Newsletter of the American Daylily Society Region 6 TEXAS ...Robert Valenza 24959 Stratton Meadows...

Volume 19, Issue 2 Summer 2019

Newsletter of the American Daylily Society Region 6 TEXAS AND NEW MEXICO

Daylilies of the Southwest—Newsletter of ADS Region 6

Regional Director ADS Membership Chair

David Freshour 53 Lavender Ct.

Lake Jackson, TX 77566 (979) 285-9664

[email protected]

Regional President Debbie Pike

712 Rancho Chico Court Angleton, TX 77515

(979) 236-1478 [email protected]

Regional Publicity Director Maureen Valenza

24959 Stratton Meadows Dr. Porter, TX 77365 (281) 354-0867

[email protected]

Co-Regional Publicity Director Jeff Breitenstein

12229 Tanglewild Dr. Austin, TX 78758 (206) 713-9405

[email protected]

Regional Secretary Robert Valenza

24959 Stratton Meadows Dr. Porter, TX 77365 (281) 354-0867

[email protected]

Treasurer Mike Peppers

6902 Poncha Pass Austin, TX 78749 (512) 774-8366

[email protected]

Newsletter Editor Peggy Cathey

1115 HCR 1414 Covington, TX 76636-4587


Membership Chair Peggy Cathey

1115 HCR 1414 Covington, TX 76636-4587


Youth Liaisons Dan & Peggy Cathey

1115 HCR 1414 Covington, TX 76636-4587


Awards & Honors Chairs Larry & Debbie Pike

712 Rancho Chico Court Angleton, TX 77515


Exhibition Judges Co-Liaison Jennifer Renner

1934 Texoma Drive Round Rock, TX 78664


Exhibition Judges Co-Liaison Judith Coghlan

11202 Barbarosa Drive Dallas, TX.,75228 (214) 208-9693

[email protected]

Horticulture Liaison Mark Carpenter

10056 Highway 7 West Center, TX 75935 (936) 572-1962

[email protected]

Garden Judges Liaison Amy Howard

3312 Ronda De Lechusas NW Albuquerque, NM 87120


Archivist/Historian, Webmaster ADS Technology/Group Leader

ADS Archives & History Committee Member

Ray Houston 413 Forest Oaks Lane

Lake Jackson, TX 77566-5971 (979) 297-5814

[email protected]

ADS Region 6—Texas and New Mexico Officers, Committee Chairs & Liaisons

http://www.ahsregion6.com

Dues are to be paid by January 1st of each year. Make checks payable to the ADS.

Mail to: Beverly Winkelman 17101 Herridge Road Pearland, TX 77584

* Dual Membership means two personsliving in the same household.

ADS Membership:

Individual Membership (1 yr.) $25 Individual Membership (3 yrs.) $70 Dual Membership* (1 yr.) $30 Dual Membership* (3 yrs.) $85 Life Membership $500 Dual Life Membership $750 Youth Membership (1 yr.) $10 Club or Society Membership (1 yr.) $25 Club or Society Membership (3 yrs.) $70

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AMERICAN DAYLILY SOCIETY

https://daylilies.org/

PRESIDENT Judie Branson

2301 Woodland Avenue Springdale, AR 72762


VICE PRESIDENT Scott Elliott

658 Edward Smith Road Ellabell, GA 31308 (912) 596-77252

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CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER Nikki Schmith

424 Pheasant Ct. Worden, IL 62097


Administrative Staff

MEMBERSHIP MANAGER Beverly Winkelman

17103 Herridge Road Pearland, TX 77584-7557


EDITOR, THE DAYLILY JOURNAL Adele Keohan

40 Bayberry Dr., Unit #4 Sharon, MA 02067


The American Daylily Society, Inc., is a non-profit organization. Said corporation is organized exclusively for educational and scientific purposes, and especially to promote, encourage, and foster the development and improvement of the genus Hemerocallis and public interest therein. The purpose is express-ly limited so that ADS qualifies as an exempt organization under Section 501 (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 or the corresponding provision of any future U. S. Internal Revenue Law.

Summer 2019

Editorial Policy The editorial focus of this publication centers on the genus Hemerocallis, ADS and Region 6 events, Region 6 members and hybridizers. Submissions are encouraged. The editor reserves the right to edit for space, grammar, clarity, and content. Submission Guidelines Please submit: Articles on Daylilies Articles on Daylily Culture Profiles of Region 6 Hybridizers Garden Write-ups Features of Historical Interest Articles on Photography Scientific Studies Involving Daylilies Club News and Events High resolution photographs (.jpg, 300 ppi, file size minimum1MB) to ac-

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Daylilies of the Southwest

Summer 2019 ADS REGION 6 NEWSLETTER Volume 19, Number 2

Front cover Hemerocallis ‘Blockbuster’ (Gossard, ‘10)

(Photo by Peggy Cathey) Back cover H. ‘Primal Scream’ (Hanson, C ‘94

(photo by Gary Adair)

Daylilies of the Southwest is the newsletter of the American Daylily Society Region 6. Region 6 is com-prised of Texas and New Mexico.

Information is presented herein as a service to members and is not necessarily endorsed by the ADS or by the editor. Rights to material published in this newsletter remain with the author; to reprint or otherwise reproduce materi-al, please obtain permission from the author.

If you have inquiries regarding submissions, articles, photos or

corrections, please email the Region 6 Newsletter Editor at:

[email protected]

Table of Contents ADS/Region 6 Officers, Chairs, Liaisons 2 Horticulture Liaison Report 15

Table of Contents 3 Archivist/Historian, Webmaster Report 16

Region 6 officer Reports ADS Region 6 Director

4 Youth Liaison Report 16

President’s Report 4 Youth Activity Page 17

Secretary Report 5 Article: Region 6 Service Award Nomination Letter by Debbie Pike

18

Treasury Report 8 Article: 2019 Region 6 Service Award Winner 19

Newsletter Editor Report 8 Article: Meet the Next Region 6 President by Skottie O’Mohony

20

Regional Publicity Director Report 9 Article: Many Happy Surprises by Peggy Cathey

21

Publicity/Social Media Report 10 Article: Cooking With Daylilies and Chiles by Nancy Freshour

22

Awards and Honors Report 11 Popularity Poll Ballot 24

Membership Report 12 ADS Region 6 Annual Meeting Tour Gardens 26-32

Garden Judge Liaison Report 13 ADS Region 6 Daylily Clubs 33

Exhibition Judge Liaison Report 14 ADS Region 6 Club Reports 34-55

A huge THANK YOU to all our officers, committee chairs, liaisons, club reporters, and special Region 6 Garden Tour reporters and

others for sending in your reports and articles and to everyone who contributed photographs. We wouldn’t have a newsletter without

YOU!

H. ‘Albuquerque Memory’ (Lewis-J.,‘83) (photo by Peggy Cathey)


Just returned from the Region 6 Meeting held in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I would like to thank the Albuquerque Daylily Society for hosting the Region 6 Meeting. The Meeting included touring 8 magnificent gardens, wonderful lunches, Cooking with Daylilies and Chilies class, dinners with interesting speakers, and an optional day tour to Santa Fe on the Rail Runner. Next year’s Region 6 Meeting will be held in the fall and will be hosted by the East Texas Daylily Society. Times and dates will be announced later.

At the ADS National Convention in Madison, Wisconsin, in July, there were some award winners from our Region.

I would like to personally congratulate Leon and Paula Payne for winning the Region 6 Service Award for their contributions to the Region. This is a very prestigious award and can only be received once in one’s lifetime. (See page 18-19)

Mark Carpenter was awarded the ADS 2019 Regional Newsletter Award for the best article about daylily culture for his article entitled NUTGRASS: The Down and Dirty on the Worst Weed in the South appearing in the Summer 2018 Region 6 Newsletter. Hearty congratulations go out to Mark.

Hope everyone is having a wonderful summer and your daylilies are doing well.

ADS Region 6 Director’s Report By David Freshour

Wow! What a wonderful Region 6 Meeting! I cannot begin to show my appreciation to all the Albuquerque Daylily Club members for their warm hospitality. Every detail was carefully planned and executed. I watched the members work hard during the event while answering endless questions. The gardens were beautiful, and we were treated to some of Albuquerque’s finest food and gorgeous views. The schedule was packed with entertainment for everyone. Thank you, Albuquerque! Be sure to read this Newsletter. There are many pictures and information about this remarkable Region 6 Meeting. We all know how much work it takes to host a Region 6 Meeting and even more work if your garden is on tour. Please take some time to send thank-you notes to the garden owners and others that made this Meeting such a success. We really appreciate all the hard work by the Albuquerque Daylily Society members.

Region 6 Meeting unveiled what is new for 2020 in Region 6. The hosts of next year’s Region 6 Meeting

will be East Texas. Nancy East, Pat Weller, and committee members have already begun planning next year’s Meeting. As the details of this event are developed, they will be posted on the Region 6 website.

As you all know, I have spent some time looking for a new Region 6 President, as my term ends at the end of 2019. After many rejections, it is my pleasure to announce a most worthy candidate has come forward. Skottie O’Mahony was introduced and overwhelmingly voted in as your 2020-2021 President. Be sure to read Skottie’s Bio printed in this newsletter. I am sure you will be impressed with his background and his shared love for daylilies. If you attended the 2017 Region 6 Meeting hosted by the Austin Daylily Society, you were treated to Tanglewild Gardens at the home of Skottie O’Mahony and husband, Jeff Breitenstein. We are all familiar with the work Jeff has done for Region 6, as our Region 6 Facebook page is now one year old. If you have not read or posted on this Facebook,

ADS Region 6 President’s Report By Debbie Pike

Summer 2019

please see Jeff’s Report in this newsletter to find out how to begin. This is a great way to communicate and keep up with all that is going on in Region 6 between the annual meetings. I think that both Skottie and Jeff will serve Region 6 very well in the years to come.

If you missed the Region 6 Auction, you missed the Tim and Malcolm Show! These two put a lot of thought and planning into making the auction very

entertaining. The auction was hugely successful with proceeds of $6,745. A huge thank you to all of you that participated in the auction.

We have one other opening for Region 6. As I have mentioned before, Larry and I will also be giving up the Awards and Honors role. We have equipment and instructions to be handed off to the new person. Please let Larry or me know if you are interested.

Great health and beautiful blooms to you all!!

ADS Region 6 President’s Report (continued)

Regional Secretary’s Report By Debbie Pike for Robert Valenza

Region 6 Executive Board and Officers Meeting Agenda June 28, 2019

Debbie Pike David Freshour

Maureen Valenza Jeff Breitenstein Mike Peppers

Call to Order President’s Report Director’s Report Committee Reports – Executive Board:Regional Publicity Director Treasurer Secretary

Robert Valenza

Peggy Cathey Dan and Peggy Cathey Jenny Renner Amy Howard Peggy Cathey

Committee Reports – Officers: Membership Chairs Youth Liaison Exhibition Judges Liaison Garden Judges Liaison Newsletter Editor Awards and Honors Larry Pike

Unfinished Business: Order of Friday Night Meeting Discussion on Roles – How are we doing? Judges Training – Is there a need for more training?

New Business: Replace President for 2020 – Skottie O’Mahony Replace Awards and Honors - Open 2020 Region 6 Meetings – Discussion with Nancy East from East Texas Replacement for Youth Liaison

Meeting adjourned


Call to Order: The Annual Meeting for Region 6 of the American

Daylily Society will come to order. The Secretary, Treasurer, and both Co-Regional Publicity Directors were not able to attend the Region 6 Meeting due to illness and other personal issues. The Region 6 Board and Officers met June 1st. The business discussed is in these minutes.

Thank you to all members for attending and supporting the Region 6 Meeting. Region 6 would not exist without you. Your support is greatly appreciated. The Board and Officers of Region 6 understand how difficult traveling to this Meeting was and we thank you for the time and expense of getting here.

At this time would the members of the Albuquerque Daylily Society stand. Thank you for hosting. Round of applause.

Donna Peck recognized all workers and garden owners for their effort to make this Region 6 Meeting a huge success. Thank you for all your hard work!! Another round of applause.

Thank you to Amy Howard for the acquisition of the beautiful auction plants, and all who potted and cared for the plants until this Meeting.

And thank you to all members that made the auction such a success. We made about $6,745.

Review the agenda. The minutes from the last Region 6 Meeting were published in the 2019 Summer Newsletter.

The minutes from the Region 6 Meeting held June

28, 2019, will be published in the Summer 2019 edition of Daylilies of the Southwest.

A Treasurer’s report was published in the Spring 2019 edition of the Daylilies of the Southwest. Mike Peppers is consistent with his Treasurer’s Report in every newsletter.

A review will be completed with the new President for 2020. This is required per the Region 6 Bylaws. Mike will present the budget, Treasurer’s Report, and Account Audit for 2019.

Director’s Report – Please see David Freshour’s Report for ADS News. David is doing a great job of representing Region 6 and keeping us up to date on Region 6 news. Thank you, David.

President’s Report – discuss changes for 2019. Lost one Club – The Nacogdoches Daylily Society

disbanded earlier this year. They tried to keep the club together, but it became apparent that it was time to disband.

Membership in Region 6 is down some for 2019, and Peggy Cathey will cover that in her Membership Report.

There are at least three new Exhibition Judges for 2019. Jennifer Renner will cover this in her report. Thank you to those that are pursuing this in Region 6.

In 2018, Dan and Peggy Cathey visited and completed the documents for the Glenda Mae Daylily Garden to become a Display Garden. The garden is in Murchison, TX. The new Display Garden is the seventh Display Garden in Region 6.

Region 6 Publicity Director’s Report – Maureen Valenza and Jeff Breitenstein

Maureen – She is recovering at home from surgery. She sent the results of the 2018 Pop Poll. We discussed the need for everyone to participate in this poll. The data is used to teach new members what grow the best in their area. New members will have success growing daylilies if they follow the recommendation from this poll.

Jeff – He sent out reminders of reports due July 15th. He stated most are doing a great job of getting reports and articles to him on time. Jeff sent information about the Region 6 Facebook Page. We spent time showing everyone how to “post” their information and how to “share” the page with others. We also discussed the links on the left side of the page. Many people commented that they did not know about the Region 6 Facebook page. We noticed there were many new posts after the Friday night meeting. Good job!!

Regional Secretary’s Report (continued) Region 6 Annual Meeting Notes

June 28, 2019

Summer 2019

Officers Reports

Membership – Peggy Cathey discussed membership for Region 6. Region 6 is the 5th largest in ADS with 13 of our 14 affiliate clubs having 50% or more ADS members. Great job, great members!! Dan Cathey will be taking over the membership role the end of this year to give Peggy more time to focus on the newsletter.

Youth – There are 5 youth members in Region 6. We are looking for someone to take this position Peggy and Dan have done a great job with this role and now need to give it up to have time for the Newsletter and Membership duties.

Exhibition Judges Liaison – Jennifer Renner discussed the successful workshops that were conducted at this Region 6 Meeting. There are three new Region 6 Exhibition Judges. Jenn said we need more. Please see Jenn’s report in the Summer Newsletter.

Garden Judges Liaison – Amy Howard reported the Garden Judges Workshops were also successful and will be completed in the gardens this weekend. Please see Amy’s report in the Summer Newsletter.

Horticulture Liaison – Mark Carpenter. Please see Mark’s report in the Summer Newsletter.

Newsletter – Peggy Cathey discussed the new publisher and how she has cut costs associated with the newsletter. She thanked everyone for the articles. She said that the articles have been very interesting and ask that everyone keep them coming. Members read the newsletters cover to cover. See Peggy’s report for more details.

Awards and Honors – Larry Pike. Saturday night Larry discussed the roles Annie T. Giles and Edna Lankart played in Region 6 and why it is such an honor to receive these awards. Please see Larry’s report in the Summer Newsletter for winners. I think you all will be pleased with the winners. We are still looking for someone to take over the Awards and Honors role for Region 6. Please contact Larry Pike if you are interested.

Auction – The Tim Closs and Malcolm Avaritt Show did not disappoint! Region 6 is very fortunate to have these two conduct the auction. This year’s theme was “Tacky Tourist.” Tim and Malcolm put a lot of time and thought into their show. It is always very entertaining to have these two as auctioneers. I understand they have already been booked for the 2020 Region 6 Auction. What will they come up with next year?? Be sure to be there. You certainly do not want to miss the show! The total of the proceeds was $6,745. A very special “thank you” to everyone who purchased daylilies.

New Business: New President for 2020 – Skottie O’Mahony.

Unanimously voted in and many thought he was a great choice. There were many “awe’s” when the candidate was revealed.

2020 Region 6 Meeting Host – Nancy East and Pat Weller gave a brief description about what to expect at the Region 6 Meeting hosted by the East Texas Daylily Society. As plans are developed, they will be posted on the Region 6 website and printed in the Region 6 Newsletter.

Regional Secretary’s Report (continued)

Business Meeting speakers: Debbie Pike, Region 6 President; David Freshour, Region 6 Director; Jennifer Renner, Exhibition Judges Liaison; Amy Howard, Garden Judges Liaison; and Peggy Cathey, Newsletter Editor, Membership Chair and Youth Liaison


First of all, thank everyone so much for the wonderful participation to help me with my first issue of Daylilies of the Southwest this Spring. I couldn’t have done it without you. I really appreciate all the officers and clubs sending in reports and all the great articles received. A newsletter will only be as good as the articles submitted.

So many nice comments were received from Region 6 members as well as ADS RP’s, newsletter editors, and ADS officers. Everyone especially enjoyed all the color photos. We have a new printing service, and there is no extra cost for color photos like many of our past publishers, so send those photos in. Please be sure all the photos are of good quality and high resolution.

During the Region 6 Annual Meeting in Albuquerque, several participants graciously agreed to review a specific garden and write an article about

it. (Those articles appear else-where in this publication.) I was very proud to see how each one took the extra time to inter-view the garden owners to get an insight into their beautiful gardens. Each one did a great job of writing the articles and taking photos. I hope in the future, more members will get involved and contrib-ute articles and stories for our newsletters. It is always fun to see your name and your words in print, so don't be shy. Please send your articles and reports to our Co-Publicity Chair, Jeff Breitenstein, (email: [email protected]) by the deadline for each newsletter.

Fall deadline: October 1 Spring: February 15 Summer, July 1 Thank you all and keep up the good work!

Regional Newsletter Editor Report By Peggy Cathey

Margo Murdock being interviewed by

Nancy East

The primary fundraiser for Region 6 is the annual auction. The recent Albuquerque-hosted event resulted in a net contribution of $3,736.23. This included sales of $6,629.23, contributions from clubs of $500.00, a $500.00 contribution in memory of Nix Bodden (received last year), and plant expenses of $3,893.00. The table on the right represents transactions since my February report.

If you have questions at any time, please contact me.

Regional Treasurer’s Report By Mike Peppers

Balance 2/15/2019 $24,985.01

Receipts: Auction contributions from clubs 500.00 Auction sales 6,629.23 Newsletter contributions from clubs 1,016.00 Newsletter subscription 10.00 Other contributions from clubs 100.00 Honoraria donated by judges 270.00 Interest 1.36

Disbursements: Spring newsletter 2,655.36 Auction plants 3,893.00 Bank fee 12.00

Balance 7/15/19 $26,951.24

Summer 2019

Region 6 had a great Regional Meeting in New Mexico a few weeks ago, and I am sorry I had to miss such a good time. The auction was a show in itself with the mighty duo “Malcolm and Tim” as the auctioneers who did a great job, as usual, entertaining the bidders. We must support our Regional auctions since there is tremendous effort behind the scenes to pull this event together and the auction proceeds go directly into our largest cost expenditure - this newsletter.

As our bloom season is moving into its dormant period with a few of our daylilies sending up their final scapes, this is the best time to reflect and review our garden’s performance and develop our fall game plan on improving or changing our garden beds. It is also a great time for our ADS members to complete their Pop Poll ballots that are due on September 1.

Please, as a gentle reminder - send me your club membership lists showing with an asterisk your members who are ADS members so that I can

determine which club had the most ADS members participate in the Pop Poll this year. I have a check for $300 waiting for the club with the most members participating in the Pop Poll. Just email me a Word document or Excel spreadsheet.

In 2018, Region 6 had 38.1% participation. Let us see if we can break the 50% threshold.

The 2019 Pop Poll list comprises of only daylilies that scored four (4) or more votes from those voting in 2018. So grab the list and feel free to add your recommendations. Many new club members and the public are very interested in trying new daylily cultivars that are up and coming and do well in this Region.

Thanks for your help as always.

Regional Publicity Chair By Maureen Valenza

First - H. ‘Free Wheelin' (Stamile, 2004) 38 Second - H. ‘Cosmic Kaleidoscope’ (Carpenter, J. 2006) 33 Third - H. ‘Lone Star Wagon Wheel’ (Payne, L.H. 2004) 32 Fourth- H. ‘Patsy Carpenter’ (Carpenter, J. 2003) 26 Fifth - H. ‘One Eye Willie‘ (Herrington, T. 2006) 25 Sixth - H. ‘Aly Marie’ (Divin, 2005) 24 Seventh - H. ‘Dorothy and Toto’ (Herrington, 2010) 23

Eighth (Ties) H. ‘Mildred's Endless Support’ (Eskine-Eskine, 2008); H. ‘Ming Porcelain’ (D. Kirchhoff, 1981),H. ‘Mint Octopus’ (Stamile, 2008),H. ‘Primal Scream’ (C. Hanson, 1994) 22

Ninth (Ties) H. ‘Madelyn D'Ann Payne’ (Payne. L.H., 2013) andH. ‘Thomas Tew’ (Stamile, 2008) 20

Tenth (Ties) H. ‘Gulf Coast Big Peach’ (Crainer, 2011) andH. ‘Jason Salter’ (E.H. Salter, 1987) 19 Your ballot (included in the Spring Newsletter and repeated in this one) may be cut out or copied and

mailed to: Maureen Valenza, 24959 Stratton Meadows Dr., Porter, TX 77365 or you may simply list your 10 favorite picks and send in an email to valenza@suddenlink,net. However, the simplest way to cast your ballot is to vote online: https://daylilies.org/PopPoll/. Choose Region 6 from the drop-down menu which will bring up the ballot and select or write in your favorites.

H. ‘Free Wheelin’ - #1 choice from the 2018 Popularity Poll

(photo by Peggy Cathey)

Top 10 2018 Region 6 Pop Poll winners are as follows: Cultivar Votes

https://daylilies.org/PopPoll/


What happens on the Albuquerque garden tour party bus, stays on the Albuquerque garden tour party bus …unless you’ve joined the “AHS Region 6 – Daylilies” group on Facebook! Ha-ha! Skottie and I wish we could have been there in person, but happy we were able to share in the fun through the terrific posts on the Group.

Debbie mentioned it during the Regional Meeting, but just in case you forgot, here’s how to join our pages on Facebook – it’s super easy! First of all, we have a regular Facebook page where we’ll share announcements, events, news, etc. That page is pretty much an outgoing/broadcast page. Second, we’ve also created a Facebook Group where members can easily share pictures of blooms or new seedlings, articles on plants or growing tips, and of course funny videos from a bus! Finding these is simple as 1-2-3!

Log in to Facebook. In the top left corner, type “AHS Region 6 -

Daylilies” in the search box, and click enter. Our Page and Group should come up at the top of the list.

Click ‘Like’ on our Page, and click ‘Join’ on our Group. That’s it! I check the Group about once a week to approve new members. Once approved, you’re free to post!

You can also select the group if you’re sharing someone else’s post. If you have any questions, just email me at [email protected]. Have fun :)

Publicity Report/Social Media By Jeff Breitenstein

A few “screen shots” of Facebook posts from the Regional Meeting

mailto:[email protected]

Summer 2019

It was a warm Region 6 Meeting in Albuquerque in 2019. The temperature was warm, and the welcome and hospitality were even warmer from the Albuquerque Club members. The gardens were beautiful, and the garden hosts were very accommodating.

Special thanks go to all of the club members involved in the Awards and Honors beds, especially Bill Walker, the Awards Beds host. Bill presented the seedlings very well and overcame a very

aggressive rabbit to pull off a successful effort. The Annie T. Giles Award presented for the

outstanding seedling from a hybridizer from the Host Club went to Donna Peck.

The Edna Lankart Award presented for the outstanding seedling from a hybridizer outside of the host club went to Leon Payne.

Thanks to all of the hybridizers that sent plants and also to everyone that voted.

Regional Awards and Honors Chairs By Larry and Debbie Pike

ADS Region 6—2019 Seedling Awards Bed

Hosted by Bill Walker

Annie T. Giles Award

For most outstanding seedling from

hybridizer in host club

Edna Lankart Award

For most outstanding seedling from

hybridizer outside of host club

Donna Peck presented Annie T. Giles Award by Larry Pike

Photo by Dan Cathey Peck Seedling, photo by Debbie Pike

Larry Pike presents Edna Lankart Award to Leon Payne Photo by Debbie Pike

Payne Seedling, photo by Debbie Pike


The American Daylily Society and Region 6 have 27 new members since the beginning of 2019. Seventeen of those have become members since the Spring 2019 issue of Daylilies of the Southwest. Let’s please welcome Manny & Mae Camarata, Don and Cindy Cutrer, Karla Friedman, Mary Greeson, Phyliss & June Hivnor, Brant Mauthe, Ann Schmith, Sharon Smith, Sarah Steinmetz, Mary Voldahl, Steve and Connie Wheeler, Charlotte Young, and Frances Zeig. Region 6 currently has 400 members.

You may not know this about me, but I am VERY competitive, and not just on a personal level. I really want our clubs and our Region to earn all the recognition we can. As you can imagine, I was really excited when the June issue of the Daylily Dispatch (ADS E-Newsletter) listed all the clubs in ADS with at least 50% Membership and of the 10, 7 were Region 6 clubs! This made me want more of our clubs to be recognized as well. I knew there were some not listed who hosted Daylily Shows and a requirement is that 50% of the clubs’ members belong to ADS. I sent an email to all the clubs requesting a current roster and most responded. When the list was re-ceived, each name was checked against the most current ADS Membership list I requested from Beverly Winkelman, ADS Membership Manager. I was able to send a few more club names to David Freshour, Region 6 Director and ADS Membership Chair, so all could be recognized through ADS. Wanting to do more, I tried to think of how to show appreciation to our clubs and members. They get recognition on the ADS website and in The Daylily Journal on the national level. Their status is on the header with their club report in the Daylilies of the Southwest, but I wanted to be able to show the entire Region what these clubs have accomplished. Certificates of Recognition were then designed, and I was honored to present them to club representatives during the 2019 Annual ADS Region 6 Awards Ban-quet held in Albuquerque, June 29. I was so proud that 13 of our 14 Region 6 affiliates qualified by hav-ing at least 50% ADS members. Congratulations to the following:

Receiving the Pewter Medal Club Award for 50% ADS Membership,

Albuquerque Daylily Society Daylily Growers of Dallas East Texas Daylily Society Houston Hemerocallis Society North Texas Daylily Society

Receiving the Bronze Medal Club Award for 65% ADS Membership,

Houston Area Daylily Society Receiving the Silver Medal Club Award for 75% ADS Membership,

Austin Daylily Society Cypress Creek Daylily ClubJohnson County Iris & Daylily Society Lone Star Daylily Society

Receiving the Gold Medal Club Award for 90% ADS Membership,

Brazosport Daylily Society Platinum Medal Club Award for 100% ADS Membership, goes to:

Lufkin Hemerocallis Society. I also want to include Golden Spread Daylily Society for this honor as well. They do not have the ADS required 20 members to qualify on a National level, but all their members are ADS members and have been for many years, so we recognize them on our Region level.

The clubs who hold Gold and Platinum National ADS status, they will be entered into a drawing to win $500, which will be announced after the Board of Directors Fall Board Meeting. The $500 will be used by a club to purchase from one of the participating Voucher Program hybridizers. We want to wish both the Lufkin Hemerocallis Society and the Brazosport Daylily Society luck in the drawing and Region 6 is very proud of you and your achievement.

Regional Membership Chair Report By Peggy Cathey

Summer 2019

Did you know you may renew your ADS membership at any time and your current membership expiration date will be extended for the number of years for which you renew? Memberships in ADS all expire on December 31. Why wait until the busiest time of the year to renew?

If you don’t currently have an ADS membership, and want to give it a try, ADS offers a Trial Membership for just $15, available beginning July 1 each year. This will give you membership through the end of the current year. New memberships coming in after October 1 will have full membership through December 31 of the following year.

Support the American Daylily Society and help your local club reach ADS Membership Medal status

by joining today. New members will receive a voucher from participating daylily growers and hybridizers for $25 in free daylilies. That is the cost of your membership! You will also get The Daylily Journal, ADS’s outstanding newsletter, published 4 times per year and 3 issues of our even more outstanding Region 6 Daylilies of the Southwest.

Joining is easy to do online: https://daylilies.org/membership/ Follow the instructions and pay with credit card or PayPal.

Regional Membership Chair Report (continued)

Many, many thanks to all who attended the Region 6 Meeting in Albuquerque - we so enjoyed seeing you all and had a great time in the gardens and at the events and activities! We are so grateful for the support and look forward to returning the favor next year! If you have not already, please note the gardens you visited on your Five Year Garden Judge Log:

Friday, June 28: Will Ferrell Garden Helen Horwitz Garden Donna and Richard Peck Garden Barbara and Dan Shapiro Garden Saturday, June 29: Carolyn and Mike Kittredge Garden Margo and Tom Murdock Garden Rozanne and Alan Tuffnell Garden Bill Walker Garden Open Garden of Donna and Mark Bleck Garden Judges Workshops I and II were held

at the Region Meeting- we had one person audit the Garden Judge I class and had six

participants complete Garden Judges II/Refresher. Many thanks for your support of the Garden Judges program! I also want to thank Curtis Montgomery for organizing the Workshops and Margo Murdock for facilitating the Garden Judges I Workshop.

As Region 6 has experienced a recent slight increase in non-renewals and anticipated non-renewals, we expect to offer classes for both Garden and Exhibition Judges sometime during bloom season sometime next year, as the usual venue of a summer Regional Meeting will not be occurring. Exhibition Judges Liaisons Jennifer Renner and Judith Kyser-Coghlan and I will provide further information on this as it becomes available. In the meantime, if you are in need of renewing next year or would like to take the classes, please contact me at: [email protected]. All input regarding timing or location is welcome! We will also provide details of future online Garden Judges Workshops and Exhibition I Clinics as we are informed of them.

Regional Garden Judges Liaison Report By Amy Howard

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Judith and I would like to thank everyone who came to the Exhibition Judges Clinics at the Regional Meeting in Albuquerque. We would also like to thank Curtis and Pat Montgomery for really making the clinics happen! A special thank you to our instructors: Donna Peck, Linda Keller, Rozanne Tuffnell, Velia Sanchez-Ruiz, Pat Montgomery, and Curtis Montgomery. We also really appreciate Dan and Peggy Cathey for assisting!

I would also like to congratulate the students who took the classes:

Exhibition Judges Clinic I: Will Ferrell, Janice Heiskell, and Agata La Rue

Exhibition Judges Clinic II: Ellen Singleton, Janice Lalor, and Debi Harrington

Exhibition Judges Clinic III: Tim Closs, Peggy Cathey, Dan Cathey, and Daniel Lowe

Master Panel Participants: Suzanne Adair, Peggy Cathey, Dan Cathey, and Jennifer Renner

We are really enjoying learning our roles as your Exhibition Judges Chairs. Judith has been judging most of her life. I have been judging since 2016. For those of you who have wondered about it, judging is so much fun. Being a judge allows you to meet more people obsessed with daylilies, and to see flowers you might not normally see in your area. It also gives you a leg up in showing your own daylilies, since you know what the judges are looking for.

Region 6 currently has 7 Judges Instructors, 30 Senior Exhibition Judges, and 3 Junior Judges. Thanks to the Regional Meeting, we have a few more people on their way!

I would like to pass along a statement from Debbie Smith, the National Exhibition Judges Chair, to clarify questions some people have about who can judge a show.

“In an effort to clarify a statement that was made in the Exhibition Judges Forum at the National Convention, it was stated that a club member may judge their own show as a last resort with these stipulations: (1) They nor anyone living at the same address may exhibit in the show; (2) The judge does not visit the gardens of persons entering the show for

one week prior to the show and (3) the club attempt-ed to obtain other judges. This is in addition to the standard emergency rule.

We are not saying that this is an ideal situation, but we would rather have a show under these circum-stances than not have the show.”

I hope that this statement helps everyone know the proper protocol. Please feel free to reach out to us if you have any other questions!

We would love to ask more of you to consider not only being exhibition judges but also if you are a Judge, becoming a Judges Instructor. Each clinic needs 2 instructors, and putting a clinic on is becom-ing more difficult since there are not enough people to teach them. To become an instructor, you must:

- Go to the Daylily Portal and print the form off with the instructions on applying. Please read this form carefully to make sure you have all of the details for the requirements.

- Assist at each of the clinics: I, II, and III - Be on a Master Panel - Obtain 2 letters of recommendation from instruc-

tors at the clinics where you assisted. - Have been an ADS member for 4 or more years,

been an Senior Exhibitions Judge for at least two years, and have judged in several accredited shows, preferably five or more.

If you would like to assist with being an Instructor for one of the online classes this fall, please contact Scott Elliott at [email protected]

If you would like your club to host Clinic II in the spring, please call myself or Judith, and we would

love to work with you to make that happen. There will be more online classes this fall for both Clinic I and the Refresher course starting in October. We would like to have at least 5 people per each Clinic II class to make the travel worthwhile for our instructors and of course, it needs to be in the spring when the flowers are blooming! Thanks, everyone! Jenn ([email protected], 979-571-0079) Judith ([email protected], 214-208-9693)

Regional Exhibition Judges Liaison Report By Jennifer Renner and Judith Kyser-Coghlan



Summer 2019

It’s mid-July, and as I glance at my weather app on my phone and view the next 5-day forecast, it is crystal clear that summer is here. Projected highs of mid to upper 90’s daily with high humidity mixed in for good measure. So what are we to do for our gardens, now?

Well, first, the GOOD NEWS is that daylily rust generally is not a factor when temperatures rise above 96°. So you won’t need to spray again until probably October or November, depending on where you reside in the Region, of course. One of the many questions I get this time of year is “should I cut my foliage back”? Here at the Lily Farm, we never cut our foliage back at any time of the year, but I do know many with more manageable gardens will do so, usually in early spring or fall. It does not hurt your daylilies to cut back the foliage, but you never want to do so more than one time per calendar year. Watering should be done as needed, and here we water every other day for the most part for 20 minutes or so. We do not fertilize our daylilies now, as I do not want them trying to grow aggressively in our brutal summer heat, but rather I want them to focus on simply surviving. I’ll put fertilizer on them again in early October so the plants can build up an energy reservoir for next season’s bloom season.

As I stroll through the nursery, I find that I am almost finished picking seed pods from this season. We had a very strong seed pod year at the nursery

this year, as I had multiple days where temps stayed below 90°, a MUST for the successful setting of Tets. Dips can be done with a high suc-cess rate at temps up to 95°, so we figure we should have about 10,000

seeds when it’s all said and done for this season. I’ll put those pods in the fridge for 30 to 40 days to help with stratification, and by early August we will start putting them in their seed starter trays. We then cover those trays up and wrap them in a dark plastic trash bag, punch a few air holes in the tops, and leave out under a covered porch area at the farm and await germination. This usually takes 7 to 10 days, and as soon as we see seeds starting to sprout, we take them out of the trash bags and expose them to morning sun for a day or two before putting them out in half-day sun for growth. Six weeks later, and BOOM!, they are ready to be planted into our fields. And once again the cycle begins anew, as excite-ment builds over each precious seed, and the possi-bility it can bring something new and exciting to the daylily world.

So sit back this summer, enjoy the pictures you took from your bloom season, and know that the gift that keeps on giving will be back before we know it!

Happy Gardening Peeps! Mark Carpenter The Lily Farm and Nursery located in Center, TX.

Hortulture Liaison Report By Mark Carpenter

Summer Heat and a Stroll Through The Lily Farm Nursery

The beginning of this year’s seed harvest. (photo by Mark Carpenter)

This is a possible 2020 Lily Farm future introduction, garden named Colossus (photo by Mark Carpenter)


Region 6 currently has 7 Youth Members. Sarah and Maggie Coleman of Fort Worth, TX, Madelyn and Margaret Davis of Houston, TX, Isabella and Victoria Velasquez of Joshua, TX, and Caleb Winkelman of Friendswood, TX. We appreciate the interest these young people have shown in being a part of our clubs and their enthusiasm for growing daylilies. Thank you to each of the clubs who support and mentor them as well. Hopefully, they will tell their friends, and more will get involved. Youth members are the future of our clubs, region, and the American Daylily Society.

Youth Liaisons By Dan & Peggy Cathey

If you wish to know what is happening in Region 6, or you are seeking historical information, please visit the website - http://www.ahsregion6.com/ Large volumes of information are available on the website. Current and historical information is continually added.

Additions to the Region 6 Website: * 2019 Region 6 Flower Show Results* Daylily Growers of Dallas / Johnson

County Iris & Daylily Society * Houston Hemerocallis Society /

Houston Area Daylily Society / Cypress Creek Daylily Club

http://www.ahsregion6.com/flower_show_results-2019.htm

* 2019 Spring Newsletter Daylilies of theSouthwest http://www.ahsregion6.org/newsletters_online.htm

Archivist/Historian & Webmaster Report By Ray Houston

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Summer 2019

Adventure Camp Fireworks Heatwave Jubilee Lightning

Memory Nights Picnic Place Rainbow Romance

Sizzle Snowbird Solstice Star Storm Sunburn

Sunrise Tan Treasure Valentine Waltz Wedding

Summer Word Search Daylily names that begin with Summer

Show Susie the way to the beach

Sun __lasses

Fill in the missing letter

Beach B__ll

Fl__p Flops

Ice C__eam

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Leon and Paula Payne I would like to nominate Leon and Paula Payne for the Region Service Award for 2019. I have watched them over the

past seven years, take people under their wing to encourage them to be much more involved than people thought they ever would, or could. I know, this happened to me when I joined the Society. Paula and Leon are a wealth of information and are more than willing to pass the information along and follow up to make sure you understand what was discussed. We have a person in our organization that takes new members to the Payne’s Daylily Farm to introduce them to daylilies. When the new members are exposed to the Payne’s enthusiasm, the new member is ALL in for daylilies.

I know the Payne’s have been involved with Daylilies for many years and know they held some local and Regional Of-fices. It was not until I started doing some research that I realized how involved they have been. The Payne’s involve-ment began in 1995. They were members of a couple of daylily clubs, then, in January 1996, with several other founding members, formed the Lone Star Daylily Society. Paula was the President 1996-1997, and Leon was the Horticulture Chairman. While Paula led the meetings and other activities of the club, Leon trained everyone on chemicals used to en-hance daylily growth and beauty. Paula and Leon work with the Flower Show Chair every year as needed to ensure a hugely successful Show. They always lead the “Placement Committee” for the Flower Shows. Their experience and input are invaluable.

Leon and Paula enter and win many, many categories in the Flower Shows they enter. This experience has been great to see and heartwarming to watch the Payne’s take time to train and encourage others to enter Flower Shows. We have many people in our Society that would not have had the courage to enter the Flower Shows without the support of the Payne’s.

Paula and Leon are both Sr. Exhibition Judges and Garden Judges. They remain active and judge anytime they are asked. Their experience has been shared to encourage others to become involved in judging.

The Payne’s own and operate Payne’s in the Grass Daylily Farm in Pearland, Texas. Their love of daylilies is only exceeded by their generosity of daylilies. They have donated daylilies to the Society, Regional Meetings and the National Convention for bus plants and auctions to raise money for these organizations. Their donations have enabled the Lone Star Daylily Society to hold many fundraising events. The success of these events ensured the success of the 2015 Re-gional Meeting, hosted by Lone Star Daylily Society. The fundraising events allowed the Society to pass the savings on to attendees of the Regional Meeting, making it the most attended Regional meeting ever. The Payne’s open their garden to the public and area Garden Clubs to host tours and training events on growing and hybridizing daylilies. Many of the So-ciety’s members have come from these events held by the Payne’s, and our Society continues to grow. Paula teaches a class on exhibiting daylilies for a “Best in Show” outcome.

In 2012, Lone Star Daylily Yearbook was dedicated to Paula and Leon for their dedicated service to the Lone Star Daylily Society.

Over the years, Paula and Leon’s participation: AHS Members since 1995 Paula was the Region Publicity Director for Region 6 2000-2001 Leon has been the Lone Star Daylily Society’s Horticulture Reporter for many years The Payne’s have hosted 2 Regional Meetings and a National Convention Donated daylilies for auctions to support Regional Meetings and National Conventions Donated daylily Bus Plants for 2 Regional Meetings and a National Convention Past AHS Display Garden The Payne’s daylilies won: Annie T. Giles Award in 2000, 2003 and 2008 Edna Lankart Award in 2002, 2004 (H. ‘Line Dancer’ (Payne-L.H., 2004) ), 2006, 2009,

2010, and 2019 The Payne’s Cultivars have won JC’s and Honorable Mentions. H ‘Halloween Masqueade’ (Payne-L.H., 03), and H. ‘Lone Star Wagon Wheel’ (Payne-L.H., 2004) and many more have been nominated to be on the Pop Poll for Region 6.

Thank you, Debbie Pike,

2019 Region 6 Service Award Nomination Letter By Debbie Pike

H ‘Halloween Masquerade’

H. ‘Lone Star Wagon Wheel’

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As announced in ADS Region 6 Director, David Freshour’s report, the winners of the 2019 Region 6 Service Award are Leon and Paula Payne of Pearland, TX. As evidenced by the nomination letter on the previous page, the Payne's have worked hard for our Region and their local Daylily Societies for more than 25 years.

Leon and Paula Payne 2019 Region 6 Service Award Winners

In 1974, the AHS Board established this award for outstanding service to AHS at the regional level. An equivalent award, the International Service Award, may be awarded to an international member. Currently serving board members are not eligible. However, Serving Regional Presidents are now eligible to be nominated for these awards. (Board Motion 917, dated 10/29/2005.) Also, a person must either be living or must have been deceased for a period of 24 months at the time of nomination for the Regional Service Award. (Board motion 1025, dated 10/31/2009.)

Only one AHS Regional Service Award may be awarded per region per year. A dual award for two members of the same family counts as one award. An AHS member will only be eligible to win a Regional Service Award once. Nominations may

come from any member of the nominee’s Region. The AHS International Membership Chairman may also submit international nominations. Nominations must be sent to the AHS Awards & Honors Chair by September 1st by mail (Claude Carpenter, 6075 Vickery Pt., Cumming, GA 30040) or email

([email protected]), and must contain a summary of the nominee’s worthiness for this award. The AHS Board votes by secret ballot at the annual fall board meeting, and the award is presented at the following AHS National Convention.

There are many individuals in ADS Region 6 who are deserving of this award. So some research and write your letter of nomination and send it to the Awards and Honors Chairman before the September 1 deadline

Region 6 Service Award Nomination Guidelines https://daylilies.org/awards/regional-service/

Paula and Leon Payne, winners of the 2019 Region 6 Service Award (photo by Eddie Raye Andrews)

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After a long career managing global design teams for the tech industry, (Amazon, General Motors, PayPal, and currently BazaarVoice) and years before that as an Art Director in the publishing industry and performing arts, I decided to turn my focus, in my off-time, to building a botanical garden, hybridizing daylilies and my personal art. I've been growing daylilies for as long as I can remember and even have daylilies in our garden from my great grandmother that she brought to America from Poland over a hundred years ago. My husband,

Jeff Breitenstein, and I are currently growing over 850+ named cultivars at Tanglewild Gardens, our gardens in Austin, TX, where we have a National Display and Historic Daylily collection. I was President for the Austin Daylily Society in 2018 and have been a member there for nine years. Previously, Jeff and I belonged to the Seattle Daylily Society, which is where we caught the daylily bug, and the rest is history.

I'm looking forward to meeting and working with all of the daylily lovers in the region and especially getting to know y'all better.

Meet Our Next Region 6 President Skottie O’Mahony Bio

L-R: H. ‘Saber Tiger’ (Gossard, ‘05); H. ‘Smith Brothers’ (Carr, ‘92); H. ’Squirrelly’ (Gossard, ‘11); H. ‘Vivid Veins’ (Lambertson, ‘10); and H. ’Ashwood Inferno’ (Norris-R., 2010)

L-R: Skottie and Jeff ready for annual Tiki Party around the pool; Moon Garden and Fountain; Jogolo recently added to pool court-yard; “Vita pulchra est” - Life is Beautiful

L-R: 6’ tall H. ‘Challenger’ (Stout, ‘49); lemon yellow version of H. multiflora; unregistered Fleischel’s black; one of Skottie’s seedings-Great Grandmothers red daylily brought with her from Poland in the early 1900’s x H. ‘American Revolution’ (Wild, ‘72)

Tanglewild Garden was recently featured on KLRU’s Central Texas Gardener. The segment was filmed last year. Below are recent photos of the garden. More photos of this beautiful garden may be found on the

AHS Region 6-Daylilies Facebook page.

Summer 2019

Many Happy Surprises By Peggy Cathey

This has been quite the year for daylilies in our garden here in north-central Texas. We have had over 25 inches of rain between January and mid-July. I’m sure that isn’t much rain compared to the Houston area, but it is a lot for us. The daylilies have loved it! We have had the best bloom sea-son in many years. We have seen richer colors, bigger blooms, and more rebloom than ever before. Many of our seedlings,

which in past years were “OK,” this year stopped us in our tracks.

A couple of our favorite daylilies this year have been H. ’Let Loose’ H. ‘Let Loose’ (Stamile, ‘03) and H. ‘Spacecoast Tigertail Tango’ (Kinnebrew-J., ‘10). These two were the first to bloom and have

gone non-stop. It is now mid-July, and they are still blooming.

This has also been the year for strange things, such as many have put on polymerous blooms or extra petaloids. One of our club members reported a clump of H. ‘Patsy Carpenter’ (Carpenter-J., ‘03), with 8-inch blooms and most with 8 petals. We had H. ’Milk Chocolate’ (Carney, ‘67), has bloomed bet-ter than ever before and one was even a “poly” with 5 petals and 5 sep-als.

H. ‘Coyote Ugly’ (Goudeau, ‘07), decided it wanted to be a ballet dancer and did a pirou-ette for us.

We have also had several daylilies with proliferations. Below is an un-named day-lily got from somewhere many years ago. It puts on lots of big orange flowers and grows very well. This year, one scape has put on 3 proliferations, the smallest

even put on 2 flower buds and bloomed in late July. I hope the next bloom

season has as many happy surprises as this one has. H. ‘Let Loose’ (l.) and H. ‘Spacecoast Tigertail Tango’ (r.)

(photos by Peggy Cathey)

Seedling #BT-2-A and seedling #PDC 3-22-C (photos by Peggy Cathey)

H. ‘Milk Chocolate’ (photo by Peggy Cathey)

H. ‘Coyote Ugly’ (photo by Peggy Cathey)

Unknown daylily with 3 proliferations on one stalk. The smallest one with 2 buds (l.) and blooming (r.)

Photos by Peggy Cathey

H. ‘Peggy Cathey’s Fairy Flight’ (Cathey-D., 2018)

registered last year as a 10” bloom. This year it bloomed

with 12” flowers. (photo by Peggy Cathey)


There was a special optional workshop at the 2019 Region 6 Meeting entitled Cooking with Daylilies and Chiles. This event was hosted by talented chef Donna Peck, 2019 Region 6 Meeting Co-Chair, and it featured well-known authority on Southwest and Regional Mexican cooking, Jane Butel. Jane has authored over 30 cookbooks, appeared on PBS

(Jane Butel's Southwestern Kitchen) for 8 years, and hosts a regional cooking school. Jane is also an ADS member.

Not everyone knows that daylilies are edible - organic daylilies in particular. Region 6 ADS member Nell Shimek of Shimek Gardens in Alvin, TX created a pamphlet about edible daylilies some time ago. Several people serve chicken salad wrapped in daylilies, much like a lettuce wrap. Daylilies make a beautiful garnish as well. The dried daylilies I sampled during the workshop tasted a bit like sugar snap pea pods to me; the fresh daylily se-pals tasted like crisp, crunchy salad greens. Dried daylilies can be purchased online, or you can dry your own.

For this special event, Donna Peck demonstrated preparing sweet Chiles – Lilies Blondies, a version of a blondie bar cookie incorporating dried daylilies and chopped green chiles (peppers) in the batter.

On the savory side, Jane Butel demonstrated how to prepare quesadillas with daylilies and her special

Cooking With Daylilies and Chiles By Nancy Freshour

Jane Butel, author and Cooking Show Host (photo by Debbie Pike)

Donna Peck demonstrating how to make "Chile-Lilies Blondies". (photo by Debbie Pike)

Jane Butel making a daylily-chile quesadilla. (photo by Debbie Pike)

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INGREDIENTS: 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour 2 ½ teaspoon baking powder ½ teaspoon salt 1 ¾ cups packed brown sugar ¾ cups (1 ½ stick) butter or margarine softened 2 large eggs 3 Tablespoon chopped green chile (mild, medium or hot – your choice!) 1 teas vanilla extract 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips 1 cup chopped daylilies (dried or fresh) 1 cup pecan pieces (optional) 1 cup chopped dried cherries or cranberries (optional)

Whisk together thoroughly the flour, baking pow-der, and salt

Melt the butter and mix it with the brown sugar in a separate bowl. Stir thoroughly. When well blended add eggs, vanilla, chile and daylilies.

Stir in the flour mixture and the cherries and nuts if you are using them.

Put the mixture in a well-greased 9 X 13 pan. Spread the dough to the edges until even.

You can sprinkle red chile powder on top of the dough if desired.

Bake 350 degrees until golden brown - about 28 to 33 minutes.

Let cool completely before cutting them into squares.

Chiles—Lilies Blondies!!!

Carne Adobado (pork with red chile sauce), as well as other savory ingredients. A few attendees were asked to come up and cook with Jane, including Region 6 Director, David Freshour. All attendees got a chance to sample the deliciously prepared food.

What a fun experience! Try cooking with daylilies – you might be surprised

that you like it! For further information on Jane’s cookbooks, spice

selections, and cooking school, go to www.janebutelcooking.com

Donna Peck has graciously agreed to share her “Chile – Lilies Blondies” recipe:

Cooking With Daylilies and Chiles (continued) By Nancy Freshour

Region 6 Director David Freshour cooking quesadilla with Jane Butel. (photo by Sandra Lockhart)

Gathering supplies for Chiles-Lilies Blondies(Photo by Peggy Cathey)

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Region 6 American Daylily Society - 2019 Popularity Poll Ballot (Open tD all ADS Members • Vote Now to Select the Recommended Daylilies for 2019)

Voting Requirements: • All ADS members are eligible to vote and should pa1ticipate. • Vote for up to, but no more than ten ( l 0) cultivars. Note: a valid ballot may consist of only one vote. • For Dual Memberships, the second member should use another ballot. Each membervotes!!~! • Price need not be considered. Vote for new or oldies - it"s your personal favorite that counts. • Select your favoriteregistered, well establishedcultivars (no seecllings) which you have observed in your ga1rden 01·

garden ·visits. • !vfail or email your choices to yom Regional Tabulator, Maureen Valenza, 24959 Stratton Meadows Drive, Porter, TX

77365, or email to [email protected], or vote directly on the ADS website under Popularity PoWSelect your Region and vote on line. Whichever submission method you choose, please submit your ballot only once.

Vote for up to 10 of your favorite daylilies. Postmark deadline is SEPTEMBER r t, 2019.

D AffaTr D' Amour 0 1 Halloween Masquerade D Rosie Meyer LJ All About Eve LJ Highland Lord LJ Ruby Spider

D Aly Marie l J Hillbilly Heart l J Scarlet Ofbit

D Bela Lugosi D Hold Your Horses D Sergeant Major D Berried In Texas D Ida's Magic D Siloam Double Classic

l J Big Doc l J Jason Salter l l Skinwalker

LJ Bill Norris LJ Joan Senior LJ Spacecoast Tiny Perfection

D Bitsy D Julie Newmar D Texan to the Bones

D Black Ambrosia D King Kahuna 0ThinMan

D Born In Texas LJ Lacy Marionette LJ Thomas Tew l J Bright Eyed l J Lake Jackson Beauty l J Tuscawilla Snowdrift

l J Bullfrog Kisses l J Lavender Blue Baby l J Victorian Lace

D Colonel Jim Scheurich D Lemon Go Lightly D Walking Stick

D Color Me Happy D Lone Star Back Forty D Yesterday's Love

D Cosmic Kaleidoscope 0 Lone Star Big John Write~ins: II LJ Dallas Divine LJ Lone Star Red Stallion LJ 0 Dizzy Miss Lizzie D Lone Star Wagon Wheel D D Dorothy and Toto D Lulu'sMagic D D Double Cranberry Ruffles - D Madelyn D' Ann Payne D l J Dutch Yellow Truffle l J Midnight Magic l l 0 Ed Brown D Mildred's End less Support D LJ Elizabeth Salter LJ Ming Porcelain D D Ernie's Cajun Wit D Mint Octopus D D Florence Denny 0 Mississippi Memento D 0 Fooled Me D Nacogdoches Pansy 0 L l Free Wheelin' l J One Eye Willie

D God Save the Queen D Patsy Carpenter

D Guadalajara 0 Pearl Harbor

D Gulf Coast Aunt Evelyn D Primal Scream

LJ Gulf Coast Big Peach LJ Red Chile Rendezvous

D Gulf Coast Gentle Sue D Renegade Lady

D Gulf Coast Miss Bea 0 Rose F. Kennedy

Summer 2019

ADS Member Name:

I Your Email Address:

I Your Mailing Address:

Please include the name of the club that you belong to by checking the box below:

Albuquerque Daylily Society

Austin Daylily Society

0 Brazi:>sport Daylily Society Cypress Creek Daylily dub

0 1 Daylily Growers of Dallas

I East Texas Dayltly Society

0 Golden Spread Daylily Society

0 Houston Area Daylily Society

Houston Hemerocallis Society

Johnson County Iris & Daylily Society

Lone Star Dayli ly Society

0 Lufkin Hemerocallls Society

North Texas Daylily Society

. San Antonio Daylily Socjety

0 No Clubs

Recommendations to "Hall of Fame'' for Region Meeting Review 2019:

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These recommendations may be previous winners that are still in cultivation and Regional fav9rjtes from post Popularity Polls.


What a great way to start the first day of garden tours with a stop at Will Ferrell’s corner lot. The front yard and courtyard were nicely arranged with drift roses, crabapple trees, butterfly bush, Rose of Sharon coneflowers and, of course, several daylilies including H. ‘Ruffled Apricot’ (Baker ‘72) and H. ‘Lullaby Baby’ (Spaulding ‘75). What an amazing

transformation and well-manicured look in only a year and a half! As we turned the corner and headed into the backyard, we were mesmerized by a bumblebee on a beautiful clump of H. ‘Mary Todd’ (Fay ‘67). Its pollen sacks were so full, it seemed to defy gravity with the ability to fly. The walk-way led around the house, and once you walked through the gate, the side yard opened up and con-tained a small hobby green-house, bubbler pond with a sitting area in the corner by the adobe walls that crea-tively used the shade from the next-door neighbors’ tree. Tim spent some time reading the newspaper arti-cles detailing Wills’ Grand-mother's passion for flow-ers. What a great link to his past and his new pas-sion! We were both jealous of the neat, organized, and weed-free clean look of the Ferrell gardens but also re-alized the tremendous time and effort he had put into his new hobby. Some of the outstanding daylilies found in the central bed

and the wall bed included a clump of the old-time favorite small-flowered, H. ‘Little Wart’ (Spaulding ‘64), and beautiful blooms on H. ’Steve Trimmer’ Trimmer ’99) and H. ’Ethel Shepard’ (Barth ’79). All of the daylil-ies were well grown and benefited from the drip irri-gation system.

Will told Tim that he enjoyed his Japanese Zen garden and bench, we both agreed that this area was a relaxing place to enjoy the natural beauty of Albuquerque and admire the growing and evolving beauty of the Will Ferrell garden.

Excellent job Will, thanks for sharing, and a great start to two wonderful days of tour gardens provided by our gracious hosts in Albuquerque…

ADS Region 6 Albuquerque Garden Tours Garden of Will Ferrell

By Tim Closs & Malcolm Avaritt

Bumblebee working out on H. ‘Mary Todd’ (photo by

Malcolm Avaritt)

Hobby greenhouse, bubbler pond and garden

(photos by Tim Closs)

Garden host Will Ferrell (photo by Malcolm Avaritt)

Zen garden (photo by Tim Closs)

H. ‘Vanilla Fluff’ (Joiner ‘88) and H. ‘Send Me A Rainbow’ (Petit, 2005) (photos by Peggy Cathey)

Summer 2019

Helen’s paradise is in the courtyard of her beautiful adobe townhouse. The entryway welcomes you with pots of Hosta, a ristra, and a whimsical pot of ceramic flow-ers. The garden in the back may be small, but it is beautifully planted and excellently main-tained by Helen. Beds border the courtyard with daylilies and a myriad of interesting

companion plants. The center bed is entirely daylil-ies. Some of the lilies blooming the day of our visit were H. ‘Total Opulence’, (Maryott, ‘16); H. ‘Heavenly Jetfire’, (Gossard ‘05), H. ‘Debary Canary’, (Stamile ‘06), H. ‘Bach Cantata’, (Maryott ‘14), H. ‘Snow Crystal’, (Stamile ‘08), H. ‘Strutter’s Ball’, (Moldovan ’84). H. ‘Across the Galaxy’, (Trimmer ’07), H. ‘My Friend Wayne’, (Stamile ‘09) and H. ‘Donna Peck’, (Roberts B.’ 94) These plants

had healthy scapes, high bud count, and beautiful blooms. Helen swears by the Hooker Formula and regular foliar feeding. In her courtyard, Helen has many companion plants, including pear trees, roses, dahlias, midnight salvia, and honeysuckle. Helen

loves Shasta daisies and has three large stands of them in her beds. The crowd favorite was a shaggy variety called “Old Colony.” Pots are interspersed in the courtyard with wonderful arrangements of coleus, zinnias, sedums, marigolds, and potato vine. I could easily imagine sitting amid this paradise, enjoying the beauty and tranquility of this magical space. Thank you, Helen.

Helen Horwitz’s Personal Paradise By Suzanne Adair

ADS Region 6 Albuquerque Garden Tours

Roses and Dahlias (photo by Gary Adair)

H. ‘Heavenly Jetfire’ (photo by Gary Adair)

H. ‘Donna Peck’ (photo by Gary Adair)

H. ‘My Friend Wayne’ (photo by Gary Adair)

H. ‘Bach Cantata’ (photo by Gary Adair)

Pot of Ceramic flowers (photo by Gary Adair)

Entry to townhouse (photo by Gary Adair)

Shasta Daisies (photo by Gary Adair)

Shasta Daisy “Old Colony” (photo by Gary Adair)



When we got to the gardens at Mike and Carolyn Kittredge, we were greeted with beautiful clumps of hollyhocks. As we passed through the gates to the back yard, we were delighted to see many of Carolyn’s seedlings and other daylilies growing in pots. In the back yard, we sighted a large clump of H. ‘Julie Newmar’ (Morss, ’00) showing off 5 huge blooms. Also, we enjoyed H. ‘Aim High’ (Joiner, ’90) H. ‘Ashley Danielle’ (Douglas-C., ’06), H.‘Burgundy Dazzler’ Maryott,

’17), H. ‘Effervescent Spring’ (Salter, ’08), H. ‘Mount Herman Majesty’ (Carpenter-J., ’05) , H. ‘Topguns Double Eyeful’ (Scott-B., ’99), and H. ‘Lemon Go Lightly’.(Trimmer-J., ’07), H. ‘Pixie Daydream’ (Elliott-S., ’15) was blooming with two beautiful blooms. This is one of Carolyn’s favorites.

In the backyard, we saw the huge apricot tree that was planted by Mike, and everyone got their fill. Mike also provided bags for individuals to take a sack

full back to the hotel. On the adobe wall, grapes were growing. It was a beautiful yard that was nice visit again after so many years away. Mike & Carolyn were individuals that Don & I met in 2008 when Houston hosted the AHS National Convention

Thanks so much for the joy that you gave to everyone that day.

Garden of Carolyn & Mike Kittredge By Eddie Raye Andrews

Carolyn Kittredge wth one of her seedlings (photo by Eddie Ray

Andrews)

Mike Kittredge(photo by Eddie Ray Andrews)

H. ‘Aim High’, H. ‘Ashley Danielle’, H. ‘Topguns Double Eyeful’, and H. ‘Lemon Go Lightly’ (photos by Peggy Cathey)

H. ‘Julie Newmar’ and H. ‘Mount Herman Majesty’ (photos by Eddie Raye Andrews)

Beautiful blooms in the Kittredge Garden (photos by Eddie Raye Andrews)

Summer 2019

ADS Region 6 Albuquerque Garden Tours Garden of Margo and Tom Murdock

by Nancy East

When you arrive at the high desert garden of Margo and Tom Murdock, your eyes see only the water restricted landscapes which blend together homogenously from house to house. The bubbling water feature near the front door is the only indication that there may be a treat behind the walls. And there is! It is heaven for the senses. As you admire the

stainless steel origa-mi crane the scent from the large clump of chocolate daisies surrounds you and doesn’t let go. As you move forward, the Japanese style is

continued with lanterns,two bridges, and com-plex Kanji symbols. The air moves with all sorts of life - the garden is certified as a wildlife habitat for its food, nesting, and water features. There are de-sert willows, and banks of native plants such as lavender, rosemary, ornamental oregano, and even a Bouncing Bet brought back from a trip to Blue Moon Gardens here in East Texas. Then there are the daylilies, some in beds, some in pots and some in the landscape. More than 150 plants and all

are watered by drip irrigation. As a garden judge, Margo tries out varieties from the Honorable Mention and Award of Merit lists. Some of her favorites are H. Mayor of Munchkinland (Herrington, T ‘10), H. Stenciled Infusion (Pierce, ’13 ), H. Golly

Poly (Herr, ‘15). All in all, a beautiful, well-tended garden that was a

pleasure to visit.

Fragrant Chocolate Daisies (photo by Peggy Cathey)

Bumblebee on Purple Prairie Clover (photo by Peggy Cathey)

Yellow Yarrow and Bouncing Bet (photo by Nancy East)

H. Golly Polly(photo by Peggy Cathey)

Donald Andrews chats with Margo Murdock (photo by Peggy Cathey)

Native landscaping (photo by Peggy Cathey)

Waterfall and pond are perfect backdrop for photos. Sharon Shafer and Sandy Roberts pose for Loris Garrett

(photo by Dan Cathey)

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The garden of Donna and Dick Peck is in a suburb north of Albuquerque called Placitas. Their home is locat-ed up in the foothills beneath the Sandia Mountains at an elevation of about seven thou-sand feet. When we stepped off the bus, we were treated to wonderful

(photo by Peggy Cathey) views of the mountains to the

East and the Rio Grande River Valley in the West, cool mountain air as it was still early, and an inviting walk across the driveway, passing native plant garden areas with stone-lined paths. Entry to the garden was through a gate in an adobe styled fence surrounding the daylily garden. Any gardener stepping inside that gate could immediately see the time and effort that had been put into developing this garden. The property is at the top of one the many knolls found in the foot-hills, so the slope of the yard required some manner of retaining garden soil. Various timbers and rows of stone were used to hold soil in place. Another challenge to maintaining a garden was keeping the rabbits out. This problem was solved with the addition of the adobe styled fence. The sides provide a stair-step appearance as they descend to the rear fence. It is high enough to keep the rabbits out and to define the garden with added interest but low enough, so none of the views are obstructed.

Donna expressed disappointment that there were not more daylilies blooming at the time we were there, but this did not prevent us from enjoying our visit. The ones that were blooming were beauti-

ful. One of the brightest daylil-ies in the garden was the 2008 Stout Silver Medal winner H. ‘All American Chief’ (Sellers, ‘94). Several visitors were quite interested in a beautiful shrub with blue flowers. This plant provided a pleasing contrast to

the golds and yellows of the daylilies. It is Caryopteris Clandonensis, also commonly called ‘Blue Mist Spirea’. The Pecks have been gardening throughout their marriage. During the fifty-eight years of married life, they have had the opportunity to develop many gardens. Dr.

Peck’s career required that they would move from time to time, but divisions of their daylilies would always be moved with them. They were asked to create a new daylily garden when they moved to the University of New Mexico campus. That garden con-tinued to grow, and as all gardeners can imagine, there were many plants to divide and share. A number of those varieties are now residents in their current garden. Donna said that many of the older varieties seem to withstand the harsh conditions of the desert more easily. Obviously, the summer heat can be a problem, but winter can bring very low tem-peratures at that elevation.

Wonderful breakfast tacos and other refreshments were provided on the patio. With something deli-cious for the taste buds, something cool to drink, and a feast for the eyes, this was truly one of those gar-dens where you did not want to hear that it was time to start boarding the bus. What a wonderful place to retire and enjoy the beauty that surrounds you. Thanks so much to the Pecks for hosting us

and to all of those mem-bers who had a hand in the preparations for this visit!

Garden of Donna and Dick Peck By Ken Anderson

Donna and Richard Peck Blue Mist Spirea

(photo by Ken Anderson)

H. ‘All American Chief’ (photo by Ken Anderson)

Garden view (photo by Ken Anderson)

Summer 2019


Visiting the Barbara and Dan Shapiro home was a delight for the senses, from the amazing variety of colorful daylilies and the yellow yarrow to the spectacular purple lavender waiting to surprise us on the side of the house. Barbara doesn’t have a

particular daylily favorite, but mentioned that she likes cascading forms such as H.

‘Dizzy Miss Lizzie’ (Wilkerson ’03) and H. ‘Red Skeletons’ (Hanson, C ’00) and is currently interest-ed in doubles such as H. ‘Orange Creamsicle’ Stadler ’05), H. ‘Cluster Muster’ (Joiner ’01). The deep magenta H. ‘Scented Sensibility’ (Herrington ’15) and the soft orchid pink of H. ‘Fake News’ (Hanson, C ’01) were stunning. Our bus guide, Debi Harrington, had her eye on a luscious buttery gold H. ‘Golly Poly’ (D Herr ‘15) as the next daylily to add to her garden. One of her unique plants, Tinsley’s Ghost Honeysuckle (a type of grape honeysuckle, heirloom plant discovered in Ft. Collins and propagated in 1991) caught the eye of many of the visitors.

Barbara became interested in daylilies about twenty years ago when she went on two garden tours, a general garden tour, and a daylily tour. The daylily gardens were more individual and interesting, so she joined the local daylily club. Currently, she doesn’t hybridize due to lack of space but is working with seedlings from her fellow daylily gardener, Rozanne Tuffnell. Barbara is also an artist. She be-gan with daylily etchings but moved on to abstract. She gains inspiration from shapes, patterns, and forms in nature, such as trees, shrubs, and flowers. She is an artist on canvas as well as in her garden.

As a visitor from the Brazosport Daylily Society, I gained a deeper understanding of the regional plants, climate zones (this region has so many different zones !!), and soils from Barbara. She is a lovely and generous lady, sharing her knowledge, home and gardens. Thank you so much for your

tremendous effort, hard work, and time to give us all a magical tour.

Garden of Barbara and Dan Shapiro By Jeannie Weller

Yarrow (photo by Jeannie Weller) H. ‘Red Skeletons’

(photo by Jeannie Weller) H. ‘Scented Sensibility

(photo by Jeannie Weller)

H. ‘Fake News’ (photo by Jeannie Weller)

Tinsley’s Ghost Honeysuckle (photo by Jeannie Weller)

Barbara Shapiro with one of her spectacular Lavender plants (photo by Jeannie Weller)



This lovely desert oasis draws one in, with lush green grass surrounding a beautiful adobe home, under a canopy of mature trees. Entering the back-yard through a protecting adobe wall, one finds a cooling swimming pool with multiple planting beds around the perimeter of the house and yard. Anchor trees and specimen shrubs give way to delightful floral color below, providing botanical “eye candy” everywhere one looks.

Also, owner Bill Walker hosted the Region 6 Seedling Competition Beds this year for the Annie T. Giles and Edna Lankart Awards. The railroad tie raised seedling beds were placed along one wall, adjacent to other flower beds that were bordered by native rock.

Although Bill tries to profess otherwise, I’m convinced he eventually will identify all his “mystery”

daylilies. And, his daylily obsession will add many more beautiful cultivars for daily enjoyment in his garden.

After all the hard work getting things ready for and surviving, the 2019 Region 6 Meeting, Bill deserves a big plunge in the pool (if he hasn’t done so already)!!! Thank you for sharing your garden!

Garden of Bill Walker By Nancy Freshour

Garden visitors contemplating seedlings in Region 6 Seedling Award Beds. (photo by Nancy Freshour)

Bill Walker in his backyard. (photo by Nancy Freshour)

Rear of Bill Walker's home. (photo by Nancy Freshour)

Detail from oval driveway bed in front of Walker home(photo by Nancy Freshour)

H. ‘Hello Poly’, (Herr ‘15) (photo by Peggy Cathey)

H. ‘Double My Sunshine, (D Gossard‘12)


Summer 2019

ADS Region 6 Daylily Clubs

Albuquerque Daylily Society President—Amy Howard 3312 Ronda De Lechusas NW Albuquerque, NM 87120 (505) 250-2318, [email protected] Website: www.albuquerquedaylilysociety.org/

Houston Area Daylily Society President: Clifford Lee 315 E. Helms Houston, TX 77037 (281) 448-4153, [email protected]

Austin Daylily Society President—Jennifer Renner 1934 Texoma Drive Round Rock, TX 78664 ((979) 571-0079, [email protected] http://www.austindaylily.org/

Houston Hemerocallis Society President - Milton Pierson 5254 Stillbrooke Dr. Houston, TX 77096-6200 713-728-2413 [email protected] http://www.ofts.com/hhs

Brazosport Daylily Society President—Eddie Raye Andrews P. O. Box 167 Waller, TX 77484 (936) 931-3846, [email protected] https://www.facebook.com/brazosportdaylilysociety

Johnson County Iris & Daylily Society President - Brian Goodman 410 West Third Cleburne, TX 76033 (817) 933-1326 [email protected] Club Email: [email protected] http://johnsoncountyirisanddaylilysociety.org/

Cypress Creek Daylily Club President—Jeannie Mallick 9718 Sotherloch Lake Dr Spring, TX 77379 (281) 2513913, [email protected] http://cypresscreekdaylilyclub.simplesite.com/

Lone Star Daylily Society President - Paul Eskine 3516 E. Orange St Pearland, TX 77581 (281) 485-4567, [email protected] http://www.lonestardaylilysociety.org/

Daylily Growers of Dallas President—Malcolm Avaritt 4121 Stonewood Circle Midlothian, TX 76065 (972) 723-0920, [email protected] https://www.facebook.com/daylilygrowersofdallas/

Lufkin Hemerocallis Society President - Wanda Wesch 275 Austin Lane Pollock, TX 75969 (936) 366-9232, No Email, Club Email contact: [email protected]

East Texas Daylily Society President - Nancy East 328 County Road 3508 Bullard, TX 75757 (903) 721-2304, [email protected] https://east-texas-daylily-society.webnode.com/

North Texas Daylily Society President - Tucker Reed 717 Hurst View Rd. Hurst, TX 76053 (682) 553-7050, [email protected] http://www.northtexasdaylilysociety.org/

Golden Spread Daylily Society President - Doug Smith 726 Lefors Pampa, TX 79065-4824 [email protected]

San Antonio Daylily Society President - Sue Camplen 218 Winchester Drive Bergheim, TX 78004 (830) 446-6175, [email protected]

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http://www.austindaylily.org/

http://www.ofts.com/hhs

https://www.facebook.com/brazosportdaylilysociety

http://johnsoncountyirisanddaylilysociety.org/

http://cypresscreekdaylilyclub.simplesite.com/

http://www.lonestardaylilysociety.org/

https://east-texas-daylily-society.webnode.com/

http://www.northtexasdaylilysociety.org/


Three years ago our club decided it was our turn to host the Region 6 Meeting. So we have been busy for three years, and I am so proud of what our club did. We had tremendous committee chairs, and oth-er members did what they could to help out. Some of our younger members still have full-time jobs, but they helped in the tour gardens or on other commit-tees when they had time.

Bill Maryott was very generous and donated the registration plants that we named H. ‘Sandia Sunset’ (Maryott, 2019). Many hybridizers sent gift plants, so our gardens had varieties of newer culti-vars. Heavenly Gardens donated the bus plants, and Diana Gossard entertained us at our Saturday banquet with stories of the hybridizing at their farm. It was interesting to see pictures of the Gossard family and how each member contributes to the success of Heavenly Gardens. On Friday Night Richard Peck had the group laughing at his stories about Myster-ies in the Garden.

Throughout the Newsletter, there will be many articles about our gardens and activities. We thank the Texans who came and also our past member, Susan Elder, who now lives in Virginia, Daniel Lowe from Arizona (who is now a new member), and other out of state attendees.

The week after our Region 6 meeting, a few of our members went to Wisconsin for the National Daylily Convention. Bill Walker, Evelyn, and Stephen Christy, Daniel Lowe, Donna, and Dick Peck all enjoyed seeingthe Wisconsin countryside and

beautiful daylilies in a very different atmosphere than

New Mexico. Bill Walker bought many daylilies from hybridiz-ers whose daylilies he hasn’t had in his gar-den. We are anxiously waiting to learn how they will grow in the Southwest. Our next meeting will be an evaluation of our Regional Meeting. In September we will have a program on Fall and Winter Gardening Strategies. This will be led by Helen Horwitz and Barbara Shapiro.

Also, in the Fall, we have a sale which will consist mainly of plants from our members’ gardens.

We finish up our year with our October meeting on Garden Law led by our own lawyer gar-den club member, Barbara Shapiro. We will elect new officers for the com-ing year. We will report on those in our next Newsletter report.

Albuquerque Daylily Society Donna Peck Club Reporter

Albuquerque, NM

Amy Howard, Albuquerque Daylily Society president, was presented with the Region 6 ADS Pewter Membership

Award for our club having 50% ADS Members, by Region 6 Membership

Chair, Peggy Cathey during the awards banquet held the last night of

the Region 6 Meeting. (photo by Dan Cathey)

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Goodman’s garden on ADS National Convention tour (photo by Donna Peck)

More photos from Goodman’s garden in Wisconsin.

(photo by Donna Peck)

Summer 2019

Hello from Austin, and welcome to summer! We’ve only had two days over 100-degrees, but it feels much hotter already. Our club is currently on summer break (we take June and July off), but we’ve had a busy Spring. First, we have to say congratulations and sincere thanks to the Albuquerque club for hosting a spectacular Regional meeting! Our members enjoyed their time in your beautiful city and loved being able to catch up with friends near and far. Thank you!

Back in Austin, our monthly meetings this Spring included a presentation on the proper way to prune plants from Beth Erwin, Master Gardener and NGC Instructor for Gardening and Landscape Design Schools. In April, Skottie O’Mahony gave a talk on growing and hybridizing daylilies in Texas. Skottie shared info on which daylilies thrive in our area, despite weather extremes, as well as how to hybridize, collect seeds, and start new plants. Then in May, Agata La Rue gave a presentation on growing bulbs in Austin; followed by current President and AHS Exhibition Judge Jennifer Renner, who shared tips on grooming daylilies for Show competition.

That brings us to our annual Daylily Show – it was held on Saturday, May 25th at the Garden Center in Zilker Botanical Gardens. The theme for this year’s show was East Meets West in honor of Isamu Taniguchi, who built the Japanese Gardens inside

Zilker by hand in 1969. Congratulations to the 2019 Show Chairs, Suzanne Adair and Beth Collier, for putting on a terrific event!

Here’s a breakdown of this year’s winners Section 1: Extra Large – H. ‘Laughing Giraffe’,

(Schwarz-B., ‘97) entered by Jerre Threatte

Section 2: Large – H. ‘Voila Francois’, (Stamile, ‘08) entered by Jerre Threatte

Section 3: Small – H. ‘Blue Beat’, (Stamile, ‘08)entered by Jerre Threatte

Section 4: Miniature – H. ‘Broadway Valentine’, (Stamile-G., ‘94) entered by Mike Peppers

Section 5: Double, Multiform – H. ‘Glorious Autumn’, (Kirchhoff-D., ‘05) entered by Jerre

Threatte Section 6: Spider – H. ‘Cherry Swizzler’, (Stamile,

‘08) entered by Jennifer Renner Section 7: UF – H. ‘Wild and Wonderful’,

(Stamile, ‘02) entered by Skottie O’Mahony

Austin Daylily Society Jeff Breitenstein Club Reporter

Austin, TX

A few of the show entries (photo by Jeff Breitenstein)

Awards table (photo by Jeff Breitenstein)


Austin Daylily Society (continued)

Section 9: Pop. Poll – H. ‘One Eye Willie’, (Herrington-T., ‘06) entered by Mike Peppers Section 10: Seedling – Seed-

ling Hathaway, entered by David Hathaway Tri-Color: Tea Ceremony, entered by Velia Ruiz

Sanchez Mike Peppers was also the winner of Best in

Show, with H. ‘One Eye Willie’, as well as the winner of the Horticulture Sweepstakes. Congratula-

tions, Mike! Our club meets the first Thursday of the month, except Jan., June, July, and Dec. We meet in the Garden Center at Zilker Botanical Gar-dens (2220 Barton Springs Rd., in Austin). Refreshments, usually a light dinner spon-sored by meeting hosts, are served at 6:30pm, and the meeting begins at 7:00 p.m. Our club currently has 35 mem-bers, 27 of which are also members of the American Daylily Socie-ty. We received the Sil-ver Medal Club award for having 75% ADS members at the Region 6 Meeting. Meetings are open to the public, and there’s no fee for parking at Zilker Botanical Gardens after hours. For more information on the Austin Daylily Society, including the

topic of upcoming meetings, please visit our website or “like” us on Facebook.

Best of Show winner Mike Peppers with H. ’One Eye

Willie’ (photo by Jeff Breitenstein)

Tri-color award for Best Artistic Design Tea Ceremony, was won

by Velia Ruiz Sanchez (photo by Jeff Breitenstein)

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Club President Jennifer Renner receives Silver Medal Award

certificate on behalf of Austin Day-lily Society for having 75% ADS members. Certificate was pre-

sented by Region 6 Membership Chair, Peggy Cathey during the

2019 Region 6 Meeting. (photo by Dan Cathey)

1st Place Winner for Zen Garden was Suzanne Adair (photo by Peggy Cathey)

1st place winner for Samurai was won by Velia Ruiz Sanchez (photo by Peggy Cathey)

Summer 2019

Brazosport Daylily Society Joanne Berry Club Reporter

Lake Jackson, TX

Dan Hansen from Ladybug Daylilies, Geneva, Florida, was our guest speaker in March. Using a

video of his garden as a guide, Dan walked us through his two-acre garden. He commented on his daylily introductions and gave us his thoughts on growing daylilies. Dan has continued with the tech-niques of his mother, Ra Hansen. Dan’s main concern is that the plant has to want to grow. Rebloom, and uniqueness is important. Branching and bud count are key. The plant must set pods. Clear color is important. If you can say what the color is in one or two words, it is a clear color. His introductions are edged with no eye and often double edge, any form that opens well. He loves white daylilies and has hybridized many edged daylilies from whites. Dan’s garden is in northeast Florida, twenty miles from Cape Kennedy. He travels eighteen days each year to visit and see his daylilies growing in other gardens. An engineer and oceanographer, Dan has spent most of his life hybridizing daylilies. Many thanks to Dan for his presentation and for bringing auction plants to share.

Our May 11 Flower Show was a great success. It was a stormy weekend with heavy downpours as the show opened. We had many flowers and lots of winners. Many thanks to our judges and volunteers.

H. ‘Spacecoast Lemon Whiskers’ (Kinnebrew-Gossard,‘13) was the Best of Show winner and Sec. 1 Best Extra Large, entered by Loris Garrett and Sandy Roberts. They also won the Horticulture Sweepstakes. Other winners are:

Sec. 2 Large Flower: H ‘Black Ambrosia’ (Salter, ‘91), Joanne Berry Sec 3 Small Flower: H. ‘Sweet Patootie’ (Warner, ‘76), Gary Gantt Sec 4 Miniature Flower: H. ‘Lil’ Black Buds’ (Begnaud,

‘09) Loris Garrett & Sandy Roberts Sec 5 Double: H. ‘Chaotic Tranquility’ (Eller-N.,

‘15) Loris Garrett & Sandy Roberts Sec 6 Spider: H. ‘Rolling Raven’ (Stamile, ‘07),

Everett Crainer Sec 7 UF: H. ‘Wild and Wonderful’ (Stamile,

‘02) Hou-Teh Lu, MD Sec 8 Youth: No entries Sec 9 Pop Poll: H. ‘Free Wheelin’ (Stamile, ‘04),

Loris Garrett & Sandy Roberts Sec 10 Seedling Winner: Everett & Chris Crainer Photography Winner: Nancy Freshour The plant sale was outstanding with several hun-

dred potted plants provided by Loris Garrett and Sandy Rogers. We were pleased to welcome a new member to our club.

We met again on June 1 for our plant sale at the Civic Center in Lake Jackson. Again, we had many volunteers, beautiful plants, and a steady flow of customers.

Club President Eddie Raye Andrews and husband Don made another trip to Louisiana to pick up

March speaker - Dan Hansen (photos by Loris Garrett)

Best of Show H. ‘Spacecoast Lemon

Whiskers’ entered by Loris Garrett and

Sandy Roberts (photo by Nancy Freshour)


Brazosport Daylily Society (continued)

daylilies for future bingo prizes and raffle plants. We look for-ward to adding these nice, new lilies to our gardens!

A large group from Brazosport made the trip to Albuquerque for the Annual Region 6 Meeting Awards Banquet. The club received the Gold Medal Club Membership Award certificate for having 90% of our members as ADS members (see photo below). We are now eligible for the $500 drawing from those clubs with 90% or more ADS members. The draw-ing will be held during the ADS Fall Board Meeting. We are going for 100% ADS membership for the Platinum Medal Club Membership Award. We have already signed up 3 Trial Memberships!

All who registered for the Region 6 Meeting received 2 fans of ‘Sandia Sunset’ (Maryott ‘19).

Loris Garrett potted his upon returning home and it decided to throw up a bloom scape and bloom in the pot.

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Region 6 Meeting attendees from Brazosport Daylily Society(l-r back row) David Freshour, Jeane Weller , Nancy Freshour, Mike Quellhorst, Barbara Quellhorst, Bob Lockhart, Sandra Lockhart

(l-r front row) Eddie Raye Andrews, Sandy Roberts, Loris Garrett, Donald Andrews, and Sharon Shafer

H. ‘Sandia Sunset’, registration plant from Region 6 meeting—potted and now blooming! (photo by Loris Garrett)

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Summer 2019

Herbs have been used by humans for culinary enhancements and medicine for thousands of years. Recently, the therapeutic value of aromatic compounds found in herbs is enjoying new popularity. In February, Marilyn O’Connor, known as “The Herb Lady”, treated us to a sensory-rich program with many live “pinch and sniff” specimens

of spring herbs. She brought cuttings to give away as door prizes and showed us how to root and propagate them. She said, “You have to crush the leaves to release their unique aromas and reap their benefits.”. Cypress Creek offers programs on a wide variety of garden topics advertised in the Houston Chronicle newspaper in The Lazy Gardener, a weekly

emailed newsletter, and on our web site www.cypresscreekdaylilyclub.simplesite.com. Herbs must be “hot” as interestingly, we had the most first-time visitors for this program- 8 in all.

If you are an avid grower of Hibiscus in Houston ( who can resist the way they remind you of a tropical holiday!) then you likely already know about Marti and Greg Graves, Hibiscus hybridizers. The March program was our opportunity to benefit from their

very educational presentation on organic fertilization and pest control. They have learned many garden truths over the years and not surprisingly are committed to organ-ic methods. If you garden long enough, you realize

putting artificial chemicals on your soil year after year is expensive, smelly, unhealthy, and ultimately counter-productive as you are working against nature, not with her.

Marti and Greg have practiced organic methods with great success, as may be seen from their eye-popping, prize-winning hibiscus. Here are 10 of their best tips for your garden:

Seaweed extract- 1 tbsp. per gallon of water used as a drench or foliar spray feeds naturally

Epsom salts 1 tbsp per gallon of water greens up pale foliage (cheaper in the health section of your store than at garden center)

Vibrant floral colors are produced adding minerals like greensand (glauconite) in your soil- a Texas product

Use Perlite instead of Vermiculite- it is inert and will keep the soil lightweight and aerated

Prevent seed sprout failure by soaking them for a couple hours in hydrogen peroxide- cheapest at Walmart

Mix cedar shavings (hamster bedding) with potting soil in your pots to discourage ants taking up resi-dence

Control insects with a few drops of Murphy’s Oil Soap or Dawn dishwashing liquid mixed in a spray bottle of water- it kills them on contact and will rinse away with the rain

Hot pepper wax- name brand of the whole line of natural repellant products use ½ cup in 1 gallon of water to repel many bugs

Protect our pollinators- use Bee Safe Organocide 3-in-1, an insect/fungicide/miticide made from sesame oil

Fungicide—try Consan 20 adding 1.5 tsp per gallon, but a ½ cup of bleach to a gallon of water is just as effective. Use as a drench (water pots with the diluted solution until it runs out the holes) If the plant is in the ground, use at least one cup of solution.

Cypress Creek set new records at our annual Plant

Cypress Creek Daylily Club Jeannie Mallick Club Reporter

Spring, TX

Cuttings of Italian parsley, purple sage, and bay, root

readily in water

Greg and Marti Graves with some of their Hibiscus hybrids

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Cypress Creek Daylily Club (continued)

Sale fund-raiser at Klein United Methodist Church’s Eggstravaganza Easter festival in March. Blessed with

beautiful spring weather, terrific participation from 21 of our members, and the use of the new “Square” technology at the cashier’s table, it was our most

successful plant sale in 6 years! Generous donations of daylily fans poured in from our veteran members’ well-established gardens to create an inventory of over 65 different cultivars. There were almost too many different perennial and annual plants to name, and they made a beautiful display at our booth on the church patio. Before

the sale, we posted pictures of our plants on a special page of our web site to give buyers a sale preview and build interest. In previous years, we could only accept payment by cash or check. Last year, our Treasurer and excellent cashier, Paul Cardona, noticed that we missed more than a few

sales to customers wanting to pay with a credit card. This year, he acquired a credit card reader and got our club hooked up to use the new Square “point-of-sale” technology. This enabled us to accept credit cards for the first time. Paul’s initiative increased our sales by more than $400!

The whole club came together as a team, and it was a thing of beauty. Members donated cash, plants they propagated in their gardens or purchased, hauled plants for other members, brought tables and chairs, contributed seasonal garden-themed crafts for sale, and in general, just contributed anything and everything to our success. Congratulations, Cypress Creek Daylily Club, we have never had a result like this before- GREAT JOB!!!

Master Gardener and Mercer Botanic Garden ginger garden curator Ceil Dow was with us in April to present a program in celebration of all gingers. Ceil refers to her gingers as “she” as if they were

gracious ladies, so that should tell you something about the passion she has for these beautiful, useful and often delicious plants. Ceil never stopped moving as she danced through a very complete and educational program that covered culinary and landscape gingers and brought along many live samples of each.

Ceil says, many of these tropical beauties originally hail from the tropics but are easily grown in Houston if you choose varieties hardy to grow in Zone 8. Gingers have rhizomes orunderground stems that grow and spread in rich well-drained organic soil. They like rain, so

providing plenty of water is key. She recommended 12-12-12 or

Sara Yeager assists a customer with a daylily

selection

Paul Cardona used “Square” to take credit card sales

Anna Rosa donated 40 different cultivars

Ceil Dow presents ginger Costus varzareum

Pink ginger Curcuma elata

Yellow flowers are edible!

Fran Matchett with CCDC banner

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13-13-13 fertilizer starting in spring and reapplied monthly during summer. Many varieties have foliage that dies

back and goes dormant in winter. Properly mulched with pine bark or pine needles, they will begin to regrow when temperatures reach 70 degrees. Divide gingers every few years and you will have many to share with your friends. Unsure whether to plant them in the sun or the shade? Ceil taught us a valuable rule of thumb- smaller gingers are forest floor plants that prefer shade and taller gingers are reaching for the sun and prefer brighter locations. We concluded that Ceil Dow loves gingers as much as we love daylilies.

May is the peak of the daylily blooming season and the time when we hold our flower shows in and near Houston. If you have never been to a daylily flower show, be sure to mark your May calendar and prepare to be amazed by what you will experience. First, you see the bright colors and shapes, pause a moment, and notice the light sweet fragrance of the hundreds of daylilies that fills the room! Here lined up smartly in row after row of sparkling vases are the best of the best from the gardens of daylily lovers.

The Houston Area Daylily Society, The Houston Hemerocallis Society, and the Cypress Creek Daylily Club collaborated this year to present the annual flower show on the theme Daylilies for the Ages May 11th in central Houston. Celebrating daylilies is easy, but putting on a successful flower show is a big team effort. It is a thing of beauty to see it all come together with great organization and a “can do” spirit

from all our clubs. Overseeing the show was Leslie Wong, HADS treasurer and longtime member, who it seemed was everywhere at once, patiently guiding, directing and smiling through it all. Thank you, Leslie. Your tireless work and gentle hand were appreciated by those of us learning the ropes on how

to mount a flower show. Cypress Creek Daylily Club members Mary and Eddie Gage, Anna Rosa Glidden, Marilyn Harbich, Clifford Lee, Graciela Lopez, Jeannie Mallick, Fran and Clarence Matchett, and Sara Yeager, all worked, brought plants to sell, entered scapes, or created design entries. Some amazing members did a little of everything! Jeannie Mallick was very pleased to see her entry, H. ‘One Eye

Willie’ (Herrington-T, ’06), make it to the head table for Best in Section 9: Region 6 Popularity Poll. Mary Gage, a judge herself, said the branching and budding on the scape were important advantages to qualify the scape for a coveted purple ribbon.

Field Trip to Lake Jackson & Brazoria South of Houston near Lake Jackson and Brazoria

are some amazing gardens that prominently feature daylilies. Our club took advantage of the Harris County Precinct 4 bus service and took a road trip in May to enjoy them at the height of bloom season. Dawn Novak served as our trip coordinator, doing a great job of keeping the tour guests on schedule. Our first stop was Benvenuti Garden. Loris Garrett and Sandy Roberts have created a true Eden on

their suburban cul-de-sac lot filled with daylilies, yard art, and many beautiful plants. They generously hosted our club for a visit that will be long remembered. Thanks to Loris and Sandy for sharing this special

Sara Yeager, Michael Lindee, and Marilyn Harbich help place

Leslie Wong and Fran Matchett checking proper daylily

classification

Best in Section 9 Jeannie Mallick with H. ‘One Eye Willie’

Loris Garrett’s Benvenuti Gar-den, Lake Jackson, Texas

(photo Loris Garrett)



garden paradise with our club! Our next destination was Everett & Chris Crainer’s garden near Brazoria. Everett

is a hybridizer and includes the prefix “Gulf Coast” in his cultivar names. He grows daylilies in man-made

ponds constructed to keep water-loving daylilies from wilting in the Texas heat. Morning is the best time to catch daylilies at their loveliest, so that left plenty of time after visiting the gardens to head to

Lake Jackson for a delicious lunch at the Riverpoint Seafood Restaurant before catching our bus back home.

We look forward to planning more fun club field trips in 2020.

Field Trip to Brenham June was when we took our second field trip to

visit Nathan Hanath’s Magnolia Hill Farm in Brenham. There were still many of his more than 800 daylily cultivars blooming, and all were for sale. As you can imagine, we all did a LOT of shopping. We

placed so many orders for daylilies there wasn’t time enough for Nathan to process them all before our bus left. Special thanks to Eddie and Mary Gage, who very kindly volunteered to drive back to the farm after we had lunch at the Volare Italian Restaurant in Brenham, to pick up the orders and meet us at the Blue Bell Creamery. Thanks to you,

those riding on the bus could go home with their beautiful new daylilies.

While at Blue Bell Creamery, we took a self-guided tour of the factory floor from the observation deck

where we watched them freezing and packing ice cream. Afterward, we joined the happy crowd in the ice cream parlor, where a giant serving of ice cream is only $1.00. Summer heat is always tough

on daylilies, but record rainfall in Houston for this time of year has extended our blooming season a bit. There are still enough

daylilies in bloom to keep us interested and paying morning visits to our daylily beds to see our favorite flowers.

Debbie and Larry Pike, two of our CCDC members, attended the Region 6 meeting in Albuquerque. Membership Chair, Peggy Cathey had contacted us for a club roster and informed us we qualified for the 75% Silver Club Medal Award. We have been working hard to get more members to become ADS members so we can move to the Gold Medal Award status of 90% membership so we will be eligible for the $500 drawing at the Fall ADS Board Meeting. We hope to achieve that goal before the year is out.

We invite all to come to visit a Cypress Creek Daylily Club meeting and enjoy one of our great garden-themed programs. Please note, we will hold a Fall Plant Sale Saturday, September 28th from 10:00 am – 1:00 pm at the Wunderlich Farm, 18218 Theiss Mail Route Road, Klein, Texas, 77379. Visit our Plant Sale web page to see what daylilies and perennial plants we will feature at our sale.

Crainer Garden daylily pond (photo Vicki Barnes)

Spectacular unnamed seedling

hybridized by Nathan Hanath

Jeannie Mallick at Blue Bell Creamery

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Debbie Pike accepts Silver Medal Club Award certificate

from Peggy Cathey at the Region 6 Meeting Awards

Banquet

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The Daylily Growers of Dallas are currently on summer break and will resume meetings in September.

We have had a lovely year so far. There have been interesting meetings and program topics beginning in January with a recap of the 2018 National Daylily Convention, followed by a program presented by Malcolm Avaritt Daylilies, Where We Were, Where We Are and Where We Are Going in February. March, we diversified from

daylilies with a program Habitat for Birds, Bees, and Butterflies by a local Master Naturalist. Our club feels like it is beneficial to have programs on other aspects of gardening and not just daylilies. We celebrated the 60th anniversary of our club with cake, good fellowship, and many reminiscences in April. In May, we had a lovely picnic in the AHS Display Garden in Farmers Branch. This garden was created by a generous donation of

daylilies by our old friend, Binion Amerson, who is no longer with us, but his spirit lives on in the garden.

The highlight of the year is always the flower show, and this show was exceptionally nice. We teamed up with the Johnson County Iris and Daylily Society to have the show at the JN Long Cultural and Arts Complex in Cleburne, TX on June 8, 2019.

It was a lovely show with 218 flowers exhibited including off scape blooms. The results were:

Best in Show H. ‘Evening Enchantment’ (Stamile, ‘95) Brian Goodman

Best Extra Large H. ‘Yellow Mammoth’ (Powell‘84) Dan and Peggy Cathey

Best Large H. ‘Evening Enchantment’ (Stamile, ‘95) Brian Goodman

Best Small H. ‘Iditarod’ (Weston ‘89) Vernon Wallis

Best Miniature H. ‘Ringlets’ (Kraus, ‘49) Tim Closs

Best Double H. ‘Topguns Citrine Dream’ (Scott-B., ‘09) Pat Weller

Best Spider H. ‘Cats Cradle’ (Hager, ‘85) Tim Closs

Best Unusual Form H. ‘Heavenly Ghostrider’ (Gossard, ‘07) Malcolm Avaritt

Popularity Poll H. ‘Free Wheelin’ (Stamile, ‘04) Dan and Peggy Cathey

Best Seedling Seedling Pat Weller

Three DGD members attended the Region 6 Meeting in Albuquerque, Tim Closs, Malcolm Avaritt, and Jane Denton. Malcolm was presented the Pewter Medal Club Award from Membership Chair, Peggy Cathey

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AHS Display Garden in Farmers Branch

(photos by Mary Ellen Reed) Judging the show. Tim Closs-Classifications and Michael Reed-Clerk look on as judges

Patricia Kyser, David Freshour and Nell Shimek judge the Unusual Form entries

photo by Kathy Harris)

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Dallas, TX

Malcolm Avaritt and Peggy Cathey (photo by Dan Cathey)

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We are currently enjoying our summer break. Nancy East, Doug Dutton and I attended the Region 6 meeting in Albuquerque, NM the last week in June. We had a great time and our hosts, the Albuquerque Daylily Society, who kept us busy with garden tours and other activities. They did a terrific job. Here is a recap of what our club has been doing since

the last Daylilies of the Southwest newsletter: In March, master gardener Bob Erickson gave a

presentation on “Composting and Rainwater Harvesting.” We have had a lot of rain in East Texas so far this year, and it would be easy to col-lect rainwater for when it is needed. Bob gave us some good ideas for collecting rainwater and for

composting. A simple composting idea is to keep a container in your kitchen for vegetative food scraps. When your container is full, take it to your garden, dig a small hole, and bury the waste. We had a daylily sale on March 29th & 30th at the

Goodman Museum with members donating daylil-

ies. It was cold, and we had periods of rain. While we did sell some daylilies, the weather contributed to a light turn-out.

In April, our program was Member Gardens-Part I. Don Rodgers and Don Licatovich each presented a program with pictures of their gardens. It was very

interesting to see the progress of their gardens and to see what other plants they grow besides daylilies.

In May, our program was Member Gardens-Part II. Pat Weller and Sandy Perkins each presented a

program with pictures of their gardens. Everyone enjoyed the discussions around companion plants and garden art. Our summer excursion was a trip to member-owned retail gardens, East Texas Daylilies, owned by Sandy Perkins & Doug McKemie, and Glenda Mae’s Farm, owned by Joey & Glenda Dziema. Many of us took home some daylilies after touring the gardens. We enjoyed lunch at The Shed, and some members also stopped at Blue Moon Gardens after lunch. Last but not least, the East Texas Daylily Society is the proud host of your 2020 Fall Region 6 meeting. This is a first for us, and we will be busy planning the one-day meeting. Stay tuned for details. Happy Gardening!

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Tyler, TX

Sarah Ward helps a Customer at the ETDS Daylily Sale

(photo by Pat Weller)

Club President Nancy East accepts ADS Region 6 Pew-

ter Membership Award (photo by Larry Pike Dee Pace, Don & Mickey

Licatovich enjoy the swing at East Texas Daylilies

(photo bt Pat Weller)

Sarah Ward, Sandy Perkins & Doug Dutton at Glenda

Mae’s Farm (photo by Pat Weller)

H. ’Free Style’ at Glenda Mae’s Farm

(photo by Pat Weller)

Summer 2019

Golden Spread Daylily Society

The Golden Spread Daylily Society of Amarillo, Texas has been in existence since 1991 and probably never had more than 10-12 members at any time. It is not known how long all members have also been members of AHS but probably soon after 1991. All 2019 members are AHS members.

We are now down to 4 members, of which only 3 are active. They are President, Douglas Smith, Vice President Terry McCanna and Secretary/Treasurer, Joan Avampato. Jean Moss is the 4th member. We meet when there is something specific to be done, and the rest of the time we communicate by email. The only activity we have is the annual Garden Fest Sale which is held at the Amarillo Botanical Gardens along with many other vendors of plants and hard goods. In past years we have had many daylilies in various gardens, but they are mostly all gone now, with only a small garden area devoted to daylilies remaining. Future sales will depend on this garden and daylilies from our own gardens.

We had a successful Garden Fest Sale in April, digging the last of the daylilies that were to be removed from their existing location. Doug Smith, Terry McCanna, and Joan Avampato did the digging, cleaning, labeling, and selling. Ann Ryan, a GSDS friend, came to lend a hand with the labeling, and her help was greatly appreciated. Doug Smith, GSDS president, does some hybridizing and has more daylilies in his garden than any other member. He lives in Pampa, 60 miles from Amarillo, does not have a computer, the result being no email, so we communicate by telephone and snail-mail. He is the member most knowledgeable about daylilies, does some hybridizing and has the largest daylily garden among the 3 active members.

We will get together for our annual dinner in October, but right now we are enjoying the blooming daylilies in our gardens.

Joan Avampato Club Reporter

Amarillo, TX

A Few Daylily “Glamor Shots” from Region 6 Meeting

L-r top row: H. ‘Fashion Rings’ (Maryott ‘14), H. ‘Time Passage’ (Gossard ‘11), H. ‘Treasure of the Southwest’ (Carpenter, J. ‘02), H. ‘Jelly Filled Donut’ (Eller ‘94), H. ’Red Chile Rendezvous’ (Maryott ‘09), l.-r. bottom: H. ‘Golden Ticket’ (DeVito ‘13), H. ‘Art

Imperial’ (Kirchhoff ‘00), H. ’Lemon Go Lightly’ (Trimmer ’07), and H. ‘Smuggler’s Fire’ (Branch ’92) (photos by Gary Adair)


Houston Area Daylily Society

We were very happy to have Jo Crisp with us again at our March meeting. She makes the trip to Houston occasionally from Virginia where she lives with her daughter, Cindy Roberts. They were back in Houston in April to sell the house and invited friends and club members to a “Backyard Gathering” as Jo said “Goodbye” to her house and yard. Her daylilies were donated to HADS for our plant sale coming up with the flower show. For many years, Jo served HADS in various offices and committees, most recently as program chair.

Oh yes, I know we are “daylily people,” but most of us have a special place in our hearts for roses as well. This spring, we devoted two of our programs to roses. First, in February, we had Baxter Williams instructing on pruning roses. Then, in April, Mary Fulgham gave detailed instructions for hybridizing roses. Daylilies are a breeze to cross-pollinate and bring to flower but rose hybridizers go thru many and much more delicate steps to achieve their goal of creating new rose cultivars. Mary’s daughter, now in her teens, began working with her mom as a very young child and is now quite an expert.

Our really big thing this spring was the Flower Show, Daylilies for the Ages, held jointly by Houston Area Daylily Society, Houston Hemerocallis Society and Cypress Creek Daylily Club on May 11 at Gethsemane Lutheran Church. Perhaps as you read this report, you will recognize exhibitors who are quite accustomed to taking top awards in our daylily shows over the years, but please take note of a first-time winner, Jeannie Mallick. No doubt, as the reporter for CCDC, she will express her excitement on winning the Popularity Poll Rosette. Award winners are:

Best-in-Show: H. ’Spacecoast White Christmas’ (Kinnebrew-Gossard, ’15) , exhibited by

Mildred and Paul Eskine. Extra Large Flower: H. ’Spacecoast White

Christmas’, (Kinnebrew-Gossard, ’15) exhibited by Mildred and Paul Eskine.

Large Flower: H. ’Celtic Moonglow’ (Jarvis, ‘14), exhibited by Bill Jarvis

Small Flower: H. ’Little Orange Tex’ (Faggard, ‘85), exhibited by Hershal Theilen

Mini: none Double H. ‘Orange Delicious’ (Eller-N., ‘06),

exhibited by Mildred and Paul Eskine Spider: H. ’Skinwalker’ (Roberts-N., ‘97),

exhibited by Mildred and Paul Eskine. Unusual Form: H. ’Off to See the Wizard’

(Herrington-K., ‘09),exhibited by Mildred and Paul Eskine

Youth: none Popularity Poll: H. ’One Eye Willie’ (Herrington-

T., ‘06), exhibited by Jeannie Mallick Seedling: 13-043, exhibited by Bill Jarvis Sweepstakes: Mildred and Paul Eskine Design Section: Grandma’s Attic, exhibited by

Nell Shimek

We appreciate the invitation from CCDC to join them on two garden visiting trips, first to Crainer’s in Brazoria and Garrett/Roberts in Lake Jackson. Then in late May to Nathan Hanath’s Magnolia Hills Farm in Brenham. Several of our members went,

Mary Gage Club Reporter

Houston, TX

Best Small Flower-H. ’Little Orange Tex’ , Best Popularity Poll-H. ’One Eye Willie’ (photos by Mary Gage)

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Houston Area Daylily Society (continued)

though they had to go by car and miss the fun of be-ing on the bus with a whole load of like-minded “daylily

nuts” which would have only multiplied the pleas-ure of garden visits.

The Houston Area Daylily Society received the Bronze Medal Club Award for having 65% of our members as ADS members at the Region 6 Meeting held in Albuquerque June 27-29. Membership Chair, Peggy Cathey presented the award to Debbie Pike, who accepted on behalf of the Houston Area Daylily Society.

Best Unusual Form-H. ’Off to See the Wizard’, Best Spider-H. ’Skinwalker’, and Best Seedling (photos by Mary Gage)

Debbie Pike and Peggy Cathey at Awards Banquet

(photo by Larry Pike)


Houston Hemerocallis Society

The program for our February meeting was a PowerPoint presentation titled A Visit to the Eskine Garden. Paul and Mildred Eskine are members of the Lone Star Daylily Club in Alvin, and they have a beautiful garden. The program consisted of pictures taken during their 2018 open garden.

In March, we were treated to a PowerPoint presentation titled A Visit to Benvenuti Garden. This garden of Loris Garrett and Sandy Roberts is located in Lake Jackson. The pictures in this presentation were taken after the 2018 Region 6 meeting. The garden was in full bloom and absolutely magnificent.

At our April meeting, we played Daylily Bingo. It’s basically bingo with daylilies for prizes. We did this last year, and it was such a hit we decided to do it again. The prizes were potted daylilies provided by the club. We also held our annual plant swap. This is a chance for everyone to share plants from their gardens.

On April 27th, we held our annual daylily sale. This is our club’s primary fundraiser. All daylilies for sale were grown in pots. This is an important feature for selling daylilies at this time of year in Houston because buyers can transplant at their leisure instead of rushing home to plant bare-root stock right away.

On May 11th, we held our annual flower show at the Gethsemane Lutheran here in Houston. The theme of this year’s show was Daylilies for the Ages. Each year Houston Hemerocallis Society and Houston Area Daylily Society combine resources to put on this show. This year we were pleased to

be joined by the Cypress Creek Daylily Club. Show results with pictures can be found on the Houston Hemerocallis Society website (link below). Our new slate of club officers for the 2019-2020 year is as follows: President – Milton Pierson 1st Vice President – (open) 2nd VP – Katharine Breaux Treasurer – Hershal Theilen Recording Secretary – Pam

and Bridget Butler as co-Secretaries

During the recent Region 6 Meeting in NM, Houston Hemerocallis Society was awarded the Pewter Medal Club Membership Award for having 50% ADS members. Debbie Pike accepted the award on behalf of the Houston

Hemerocallis Society from the Region 6 Membership Chair, Peggy Cathey.

Check our website for HHS club information, future meeting dates, and speaker topics.

Bill Jarvis Club Reporter

Houston, TX

Once Upon a Time design by Michael Lindee

(photo by Bill Jarvis)

Grandma’s Attic Tricolor Design winner by Nell Shimek


Into the Future design by Mary Gage


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During the May meeting, Daylily Growers of Dallas President, Malcolm Avaritt, spoke to the club about the coming co-sponsored Daylily Show. We were happy to be asked host the show in Cleburne, as we couldn’t have had a show without the Dallas members. Following Malcolm, Dan Cathey gave a PowerPoint Program on How to Plant and Pot Daylilies followed by Peggy Cathey presenting a program on Grooming Daylilies for Show.

The Daylily Show Down Memory Lane was held on June 8th at the JN Long Cultural Arts Complex in Cleburne. Club members brought coffee and breakfast treats for everyone and the club ordered a Pizza lunch for the Judges and members. Everyone pitched in to help.

We were especially excited that our new club president, Brian Goodman, won Best of Show with H. ‘Evening Enchantment’, (Stamile ‘95). Peggy and Dan Cathey won Best Extra Large with H. ‘Yellow Mammoth’ (Powell ‘84) and Best Pop Poll with ‘Free Wheelin’ (Stamile ‘04).

New Officers were installed at the July meeting. They are: Brian Goodman—President

Mary Keeth—1st VP-Programs Anita Goodale—2nd VP-Membership Karen Singletary—3rd VP Show Amy Finck—Secretary Vicki Howard—Treasurer

Two JCI&DS mem-bers, Dan and Peggy Cathey went to Albu-querque for the Region 6 Meeting in June. They had a great time and were im-pressed with the gar-dens and all the work the host club put into making the Meeting a huge success. The club earned the Silver Medal Membership Award for 75% ADS Members. Dan accepted the certificate from Region 6 Membership Chair, Peggy Cathey, on behalf of JCI&DS.

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Cleburne, TX

2019-2020 Officers and Committee Chairs: (l-r) Gailmae Suite-Hospitality; Mary Keeth-1st VP, Programs; (back) Amy Finck-

Secretary; Anita Goodale-2nd VP, Membership; Brian Goodman-President; Vicki Howard-Treasurer; Isabella Velasquez-Youth

Raffle; Diana Medrano-Youth Liaison; (front) Victoria Velasquez-Youth Raffle. Not pictured, Karen Singletary-3rd VP, Show Chair

and Peggy Cathey-Newsletter Editor/Webmaster

Brian Goodman, Best of Show winner with H. ‘Evening Enchantment’ (photo by Peggy Cathey

Peggy Cathey with Pop Poll winner H. ‘Free Wheelin’

(photo by Dan Cathey)

Dan Cathey with Best Extra Large H. ’Yellow Mammoth’


Dan and Peggy Cathey with Silver Medal Membership Award



2019 got off to a fast start. In January Baxter Williams was our first guest

speaker with a presentation on Rose Horticulture. He offered valuable tips on cleaning up and prepping our roses for the upcoming season. He is always

available for any questions you may have on roses. In February we had a great presentation by Bob

Patterson from Southwest Fertilizer on soil amendment. He introduced us to some great products and even brought along “prizes” for the lucky winners that included some of those products. We appreciate him coming out and sharing his knowledge with us. They have a variety of things offered at their

location and a very friendly, knowledgeable staff at your disposal.

March kept our club members hopping! It started with our plant sale at the Angleton Market Days.

Great participa-tion by our club. It was a lot of fun and a very successful weekend. We then had the pleasure of hosting Kathy & Bruce Fowler from

Kathy’s Daylilies. The Saturday night before the meeting,

the club members took the Fowler’s out for din-ner. What a great time of fellowship! I think we shut the restaurant down. After their presentation at our club meeting, they auc-tioned off some amaz-ing plants they had brought with them. April, our club was invit-ed to Enchanted Gar-

dens to sell our plants. The weather was a tad unpredictable, but as always, our club members participation was spot on. Our meeting for the month was preparation for the upcoming annual flower show.

May Flowers....our personal gardens were ramping up for peak blooming season...absolutely glorious displays of blooms, appropriately timed for our flower show and plant sale. We had a huge turn out of visitors that came to see our beautiful flower and photo entries and to purchase some of our beautiful plants. Congratulations to Loris Garrett and

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Alvin, TX

Bob Patterson—Southwest Fertilizer - February

speaker (courtesy photo)

Baxter Williams, Rosarian, January speaker (courtesy photo)

Angleton Market Days sale

L R - Gladys Hanselman, Everett

Crainer, Sandy Roberts (photo by Sharon Shafer)

Kathy & Bruce Fowler - Kathy’s Daylilies - March guest

speakers (courtesy photo)

Best of Show and Sweepstakes winners - Loris

Garrett & Sandy Roberts (photo by Larry Bartz)

Nancy Freshour wins Best Small flower - H. ‘Sweet Pa tooite’ (Warner, ‘76) (photo by Larry Bartz)

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Sandy Roberts for winning Best in Show with H. ‘Lone Star Windmill’ (Payne-L.H.,

‘08) and winning the Sweepstakes Rosette for most blue ribbons. Congratulations to Nancy Freshour for

her winning entry in the small section. To everyone who participated; the judges, without you, we could not have had an accredited show; our entrants, without you, there would be no reason for a show; the volunteers, without you, well, without you, there would be no show. Our heartfelt thanks to all of YOU! June we had no meeting. However, many of our club members had the privilegeof attending the Region 6 Annual Meeting in New

Mexico. All were in awe of the 8 beautiful gardens toured (and really enjoyed their ride in the “party bus”). Our club received an award for 75% ADS membership, now making us part of the Silver Medal Club.

Top: Gladys Hanselman, (l.) and Paul Eskine (r.) bottom: Loris Garratt and Sandy Roberts, (r.) Mike Mayfield & Sandra

Lockhart, all busy grooming their scapes for entry into the show. (photos by Nell Shimek)

Larry Bartz (tabulation chair) & Melvin Winkelman (classification chair) for flower Show (photo by Nell Shimek)

H. ‘Lone Star Windmill’ (photo by Peggy Cathey)

Bobbie Ware accepted the Silver Medal Club Award certificate for the Lone Star Daylily

Society at the Region 6 Awards Banquet in Albuquerque. Award presented by Peggy

Cathey, Region 6 Membership Chair (photo by Larry Pike)

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H. ‘Brazilian Flamingo’ (photo by Tracey Stewart)


May 14: The Lufkin Daylily Society held our last meeting of the Spring before we break for the summer. We had hoped to visit Judith Kurth's miniature horse farm and daylily and rose gardens, but due to unforeseen circumstances, we had to make alternative plans. Conni Estes invited us to her place, where we discussed our Annual Daylily Sale held back in April, and what a fun time we had doing it. We did have some leftover plants which were donated to a local prison. They were delighted to be gifted with the daylilies and planted them all around a guard shack. For our main meeting presentation, our own members each brought different daylily blooms, and we all oohed and aahed over them, discussing the merits of each bloom, etc. The cultivars represented were: H. ‘Cosmic Kaleidoscope’ (Carpenter, J. ‘06), H. ‘Suburban Nancy Gayle’ (Watts, ’04) H. ‘Web of Intrigue’ (Stamile, ‘99), H. 'Till the End of Time’ (Carpenter-J., ‘05) H. ‘Gulf Coast Star Power’, (Crainer, ‘11), H. ‘Mini Pearl’ (Jablonski, ‘82) H. ‘Bela Lugosi’ (Hanson-C., ‘95), H. ‘Louie the Lip’ (Hansen-D., 2009), H. ‘Reba My

Love’ (Talbott, ‘90), (named for our own Reba Garrison), a lovely yellow from the Spacecoast line, and a gorgeous red seedling from our own Marlow Shubert. We then had a delicious sandwich lunch, complete with AdaLee Shubert's scrumptious brownies. At this time, our Club is on summer hiatus. We will reconvene in September.

June 15: A small group went on the last open day of the daylily season to The Lily Farm, owned and operated by Mark Carpenter, to scout out the best late bloomers. It was the first time to visit for several members. Marilyn Detrow purchased a beautiful eye-catching red & orange variety named H. ‘Brazilian Flamingo’ (Carpenter-M., ‘15).

June 27-29: Leon and Pat Levens attended the 2019 Region 6 Annual Meeting, hosted by the Albuquerque Daylily Society. Pat reports in her own words: "We got to see the beautiful Sandia sunrises as we boarded the bus at 7 a.m. each day, as well as the sunsets. We toured eight gardens. The owners really did put many hours of work making the unique and different gardens very special with beautiful, spectacular blooming plants, the many varieties of daylilies, New Mexico xeriscaping, west Texas plants and flowering shrubs, all found in each of the garden landscapes. Whoever heard of a "Smoke Tree?" Lovely! There were several clinics. We attended the Chilies and Lilies workshop. It was given by Donna Peck and Jane Butel, who are expert chefs who prepare various dishes using New Mexican ingredients from their own gardens. We got to sample the food. Leon learned how to cook

Lufkin Hemerocallis Society Tracey Stewart Club Reporter

Lufkin, TX

Pat and Leon Levens (photo by Tracey Stewart)

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quesadillas with daylilies, and I even ate a daylily petal! After traveling the long day, we ate at a buffet called the

Daylily Deli Buffet. We got to greet old friends and meet new ones.

Malcolm Avaritt and Tim Closs were back to conduct the Region 6 Live Auction fundraiser and made a lot of money to support Region 6 and especially our newsletter. There were two banquets. Richard Peck (Donna's husband), a famous novelist and playwright, presented his humorous, insightful remarks about daylilies and his life. Did you know he was a stand-up comedian in the beginning? He was also President of the University of New Mexico. Saturday night we heard Dianna Gossard of Heavenly Gardens in Galloway, OH, talk about her and husband Jamie’s daylily farm.

There were many Silent Auction items and raffle offerings. I won several fabulous prizes. Would you believe that I won the Grand Prize in this year's raffle—a basket of Bill Maryott's spectacular 2019 introductions!!! Since we were headed on to Colorado Springs by air travel to visit our son and his family, Leon shipped the daylilies home via UPS.

The entire Meeting had delicious food provided by the Marriott Hotel, garden tour cooks, and restaurants in the town of Albuquerque. Although we were tired from all the activity, the Meeting was fabulous, and I would recommend to everyone to make plans to attend one.

The daylilies made it home just fine, but no rest for the weary! We had to make a new daylily bed for all those daylilies when we returned! We had a wonderful time and plan to do a PowerPoint presentation for our daylily club (with the help of Donna Chicoine). Leon and I will even make some of the daylily "goodies" to eat when we meet in the future!"

July10: I cannot think of a better way to end this report than with Pat's bubbling review of the Region 6 Conference! May you all be blessed with a wonderful summer this year.

The Levens’ temporary home for their Grand Prize daylilies. (photo by Tracy Stewart)

Pat Levens accepted the Platinum Medal Membership Club Award certificate for 100% ADS membership for the Lufkin Hemerocallis Society. Presenting the award is Region 6 Membership Chair, Peggy Cathey (photo by Larry Pike)


North Texas Daylily Society

North Texas Daylily was established in 1988. Our current officers are:

Tucker Reed—President Nicki Knight—VP Membership Linda Long—VP Treasurer Rebecca Reed—VP Program Susan Austin—VP Publicity Janet VonKohn—Secretary We meet the third Thursday night most months at

7:00 p.m. in the Camellia Room located inside the Fort Worth Botanic Garden, 3220 Botanic Garden Blvd., Fort Worth, TX, the third Thursday nights of most months at 7:00 p.m.

Bob Byers, the Fort Worth Botanic Gardens Director, spoke at the April meeting. He informed the club of the state of the gardens. FWBG is shifting to having an entrance fee and possibly having a private organization running the gardens. Many repairs and updates are needed, and city money has not kept up with the improvements and maintenance.

In May, club members finalized plans for the accredited and educational Daylily Show, which was held June 1. For those new to showing daylilies, a discussion was had regarding grooming. The show was successful with plenty of entries, helped along by the wet spring that allowed for lots of blooms.

.Flower Show is always the first Saturday in June. The 2019 daylily show winners are:

Extra-large: H. ‘Lady Lillie’ (Matthews, ’90) Rebecca Reed

Large: H. ‘Fooled Me’ (Reilly-Hein, ‘90) Ann Martin

Small: H. ‘Little Gypsy Vagabond’ (Cruse, ‘79) Tim Closs

Miniature: H. ‘Pixie Plaything’ (Stamile-G., ‘04) Tim Closs

Double: H. ‘Treva's Smile’ (Eller-N.,‘08) Vernon Wallis

Spider: H. ‘Black Arrowhead’ (Roberts-N.,‘02) Vernon Wallis

Unusual Form: H. ‘Cricket Call’ (Roberts-N.,’04) Tim Closs

Seedling: Rebecca Reed NTDS takes July off from meetings but will return

in August. We host our bare root daylily sale on the fourth

Saturday of September each year To better educate the public about daylilies, we

always pass out information brochures and have an educational table at all of our sales and shows.

NTDS member Bob Mote attended the recent Region 6 Meeting in Albuquerque. During the Awards Banquet, North Texas Daylily Society was awarded the Pewter Medal Membership Award certificate for having 50% ADS members. Bob accepted the award from Region 6 Membership Chair, Peggy Cathey on behalf of NTDS.

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Susan Austin Club Reporter

Fort Worth, TX

Bob Mote & Peggy Cathey


H. ‘Lady Lillie’ (photo by Susan Austin)

Summer 2019

Starting off in January, SADS was treated to some amazing programs by our Vice-President and Programs Chair, Ray Elizondo.

In January we reviewed the past ADS award winners. February brought a discussion of the ADS Region 6 popularity poll winners. March and April we learned about the new daylily introductions of our southern hybridizers. Lots of interesting new blooms from them. May brought our review of procedures and needed volunteers to hold our sale and show at the Festival of Flowers in San Antonio. Another great show and sale with lots of

visitors enjoying our blooms. Our sale was great. All double fans were sold before the end of the day.

In June we gathered at Pat Schultze’s home for a wonderful picnic with her famous homemade lasagna rolls, salad, and bread. Members brought their favorite delicious treats, and the conversations went on and on.

Summer brings a hiatus for July and August. We will meet next in September at our usual time and place. Hope everyone had a great bloom season and thinking and dreaming of all the new additions to make to your beds.

S an Antonio Daylily Society Sue Camplen Club President/ Reporter

San Antonio, TX


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