public is invited and all are welcome. www.hvids.org.
April 1 HVIDS Meeting Stephanie Markham of Toadland Gardens in Norfolk, Massachusetts. Stephanie is a nationally known iris hybridizer specializing in Miniature Tall Bearded Iris.
April 16-21 AIS 2012 Convention Ontario, California.
May 6 HVIDS Meeting, TBA
May 26 16th Annual AIS Affiliated HVIDS Judged Iris Show and Public Exhibition Center Court, Poughkeepsie Galleria (Saturday) May 27 HVIDS Open Iris Gardens. (Sunday)
July 11-14 AHS NATIONAL CONVENTION – Columbus, Ohio
July 21 12th Annual HVIDS Daylily Public Exhibition Center Court, Poughkeepsie Galleria (Saturday) ______Spring/Summer 2012 33 July 22 HVIDS Open Daylily Gardens. (Sunday)
July 29 Sorbello Dig Please keep this date available. It is crucial that many HVIDS members participate in the digging and preparation of plants for our upcoming annual sales.
August 2 PLANT SALE at the Vassar College Farmers Market. (Inaugural event)
August 4 Iris Rhizome and Daylily Fan Sale, Adams Fairacre Farm, Rte. 44, Poughkeepsie, NY
Aug 11 "Murphy Iris Dig" Club members will travel to Ella’s place to help dig and prepare iris which will be sold at our annual sale.
Aug 18 Iris Rhizome and Daylily Fan Sale Center Court, Poughkeepsie Galleria (Saturday)
Aug 25 Iris Rhizome and Daylily Fan Sale Center Court, Poughkeepsie Galleria (Saturday)
Long Island Daylily Society (LIDS) Pam Milliken Club Officers President ~ Pamela Milliken ~ [email protected] Vice-President ~ W. F. "Buck" Bucklin ~ [email protected] Corresponding Secretary ~ Joan Lundin ~ [email protected] Recording Secretary ~ Joan Turano ~ [email protected] Treasurer ~ Barbara Schenk ~ [email protected] Newsletter Editor ~ Gene Moglia ~ [email protected] Member-At-Large ~ Christine Petersen ~ [email protected] Chairperson of Nominations ~ Gene Moglia
LIDS Calendar for 2012
January 21, 2012: Heidi and Charles Douglas of Browns Ferry Gardens will be the featured speakers at our annual January luncheon, held at the Holiday Inn, Ronkonkoma, NY The next 4 meetings will be held at Planting Fields Arboretum, Oyster Bay, NY, with the meetings beginning at 1:00 PM March 17 (Saturday): Speaker to be announced April 21 (Saturday): Speaker to be announced May 15 (Tuesday evening): Members-only auction of choice cultivars June 16 (Saturday): Show preparation and 50/50 sales of daylilies and companion plants July 8 (Sunday): Annual Flower Show at Planting Fields Arboretum; set-up is on Saturday, July 7 July 14: (Saturday): Open gardens; There will be no official garden tours due to the National AHS Convention being held this weekend in Ohio. September 22 (Saturday) Annual members picnic, location to be determined October 20: (Saturday): Speaker to be announced ______34 Daylilies in the Great Northeast Maine Daylily Society MDS
Susan Shaw Several years ago, the Maine Daylily Society needed a new location for our Display Garden. There had been a rumor that we might find a welcome at the very popular, and beautiful, Merryspring Nature Park. We presented our proposal, and the board of directors was enthusiastic. They offered us a large flat field located along the main entrance to the perennial beds, the fragrant herb and sweet rose gardens, the greenhouse. The site had full sun, and we could use as much space as we wanted. It was perfect! Yes, it looked perfect. The soil was interesting, hmmm, Gravel and Clay? At one point there had been a road...A gravel pit? Oh, we could fix that... Lupines, dandelions, vetch, and plantain? ...Lupines are pretty. Rampant thistle too? We could just cover the whole garden with enough soil. How many inches of topsoil would it take to discourage hungry fat roots? The large holes in the ground? A groundhog? How many groundhogs? Undaunted, we set out. We ordered several large dumptruck loads of good Maine pasture soil onto our field, to create 8-10” deep garden beds. Luckily we knew someone with a long ancestry of dairy farmers who no longer kept cows. Even with 8” of soil, the thistles, vetch, and lupines showed great determination. Especially the painfully prickly canada thistle. And, tempting as it is to leave a few beautiful lupines in a daylily garden, it’s not a good idea. Unless you enjoy weeding more than we do. With a screwdriver. If you haven’t ever gardened in Maine, you have not realized how fast rocks and stones grow in our climate. You can see our rock farms as you drive downeast along Route 1. Soon you see boulders, maybe even ledges. We filled the groundhog holes with those rocks. Every week we filled them again with more rocks. Well, they may not be growing but they sure are multiplying as we kept finding more rocks for sure! Surprisingly, eventually there were no new groundhog holes. It is possible that the groundskeeper at Merryspring had something to do with it. Besides a large area devoted to horticulture and a childrens’ garden, Merryspring is home to an arboretum and many walking trails. The Maine Chapter of the American Chestnut Foundation has a working field, where 3rd- 8th generation seedlings are evaluated for disease resistance, then culled and re-bred. These are hybrids of the resistant Chinese chestnuts, an orchard tree, crossed, then back-crossed to the majestic forest trees, American chestnuts. The group continues to have great success! Our goal is to create a lovely garden of diverse daylilies for education, peace, and beauty. Unusual daffodils bloom in spring, lavender-pink colchicum in fall: there is a long season to enjoy! The display garden contains a growing collection of daylilies, both historic and up-to date. One of the works-in-progress at the daylily garden is a collection of cultivars by Maine hybridizers. We hope to showcase these folks who have contributed to our garden delight. Cultivars by Howard Brooks, Ron Valente, Joseph Barth, and even renowned iris hybridizer Currier McEwen are found in the garden. One thing you can tell about a plant that was selected out of a seedling field in Maine is hardiness! Maine Daylily Society volunteers take care of the garden. A regular crew arrives on Friday mornings at 10 AM to have fun together weeding, deadheading; maintaining the three long beds. The garden is home to a seedling display bed where you can see the development from seed to blooming seedlings. There are daylily culture and hybridizing workshops during the growing season. All are welcome to come visit! Merryspring Nature Center- 30 Conway Road, Camden, ME, 207-236-2239, http://www.merryspring.org/
MDS Calendar 2012
April 29~ Spring Meeting at 1:30 Camden Public Library May 15~ MDS Display Garden, Division Workshop at Merryspring 1PM May 18 & 19~Annual MDS Daylily Sale at Merryspring Nature Park, with Maine Rhododendron Society, and Merryspring’s spectacular plant sale! July 29~ Daylily Days at Merryspring, Maine Daylily Society Display Garden, Workshops and Tour Fall Meeting~ TBA ______Maine______Daylily Society Co-chairs: Laura Evans, Dottie Hokkanen, Susan Shaw______Spring/Summer 2012 35 NEW ENGLAND DAYLILY SOCIETY (NEDS)
Dorothy Campbell, Acton, Mass
NEDS OFFICERS- 2 year terms - January 2011 - December 2012
Kim Walters, President - [email protected] Adele Keohan, Vice-President- [email protected] Denise Pavlovich, Treasurer - [email protected] Dorothy Campbell, Secretary - [email protected] NEW ENGLAND DAYLILY SOCIETY (NEDS) ( www.nedaylily.org)
2011-2012 Calendar of Events Gardens To Visit
Apr 14 Pot Luck Meeting - Gil Stelter Massachusetts Horticultural Society’s Elm Bank May 12 Public Sale in Wakefield Masonic Temple Facility in Wellesley is the home of the NEDS AHS Jul 28 Exhibition display garden and has some 650 registered cultivars Aug 25 Public Sale in Wakefield Masonic Temple supplied by NEDS members. This garden is Oct 13 Soup’s On frequently used as the backdrop for weddings during Nov 10 the July peak bloom period. See www.masshort.org Dec 8 for information and directions. The garden is managed by Barbara Provest, NEDS Elm Bank Meeting Place - Tower Hill Botanical Gardens Display Garden Chair. Please contact her at 11 French Drive [email protected] or 508-877-0913 if you have Boylston, Ma 01505 questions. www.TowerHillBG.org NEDS also supports the daylily gardens at Heritage Meetings are usually the second Saturday of each Museum and Gardens. This facility recently added a month from October to May (with the exception of Flume Fountain water feature with daylilies planted on October which is the first Saturday). This year we will both sides. Reports are that it was lovely this past have both our May and August Sales at the Masonic summer and that daylilies have generated a lot of Temple in Wakefield, MA. The May members-only interest causing Heritage to add several daylily sale has been changed to a public sale. Contact Adele programs to their schedule. Keohan at [email protected] for more information or directions to the location. Besides the daylily garden, Heritage also has an Check the NEDS web site for the very latest schedule excellent museum of antique cars, and in the spring is and newsletters. If you plan to join us during the awash with Azalea and Rhododendron blooms (the winter months, do listen to the weather reports and Dexter hybrids were developed by a previous owner). check the Tower Hill Botanical Gardens (THBG) Heritage is located in Sandwich MA (see their web web site or contact any one of the officers listed above site, www.heritagemuseumandgardens.org for to verify that the meeting has not been cancelled due to contact information, what is blooming, and directions). snow.
______36 Daylilies in the Great Northeast Nova Scotia Daylily Society NSDS
Peggy-Anne Pineau
The Nova Scotia Daylily Society is doing well and thriving. In fact, as of January 2012, we are one hundred and eight members strong, with sixty-three of us being AHS members.
As of our March meeting the new Executive Board is:
Peggy-Anne Pineau – President Carla Heggie – Past president Jim Feetham – Vice-president Coral Kincaid – Secretary Yvonne Chute – Treasurer David Trott – Program chair Linda Smith and Mary Ridgley – Members at large
As you will read we are a busy bunch and have a lot of activities going on every year! This year is no exception. A new activity we are undertaking for the first time is our AHS accredited daylily exhibition & flower show. This event will be the first in Canada. This will be held in conjunction with the Canning Flower Show in the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia. Wayne Ward and Kim Lipscomb are at the helm and it should be a humdinger of a time for all. Our club has members from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and PEI with the bulk of them from Nova Scotia. Each area has its own good and bad growing conditions that we have to deal with. Here in the Halifax area, where I garden, it’s a continuous freeze/thaw cycle all winter. What snow we get can be gone the next day. Any day in December through February, the temperatures can be 5 degrees Celsius in the day and minus 20 degrees Celsius in the night (and that’s not including wind chill). This can be a problem with no snow cover at all to protect the daylilies. For this reason, we as a club strive to get the most winter hardy ones in our gardens. I’m sure all who read this can relate to the weather becoming very erratic in nature. What was the norm, now is not. So we make sure we mulch our plants well and hope for the best. What’s a gardener to do?? The NSDS activity schedule is included below. We are a very friendly crowd that love to show off our daylilies. Should anyone be in the area around the times of our activities please consider joining us. Any daylily lover is always welcome. Even if you’re not here when an activity is planned, please contact one of us and come see our gardens. A warm welcome awaits you! Have a great spring all.
Peggy-Anne Pineau
What’s happening with the NSDS Club:
March 08, 2012- After our business meeting we had our second “Hybridizer’s Bingo” that was free to all members. Fifty two of us played Bingo to win their choice of a daylily hybridized by our members. Among the daylilies won were H. ‘Highland Dancer’ & H. ‘Aunt Yoo Hoo’ from Coral Kincaid, ‘Auriel Dell’ and ‘Miss Vicki’ by Don Longton, ‘Full Moon Over Blomidon’ by Marie Stuart, ‘You Say Tomato’ and ‘Shirley Bradshaw’ by Waynes, Storrie and Ward. Wayne Ward also donated H. ‘Heavenly
______Spring/Summer 2012 37 ‘Angel Ice’ to us for the bingo. We are grateful for the continuing support our hybridizers and members give us. We can always count on our members to come through. In all, it was a fun night and I can’t wait till next year to do it all again.
April 14, 2012 – Member Potluck with Guest Speaker – David Jewell - David has a very diverse garden in a small backyard setting in Lindsay, Ontario. It is an iris display garden, contains his daylily & hosta collections and just about every plant that will thrive in Zone 4. He also hybridizes daylilies and is the publisher of The Canadian Daylily Availability Guide.
May 10, 2012 – Members “Plant Sale”. Each member divides and donates daylilies in their gardens to the club to be sold enriching the club’s coffers. (To buy more daylilies, of course!)
June 14, 2012 – Our Babysitting Plant Program & Auction. For this event, we vote on, and then bring in the very newest and best winter hardy daylilies to be had. Names are drawn and pretty well every member gets to choose a plant to grow on in their garden, “babysitting” it for three years. They each keep a record of how the plant has performed while in their care. They then get to keep one good blooming fan for their efforts and return the rest to be auctioned off so these new beauties are introduced all around our area.
July 7, 2012 - Daylily Daze. – “All things daylilies”, and open to the public. Lots of presentations put on by knowledgeable members, good food and of course...lots of daylilies for sale to everyone! So be sure to mark this on your calendar as a “Must Do”.
July 21, 2012 – The NSDS is sponsoring an AHS accredited Daylily Flower Show that will be held in conjunction with the first ever Canning Daylily Flower Show. This will be the first AHS accredited show ever in Canada and something we are very proud of. We are very lucky to have as chair of this event, Exhibition judge and longtime member, Kim Lipscomb. AHS Senior Exhibition Judge Mary Collier Fisher and Jim Netherton from Georgia Region 5 will also be judging. We are very grateful to them for their time and expertise.
August 4th, 2012 NSDS Summer Peak Bloom Garden Tour –Every year around peak blooming time we car pool to visit several of our members gardens. This year it will be in the Truro, Nova Scotia area. More info. TBA.
Aug. 18th, 2012 NSDS Summer BBQ – Another highlight of the summer is our annual BBQ. Lots of good food, company and a knowledgeable speaker. This year the BBQ will be held at Harbour Breezes Daylilies, Salmon River Bridge, Nova Scotia hosted by members Allan Banks and Shane Doucette. There is a potluck dinner & guest speaker (TBA) held at a nearby location. DID I MENTION GOOD FOOD????
______38 Daylilies in the Great Northeast Growth & Progress of the Nova Scotia Daylily Society By: Allan Banks
The Nova Scotia Daylily Society (NSDS) was A committee was struck and bylaws were developed, founded in 2003 by a small group of daylily revised, and voted on by the club. They now provide a enthusiasts. The club met to celebrate their beloved framework to help with the diverse activities in which flower and began the work of promoting the daylily the club is involved. throughout the province. Previous to the formation of the club, several growers had been gathering broad In its early years, financial stability of the club was collections of daylilies and selling to the general limited. Money was needed to help promote the club public. Other individuals became interested in in a variety of ways, including the printing of daylilies because of the outstanding qualities that brochures, the production of signs for special events make them a favorite garden plant for numerous and advertising to promote these events. Through a gardeners and landscapers. Concurrent with this slow variety of efforts a sound financial stability has been and steady rise in interest in daylilies, some of the achieved by the club. One of the most successful growers also began efforts at hybridizing. As the aspects is the club’s babysitting program. NSDS is scope of all of these efforts increased, word got around fortunate to be able to purchase about $5000 worth of about the club and more lovers of daylilies were newer daylilies every year. These are then distributed drawn to join NSDS. One NSDS member’s husband to members, grown for 3 years and then returned to the was known to answer the phone and say to his wife, club and auctioned off to members who wish to “It’s somebody from the cult again!” when anyone purchase them. In this way, money is generated and from the daylily society called her about club returned to the club to help provide money to order business. babysitting plants for the next year. This has provided a great way to get new cultivars out into the daylily From its meager beginnings a slow and steady rise to community. Plants are chosen mainly from northern reasonable stability began. It is always difficult for hybridizers and a high rate of success has been many organizations to enlist the help of its members to achieved for wintering them over so they can be fulfill roles especially for executive positions. Often returned to the club. the most difficult role of all to fill is that of president. In this regard, the club has been fortunate to have had Similar to many other daylily clubs, NSDS has an 4 different presidents, each for 2yrs, 1 yr, 4 yrs, and 2 annual members’ plant sale where plants are donated yrs. The 2-yr. term has just begun for the fifth to the club. This has been another way that the club president. Although there has been a central core of has raised funds for club functions or programs and individuals re-offering for executive positions, new also for Region 4. It has provided another fantastic members are beginning to step into these roles as well. way to redistribute daylilies among the membership. Some of the more common daylilies are available at Although the growing pains have not always been very reasonable prices and rarer/newer varieties are easy, much has been accomplished by the club. From auctioned off to the highest bidder(s). The auctions its beginnings, club members were mainly are always fun events where friendly bidding wars are concentrated in three central areas; Halifax and its sometimes known to occur. suburbs, the South Shore, and also in the agricultural area of the Annapolis Valley. Growth at first was from After having achieved financial stability, the club has these areas but now the daylily dots on the provincial been able to make a number of purchases for map are seen more widely distributed across the equipment for regular meetings and special events. province with some members driving 2 hours to make This includes a large parking tent used for the annual it to meetings. Actually, we also draw members from BBQ and the Bazaar. We have a complete sound at least two neighboring provinces where daylily system, laptop, projector and screen which have been societies do not exist. Additionally, membership in purchased over the course of several years. We also our club is not limited to Canadians, and several of our have a substantial library of daylily books, club members come from the US. As the club encyclopedias, and journals which we add to yearly. matured it became apparent that a set of guidelines These are all popular with the membership. were needed to help govern meetings and to set policy. (Continued on next page) ______Spring/Summer 2012 39 Growth & Progress of the Nova Scotia Daylily Society By: Allan Banks
NSDS has been holding an annual Daylily Days Bazaar the first Saturday of July. It usually takes place at the club’s regular meeting place; however we rent additional space for the day. A day-long event emphasizes everything daylily. The general public pays an entrance fee but receives a free daylily at the door. Club members donate daylilies for the club to sell on a club table, for door prizes and special draws. Other daylily growers sell daylilies and daylily-related items at tables set up in the basement. Purchases can be made all day long. Two concurrent workshops occur at intervals throughout the day. Usually one workshop is hands-on and occurs outside in our tent while the other occurs in the upstairs hall and is usually a daylily PowerPoint presentation. Most workshops are given by NSDS club members. Workshops include everything from ‘Daylily Basics’, ‘How to Dig and Divide’, ‘Flower Arranging With Daylilies’, ‘How Climate Zones in the Province Affect Daylily Culture’, ‘Recipes With Daylilies’, ‘Photographing Daylilies’, ‘Hybridizing’ and many more daylily topics!
Our major late summer event is a BBQ at one of the club member’s gardens. Effort is made to rotate the BBQ to a different region of the province each year. The summer of 2012 will mark the 6th NSDS BBQ. The BBQ is usually held just after peak bloom so that more members are able to leave their gardens and attend the event. Food is provided by the club but members also bring in an item. Members can relax and socialize in the garden for the afternoon and then the BBQ meal is usually held at a nearby hall. In conjunction with the BBQ, the club invites a major hybridizer to the event, sometimes offering one of the Judging Daylilies classes in the afternoon. After the meal the hybridizer speaks to the club about his/her hybridizing program. Often the hybridizer donates plants to the club which are auctioned to the membership that evening. Proceeds go to help pay for the event.
Additionally, garden tours are arranged to a different area of the province each year during peak bloom. Tours are usually to members’ gardens. This summer will also mark our first accredited daylily show!
As you can tell, we are very proud of our club’s accomplishments over the last number of years. Our activities are not restricted to our own club, and members travel to other provinces and many states to visit daylily gardens, events, and clubs. We look forward to the day when we will be able to host a Region 4 Summer Meeting. In the meantime we invite any Region 4 member who would like to come and visit us in Nova Scotia to contact us through our website. Because parts of our province have a cool maritime climate you can leave your area after peak bloom and come to experience a second peak bloom with us! We would love to hear from you.
Hello, my name is Gaelan MacKay. I am the newest and youngest (11 years) member of NSDS.
I was first introduced to gardening by my grandparents. They would carry me through their garden, introducing me to the plants. Year after year I gained more knowledge of the different varieties. A few years ago papa began collecting daylilies and I too became “hooked”.
This past summer I acquired a number of my own and now have a garden plot at my home which I share with my 6 year old sister. Last year I tried my hand at hybridizing; now we wait to see what beauty will be in those little seeds.
Along the way I’ve been encouraged by my daylily friends, Cecil and Lillian Dunlap, Coral and Wayne Kincaid, and Norm and Heather Patton (gp). On December 08, 2011, I attended my first daylily meeting in Hammonds Plains, N.S. and voted for the club’s 2012 babysitting plants. EXCITING!!
Attached you will find a picture of my friend Coral and myself, taken at that meeting.
Happy Gardening,
Gaelan ______40 Daylilies in the Great Northeast Ontario Daylily Society ODS Faye Collins
What's Up at ODS? At our Autumn Meeting in October it was Dave Jewell, who has an impressive and very beautiful all-seasons garden, On Russell, in Lindsay, What’s Up At ODS? Ontario. Dave is involved in many other garden- related ventures and is the current publisher of It’s only mid-March, but the unusually balmy The Canadian Daylily Availability Guide. He both weather here in southern Ontario has catapulted amused and educated us, tongue firmly in cheek, many of us into gardening season 2012. This with a detailed and knowledgeable presentation, morning a turkey vulture circled lazily over the ‘What’s Lurking in Your Garden?--Viruses, garden, a harbinger of spring and the delights to Diseases & Other Nasty Critters.’ Moving through come. It is too early to take action, but we here at the seasons in his garden, he demystified a lot of ODS are already thinking daylilies and keeping it the (mis)information out there, showed concrete inside for the time being. We are hosting our solutions, and provided some practical remedies. second Hybridizer’s Forum at a new venue, The The underlying message was clear…Enjoy your Toronto Botanical Garden, on March 24 from garden, especially the daylilies. Did I mention 11AM-4PM. It is located just south of the 401… Dave is an accomplished hybridizer as well? the east-west corridor running across the top of the old city of Toronto. Not only is it one of At our holiday celebration in November, we were Ontario’s outstanding public gardens, it is also a feted with a presentation of ODS members Henry hub for gardening events of all kinds. ODS and Mary teSligte’s garden and nursery. Theirs is Director Brian Schram is the driving force behind an official AHS display garden in Thedford, the event and has high hopes for its expansion. He Ontario, located in the Sarnia-Grand bend area has lined up an eclectic group of hybridizers, a near Lake Huron. It’s off the beaten track for mixture of amateurs and pros, to showcase their many of us, but well worth the trek. Henry and work and has invited anyone interested in the Mary took us on a virtual tour of their 5-acre newest happenings in daylilies to attend. Stay retirement project; a 1997 return to their rural tuned for the report on this new undertaking. roots. Briefly, they have transformed old farmland into an amazing and diverse country garden and Over the last few years, we have featured our commercial operation, They cater to cottagers and own members. Usually this means those within local gardeners--a shared passion that keeps them easy traveling distance as winter conditions can tied down from May to September. be brutal, at the four monthly meetings located at The Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington. We At our Winter Meeting in January, folks were have discovered, or I should say, uncovered, a intrigued by long-time ODS members Joan wealth of gardening expertise, experience and Campbell and John Moons from Brantford, talent, and not just in the area of daylilies. You Ontario. Their talk was ‘Gardening with Gadgets’, will find more detailed write-ups and information but that wasn’t the real scoop. Yes, it was about on our website, but I would like to give you a gadgets, designed to make gardening tasks easier little taste and share the four most recent with and custom-welded by John and their daylily you.______collection and perennial gardens, Joan’s area of Spring/Summer 2012 41 expertise. It was also a modern day romance. John, a confirmed bachelor, plantsman and woody plants collector with gardening in his genes and Joan met, married and together proceeded to transform an untamed six acre field into a garden paradise--a real labour of love and a gardening partnership in all respects. Check the ODS website for more juicy details. Nina Maskulka has written a great article and there are photos as well.
The ‘Escaping the Winter Doldrums’ meeting in February turned out to be just that. We were faced with a rare stormy day, this year at least, and many did not make it to Dave Mussar’s presentation, ‘Speckles, Spots & Stripes-Emerging Patterns in Daylilies’--a preview of the talk some of you might have caught in Cincinnati at the end of February. Dave gardens in Puslinch, Ontario and is an avid hybridizer. His interest is in patterns beyond the eye zone and his inspiration comes from the speckles, spots and stripes in another favourite flower and the days when he had, quote, “the orchid disease.” The talk was a thorough exploration of pattern genetics using his extensive daylily collection and own crosses. He added the disclaimer that his focus and interest is in genetics and what happens and, quote, “I’m not telling you they are all pretty, but they are interesting.” The fact is some are more than pretty…I’ll be first in line for the ‘Connect the Dots’ x ‘Fireburst’ cross…I’m a sucker for anything with Whatley genetics. There will be a more detailed report on Dave’s presentation coming soon. Watch for it!
Despite what appears to be a jump start on spring this year, the real beginning to the daylily seasons and an annual rite of spring for many ODS and AHS members will be The 16th Annual CAN-AM Classic, May 4-6, at The Delta Toronto Airport West. Daylily enthusiasts gather from far and wide to experience a weekend chock full of activities…auctions, sales, food, fun, camaraderie and of course speakers. CAN-AM Chair Dave Mussar has booked a stellar line-up with, as he says, “something for everybody.” There will be a garden Judges Workshop on Sunday morning and if you are coming from the USA, no worries--phytos will be provided. If you have not been to a CAN-AM, check out this issue for details and on the website and consider joining us.
Hope to see you there!
The Ontario Daylily Society Calendar 2012
Unless indicated, all meetings are at The Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington and begin at 10 AM. Please check the club website for meeting and event details.
May 4, 5&6- 16th Annual CAN-AM Classic, Delta Toronto Airport West Saturday, June 9- The Baby Sitting Program (Cultivar Acquistion) & Member Plant Sale Saturday, August 11- Tom and Julie Wilson, Nottawasaga Daylilies, Creemore Saturday, September 22- Fall Classic and Annual General Meeting and Election- Delta Toronto Airport West, Mississaugua Saturday, October 20- Autumn Get Together, David Retallick- “The Right Cut” Perfect Pruning Gardens, Millbrook, Ontario Saturday, November 24- Holiday Meeting- Ross Dettweiler, “A Little Bit of Science”- Dettweiler’s Daylily Daze, Breslau, Ontario
______For information check http://www.ontariodaylily.on.ca 42 Daylilies in the Great Northeast Patriot Daylily Society PDS
Officers: Nick Chase, President Karin Cooke, Past-President and Director Patsy Cunningham,Vice President Bonnie Brown, Secretary Mary Collier Fisher, Treasurer George Doorakian, Director
Meetings at noon the 1st Saturday of the month ~ Bedford Public Library, Bedford, MA
Directions to the Bedford Library: From Rt 95 (128) in Lexington, take Exit 31B (Rt 4-225West) and travel 2.4 miles through Bedford Center and turn left onto Mudge Way. Library is on the right, go around to the back parking lot. Door is on the right.
http://patriotdaylilysociety.org
Rochester Area Daylily Society RADS Ginny Byers
Meetings are informal, usually in member's homes. Gatherings begin soon after 6 PM and end when people want to leave. We share information, plants, and fellowship. We usually have pizza, and folks are welcome to bring a dessert or snack. Annual Membership $10 per person/family payable in April.
April 24 ~ Ginny & Darryl Byers, 1459 Norway Road, Kendall NY 14476 585-659-8150 May 29 ~ Stacy Smith, 29 Palmer Road, Churchville, NY 14428 585-293-3485 June 26 ~ Charlie & Judy Zettek 1 Hillside Ave. Rochester, NY 14610 585-461-3317 July 17 ~ Brent & Debbie Ross, 4540 E Shelby Road, Medina, NY 14103 716-798-5441 Aug. 28 ~ Susan Buckner, 446 Middle Road, Caledonia, NY 14423 585-538-2280 Sept. 25 ~ Ginny & Darryl Byers, 1459 Norway Road, Kendall NY 14476 585-659-8150 Website info: http://www.daylilyfriends.com/rads.htm Ginny Byers [email protected] 585-659-8150
______Spring/Summer 2012 43 Southern Maine Daylily & Hosta Society SMDHS Paul Bourret
Southern Maine Daylily & Hosta Society 2012 Meeting Schedule
COME JOIN US!! Membership is Free!!
We meet in South Portland at the Southern Maine Community College Horticulture Building on Slocum Drive. You can join just by coming to a meeting. See the Events page at http:// www.smdhs.info for our schedule. Meetings start at 11 AM unless otherwise noted.
You can also join our Yahoo group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SMDHS/ to keep up to date on the latest club news and schedule changes.
May 20: 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 2: Garden Cleanup and Member / Guest Auction. Cleanup starts at 8:00. Auction will begin at 12:30. Plants will be available by Bob Solberg, Darlyn Wilkinson, Margo Reed, Jim Murphy, Naylor Creek.
Note: We will attempt to schedule a Garden Judge 2 class sometime in July. Stay tuned for details.
July Garden Tour: TBD – Check http://www.smdhs.info for updates.
August 19: KEVIN WALEK and MICHAEL MILLER will be our guest speakers. As many of you know, Kevin is the Registrar of both the American Hemerocallis Society and the American Hosta Society. Michael owns Small World Gardens and will also be bringing along plants to be auctioned off.
September 8: Garden cleanup at 8:30. Guest Speaker, TBD
October 13: Guest Speaker, TBD
November 3: TBD
December 1: Holiday Party / Pot Luck Luncheon / Yankee Swap.
Check our web site for news and upcoming events: www.smdhs.info
______44 Daylilies in the Great Northeast Southeastern Massachusetts Daylily Society SMDS Pat Wessling, leslie nolan & nina lapierre
Pat Wessling First Club Meeting! Pat, Paul Owens, Leslie Leslie Nolan
SMDS Calendar 2012 An Idea Whose Time Has Come
April 29 • 12:00 PM Spring Plant Sale: First hour is Pat Wessling, Leslie Redmond Nolan, & Nina Lapierre Members-Only. 1:00 PM opens to public. Auction starts at 3:00 PM. Pat Wessling remembers the beginning:
September 9 • 12:00 Late summer Daylily Sale: First Pat Wessling is SMDS President and the AHS Region 4 hour is Members-Only. 1:00 PM opens to Secretary. How she has time to start a new club and also public. be the Region 4 Secretary is anyone’s guess.
October 21 • 12:30 PM meeting - Mary Jane Meadows, When asked how the idea came about, Pat said, Westbourne Daylily Garden, “How many times driving along the highway to a http://www.wstbournedaylilies.com/, power daylily meeting 90 miles away did Leslie Redmond point presentation. Please visit Mary Jane’s Nolan and I say to each other that we needed a club website and see her lovely daylilies! You will closer to home?” not want to miss this presentation! Finally, as my fifth year of responsibilities to November 18 • 12:30 PM meeting - Springwood NEDS as program chair drew to a close, Leslie and I Gardens, http://springwoodgardens.com, Karol had a serious conversation. We decided it was the Emmerich, Powerpoint presentation by Pat perfect time to form a new club closer to our homes. Wessling. Karol has some of the most stunning, The club would serve the South Shore of Boston, South hardy daylilies that you can find! A must see! Coast of Massachusetts, Cape Cod and Islands. This is a fertile (pardon the pun) area for garden clubs and Possible Holiday Party • Ben Briggs has offered his master gardeners. home in Acushnet as the venue for the party! At first Pat contacted garden clubs to see if they Thank you Ben! Now to pick a date! would distribute a postcard to their membership for her. She said, “We were in the infancy stage of March 17, 2013 • Darlyn Wilkinson of Greywood Farm developing a new club and looking for interested http://greywoodfarm.squarespace.com/ and parties. Staples printed a hundred postcards which we Curt Turner will present their daylilies! mailed to various garden clubs and garden centers. We mailed to members of AHS that did not renew their Website • http://web.mac.com/patwessling/Site_2/ membership or did not attend meetings due to the SOUTHEASTERN_MASSACHUESETTS_DAYLILY_SO distance to the closest club.” CIETY.html Leslie and Pat sat down, wrote addresses and mailed them out in one night. Working from a phone
______Spring/Summer 2012 45 Southeastern Massachusetts Daylily Society Continued
book and a laptop, they mailed invitations to 78 fuel alone, it cost the same as my yearly AHS adresses. Responses began streaming in within one membership each time I attended a meeting. More week after mailing. important than this, however, is the fact that we are “It surely was an idea that needed to come to "gardener-rich" along the South Coast of fruition. Judging from the response, there was clearly Massachusetts. Almost none of those folks made the a need for a club in this area.” said Pat. trek to the nearest daylily meetings. We perused the The first SMDS meeting was held February local garden club websites and saw pictures of 19, 2012 at the Wesley Methodist Church on Main daylilies, but they were mostly of Kwanso or a similar Street in Wareham, Massachusetts with over thirty variety. We thought about how great it would be to attendees. Over a table of amazing food prepared by bring the modern daylily as well as the modern-day the new members and lots of coffee and tea, Leslie hybridizer to these gardeners. The initial SMDS and Pat commenced to introduce the club. They introduction postcard mailing, as well as our email and offered two programs. First, Pat presented "Daylilies phone solicitations were very favorable and within a 101: Everything you wanted to know about daylilies week we had our answer!” but were afraid to ask." This was borrowed from Heidi Douglas of Brown's Ferry Garden. Next, Leslie “Then there's Nina!” I was introduced to Nina presented her own program about starting daylily Lapierre in Mike and Juli Maher's garden in New seeds. After this, there was a successful auction of Hampshire about 7 years ago. Nina lives on the North plants generously donated by Melanie Mason of North Shore of Massachusetts, but is a "native daughter" of Country Daylilies. The response was very positive. the South Coast, having grown up in Fairhaven, SMDS’s second meeting in March will feature Massachusetts. She has one of those infectious smiles speaker Carl Harmon of Harmon Hill Gardens, and she is a person who makes you feel happy just Hudson, New Hampshire. being around her. Later, she was the editor of the Pat commented, “Carl and Marlene are the salt Patriot Daylily Society Newsletter, The Petaloid. It of the earth. They are wonderful people and are kindly was there that I immediately saw her talent as a donating their time to come down and speak to our fabulous graphic designer. So when I heard that Nina club.” Auction plants for this meeting are generously was on board as newsletter editor, I knew it was going donated by Heidi and Charles Douglas of Brown's to be special! She has an amazing ability to produce a Ferry Garden in South Carolina. Heidi and Charles newsletter that is full of content, yet easy to read, have been amazingly supportive and are great visually pleasing to look at.” supporters of the new club. Leslie said “We are still in our infancy as a Pat said “We love their plants and we are brand new club, but as our slogan says, it's "for the looking forward to bidding on them.” love of daylilies". When you have assembled a team Future meetings will include a day of plant like we have and have the support from so many sales. October brings speaker Mary Jane Meadows of wonderful and talented daylily folk, it's sure to be a Westbourne Daylilies, LaFollette, Tennessee who will success and I, for one, am having a blast being a part share her hybridizing program. In November, Pat of it!” Wessling will offer a powerpoint created by Karol Emmerich of Springwood Gardens in Minnesota. Other hybridizers have already expressed interest in speaking to the club for the 2013 season. So keep in Nina’s thoughts on compiling a daylily club touch with SMDS by Facebook, or sign up for the newsletter newsletter. Nina said “It was my pleasure to offer my services to help get SMDS off the ground. Newsletters are often Leslie did it for the love of daylilies. considered somewhat dated in the age of immediacy with Twitter and Facebook. I believe a newsletter is Leslie Redmond Nolan, SMDS Vice President, said “I still an inexpensive vehicle for keeping old members second all of what my friend and our esteemed interested, a method to educate newcomers and also to President, Pat Wessling, said about starting this club. publicize upcoming events. Your newsletter and your In the past, I would lament to Pat about the costs website are often the first contacts new members will associated with attending a meeting so far away. In have with your club so the more appealing visually ______46 Daylilies in the Great Northeast Southeastern Massachusetts Daylily Society continued
and the more generally informative you make the two, to acknowledge and thank the donors who contribute the more welcoming you will be. Newsletters also to the success of your club. Hybridizers who donate build a sense of community. As your readership’s plants for auctions deserve recognition as much as the connection grows, the more likely they are to regularly people who donate through winning auctions or attend your club meetings.” writing a check. Club volunteers are often not recognized for their efforts as often as they should be. With a diverse audience of newcomers and A short story in your newsletter is a great way to experienced daylily growers, a daylily club newsletter recognize your volunteers.” should be comprised of a balance of information “Another trick is to encourage others to appealing to those new to daylilies and also to contribute stories to your newsletter. A successful experienced growers. A newsletter should be a column for SMDS is our ‘Hybridizer Interview’, a communication that all club members look forward to question and answer survey I sent to a number of with enthusiasm, and this can only happen through hybridizers. Luckily, I’ve had nearly everyone respond effort, balance, planning and commitment. and I am most appreciative. I have found this segment Nina commented, “If you become your club’s to be the most interesting part of developing the newsletter editor, encourage assistance from other club SMDS newsletter and have enjoyed every interview.” members. It’s great to have others there to catch your errors and provide inspiration. If you try to come up with the entire newsletter by yourself, you will burn SMDS has a bright future ~ out fast. Fortunately, both Pat Wessling and Leslie Redmond Nolan are completely invested in the The consensus seems to be that to successfully start a success of the club and have been willing to offer new club, you need a combination of the right people whatever assistance is needed. Leslie and Pat are both with a drive to succeed. You need committed talented writers. You can feel their enthusiasm for their volunteers and generous donors. You need a positive club and for daylilies coming through their writings. outlook. SMDS still needs to fill several board Their contribution, ideas, photography and positions which should lighten the workload and help proofreading assistance makes my contribution easy. with decision making. Nina said “The key to SMDS Developing a successful newsletter can be time- future success will be maintaining the energy level and consuming and editors need input from others to keep enthusiasm.” the supply of information fresh, flowing, and accurate. Pat responded with “It has been a good Leslie and Pat are supportive in every way.” amount of work, but a labor of love. It is all about How do you keep newsletter information bringing new faces into AHS, which is our primary flowing? Nina suggested, “A trick of the trade is the mission.” creation of a newsletter ‘Future File’. As you read the President Pat Wessling summed it up with this. various Daylily Robins, when you read journals or “I must say daylily people are the best. We have attend symposiums, take note of interesting material received resounding support and donations from all and place it in the file. Each time you put a newsletter over the country. All I can say is that it has been a ball together, you’ll have an archive of potential story so far, and the work has just begun. But when you concepts to reference. Keep in mind when compiling work with good people, the work is easy. I am your newsletter stories that you are promoting AHS enjoying it thoroughly. We are blessed. We have an and daylilies, as well as promoting your club. amazing graphic artist doing our newsletter and it is a However, local stories are very important because, thing of beauty. If anyone would like to be on the after all, this is your club. People enjoy receiving mailing list, please do not hesitate to contact me at recognition and they like reading about their friends, [email protected] and we will gladly add you. acquaintances, and the daylily cultivars they know. I For now, we are enjoying the ride. Rough spots? Of make it a point to recognize people by name in the course, but easily handled when you are working with newsletter whenever possible. It is also very important great daylily people. They make it all so easy!”
*A Great Thank-You to Tom Rood for serving so many years as the Region 4 Webmaster! * *A Warm Welcome to Kelly Noel, our new webmaster!* http://ahsregion4.org ______Spring/Summer 2012 47 Daylily Q and A ~ A Daylily Quiz!~
Sue Bergeron
No questions have been submitted for this issue’s Daylily Q and A, so now it’s your turn! Several people have asked me for a return of the Quiz, so here it is. I hope you enjoy it.
1. To which of the following groups of plants are daylilies most closely related? a. Onions, hyacinths, asparagus, irises, hosta, orchids b. Grasses, bromeliads, rushes, cattails c. Strawberries, apples, roses, raspberries, peaches 2. A daylily that has more than three flower segments (petals and sepals) in each floral whorl is called: a. Ambidextrous b. Polymerous c. Petaloid 3. This picture shows the perennial plant Liatris spicata. What makes this plant unusual? (Photo p. 49) a. The flowers open all at once b. The flowers open from bottom to top c. The flowers open from the top down 4. The pistil of a flower consists of the ovary, the style and the stigma. When pollinating, you place the pollen directly onto: a. The stigma b. The style c. The ovary 5. The daylily gall midge (Contarinia quinquenotata) and the daylily leafminer (Ophiomyia kwansonis) belong to which insect order? a. Coleoptera (beetles) b. Diptera (flies) c. Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) 6. Daylily is to Hemerocallis as bellflower is to: a. Campanula b. Rudbeckia c. Artemisia 7. As a generalization, which type of soil would you expect to hold the most nutrients? a. Sandy b. Clayey c. Both equal 8. Which of the following is a plant micronutrient (trace element)? a. Potassium b. Magnesium c. Manganese 9. Plants make their own energy “food” for growth and other functions by photosynthesis using light, carbon dioxide and water. Where does this process take place? a. Roots b. Leaves c. Both ______48 Daylilies in the Great Northeast 10. Daylily rust disease is caused by which type of organism: a. A bacterium b. A virus c. A fungus 11. Ammonium, nitrate and urea fertilizers are used to supply what essential major plant nutrient? a. Nitrogen b. Phosphorous c. Potassium 12. You just bought a plant with silver-colored hairy leaves and need to find a place for it in the garden but don’t have a reference handy to check what conditions it likes, so you have to make an educated guess. Which of the following sites would you choose? a. A cool, shady site b. The edge of a pond c. A warm, sunny, dry location
------Please send any questions for Daylily Q and A, or for your Region 4 Scientific Liaison, to Sue Bergeron, RR3, Almonte, Ontario, Canada, K0A 1A0, or email to: [email protected]
Answers: 1 a; 2 b; 3 c; 4 a; 5 b; 6 a; 7 b; 8 c; 9 b; 10 c; 11 a; 12 c.
Photo below~ Liatris spicata, Color Photo on page 31.
“ If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, Our whole life would change” The Buddha ______Spring/Summer 2012 49 WHY DO WE NEED THE ‘FOR MEMBERS ONLY PORTAL’? Ask The Ombudsman Donna Peck, AHS Ombudsman, with comments from Julie Covington and Mary Collier Fisher
Over the past several years, it became clear to Journal is a must-read for daylily growers. The several Board members that a different method AHS Board and Joe Goudeau keep trying to for the rapid updating of AHS information on the provide members with more benefits. In fall web was needed. The type of platform that 2010, the board met in Columbus, Ohio. The supported www.daylilies.org changes were Membership and Technology Committee proposed extremely labor intensive for our capable that AHS work with the YourMembership firm to Webmaster. The AHS President asked the build a robust social networking site for AHS Technology Chair and Committee to research Members-only. This would enhance the additional methods. In the course of that capabilities the AHS has to provide services and research, several social networking companies information to members. The proposal passed the were identified. The concept was for AHS to have Board unanimously. an interactive social networking site that would not only allow materials to be uploaded from The site is set up for members to be able to search PDF documents easily, but would expand greatly for other AHS member’s names, by city and state. the services we could offer our members. This Members can search for Regional and National was discussed widely among the Board, Staff and Publications. Various educational forums are Committee Chairs who felt it would be an available. Groups like Garden Judges can share enhancement to our Membership Services. their knowledge and questions with each other. There is space for promotion of regional and local So in May 2010, at the Board of Directors activities via community and regional calendars, meeting in Valdosta, Georgia, Membership Chair with automatic reminders of AHS deadlines, Joe Goudeau noted that this research was including membership renewals via email. The underway to explore the feasibility of establishing Portal provides members with a safe environment a members’ only section on the web. When Joe to post pictures, participate in forums they choose, brought the proposal up again for a vote at the and connect with other members. It even allows a fall 2010 fall board meeting, the AHS Board of safe group for AHS youth members to network Directors approved funding to authorize the about daylilies where non-youth members are not development of the Members Only Portal. The allowed. The benefits of the Portal are still being site opened for members in early March, 2011. explored and developed. The Portal has now been set up for nearly a year, A benefit many members took advantage of over and I am still getting questions about WHY AHS the holidays was the AHS store. Tee Money is doing this and HOW it works. This column is volunteered to design some great daylily devoted to the WHY question. Next time we will merchandise. She is also able to accommodate have the HOW column. one-time special orders for individuals, clubs and groups. Make your own! Over the last decade, AHS has been seeking incentives for individuals to join AHS and The Members Portal is a source of ‘One-stop incentives to retain members. Membership Shopping’ for our members. Items can be numbers had been declining steadily since 2002. purchased, memberships can be issued or The voucher program is working very well; the renewed, donations can be made. Interesting trial membership that started last year has over daylily programs can be purchased by credit cards, 200 members already, and our fantastic Daylily e-checks, and PayPal. Some are free!
______50 Daylilies in the Great Northeast WHY DO WE NEED THE ‘FOR MEMBERS ONLY PORTAL’? Ask The Ombudsman Donna Peck, AHS Ombudsman, with comments from Julie Covington and Mary Collier Fisher
AHS President Julie Covington mentions that, or Liaison can check these pages and quickly find “Beginning with the spring 2012 issue, you will be out what is involved in the job!” able to view the Daylily Journal online at the Portal. The pages are viewable in a Pdf, ‘Book The direct link to the Portal is http:// format’. You can also zoom in on pictures and www.daylilynetwork.org. Another way is to go to articles on each page. Under the ‘Daylily Journal’ the AHS website (www.daylilies.org) and then click tab will be a complete page of archived items on the AHS Home page. When that appears, look on the left hand side and click on AHS Members reprinted from past Journals. You can also suggest Portal. other articles you’d like to see added.” “Several other changes have been made to the front Coming in the Next Issue: page. We are featuring different members on the left Part Two, Julie Covington and Portal Community rail, and hope to do that more frequently in 2012. Manager MaryAnn Pruden will discuss in more Be sure to look under the ‘Contact Us’ tab, where detail, HOW to access the Portal, including how to you can find a link to a leader of all AHS sponsored find your password. Also, check out the excellent robins and other ‘go to’ people, as well as contact Portal article in the 2012 Spring Journal written by information for the Portal leaders, AHS officers, Sandy Holmes. Staff and Special Chair contacts. Another new tab is called ‘Administrative Files.’ While this contains If you have any comments about this subject, I’m AHS and Regional files, this page is not intended hoping to hear from you, either with your positive for Regional and National officers only, as we wish comments about the Portal, or further concerns to keep the working of this organization transparent you’d like to discuss. for all of our members. One feature on the page is called ‘Regional Offices at a Glance.’ Anyone who Please email and I’ll include that in the next is asked to accept a position as a Regional Officer column; [email protected]
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ATTENTION! Although not commonly used for arrangements, daylilies make good cut flowers, as new blossoms Canada Post issues Daylily stamps on continue to open over several days. March 1, 2012! Many thanks to Cheryl Taylor, Originally, daylilies could be found only in yellow, from ODS, for sending this link about the new orange, and reddish-brown. Today, colours range from Canadian Daylily Stamps to the Daylily e-mail near-white, to yellow, orange, pink, red, purple, blue and more. While the roadside yellow or orange robin. ‘Louis Lorrain’ and ‘Jeff Holden’ are daylilies—known to hybridizers as Hemerocallis fulva (or introductions from Henry Lorrain of We’re in Hemerocallis fulva Europa)—are forms of the cultivated types that ‘escaped’ and now grow wild, all modern the Hayfield Now, http://www.hayfield.ca/. daylilies have evolved through a complicated history of Congratulations, Henry! hybridization. Wild yellow or orange daylilies growing in ditches and The photos for the Daylilies stamps were taken at along fences are a familiar sight to families heading off Ottawa’s Experimental Farm, where all the Canadian to cottage country. Since the early 1930s, the daylily hybrids grow together in one area. “I always try to get has been hybridized by gardening enthusiasts and early morning and late afternoon shots, when the professional horticulturalists, and this beautiful, hardy lighting allows for lots of contrast and detail,” says perennial can now be found in a rainbow of colours Isabelle Toussaint, photographer and designer for the and an array of shapes across the country. long-running series. “Although the sun was shining for both sessions, the light was completely different for Two exquisite daylilies grace the seventh issue in each, and I was able to get many great shots.” Canada Post’s beloved flower series. Both stamps are found in the booklets of 10, five of each design, and on “We wanted to be sure to show a daylily that the souvenir sheet. These floral beauties remind us that Canadians would recognize, so we decided to use the spring—and cottage season—is right around the common orange ones,” says Danielle Trottier, Stamp corner. Available in coils of 50 stamps as well, these Design manager. “The purple daylily, which has been lovely stamps are sure to be popular with couples identified as “Louis Lorrain,” was chosen not only sending out wedding invitations. because it was a bit more exotic but also contrasted so beautifully with the orange.” The third variety, shown The Daylily (Hemerocallis) was long placed in the Lily on the souvenir sheet is known as the “Jeff Holden.” family (Liliaceae), but is now considered to belong in the plant family Hemerocallidaceae. This term, from the The result is a stunning combination that will captivate Greek words meaning “beauty” and “day,” alludes to and charm collectors, gardeners and flower enthusiasts the fact that each flower lasts for just one day. Since alike. there are many flower buds on each flower stalk and many stalks in each cluster, the overall flowering period is usually several weeks long. The flowers of most This article is reprinted from the Canadian Post Office site: species open at sunrise and wither at sunset, often http://www.canadapost.ca/cpo/mc/personal/ replaced by another on the same stalk the next day. collecting/stamps/2012/2012_mar_daylilies.jsf
______52 Daylilies in the Great Northeast Hold that Date!
Region 4 Off-Season Meeting August 2013 *And now for something completely different!*
The Long Island Daylily Society will be hosting the 2013 Region 4 Meeting August 9-11, 2013 at the Melville Marriott, lovely host hotel for the 2006 AHS Convention. It’s another off-season Regional meeting as the AHS National Convention is on July 24-27, 2013 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, but it’s not so late in the season, so we are going to have some open gardens to view those ever-popular late blooming daylilies and other perennials. As with any Region 4 Meeting, we’re going to focus on those hybridizers and gardeners from our own Region and we’ll have a silent auction, the Regular Auction, a boutique and other surprises to keep you interested and entertained. Come early and enjoy the world famous beaches, golf courses, museums and arboretums that Capital of the World New York Metro Area has to offer. Be sure to watch the Region 4 newsletter, the Region 4 website, www.ahsregion4.org, the LIDS website at www.lidaylily.org and the AHS members portal for updated information at www.daylilynetwork.org. See you in 2013, assuming the Mayans are wrong.
______Spring/Summer 2012 53 Getting Dirty is Good for You? ... Susan Shaw
Great news for gardeners! Mycobacterium vaccae, an inoffensive microbe found in garden soil has been shown to offer real benefits for our health! “Hygiene Hypothesis” ~ Research has suggested that the large increase in auto-immune illnesses and allergies over the last century is, at least in part, from being too clean. Our immune systems have evolved to fend off invading marauders; pathogens like bacteria, viruses, and fungi. It turns out that we need regular exposure to harmless microorganisms like Mycobacterium vaccae, a soil bacterium, to stimulate our immune systems. This is especially true for children. We then have more ability to ignore the benign molecules that otherwise can appear to wreak havoc as allergens. Compared to children who grow up where parents carefully create ‘clean’ environments, kids who grow up in dirty environments like farms have fewer infections, less asthma, allergies, and eczema later in life. Evidence shows that a form of the extract of the bacterium eases skin allergies. Perhaps the most surprising find was discovered unexpectedly when very ill patients were exposed to the microbe to stimulate their immune systems. They then reported a higher quality of life, less pain, and a happier mood. Dr. Christopher Lowry and his research team were intrigued about this mood enhancement and developed a study to investigate this apparent effect. They found that mice exposed to the bacterium had more serotonin in their brain, in several areas, than the control group. The bacteria activate a set of serotonin-releasing neurons. “(The bacteria) had the exact same effect as antidepressant drugs,” said Dr. Lowry. “These studies leave us wondering if we shouldn’t all be spending more time playing in the dirt.” Perhaps we have known this all along! After all, we spend the whole summer working in our daylily gardens. We work hard, planting, digging, dividing. We fend off black flies, mosquitoes and ticks. The flowers are beautiful, and we know it is worth it. But perhaps part of why we feel so happy is the Mycobacterium vaccae! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bsc/cea/2006/00000036/00000009/art00002 “Identification of an Immune-Responsive Mesolimbocortical Serotonergic System: Potential Role in Regulation of Emotional Behavior,” by Christopher Lowry et al., Neuroscience.
Images/Video Consent Form Persons submitting images or videos to any categories of the AHS Photography and Video Contest must submit an Images Consent Form beginning with the 2011 contest. You may download this form in .pdf format : http://www.daylilies.org/AHS-Copyright-Photography-Consent-Form.pdf Youth photographers requires both the youth and parent’s signature. Entrants have three options with regard to these forms. 1.) Entrant may download, sign and scan the form and send the scan via email attachment. 2.) Entrant may copy and paste the entire form into the body of an email, sign with an electronic signature, and send via email. 3.) If entrant is not able to submit either by scanned form or by using an electronic signature, they may download and send the form via the postal service. * Please note: if an entrant initials the “optional” section listed a er A, B, C, this would allow the individual to enter any future photography contests or have images published in the AHS Journal and/ or in Regional Newsletters or on the AHS website without having to re-submit further consent forms . All Consent forms should be emailed to : [email protected] Or Mail Form to: Melodye Campbell 21 Ambleside Drive Fairport, NY 14450-3212 ______54 Daylilies in the Great Northeast Photo Tips from a Beginner, for Beginners Susan Shaw
What a lovely springtime to start taking photos of the beauty of nature that surrounds us! There is plenty of time to practice on tulips, daffodils and other early bloomers before the daylilies are opening their blossoms. Start working towards some of the Photography contests offered by the AHS!
If you would like to improve your skills, take a class or read some helpful hints on garden photography online or at your local library. Many clubs offer Photography workshops. We’d like to capture that colorful beauty so we can savor our beautiful memories throughout the long months of dark winter.
Perhaps you have a new camera, but no idea how to use all those little arrows, buttons, and knobs. If you plan to sign up for a class, make sure the instructor can help you understand your camera, as well as understanding light and composition. Traditional film photography teachers can be great digital teachers, as learning about how light is processed can be seen visually within the mechanics of a traditional single lens reflex camera.
Here are a few tips to start; Remember to ask garden owners about photographing their garden. Some of the tips mentioned here should be limited to your own garden, as they require manipulating the neighboring flowers.
Light ~ Early morning is a great time to take photos. Late a ernoon is pretty good too. At this angle, most of the sunlight is diffused by the atmosphere. A hot, sunny day on a garden tour is o en a challenge. If there are intermittent clouds, use those moments to record your favorite daylilies in the garden. Otherwise, most of your photos will be disappointing. Light overcast days are great. White umbrellas held over the flower can be very helpful, but you really need a partner, or you are likely to; 1.) Break off buds with the clumsy umbrella, 2.) Drop your bag, or 3.) Drop your camera. You can purchase a white disc reflector/diffuser or just make your own by taping a circle of white fabric on a wire coat hanger bent into a circle. A white piece of cardboard can be used to reflect light where harsh contrasts are otherwise created by the extreme contrast on those bright sunny days. Fill-in flash gives you front light when the light is from the side or the rear of your subject. It is especially helpful with peoples’ faces, but it makes a difference with flowers too.
White Balance ~ We don’t really see light ourselves the way the camera does. Our brains compensate, so it is best to evaluate and set the white balance, even with a digital camera. The preset automatic white balance is not going to be accurate with your colorful daylilies. The camera will try, but is not able to do it for all the colors in your lighting. Learning to set white balance will be one of the best features to help you take more accurate color photos. In your manual, find your camera’s white balance calibration setting. Take a photo of a ‘grey card’ held in front of your chosen daylily clump, for instance. Holding this neutral grey card establishes the particular white balance that your shot needs.The camera can then compensate for the light it has recorded ‘seeing’.
Framing with so focus ~ Open up your aperture, from the usual 11f or 16f to 4.5 f or 5.6f. if you’d like to create a so focus behind your bloom. While not suitable for all photos, this style helps focus the viewer’s eye where you want it, on your beautiful subject. The clear focus is usually chosen on a foreground flower, allowing the background to fall away. This draws attention to your daylily, framing the bloom.
Try getting close to your flowers. Carry a stool outside if kneeling on the ground is out of the picture...(!);-)) Take photos on a level with the daylilies, or from underneath.
Be careful of wind! Moving flowers will make fuzzy photos. Bring some so yarn, and clothespins or other clips or wire to pull distracting elements away from your subject. Deadhead before taking your photos. You’ll be happy you did!
Dew can catch the light, adding some sparkle to your photos. Borrow an idea from food ______photography: carry a spray bottle of water to add your own sparkle! Have fun! Spring/Summer 2012 55 Photography and Video Awards Mildred Schlumpf • Sarah Sikes Slide Sequence AHS Artistic Garden Image Award • AHS Multi-Bloom Image Award • Lazarus Memorial Video Award • • AHS Youth Photography AwardS • Check out each award at: http://www.daylilies.org/ahsphotoawrds.html
Submission Deadline is November 1st each year.
The AHS Board has approved changes to the Photography and Video Awards which will take effect for the 2012 Contest. The AHS Awards and Honors Committee administer this program. The awards are presented each year at the AHS National Convention. Rules applying to all awards are as follows: • All entrants must be AHS members. • An entrant may submit only five (5) digital images, photos or slides in each award category unless specially noted otherwise. Digital images are the preferred method. • Each entry may be submitted in only one category. • Only registered cultivars are allowed. • All entries are to be sent to the Chair of the Photography Sub-Committee. • No borders or texts should be used on images. When possible, remove any distracting items such as metal plant tags before taking the picture. • The deadline for submission is November 1, and it is determined by the date on the E- Mail or mailing container. • No entrant may win the award in any contest more than three times within a five-year period. • The winning entrant may keep all awards. • A panel of three judges evaluates all entries. Of these, at least two must be members of AHS. Any nonmember who serves as a judge shall have an extensive knowledge of photography or cinematography. Judges are selected by the AHS Awards and Honors Committee and may not be entrants in the competition. • All digital images must be in .jpg format only. Full size images as photographed are preferred. Only reduce images if they exceed the below E-Mail limits. • Individual image size must not exceed 1 MB. • All entries are submitted to: Andrea Weaver, the Special Chairman for AHS Photography and Video Awards. Members should send all entries for AHS Photography and Video Awards to: • Andrea Weaver, Special Chair 6935 E 35 ST N Wichita, KS 67226 (Ph) 316-683-5877 [email protected]
Daylilies from Away~ Good for Region 4 Gardens
COLOR PHOTOS next page ~ Clockwise from lower le : ‘Don Diego’ Woodhall,‘Desire of Nations’ Emmerich, ‘Purify My Heart’ Korth, ‘Women Seeking Men’ Hanson, Ruby Shadows’ Korth, ‘Pathway to Peace’ Emmerich, ‘Forever Rosemary’ Korth, ‘Running With Scissors’ Jerabek, ‘Final Destination’ Emmerich, ‘Rooted in Love’ Korth, ‘See Me,Feel Me,Touch Me’ Holmes,‘Rocks Cry Out’ Korth, ‘Supreme Pleasure’ Pickles, ‘Harmony Ruffles’ Reckamp, ‘Fountain of Life’ Emmerich. Backround~ ‘Lyrical Ballad’ Mason ______56 Daylilies in the Great Northeast Shaw photos Region 4 daylilies happily growing with hardy beauties from other regions. Including, clockwise from lower left:‘Fear Not’ Emmerich, ‘Gypsy Rose’ Mason, ‘Tikal Maid’ Culver, ‘Twist of Lemon’ H. Brooks, ‘Fooled Me’ Reilly, ‘Tiger on Stilts’ Mason, ‘Planet Claire’ Hanson, ‘Ellie Lauffenberger’ T. Rood, ‘Twilight Adagio’ Hanson at lower right.‘Megunticook Treasure’ Shaw, mid., ‘Belle of Ashwood’ Norris, upper mid. Shaw photo Landscaping with Daylilies
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