mokanok - AHS Region 11

Summer 2009
MOKANOK
Daylily
Region 11 American Hemerocallis Society
Oscie Whatley Award
Dan White
Plant B09
Wilma Award
Kwanza Gold -Maryott 04
Schmeidler/Diaz Garden
Hybridizer Award
‘Quest for Brilliance’
2001 Intro
Dave Niswonger
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MoKanOk Daylily
Summer
CELEBRATING THE FOURTH OF JULY
WITH FRIENDS
FUN !!!
Kathy Jay
Just relaxing
looking at birds
Mary & Ralph Gale’s 50th Anniversary
FLOWERS!
& MORE FLOWERS!
Andrea Weaver
Andrea Weaver
‘Merna Slatsickle’ helps out.
Lily Munster
Andrea Weaver
Peppermint Wind
Signature Truffle
Walking on Coals
Heavenly Angel Ice
Grandpa’s Whiskers
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Inside
The MoKanOk Daylily
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Summer Meeting Highlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Inside Front Cover
A Note From the Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3
Officers Reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5
Summer Meeting Minutes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6-7
Treasurer’s Report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
The Seedling Patch—Bob Tankesley-Clarke Hybridizer Liaison. . . .9-10
Prairie Promenade Recap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-17
Club Happenings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18-23
Region 11 Officers & Committee Chairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24
Editorial Policy/Membership Info. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Region 11 Club Presidents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Earlybird Daylilies Advertisement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Inside Back Cover
Tri-Color Awards Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Back Cover
Popularity Poll Ballot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Inside Back Wrapper
A Note from the Editors
For anyone who did not make it to Regional this summer, you missed a stunning event!
The gardens were exemplary---wonderfully landscaped and full of fabulous arrays of daylilies!! Thanks to all the garden owners and Flint Hills club members who worked so hard to
provide such a wonderful weekend!
We would like to also add a thank you for all the kind and encouraging comments we
received on the spring MoKanOk issue. Our new job has been fun, rewarding and a definite
challenge! We have made some changes in the MoKanOk to further help to keep down
costs. We are limiting the amount of pages done in color and have tried to edit where possible to keep down the total number. As you may notice, we have also not included any educational articles in this issue in order to be able to devote more space to the Regional summary.
Plans are to not use any color in the winter issue. That publication will be primarily informational with announcements on the upcoming Winter Gathering along with club news
so we will have space to add some educational articles then. The MoKanOk will be a work
in progress as cost constraints are addressed.
Special thanks to all those who wrote articles on the gardens and submitted photos for
this issue. We are hoping to also put together a CD of the event that can be made available
for purchase so contributions of photos are still needed. Please see what you have that you
would be willing to share.
Sharron & Harry Gregory
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Summer
Mary Lou Lundblade
Regional Director
B y now the Manhattan Regional is but a pleasant memory. The
gardens were lovely and the weather
cooperated. Not too hot, and no rain
during the tours. John Shooter, our
speaker, was a hoot.
I want to thank all the members
of Region 11 for re-electing me for
another three years. Remember I am
at your service. Anything you want
brought up to the Board of Directors,
let me know.
The Board meeting at Lake
Mary, FL, was the shortest on record.
Never have we been done by noon.
Your new President as of 2010 will
be Mary Collier Fisher.
Display Gardens, my area on the
Board, has one change. There is now
a Garden Evaluator’s Form to be
used for garden inspections. If you
are asked by the RP or myself to inspect a garden, the form can be down
loaded from the AHS website.
www.daylilies.org. Click on Display
Gardens.
Information worth repeating.
Hybridizers, if you have seed left
over, consider donating it to the International Seed Bank. Contact me if
you don’t know where to send them.
Be sure to sign up for the AHS
Daylily E News. Go to the AHS site,
Click on New On The AHS Website.
At your service, if you have any
questions or concerns, please let me
know.
Steve Amy
Regional President
W
e had a great Region 11
Summer Meeting hosted by the Flint
Hills Daylily Society. Thank you to all
the members and friends that helped
make it a success. I have continued to
receive good comments from attendees
on how well they liked the event. I will
not elaborate further as there will be
some great comments by others in this
issue I believe.
In the Club and Regional Officers
that we have discussed previously was
set to a Nominal $300 per club several
years ago. The officers discussed the
option of setting that stipend higher.
Our only other income, aside from unsolicited/unexpected donations is the
Internet Auction. Here too, we have
dropped off in support of the region.
At the regional meeting, Jim Mueller
had only 39 pledged donations from
one donor, possibly two. That is not
The MoKanOk Newsletter stipend nearly enough to support a good auc-
meeting we again discussed the MoKanOk and the number of issues we
provide. We currently have three issues. The new Editors are looking into
every way possible to reduce costs and
maintain the quality to which we have
become accustomed. They have done
an excellent job so far and continue to
try to cut costs. We discussed ways to
supplement or increase our income to
support the Newsletter.
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tion.
A suggestion by Larry Gooden of
St. Louis I believe is to solicit the auction donations on a more local level.
The Club Presidents should work with
their members to encourage donations.
For those that are willing to donate but
are unfamiliar with the process someone in the local club will help them.
We are trying this approach to see if it
helps.
A second suggestion that I believe
has been brought up previously is for
those members that already participate
in internet auctions themselves as
SELLERS, can earmark one or two of
their items that sell to go to the Region. The only difference to them is
the income from that sale will be sent
to the Regional Treasurer after their
item sells and they are paid. The income from one or two sale items
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would be helpful from that area.
Think about the wonderful MoKanOk Newsletter and see if you can
offer any other options or suggestions
to us to maintain this publication three
times a year. But, if you do not have
other suggestions, please support the
only means we have today to fund the
Region.
Ann Large
Regional Publicity Director
A
s the summer bloom
season winds down, I hope you took
advantage of all the daylily experiences made available to you. A special thanks to the Flint Hills Daylily
Society for hosting the 2009 Regional meeting in Manhattan, Kansas. What fabulous gardens and perfect weather they were able to offer
us. The featured speaker, John
Shooter of Marietta Gardens, made
himself readily available to all the
regional participants and the Friday
night auction was over-the-top.
Make plans to attend the 2010 Regional held in St. Louis on June 25 to
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The 2009 Region 11 Popularity
Poll is in its final days. Have you sent
in your ballot or voted online? The
ballot has a new look this year and
people have asked me where the
nominees listed on the ballot come
from. The listed nominees are the top
vote getters from your 2008 voting.
You will note that you can still writein up to five cultivars for 2009. Voting is a breeze on the web at
www.daylilies.org., then select Pop
Poll and then our Region 11 and
complete the ballot. For those of you
who need a paper ballot, you will
find one in this publication. Also, if
you voted by paper in 2008, you’ll
receive a paper ballot by mail. Please
take the time to vote in this year’s
Popularity Poll. This poll has many
uses and is a testament to daylilies
that grow well in our region. You are
also helping to determine an AHS
accredited show division known as
the Popularity Poll selection. I’m
looking for your ballot.
Don’t forget to check out our
Region 11 website at http://
ahsregion11.org. Remember, this
website is only as good as the information supplied to the site. Our local
reporters should add their meeting
schedules and notes of interest to this
site to keep it up-to-date and informative.
Please make note of my home
email address – ablarge@sbcglobal.net. Let me her
from you and happy gardening-
Cover Photos by:
Kathy Krattli . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dan White
Sharron & Harry Gregory . . . . . Flowers
Julie Lea & Chris Parsons . . . . Windmill
Andrea Weaver . Kwanza Gold Close-up
Other photos as marked.
Unmarked photos by Editors
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MoKanOk Daylily
Summer
Region 11 Business Meeting
July 5, 2009 Manhattan, KS
S
teve called the business
meeting to order at 12:30 pm. Steve
thanked everyone for coming this
weekend.
Steve recognized the members
from each Club in the Region that
were in attendance that weekend.
Steve gave a big thank you to
everyone in the FHDS Club that
helped and participated in making the
Regional a great event for everyone!
Harry Gregory would like photos
of the gardens for the MoKanOk,
and photographers can email them to
him. Harry is thinking about putting
together a memory disc of the Regional, that would be made available
to our members of Region 11.
Steve asked that a motion be
made to accept the minutes as printed
in the MoKanOk. Audrey Judy motioned that the minutes be accepted
as printed. Marian Quinlan seconded
the motion. Motion was passed.
Jim Mueller gave the treasurers
report as follows: Opening balance
for the year was $22,411.72, closing
balance was $21,637.13. The Region
had a loss of $774.59, but was less
than it has been in previous years.
The MoKanOk showed a loss of
$2454.09. Jim praised the Gregorys
on their first issue of the MoKanOk,
and told us the Gregory’s are continuing to look for ways to cut costs
without sacrificing putting out a quality publication. The Winter Gathering
gained $1696.33. Miscellaneous operations showed a loss of $16.83.
Michael Bouman conducted his own
internet auction sale, and he identified a number of plants as donations
to Region 11 in the name of Dorothy
Whatley, wife of the late Oscie
Whatley. He provided a donation of
$1392.62.
Steve called for approval of the
Treasurer’s Report as presented. The
membership approved the report.
Jim is also the coordinator of the
internet plant auction. At the moment, Jim has only 39 donations of
plants for the auction. Jim expects
sale of these plants to total around
$1600, as compared to last year’s
profit of $3672. Jim reminded everyone that the MoKanOk is the Region’s biggest expense, and if we
want it to continue, more participation from the members to donate
plants to the auction is needed. The
auction is the Region’s biggest income item. Jim asked that everyone
email him a list of plants for donation. He has also made available a list
of the plants that will be on the auction, and will send it to anyone without email, if requested. Please enclose a SASE for the list. Last year,
about 80 plants were donated and this
year, the donations are half that number.
Ann Large, Publicity Director,
said that the Popularity Poll will be
different this year. The top 50 cultivars from last year, as well as space
for 5 write-in’s will be on the AHS
internet site under the Popularity Poll
section. You can vote on-line and
submit your choices for your favorite
daylilies. If someone doesn’t have
access to the internet, Ann said to see
her and she has a paper ballot that
you can send in. Participation in the
Popularity Poll is still only about 17
or 18 %.
Under new business, Steve said
that everyone received a ballot for
the AHS Region 11 Director. Mary
Lou Lundblade was the nominee chosen by the nominating committee.
After the ballots were counted, Mary
Lou was elected to serve in this position for another 3 year term.
Elaine Holmstrom was chosen to
receive the Region 11 Service Award
for 2009. Elaine has served the Region with her on-going work as Exhibition Judge and Instructor.
At the National level, awards
went out to:
Carol Mock, for her article in the
MoKanOk “What goes on at a Regional Meeting – Confessions of a
first-time attendee”.
Jerry Mix received a Junior Citation for his cultivar H. Wichita
Whirlwind.
The late Frank Kropf received
two Honorable Mentions for H.
Chestnut Eyes and H. Zada Mae.
Robin Calderon continues to promote
and release Frank’s daylilies.
Bob Tankesley-Clarke received a
Junior Citation for H. Honoring
Kropf and two Honorable Mentions
for H. Abbey Lane and H. Trickster.
Ben Hagar received an Honorable Mention for H. Sir Blackstem.
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Bob Scott received 4 Honorable
Mentions for H. Topguns Barbara
Hampton, H. Topguns Copper Butterflies, H. Topguns Mr. Big, and H.
Topguns Purple Waves.
George Pettus received a posthumous Honorable Mention for H.
Monster.
Steve reminded us that we have
many awards in the Region that are
not given out each year because we
fail to nominate someone for one.
Steve asked that if we know of someone deserving of recognition, to not
wait until the last minute, but to
nominate them. Cindy Lindquist is
the Region 11 Awards and Honors
chairperson, so drop her a note and
let her know this person ought to be
nominated for a particular award.
The awards that we are eligible for in
the Region are in our Regional handbooks and by-laws.
Larry Gooden, President of the
Greater St. Louis Daylily Society,
presented the Oscie Whatley Seedling Award to Dan White, for his
purple unusual form seedling. Runner
-up was the seedling hybridized by
Jerry Mix.
The Wilma Award for best
grown clump was awarded to H.
Kwanza Gold, grown in the
Schmeidler/Diaz garden. Helen Jones
presented Frank and Ralph with the
award.
There was a tie for second place
for H. Dixie Stampede, grown in the
Thien Garden and H. Bill Norris,
grown in the Amy garden.
The runner-up for the Region 11
Hybridizer Award went to H. Jack
and Josie hybridized by Vizvarie,
grown in the Thien garden. The winner was Dave Niswonger, for his H.
Quest For Brilliance, grown in the
Redmon garden.
Steve again reminded everyone
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to donate plants for the internet auction, working through the Presidents
of the local Clubs, to help explain
what it is and how to donate. If contributions don’t improve, then we
would ask for an increase in the MoKanOk stipend, that was voted on
several years ago, from $300 to $500.
Steve was asked about the number of attendees this year, and he said
there were 160 people registered.
Steve reminded everyone that seedlings for Junior Citations can be submitted by the hybridizer, which can
then be written-in on the AHS ballots
by those garden judges that saw
them. Steve then thanked everyone
for coming, and wished all a safe trip
home!
Respectfully submitted,
Andrea Weaver
Region 11 Business Meeting
July 4, 2009 Manhattan, KS
This is the first board meeting for our incorporated
Region 11.
Officers present were:
Steve Amy – Regional President
Ann Large – Regional Publicity Director
Jim Mueller – Treasurer
Andrea Weaver – Secretary
Discussion revolved around the finances for the Region. It was brought up that the Region needs more donations right now than AHS does.
Jim reported that we had a loss of $4127.00 in 2008,
and is projecting a loss of $2999.00 for this year.
An idea brought up was to send each Club a reminder
note on their donation to the MoKanOk stipend. If we
do not see more donations for the MoKanOk, it may be
necessary to reduce the number of issues each year from 3
to 2.
The Winter Gathering is still showing a profit.
Jim said he needs more donations for the internet auction, which is our biggest source of income for the Region
each year. Personal contact to those in the Region who
regularly sell on the internet auction was suggested to
help with greater donations.
Trying to recruit more youth in the Region was also
discussed. It was brought up to possibly look at 4-H
groups as a source of young people who we might cultivate an interest in daylilies in.
Editor’s note: Because of space limitations, we did not publish the Minutes of the Regional & Club Officer’s Meeting. These minutes will be sent directly to Club Presidents and Regional Officers.
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MoKanOk Daylily
Summer
Treasurer’s Report
CHECKING ACCOUNT BALANCE 01/01/09 Financial Activities MOKANOK Donations ‐ MOKANOK Advertising Postage Reimbursement (AHS) Out of Region Subscriptions Production & Distribution Total/Net Winter Gathering Registration Plant Auction Silent Auction Chinese Auction/Raffle Speakers/Seminars Fees Banquet Operating Expenses Total/Net Miscellaneous Operations Director’s Expenses RVP Expenses Annual Awards Internet Auction AHS Insurance Interest Donations ‐ Operations Donations ‐ Memorials Donations ‐ Amy Challenge Regional Meeting Activities Judging Publications AHS Training Club Support Other Total/Net CHECKING ACCOUNT BALANCE 06/30/09 TOTAL ACTIVITY $ 900.00 140.00 ‐ 17.00 ‐ $ 1057.00 $ 2665.00 3499.00 ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ $ 6164.00 Expenses $ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ (3511.09) $ (3511.09) $ (21.67) (241.45) ‐ (25.55) (2078.65) (2100.35) ‐ $ (4467.67) $ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ 4.71 ‐ 1392.62 50.00 ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ $ 1447.33 $ (776.60) (651.56) ‐ (36.00) ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ $ (1464.16) $ 8668.33 $ (9442.92) Income $ 22411.72 Net $ (2454.09) $ 1696.33 $ (16.83) $ 21637.13 $ (774.59) 2009
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THE SEEDLING PATCH
By Bob Tankesley-Clarke,
Hybridizer Liaison
O ur last local club meeting
was early June and many members
brought in flowers ‘off scape’ for our
enjoyment for the head table. If that
wasn’t enough to get our green
thumbs itching, the bloom in our
seedling beds does. (Why is it the
seedling beds seem to lead the bloom
season in our gardens? Is it our anticipation; the fact that we are
tempted to make crosses with the
first special plants to flower; or just
mother nature getting us geared up
for another season of delight.)
Yes I, who vowed to not make
any more crosses when I have so
many seedlings, already have already
made a dozen crosses. I like to make
multiple crosses with the same parents in case some don’t take. Yet, is
the seedling bloom that captivates me
daily (even today when I am out
there with an umbrella – before it
gets too muddy). As I said, I drove to
the club meeting yesterday but not
until I had done some grooming for
Eric to photograph seedlings which
may become named cultivars. The
year has given us above average
weather and lots of rain. (Does that
mean we will be bemoaning a dry
late summer?) The bloom and
branching has seldom been better.
Everything in the garden is oversized. We evaluate a different bed or
two daily for keepers and futures.
Make yourself two promises this
year.
1) Choose your best seedling to
enter in the Colombia 2011 Oscie
Whatley Seedling Bed this fall.
(They still may have room in the St.
Louis Bed for 2010.)
2) Register your best seedling(s)
before November. (I know we have
lots of great seedlings in our region –
witness the last issue of the MoKanOk Newsletter! Congrats Sharron
and Harry for a great maiden issue.)
Numbers 1 and 2 above are mutually exclusive. You can’t register a
seedling growing in the Oscie Bed
till after the regional tally of our favorite, then get cracking – win or
lose. So what you send to Colombia
will have to remain unregistered until
fall 2011.
My personal goal for Region 11
is to increase the number of our
members who are registering their
new hems.
An additional idea for my wish
list is that regional garden hosts
would encourage our region’s hybridizers to guest seedlings in their
gardens. We would have some rules
like no pollen may be used and no
pods harvested. Plants should be
destroyed or returned to hybridizer
(not kept) by host garden.
Now you ask ‘where is the meat
I referred to in the last column’?
How about ‘Polymerous’? Is that
meaty enough. I don’t believe the last
word has been uttered on this. Some
call it ‘Multi-form’ (see below). I
wasn’t sure I could even pronounce
Polymerous. It is no worse than Spider-Variant and we got used to that
term (before it be came obsolete). Do
your homework here, specifically the
last issue of the Daylily Journal
which speaks of eliminating the term
‘polytepal’, replacing it with Polymerous. This is a reference to segment count, distribution and place-
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ment, not the shapes or forms of the
segments. Now we are open to many
forms of segments and these may be
configured in various ways.
(Remember when all flowers had to
be round, ruffled, flat and pink? And,
worse yet, on scapes no higher than
26”?) I know I am old but I am not
alone in this. Thank you Rosemary,
Geraldine, Ned and even the doubles
people for opening our eyes and
minds to the many possibilities we
could enjoy. And Brian Mahieu when
he brought in to our show a load of
50 inch plus seedlings severed at the
base for the seedling class, we
mounted them in bottles on a table
with the legs folded under. The
judges were totally flummoxed. (I
too have always enjoyed breaking
rules if not bending them.) I am not
an expert, and like I said, saner minds
have yet to explain this simply but it
is becoming clearer to me that multiform and polymerous are NOT the
same.
How about that ‘Trickster’? (I
have plenty if you want it, it certainly
opened a few eyes and was one of the
highest vote getting eligible’s receiving a HM its first year on the ballot.)
Perhaps that means we will over do
the new thing. We usually do. When
I registered it I didn’t know whether
to class it as Unusual Form or Double. It is consistently both so I registered it as both. I found out this year
it is eligible for both ‘special’ awards
for the ballot because it was so registered. It will move up to the AM
category automatically in a couple of
years. You either hate it or love it (or
just want something new and different). It involves a spider/UF
(‘Volcano T-C’ with a Kropf double.) It sort of helped inspire the new
classification of Polymerous or Multi
-Form.
I should NOT have said ‘or’ - it
is not either/or but which or both.
Do you want to hear/read more
about Polymerous or Multi-Form
flowers? Let me know! There are
lists now from AHS with cultivars
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registered that fit the new category
which need to be used in future registrations. I have registered before as
‘double-spider’ etc. and they now
should be Multi-Form and/or Polymerous depending on form and segment count.
It’s Show Time (exhibitions) and
Multi-Form is relevant for shows in
classification and placement on the
show bench. Show schedules are being re-written so this is a teaching
moment and a good time to think
about the meaning of our terms for
form and classification. It will impact
shows and also Awards and Honors
(special awards – think doubles etc).
I expect some changes are on the way
in the Judges Handbook (thank goodness for loose-leaf). We were involved with two shows this year and
it worked well to place those on the
lists or classification committee in
the doubles class.
I strongly hope we can continue
to shine the spotlight on our Region
11 hybridizers in our shows, sales/
auctions and tour gardens. You can
be sure I will try to do my part. DONATE your recent registrations to the
above events and also make $$ for
our region. And by all means REGISTER, REGISTER, REGISTER.
I am looking for historic cultivars
by Arlow Stout. I was reminded by a
glorious row of ‘Mikado’ flowering
here today. A researcher at Central
MO State U is looking for cultivars
of his for color research (closer to the
species). Please keep in touch. And
don’t forget to visit other hybridizer’s
gardens this summer especially for
seedling evaluation.
All for now. See you this Summer, I hope .
POSTSCRIPT SUMMER 09
I just returned from Manhat-
tan, KS, and the 2009 Region 11
Summer Meeting and Tour. A few
thoughts and Comments:
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A great regional – perhaps one of
the best.
Lots of Region 11 growers and
hybridizers (about 160) attending.
Wonderful hospitality and wonderful gardens – large and also a
small garden in the city which inspired most all of us.
Students were served in Exhibition Clinics 1,2 and 3 Garden Workshops 1 and 2 (so we can have more
judges in our region). We need more
judges and instructors to serve our
shows.
Host club (Flint Hills) that attended to our every needs and wants.
Guest Speaker (from out of region) who challenged many of our
traditional ideas and was entertaining
and personable.
An Oscie Whatley Seedling bed
which was small (10 entries) with
only seven in flower but ...(?) - What did you think?
Efficient marking and calculation
of the other ‘regional tour’ votes.
Schedules adhered to with dependable transportation.
Now I would like to offer a word
or two on the Oscie Whatley Seedling Bed.
The entries are limited by the
sponsoring club (Greater St. Louis
Hemerocallis Society, they sponsor
the award). For this second year only
about 70 percent of the submissions
by our region 11 hybridizers were in
flower at the regional.
My main points are: Since we
have so few entries for the ‘Oscie
Award’, (with a significant number
not in flower) I believe the rules
should be adjusted to allow up to two
or THREE entries per hybridizer.
This allows for seasons when every
thing is late or for differences in
when the hybridizer season matches
the seedling bed at the regional.
Also the coded entry tags (to protect the identity of the breeder)
should be disclosed after the voting.
As you know this award is not an
AHS award but probably strongly
Summer
influences what seedling(s) Garden
Judges might note on their Awards
and Honors ballot for the Junior Citation award. (It requires at least 10
judges.) The J.C. is not a ‘stepping
stone’ to the HM, or other higher
awards by all the Garden Judges in
AHS. However, it may be viewed as
a measure of quality’ by Garden
Judges.
Here comes the pitch. I believe
we all need to be acquainted with the
criteria Garden Judges use in voting
Awards and Honors on the AHS annual ballot. Seriously consider taking
Garden Judges Workshops 1 and 2
and BECOME a judge. I have found
that becoming an Exhibition Judge,
although quite different in scope and
approach, is also helpful in garden
judging. Needless to say all regions
have a need for more Exhibition
Judges too. (We had to go to Regions
2 and 13 for judges this year in Colombia.)
2009 Oscie Whatley Bed
Codes
Please consider these when voting for the Junior Citation Award.
K01 - Jerry Mix
I02 - Kathy Krattli ( the first digit
is a capital i in case you are wondering)
H03 - Duane Cookson
G04 - Dave Niswonger
F05 - Bob & Kelly Riggs
E06 - Patti Waterman
D07 - Bob Tankesley-Clark
L08 - Carol Fischer
B09 - Dan White
A10 - D-Franz
1st place, B09 - Dan White
2nd place, K01 - Jerry Mix
3rd place, G04 - Dave Niswonger
See photos on Page 16.
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Report of the
Prairie Promenade
Steve and Maureen Thien—Mateo Tipi Gardens
By Robin Calderon
Photo by Robin Calderon
What would one expect to find in garden designed and maintained by a soil scientist? Perhaps plants grown in rows
in a very precise and scientific manner- laboratory/greenhouse style? Not so at the Mateo Tipi Gardens of Steve & Maureen Thien in Manhattan. Their garden is very warm & welcoming, a perfect place for a relaxing stroll on a summer day. The
name ‘Mateo Tipi’ derives from an Indian legend and means
‘home of the bear’. There are bears at every turn in this garden,
luckily they are all friendly!
With just the perfect balance of sun
for the daylilies and shade for the people,
we could have spent much more time in
this garden and still not see it all. Daylilies were grown to perfection and
clearly labeled.
Robin Calderone
Robin Calderone
Maureen and Steve Thien
Seedling 57-A
Plenty of the Thien’s own seedlings were nestled in the
beds right alongside named varieties. There were several seedlings that were deserving of registration, including two from
sdlg Purple Points X Cousin Jewell. One had an almost electric glow to it and the other reminded me of the K-State wildcat logo with its black purple eye and striking white midribs.
Seedling 57-B
Robin Calderone
A huge clump of a seedling from ZADA MAE X
SILOAM DOUBLE CLASSIC was loaded with buds.
Unfortunately, it was in deep morning shade and had
not opened completely in time for our earliest bus. I
was tempted to return later in the day just to see this
one!
Seedling 23-B
There was sign in the garden that read “Speak to the earth and it will teach you”. Steve and Maureen have listened
and learned well. Grandmother Earth is happy here.
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Pat and Fred Freeman
By Patti Waterman
The delightful Freeman Garden was such a special treat in so many unexpected ways, from the daylily-draped entry
to the grand view of the gardens as you rounded the side of the house.
The blending of daylilies
with so many other beautiful
plants designed to attract and
John with Faye’s ‘Southern Patriot’
nourish bees and beneficial
insects as well as the colorful hummingbirds made this a very
welcoming garden for all its visitors. The hospitality of the gardeners was evident at every turn.
Thank you Fred and Pat for sharing your treasure with us.
Ruby Zabel
wonderful ‘Tongue
Twister’ (TankesleyClarke 2003) was showing off with two large
blooms. Also notable among
many gorgeous clumps was
the outstanding ‘Southern Patriot’ (Faye Shooter 2003)
guarding the top of the hill.
Patti Waterman
A large sweep of coneflowers was a showstopper, as were
the bright, bold displays of color by the daylilies. Only a few large
stumps, crowned tastefully and colorfully by large potted floral displays, hinted at the
destructive force of the
tornado that brought
great changes to this
garden one year ago.
While the changes
must have been dramatic, they were quite
transparent to first time
visitors. Every flowerFred & Pat Freeman
bed was beautifully
designed, the daylilies were easy to view and identify, and were very well
grown.
Another star in this garden,
standing
like a sentry, was their
One special feature was the mixing of many wonderone remaining undamaged
ful older daylilies with newer varieties. Visitors were
large tree; a stately English
commenting over varieties they had not seen in years or
Oak. It truly made an elegant
not at all. One that caught my eye was H. ‘Indian Pumpstatement and focal point for a
kin’ (Wild 1983) with its bright color and dramatic eye,
lovely garden.
while not far away the
Flowers taste good!
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Ann and Dave Redmon
By Michael Bouman
Was it April or July? It was 66 degrees and partly cloudy
when we got off the bus at the garden of Ann and Dave Redmon
at 9 a.m. This would be a test of the cool-weather openers! Ann
and Dave enjoy daylilies in the context of what seemed a
“woodland landscaping” concept. The trees keep the property
cool, and the shade requires a resourceful approach to plantings.
Michael Bouman
There is a wealth of plant material worked into a harmonious
arrangement, and a distinctive collection of daylilies is integrated, not dominating the visitor’s experience. All the plants
receive a passing “window” of sun during the day. In this
“glade,” it was delightful to see the cooling effect of Munson’s
classic lavender daylily, EGYPTIAN IBIS. I never tire of seeing
it, though it has
become rarer in
tour gardens where
the owners strive
to update their colAnn & Dave Redmon
lections a bit every
year. A cool color like this settles an entire field
of vision when you’re viewing dozens of different plant specimens. It becomes a visual oasis.
Gray Witch
Michael Bouman
Stack the Deck
Michael Bouman
Brooklyn Van Hoozer
Future daylily fan
In this cool temperature and shade, the brilliant
color of Jeff Salter’s CIMMARON ROSE stood
out like a beacon of beauty. No question of why
he flagged that one. Visually, it is a magnet. It
draws you into one of Ann’s islands of dappled
shade where there’s a carpet effect of Purple
Knockout Salvia that I mistook for the invader,
Ajuga! Ann corrected me playfully, in Latin,
“Salvia Lirata.”
Springfield Clan
The Redmons grow a nice sampling of spidery
daylilies, with good showings of Margo Reed’s work, with the arresting colors of GRAY WITCH and BROWN WITCH contrasting powerfully with the gigantic red SPRINGFIELD CLAN of Jane Trimmer.
Elizabeth Shooter’s STACK THE DECK looked exemplary at that
hour even growing in partial shade.
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The Schmeidler/Diaz Garden
By Dan & Jo Ann White
Julie Lea & Chris Parsons
One of our great loves is DAYLILIES but a close second is our love of
visiting and touring others’ gardens. We have been to gardens all across
this great country of ours, but few have compared with the garden of Frank
Schmeidler and Ralph Diaz. When our bus arrived, Ralph and Frank personally welcomed us to their garden. It was a nice touch that our bus was
warmly greeted by the owners at all the gardens on the Flint Hills Daylily
Society tour.
Frank and Ralph have a
bungalow style home with stone
terraces in the front. There is a
small stone house next door and
they have extended their landscaping talents to include that
Frank Schmeidler and Ralph Diaz
neighbor’s yard. Every inch of
their smaller urban garden is
loaded with charm, including a wooden gate opening to the neighbor’s yard
where they have placed about one-third of their five hundred or so daylilies.
The stone pathway through the neighbor’s yard was added just in time for the
tour. The gardens blend beautifully and both were included on the tour.
Words are inadequate to describe this garden. The design, plant selection and placement are like a series of fine
paintings. The plantings in the front yard extend all the way to the street. Stone terraces separating
the two levels contain daylilies and other perennials interspersed with tall Asiatic lilies, grasses
and evergreens providing a variety of heights, color and texture. We even spotted a clump of rhubarb among the plantings and it looked great. Pots overflowing with plantings lead up the stairs to
a porch where a pair of wicker chairs and a small table flank
the front door.
One side yard has an amazing statue of St. Francis and a
Voodoo Lily in a very lush setting. The other side yard is also
beautifully landscaped culminating in two benches flanking
each other at the gated entrance to the neighbor’s garden.
Both paths lead to a backyard that is truly stunning.
Asiatic lilies form the backdrop to a fountain in the center of the back yard that is
surrounded by paths, walkways and statuary each accented by just the right tree,
shrub or plant. There are several gargoyles, iron fencing and other classic elements.
Huge old trees mingle with specimen trees of all sizes and shapes. There are Japanese maples, weeping spruce,
conifers, magnolias, dwarf gingko, tree peonies, hydrangeas, hostas, hellebores, coral bells, interesting ground covers
and many lily varieties. Lily varieties include hundreds of daylilies, LA hybrids, Asiatic/Orientals, Longiforum/Orientals, Asiatics, Trumpets, Asiapets,
Orienpets and Orientals. There was a remarkable clump of Kwanza Gold. A
collection of bonsai is displayed on wide steps leading to the new addition at
the back of the home. Large areas of glass make the addition the perfect spot
to view the gardens year round. There are shaded areas as well as partial to Greywoods Tally Ho
full sun beds. The back yard is composed of numerous sitting areas and garden rooms, perfectly
arranged for entertaining small or large groups.
Thanks to Frank and Ralph for all the work and creativity they put into their garden and for sharing it with us.
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Irene and Rick Johnson Prairiewind Gardens - Olsburg
By Julie Lea and Chris Parsons
If you believe the Kansas prairie can’t be turned into a
paradise, you need to visit Rick and Irene Johnson in Olsburg.
Rick and Irene began working on their labor of love
more than 30 years ago, and it is a beautiful sight for lovers of daylilies, trees, perennials and shrubs. The sweat
equity they have invested would be worth a fortune if you
could quantify it, but the results are sweeter by far than
mere money.
The beds are artfully arranged throughout the yard,
and each is bordered with native limestone. Specimen
rocks are intermingled with specimen plants. A love of art,
and a sense of humor are also evident, in a subtle, tasteful
way.
Julie Lee & Chris Parsons
Julie Lee & Chris Parsons
The new Oriental Garden
with two connecting ponds is
Rick & Irene Johnson with Tom Hulburt
so perfectly sited and finished
that it seems to have sprung from the earth. Rick and Irene, along with friend Tom Hulbert,
have combined their creativity with engineering know-how to form this oasis. Rick’s skill
with cedar tree poles, seen throughout the yard in trellises and fences, was especially apparent in the beautiful entrance to the new area.
With more than 1,000 well-grown cultivars, it’s almost impossible to choose a “bloom of the day.” But, Dennis Mitchell’s
“Kayla’s Song” was especially beautiful, as were several of John
Shooter’s cultivars, including “Bubble Yummin’ Mama.”
Irene and Rick have created a garden that is thoughtful, tasteful, occasionally whimsical, and always in harmony
with the setting. Isn’t that what we all strive for?
Thank you, Rick and Irene, for sharing your labor of
love.
Julie Lee & Chris Parsons
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The Garden of Bernie and Joe Schmidt
By Kathy Krattli
Joe and Bernie Schmidt have turned their piece of cow pasture
into a beautifully designed masterpiece. The first acre, where their
house is, was landscaped first. After that was completed, they soon
felt the need to expand their garden into the second acre. Their 300
or so daylilies were accented with other perennials, and with shrubs
and evergreens put in just the right places. A tall windmill sits at one
end of the garden looking out over it all.
Kathi Krattli
An attractive
v i n e covered
trellis was
placed at
Bernie & Joe Schmidt
one end of
one of the daylily beds and provided shade for a garden bench.
I hope that Bernie and Joe had a chance to sit down on that
bench, relax and enjoy the view, after this event was over. I’m
sure they didn’t have much time beforehand.
The “Oscie Whatley Memorial” seedling bed was hosted by
the Schmidts. You could tell that all ten plants had been
given lots of tender loving care as they all looked very
healthy. Unfortunately all of them were not in bloom, but
there were more blooming than in last year’s garden. Dan
White, a member of the Greater St. Louis Daylily Society,
won the award this year for his beautiful burgundy unusual
form seedling.
Seedling B09 Dan White
Andrea Weaver
Seedling K01 Jerry Mix
Seedling G04 Dave Niswonger
Seedling F05 Bob & Kelly Riggs
Seedling I02 Kathi Krattli
Kathy Krattli
Besides daylilies, the Schmidt garden includes a vegetable garden and an orchard with apple, peach, pear, and apricot trees. Also
included are grape vines and blueberry bushes.
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Jane and Steve Amy – The Amy Garden – Wamego
By Andrea Weaver
It was a dark and stormy
night…. Isn’t that how a good novel
starts? Well, that is what happened
on Friday night, but it sure didn’t
dampen our spirits the next morning
as we started touring gardens. Nor
had it bothered the daylilies, as they
were in fine form that day. It was a
pleasant, overcast morning, perfect
for daylily-watching.
The Amy garden was in full bloom as we arrived at
their home in Wamego. The front yard was beckoning
me to come take a closer look. Rasmussen’s H.
KING’S GOLDEN TREASURE and H. TIGER
SWIRL were two that first caught my attention. John
Shooter’s GRANDPA’S WHISKERS was looking marvelous, with a double purple edge, trimmed in gold.
Steve & Jane Amy
Webster’s Pink Wonder
They also had a beautifully arranged bed full of Region 11 hybridizer’s
plants. QUEST FOR BRILLIANCE was visible from clear across the garden, Michael
Bouman’s H. PEPPERMINT WIND has several flowers open that day, and there were
several nice specimens of TOPGUNS plants from Bob Scott.
Steve and Jane also have some marvelous metal wind sculptures to accent the
daylilies.
The Amy garden hosted the Garden Judges II clinic that afternoon, and was a splendid garden
to carefully examine the daylilies
in. A delightful relaxing time
was had by all visitors that day!
Andrea Weaver
Andrea Weaver
As I wandered to the back, there was a wonderful shade garden, with over 100 varieties of
hostas and two water features. After passing under a quaint sign which read “I’m a Hemaholic” (which I think we all can relate to), there was a large open area, filled with a variety of daylilies and other perennials. There were wonderful pastel displays of H. BIRD BATH PINK, H.
WEBSTER’S PINK WONDER and Elizabeth Shooter’s H.
LILY MUNSTER. Jane has a “OZ” themed bed, filled with daylilies such as H. DOROTHY AND TOTO, H. MAGIC OF OZ, and H. SCARECROW.
Tiger Swirl
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CLUB HAPPENINGS
Bluestem Daylily Society
By Faye Yoder
The Bluestem Daylily Society has had a great half
year with expectations that the next half will be the same!
Our spring sale on May 9th was very successful. A special
thanks goes out to everyone who donated plants and advice and time. Without their efforts, our sale would not
have been the success it was.
Our June meeting was a potluck supper held at Oxbow Park where the display garden will be. That was a lot
of fun and good conversation. We did not have a program
but walked the area where the garden is to be sited. Currently there are five trees that need to be removed, beds
marked out, and grass sprayed out before any bed prep
and planting can be done. Plans are for that to be done by
the Parks Department sometime in the next two to four
weeks, after which we can get some plants in the ground!
July 18th a few of our members went to visit the gardens of Region 11 hybridizer, Robin Calderon. Prairie
Winds Daylily Society invited us to go as they had the
trip scheduled and thought we would like to see the gardens and meet Robin.
Some of us attended the Regional meeting in Manhattan, myself included, and I cannot say how much fun it
was! The gardens were all fantastic and the people even
more so. One of the highlights for me was the auction. (I
also had never bid before and it was so fun). It was very
obvious how much hard work went into making the meeting a huge success. Thank you!
Our next meeting is Thursday, August 6th at the
Carver Center in Salina. The program will be presented
by Chris Parsons of the Flint Hills Hemerocallis Society.
Visitors are always welcome at our meetings, and for
more information about this and future meetings you can
contact me at fayesgardens@yahoo.com or visit our website at www.hybridizer.net/bluestemdaylilysociety.html
degree temperature outside. We had all afternoon to share
the excitement of the gorgeous display of our daylilies
with the 235 visitors that attended the show.
Show Results
Best of Show: PEANUT SUNRISE by Clarice Brown
Best Large Flower: BELLE OF ASHWOOD by Jesse
Emmons
Best Double Flower: JULIA’S DOUBLE DREAM
by Julia Semon
Best Small Flower: APRICOT ANGEL by Dan &
Audrey Judy
Best Miniature Flower: LITTLE RAINBOW by Carol
Utterback
Best Spider Flower: VERTIGO by Julia Semon
Best Seedling Flower: Jesse Emmons
Sweepstakes Award: Dan & Audrey Judy
Mavis Smith Award: Bob McConnell
Tricolor Award: Yvonne Calvin with “Cleopatra”
The unusual form daylily ‘Peanut Sunrise’ was hybridized by Jason Brown and registered in 2004, when he was
a youth member of the club. Proud mom Clarice Brown
exhibited the flower, which had three open blooms.
The design division of the show featured classes
named for Drive-In movies. Yvonne Calvin won the Tricolor award for her interpretation of ‘Cleopatra’. The design featured a classic bronze vase showcasing ‘Jolyene
Nichole’ daylilies and Egyptian onions. Other design divisions were ‘Goldfinger’, ‘Rear Window’, and ‘American
Graffiti’. It was a great way to share our daylilies, but it
was only the beginning.
Information available at the flower show sent many of
these visitors to one or more of the six gardens that members generously opened to the public the next day. Welcoming visitors into their gardens were Karen Blackmore,
Blaise Brazos, Cathy and Ron Turner, Ken and Jane
Sadler, all of Columbia; Russell and Julia Semon of New
Franklin; and Bob and Eric Tankesley-Clarke of California. As with most years, these visits led to some new
members joining our club.
Our members are also busy working on plans for hostBy Patti Waterman
ing the Region 11 Summer meeting in 2011. Please note
the announcement elsewhere inviting all Region 11 hyThe 2009 daylily season has been a busy one for
bridizers who have registered at least one daylily to submit
CMHS members.
a selected seedling for the Oscie Whatley Award bed.
The Columbia Library where we held our accredited Further information regarding this award can be found at:
show “Summer Drive-In” was a cool respite from the 99 www.ahsregion11.org/oscie.html.
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Hemerocallis Society
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Our next major event is our members-only picnic and
sale on August 28th at Cosmos Park in Columbia, followed
by the public daylily sale the following day at the two
farmers markets in Columbia. The October 11th meeting
will feature Jim Braithwaite speaking on controlling garden pests, followed by a digital slide show featuring our
member hybridizers’ latest seedlings and introductions.
The club members will celebrate the holidays together as
well as the culmination of another good year with a party
on December 6th. All our meetings are held at the Boone
County Extension Center, 1012 Route UU, Columbia MO.
Visitors are always welcome.
members auction will take place during our September
18th meeting along with slides and images of both the National and Regional meetings. October 16th will close out
our 2009 with a program/speaker to be announced. We
already have plans for 2009 and it’s going to be a great
year – plan on joining us!
Central Oklahoma
Hemerocallis Society
Independence Day in America is a tradition that has
long included celebration, friends and fireworks and in
Region 11 AHS this year it also included fantastic daylily
gardens!
Manhattan’s Flint Hills Daylily Society hosted the
2009 annual meeting and tour “Prairie Promenade”, featuring seven tour gardens, each with their own unique
“flower fireworks”.
Rick and Irene Johnson wowed even fellow club
members with their new Oriental Garden—a limestonelined pond embraced by a huge Catalpa tree. Literally
thousands of daylilies scattered over several acres, birdhouses and rustic arbors, and rock pathways lured visitors
in all directions. And the quaint little privy was over the
top!
Steve and Jane Amy’s Garden featured a huge bubbling rock, a unique new garden wall, a one-of-a-kind
Wizard of Oz garden, and a gazillion gorgeous daylilies
including several dozen John, Fay and Elizabeth Shooter
cultivars.
Joe and Bernadette Schmidt’s Garden portrayed well
the Kansas prairie with its expansive grass ways, bermed
garden island beautifully planted with grasses and roses,
flowers everywhere, and an old-fashioned Kansas windmill.
Steve and Maureen Thien’s Mateo Tipi Gardens,
beautifully manicured “home of the (silver) bear”, was
delightful, with bears lurking everywhere and daylilies
galore, including Steve’s hybridized seedlings.
Pat and Fred Freeman’s Garden beckoned visitors
down and around and up again through the multi-level,
well-manicured grounds with its beautiful daylilies.
Ann and Dave Redmon’s Garden, embraced by surrounding cedar woods and native prairie plants, featured
many new spider and unusual form daylilies as well as
Region 11 hybridizer daylilies.
Frank Schmeidler and Ralph Diaz’s Garden, once a
small courtyard garden with many unique small trees and
shrubs, a brick courtyard and fountains overlooked by
giant Oriental and Trumpet lilies, now includes the
By Ann Large
Bloom season started early for COHS members, as a
good number of us headed to Florida to attend the National AHS convention. Region 11 was well represented in
Florida and we had a great time!
Our AHS accredited Daylily Show was held in June
20th and we had a good turn out.
Show Results
Extra Large Flower: PATSY CARPENTER by Lee &
Anita Causey
Large Flower: BELLE COOKE by Lee & Anita
Causey
Small Flower: TRUE NORTH by Lee & Anita Causey
Miniature Flower: SILOAM JEROME PILLOW by
Clint Barnes
Unusual Form Flower: JAN’S TWISTER by Clint
Barnes
Spider Flower: DANCING CHEVRONS by Lee &
Anita Causey
Popularity Poll: VICTORIAN LACE by Lee & Anita
Causey
Best in Show: TRUE NORTH by Lee & Anita Causey
Sweepstakes award: Lee & Anita Causey
Thanks to everyone who entered and participated in
the show to make it much a great event.
COHS took a bus to the Manhattan regional and enjoyed picking up some Tulsa riders as well as Wichita riders. We all had a great time in Manhattan with beautiful
gardens and exceptional weather for the 4th of July weekend. Thank you, Flint Hills for hosting us!
Our final meetings of the year start with our fall sale
held on Saturday, September 12th. Our plants-for-
Flint Hills Hemerocallis
Society
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neighbor’s yard, and daylilies, daylilies, daylilies! everywhere.
We hope you were there to share our “Prairie Promenade” and the memorable ”flower fireworks”, that you
made some new friends and enjoyed our Independence
Day celebration as much as we did!
The Greater St. Louis
Daylily Society
By Kathy Krattli
For our March meeting, we were to have brought in
our list of our six favorite daylilies. After the lists were
compiled, the top four were: ’Bela Lugosi’ and ‘Primal
Scream’, both with 4 votes each, ‘Chance Encounter’ and
‘Moonlit Masquerade’ both with 3 votes each. There were
a number with 2 votes but most of the others mentioned
were single votes. I guess there are just too many beautiful daylilies out there! We had a panel of five members
who discussed their favorite daylily and why.
For our April meeting, we enjoyed having Charles
and Heidi Douglas from Brown’s Ferry Gardens in South
Carolina with us to share their pictures and knowledge of
daylilies.
In May we had our member’s only auction. Many of
our members went home with some beautiful new daylilies to plant.
June 27th was our club’s garden tour. We had a full
bus, plus a couple of cars following it. Some members
from the Farmington club joined the group. We visited
the gardens of David Hoffman, Craig and Diana Plahn,
Dave and Joan Poos, and Arlene Miller and Hewie Powell. It was a very hot day, but we finished up before the
temperature reached the predicted 98 degrees. We were
thankful for trees and shade in the later gardens.
We took a bus to our Region 11 meeting in Manhattan, Kansas, July 3-5. We stopped in Columbia, Missouri
to pick up some members of the Columbia club, and then
on to the Kansas City area where we stopped for lunch
and picked up a few more passengers. Twenty-one of our
club members attended the wonderful event. All of the
gardens were spectacular! And we couldn’t have ordered
better weather!
Our own Dan White was the winner of the “Oscie
Whatley Memorial” award for “best seedling”.
And for you Region 11 hybridizers, it’s still not too
late to send in a seedling to Larry Gooden at 6459 Westway Rd., St. Louis, MO 63109-3366 for next summer’s
Reg. 11 meeting here in St. Louis. You can send in up to
5 fans of your unregistered seedling. Only requirement is
that you have had to have registered at least one seedling
in the past.
Summer
Ozark Daylily Club
By Bev Long
Club members have been quite busy this Spring and
Summer.
Our club held a very successful third annual Daylily
Sale on April 25th at Nathanial Greene Park in conjunction with the Greene County Master Gardeners Sale.
The Daylily Garden at Nathanial Greene Park remains
one of the most popular gardens at the Park as this year’s
crop of colorful and large flowers has made the garden
more beautiful than ever. The daylilies are on display this
month as the Garden hosts a Butterfly Festival for the new
Butterfly Garden and the annual Blossoms and Bluegrass
Event.
Twelve club members and family went on a road trip
on June 28th to visit Daylily Gardens in Northwest Arkansas. We visited the gardens of Jane Mahan’s and John Holland. The gardens were lovely and the hospitality of both
gardeners was very much appreciated. Because of the
beautiful weather, on our return trip we also held an impromptu tour of five of our own gardens to share the
beauty of our flowers and the varied styles of gardening of
our members.
Mo-Kan Daylily Society
By Judith Durham
As a fund raiser for the 2005 Regional, our club began
a 2nd plant sale in the spring. That sale was an instant hit,
and is now an annual event. The sale is held on the Independence, Mo. town square in connection with its flower
and garden show. This year there was an antique tractor
run to historic Fort Osage. Fort Osage was established by
Lewis & Clark and is an authentic fully restored fort about
20 minutes from Independence.
The sale was to start on Saturday morning at 8:00 am
but buyers were waiting at 7:00, so as good salesmen are
wont to do, we started early. Everyone agreed we had a
good time.
We did not have a June meeting scheduled this
year. Our next activity was a flower display at the Plaza
Library on June 27th. It is a new location for us, but we
wanted to attract more public interest that what we've had
in the past. We had a professional poster displayed at the
library in advance to advertise the event. Besides displays
of on-scape flowers, there were two tables loaded with
daylily blooms off scape. This is a great way to display
new varieties that are growing in our gardens. Before investing in them yourself, you get to see what they really
look like. Elroy Knoche and Connie Snow, our President
and Vice-President, manned the information table. There
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were lots of brochures and old issues of the Daylily Journal given away. By public vote, the favorite daylily was
"Primal Scream" followed by "Cat's Cradle" and "Ruby
Spider".
Our next event will be our fall sale, not actually held
in the fall, but on the last Saturday in August. This is our
regular sale and is held at the Loose Park Garden Center. This is our comfort zone: tables already set up, air conditioning on, and LaMars doughnuts to ease us into action. And while we steer our customers to the best flowers,
we choose one or two or ten for ourselves.
The Mo-Kan Daylily Society invites members in other
Region 11 groups to attend any of meetings. Dave Niswonger will be our speaker at the October meeting:
Sunday, October 4, Loose Park Garden Center, 5200
Wornall Road, Kansas City, Pot Luck at 12:30, meeting
begins at 1:30 pm.
Prairie Winds Daylily
Society
By Connie Larkin
Our new club has really enjoyed this first year. Our
members have decided to start meeting every month instead of every other.
We had good attendance at the Winter Gathering. We
enjoyed the speakers and the slide presentations from our
own Region 11 hybridizers. It was all great!
Our spring sale was good to our club. We also just
completed our first juried show. It was over the top!
We sold everything out at our mini sale and signed up
three new members.
Some of our club members visited Robin Calderon’s
Gardens the 3rd weekend of July.
I have resorted to hiding inside due to the heat! Watering is never ending. Beam me up Scottie, straight to
fall! See you in the garden.......
& Linda Farris - Show Chair
Hello from sunny Wichita, Kansas! The sun is shining
extra bright this week as members of our new club, the
Prairie Winds Daylily Society, are basking in the after
glow of our FIRST EVER AHS Accredited Daylily
Show. WE DID IT, WE DID IT, WE DID IT!!!!!!! What a
wonderful day, a great team activity, and a superb public
education event! We are a small group in our very first
year on the AHS map, but our members are indeed
mighty. They are awesome!!! Everyone gave 150% in effort. Whenever a hole appeared, in stepped someone to fill
it. When an unexpected need arose, up stepped a member
to meet it. We just kept "rollin', rollin', rollin'...." all day
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long. Our show was held in the Kansas State University Sedgwick County Extension Center in conjunction with
the local Farmer's Market, so we had high traffic beginning at 7:00 am for our daylily sale (we SOLD OUT) and
throughout the day, with the public standing in line outside
the door during judging, anxious to see the fabulous display of our favorite flowers. Thanks to Tee Money, Gisela
Meckstroth, JoAnn Stewart, Nancy Faulk, Elaine Holmstrom, and several others, we were well primed and prepared. We had 141 on-scape and 21 design entries!!! We
picked up three new members and one new AHS member
that day. Yeah! The following Show results are ones for
our history book:
Show results
BEST IN SHOW/ Horticulture: PIANO MAN by Mary
Woolsey
Best Extra Large Flower: GOLD HELMET by Mary
Woolsey
Best Large Flower: PIANO MAN by Mary Woolsey
Best Small Flower: SUNNY EYES by Sally McNees
Best Miniature Flower: PUGSLEY by Andrea Weaver
Best Double/Polymerous Flower: PENNY PINSLEY by
Connie Larkin
Best Spider Flower: ROCOCO by Connie Larkin
Best Unusual Form Flower: HEAVENLY ANGEL ICE
by Andrea Weaver
Best Seedling Award: cinnamon double by Don Franz
BEST IN SHOW/ Design: Virginia Kimball
Tricolor Rosette Winner: Virginia Kimball
Sweepstakes Winner: Mary Woolsey
AHS Award of Appreciation: Marge and Delmar
Stucky for the Education Exhibit
People's Choice/ Horticulture: VICTORIAN LACE by
Mary Woolsey,
People's Choice/ Design: "Wind and Rain" exhibited
by Virginia Kimball
THANK YOU, EVERYONE, for making this event a
wonderful experience for all.
Topeka Daylily Club
By Caryn Sheets
Our summer club activities began with The Topeka
Day Lily club members building a raised flower bed for
Amy Kennedy. Committee Chairman Marta Howe reported:
Amy Kennedy has been a very active and involved
Topeka Day Lily member for 16 years! She has served as
the treasurer and secretary of the club and even invited the
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club members to view her gardens as part of our annual
local tour of gardens. She has gorgeous flower and vegetable gardens at her home that is north of Topeka.
Another of Amy's loves has been of horses and she has
been an accomplished horsewoman her whole
life. Unfortunately, on August of 2007, Amy was injured
severely by a fall from one of her horses. Her back bone
was broken between C 7 & 8 and her spinal cord
was severely injured between C 3 & 4 leaving her initially
paralyzed from her neck down. Her recovery has been remarkable while she continues to be paralyzed, she is now
able to get around by a motorized scooter controlled by her
right hand.
In response to her injuries, the Topeka Daylily Club
decided to express our appreciation for her dedication to
the club by making her a flower bed. Amy and her husband, Mark, put much thought into the where and what
kind of bed would be best and eventually decided to make
the bed a raised one and put it in the front of her home
where she would enjoy it everyday. The club gave the
Kennedy's $600 for the project and most of the money
went into preparing the foundation and the cement
"stones" that made of the structure of the flower bed
walls. Several members gathered at the Kennedy's home
May 30, 2009 and we built the structure. Amy has wonderful ideas for the bed and we look forward to the developing and maturing of her garden.
On Saturday, June 27 the Club held its annual American Hemerocallis Society accredited flower show at the
Fairlawn Plaza Mall. Chairman Jess Danner reported: A
total of 148 entries were judged in the horticulture division. The horticulture judges were Bettye Coughenour,
Lois Hart, Rudy and Dianne Wilkie, Margie Roehr, and
Dennis White.
Show Results
Summer
The People's Choice Award: REBEL BOY by Chris
Tyler
The People's Choice Award for Design: Maggie Warren for ‘Evening Interlude’
The design division had 16 entries with one blue ribbon going to Maggie Warren, and three blue ribbons to
Jess Danner.
. The design judges were National Garden Clubs
judges Nanc Halverhout, Gertrude Myers, and Caroline
Wittman.
We had attendance of about 250. We again gave away
free daylilies to those who voted for People's Choice
Awards
A number of our members attended the Regional
Meeting held in Manhattan on July 3-5. We continued our
enjoyment of daylilies and friends with our club members'
tour of four gardens the morning of July 11. The sun was
shining brightly as we enjoyed the hospitality, different
garden styles, and beautiful colors of the daylilies and
complimenting plants. We welcomed a break and delicious
lunch from Puffy's Steakhouse then completed the day
with a visit to Gene and Penny Stormann's Pleasant Hill
Daylilies.
On August 15 the club will hold it's plant sale at the
Topeka Farmer's Market. Our September 22 meeting will
be held at Lake Shawnee with Carroll Morgenson providing a tour of the gardens.
Tulsa Area Daylily Society
by Randall Barron
The first Tulsa Area Daylily Society AHS sanctioned
Show and Sale was held June 13, 2009 in the Tulsa Garden Center. Randall Barron and Dennis Voss were chairman and Co-Chairman respectively. Optical Extravaganza was a success thanks to the advice and guidance of
AHS leaders, Gisela Meckstroth, Robert Stassen, Mary
Lou Lundblade and Ann Large. Thanks to the members of
TADS the large auditorium was decorated and arranged
expertly into educational displays, daylily vendor booths
and greeter and hospitality areas. A large partition separated the Show area and the Sale area. When the judging
was completed the partition was removed to reveal the
glorious display of daylilies and the show winners.
Best Extra Large Flower: MARK ALLAN CARPENTER by Jess Danner
Best Double Flower: MOSES' FIRE by Jess
Danner
Best Unusual Flower: HEAVENLY DRAGON
FIRE by Jess Danner
Best Spider: NONA'S GARNET SPIDER by Richard
Knight
Best Small Flower: SILOAM MERLE KENT by Judy
Briggs
Best Miniature Flower: LITTLE ANNA ROSA by
Show Results
Judy Briggs
The Best in Show/Horticulture: SILOAM MERLE Extra Large Flower: HEAVENLY TIGER TAILS,
Gossard by Marvel Barron
KENT by Judy Briggs.
Large Flower: AMERICAN FREEDOM, GraceThe Sweepstakes Award: Richard Knight.
Smith by Randall Barron
The Tricolor Award: Jess Danner with ‘Evening InterDouble Polymerous Flower: TOP GUNS ANITA
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CAUSEY, B. Scott by Marvel Barron
Unusual Form Flower: MIGHTY GOLIATH, Gossard by Marvel Barron
Youth: CASUAL OBSERVER, Buettner by Mariah
Parker
Best in Show/Horticulture: TOP GUNS ANITA CAU
SEY by Marvel Barron
Sweepstakes: Randall Barron
Award of Appreciation: Joe Maxfield
Dale Satterwhite Award - FERENGI GOLD, Petit by
Randall Barron
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we’ve sworn that we would not allow that to dampen our
spirits. Many cultivars have performed well in spite of
Mother Nature’s challenges.
In May, Wichita members Floanna Crowley, Cindy
Lindquist, Mary Lou Lundblade and Cathy Minkler attended the National AHS Convention in Florida. We’ll
look forward to seeing photos and hearing more about the
convention in the near future.
After another successful auction at our May meeting,
we welcomed June with a local tour and preparation for
our show. On June 27th, members visited the gardens of
Betty Lou Bowlin, Ted & Jan Eberle, and Cindy
Lindquist. All gardens were lovely and we appreciated
these members sharing their blooms and expertise with us.
This year’s show theme was “Come Fly With Me”
and thanks to the efforts of chairs, Sherryl Fitzpatrick and
Ray Morrissette, and club members, we had another wonderful show and mini sale. The Big Bouquet assembled by
Virginia Kimball and her crew presented a beautiful attention-getting photo opportunity for everyone. Thanks to
member Connie True for preparing a delicious lunch for
the judges and to members for helping with the show.
Following the show, some members attended the Regional meeting and tour in Manhattan, KS. over the 4th of
July weekend. On July 11th 12 members made a van trip
to Garden City, KS. for a visit to Robin Calderon’s garden.
Although the temps spiked into the low 100’s, members
enjoyed seeing Robin’s bounty and selecting a few (well,
maybe more than a few) to bring home to add to their own
gardens.
As the peak of our bloom season winds down, we’ll
look forward to our annual birthday dinner August 10th
and our daylily sale at Botanica on August 29th. We also
hope that Mother Nature tempers the weather so that we
may enjoy some repeat blooms!
The Sale chairperson, Jean Rodgers and TADS treasure, Marilyn Clay did an excellent job with the club
booth. The Show and Sale were a tremendous success.
The Tulsa Garden Center sponsors a Brown Bag Lecture each month on the third Thursday at noon. It was
TADS opportunity in the month of June to make the presentation. The entire club worked together to make this the
best lecture of the year. Publicity and advertisements
went out, courtesy of corresponding secretary Katy
Brocksmith. The entire community was invited to bring
their cut daylilies and bag lunch and join TADS at the
Tulsa Gardens Center for a program entitled All About
Daylilies. The community responded and the auditorium
was decorated with blooming daylilies galore. It was truly
a site to behold. The great cooks of TADS provided beverages, deserts and finger food and a good time was enjoyed by all.
TADS’s treasure, Marilyn Clay was the moderator as
members Dennis Voss and Randall Barron gave short
hands on presentations about Measuring Soil pH and Dividing, Planting and Hybridizing Daylilies respectively.
Following the presentation they were joined by members
Sharan Gilchrist and Jean Rogers for a panel discussions
and questions. A couple of tables were set up so the public could make a daylily purchase by members Marvel
Show Results
Barron and Pat Gilmore. TADS gave away randomly
Theme
Come
Fly
with
Me
about 12 plants during the presentations to keep the audiBest
in
Show:
Sally
McNees
with SUNNY EYES
ence lively and attentive. June truly is the month of DayBest
small
flower:
Sally
McNees
with SUNNY EYES
lilies in Tulsa.
Best Miniature: Lisa Fitzsimmons with BUTTERPAT
Best Double: Virginia Kimball with BUTTER DISH
Best large Flower: Mary Lou Lundblade with CHEEKS
BLUSHING
By Marilyn Browne
Sweepstakes: Ann Harrod
Tricolor artistic award: Sherryl Fitzpatrick
The Wichita Daylily Club has had a busy spring and
with ‘Fly me to the moon’
early summer. Mother Nature couldn’t decide if she
wanted it to be cold or hot, so she supplied us with a late 29 people entered with 139 scapes
freeze and early heat to test our gardening resolve. Our
daylilies have weathered cold, heat, and hail, and while
we’ve experienced bud blast, bud drop, decreased bud
count, and a mix of green, yellow, and brown foliage,
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American Hemerocallis Society Officers
President
Executive Secretary
Editor - Daylily Journal
Kevin Walek
9122 John Way
Fairfax Station, VA 22039-3042
703-643-1927
president@daylilies.org
Pat Mercer
P.O. Box 10
Dexter, GA 31019-0010
478-875-4110
patmercer@progressivetel.com
Meg McKenzie Ryan
1936 Wensley Ave
El Centro, CA 92243
760235-8243
journal@daylilies.org
2009 Region 11—Officers, Committee Chairs and Liaisons
Region 11 Director
Mary Lou Lundblade
511 W Ness
Valley Center, KS 67147
Tel: 316-755-1964
Email: daylilyqueen@sbcglobal.net
RP - Steve Amy
611 Adam Dr
Wamego, KS 66547
Tel: 785-456-7053
Email: sjamy@wamego.net
RPD – Ann Large
2217 Silver Crest Dr
Edmond, OK 73003-1739
Tel: 405-348 4746
Email: ablarge@sbcglobal.net
Treasurer - Jim Mueller
36 Wagon Wheel Trail
Fenton, MO 63026-4552
Tel: 636-343-6271
Email: muellerj_44@yahoo.com
Secretary - Andrea Weaver
6935 E 35th St N
Wichita, KS 67226
Tel: 316-683-5877
Email: 66bug@cox.net
Newsletter Editors
Harry & Sharron Gregory
1138 Amidon Ave
Wichita, KS 67203
Tel: 316-263-7608
Email: mokanokeditors@cox.net
Auction Co-Chairs
Jim Mueller (see above)
Lisa Fitzsimmons
4820 N Glendale St
Bel Aire, KS 66220
Tel: 316-744-2789
Email: fitzsdoghouse@sbcglobal.net
Electronic Communications
Chair - John R. Eiseman
10133 Springwood Dr
St. Louis, MO 63124-1225
Tel: 314-991-2838
Email: jeiseman@mac.com
Exhibition Judges Liaison
Elaine Holmstrom
4042 SE 34th St
Topeka, KS 66605-3052
Tel: 785 267-6316
Email: holmstrom@networksplus.net
Garden Judges Liaison
Michael Bouman
7155 Cambridge Ave
St. Louis, MO 63130-2303
Tel: 314 725-1811
Email: mbouman@mohumanities.org
Historian - Brenda Jindra
RR 1 Box 198
Cashion, OK 73016-9748
Tel: 405 433-2217
Email: bajindra@aol.com
New Member Liaison
Linda Farris
15726 SW 143Rd St
Rose Hill, KS 67133
Tel: 316-733-4608
Email: lbluestem@aol.com
Science Liaison
Dr. Steve Thien, Professor of
Soils Science KSU
3400 Windsor Court
Manhattan, KS 66503-0335
Email: sjthien@ksu.edu
Service Award Chair
Cindy Lindquist
5507 SE 96th St
Valley Center, KS 67147
Tel: 316 799-2374
Hybridizer Liaison
Bob Tankesley-Clarke
31642 Wieneke Branch Rd.
California, MO 65018-4044
Tel: 573-796-3829
Email: adamgrove@socket.net
Editorial Advisory Committee
Chair - Hank Riggs Jr.
904 Cowan Dr.
Columbia, MO 65203-2306
Tel: 573- 875-2464
Email: hamgrig@aol.com
The idea of producing a Memory Disc including a compilation of photos taken over the weekend was proposed at the
Business Meeting. Several members have sent photos for the MoKanOk, but there are dozens of great images that did not
‘make the cut’. We also know of others who have not sent their photos, but will, if this project goes ahead.
Before we embark on this project, we would like to know if there is enough interest in purchasing a DVD of the weekend.
Profits will benefit Region 11. Please let us know how many copies you would buy, so we can proceed. We project the cost at
$10 per copy with possible discounts for multiple purchases. If you have photos that you would like to donate to the cause,
please let us know. The disc would be copyrighted, but you will retain ownership of your images. mokanokeditors@cox.net
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Rates and Editorial Policy
Submission of articles, club updates and pictures is very important to keeping The MoKanOk Daylily interesting to all members of Region 11. Please share local happenings and
items of interest. All submissions are given
equal consideration and will be published if at
all possible. Submit all articles and photos to
mokanokeditors@cox.com
Membership is on the calendar
year: January to December.
Out of Region Subscription Rates:
$17.00 per year. Please send check to the editors.
Individual
Editorial Policy
The American Hemerocallis Society Region 11 / The MoKanOk Daylily
is published for the benefit of the American Hemerocallis Society members residing in Region 11. As such, the editorial focus of the publication centers on: 1) Hemerocallis, 2) AHS and Region 11 events, or 3)
Region 11 members and hybridizers.
Submissions are encouraged. The editors reserve the right to edit for
space, grammar, and focus on the three criteria cited above.
Submission Deadline
Issue
March 31
Spring
July 15
Summer/Fall
October 15
Winter
Publication Date
April 1
September 1
December 1
Advertising Rates:
One issue -- Full Page - $80
Half Page - $50
Quarter Page - $30
Yearly
Half Page - $125
Quarter Page - $75
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AHS Membership
Full Page $200
Region 11 Website: http://ahsregion11.org
Looking Ahead--Summer Regionals
2010 Greater St. Louis Daylily Society—June 25-27
2011 Central Missouri Daylily Society -- June
2012 MoKan Daylily Club
One year
$25.00
Three years
$70.00
Youth
$10.00
Life
$500.00
Dual
(2 people, same household)
One year
$30.00
Three years
$83.00
Life
$750.00
New members are eligible to participate in the AHS voucher program.
Send all dues, address changes,
and membership inquiries to:
Pat Mercer
AHS Executive Secretary
P.O. Box 10
Dexter, GA 31019
478-875-4110
patmercer@progressivetel.com
Make all checks payable to the
American Hemerocallis
Society.
AHS Website:
http://www.daylilies.org
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Region 11 Club Presidents
Bluestem Daylily Society
Faye Yoder
111 N Connecticut
Salina, KS 67401
785-404-2456
fayesgardens@yahoo.com
Central Missouri
Hemerocallis Society
Bob Tankesley-Clarke
31642 Wieneke Branch Rd.
California, MO 65018-4044
573-796-3829
adamgrove@socket.net
Central Oklahoma
Hemerocallis Society
Helen Jones
529 South 12th
Clinton, OK 73601
580-323-1132
jonesiris2@aol.com
Flint Hills Hemerocallis
Society
Jane Amy
611 Adam Drive
Wamego, KS 66547
785-456-7053
sjamy@wamego.net
Greater St. Louis Daylily
Society
Dan White
2457 Kinder Place
Glen Carbon, IL 62034
618-288-3577
djwhite@accessus.net
Mineral Hills
Hemerocallis Society
Elvan Roderick
3862 Highway O
Farmington, MO 63640-7221
573-431-5711
MoKan Daylily Society
Connie Snow
7306 Murkins Road
Kansas City, MO 64133
816-353-7825
porkrind@peoplepc.com
Ozark Daylily Club
Frieda Alexander
4211 S. Sulgrove Avenue
Springfield, MO 65804
417-877-9406
fmalex65805@yahoo.com
Prairie Winds Daylily
Society
Andrea Weaver
6935 E. 35th Street N
Wichita, KS 67226
316-683-5877
66bug@cox.net
Topeka Daylily Club
Chris Tyler
5415 SW Lincolnshire Cir
Topeka, KS 66610
785-862-9882
sctyler@cox.net
Tulsa Area Daylily Club
Randall Barron
13539 S. 91st E. Avenue
Bixby, OK 74008
918-369-1581
randallbarron@cox.net
West County Daylily Club
Bill Lenz
5260 Ozarkglen Drive
St. Louis, MO 63128
314-487-6588
bllenz@sbcglobal.net
Wichita Daylily Club
Cathy Minkler
3031 Somerset Street
Wichita, KS 67204-4428
316-838-3640
cathyminkler@cox.net
Notice to Regional 11 Hybridizers:
All qualified Region 11 hybridizers are invited to send a select seedling for the 2010-11 Regional Oscie Whatley Seedling Award Bed. Entries should be submitted to:
2010
2011
Larry Gooden
Steve and Reng Winters
6459 Westway Rd.
2601 Bluffcreek Drive
St. Louis, MO 63109-3366
Columbia MO 65201.
Full information on the Oscie Whatley Award may be found at www.ahsregion11.org/
oscie.html.
Thank you very much.
Patti Waterman
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Mary Gale
Region 11 2009 Tricolor Awards
Topeka Daylily Club
Jess Danner
Nancy Rold
Sherrly Pitzpatrick
‘Evening Interlude’
Central Missouri Hemerocallis Society
Yvonne Calvin
‘Cleopatra’
Wichita Daylily Club
Sherryl Fitzpatrick
‘Fly Me to the Moon’
Prairie Winds Daylily
Society
Virginia Kimball
‘Wind & Rain’