2012 Spring - AHS Region 11
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2012 Spring - AHS Region 11
Spring 2012 MOKANOK Daylily Region 11 American Hemerocallis Society 2012 FESTIVAL OF DAYLILIES June June 29-July 29-July 1, 1, Hosted Hosted by by the the Mo-Kan Mo-Kan Daylily Daylily Society Society ~2~ MoKanOk Daylily Spring AN OUTSTANDING WINTER GATHERING by Michael Bouman to the Salter’s and others’ gardens by her father Pete Harry, who is the new owner of “Frank Smith Daylilies.” Nicole has a vivid memory of her childhood, having stepped out of it not twenty years ago! She got over A record crowd of 74 people converged in her dislike of garden visits and got bitten by Tulsa for a spring-like weekend to break out the hybridizing bug, and therein lies a tale of the winter blahs. People came from all that kept everyone interested. over the Region, including several AHS Nicole Harry DeVito Youth Members, one of whom is already a hybridizer at age 12! Classes in Garden Judging and Exhibition Judging took place Friday night and were well-attended. Jamie Gossard On Saturday morning, Jamie Gossard gave a wonderfully-illustrated talk on the conversion of diploid daylilies to tetraploid. Some people might find such a topic wide of their interests, but in Jamie’s hands we felt like we were in the presence of just another curious gardener, somebody we might invite over some weekend for pizza. He put everyone at ease and kept the program interesting. Nicole Harry DeVito (Nicole’s Daylilies) gave a fascinating talk on “Evaluating Daylilies” after our lunch break. Nicole is a central Florida hybridizer who, as a child, was taken under heavy protest on day-long visits Jamie followed Nicole with a presentation on the daylily farm he established on the grounds of a former local air strip. We all imagined the chunks of asphalt and rubble he still finds in the soil. Jamie has such an easy way of presenting material, that his enthusiasm for “the chase” after what doesn’t exist yet infected all of us. Jamie and Nicole jointly moderated a hybridizers’ round table discussion. More fascinating conversation about how to decide what to do with a seedling that “speaks” to you. After dinner we had another blockbuster of a daylily auction and made over $7,000 to help fund the MoKanOk this coming year. This event is an unmatched way to continue friendships already made and to start some new ones. Don’t miss the next one! 2012 MoKanOk Daylily Inside The MoKanOk Daylily TABLE OF CONTENTS Report on Winter Gathering. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Table of Contents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Officers Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-6 Treasurer’s Report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Minutes of Winter Gathering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Garden Judges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Note from Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10 Ask the Ombudsman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . .10-11 Youth Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Festival of Daylilies Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 Festival of Daylilies Gardens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14-19 Hybridizers Gallery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-29 Club Happenings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30-33 2012 Club Officers for Region 11 . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34 Auction Plants & AHS Ads . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35 2012 Region 11 Officers, Committee Chairs & Liaisons . . . . . . . . . .36 Editorial Policy/Membership Info. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 2011 Region 11 Club Presidents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 More Winter Gathering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Still More Winter Gathering . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . Back Cover IMPORTANT ANNOUCEMENT! Be sure to save your MoKanOk wrapper. Two important forms are printed on the inside pages-your ballot to vote for Region 11 Director & President and the 2012 Popularity Poll ballot. We have also included a tear-out page stapled in the center of your magazine. There you can find the Registration Form for the Summer Regional plus a copy of the Schedule that you can tear out and take with you to Regional. ~3~ ~4~ MoKanOk Daylily Spring Mary Lou Lundblade Regional Director G reetings from the sunny South. As I write this I am beginning to prepare for my trip home to Kansas. It has been warmer than usual here this Winter, and warmer than usual at home in Kansas also. Keep it up. I love it. In this issue you will find a ballot for the election of your new RP, and also the Director. Both Randall and I are leaving. I am termed out, and Randall has elected not to run for another term. This will be your only chance to vote. Our Region voted to use the By Mail Option. Your ballot will be found in this issue, and must be returned to the Chair Of The Nomination Committee, Ron Azzanni no later than June 13th. 45 days prior to our Summer meeting. Our Summer Regional business meeting will be held in Independence, MO on Sunday July 1st. There will be a place for write in candidates. If you do use this option, be sure your candidate meets the AHS requirements which can be found on the AHS Portal. www.daylilynetwork.org JUDGES HANDBOOK. The book has been revised and split into two books. One for Exhibition Judges, and one for Garden Judges. Each can be printed out separately from the AHS Portal, or ordered from Jimmy Jordan, Publications Chair. The Exhibition book is $12, and the Garden Judges book is $6. Or you can order both for $17. As of July 1st, all of the Judging material will be moved to the Portal, and will no longer be available on the AHS site. Actually, all information pertaining to AHS members only will be moved to the Portal as time permits. The Board has approved the request from Atlanta to host the 2015 Convention. Till next time. Your AHS Board member, at your service. Mary Lou Lundblade, [email protected], 316-755-1964 Randall Barron Regional President S pring is here and daylilies and other beautiful plants are glorious with color in our gardens. It seems as if the mild winter has led to an early spring. I think we can expect daylilies to be two to three weeks earlier in 2012. The year began with a great Winter Gathering in Tulsa. Thanks to all those attending and donating beautiful plants for the auction. Winter Gathering keeps getting better and better with increased attendance and wonderful programs. Jamie Gossard and Nicole DeVito gave outstanding programs and a good time was to be had by all with good entertainment and fellowship. We set a record for the number of plants in the auction again in 2012. The year of 2012 will be the year of the ballot in Region 11. We have great candidates seeking elections for both President and Regional Director. I encourage everyone to vote and mail in your ballots. Make your vote count. The winners will be announced at Summer Regional in Kansas City. MOKAN Daylily Society with host the Region 11 Summer Regional during the weekend of June 29th – July 1 of 2012. “Festival of Daylilies” featuring hy- 2012 MoKanOk Daylily bridizer Don Herr promises to be over the top. I will meet you there. Tulsa Area Daylily Society is making big plants for the 2013 Summer Regional in Tulsa on June 14th 16th. The Oscie Whatley Seedling bed is set up and ready for your entries. Send all the Oscie Whatley Seedling bed entries to Randall Barron ([email protected]). The earlier you get your entries in the bed the better they will display in June of 2013. ~5~ The Popularity poll will be a point of emphasis again in 2012. Linda Farris, Region 11 PDF, continues to do a good job promoting the poll. I encourage each member of each club to fill in the ballots and get them back to Linda Farris as soon as possible. ”FRIENDS ARE FLOWERS THE GARDEN OF LIFE” Randall Barron, President Linda Farris Regional Publicity Director A s we approach another bloom season (hopefully a better one than last year for those of us in the drought areas), it is again time to determine the favorite daylilies we grow here in Region 11. We do this through our votes in the annual Popularity Poll. As an educational service to its members and the general public, the American Hemerocallis Society (AHS) established this poll among all its members many years ago to determine their favorite daylilies. This poll can: 1) present a picture of which daylilies perform well in our area, and 2) serve as a recommendation to both members and non-members who make daylily selections to purchase for their gardens. By sharing and comparing this information across different regions, daylilies performing well over multiple areas are evident. We vote each year by a ballot marked for the following year’s favorites. For example, this year our ballot is listed as the 2013 Popularity Poll ballot; however, we will be voting it through this 2012 bloom season. Those results will be listed as the 2013 Region 11 Popularity Poll winners on the AHS website and in the national journal. This system has been confusing at times, and our Pop Poll Committee has made input to the national chairperson that she will bring forward to the national board in the fall to consider simplifying it in the future to avoid the multi-year designations. Last year marked a turning point in our Region 11 poll when many of you participated for the first time ever! Thanks to promotion by our Regional President, Randall Barron, and Presidents and Program Chairpersons in every club, we beat the national odds and actually increased our participation dramatically. While we did not reach the 50% participation rate I had hoped for last year, we can do it this year with your help. In this MoKanOk, you will find a copy of the 2013 Pop Poll Ballot. Pull it out, carry it with you as you visit local daylily gardens and our Summer Regional Conference in Kansas City. Mark your ballot as you go, and return it to me by September 1, 2012. It’s just that easy. Every one of our Region 11 AHS member can and should mark a ballot to have their vote count this year. If you don’t see your favorite candidate listed, there is a section on the ballot to write it in. Each member has the opportunity to write in five candidates. Garden Judges, in particular, are encouraged to use the write-in section to keep the ballot fresh with newer cultivars they observe that have performed well here in Region 11. With this way of voting and adding cultivars to the list, a few will drop off the list annually and new ones will be added from write-ins. Annual results are published on the AHS website across all regions and in our Fall/Winter issue of the MoKanOk for Region 11. Some regions elected to have only paper ballots, some only electronic ballots, but here in Region 11 we have both! Many of our members do not have reliable computer access, or prefer the “feel” of a paper ballot. Others have long ago ~6~ MoKanOk Daylily gone paperless. Therefore, In recent years, the AHS posts each region’s ballot as an electronic voting option on their web site. (www.daylilies.org/PopPoll) Soooooooo…… Why don’t we all make a commitment to Region 11 and cast our vote? We here in Region 11 are lucky enough to be able Spring to grow an enormous variety of daylilies. Let’s let the daylily world know which ones work the best for us. I’ll be looking for your votes in August. Happy balloting! Linda Farris, RPD Lois Hart Treasurer T he financial picture for Region 11 is looking very good after a successful 2011. We started the year with Winter Gathering in Kansas City netting $6505.92. The dynamite combination of our guest speakers Nikki Schmith and Bob Faulkner as auctioneers grossed $8,030. The first annual Spring On-Line Auction began in April and 90 plants netted $2228.35. The summer OnLine Auction made $1807.27 on 73 plants. The Lily Auction is bringing in money from around the country so we in Region 11 are not supporting ourselves. ($780 from Region 11, $3250 non-Region 11). Unfortunately we had over 80 donated plants that did not sell. The summer drought kept a lot of people from participating in the auction. I want to thank the following donors for all the work they put in digging and shipping for us: Helen Adams, Steve & Jane Amy, Al Apshire, Clint Barnes, Becky Bates, Randall Barron, Debbie Carriker, Debra Cole, Jess Danner, Linda Farris, Jill Gibson, Harry & Sharron Gregory, Carol Fischer, David Hoffman, Brenda Jindra, Irene Johnson, Kathy Krattli, Loreta Knoche, Cathy Minkler, Seajay Mock, Jim MuellerLarry Gooden, Hugh Stout, Bob & Eric TankesleyClarke, Chris Vizvare, Patti Waterman, Andrea Weaver, and Dennis White. I want to thank the following clubs for donations to the MoKanOk fund: Columbia, Bluestem, Flint Hills, Mo-Kan, Prairie Winds, Topeka, Central Oklahoma, Tulsa and Wichita. We had two memorial donations from the St. Louis Club for William “Bill” Pitcher, Sr. and Ms. Dorothy Darst. We finished 2011 with a gain of $6,367.60. Thank all of you! We have begun 2012 in a very positive position as the Winter Gathering in Tulsa had 72 attendees taking judge’s training and enjoying hybridizing discussions with Jamie Gossard and Nicole DeVito. The auction brought in $7145 and after expenses we have a winter gathering profit of $5100. Thanks to all those who bid on about 150 daylilies. The Spring On-Line auction is in progress and will continue into April so please help support Region 11 with your participation. Thanks for your support, Lois Hart Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, ANYONE can start from NOW and make a brand new ending. Carl Bard 2012 MoKanOk Daylily ~7~ Treasurer’s Report--Lois Hart, Treasurer CHECKING ACCOUNT BALANCE 1/1/2012 FINANCIAL ACTIVITY MOKANOK Advertising Donations-MoKanOk Out of region subscription Postage Reimbursement-AHS Printing and mailing Production Total/Net WINTER GATHERING Registration Plant Auction Silent Auction Chinese Auction Speaker's travel hotel Speaker's fees Hotel Expenses Miscellaneous expenses Total/Net $38,606.36 INCOME $ $ $ 200.00 1,000.00 18.00 $ 1,218.00 $ $ $ $ 4,353.00 7,145.00 104.00 416.00 $ 12,018.00 EXPENSES NET $ 1,218.00 $ (1,552.61) $ (500.00) $ (4,117.04) $ (748.19) $ (6,917.84) $ 5,100.16 $ - $ 107.05 $ - $ 0.36 INTERNET AUCTION Internet auction-Spring Internet auction-Fall Total/Net $ 107.05 $ 107.05 MISCELLANEOUS OPERATING EXPENSES Director's Expense RPD Expense AHS Insurance Donations-Operations Donations-Memorials Interest $ Office expense Total/Net $ 0.36 0.36 CHECKING ACCOUNT BALANCE 3/5/12 TOTAL ACTIVITY $45,031.93 $ 13,343.41 $ (6,917.84) $ 6,425.57 ~8~ MoKanOk Daylily Minutes of AHS Region 11 Regional and Club Officers’ Meeting Saturday, February 18, 2012 Hilton Southern Hills Hotel, Tulsa, OK The meeting of regional and club officers took place in conjunction with the annual Winter Gathering. Present were Randall Barron, Region 11 President; Irene Johnson, Youth Liaison; Lois Hart, Treasurer; Michael Bouman, Secretary; Brenda Jindra, Historian; Mary Lou Lundblade, Regional Director; Ron Azzanni, WG Registrar; Harry and Sharron Gregory, MoKanOk Editors; Connie True (Wichita club), Lois DeKamp (Central OK club), Richard Longberg (Vice President of the Wichita club), Connie Snow (MoKan club), Barbara Anderson (Tulsa club), and Bob Tankesley-Clarke (Central MO club). President Randall Barron called the meeting to order at 7:30 am. Minutes of the Summer 2011 Regional Meeting: approved as printed in the MoKanOk Treasurer’s Report: Lois Hart explained the marketing ideas behind staging an internet auction in February and March. Ours has begun already and she needs donated plants to keep our auction lively. Old Business: Randall Barron underlined the need to secure sponsoring clubs for the 2014 and 2015 Regional meetings. It’s urgent that we work around challenges and restore a sensible order of geographical movement for our regionals. New Business: The MoKanOk will need a new Editor in 2013. The Gregory’s have maintained our high standard during their tenure and have given a year’s notice that it’s time to bring in new talent. Randall said that his review of all the other regional publications makes him very proud of ours. He thinks the MoKanOk is one of the best. This year the terms of Regional President and Regional Director expire in the same year, so both positions have to be filled by postal ballot. A nominating committee of three people, one from each state, will be selected at the business meeting tomorrow. The meeting adjourned at 9 a.m. Spring Minutes of the Region 11 Business Meeting Sunday, February 19, 2012 Hilton Southern Hills Hotel, Tulsa, OK Before the meeting was called to order, President Randall Barron awarded various attendance prizes. The “Bragging Bell” for the club with the highest number of registrants at Winter Gathering went to the Tulsa club for the second year in a row. Club members kept their bragging civil and within reason. A drawing for winners of the top two “early registration” prizes awarded Gossard’s VENUS FLY TRAP to Barbara Anderson and Niswonger’s GASPING FOR BREATH to Brenda Jindra. A third drawing open to all other registrants was won by Dave Niswonger, who will receive Nicole DeVito’s 2012 sizzler, CAN’T TOUCH THIS. Barbara Anderson won Gossard’s KING COBRA for the largest auction wins. Randall recognized Regional award winners: Jess Danner of Topeka won the AHS Tri-Color Award. The Region 11 Service Award went to Steve and Jane Amy, and the Jerry Mix Memorial Award went to Rick Pearce. Randall called the business meeting to order at 11:00 a.m. The minutes were approved as printed in the MoKanOk. Treasurer Lois Hart reported that we ended the year $6,300 in the black thanks to the Winter Gathering auction. Randall emphasized the need for clubs to sponsor the 2014 and 2015 regional meetings. We are out of rotation and need to get things lined up again. Randall called for applicants for the position of MoKanOk Editor beginning in 2013. Randall asked for nominations from each state to form a three-person nominating committee to find candidates for Regional President and Regional Director. Those present elected by acclamation Ron Azzanni (MO), Brenda Jindra (OK), and Mary Lou Lundblade (KS). The meeting adjourned at 11:30 a.m. Michael Bouman, Region 11 Secretary 2012 MoKanOk Daylily ~9~ Region 11 Garden Judges and Instructors by Michael Bouman, Region 11 Garden Judges Liaison As of March 29, Region 11 has a net loss of seven Garden Judges. We added one new Garden Judge in 2011 and lost eight, I regret to say. Kansas leads the region in Garden Judges and Instructors. Our Wichita instructors are willing and able to travel to Oklahoma to help increase the number of Garden Judges there. I am willing to travel anywhere in Region 11 to teach Garden Judges Workshops. Workshop I is always offered at our Winter Gathering and Workshop II is always offered at our Regional meeting. Both workshops are offered at the National Convention. Here is a listing, by state, of our Garden Judges and Instructors, with the year their current appointment expires. All judges are appointed for a term of five years and must apply for reappointment at the end of the fifth year. Kansas Missouri JANE AMY 2013 KATHLEEN BOUMAN 2015 STEVE AMY 2013 MICHAEL BOUMAN 2012 ROBIN CALDERON 2013 JUDITH DURMAN 2013 FLOANNA CROWLEY 2014 MARY PAT HYDEN 2012 CLAUDE W EVANS 2016 ROBERT MC CONNELL 2012 LINDA J FARRIS 2015 SEAJAY MOCK 2015 GEORGE PETTUS SHERRYL FITZPATRICK 2016 DIANA PLAHN 2014 HARRY GREGORY 2016 JO ANN REAGAN 2014 SHARRON GREGORY 2016 HANK RIGGS 2013 ANN HERROD 2016 HARRIET RIGGS 2013 LOIS E HART 2016 KELLY RIGGS 2014 IRENE JOHNSON 2013 ROBERT E RIGGS 2014 VIRGINIA KIMBALL 2016 CAROL SCHULTZ 2014 CONNIE LARKIN 2016 STEWART SMITH CINDY LINDQUIST 2016 (Instructor) BOB TANKESLEYCLARKE 2013 (Instructor) MARY LOU LUNDBLADE 2015 (Instructor) ERIC 2013 (Instructor) CATHY MINKLER 2013 (Instructor) TANKESLEYCLARKE ANN REDMON 2015 PATTI S WATERMAN 2013 MARJORIE STUCKY 2013 DAN WHITE 2011 JO ANN WHITE 2012 STEVE THIEN 2013 ANDREA WEAVER 2016 CLINT BARNES 2012 DENNIS C WHITE 2016 RANDALL BARRON 2013 VALORIE WHITE 2012 BRENDA JINDRA 2015 ANN B LARGE 2016 MARTHELLA SHOEMAKE 2012 (Instructor) (Instructor) (Instructor) (Instructor) (Honarary) (Honorary) Oklahoma ~ 10 ~ MoKanOk Daylily Spring A Note from the Editors, Happy New Growing Season to everyone! We were very skeptical about what Spring would bring after last summer’s extreme heat. We did lose a couple of trees, two shrubs and a few daylilies that had already died by the end of the summer. But a mild winter and early spring has brought an unbelievably lush garden to life. So many of our daylilies went dormant during the heat last year--perhaps the extra rest and the mild weather has brought them back stronger than ever! Personally we were also blessed to have no damage from the barrage of tornadoes that recently streaked across Oklahoma & Kansas. Hopefully no one in the Region was seriously affected. What a scary time--reminds us of the amazing power of nature! Winter Gathering was another tremendous success. While we love visiting the summer gardens, Winter Gathering provides a special place and time for sharing knowledge and plans about daylilies with many old and new daylily friends. If you missed this event, you need to make plans to attend next year. You won’t be sorry! On a sad note for us, we have given Randall and the Board notice that we will be doing the MoKanOK for the rest of this year only. We have been editors for four years now and feel it is time to turn it over to someone new. We are both retired and want to schedule more travel and activities so we need a little more time than we have now. We will miss it but must set some new priorities. After starting out with no publishing background, we have learned so many new skills. But the best part has definitely been making many new Region 11 friends. Everyone has been so supportive! There has really has been so much that we have received just by serving as Editors. If anyone is interested in the position, be sure to contact Randall. We will be still be here to help you in any ways we can! And call or email us if you have any questions about what is involved. Looking forward to seeing everyone in Kansas City, Sharron & Harry Gregory ASK THE OMBUDSMAN -- WHAT IS THE FOR MEMBERS ONLY PORTAL? Part One – Why do we need the For Members Only Portal? By Donna Peck, AHS Ombudsman, with comments from Julie Covington and Mary Collier Fisher Over the past several years, it became clear to several Board members that a different method for the rapid updating of AHS information on the web was needed. The type of platform that supported www.daylilies.org changes were extremely labor intensive for our capable Webmaster. The AHS President asked Technology Chair and Committee to research additional methods. In the course of that research several social networking companies were identified. The concept of AHS having an interactive social networking site that would not only allow materials to be uploaded from PDF documents easily but that would expand greatly the services we could offer our members. This was discussed widely among the Board, Staff and Committee Chairs who felt it would be an enhancement to our Membership Services. So in May 2010, at the Board of Directors meeting in Valdosta Georgia, the Membership Chair, Joe Goudeau, noted that this research was underway to explore the feasibility of establishing a member’s only section on the web. When Joe brought the proposal up again for a vote at the fall 2010 fall board meeting, the AHS Board of Directors approved funding to authorize the development of the Members Only Portal. The site opened for members in early March, 2011. The Portal has now been set up for nearly a year, and I am still getting questions about WHY AHS is doing this and HOW it works. This column is devoted to the WHY question. Next time we will have the HOW column. 2012 MoKanOk Daylily ~ 11 ~ WHY DO WE NEED A MEMBERS ONLY PORTAL? Over the last decade, AHS has been seeking incentives for individuals to join AHS and incentives to retain members. Membership numbers had been declining steadily since 2002. The voucher program is working very well, the trial membership we started last year has over 200 members who have already joined, and our fantastic Daylily Journal is a must read for daylily growers. Our Board and our membership chair, Joe Goudeau, kept trying to provide members with more benefits. By the fall 2010 Board meeting in Columbus, Ohio Membership and Technology presented the proposal that AHS work with the Your Membership firm to build a robust social networking site for AHS Members only, to enhance the capabilities AHS has to provide services and information to members. This proposal passed the Board unanimously. The site could be used to search for AHS member’s name, city and state by other members, for Regional and National Publications, for educational forums, regional and other groups such as Garden Judges, promotion of regional and local activities via community and regional calendars, automatic reminders of many AHS deadlines including membership renewal via email messages. It provides members with a safe environment to post pictures, participate in a forum and connect with other members. It even allows a protected group for our AHS youths to network about daylilies without non-youth members allowed. The benefits are still being explored and developed. Another benefit many members took advantage of over the holidays was the AHS store which has daylily merchandise. Tee Money has volunteered to design some great daylily merchandise. She is even able to accommodate one -time special orders for clubs and groups. The Members Portal is a source of ‘One-stop Shopping’ for our members. Items can be purchased, memberships can be issued or renewed, donations can be made, interesting programs can be purchased (some are even free) using credit cards, echecks, and PayPal. Julie Covington, AHS President, mentions that “beginning with the Spring 2012 issue, you will be able to view the Daylily Journal online at the Portal. The pages are viewable in a PDF ‘Book format,’ and you can also zoom in on pictures and articles on each page. Under the ‘Daylily Journal’ tab will be a complete page of archived items reprinted from past Journals and you can suggest other articles you’d like to see added. Several other changes have been made to the front page. We are featuring different members on the left rail, and hope to do that more frequently in 2012. Be sure to look under the ‘Contact Us’ tab, where you can find a link to a leader of all AHS sponsored robins and other ‘go to’ people, as well as contact information for the Portal leaders, AHS officers, Staff and Special Chair contacts. Another new tab is called ‘Administrative Files.’ While this contains AHS and Regional files, this page is not intended for Regional and National officers only, as we wish to keep the working of this organization transparent for all of our members. One feature on the page is called ‘Regional Offices at a Glance.’ Anyone who is asked to accept a position as a Regional Officer or Liaison can check these pages and quickly find out what is involved in the job! The direct link to the Portal is http:// www.daylilynetwork.org. Another way is to go to the AHS website (www.daylilies.org) and then, click on the AHS Home page. When that appears, look on the left hand side and click on AHS Members Portal. Next column Julie Covington along with MaryAnn Pruden, Portal community Manager, will discuss in more details about HOW to access the Portal including how to find your password (which I’ve had many questions about). Also check out the excellent Portal article in the 2012 Spring Journal written by Sandy Holmes. If you have any comments about the WHY we have the portal and the information that Julie and Mary have given here, please email me and I’ll include that in the next column….email me at [email protected] . I’m hoping to hear from you, either with your positive comments about the Portal or further concerns you’d like to discuss concerning this subject. Always try to grow in your garden some plant or plants out of the ordinary, something your neighbors never attempted. For you can receive no greater flattery than to have a gardener of equal intelligence stand before your plant and ask “What is that? Richardson Wright ~ 12 ~ MoKanOk Daylily Spring Our New Youth Members by Rick and Irene Johnson, Region 11 Youth Committee Chairs It was exciting this year to have two youth attend our Winter Gathering Meeting. Youth attendees were: Ashton Lopp (aka kidfishing) from Spencer, Oklahoma and Rebecca Barron of Bixby, Oklahoma. Rebecca is the granddaughter of Randall Barron, our Regional President, and she has entered daylilies in the Tulsa Area Daylily Show. Ashton Lopp and Rebecca Barron at the Saturday night dinner during Winter Gathering. Welcome to both of you--hope you had a wonderful time! Ashton and his dad had a chance to visit with Region 11 hybridizer, Dave Niswonger Ashton is interested in hybridizing daylilies. We hope he and Rebecca enjoyed the knowledge and enthusiasm at this meeting to help them along in their future years of gardening. This year our youth were presented a $50.00 coupon towards their daylily purchase at our Winter Gathering Auction held Saturday evening. It was fun and exciting to see those two bidding and winning several daylilies. Most of us wish we had gotten into daylilies at their young age and have the opportunity to meet more daylily hybridizers and the knowledge they share with us. Youth Group Contest on the AHS Membership Portal https://daylilies.site-ym.com Each of these tasks must be done at least once a month. Contest runs from April 1 to July 31, 2012 Every month there will be a drawing for a daylily donated by a member of the AHS Youth Committee. At the end of the contest, there will be a grand prize drawing for a new daylily from MN hybridizer, Karol Emmerich. 1. Upload a photo. (Add a photo to the group album or your personal album.) 2. Post to a forum. (Write a message or start a new topic.) 3. Post to the wall. (Write a message longer then two words.) Bonus task, for qualifying contestants, gives you an extra chance in the grand prize drawing. Add or change something in your profile, one time, during To qualify for the grand prize drawing, perform the monthly the contest’s four month period. required tasks, every month, during the contest’s four Official rules are posted on the portal. For questions or asmonth period. sistance, contact the Youth Chairperson. Required tasks must be performed within the youth group Refer to your AHS membership card, included with the on the portal: spring 2011 Daylily Journal, for portal sign on information. To qualify for the monthly drawing, perform the monthly required tasks. 2012 MoKanOk Daylily 2012 Festival of Daylilies Schedule June 29-July 1 FRIDAY – June 29 9:00 - 4:00 2:00 - 7:00 2:00 - 6:00 2:00 - 6:00 3:00 - 4:00 4:00 - 5:00 6:00 - 7:00 7:00 - 9:30 9:30 - ? Open Gardens Registration Boutique Hospitality Suite Executive Board Meeting Hybridizer Round Table Dinner on your own Social Hour Plant Auction Hospitality Suite SATURDAY – June 30 6:00 - 7:15 Registration 6:00 - 7:00 Breakfast 7:00 Buses begin loading 7:30 Buses depart for Knoche & Hart Gardens 11:30 Lunch @ Knoche Garden 12:30 Buses depart for Overland Park Arboretum 1:30 - 4:30 Exhibition II Class at Hotel 12:30 - 2:30 Garden Judge II at Knoche Garden 3:30 Buses return to Hotel 3:30 - 5:30 Boutique 3:30 - 5:30 Hospitality Suite open 4:00 - 5:00 Executive Board and Club Officers Meeting 6:00 - 7:00 Social Hour 7:00 - 9:00 Banquet, Guest Speaker-Don Herr 9:30 Silent Auction/Chinese Auction end (Items to be picked up by 10:30) 9:30 - ? Hospitality Suite SUNDAY – July 1 6:00 - 7:00 Breakfast 7:00 Buses begin loading 7:30 Buses Depart to Hamilton, Durham, Niemeyer, Yelenik Gardens 12:00 - 12:15 Buses return to hotel 12:15 Lunch and Region 11 Business Meeting 1:45 Meeting adjourned ~ 13 ~ ~ 14 ~ MoKanOk Daylily Spring Festival of Daylilies -- Hosted by the Mo-Kan Daylily Society -Kansas City, Missouri Judith Durham Garden This garden is a great example of a “big town” garden. A city lot has been transformed into a formal garden full of random splendor. Judy was born and raised in Independence, and has spent 30 years creating this spontaneous yet mature garden landscape. Judy learned her gardening skills from her mother, who was always planting something new. It’s no surprise then that Judy says, “I’m always changing things – a garden is in constant motion.” Her garden is set out along formal lines, but the plants are set in at random, creating a lively, spontaneous feel. Although relatively small in size, you will find 250 daylily varieties, 50 peonies, 30 iris and over 100 varieties of daffodils planted between the daylilies, as well as phlox, crape myrtle, clematis, Japanese maples, magnolias and a long list of other varieties nestled in to create a unique and personal space. Her tall garden phlox reseed and as long as it stays at the back of the beds, she leaves it alone to grow and mature. In August, the garden is a sea of pink. Judy became interested in daylilies more or less accidentally – or perhaps it was divine intervention! At any rate, she was driving down the road one day and spotted a woman working in her garden. She stopped to talk with the woman and admire her garden. Judy had grown daylilies in the past, but not the kind she saw in this garden. The local daylily club held its garden tour the next day and Judy’s new friend invited her to come along to see other local gardens. Judy became an AHS member on the spot. The rest, as they say, is history for this avid collector. 2012 MoKanOk Daylily ~ 15 ~ Carl Hamilton Garden Carl grew up in rural Southeast Kansas near the town of Columbus where his mother had large vegetable and flower gardens. She shared what she grew with neighbors, friends and relatives. She was fond of telling Carl “the vegetables are for the stomach and the flowers are for the spirit.” His interest in flower gardening began during this time. Carl retired in 2004 after 33 years of teaching. That summer he dug the first garden. It had just four daylilies along with some other plants. The next year garden #2 was dug and had 20 daylilies. Well, fifteen more garden areas later, 260 more daylilies and as they say, "the rest is history". Carl’s gardens are very eclectic. Daylilies are by far the most numerous plants but he has a mixture of perennial plants and shrubs that bloom from spring to fall. Interspersed among the perennials are colorful, hardy annuals like vincas, marigolds and petunias. The gardens have art, stones, birdfeeders, solar lighting and other objects of interest. Carl’s daylily tastes are very eclectic, too. No one type appeals to Carl - even the year they were registered varies greatly. It's a garden area that has something for everyone from morning to night. Over the past two years Carl has been busy creating a garden honoring both family and friends. He is planting daylilies for his late wife Sandy, his daughters, friends and other family members. This "family and friends" garden has been a very enjoyable undertaking. Carl took some of his daylilies and planted a garden at the courthouse in his hometown. Carl hopes to begin doing some hybridizing. He finds that he really enjoys learning from other club members and visiting their gardens. ~ 16 ~ MoKanOk Daylily Spring Lois & Bill Hart Garden Lois and Bill sell antiques at a local mall as their hobby and Lois operates a stained glass business. Bill is not a gardener, but he is a member of two Garden Railroad clubs! A MoKan club member and AHS member since 1994, Lois has served as treasurer for the MoKan club and is currently co-vice-president. She also holds the office of Region 11 Treasurer. She helps to coordinate the Internet auctions, which are the primary fundraising events for Region 11. She is a big fan of the Region 11 Winter Gatherings, having attended each of them. She hosts an open house nearly every year for the local community to learn about daylilies Lois and Bill live on 40 wooded acres. When they built their home in 1992, Lois’ boss advised her to buy some daylilies, since they were low maintenance. She ordered a few pink and apricot daylilies from Gilbert Wild in 1993. As soon as they bloomed, she immediately ordered red and purple ones to mix in, because she thought the pastels were too boring! She now has just over 900 varieties.” Lois also has quite a large selection of shade plants, perennials, hostas and lilium. Lois confesses, “I consider myself a collector, as I do not hybridize. I really like the various forms and have over 130 doubles and 150 spiders & UFs”. Lois has 68 cultivars eligible for the Region 11 hybridizer’s award. We think you’ll be surprised as you walk through the many gardens here. Watch for garden art of a whimsical nature. Lois and Bill have planned a very secluded, lovely landscape enriched with daylilies galore. P.S…don’t forget to ask to see Bill’s “garden railroad”. 2012 MoKanOk Daylily ~ 17 ~ Elroy and Loreta Knoche Garden The Knoche Garden is a sprawling, wandering wonderland situated on a several acre country location. Loreta says that she just plants where she has room, and she has a lot of room here! You will find a dry streambed with a lovely bridge, giant rocks, a beautiful garden cottage/playhouse, a bottle tree and did I mention ROCKS? Large rocks, small rocks, tiny rocks – all gathered over a lifetime of collecting. The same can be said for the gardens too; all the materials have been gathered and cherished over a lifetime. Elroy prefers vegetable gardening, but does include his spectacular selections of cockscomb among his veggies. Loreta prefers just about anything else that blooms. You will find peonies, iris, hosta, coneflower, cleome, balsam, zinnias, ornamental grasses, vines, flowering trees, and of course, daylilies planted all around the house and in large beds throughout the grounds. Elroy and Loreta moved to their current home 27 years ago and didn’t know anyone in the neighborhood. Loreta started visiting a neighbor lady who had a barn full of antiques and crafts. One day she asked if Loreta liked daylilies, and Loreta told her she really didn’t care for those ugly orange things. Well, she didn’t have any ugly orange things, she had a good collection of modern daylilies, and Loreta was hooked. From the formal to the whimsical and from the newest daylilies to older cherished favorites to the seedlings from Loreta’s hybridizing talents, you will find a love of gardening and a relaxed natural atmosphere that fairly bubbles with the Knoches’ personality. ~ 18 ~ MoKanOk Daylily Spring Mary Niemeyer Garden Located just 3 miles from her childhood home, Mary’s garden began about 19 years ago when she purchased her current home and began adding new flower beds. Mary’s sister-in-law introduced her to daylilies, but a visit to the local Lenington Daylily Garden was the catalyst to begin collecting in earnest. Her garden now plays host to 350+ varieties of daylilies. Mary admits to being partial to spiders and UFs and there are now about 70 varieties. You’ll also find an abundance of companion plants. There are seven rose bushes scattered about the garden along with coneflowers, coreopsis, clematis, hostas, ferns, and lavender. There are also burning bushes, red twig dogwoods, boxwoods, and a crape myrtle. Walking through this garden you will find many older daylilies mixed with the new. She lives here with her husband Gary, and with Cosmos the cat. She is active in the community volunteering at the Kaufman Gardens. She is on the Membership Committee for the MoKan Daylily Society and helps with plant cleaning and the two annual daylily sales the club hosts. As you stroll through this charming garden, be sure to meet Cosmos, Mary’s big orange tabby. Cosmos helps with critter control in the garden! Two water fountains supply the soothing sound of water and a large Magnolia tree lends shade and provides the perfect setting for hostas, ferns and coral bells. A trumpet vine adorns her arbor and attracts hummingbirds while a bird feeding station and birdbath provide a beckoning habitat for songbirds, and a perfect backdrop for bird watching. On the south side of the house there is a small raised vegetable bed for tomatoes and peppers and also an area for more flowers. 2012 MoKanOk Daylily ~ 19 ~ Gayle Yelenik Garden Gayle got her gardening genes from her grandmother who continued to love flowers up until the age of 103. When she was looking to buy her first house, Gayle prioritized having a yard, established trees, and space for gardens. Gayle credits one of her neighbors and good friend, Mary Niemeyer, with having “aided and abetted” her on her wonderful daylily journey. Mary introduced her to Lenington Gardens in Kansas City. Gayle and Mary became regulars and enjoyed talking and learning about daylilies from Bob and Alice Lenington. Gayle joined the MoKan Daylily Society and has been active on the Membership and Education committee, has helped with cleanings, plants sales, library displays and this Region 11 annual meeting. There are three sitting areas, each surrounded by daylilies and offering a different perspective of the gardens. There is a flagstone patio by the house, a small area by an old fireplace at the back of the yard, and a bench garden in one corner. Gayle invites you to sit a bit if you have a few minutes to spare on the tour. She has also dabbled in creating garden art--a rebar trellis, stepping stones and pottery. Her garden also provides much more--she loves cooking with herbs, harvesting vegetables, having fresh cut flowers and photographing daylilies to make garden note cards. Gayle’s backyard is informal and includes a variety of daylilies, 350 cultivars at last count! There are trees, shrubs, perennials, herbs, vegetables, annuals, wind chimes, and bird and hummingbird feeders. She likes growing plants that attract butterflies, hummingbirds, and beneficial insects to the gardens. She admits to not liking to mow, so each year she adds another flowerbed. OPEN GARDENS Mildred Meinke utilizes her space well in her beautiful English-style garden. Daylilies (over 400), roses, hostas, clematis, iris, fruits and vegetables all organized and labeled for visitors. Tom Collier grows over 500 daylilies including doubles, spiders, late bloomers and many specialty irises - all for sale. Worth the trip. Zena Purdum’s one acre yard has a 150-year-old walnut tree shading hostas, ferns, and liliums. There are daylilies (over 400) including ZENA and MAE WEST along with a vegetable garden. Definitely worth seeing. (For addresses and directions, see the tear-out schedule page.) ~ 20 ~ MoKanOk Daylily Spring Michael Bouman 624 Hidden Lake Drive St. Peters, MO 63376 636.284.7745 314.578.2716 Cell [email protected] 10-66 is my "Clearest Pink" from [Ed Brown x (Rose Impact x Great White)] X [Ain't She Nice x (Best Kept Secret x Rose Impact)] The exceptional clarity is coming from Stamile's AIN'T SHE NICE, and it's a nice surprise to get deeper pinks because all of my AINT SHE NICE keepers are the same perfectly clear shade of blue pink. 10-110 was among the best overall selections in 2011 and is a likely future from the excellent parents, LUNAR EMPIRE X THE GOLDILOCKS EFFECT. 10-65 is my "Clearest Rose" from [(Tarta x America's Most Wanted) x Michael Miller] X [Ain't She Nice x (Best Kept Secret x Rose Impact)]. I haven't had an established clump to measure because of the garden move last year. My only 2012 introduction is COME DOWN O LOVE DIVINE. Tetraploid, Heavily and heavenly ruffled pale yellow cream from Butter Cream x Victorian Lace. The flower is 6.75" across, 43" tall, dormant, midseason, early-morning opener, with 3 branches and 17 buds plus easy fertility. Flowers open perfectly every time, so a clump will become a dominant eye-catcher in the garden. $150 DF. (Photo at right) 06-08 is being increased for registration. I was one of my best overall plants in 2006, tall, wellbranched, always a perfect flower, and fertile. It is the parent of my best overall selection in 2011, so it's going to get a lot of breeding use while I increase it. Parents are CATALINA X VIRGINIA B. HANSON. 2012 MoKanOk Daylily ~ 21 ~ Jessie Emmons 39093 Maries Road Dixon, MO 65459 573.759.7085 Late July, 2009, Emmons, Techny Peach Lace X Sweet Summer Heat, 28 tall, 3 branches, 19 buds, 5.75 flower, LA Jesse's Bloomin Fool, 2008 Emmons, unknown x unknown, 30 tall, 4 branches, 20 buds, DOR M LA Mo River Sharkie, 2011, Emmons, seedling x Spiney Sea Urchin, 32 tall, 3 branches, 20 bud, 5.75 flower, SEV Sharks Teeth (Photo at left) Mo River Eyes, 2012, Emmons, Little Light of Mine X unknown, 25 tall, 3 way branching, 17 buds, 5.75 bloom, SEV Mo River Sun Set, 2011, Emmons, seedling x Spiney Sea Urchin, 34 tall M 2 branches, 15 buds 6 flower SEV Mo River Sun Rise, 2011, Emmons, Jack Carpenter seedling x Robes of the Queen, 30 tall 3 branches 20 buds 5.5 bloom SEV ~ 22 ~ MoKanOk Daylily Spring Sherryl Fitzpatrick 2869 N Tee Time Court Wichita, KS 67205 316.721.4810 [email protected] H. ‘Dancing Bees’ 27” 3” dor dip. Yellow with a red overlay, red eye and a yellow to green throat. It is an early bloomer and occasionally it will reblooms. Kathy Krattli 312 Capri Drive O’Fallon MO 63366 636.272.4266 [email protected] Seedling TTLNS9RS-3 Dor Dip 32"tall 8" bloom with candelabra branching. (Seedling x Rainbow Serpent) Seedling TTLNS3POD2 Dor Dip 26" tall 8" bloom, reblooms (seedling x seedling) Seedling ICDFA1 Dor Dip 27" tall 5.5" bloom A budbuilder and reblooms. (Ice Cream Dream x Frances Alicia) Seedling TTLNS9RS4 Dor Dip 60" tall 7.5" bloom with candelabra branching. (Seedling x Rainbow Serpent) 2012 MoKanOk Daylily ~ 23 ~ Carol (Seajay) Mock 232 Eugenia Street St. Louis, MO 63141 314.567.6353 [email protected] Seedling 264-11 Mid-late, diploid, bloom 6", scape 26", bud count 20 (pink pistil) Seedling 195-11 Midseason, diploid, bloom 6", scape 35", bud count 25-32 (bud builder) Seedling 151-11 Midseason, tetraploid, bloom 7", scape 39", bud count 26 Seedling 55-11 Midseason, diploid, bloom 8", scape 50", bud count 28 Seedling 282-11 Mid-late, tetraploid, bloom 6.5", scape 39", bud count 25-29 ~ 24 ~ MoKanOk Daylily Spring Ann Redmon 2232 Cedar Acres Manhattan, KS 66502 785.776.2480 [email protected] [email protected] Baby Blue Eyes kid Heavenly Flight of Angels sdlg 623 Grey Witch sdlg close Heavenly Flight of Angels sdlg bs x nwd probably 2012 MoKanOk Daylily ~ 25 ~ Bob Scott 10116 W Wilshire Yukon OK 73099 888.721.2022 [email protected] www. Bobscottnursery.com Seedling 10092 Seedling 11029 Seedling 11093 Seedling 11025 ~ 26 ~ MoKanOk Daylily Spring Gene & Velma Walker 545 Road 140 Emporia KS 6801 620.342.4091 [email protected] www.flinthillsdaylily garden.com Flint Hills Judy (Walker 2011) 28” EM 6.75” Bright yellow-gold with a green throat, and yellow-gold eye zone, Bright gold edging on petals, SEV Tet A vigorous growing plant. (Border Lord x unknown) Flint Hills Aloha Velma (Walker 2011) 28” ERE 5.5” Bright fuschia pink bitone with a gold-green throat and gold eye zone. A heavily ruffled very vigorous daylily with four-way branching and 20 buds. Dor Tet (Leslie Renee x Pink Aloha) Flint Hills Jerry (Walker 2011) 24” E 4” Ruby tones with a large dark wine eye zone, green throat, SEV Tet A real “eye catcher,” in the garden. (Lavender Blue Baby x Flint Hills Blush) Flint Hills Karen (Walker 2011) 26” EM 5.5” Bright purple self with gold-green throat and light ruffled gold edging on petals. It has very heavy substance. SEV Tet Three-way branching with 15+ buds. (Flint Hills Royal Braid x Unknown) Flint Hills Sheila (Walker 2011) 28” EM 6.5” Rose-purple blend bitone with a gold-green throat, and a “pie crust”, gold edging on petals. This is an exquisite flower in the garden. Three-way branching with 15+ buds. EV Tet (Flint Hills Party Prince x Unknown) 2012 MoKanOk Daylily ~ 27 ~ Patti Waterman 138 Whippoorwill Lane Linn, MO 65051 573.897.2694 [email protected] H. 'Developing Story' Waterman 2011/12 34" EM Re 4.75" Dor Ext Dip 4 branches 35 buds H. ‘Sweet Talkin' Tom' Waterman 2011/12 29" EM Re 6.5" Dor Ext Dip 3 branches, 18 buds H. 'Music Please' H. 'Happy Dance' Waterman 2011/12 33" ML 5.5" Dor Ext Dip 2 branches, 17 buds Waterman 2011/12 28" M 5.5" Dor Ext Dip 3 branches; 35 buds - bud builder H. 'Cock of the Walk' Waterman 2011/12 33” M 6.75” Dor Noc Dip 3 branches; 19 buds ~ 28 ~ MoKanOk Daylily Spring Dan White 2457 Kinder Place Glen Carbon, Il 62034 618.288.3577 [email protected] HTVF8 R2 Venus Flytrap kid Tet 6.5 inch bloom, 28 inch scape, 15-20 buds, 3 way branching Thorny Issues Dan White 2012, Tet 6 inch bloom, 30 inch scape, Yellow self with toothy edge. ( Heal Thy Spirit X Jaws of Life) FT401 Heavenly Pink Fan kid Tet 6 inch bloom, 25 inch scape, 15-20 buds, 3 way branching. Sun Bear kid Tet 6 inch bloom, 28 inch scape,18 buds, 3 way branching Plum Blue Velvet Dan White 2012, Tet 5 inch bloom, 27 inch scape, Plum with blue eye and light wire edge, ( Hologram X Ashwood Blue Highway) 2012 MoKanOk Daylily Jo Ann White 2457 Kinder Place Glen Carbon, Il 62034 618.288.3577 [email protected] TASTE de VIN Jo Ann White 2012 Tet 5 inch bloom, 28 inch scape..dark wine with velvet texture, slight ruffles edge above yellow to green throat (Father Joseph Foster X Velvet Haze) ET231...Orange City Kid Tet 6 inch bloom, 29 inch scape Orange with red eye ET 374 (Father Joseph Foster X Jane Mahn) Tet 5.5 inch bloom, 28 inch scape, 20+ buds, dark velvet purple w/darker eye ET614-949 427 Tet 6.5 inch bloom, 28 inch scape, Orange red brown color with texture ridge above a dark burgundy eye ~ 29 ~ ~ 30 ~ MoKanOk Daylily Spring CLUB HAPPENINGS Welcome to all the new or returning club reporters. The special topic for the next issue will be membership recruitment. Membership overall has been recently declining. Does your club have any tips for ways to reach potential new members? Do you offer special benefits and provide ways to keep new members involved once they join? You input may be a huge help to another struggling club. Let’s all work together to help raise membership in Region 11! Bluestem Daylily Society by Marcia (Kaye) Waite The daylilies are up and growing well due to the very mild winter we had here in Kansas, so we wonder what’s in store for us during the rest of spring and summer! Hopefully, it won’t be as hot and dry as 2011! Fund-raising activities for 2012 include our daylily sale held May 12th from 10:00-5:00 at the Central Mall in Salina; selling potted daylilies during our bloom show July 7th, also at the Central Mall from 10:00-5:00; and holding a silent auction during our September 6th meeting held at the Carver Center in Salina, 6:30 pm – about 8:30 pm. Our speaker for the March meeting was Darrin Wright, a member of our club who works for the city parks department and also landscapes as a secondary business. He spoke about xeriscaping. The program for April was the AHS media program, “Shapes of Distinction”. Both programs were quite informative and interesting. We will not have a speaker again until our October 4th meeting, and at this time the speaker is as yet unconfirmed. Website: www.bluestemdaylilysociety.com. Central Missouri Hemerocallis Society by Nancy Rold 2012 is of to a good start here in central Missouri. Our new officers have put together an excellent program for the year which kicked off with a February program by member and Master Gardener Billie Long on the always popular topic, “Moles and Voles”. Billie will return April 15 to discuss the weeds that plague us. Meanwhile spring arrived early with unseasonably warm temps in March followed by welcome rain. We are hoping that the showers will continue and bring us an abundance of daylily blooms for our annual daylily flower show and photography exhibit on June 23. Also, we are hoping that daylily enthusiasts from all around the region will join us for a presentation by hybridizer Mark Carpenter on October 14. Get the details on all these programs from our website at: www.centralmodaylily.org Our annual daylily sale on August 26 will be our main fundraiser of the year. We set up booths at two local farmers markets and sell from opening bell until we sell out. Plants have been separated, washed and tagged in the evenings of the previous week at work nights that are accompanied by much laughter and fellowship. The markets help us with advertising and we have many regular customers who come to see what we have to beautify their gardens. Some know exactly what they want and others ask for recommendations. Some are even glad to get a bargain grabbag of plants whose tags were lost. Late in the morning plant prices are reduced if necessary for quick sale. When we have had leftover plants at the closing bell, they have been donated to the city park “Adopt a Spot” program. Another fundraising idea that we have used in the past was to auction off newly divided plants to fellow members during our April meeting. This was particularly effective when we wanted to raise some “seed money” for regional meeting preparations. Central Oklahoma Hemerocallis Society by Theresa Beecham Our club fundraising includes a spring and fall daylily sale and a plants-for-members auction. Plants-for-members is mainly for getting newer cultivars in our members' gardens. Members in good standing get two fans, keep them for one to two years, returning the extra fans for the next auction (keeping two) . The auction is more a break even project. Spring Daylily Sale - Saturday, April 21 - 8:00am to 2:00pm - Will Rogers Park Fall Daylily Sale - Saturday, September 15 - 8:00am to 2:00pm - Will Rogers Park Plants-for-Members Auction - Friday, Sept. 21 - 6:00pm 9:00pm Program to be announced. Covered dish dinner, Club pro vides meat dish. - Will Rogers Park 2012 MoKanOk Daylily Club Happenings: We will be taking a bus to AHS, Region 11 Convention and Garden Tours in Independence, MO, June 29th. We will be stopping at Judy Faraboughs garden on the way and will pick up some Tulsa people there. We will also stop in Wichita to pick up some more people. If interested in joining the bus trip, call Ann Large. The cost of the bus ride is about $60. (mol) We will have a garden tour to the Bustani Plant Farm in Stillwater and the OSU Garden. The Bustani owners, Steve and Ruth Owens, search for the best plants that perform well in warm summers. They have assembled a unique collection of hard-to-find plants. If interested in the tour, call or email Ann Large. [email protected] 1-405348-4746 Our May 18th speaker will be Randall Barron on the topic of grooming daylilies for show. 6:00pm - 9:00pm Visitors welcome. There will be a covered dish dinner with the club providing the meat dish. ~ 31 ~ ryone is welcome. Missouri Botanical Gardens has a new director and apparently he has planned a lot of new activities. So many, that we were not able to reserve the room where we usually have our big daylily sale in late August or early September. That’s really our only fund-raiser. So we are going to try something different this year. We have “digging parties’ planned where we hope to dig, divide and pot up members’ extra daylilies and then take them to local flea markets to sell. We hope this is successful. We have a “members’ only” auction for our May meetings, but this is not a money maker, we always just hope to break even. Looking forward to another daylily season and our Region 11 meeting in June. website: www.safehavengardens.com/gsds.html Mineral Area Daylily Society by Charles Pickett Flint Hills Hemerocallis Society by Ernie Minton In the fall/winter 2011 issue of the MoKanOk, we looked at the net profit from our club’s only principle fundraiser over the past several years. Although we collect nominal club dues from members, our major source of revenue is our fall plant sale. The graphic data we presented in the last issue suggested that new approaches to revenue generation will likely be important in coming years. In fact, at our first meeting of 2012, our treasurer’s report confirmed that our club expenses for 2011 exceeded our revenues—yikes! The requested topic for this submission to the MoKanOk was to be around club fundraising. We also look forward to learning of innovative ideas other clubs are utilizing to help resource the activities of their clubs. At this point, our fall plant sale remains our key fundraiser. It is scheduled for September 8, 2012, and we are hopeful the net profit trend line bends upward! The Greater St. Louis Daylily Society by Kathy Krattli Our first meeting of 2012 was held in Feb. with our usual carry-in dinner. Dan White gave an interesting program for our March meeting. We will have Mark Carpenter give a program for our April 20th meeting at 7:30. Eve- The Mineral Area Daylily Society holds two major fund raisers each year. The first, on Saturday, April 21st, is a MEMBERS_ONLY auction at the Farmington, Mo., Senior Center. The highlight for this event is bidding on the Pete Harry 2012 Daylily Collection, purchased especially for this. We are fortunate to have a number of nationally known daylily hybridizers in our membership. Through their generosity we are able to offer our members early access to their latest creations donated to both of our auctions. Our second auction takes place on Saturday, August 25th, also at Farmington, Mo., Senior Center. This one is open to the public. Throughout the year our club holds drawings for four Susan Menees, friend of the club, baked this sugary depiction of the Greek word from which our favorite flower gets its' name. How to depict the stamens? solution: chocolate dipped toothpicks with raisins on the ends! Dan and Joann White, (on the left), owners of Kinder Place Gardens, presented an informative program on their hybridizing in spider and UFO forms. (Bob Skaggs, Mineral Area Iris Society, president, is on the right) ~ 32 ~ MoKanOk Daylily door prizes at each meeting. Lucky winners are allowed to choose any new introduction up to $150.00 value and the club pays for it, as well as the shipping costs. They are then required to grow the daylily for a year and bring a plant of it, as well as a plant of any bonus varieties the grower may have included to this sale. Once members have returned their required plants they again become eligible to win a door prize. A feature eagerly awaited by our public is a special $1.00 table, where members bring extra plants of their tried and true classics to share with novice growers and possible future members. Mo-Kan Daylily Society by Judith Durham Greetings from the MoKan Daylily Society. Our club is busy getting ready for this summer's Regional Meeting. We will have six gardens on tour, two are larger ones and four not so large. The four smaller gardens are located in residential subdivisions and are great examples of what you can do with your own backyard. We have spent many hours planning for this event and hope you can plan to attend. Friday's auction will be hosted by Nikki Schmith and Don Herr will be Saturday's speaker. At our February meeting we had a Master Gardener from Miami County, Kansas give a presentation on attracting butterflies to your garden. Our April meeting will be our plant auction. Part of it is for cash and the other part will be for Daylily Dollars with volunteer hours as the currency. We are trying to get a nationally known speaker for October. Our plant sale in April is being moved to the Cave Spring Park in Raytown, MO. It is one of two sales we hold each year. The other one is at the end of August at the Loose Park Garden Center where we have our regular meetings. These are the only fund raisers we hold each year. Visitors are always welcome to our meetings. Ozark Daylily Club by Bev Long Fundraising: Our club’s primary fundraising activities are sales and we have had the most luck with combining our sales with other events held at the Springfield Botanical Center. After two years of having sales in conjunction with the Master Gardeners, we now hold our sale in conjunction with the Butterfly Festival which will be held on July 21st this year. Spring Special Program: April 14, 2012 Meeting 3-5 pm Botanical Center Program: Dr. Clydette Alsup-Egbers, Associate Professor of Horticulture, Missouri State University will present a program about tissue culture regarding creating new daylilies. Website: www.ozarkdaylily.org Prairie Winds Daylily Society by Connie Larkin My yard looks like a jungle and it's only the 12th of April! Everything looks happy and healthy, as is the club this year. Our year started off with a speaker, even before we had our 1st meeting! Tim Herrington came and spoke at Botanica on March 18th. Tim stayed with us…and he is truly a delightful southern gentleman. He gave a fantastic program and we were fortunate to have a few out of town guests from other clubs join us. Melanie Mason will be coming this Fall. We have her scheduled for 10-28, a Sunday, at Botanica. Please come if you have the opportunity. The club is gearing up for our Annual Plant Sale at Botanica on May 12th. We also have another fundraiser on June 23rd. The club is having an Open Garden in one of our member’s garden. The date is June 23rd. the location is 9412 W. Douglas, Wichita, Kansas. This will be at the home of Connie Larkin and open to the public. We look forward to seeing some of you at Regionals this summer. Topeka Daylily Club by Marian Quinlan The Topeka Daylily Club hold regular club meetings on the 4th Tuesday in the months of January, March, April, May, September and October at 7-9PM in the Preston Hale Room, 124 N. Fillmore, Topeka in Old Prairie Town. Rita and George Arnold from Arnold's Greenhouse in LeRoy, Kansas presented the January program. George opened the program, giving an overview of the Tallgrass Prairieland and his enthusiasm for re-establishing native plants to the landscape to help the environment. Rita presented a slide show of many new perennials and native plants. Open House at the Greenhouse in Leroy is planned for April 2, 2012. Program Schedule: February 17-19: Winter Gathering in Tulsa, OK Topeka Lawn and Garden Show (Expo Center) March 27: Hybridizer Richard Norris from Ash wood Gardens, Glouster, OH April 24: Randall Barron, Regional President 2012 MoKanOk Daylily May 22: June 23: June 29-July 1: July 7: July 11-14: August 18: September 25: October 23: December 7: Members Only Plant Auction Topeka Flower Show-Fairlawn PlazaTopeka Regional Meeting, Kansas City, MO Topeka Daylily Club Garden Tour with lunch AHS National Convention, Columbus, OH Plant Sale, Farmer's Market, Topeka Pizza Party -6:30PM- Garden House, Lake Shawnee-Tim Bell AHS slide show" Daylilies Over the Years-The Sky is the Limit." Christmas Party Tulsa Area Daylily Society by Susan Snodgrass We have two fund raisers yearly that are open to the public; the first is on June 9th this year. We host a potted plant sale in connection with our June Flower show. This is always a popular event. Members of the public come in and see all of the exquisite flowers that are grown in the members gardens and then they purchase plants, many of the plants are in bloom. Our second public sale is in September; this sale began as a bare root sale but has since morphed into a bare root and potted plant sale. We provide color pictures of most of the flowers and this is usually a really good fundraiser. During the year we hold member auctions for plants provided by hybridizers. This is a great way to place excellent plants in members' gardens, gives the hybridizer good exposure and provides funds for the club and the hybridizer. Website: www.tulsadaylily.org West County Daylily Club by Betsy Alexander Our 2012 calendar started with a program on March 2nd by Paul Owens, A Slightly Different Nursery. Paul gave a dynamic PowerPoint talk and auctioned recent introductions that he had brought with him. We are finalizing plans for a summer tour of local gardens. Details should be available for our April 13 meeting. Hopefully, this current weather won't set the bloom season off the usual peak. Our schedule for this year is rather different than previous years. ~ 33 ~ The first auction meeting is Friday, April 13, 7:30 pm at the Missouri Botanical Garden (MBG) Ridgeway Center, Beaumont Room. Our major fund raiser is a plant sale of daylilies donated from members' gardens, Saturday April 28, 7 am setup, MBG, Ridgeway Center's Beaumont Room. A regular meeting with a featured speaker is June 1, 7:30 pm, MBG Ridgeway Center, Missouri Room. The plant auction to benefit the Botanical Garden is Friday, August 10, 7:30pm, MBG Ridgeway Center's Missouri Room. The annual MBG plant sale is Saturday, September 15, setup 7 am in MBG's Ridgeway Center, Ortwein Hall. Our members run this sale. All proceeds go back to MBG for maintenance of its Jenkins Daylily Garden. The last regular meeting of the year is on Friday, September 28, 7:30 pm, MBG'S Commerce Bank Education Center, room 125. The Commerce Bank Education Center is west of MBG at the corner of Shaw and Kingshighway. There is free parking in the west parking lot. Our year ends with the annual banquet on Friday, November 2, the location to be determined. A nationally recognized hybridizer is the featured speaker. Check our website for updates and details of club news, meeting locations, program speakers. Website: westcountydaylilyclub.com Wichita Daylily Club by Lisa Fitzsimmons Fundraising events in 2012 for the Wichita Daylily Club include our annual sale August 25th at Botanica. This year we are also have a live auction of plants from Slightly Different Nursery, hybridizer was Paul Owens, at our April meeting, April 9, 2012. And at most of our meetings we will have a silent auction of 10 plants. Programs of Note Several clubs have already had guest hybridizers as speakers already this year. Two future programs are: 10-14 Mark Carpenter hosted by the Central MO Hemerocallis Society, Boone CO Univ. Ext. Ctr., 1:30 pm 10-28 Melanie Mason hosted by Prairie Winds Daylily Society, Botanica, 2:00 pm Members of other clubs are invited to attend. ~ 34 ~ MoKanOk Daylily Welcome to New Members: Pat Clayell 8067 Mapavi BRH 2 Bonne Terre Mo 63628 Ashton & Terry Lopp 6910 N Anderson RD Spencer OK 73084 Spring “Happiness must be grown in one’s own garden.” -- Mary Engelbreit Region 11 Club Officers Bluestem Daylily Society President: Faye Yoder Vice President: Marcia Waite (Kaye) Secretary: Karen Laas Treasurer: Becky Bates Reporter Marsha Waite Central Missouri Hemerocallis Society President: Vice President: Secretary: Treasurer: Reporter: Karen Blackmore Blaise Brazos Edyth Jenkins Carol Schultz Nancy Rold Central Oklahoma Hemerocallis Society President: Lois DeCamp 1st Vice President: Emily Elliot 2nd Vice President: Ann Large 3rd Vice President: Brenda Jindra Recording Sec.: Judith Miracle Treasurer: Nancy Kowalchyk Corresponding Secretary: Marthella Shoemake Reporter: Theresa Beecham Flint Hills Hemerocallis Society President: Vice President: Secretary: Treasurer: At-Large Member: Reporter Jim Parker Steve Amy Ernie Minton Ruby Zabel Frank Schmeidler Ernie Minton Greater St. Louis Daylily Society President: Vice President: Secretary: Treasurer: Reporter Carolyn Myers David Hoffman Judy Schneider Gayle Neumann Kathy Krattli Mineral Area Daylily Society President: Vice President: Secretary-Rec.: Secretary-Cor.: Treasurer: Reporter: Bob Skaggs Al Roderick Judy Skaggs Karen Sherrill Rod & Barb Gault Charles Pickett Mo-Kan Daylily Society President: Vice President: Vice President: Secretary: Treasurer: Reporter: Connie Snow Lois Hart Jane Shepherd Judith Durham Catherine Boyle Judith Durham Ozark Daylily Club President: Vice President: Secretary/Reporter: Treasurer: Frieda Alexander May Moore Bev Long Walt Long Prairie Winds Daylily Society President: Connie Larkin V-P/Program Chair: Sharron Gregory Secretary/Reporter: Pam Jakoplic Treasurer: Andrea Weaver Newsletter/Hist.: Harry Gregory Topeka Daylily Club President: Vice-President: Secretary/Reporter: Treasurer: Jess Danner Debra Cole Marian Quinlan Ann Redmon Tulsa Area Daylily Society President: Randall Barron Vice President: Barbara Gardener-Anderson Secretary: Jean Rodgers Treasurer: Emily Elliott West County Daylily Club President: Vice President: Secretary: Treasurer: Reporter: Bill Lenz Betsy Alexander Diane Hurwitz Chick Buehrig Betsy Alexander Wichita Daylily Club President: Vice President: Secretary/Reporter: Treasurer: Membership: Connie True Richard Longberg Lisa Fitzsimmons Sherryl Fitzpatrick Rick Mourning 2012 MoKanOk Daylily Lily Auction - Spring 2012 Plants That Are Still Available Cultivar Adam Pitkin Hurd April LaQuinta Best Kept Secret Beyond Thunderdome Carolina Biscuit Cherished Memories Classic Romance Conviction Dark Memories Destin Dreamin’ Dracula Dragonfly Charmer Elizabeth Salter Expo Florissant Rose Gadsden Light Georgiana Darcy Heaven’s Gatekeeper Horatio Alger Inherited Wealth Juan Tapia Judy Farquhar Lady Betty Fretz Last Lama Lexington Avenue Maelstrom Hybridizer Olson Petit Kirchhoff Curt Hanson Boatwright Salter Salter Tankesley-Clarke Tankesley-Clarke Bell Carter Harry Salter Tankesley-Clarke Harris Reinke Ware Smith, FR Pickles Carr Apps Stamile Petit Morss Munson Talbott Cultivar Hybridizer Metallic Butterfly Stamile Mountain Bluebird Selman O Soave Fanciulla Mock Ocean View Petit Oliver Billingslea Grace Orange Electra Stamile Patsy Carpenter Carpenter Pizzicato Tankesley-Clarke Renie’s Delight Kinnebrew Respighi Munson Reyna Peat Rose Odyssey Culver Roses in Snow Hansen, D Ruby Storm Stamile Scintillation in Pink Billingslea Seabiscuit Grace-Smith Sink into Your Eyes Lambertson Suburban Jim’s Memento Watts Suburban Pompadour Watts Supreme Tangerine Mock Sycamore Fruit Punch Bell Topguns Autumn Ruffle Scott Tea Cozy Mock Texas Big Red Carpenter Tongue Twister Tankesley-Clarke Contact Lois Hart for prices and availability. ~ 35 ~ ~ 36 ~ MoKanOk Daylily Spring American Hemerocallis Society Officers President Executive Secretary Editor - Daylily Journal Julie Covington 4909 Labrador Drive Roanoke VA 24012-8537 540.977.1704 [email protected] Pat Mercer P.O. Box 10 Dexter, GA 31019-0010 478.875.4110 [email protected] Meg McKenzie Ryan 1936 Wensley Ave El Centro, CA 92243 760.235.8243 [email protected] 2012 Region 11—Officers, Committee Chairs and Liaisons Region 11 Director Mary Lou Lundblade 511 W Ness Valley Center, KS 67147 316.755.1964 [email protected] RP - Randall L. Barron, Sr. 13539 South 91st East Avenue Bixby, OK 74008 918.369.1581 phone 918.691.5979 cell 918.369.1561 fax [email protected] RPD - Linda Farris 15726 SW 143rd ST Rose Hill, KS 67133 316-733-4608 [email protected] Treasurer - Lois Hart PO Box 100 Louisburg, KS 66053-0100 913-837-5209 [email protected] Secretary - Michael Bouman 624 Hidden Lake Drive St. Peters, MO 63376 636-284-7745 phone 314-578-2716 cell [email protected] New Member Liaison Linda Farris (See Above) Auction Co-Chairs Lois Hart (See above) Lisa Fitzsimmons 4820 N Glendale St Bel Aire, KS 67220 316.744.2789 [email protected] Historian - Brenda Jindra RR 1 Box 198 Cashion, OK 73016-9748 405.433.2217 [email protected] Newsletter Editors Harry & Sharron Gregory 1138 Amidon Ave Wichita, KS 67203 316.263.7608 [email protected] Electronic Communications Chair - John R. Eiseman 10133 Springwood Dr St. Louis MO 63124-1225 314-991-2838 [email protected] Exhibition Judges Liaison Elaine Holmstrom 4042 SE 34th St Topeka, KS 66605-3052 785-267-6316 [email protected] Service Award Chair Bob Tankesley-Clarke 31642 Wieneke Branch Rd. California, MO 65018-4044 573-796-3829 [email protected] Garden Judges Liaison Michael Bouman 624 Hidden Lake Drive St. Peters, MO 63376 636.284.7745 phone 314.578.2716 cell [email protected] Science Liaison Dr. Steve Thien, Professor of Soils Science KSU 3400 Windsor Court Manhattan, KS 66503-0335 [email protected] Hybridizer Liaison Dave Niswonger 822 Rodney Vista Blvd Cape Girardeau MO 63701 573.334.3383 capeiris@aolcom Editorial Advisory Committee Chair - Hank Riggs Jr. 904 Cowan Dr. Columbia, MO 65203-2306 573-875-2464 [email protected] @aol.com Youth Committee Chairs Irene & Rick Johnson 15355 Booth Creek Rd Olsburg, KS 66520 785-468-3692 Prairiewindgardens @twinvalley.net 2012 MoKanOk Daylily ~ 37 ~ Rates and Editorial Policy Submission of articles, club updates and pictures is very important to keeping The MoKanOk Daylily interesting to all members of Region 11. Please share local happenings and items of interest. All submissions are given equal consideration and will be published if at all possible. Submit all articles and photos to [email protected] Out of Region Subscription Rates: AHS Membership Membership is on the calendar year: January to December. $18.00 per year. Please send check to the editors payable to AHS Region 11. Individual Editorial Policy The American Hemerocallis Society Region 11 / The MoKanOk Daylily is published for the benefit of the American Hemerocallis Society members residing in Region 11. As such, the editorial focus of the publication centers on: 1) Hemerocallis, 2) AHS and Region 11 events, or 3) Region 11 members and hybridizers. Submissions are encouraged. The editors reserve the right to edit for space, grammar, and focus on the three criteria cited above. Submission Deadline Issue Publication Date March 15 Spring April 15 July 15 Summer/Fall September 1 October 15 Winter December 1 Advertising Rates: One issue -- Full Page - $100 Half Page - $75 Quarter Page - $30 Yearly Half Page - $200 Quarter Page - $75 -- Full Page $250 Region 11 Website: http://ahsregion11.org Looking Ahead *Summer Regionals* One year $25.00 Three years $70.00 Youth $10.00 Life $500.00 Dual (2 people, same household) One year $30.00 Three years $83.00 Life $750.00 New members are eligible to participate in the AHS voucher program. Send all dues, address changes, and membership inquiries to: Pat Mercer AHS Executive Secretary P.O. Box 10 Dexter, GA 31019 478-875-4110 [email protected] Make all checks payable to the American Hemerocallis Society. 2013 Tulsa Area Daylily Club June 14-16, 2013 AHS Website: http://www.daylilies.org ~ 38 ~ MoKanOk Daylily Spring Region 11 Club Presidents Bluestem Daylily Society Faye Yoder PO Box 23 107 W 2nd Brookville, KS 67425 785.341.0879 [email protected] Central Missouri Hemerocallis Society Karen Blackmore 2312 Deer Creek CT Columbia MO 65201 573.442.1873 573.808.5316 Cell [email protected] Central Oklahoma Hemerocallis Society Lois DeCamp 821 NW 9th St Moore OK 63160 405.794.3478 [email protected] Flint Hills Hemerocallis Society Jim Parker 1604 Barrington DR Manhattan KS 66503 785.537.2563 [email protected] Greater St. Louis Daylily Society Carolyn Myers 621 Packford DR Chesterfield MO 63017 314.308.5277 [email protected] Mineral Area Hemerocallis Society Bob Skaggs 5425 Peaceful Ridge House Springs MO 63051 314.706.3701 [email protected] MoKan Daylily Society Connie Snow 7306 Murkins RD Kansas City MO 64133 816.353.7825 [email protected] Ozark Daylily Club Frieda Alexander 4211 S Sulgrove AVE Springfield MO 65804 417.877.9406 [email protected] Prairie Winds Daylily Society Connie Larkin 9412 W Douglas AVE Wichita KS 67212 316.721.4903 [email protected] Topeka Daylily Club Jess Danner 2525 SW Fairmont Topeka, KS 66614 785.272.3621 [email protected] Tulsa Area Daylily Club Randall Barron 13539 S 91st E AVE Bixby OK 74008 918.369.1581 [email protected] West County Daylily Club Bill Lenz 5260 Ozarkglen DR St. Louis, MO 63128 314.487.6588 [email protected] Wichita Daylily Club Connie True 5441 W 79th St S Haysville, KS 67060 316.200.2111 [email protected] If you are not yet a Daylily E-News subscriber, you can sign up via the AHS website www.daylilies.org. Future National AHS Meetings 2012 Metropolitan Columbus Daylily Society – Columbus, Ohio July 11-15, 2012 – Region 2 2013 Hemerocallis Society of Minnesota - Minneapolis, MN July 24-27, 2013 - Region 1 2014 Western North Carolina Daylily Club - Ashville, NC June 25-30, 2014 - Region 15 Note: Dates are subject to change. 2012 MoKanOk Daylily ~ 39 ~ See pages 2 and 12 plus the Back Cover for more Winter Gathering News From Arkansas: Jim & Jane Mahan and Judie Branson From Colorado: Shelley & Susanne Thomas We were fortunate to have several wonderful out-ofregion guests join us. From Texas: Darren Heppel & Bob Harper The Bragging Bell Award went once again to the Tulsa club. For the second year in a row they had the most members in attendance. Huge congratulations to the Tulsa Area Daylily Society! BREAKING NEWS: The local sheriff brought to our attention that several of our Region 11 members were wanted for some serious ‘daylily crimes’. As you may notice, they include Bob Tankesley-Clarke, Mary Lou Lundblade, Randall Barron & Michael Bouman---all leaders in Region 11!! A very well-run auction of 150 spectacular daylilies bought in $7,145 so we ended up with a Winter Gathering profit of $5,100. Great job everyone! Two additional award winners were announced. The Tricolor Award to Jess Danner who won both the Topeka and National honors. And the Mavis Smith Service Award to Steve & Jane Amy. This will be presented at a later date. Did you notice that the group alsoincluded none other than our Regional President, Randall Barron! The Jerry Mix Award was presented by Randall Barron to Rick Pearce. Rick was selected for being someone who best shows the traits of an exemplary Region 11 member. Congratulations, Rick!