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