April 2009

RADS Newsletter, April 2009
Richmond Area Daylily Society
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President’s Message
This is a beautiful time of year when the gardens are really starting to grow. With all this rain, the
daylilies are growing in leaps and bounds! Start now with good garden management. Please look
around your garden and tag plants for digging that you could contribute for our sale on April 30th.
These sales really help our club.
Happy gardening everyone!
Paulette Miller
Trip to North Carolina Reminder:
Two vans are headed to North Carolina to Tony
Advent’s Plant Delights Nursery and Juniper
Level Botanic Gardens on Saturday, May 9,
2009. One van is a 15-passenger van and the
other will be for our purchases! This will be a
fun trip for both those wanting to browse and
those wanting to shop!
Annual Daylily Flower Show & Sale
Reserve June 20th on your calendar
this year for the RADS annual
daylily flower show and sale at
Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens.
There are many ways you can help
with this huge affair, so please
contact Paulette Miller if you’d like to
volunteer.
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Welcome New Members!
It’s always exciting to have new members join
in the quest for fun with daylilies!
 Leon Swell
 Terri Walker
 David, Christina, & Grace Neiswander
Next Meeting:
Saturday, April 25th 11:00 am at the Wagner
Building. Our guest speaker Kathy Griffin from
Boulevard Flowers will talk about perennials
and .soil amendments.
A New Daylily Club in Virginia
Virginia now has 6 daylily clubs with the
newest one in the south central area. The
Southern Virginia Daylily Club (SVDC)
was formed July 26, 2008 with 14
members and is now up to 29
members! Several RADS members
are actively involved in this new
club and we wish them lots of
success. At their next meeting,
Tuesday April 21st at 6:30 pm,
Paulette Miller and Michael
Miller will be their guest
speakers. They will also bring lots of auction
plants from Small World Daylily Gardens in an
effort to fund the club’s plants-for-members
program. RADS members are invited to join
SVDC that evening for a wonderful
presentation, an auction, and fellowship with
other daylily enthusiasts. SVDC holds their
meetings at MacCallum More Museum and
Gardens in Chase City, Virginia.
Look for an article in the Fanfare about the new
club!
QUIZ: Can you identify the 10 daylilies pictured in this newsletter?
HINT: Popular!
(Answers on bottom of page 4.)
RADS 2009
Activities for 2009:
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
President
Paulette Miller
(804)520-0807
Psm229@aol.com

Vice President
Pam Rutledge
(804) 740-0089
Lrutledge28@comcast.net
Treasurer
Paul Compton
(804)452-0239
bayberry@ctg.at
Secretary
Judy Durant
(804)746-7426
igdurant@verizon.net
Newsletter Editor
Belinda Sheppard
(434)374-4910
belinda23955@yahoo.com
Membership Chairman
Don Merkle
(434) 392-8335
merkleda@longwood.edu
Membership Applications
can be sent to:
711 First Avenue
Farmville, VA 23901
Annual Dues:
$5.00 single,
$8.00 family
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April 25: 11 am – Speaker: Kathy Griffin from
Boulevard Flowers & Plants for Members
Auction at the Wagner Building.
April 30 – May 2: Spring Plant Sale at Lewis
Ginter Botanical Gardens.
 May 20 – 24: 2009 AHS National Convention
in Lake Mary, Florida, hosted by Region 12 and
Sunbelt Daylily Chapter.

Jun 20: Daylily Flower Show at Lewis Ginter Botanical
Gardens.

July 10-12: 2009 AHS Region 3 Summer Meeting in
Gaithersburg, Maryland

July 18: 11 am – Club Picnic at David Metzger’s home.

Aug 15: 11 am – Plant Swap and Pot Luck Lunch

Sep 18-19: Fall Plant Sale at Lewis
Ginter Botanical Gardens.

Oct 10: Annual Dinner with Guest
Speaker Nicole Harry

Nov 14: 11 am – Thanksgiving
Meeting at the Wagner Building.
Business meeting with election of
officers for 2010.
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Newsletter Articles
Please forward all newsletter articles or ideas for inclusion in the
February newsletter to Belinda Sheppard by May 21, 2009. I would
love to hear from you.
Daylily Dictionary:
Did You Know?
What is a Perianth Tube? The typical daylily flower consists of
a funnel-shaped perianth tube and limb with six colored perianth
segments called tepals arranged in two rows.
The inner row of segments are petals, and
the outer are sepals. These segments
(petals and sepals) are joined
for a portion of their length
at the base of the flower into a
perianth tube that surrounds
the ovary.
RADS Web Site
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzepo9m6
RADS Newsletter April 2009
Perianth Tube
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2009 Popularity Poll Top 20 Results (2008 data)
As a service to its members and to the
general public, each year the American
Hemerocallis Society (AHS) conducts a
popularity poll among its members to
determine the favorite daylilies from each
region. It is the hope of the AHS that this
Popularity Poll presents a true picture of which
daylilies perform well in a given area and which are
best liked by the membership. Popularity polls are important
to daylily growers -- both AHS members and nonmembers -who make daylily selections for purchase.
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cultivar
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2
3
4
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6
7
PRIMAL SCREAM
RUBY SPIDER
RED VOLUNTEER
J.T. DAVIS
ORANGE VELVET
VICTORIAN LACE
MOONLIT
MASQUERADE
LAVENDER BLUE
BABY
PEGGY JEFFCOAT
SABINE BAUR
ALL AMERICAN
CHIEF
STRAWBERRY
CANDY
BELA LUGOSI
LINDA BECK
BEAUTIFUL EDGINGS
KING KAHUNA
BILL NORRIS
SHORES OF TIME
SKINWALKER
FOOLED ME
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9
10
11
12
13
13
15
16
17
17
19
20
8
total
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
215
206
145
113
113
111
13
14
1
2
1
3
47
51
20
2
6
13
45
46
14
3
11
14
25
20
19
3
7
4
5
5
0
36
28
10
6
3
15
2
17
4
2
1
0
1
2
1
10
19
20
0
7
2
2
1
0
0
0
0
23
19
35
16
9
14
14
5
3
5
1
7
0
4
2
3
2
4
4
8
6
7
7
9
8
2
7
31
11
18
11
7
3
2
4
7
105
1
13
14
14
10
6
1
14
1
15
2
0
3
6
5
104
102
100
8
0
1
9
10
10
7
13
9
8
19
1
15
3
3
13
1
7
0
0
2
9
0
13
0
2
3
9
25
20
1
4
4
1
0
2
12
0
5
10
0
10
2
24
9
99
0
34
22
11
2
0
1
0
0
5
1
2
5
2
14
97
92
92
89
88
87
87
76
75
1
10
0
1
0
2
0
0
0
16
24
7
20
4
17
13
4
17
11
15
0
11
4
9
18
9
11
11
14
0
10
0
3
7
6
11
6
0
16
1
1
12
1
18
1
4
1
0
11
11
1
1
3
2
1
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1
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4
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16
2
0
2
0
0
3
8
15
1
2
0
1
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7
2
8
1
11
12
1
13
4
8
7
9
6
4
5
0
3
2
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8
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2
1
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1
18
2
2
0
1
6
2
0
10
36
5
1
1
1
6
0
66
5
2
6
13
1
2
2
3
0
0
5
5
11
0
4
How many of these do
you have in your
garden?
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Let’s Talk Daylilies!
By Sheila P. Weisensale
We had a very successful “Let’s Talk Daylilies” segment at our
February 7, 2009 meeting. Our topic this month was “favorite reds”
which “fired” members up! There were lots and lots of favorite reds
discussed.
Following are the daylily varieties that fellow RADS members shared as
their “favorite reds”:
Africa
All American Chief
Atomic Inferno
Balls of Bread
Betty Ford
Big Apple
Charles Johnson
Chicago Apache
Chicago Atlas
Complimentary
Colors
Dunrobin Red
Velvet
Ed Murray
Fire Down Below
Forever Red
Highland Lord
Indy Rhapsody
Indy Spirit Walk
Iwanna Piranha
Jingle All The Way
John Philips Sousa
Leaving Me
Breathless
Little Red Charmer
Marie Callas
Point of View
Red Volunteer
Roses in the Snow
Ruby Spider
Scarlet Orbit
Siloam Paul Watts
Small World Zachari
Spacecoast Dark
Obsession
Spiderman
Thin Man
Thomas Jefferson
and Liberty
Vesuvian
Willy Marcus
Woodside Ruby
Thanks to all of you that participated in this discussion!
The next opportunity for a “Let’s Talk Daylilies” segment is the RADS April meeting. For April, our
members have requested that we have a local speaker come in and give a brief presentation on “Soil” with
time allotted for questions and discussion from the membership. As we all know good soil is the key to
any successful garden—daylily or otherwise—and hopefully, the speaker can answer all of our questions
about soil nutrients, how and when to fertilize, and so on, so that we can have the most beautiful daylilies
ever this year. Our Vice President will look into this program possibility for April in combination with
the Plants for Members auction.
If you have any ideas for “Let’s Talk Daylilies” topics for future meetings, please email your ideas to me
at bloomage@verizon.net. Also, if you have any questions or suggestions regarding this new segment,
please don’t hesitate to contact me.
Answers to Quiz:
1 Primal Scream; 2 Ruby Spider; 3 Red Volunteer; 4 J.T. Davis; 5 Orange Velvet; 6 Victorian Lace;
7 Moonlit Masquerade; 8 Lavender Blue Baby; 9 Peggy Jeffcoat; 10 Sabine Baur.
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