in the Great Northeast

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American Hemerocallis Society Region 4, Inc.
in the Great Northeast
Spring 2016
Vol. 9, Issue 1
Inside:
Region 4 Summer Meeting
20th Annual Can-Am Classic
Region 4 Hybridizer Award
Pop Poll ballot
Region 4 Photo Contest
Articles by:
Jean-Sébastien Poulin
John Stahl
Roland R. Tremblay, PhD
Connecticut • Maine • Massachusetts • New Brunswick • Newfoundland
& Labrador • New Hampshire • New York • Nova Scotia • Ontario
• Prince Edward Island • Québec• Rhode Island • Vermont
Daylilies In The Great Northeast
Spring 2016
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Join us!
2016 Regional Meeting in New Hampshire
July 22-24, 2016
Hosted by
the New England Daylily Society
Guest speakers :
Heidi and Charles Douglas
of Browns Ferry Garden,
Georgetown, SC
For details, visit:
the Region 4 website at ahsregion4.org
or the NEDS website at nedaylily.org
Above: H. ‘Thelma Douglas’ (Douglas, C. )
Award of Merit 2014
Photo: Melodye Campbell
H. ‘Papa Goose’ (Douglas, H. )
Honorable Mention 2015
Photo: Heidi Douglas
2Daylilies In The Great Northeast
Inset: ‘Larry’s Candy Stripe Swizzle’
(Douglas, H. 2015)
See more of their daylilies at
www.brownsferrygardens.com.
Spring 2016
2016 Region 4 Convention in NH
Sponsored by:
The New England Daylily Society
July 22-24, 2016
Courtyard Marriott
2200 Southwood Drive
Nashua, New Hampshire
Featured Speakers:
Heidi and Charles Douglas
of Browns Ferry Gardens, South Carolina
PLEASE PRINT
Print your names as you wish them to appear on badges. Indicate youth
reservations with a “Y” after the name.
Your Name: ________________________________________________________________________________________________
Additional Names:__________________________________________________________________________________________
Address:__________________________________________________________________________________________________
City:________________________________________________State:____________________ Zip:_________________________
Phone:____________________________________________________E-mail:_____________________________________________
Special Needs? Please provide names & details:
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Please circle if e-mail confirmation is acceptable to you:
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Please check for any workshop you wish to attend:
Garden Judges Workshop I ______Garden Judge Workshop II _____Exhibition Judge Clinic I_____Exhibition Judge Clinic II_____
(Note: the AHS $5.00 Workshop fees will be collected at the time of the workshops.) Each person attending should obtain, study
and bring a copy of the handbook, Judging Daylilies.
Return registration form and check (Payable to: New England Daylily Society) to: Kim Walters, Registrar, 2016 Region 4 Regional
Convention. 154 Main Street, Sandown, NH, 03873-2612
NUMBER AMOUNT
Earlybird Registration fee $ 98.00 (postmarked by 6/17/2016) ______________
Registration fee $ 119.00 (postmarked after 6/17/2016) ______________
Youth Registration fee $ 50.00 (postmarked by 6/17/2016) ____________
Youth registration fee will paid for by Region 4 - if the youth member is also a member of AHS
Total Amount Enclosed $_________________________
Pre-Registration is required. Registration received with incorrect payment will be returned.
Registration Fee includes motor coach bus tours of Convention gardens, lunch and banquet dinner on Saturday, and convention plant.
Cancellations received by 6/1/2016 will receive full refund. Partial refund (50%) paid after Convention, will be given for cancellations received by 7/1/2016. Sorry, no refunds will be made after 7/1/2016.
You are responsible for your hotel reservations. The Courtyard Marriott, 2200 Southwood Drive, Nashua, NH (603-880-9100), must
receive your registration by 7/1/2016 to guarantee discount rate of $99 (not including tax) - mention the New England Daylily Society. Rates are good for 3 days prior and 1 day following the convention.
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American Hemerocallis Society Officers
National President
Executive Secretary
Pat Mercer
Editor, The Daylily
Journal
AHS Region 4
Director
Nikki Schmith
424 Pheasant Court
PO Box 10
Meg McKenzie Ryan
Melodye Campbell
Worden, IL 62097
Dexter, GA 31019
1936 Wensley Avenue
21 Ambleside Drive
[email protected]
[email protected]
El Centro, CA 92243
Fairport, NY 14450
[email protected]
[email protected]
Region 4 Officers and Liaisons
Regional President (RP)
Pat Wessling
320 Mendall Road
Acushnet, MA 02743
508-995-0362
[email protected]
Region 4 Webmaster
Kelly Noel
19 Orville Kemp St
Ottawa, ON K1T 3W8
[email protected]
Regional Publicity Director (RPD)
Dave Mussar
4083 Watson Road South,
Puslinch, Ontario
Canada N0B 2J0
519-822-9783
[email protected]
Regional Secretary
Marlene Harmon
49 Ledge Road
Hudson, NH 03051
[email protected]
Regional Treasurer
Dan Pessoni
P.O. Box 1083
East Orleans, MA 02643
508-255-9348
[email protected]
Region 4 Garden Judge Liaison
Gary Jones
40 Woodstock Meadows
Woodstock, CT 06281
860-928-0198
[email protected]
Region 4 Exhibition Judge Liaison
Elliot Turkiew
11 Edward Street
Bethpage, NY 11714
[email protected]
Region 4 Scientific Liaison
Sue Bergeron
RR3 Almonte Ontario
K0A 1A0 Canada
[email protected]
AHS Endowment Fund Liaison-open
Regional Editor
Adele Keohan
304 Lowell St
Wakefield, MA 01880-1761
781-245-7551
[email protected]
Youth Liaison
Elliot Turkiew
11 Edward Street
Bethpage, NY 11714
[email protected]
Editorial Policy
The editorial focus of this publication centers on the genus Hemerocallis, AHS and Region 4 events, Region 4 members and hybridizers.
Submissions are encouraged. The editor reserves the right to edit for
space, grammar, clarity and content.
Submission Guidelines
Please submit:
• High resolution photographs
• Reports on Region 4 club news and events
• Articles on daylilies
• Garden write ups
• Non-commercial profiles on Region 4 hybridizers
Submit material via email. Please send text as a file attachment in
Word. Send photographs as separate attachments. Obtain copyright/
consent form from editor, sign and return.
If you have inquiries regarding submissions, articles, photos or corrections, please email the Region 4 Newsletter Editor at akgabriel22@
comcast.net or call 781-245-7551.
American Hemerocallis Society
Membership Rates
Individual (1 year)
Individual (3 years)
Dual Membership (1 year)*
Dual Membership (3 years)*
Life Membership
Dual life Membership
Youth
$25.00
$70.00
$30.00
$83.00
$500.00
$750.00
$10.00
* Dual membership means two persons living in the same
household.
Dues are to be paid by January 1 of each year.
Make checks payable to the AHS and mail to
AHS Secretary, Pat Mercer
P.O. Box 10
Dexter, GA 31019
or pay online at
http://www.daylilies.org/AHSmemb.html
The AHS Region 4 Newsletter is presented herein as a service to Region 4 Members and is not necessarily endorsed
by the AHS or by the editor. Rights to material published
in this newsletter remain with the author; to reprint or
otherwise reproduce material published in this newsletter,
please obtain permission from the author.
The American Hemerocallis 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 purposes are expressly limited so that AHS 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.
On the cover:
Hemerocallis ‘Big George’
(Krupien, A. 1998)
Photo: John Stahl
Spring 2016
Daylilies in the Great Northeast
Spring 2016 Vol. 9, Issue 1
Connecticut • Maine • Massachusetts • New Brunswick • Newfoundland & Labrador •
New Hampshire • New York • Nova Scotia • Ontario • Prince Edward Island • Québec • Rhode Island • Vermont
Table of Contents
2016 Region 4 Convention information and registration form............. 2-3
2014 Popularity Poll Ballot..............................................................20
Region 4 Officers and Liaisons........................................................... 4
Bokeh: When Blurriness is Next to Godliness by John Stahl ............... 21-24
Reports from the Region 4 Officers.................................................... 6-7
Molecular Issues Concerning Daylily Fertility - À la découverte d’aspects
moléculaires de la fécondité des hémérocalles by Roland R. Tremblay, PhD
.....................................................................................................25-29
Welcome New Region 4 Members ...................................................... 7
Region 4 Fall Newsletter Request Form.............................................. 8
Can-Am Classic Registration Form...................................................... 11
Journey of a Generalist in the Daylily Hybridizer's World - Itinéraire d’un
généraliste dans le monde des hybrideurs d’hémérocalles by Jean-Sébastien
Poulin ............................................................................................30-33
AHS Region 4 Display Gardens............................................................12
Region 4 Club News........................................................................ 34-42
Region 4 Garden Judges.....................................................................13
Region 4 Local Organizations.......................................................... 43
Region 4 Financial Report.................................................................. 9-10
Region 4 Hybridizer Award Nominees and ballot.................................14-17
Region 4 Exhibition Judges................................................................ 18
AHS Youth News ................................................................................18
Region 4 Photo Contest Rules ............................................................ 19
2016 Advertising Rates
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Color Ads
NE Full page......................................$200
Half Page.....................................$100
Quarter Page...............................$50
The above rates are for inside pages.
Make checks payable to AHS Region 4 and send it along
with your advertising request to the Region 4 Editor,
Adele Keohan.
Out-of -Region Subscription rates
$5 in USA
$7.00 outside of US
Make checks payable to AHS Region 4
and mail to Region 4 treasurer:
Dan Pessoni, P.O. Box 1083, East Orleans, MA 02643
Advertisements
Harmon Hill Farm, Hudson, New Hampshire........................ 33
Submissions Deadline for Fall Issue:
October 1
Thanks to all who sent submissions for this issue of
Daylilies In The Great Northeast as well as those who
offered advice and support!
A special thanks to the following people for their
invaluable help and assistance:
Melodye Campbell
Pat Mercer
John Stahl
Marlene Harmon
Pat Wessling
Proofreaders: Jocelyn Blouin, Mary Collier Fisher,
Rebecca Nisley.
Thank you!
Spring 2016
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AHS Region 4 Officer Reports
Director - Melodye Campbell
News from the AHS Boardroom
On February 16, winter storm Olympia walloped
Rochester with nearly 2’ of snow. Even as I was held
hostage yesterday by a wall of snow at the end of my
driveway, I know we’re on the downward path to spring!
For the last 20 years, it has been my tradition to kick off
spring with the CanAm Classic. 2016 marks the CanAm
Classic’s 20th anniversary and, as usual, the ODS folks
have a great line up of speakers and activities. So please
set aside the weekend of April 29-30 and join us.
Bloom season will be following close behind so I
hope you will also make plans to attend the Region 4
Summer meeting, July 22-24. 2016. The New England
Daylily Society is working hard to host this event and has
great activities planned for us. The early bird registration
fee is $98 and includes motor coach bus tours of the
gardens, dinner Friday night and meals on Saturday. Our
guest speakers are the dynamic duo from Browns Ferry
Gardens, Charles and Heidi Douglas! Can’t wait to head
to Nashua NH this summer!
The AHS is doing another matching for the General
Fund campaign for 2016. It will be formally announced
in the spring Daylily Journal. There will be an envelope
in the journal that you can use to mail your donation.
Donations will be matched dollar for dollar. The General
Fund provides for operating expenses of the society.
If you haven’t already ordered a copy of Dr. Scott
Elliott’s book, on Double Daylilies: Twice the Fun, you are
missing out. What a wonderful addition to your library of
daylily books! You can shop the online publications store
at:
https://daylilies.site-ym.com/store/ListProducts.
aspx?catid=107133
Finally, a heads up to all Exhibition and Garden Judges:
don’t let your AHS membership lapse! It’s so convenient
to renew online via PayPal and credit card.
Happy gardening! Hope to see you all this summer in
Nashua!
Mel
Regional President - Pat Wessling
Hello All!
I am here to introduce myself as the new President of
AHS Region 4. First and foremost, I have a lot to learn and I
welcome any and all suggestions or ideas from you to better
our wonderful region. We are really lucky to have such a
great and large region with many wonderful clubs, each
of which I hope to visit in the near future during my term
as president, so that I may get to know each club and its
members' needs better.
I look forward to meeting you all at the different club
meetings, the 2016 Region 4 summer meeting in New
Hampshire, the 20th annual CAN-AM Classic, and even the
AHS National Convention in Kentucky.
I have set some lofty goals for myself. I am hoping to be
able to achieve them all.
Looking forward to meeting you all in person,
Pat
Regional Publicity Director - Dave Mussar
I don’t know if this holds true for all of Region 4 but this
was an ‘El Nino’ winter and in my garden we had more
days with no snow cover than with cover. I know Melodye
Campbell got socked with a big storm but this winter it
seems that all the big blasts either went north or south of
where I garden and we fortunately didn’t get much. As
a bonus we didn’t get the deep freezing temperatures
that we had the previous two winters so hopefully we will
have an early spring and a great bloom season. Of course
now that I’ve written this I’m fully aware that March is not
nearly over and snow in April is not unheard of!
In this issue you will see the ballot for the Region 4
Popularity Poll. All cultivars on the ballot received 3 or more
votes by members in 2015. Members can vote for up to a
total of 10 cultivars either from the ballot or up to 5 write-in
cultivars. You can see that it does not take a lot of write-in
votes to get newer cultivars on the ballot and in this way
the ballot is continually changing as newer cultivars become
more popular and better distributed throughout the Region.
While you can mail in your ballot, the easiest way to vote
is to go to the AHS website and click on Popularity Poll
ballot (http://www.daylilies.org/PopPoll/ballot.html), select
Region 4 and fill in your ballot. The votes come directly to
me by email making it much easier to tabulate. The 2016
ballot is on the AHS website now. We need more members
to cast their votes as it will make the results for our region
much more representative of what we like and what does
well for us in comparison to other regions.
You will also notice in this issue and thanks to the
determination of our new Regional President Pat Wessling
that the Region 4 Hybridizer’s Award has returned from
its hiatus. The eligible candidates are shown here and
Spring 2016
AHS Region 4 Officer Reports
you can vote for your favourite on the Region 4 website
(http://www.ahsregion4.org/). Please place your vote and
encourage other club members to do so as well.
Melodye mentioned many of the Region 4 events
coming up this year and don’t forget the AHS National
meeting “Daylilies in the Bluegrass” in Louisville Kentucky
June 29th to July 2nd. As a shameless plug for the
upcoming 20th Annual Can-Am Classic (see the registration
form in this issue), one of the speakers is Dr. Scott Elliott
the author of the latest AHS publication Double Daylilies
:Twice the Fun. There will be extra copies of this new
publication for sale at the Can-Am and I’m sure that Scott
would be thrilled to autograph it for you. I’ve just received
my copy and it is excellent! If you are one of those people
who always said “I don’t like doubles” you need to see
some of the newest things coming out and I’m sure you
will be changing your mind! The AHS has done a nice job
of making new and relevant daylily publications available
with more in the works. It is a nice way to support the AHS
and enrich your library and garden in the process.
Wishing you all the best for the upcoming bloom
season. Hope to see you at a daylily event soon!
Dave
Regional Editor - Adele Keohan
Hello! Right after I sent out an email reminder to the
Region 4 club presidents requesting submissions for this
issue of Daylilies in the Great Northeast, I wondered what
I would receive. I hoped to get club reports. I hoped to
receive and publish at least one excellent article. I hoped
to be sent some beautiful photos of daylilies which would get
everyone excited about the coming of summer and bloom season.
I am thrilled to say that my hopes for this issue
were realized. In this issue, you’ll find interesting club
reports, articles by AAHQ [Association des Amateurs
d’Hémérocalles du Québec] members Jean-Sébastien
Poulin and AHS Newsletter Award winner Roland R.
Tremblay, PhD., and an article with beautiful photographs
by AHS Photography Award winner John Stahl. I hope that
you will enjoy these three excellent feature articles.
Our 2016 Region 4 Summer Meeting will be held in New
Hampshire. Marlene Harmon of Harmon Hill Farm in New
Hampshire has been busy organizing this three-day event
which will include garden tours, plant auctions, a boutique,
meals and presentations by speakers Heidi and Charles
Douglas of South Carolina. See page 2-3 for more details. I
hope that you will come and bring some friends along!
Adele
Welcome New Members to AHS and Region 4
Connecticut
New York
RUSSELL CORNELIUS
CHARLES and MARY HARVELL
LINDA KINNEY
CHERYL BENKEN
STEVE CIPOLLA
CAROLYN CYBULSKI
JERRY DUNNELLS
TODD EVANS
DAVID HAMLIN
MARY HENDRICKS
LYNN KOCHENDORFER
DOROTHY LA FEVER
JOHN W McKEDY
NAN VOLENTINE
Maine
VIRGINIA CARBOY
HARRIETT ROBINSON
Massachusetts
JANET EDMONDS
PAMELA HARRINGTON
ROBERTA LaVALLEY
NANCY MILLER
NADINE PROCTOR
STEPHEN REARDON
AZIZA ZAMAN
Ontario
RAYA ATKIN
MAIDA HAJRADINOVIC
ANNE SVIHRA
Québec
YVES COLLINS
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Reminder!
IMPORTANT NEWS ABOUT THE REGION 4
NEWSLETTER FOR 2016!
The Fall/Winter Region 4 newsletter outlined the financial situation of Region 4 and the
expenses of publishing a print color newsletter twice a year. For the past several years, Region
4 income has not kept up with our expenditures for the newsletter and postage.
It’s important for the region to be fiscally responsible, and while we all love our full color
newsletter, our bank account cannot sustain the continued expenses with no matching income. To cut costs, starting in 2016, the spring newsletter will still be full color and will still be
mailed to our members. The fall newsletter will be FULL COLOR ONLINE ONLY. It would
be available on the Region 4 website. If members do not have internet access and need a print
black and white copy of the newsletter through the mail, they must request that service.
If the Region 4 finances improve in the next few years, we will certainly revisit the issue. But for
2016, if you want a print copy of the fall newsletter, you MUST fill out the NEWSLETTER REQUEST form and mail to our editor, Adele Keohan. Currently Adele has only received a few requests
for a mailed print copy of the fall 2016 newsletter so please don’t delay.
Region 4 Fall Newsletter Request Form
Please mail me a black & white print copy of the
Fall 2016 Region 4 Newsletter.
Name: _____________________________________________________________
Address: ___________________________________________________________
City State Zip: _______________________________________________________
You only need to return this form if you do NOT have access to the internet
and want a print copy of the fall newsletter.
Please print legibly and return by July 1st to:
Adele Keohan, Editor
304 Lowell Street, Wakefield, MA 01880
Spring 2016
Region 4 Financial Report
AMERICAN HEMEROCALLIS SOCIETY REGION 4
Statement of Income and Expenses January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015
Respectfully submitted, Dan Pessoni, Region 4 Treasurer
Funds available on January 1, 2015 - $26,228.24
INCOME
Club Sales:
BADS
CDS
FIELDS
HADS
HVIDS
LIDS
NEDS
$ 500.00
500.00
245.00
1,385.87
50.00
450.00
735.00
$ 3,865.87
AHS Postage Reimbursement
$2,922.75
Subscriptions
10.00
Newsletter Ads
100.00
CDS Convention 2015 Donation
$4,000.00
$7,032.75
TOTAL INCOME
$10,898.62
EXPENSES
Reg. Director
Reg. President
RPD Newsletter Editor
Insurance
Newsletter US/Canadian Postage & Mailing Service
Indiana Entity Filing Fee
Web Hosting
Start-up Money, Reg. 4, 2016
Service Award, Cheryl Fox
Auction plants, Region 4
2014 Lily Auction
Treasurer's Postage Expenses
$1,216.00
750.00
455.75
500.00
228.50
9,026.00
2,493.92
7.14
18.00
2,000.00
100.00
500.00
28.05
57.92
TOTAL EXPENSES
NET LOSS
Assets: Cape Cod 5 Checking Account
Interest earned - $2.69
DWS Money Market
Interest earned - $19.56
Youth Funds Available 2015 (CDS)
(Included in General Funds)
$17,381.40
- $ 6,482.65
$ 2,213.05
$17,554.66
Funds available on January 1, 2016
$19,767.71
$530.00
Spring 2016
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Region 4 Financial Report
AMERICAN HEMEROCALLIS SOCIETY REGION 4
Budget – Calendar Year 2016
INCOME
Club Sales & Convention Contributions AHS Newsletter Reimbursement
Newsletter Advertisements/Subscriptions Interest
$7,085.00
2,000.00
130.00
20.00
EXPENSES
Director RVP
RPD
Newsletter Editor
AHS Insurance
Newsletter
US/Canadian Postage & Mailing Service
Awards
Website
Miscellaneous (Supplies, mailings, software)
$9,235.00
$1,250.00
750.00
500.00
500.00
250.00
4,500.00
1,200.00
125.00
60.00
100.00
$ 9,235.00
AHS Region 4 Endowments
A contribution at the Supporting level has been made to
the AHS General Fund by
Ms. Loujean White
Clymer, NY
A contribution at the Silver level has been made to
the Mabel Matthews Scholarship Fund by
Dr. Robert Stanton
Plainview, NY
A contribution at the Silver level has been made to
the William E. Monroe Endowment Fund Trust by
Melodye Campbell
Fairport, NY
The donation is in honor of Tim Herrington and Ken Cobb.
---Kathleen Schloeder, Endowment Chair
Spring 2016
REGISTRATION FORM
20th ANNUAL CAN-AM DAYLILY CLASSIC
An AHS Region 4 Event
20 ANNUAL CAN-AM
DAYLILY CLASSIC
th
April 29-30, 2016
Featuring:
SCOTT ELLIOTT – Ellabell, Georgia
MIKE GEORGES – Guelph, Ontario
DAVID JEWELL – Lindsay, Ontario
PHIL KORTH – Suamico, Wisconsin
MELANIE MASON – Buskirk, New York
MIKE SHADRACK & KATHY GUEST – Hamburg, NY
GAYLE STORY – Danville, Illinois
FRIDAY 7:00 p.m. - Region 4 Business Meeting
8:00 p.m. - Speaker Presentations
SATURDAY 8:00 a.m. - Registration and continental breakfast
9:00 a.m. - Full day’s program of speakers- includes lunch plus Plant Sale, Live Auction,
Silent Auction, Chinese Auction and lots of fun!
6:00 p.m. - Evening banquet–dine
with the speakers (optional)
Registration - $100 (Cdn. or US) postmarked
before April 1st; After April 1st - $110; Youth
- $50 (all prices in Canadian dollars)
Registrars: Gabriele and Ross Dettweiler,
5003 Fountain St. N., Breslau, Ontario N0B 1M0
Phone 519-648-2408 or e-mail: dettweiler@
sympatico.ca
Toronto Airport West Hotel, 5444 Dixie Road,
(1 block south of the 401),
Mississauga, Ontario. L4W 2L2
Phone 905-624-1144.
For further details or to register on-line
please visit:
http://www.ontariodaylily.on.ca
Please make your cheque payable to
Ontario Daylily Society and mail it along with this
form to: Gabriele and Ross Dettweiler
5003 Fountain St. N., Breslau, Ontario N0B 1M0
Name__________________________________
Street__________________________________
City___________________________________
Prov./State______________________________
Postal Code Zip__________________________
Phone _________________________________
E-mail _________________________________
Additional registrants and their addresses:
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
Early Bird registration (before April 1/16)
_____ x [$100 Cdn. or US]
(# of people)
= $_________
Registration (postmarked after April 1/16)
_____ x [$110 Cdn. or US] = $________
(# of people)
Youth registration
_____ x [$50 Cdn. or US]
(# of people)
= $________
Saturday Evening Banquet – (at Hotel)
_____ x [$45 Cdn. or US]
(# of people)
= $________
Saturday Banquet entrée choice :
Chicken (
) Beef (
CHEQUE TOTAL
) Fish (
)
$_________
Please check here if you would like your contact
information (address, phone number and email
address) to show on the meeting roster
list.________
Spring 2016
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2016 AHS Region 4 Display Gardens
The following list was compiled by Display Gardens Chair, Mary Lou Lundblade, 511 W Ness St., Valley Center, KS 67147-4920. Telephone
316-755-1964. E-mail [email protected]. This list is not an advertisement and it is not intended to serve as a mailing list but rather to provide
information on the location of official AHS Display Gardens for visitation purposes. Never visit a private garden without telephoning in advance. Never let
yourself into a garden if the owner is not at home. Please ask before bringing small children. Check the AHS website Home Page for updated information.
CANADA
NOVA SCOTIA
Blue Rock Gardens, Brian C.
Smith, 1766 Hammonds Plains
Rd., Hammonds Plains, NS,
Canada B4B 1P5 brianc.smith@
ns.sympatico.ca (902) 835-7469
Nova Scotia Daylilies, Coral
Kincaid, 42 Pickings Lane, Upper
La Have, Bridgewater, NS, B4V
2W2, Canada cakincaid@
eastlink.ca (902) 543-1988
ONTARIO
Floral and Hardy Garden,
Betty Fretz, 6729 Leslie Lane,
Moorefield, ON, Canada, N0G
2K0 [email protected] (519)
638-3937
Gryphon Gardens (Historic
Garden), Gil and Sally Stelter,
7 Orchard Crescent, Guelph,
ON, Canada N1E1W9 gstelter@
uoguelph.ca (519) 821-9267
Barbara & Nick White, 6798
Ninth Line, RR 2, Beeton,
ON, Canada L0G 1A0
[email protected]
(905) 729-2718
Whitehouse Perennials,
Suzanne Patry & Bruce Trites,
594 Rae Road, Almonte, ON
Canada K0A 1A0 suzanne@
whitehouseperennials.com (613)
256-3406
QUEBEC
Hemerocallis Montfort, Linda
Lagroix, 308 ch. Lac-Millette,
Saint Sauveur, QC J0R 1R6
Canada [email protected]
(450) 227-7684
Montreal Botanical Garden, 4101
East Sherbrooke Street, Montreal,
QC, Canada H1x 2B2, info@
millettephotomedia.com, liaison
Reggie Millette, 62 -7th Avenue, St.
Ambroise de Kildare, QC, Canada,
J0K 1C0 (450) 756-4803
NEW ENGLAND STATES
CONNECTICUT
CT Daylily, Richard Howard, 76
Anderson Road, Wallingford,
CT 06492 [email protected]
(203) 294-9520
MAINE
Blue Hill Country Garden, Donald
& Susan Church, 1175 Pleasant
St., Blue Hill, ME 04614 don@
bluehillcountrygarden.com (207)
374-3580
MASSACHUSETTS
Berkshire Botanical Garden,
(Historic Garden) Liaison Dorthe
Hviid, Routes 102 & 183,
Stockbridge, MA 01262 dhviid@
berkshirebotanical.org (413) 298-3926
Chrusciel Gardens, Joan M.
Chrusciel, 164 Brookwood Road,
Hanover, MA 02339 j.chrusciel@
hotmail.com (781) 878-4839
Collamore Field Gardens, Janet
& Stephen Tooker, 397 Tilden
Road, Scituate, MA 02066
[email protected] (781) 545-5175
Driftwood Gardens, Dan Pessoni,
(PO Box 1083) 4 Driftwood
Lane, East Orleans, Cape Cod,
MA, 02643 danthelilyman@aol.
com (508) 255-9348
Flower Trail Gardens, Linda S.
Burnett, 278 Mendon Rd, Sutton,
MA 01590 sunshine278power@
aol.com (508) 865-7971
Heritage Museums and Gardens,
Grove Street, Sandwich, MA Cape Cod, contact Liaison Leslie
Nolan, info@heritagemuseum.
org. [email protected] (508)
888-3300, (781) 588-8370
New England Daylily Society
at Elm Bank, Liaison: Barbara
Provest, 13 Overbrook Dreve
E, Framingham, MA 01701
[email protected]
(508) 877-0913
Pleasant Garden Daylilies,
Sallyann & Bruce King, 111
Coventry Wood Road, Bolton,
MA 01740 sally@PGDLbolton.
com (978) 779-5035
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Birchwood Farm, Anna R. Kay,
45 Littleworth Rd. Dover, NH
03820 [email protected]
(603) 742-1991
Harmon Hill Farm, Carl and
Marlene Harmon, 49 Ledge
Rd., Hudson, NH 03051
[email protected]
(603) 880-6228
Parsonage Daylilies, John &
Carolyn Dickey, 8 High Street,
(Rt. 107 & High St), Gilmanton,
NH 03237 jdickey@metrocast.
net (603) 267-6098
NEW YORK
Brookside Gardens, John &
Muriel Stahl, 2049 Windsor
Road, Baldwin, NY 11510
[email protected] (516) 223-5007
Clark Botanic Garden, 193 I.
U. Willets Road, Albertson, NY
11507, Liaison Frank Meyer,
[email protected]
(516) 484-2208
Cobbs Hill Daylily Garden,
Charles Zettek, Jr., 1 Hillside
Avenue, Rochester, NY 14610
[email protected] (585) 4613317
Cottage Gardens, Brent &
Deborah Ross, 4540 East Shelby
Road, Medina, NY 14103
[email protected] (585)
798-5441
Daylily Days, Deborah Landrio
3261 State Hwy 29, Johnstown,
NY, 12095 landoylacras@yahoo.
com (518) 762-5853
Daylily Dreams, Robert and
Raphaela Consigli, 1599 Ct Hwy
33, Cooperstown, NY rconsigli@
stny.rr.com (607) 547-1888
Dutch Hill Daylilies, Karen
Barber, 9954 Dutch Hill
Road, Fillmore, NY 14735
567-4599
Garden of Peggy and Frank
Almquist, Peggy & Frank
Almquist, 107 Beth Drive,
Kingston, NY 12401 falmquist@
hvc.rr.com (845) 339-3671
Lilli O’Dae Gardens, Thomas
Slocum, 108 Shunk Road, Ames,
NY 13317 (518) 673-2390
Limmer Garden, Paul Limmer
214 Tinton Place, East Northport,
NY 11731 [email protected]
(631) 266-2728
New York Botanical Gardens,
Liaison: Kristin M. Schleiter,
200th Street & Kazimiroff
Blvd., Bronx, NY 10458-5126
Planting Fields Arboretum,
Liaison Pam Milliken, Long
Island Daylily Society, Planting
Fields Road, Oyster Bay, NY
QB Daylily Gardens, Dennis &
Mary Quackenbush, 557 Sand
Hill Rd, Caledonia, NY 14423
538-4525, (860) 378-4742
Slate Hill Farm, Craig & Mary
Barnes, 203 East Broadway,
Salem, NY 12865 slatehillfarm@
verizon.net (518)-854-7460
Sunshine In The Garden
Daylilies, Christine Quataert,
12 Saveria Dr. Hilton, NY 14468
766-5949
Tappan Hill Gardens, Audrey
Jean Zeh and Christl Schmidt,
23 Tanners Lane, Rensselaer,
NY 12144-9786cschmidt34@cfl.
rr.com (518) 462-3120
Grace Gardens, Tom & Kathy
Rood, 1064 Angus Road,
Penn Yan, NY 14527 tom@
gracegardens.com (315) 694-0123
VERMONT
Cross View Gardens, Leila &
Harold Cross, 1801 Lower Elmore
Mountain Road, Morrisville, VT
05661 crossviewgardens@gmail.
com (802) 888-2409
Hidden Harbor, Christine
Petersen, 167 Asharoken
Avenue, Northport, NY 11768
[email protected]
(631)757-0043
Holdn’ Heaven Daylily Garden,
Charmaine Rich, 1383 Quail
John Rd, East Thetford, VT 05043
Hudson Adirondack Daylily
Society Display Garden, Don
& Pat Salhoff (Chairmen)
Cornell Cooperative Extension
of Albany County, Martin Rd.,
Voorheesville, NY 12186-9699
439-1484
Spring 2016
Become a Garden Judge!
A Garden Judge Workshop 2 will be held on July 24 during the Region
4 Summer Meeting in New Hampshire. See pages 2-3 of this issue for
more information on the Regional Meeting. Join us!
AHS Garden Judges support the AHS and hybridizers by voting for quality daylilies through the AHS Awards
and Honors system. If you would like to learn how you can become a garden judge, please contact the Region
4 Garden Judge Liaison, Gary Jones at [email protected] or by contacting any of the garden judge
instructors listed on page 4.
AHS Region 4 Garden Judges
CANADA
Nova Scotia
BARBARA BIGELOW
BRAINARD FITZGERALD
DOREEN FITZGERALD
CAROL HARVEY
CORAL A KINCAID
KIM LIPSCOMB NORMAN PATTON
LOUISE PLOURDE
DAVID TROTT
MARY TROTT
2018
2018
2018
2018
2020
2017
2018
2019
2018
2018
Ontario
MURRAY BRUNSKILL FAYE COLLINS
BRYAN CULVER
BRIAN DERRAH
ROSS DETTWEILER
JANE FISH
BETTY FRETZ
DAVID JEWELL
BRIAN JONES
DAVE MUSSAR
WENDOLYN NICHOLDS
KELLY NOEL
BRIAN SCHRAM
SALLY STELTER
GIL STELTER
MAUREEN STRONG
CHERYL TAYLOR
BARBARA WHITE
2016
2020
2018
2016
2016
2016
2019
2018
2016
2018
2019
2016
2016
2019
2018
2019
2016
2018
Québec
ROBERT BEAUDOIN
JOCELYN BLOUIN
SYLVIE CHAMPAGNE
PIERRE FAGIOLO
DANIEL LIPPÉ
JUDITH MERCIER
FRANÇOIS PARIS
JEAN-SEBASTIEN POULIN
JOSETTE RATTÉ
LAURENT SAVOIE
RENÉE THIBAULT
2019
2018
2020
2019
2019
2020
2018
2020
2019
2019
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RUSSELL ALLEN
HELENE A FERRARI
RICH HOWARD
GARY M JONES
DONALD P SMITH
NANCY SMITH
MASSACHUSETTS
EMMANUEL BAGHDAYAN
BOBBIE BROOKS
GAIL BUCKLEY
KARIN COOKE
GEORGE A DOORAKIAN
PAULA DOORAKIAN
ELIZABETH (NIKKI) DRICKEN
MARY COLLIER FISHER
ZACHARY HICKEY
MIKE HUBEN
ADELE KEOHAN
SALLYANN KING
LISA LIPOMI
DONALD K MARVIN
CURTIS NOEL
THOMAS RICCIO
ROBERT SOBEK
KATHLEEN VIAMARI
DARLYN S WILKINSON
2016
2017
2018
2017
2017
2017
2018
2017
2018
2016
2019
2018
2019
2020
2019
2017
2018
2019
2019
2019
2019
2020
2018
MAINE
PATRICIA BOISSONNEAULT
LISA D BOURRET
PAUL BOURRET
DOTTIE HOKKANEN
ROB LAFFIN
EDWARD NORTON
PATRICIA NORTON
SUSAN SHAW
2017
2017
2017
2016
2019
2017
2017
2016
NEW HAMPSHIRE
DOROTHY (DOTTIE) DEWITT
CAROLYN DICKEY
JOHN DICKEY
CARL D HARMON
CAMERON STERN
KIMBERLY WALTERS
2018
2018
2018
2019
2019
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NEW YORK
MELODYE CAMPBELL
GRACE CANHAM
SHIRLEY CAPPIELLO
FRANK H CHALOUPECKY
LAURA C CHALOUPECKY
DEBI CHOWDHURY
LESLIE FRIEDMAN
CAROL HAJ
ANTHONY HAJ
PAUL LIMMER
JOAN-ANN LUNDIN
LUANNE MADDEN
MELANIE MASON
PAM MILLIKEN
GENE A MOGLIA
LOUISE PELUSO
CHRISTINE PETERSEN
JACK PINE
ANTOINETTE RAIMONDI
DOUGLAS RAIMONDI
GEORGE RIEHLE
JAMES ROBINOWITZ
KATHY ROOD
TOM ROOD
DONALD SALHOFF
PATRICIA SALHOFF
ROBERT SAVAGE
CHRISTL SCHMIDT
JOAN TURANO
MARGARET WALRATH
CYRIL WELLER
WILLIAM WURSTER
CAROLYN YOUNG
CHARLES JR ZETTEK
JUDITH ZETTEK
2018
2016
2018
2018
2018
2020
2018
2016
2018
2016
2017
2016
2016
2016
2016
2016
2017
2017
2017
2018
2016
2016
2016
2016
2016
2019
2017
2019
2019
2016
2016
2017
RHODE ISLAND
PATSY CUNNINGHAM
KATHERINE REED
2019
2019
VERMONT
CHARMAINE RICH
2016
LEGEND
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2016 Region 4 Hybridizer Award Nominees
H. ‘Arterial Blood’ (Huben, M. 2011)
H. ‘Sun Panda’ (Culver, B. 2009)
H. ‘Yankee Pinstripes’ (Howard, R. 2013)
H. ‘Elsie Stelter’ (Stelter, G. 2010)
H. ‘Nantucket Navigator’ (Mason, M.
2010)
H. ‘The Kind of September’ (Sobek, B.
2006)
H. ‘Gabriel’s Weathervane’ (Turner, C.
2006)
H. ‘Knoll Cottage Special and Precious’
(Labbe-Jones, 2016)
H. ‘Spring Heather’ (Jewell, D. 2013)
photo A.Keohan
Each hybridizer residing in Region 4 may nominate one of his/her cultivars in a given year. Eligible cultivars
must have been hybridized in Region 4, be named and registered with the AHS within the last three to ten years
and have been introduced by a Region 4 hybridizer still residing or deceased while residing in Region 4.
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H. ‘Greywoods Rim Rummy’
(Wilkinson, D. 2014)
H. ‘Green Icon’ (Doorakian, G. 2012)
H. ‘Danielle Ratté ’ (Ratté, J. 2013)
H. ‘Rêve et Passion’ (Gauthier, L. 2013)
H. Éclat de Soleil” (Goulet, M. 2015)
H. 'Nina Nina Wolverina” (Michaels, L.
2009)
H. ‘Claude Gauthier’ (Lagroix, L.-Gauthier 2015)
H. 'Altesse Royale' (Martel, F. 2011)
H. 'Sweet Well Done' (Weitz, K. 2012)
Additional information posted on the Region 4 Website at www.ahsregion4.org. All photos of nominated cultivars
on these two pages were taken by the hybridizer unless otherwise specified.
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H. 'Flaming Flamingo' (Laprise, E. 2007)
H. ' Bleu Couleur Passion'
(Thibault, R. 2016)
H. 'Adele Keohan' (Lippé, D. 2016)
H. 'Prom Flower' (Marvin, D. 2005)
H. ' Cobbs Hill Jester' (Zettek, C. 2012)
H. ' Rosemary Mussar' (Mussar, D. 2013)
Voting Deadline: September 1, 2016
All AHS members are permitted to vote. One vote per member. 3 ways to vote!
1. Vote ONLINE on the region 4 website, www.ahsregion4.org [your votes will be sent directly to Pat Wessling]
2. EMAIL votes to Pat Wessling at [email protected]
3. By postal mail: mail completed ballot to Dave Mussar if you reside in Canada or to Pat Wessling if you reside in the US.
Scan the QR code at right with a Smartphone to be instantly connected to the AHS Region 4 website.
EMAIL all votes [or mail In US]:
Pat Wessling
320 Mendall Road
Acushnet, MA 02743
[email protected]
In Canada, mail only to:
Dave Mussar
4083 Watson Road South, RR1
Puslinch, Ontario
Canada N0B 2J0
519-822-9783
[email protected]
Spring 2016
2016 Region 4 Hybridizer Award Ballot
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Member Hemerocallis
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1. ______
_______ 'Adele Keohan' (Lippé, D. 2016)
2. ______
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'Altesse Royale' (Martel, F. 2011)
3. ______
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'Arterial Blood’ (Huben, M. 2011)
4. ______
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'Bleu Couleur Passion' (Thibault, R. 2016)
5. ______
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'Claude Gauthier’ (Lagroix, L.-Gauthier 2015)
6. ______
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'Cobbs Hill Jester' (Zettek, C. 2012)
7. ______
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'Danielle Ratté ’ (Ratté, J. 2013)
8. ______
______ 'Éclat de Soleil' (Goulet, M. 2015)
9. ______
______ 'Elsie Stelter’ (Stelter, G. 2010)
10. ______
______ 'Flaming Flamingo' (Laprise, E. 2007)
11. ______
______ 'Gabriel’s Weathervane’ (Turner, C. 2006)
12. ______
______ 'Green Icon’ (Doorakian, G. 2012)
13. ______
______ 'Greywoods Rim Rummy’ (Wilkinson, D. 2014)
14. ______
______ 'The Kind of September’ (Sobek, B. 2006)
15. ______
______ 'Knoll Cottage Special & Precious’ (Labbe-Jones, 2016)
16. ______
______ 'Nantucket Navigator’ (Mason, M. 2010)
17. ______
______ 'Nina Nina Wolverina” (Michaels, L. 2009)
18. ______
______ 'Prom Flower' (Marvin, D. 2005)
19. ______
______ 'Rêve et Passion’ (Gauthier, L. 2013)
20. ______
______ 'Rosemary Mussar' (Mussar, D. 2013
21. ______
______ 'Spring Heather’ (Jewell, D. 2013)
22. ______
______ 'Sun Panda’ (Culver, B. 2009)
23. ______
______ 'Sweet Well Done' (Weitz, K. 2012)
24. ______
______ 'Yankee Pinstripes’ (Howard, R. 2013)
Signatures
Member #1 _______________________________
Address __________________________________
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Website! www.ahsregion4.org
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AHS Region 4 Exhibition Judges
This list of Exhibition Judges was provided by AHS Exhibition Judges Records Chair, Joann Stewart.
To contact any of the Exhibition Judges listed below, please email your Regional Exhibition Judge Liaison,
Elliot Turkiew, at [email protected]
CANADA
Nova Scotia
YVONNE CHUTE
BRAINARD FITZGERALD
DOREEN FITZGERALD
KIMBERLY LIPSCOMB
WENDOLYN NICHOLS
MAINE
LISA BOURRET
MASSACHUSETTS
NICK CHASE
MARY COLLIER FISHER
CHARLES HUBBELL
ADELE KEOHAN
DONALD K MARVIN
DANIEL PESSONI
NEW YORK
BARBARA BRUCE
LAURA CHALOUPECKY
FRANK CHALOUPECKY
ANTHONY HAJ
CAROL HAJ PAUL LIMMER
JOAN-ANN LUNDIN
LUANNE MADDEN
DANIEL J. MAHONY
PAM MILLIKEN
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Student
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2015
2015
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2017
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2015
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Senior
Senior
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Senior
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2015
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Senior
Senior
Junior
Junior
Senior
Junior
Senior
Senior
Senior
2017
2018
2018
2017
2017
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2018 I
2018 I
2018
GENE MOGLIA
ROBERT J. MORGENWECK
CHRISTINE PETERSEN
ANTOINETTE RAIMONDI
DOUGLAS RAIMONDI
GEORGE RASMUSSEN
JOAN RASMUSSEN
ROBERT O. STANTON
JOAN TURANO
RACHEL TURKIEW
ELLIOTT TURKIEW
SUSAN WEITZMAN
Junior
Senior
Senior
Student
Student
Senior
Senior
Senior
Junior
Senior
Senior
Junior
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2016
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2016
2016
2016
2016
2018 I
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Junior
Senior
2017
2017 I
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RACHEL FLAKSMAN
KATHERINE L. REED
VERMONT
CHARMAINE RICH
Student
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2015
AHS Region 4 Youth News
There are a lot of fun and exciting opportunities for our
Youth Members in the AHS! Youth members, have you visited
the Youth Group on the AHS members only Portal at http://
www.daylilynetwork.org ? To participate, you must sign on to
the Portal with your membership number and password. If you
have any problem signing on, contact the Youth Chairperson,
Kathy D’Alessandro at [email protected].
Don’t Hesitate, Participate – January 1
to December 31
Visit the Youth Group on the AHS Portal,
www.daylilynetwor.org. Participate in a
forum, upload a photo, write on the wall,
start a blog, etc.. You will receive one
point for each action. The more you do on the site, the more
points you’ll receive. The one with the most points will be the
winner and receive a daylily hybridized by Dan Bachman of
Valley of the Daylilies in OH.
Coloring Contest – March 1 to September 1
The original drawing for the contest is the work
of Edvinas Misiuevicius of Lithuania. Three
version of the drawing, each for a specific age
group, are included in the latest Youth News.
The drawings are also available for download on the AHS
web site, www.daylilies.org. Any medium maybe used for
coloring. Limited to one entry per person. Mail entry to Kathy
D’Alessandro, 2076 Silo Lane, East Greenville, PA 18041. Do not
write your name on the finished drawing but enclose it in the
mailing along with your date of birth. A panel of judges will
select a winner from each group. The winners will receive a
shirt embellished with their winning design.
Add genes to your daylily hybridizing pool or start a
program. Massachusetts hybridizer, Mike Huben is offering this
fantastic opportunity FREE to AHS youths. Request specific
seeds or plants from his hybridizing program or ask Mike what
he can contribute to enhance or assist your hybridizing goals.
Details of this offer are in the last issue of the Youth News.
View Mike’s intros and seedlings at http://huben.us/wiki/
Introductions or contact him at [email protected].
The Youth News is a newsletter for AHS youth members. It
is issued two times per year; spring/summer and fall/winter. If you do not receive your copies, please contact the Youth
Chairperson.
Deadline for submissions to this column is October 1 for
the Fall 2015 issue.
Spring 2016
2016 AHS Region 4 Photo Contest
This summer, take some photos of Region 4 hybridized daylilies and Region 4 landscapes featuring daylilies and
enter them in the 2016 Region 4 Photo Contest.
1st Place Winners
All entries must be emailed to the editor by September 15, 2016.
of
the
2015
Region 4 Photo Contest
Photos may include: garden critters/pets, insects, garden art.
Images must not include people.
Photo Contest Categories
1. Single or Multiple Blooms - may include clump shot.
2. Artistic Close-up - Be creative! Capture all
or part of a daylily bloom in a photo. At right,
closeup of H. ‘Rose F. Kennedy’ (Doorakian, G.
2007). Photo by John Stahl.
3. Landscape Shot - Any Region 4 garden will
do, but daylilies must be featured in the photo.
Above, Hemerocallis ‘Hurricane Bob’ (Schwarz,
B. 2003) Photo by Carol Haj
Below, Hemerocallis ‘Lavallée seedling, future
introduction. Photo by Pierrette Lavallée
Contest Rules
Region 4 AHS members of any age may enter.
Up to 6 entries total will be accepted per member.
All photo entries must have been taken by the member submitting them.
All photo entries must have been taken in 2016.
Photo Requirements
Submit high resolution, full size digital photo images in .jpg format only.
Individual image size should be 1MB or larger.
Each photo submitted should be labeled as follows:
cultivar (hybridizer, year) photo[your name]
Example: Toy Trumpets (Sobek, 1984 ) photo Adele Keohan.jpg
Labeling on landscape photos: Garden name/ owner name, photo
your name.jpg
Below, ‘Les Jardins
Delisle-Paris.” Photo by François Paris
Cultivar names need not be capitalized.
Use digital photography software sparingly when editing your images;
please do not make alterations to your original images other than to crop
or make subtle color corrections. Please do not put borders around images.
Email photo entries to : Adele Keohan, Regional Editor at akgabriel22@
comcast.net
An independent panel of three judges will consider all entries and select
the winning photos. The winning photos (and other photo entries) will
be published in the Fall 2016 issue of the Region 4 Newsletter, Daylilies In
The Great Northeast. Photo entries may appear in a future issue of Daylilies
In The Great Northeast.
Submitting a photo entry grants the American Hemerocallis Society and its regions the right to republish or
reprint photos in any of the newsletters or journals published by the AHS or any of its Regions; to publish such
photograph(s) on any website maintained by or on behalf of AHS or any of its Regions; and to publish such
photograph(s) in any other publication published by AHS or any of its Regions.
Prizes
Daylily prizes will be awarded to the first place winners in each of the three photo contest categories.
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AHS Region 4 Popularity Poll Ballot
Every AHS member can vote for up to ten registered cultivars. Circle up to 10, or you may write-in up to five
personal choices making a total of 10. Submit your choices on the AHS website at http://www.daylilies.org/
PopPoll/ballot.html Alternatively, votes by email may be sent to Dave Mussar RPD at david.mussar@sympatico.
ca Or by regular mail, postmarked by September 1, 2016 to either of the appropriate addresses below.
Adorable Tiger
All American Chief
Always a Pleasure
Always Afternoon
Astral Voyager
Bali Watercolor
Barbara Mitchell
Barbara White
Beautiful Edgings
Bela Lugosi
Belle of Ashwood
Bermuda Coral
Big George
Bill Norris
Blueberry Breakfast
Bordello Queen
Boundless Beauty
Carnival in Mexico
Coleman Hawkins
Cosmic Legacy
Creature of the Night
Curtis Noel
Dale’s Oh My
Destined to See
Diane Crawford
Dragon So
Dublin Elaine
El Desperado
Elegant Candy
Elsie Stelter
Emerald Starburst
Entwined in the Vine
Flying Trapeze
Free Wheelin’
Green Turtle Key
Greywoods River Dancer
Heartbeat of Heaven
Heavenly Angel Ice
Heavenly United We Stand
Her Best Bloomers
Holiday Party
Igor F. Palacios, M.D.
Intelligent Design
Island Cardinal
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Jade Princess
Janice Brown
Jerry Hyatt
Joan Derifield
King George
King’s Golden Treasure
Laura Harwood
Liz Schreiner
Mabou
Mary’s Gold
Moonlit Masquerade
Nancy Britz
Neon Flamingo
North Wind Dancer
Old King Cole
Orchid Corsage
Patsy Cline
Peggy Jeffcoat
Persian Ruby
Potala Tapestry
Primal Scream
Pumpkin Prince
Red Volunteer
Rock Solid
Dangling Participle
Jane Trimmer
Rose F. Kennedy
Ruby Spider
Sandra Elizabeth
Scrambled Legs
Shores of Time
South Seas
Spirit Fox
Spirit Zone
Stella’s Ruffled Fingers
Strutter’s Ball
Summer Farewell
Sun Panda
Suzy Cream Cheese
Swallow Tail Kite
Taos
Truly Angelic
Tuscawilla Tigress
Vatican City
Victoria Park
Victorian Lace
Web of Intrigue
Webster’s Pink Wonder
White Eyes Pink Dragon
Zachary Hickey
Write-In Votes Below:
In Canada
In the USA
1. _________________________
Dave Mussar
Pat Wessling
2. _________________________
4083 Watson Road South
320 Mendall Road
3.__________________________
Puslinch, Ontario
Acushnet, MA
4.__________________________
N0B 2J0
02743
5.__________________________
[email protected]
[email protected]
Spring 2016
Bokeh: When Blurriness
is Next to Godliness
by John Stahl
In photographing daylilies, as well as other flowers, clean, crisp images are usually desirable. In fact, getting
both the bloom and the background in focus is often thought to be the best representation for the viewer. It
occurred to me that this may not always be true.
Allow me to throw a monkey wrench (or a shovel
or trowel) so to speak, into the mix. My premise
is that the crisp representation of the bloom is
the first priority, but that the background should
enhance it, not take away from its importance.
Now how does one actually create a background
that will emphasize the flower? I can think of
three ways....the use of bokeh, creating a black
background and filling the frame with the flower’s
image.
All right now, let’s relax. I’m not going to go all
technical with you. Allow me first to define bokeh.
It’s the blur produced by out-of-focus parts of an
image. This is the way the lens renders out-of-focus
points of light. Most of you have probably seen
photos in which the background is dark, out of
focus, and may have fuzzy, spherical points of light
1
2
scattered about. Photos #1, 2 and 3 are examples.
This is the more or less “classic” form of bokeh,
but to me any background containing blurred
points qualifies.
#1 - H. 'Rognvaldursson' (Mahieu/Burris, 2007)
#2 - A Tithonia blossom (Mexican Sunflower)
#3 - H. 'Dances With Giraffes' (Reed, 2005)
3
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Bokeh: When Blurriness is Next to Godliness
4
5
Photos #4 and 5 demonstrate amorphous forms in the background, rather than small, spherical shapes.
A totally black background just might be the most dramatic of choices. Check out Photos #6, 7 and 8. To
me,both blurred and black backgrounds bring the photography of flowers to an art form.
6
7
I’ll confess that I don’t always know when I’m photographing a flower that I’ll necessarily get the desired effect.
There is some luck or chance involved. To throw the background out of focus one uses a large lens opening, which
by itself, has a very small depth of field. If I focus on the face of the bloom using a very wide lens opening, the
range of sharpness going from the flower to the area behind it will be very small, hence an outof- focus zone. The
position of the flower in the garden will also come in to play. Flowers that are somewhat short, and have a great
#4 -'Ta-Dah'(Brooks, 2007)
#5 -'Toodleloo Kangaroo (Reed, 2003)
#6 - 'Double Pompon' (Miles, 1972)
#7 - 'Katherine Harris' (Reinke, J. 1999)
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deal of other plant foliage behind them are not
good candidates for bokeh.
Tall and very tall plants are
my favorites because quite
often there is no foliage that
is close, or if any, is a distance away. Because of their
height, it allows you flexibility to move around for the
best view. These tall blooms
are often the best choice for
developing completely black
backgrounds. While focusing
your eye will tell you at these
times what kind of background might result.
9
The third technique to
emphasize a bloom is filling
the frame with the subject.
This will reduce the area of
the background. You can do
this while photographing the
subject, or cropping later on
in the computer using photo
editing software. Photos #9
and 10 are examples of
cropping in the computer. In
addition, these two images
also have bokeh.
#8 - Female Ruby-throated Hummingbird at Lobelia blooms
#9 - 'Brookside Summer Sonata' (Stahl
2014)
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Along with flowers, other subjects benefit from bokeh
or black backgrounds. Examples would be birds and insects. See Photos #11, 12 and 13. In macro photography,
when shooting insects, one already has a situation of
limited depth of field. I find that if I can arrange to have
the insect on an edge of a plant, it is quite easy to get a
crisp image of the creature with a wonderfully blurred
background.
I’ll continue to delve into the world of blurred and
black backgrounds. I know that not everyone will like or
appreciate these techniques, but I present them to you
from my viewpoint. You have to make your own decision.
10
11
12
#10- Malachite Prism (Doorakian, 1999)
#11- Female Red-winged Blackbird
#12- Bumble Bee on Echinacea
#13- Monarch Butterfly on Joe Pye Weed
All photos in this article by John Stahl
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Molecular Issues Concerning Daylily Fertility
by Roland R. Tremblay PhD
2 synergid cells + one ovocyte) meet at the entrance to the
micropylar channel, a minute opening at the end of the ovule.
Thus, 4 to 40 black grains will eventually develop according to
the cultivar ploidy.
Plant morphogenesis, the result of selective reproductive
conditions, has evolved over centuries, whereas that of Homo
sapiens (Sapiens) has upgraded over 30,000–40,000 years at
an accelerated rate following man’s genetic remoteness from
the Neanderthals and Denisovans. In some unexplored areas of
the planet, primarily in the depths of the ocean (deeper than
2,000 meters), there are still creatures that evolve slowly whose
identities are largely ignored because they are unable
to survive at the ocean surface. However, Artemia salina
would probably constitute an exception.
My past 40 years in human reproductive medicine have led
me to have a sustained interest in daylily fertility (1,2) mainly
because of my dedication to daylily hybridization. It seems
obvious that the fertility of Sapiens and Hemerocallidaceae
follow fundamental and common rules; the production of
mature gametes, balanced development and chromosome
pairing and the specialized meeting of the genetic material
contributed by the male and female gametes.
SPECIFIC GOALS OF THIS ARTICLE
Les Jardins Merlebleu, Portneuf, Quebec, Canada
AHS Region 4
CONSTITUTIVE STAGES OF REPRODUCTION
Plant reproduction in general and that of Hemerocallidaceae
in particular is of special interest to our association (AAHQ)
because of the underlying complexity of the morphological
data that even microphotography is unable to assist with. The
molecules are simply invisible to humans working in this field!
However, there are a limited number of people (3) who believe
that “hybridizing daylilies is so simple that even a bee can do
it.” I agree entirely with this statement, but in this paper I will
try to illustrate that Sapiens can surpass the programmed
work of bees because Sapiens have the privilege of making
strategic selections with regard to pollen selection.
1. In contrast to a spermatozoon, a pollen grain is immotile. It’s
development originates in microsporic mother cells located in the
antherian sacs. Inside this pollen grain two or three nucleated
cells constitute the male gametophyte. The outer envelope of
the grain is composed of polysaccharides and sporopollenin, a
substance rich in carotenoid polymers involved in the formation
of exine.
2. In order to reach its target, the mature, but light pollen grain
is dependent upon the help of a transportation system that
challenges entomophily (insect pollination), anemophily (wind
pollination) and Sapiens’ hand.
3. The pollen grain does not travel in the same manner as spermatozoa; that is in a complex, nutritious, well-buffered medium. In contrast, the pollen must first be rehydrated and then
undergo elongation once in contact with the stigmatic exudate
in order to reach the ovary. This extension is species-specific.
4. Oriented growth of the pollen tube confers the status of a
putative fertile ovocyte when the germ cells (pollen grain +
To communicate the preliminary results of a proteomics
study, a branch of science that applies molecular biology
and genetics techniques to analyze the structure, function
and interactions of proteins produced by genes of a particular
organism. This technology should allow a better understanding
of the constituents of daylily reproductive cells and secondly, a
comprehensive approach to the interactions between the pollen grains and the stigmatic exudate. Thus, it will be possible
in time, to propose a biological understanding of the random
actions of bees and of the so-called experienced hands of
Sapiens. This study could eventually help in the understanding
of daylily infertility.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
In mid-July 2015, between 10:00 and 10:30 on a sunny
windless day, eight stamens and the distal end of the style
(stigmas; 1mm portions) were collected in 1.0 ml conical tubes
using sterile scissors. The researcher wore sterile gloves. The
material was obtained from twelve tetraploid cultivars developed
by Lucie Turcotte, Les Jardins Merlebleu. The material was stored
at -20 degrees Celsius within a few minutes in order to avoid any
cellular lysis.
Once in the laboratory, a few picograms of the material
underwent tryptic digestion prior to protein analysis by mass
spectrometry with a nanospray source. This technique measures
protein mass (m/z) and fragments with peptide bonds. The final
step quantifies the protein and the peptide units by isotopic
labeling (iTRAQ). These experiments were conducted in December
2015 at The Genomic Center of Quebec located in the CHUL,
CHU-University Laval.
RESULTS
A few picograms of biological material from the stamens
and the stigma exudates allowed the identification of more
than one hundred proteins and thousands of peptides (with
a significant Mascot score) that have been observed in reproductive organs of several plants including petunia, Eucalyptus
woodwardii, rice, tomatoes, Arabidopsis thaliana and the
Transvaal daisy. Thus, these reproductive organs are rich in
proteins and peptides, overexpressed either in stamen or the
exudate, with molecular weight ranging from 17 to 110 kDa),
allowing researchers to propose creative hypotheses about
reproduction and the course of a pollen grain. It should be
noted that bees only transport high quality pollen grains
(mature and dry) whereas Sapiens, the eternal amateur,
persists in questions about the reproductive properties of the
pollen grains he has selected to improve the look or to modify
hybrid colours.
Hence, the basic question addressed by Sapiens faces the
problem that the ultimate functions of such a protein amalgam
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are not so easy to define. The work of Rejon et al. (5) with lilium
longiflorum and olea europaea and that of Rodriguez-Enriquez
(6) with the daylily will direct our research over the coming year
to determine a functional model; this will require patience and
additional biochemical work in the field.
DISCUSSION
The hands of Sapiens and bee hind legs transport huge
quantities of proteins in order to perform hybridization; these
proteins are concentrated in a 100 micrometer spheroid organ
and they finally land on the stigmatic fluid which is rich in
water, lipids, proteins and polysaccharides (the polysaccharides
of the vegetal/plant kingdom are starch and cellulose, two
glucose polymers). This mixture of macromolecules plays an
important role in storing signaling molecules from the pollen
grain (kinases) and also largely contributes to pollen grain
swelling. The interactions between these components should
be recognized as a highly selective mechanism, which is
characteristic of daylilies (in this study we have identified
zinc finger proteins, and several enzymes including sucrose
synthase, kinase pyruvate, elongation factors, ribosomal and
heat shock proteins 70 and 83). Thus, there is no possible
cross-breeding between apple blossom and a daylily; hence
the concept of rejection, or incompatibility in both the plant
and animal kingdoms although non-specific crosses may occur
among flower plants with aneuploidy disorders and/or somatic
irregularities.
The daylily pollen grain contains hundreds of proteins
according to our preliminary data and when the migration
of the pollen tube begins, one can postulate numerous
interactions with cell wall membranes including cellulases
and pectinases. This migration occurs at a speed of 14,400
micrometers/hour or 4 micrometers/sec-4 (7) towards the
ovarian micropyle; to our knowledge, only the Tradescantia
or Setcreasea family reaches a comparable speed. In the case
of the daylily, it is imperative to proceed with such speed in
order to cross the long pistil (8 to 9 cm) of diploid cultivars.
The next question appears simple: how to make rapid progress
in the pistil without a highly effective fuel ?
We know that the protein cocktail of the stigma exudate
must be a welcoming environment; It contains glucan
polymers, glucose units derived from β-1,3-glucanase, 40
and 60 S ribosomal proteins and proteins that support the
organization and the expansion of the pollen tube (such as
hemogalacturonases, serine/threonine kinases, phospho-glycerate
kinases, ATP synthase and elongation factors) in order to promote
the progression of pollen grains that have reached two times their
initial volume. The pollen tube must undergo progressive
remodeling. These interactions consume a large quantity of
energy; therefore sucrose metabolism (O-glycosyl hydrolases) must operate at a maximum rate. This is similar to
cell signaling mechanisms localized within cells containing
NADPH oxidases, which are renowned for their propensity
to alter protein structure (phosphorylation or oxidation)
with functional implications.
As soon as the pollen tube accommodates the pollen
grain, the signaling network builds up to support the growth of
the pollen tube in the direction of the synergid cells of the ovary; this well-synchronized orientation is significantly influenced
by magnesium and calcium (8). These trace elements have
their own transport proteins (e.g. calmodulin) that are similar
to those found in Homo sapiens. The role of calcium was first
suggested in 1960 and demonstrated in 1990 with microelectrodes
indicating calcium gradients all along the pollen tube. Thus, calcium
plays a role in the interactions of the cytoskeleton proteins and the
movement of these proteins through the vascular structures of the
tube wall.
CONCLUSION
For both the formation and growth of the pollen tube,
we used mass spectrometry to identify numerous proteins
or factors (while excluding lipids present in the extraction
medium) in pollen and in the stigmatic exudate; this material
migrates towards the ovarian micropyle of the daylily in order
to deposit two sperm cells at this location. Our current raw
data and recent literature indicate that the physicochemical
interactions between the isolated components are highly
complex and a unique model remains speculative. In addition,
the tube cells and membrane vesicles communicate through
the opening or the closing of specific channels under the
control of cations and anions to dictate protein movement,
interactions and binding to putative receptors. Induction of
mutations (genetic polymorphisms), or structural changes
to known proteins will help to identify their roles in daylily
biology. The specific case of the non-functional synergids
support this statement. Thus, the daylily remains the plant
model of choice for the foreseeable future (9).
Above: Carpenter bee on H. 'Brookside Oh That Tiger'
(Stahl, J. 2007) Photo: John Stahl
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With these data in mind, it is easy to understand that
hybridization cannot always be a successful process because
epigenetic interventions in such a complex system may disturb
pollen tube progression; progression may be halted at 15:00
while the cellular death of the flower is in progress. What a sad
and unanticipated moment for the hybridizer when the bee is
on its way home with no concerns!
GLOSSARY
Sapiens: refers to “Homo sapiens.” “Sapiens” is commonly used
by Yuval Noah Harari in his book “Sapiens: Une brève histoire
de l’humanité”, 2015. ISBN : 978-2-226-257-7
Protein: complex organic macromolecule containing carbon,
oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen that is composed of amino
acid chains linked by peptide bonds and folded into a specific
three-dimensional shape.
Phosphorylation: introduction of a phosphate group that
is transferred to a small molecule (glucose) or a protein
(adenine); phosphorylation is the final common pathway of
aerobic energy metabolism in any living organism.
Mascot score: Mascot compares the observed spectra of a
protein to a database of known proteins and determines the
most likely matches.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We wish to address our best thanks to Lucie Turcotte and Muriel Kelly for their review of this manuscript.
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À la découverte d’aspects
moléculaires de la fécondité
des hémérocalles
par Roland R. Tremblay PhD
Les Jardins Merlebleu, Portneuf
Région 4, Québec, Canada
La morphogenèse des plantes, résultante de leurs conditions
de reproduction, est en évolution depuis des siècles alors que
celle d’Homo Sapiens (Sapiens) est en cours depuis 30 000 à
40 000 ans à un rythme accéléré à la suite de son éloignement
génétique des Néandertaliens et des Dénisoviens. Dans quelques
zones inexplorées de la terre et principalement dans les abysses
des océans (au-delà de 2 000 mètres), il y a encore des créatures
qui se modifient lentement et que nous ne connaissons aucunement
puisqu’elles ne peuvent vivre en surface des eaux. Il y aurait sans
doute une exception, celle de l’Artémia salina.
Mes années passées en médecine de la reproduction chez
les humains m’ont amené à accorder un intérêt soutenu pour la
fécondité des hémérocalles (1,2). De toute évidence, la fécondité des Sapiens et des plantes Hemerocallidaceae obéit en
première instance à quelques règles de base : production de
gamètes matures, développement balancé et appariement des
chromosomes et rencontre privilégiée du matériel génétique qui
provient des parties mâles et femelles.
Phases constitutives de la reproduction
La reproduction des plantes et des Hemerocallidaceae en
particulier comporte des singularités d’intérêt pour notre Association puisqu’elles dépassent par leurs complexités les données
morphologiques que la microphotographie ne peut nous laisser
entrevoir. On retrouve toutefois chez certaines personnes (3)
des propos suggérant que « hybridizing daylilies is so simple that
even a bee can do it ». C’est absolument vrai, mais tentons de
dépasser les manœuvres programmées de l’abeille puisque Sapiens a le privilège de choisir une orientation stratégique.
1. Un grain de pollen, par opposition à un spermatozoïde, est immobile; il prend naissance dans les cellules mères microsporiques
situées dans les sacs anthériens. Dans ce grain, on trouve deux
à trois cellules constituant le gamétophyte mâle. La couche
extérieure du grain est composée de polysaccharides et de
sporopollenine, substance riche en polymères de caroténoïdes
entrant dans la composition de l’hormone exine.
2. Pour atteindre sa cible, un grain de pollen à maturité est
léger et doit recourir à un système de transport qui interpelle
l’entomophilie (insectes), l’anémophilie (vent) et la main de
Sapiens.
3. Le grain de pollen ne voyage pas comme le spermatozoïde
dans un milieu riche en substances nutritives et bien tamponné;
au contraire, ce grain s’hydrate dans un premier temps et s’allonge
au contact de l’exsudat stigmatique pour atteindre l’ovaire. Cet
allongement est propre à l’espèce.
4. L’expansion orientée du tube pollinique confère le statut
d’ovocyte présumé fécond lorsque les cellules germinales (pollen
+ 2 synergides et un ovocyte) se retrouvent à l’entrée du canal
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micropylaire; ainsi seront formées 5 à 40 graines noires suivant
la ploïdie de l’hybride.
Objectifs spécifiques de cet article
Présenter la phase 1 d’une étude en protéomique, science
qui étudie l’ensemble des protéines d’une cellule, d’un tissu,
d’un organe à un moment spécifique dans le temps et
sous des conditions expérimentales bien précises; elle permet
également de cerner les interactions avec d’autres protéines
et les éléments de l’expression génomique (ADN, ARN) qui
permettront de connaître l’ensemble des composantes d’une
étamine et du fluide stigmatique et qui mènera à la compréhension
des interactions entre les étamines et le fluide stigmatique chez
l’hémérocalle. On pourra ainsi donner un sens biologique aux
actions aléatoires de l’abeille et à la main de Sapiens en matière
d’agents fécondants. Ces données ne sont que très partiellement
disponibles pour l’hémérocalle. Dans une phase 2, nous traiterons de
quelques systèmes explicatifs de l’infertilité chez l’hémérocalle.
Matériel et méthodes
En juillet 2015, entre 10 h et 10 h 30, par une température
ensoleillée et sans vent, ont été prélevées à l’aide d’une pince et
de ciseaux stériles huit étamines et la partie distale du stigma (1
mm) de 12 cultivars tétraploïdes développés par Lucie Turcotte,
les Jardins Merlebleu. Ce matériel a été déposé dans des cupules
de 1 cm cube et conservé à -20 degrés Celsius pour éviter toute
lyse cellulaire associée à la température ambiante.
Dans une étape subséquente, une infime partie de ce
matériel a été soumise à une digestion tryptique en prévision
de la caractérisation des protéines par spectrométrie de masse
avec source nanospray; la spectrométrie mesure la masse de la
protéine (m/z) et les fragments aux liens peptidiques. L‘étape
finale consiste à quantifier les unités protéiques et peptidiques
par marquage isotopique (iTRAQ). Ces expériences ont été réalisées
en décembre 2015 au centre de génomique de Québec, au CHUL,
Québec. Nous ne détaillerons pas davantage ces méthodes
relativement complexes.
Résultats
Quelques microgrammes de matériel biologique en provenance
de quatre étamines et de six stigmas nous ont permis d’identifier
dans un premier temps plus de 100 protéines ou des milliers de
fragments peptidiques que l’on retrouve dans les organes reproducteurs de plusieurs autres plantes à savoir le pétunia, le lys,
la marguerite du Transvaal, l’eucalyptus woodwardi, le cresson,
le riz et la tomate. Plusieurs de ces protéines étaient surexprimées et leur poids moléculaire oscillait entre 17 et 110
kDa. Ces protéines contenues dans les grains de pollen et le fluide
du stigma renferment donc une richesse d’éléments impliqués
dans le processus de reproduction qui permet à Sapiens
d’amorcer ses créations et d’élaborer certaines hypothèses sur la
fonction de ces protéines.
À noter que l’abeille ne transporte que du matériel de qualité
(sec et à maturité) alors que Sapiens, hybrideur toujours amateur,
se pose d’éternelles questions sur les vertus reproductrices du
pollen qu’il prélève pour embellir ou modifier un hybride.
La question fondamentale qui se pose donc à Sapiens réside
dans la fonctionnalité d’un tel amalgame de protéines. Les
travaux de Réjon et coll. (5) avec le Lilium longiflorum et Oléa
Europaea et ceux de Rodriguez-Enriquez (6) avec l’hémérocalle
orienteront pour la présente année un regard préliminaire sur
ces protéines, car leur fonctionnalité demande un exercice subtil
et au long cours en biochimie des protéines.
Discussion
La main de Sapiens ou les pattes arrière de l’abeille transportent
de très grandes quantités de protéines, logées dans un organe
sphéroïde de 100 micromètres; elles se retrouvent finalement
dans le liquide stigmatique riche en eau, en lipides, en protéines
et en polysaccharides (les polyosides du règne végétal sont
l’amidon et la cellulase, polymères du glucose). Ces constituants
doivent être reconnus par ceux du fluide dense du stigma tant
pour la rétention de molécules de signalisation en provenance du
pollen (kinases) que pour le gonflement des graines de pollen par
l’eau. On catégorisera cet ensemble sous le vocable de protéines
de reconnaissance sélectives propres à l’hémérocalle (on y
retrouve des protéines à doigts de zinc, des enzymes, dont la
sucrose synthase et la pyruvate kinase, des facteurs d’élongation,
des parties constituantes des ribosomes et les « heat shock
proteins » 70 et 83). Il n’y a donc pas de croisement possible
entre la fleur de pommier et celle de l’hémérocalle; d’où le concept
de rejet ou d’incompatibilité entre espèces tant dans le règne
végétal qu’animal même si certains croisements peuvent se
réaliser avec des aberrations chromosomiques ou anomalies
somatiques subséquentes.
Le grain de pollen de l’hémérocalle, bien réhydraté et contenant
de nombreuses protéines, se prépare ainsi à entreprendre sa course
migratoire à raison de 14 400 micromètres/heure ou 4 micromètres
par seconde-4 (7) vers le micropyle de l’ovaire; seule la Misère de
la famille de Tradescantia ou setcréasées peut atteindre une vitesse comparable. Dans le cas de l’hémérocalle, il est impératif
de faire vite pour franchir le pistil des cultivars diploïdes atteignant
8 à 9 cm de longueur. Mais la question qui se pose paraît simple :
comment progresser si rapidement sans carburant à indice d’octane
élevé ?
Au départ, les protéines d’accueil du stigma doivent être
présentes et fonctionnelles (polymères du glucane, unités de
glucose obtenues d’une 1-3-B glucanase, protéines ribosomales
de 40 et 60 S) ainsi que les protéines qui favorisent l’organisation
et l’expansion du tube pollinique (hémogalacturonases que nous
avons identifiés dans la présente étude : sérine/thréonine kinases,
phosphoglycerate kinase, ATP synthase, facteurs d’élongation)
pour favoriser la progression de grains de pollen qui ont atteint
le double de leur volume initial. La paroi du tube doit donc se
remodeler progressivement. Tous ces mouvements consomment
beaucoup d’énergie et par biais de conséquence, le métabolisme
des sucres (O-glycosyl hydrolases) doit opérer à plein régime.
Il en est de même avec les mécanismes de signalisation cellulaire
localisés dans les cellules contenant des NADPH oxydases réputées
pour leur propension à modifier la structure des protéines
(phosphorylation ou oxydation) avec des répercussions
fonctionnelles.
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À titre de joueur complémentaire, dès que le tube pollinique
fait protrusion du grain de pollen, le réseau de signalisation se
constitue pour la croissance polaire du tube vers les cellules
synergides de l’ovaire et ces mouvements coordonnés sont
largement influencés par le magnésium et le calcium (8). Ces
oligoéléments ont leurs propres protéines de transport, dont la
calmoduline hautement similaire à celle de Sapiens. L’observation
associée au calcium remonte à 1960, mais c’est seulement en
1990, à l’aide de microélectrodes, que des gradients de calcium
ont été mesurés tout au long du tube pollinique; le calcium est
donc impliqué dans la régulation des protéines du cytosquelette
et la mouvance des protéines dans les structures vacuolaires de la
paroi des tubes.
Indice Mascot : mesure statistique indiquant le degré de
concordance entre les résultats expérimentaux et ceux contenus
dans une base de données.
Conclusion
3. McKenzie Ryan, M. and Billingslea, O. : Cooking up some
goodies. The Daylily Journal, Vol 70, No 4, p. 28, 2015.
Tant dans la constitution et la progression du tube pollinique,
nous avons identifié par spectrométrie de masse des centaines
de protéines/peptides (tout en ignorant les unités lipidiques
du milieu d’extraction) qui voguent allègrement vers le micropyle ovarien de l’hémérocalle pour lui confier deux cellules
spermatiques. Il y a tellement d’interventions physicochimiques
entre les composantes isolées qu’il s’avère difficile de dégager un
modèle opérationnel doué d’unicité parce que toutes les cellules
et les vacuoles membranaires communiquent entre elles par des
canaux, dont l’ouverture ou la fermeture peuvent être contrôlées
par des cations (Ca+) ou des anions (H+). C’est en induisant des
mutations (polymorphisme génétique) ou des modifications de
structures des protéines qu’on parviendra à prioriser le rôle de
certaines protéines ou cellules. Le cas des synergides afonctionnelles illustre bien cet énoncé.
À l’aide des données de la présente étude, on peut comprendre
que le geste de l’hybrideur ne peut pas toujours être couronné de
succès, car la moindre intervention épigénétique dans un système
aussi complexe peut le rendre inopérant ou plus concrètement un
tube pollinique peut s’arrêter à mi-chemin d’un style à 15 h alors
que le processus conduisant à la mort de la fleur est déjà en cours.
Quel moment triste et souvent insoupçonné pour Sapiens alors
que l’abeille suit sa route sans soucis.
Remerciements
Nous adressons nos sincères remerciements à madame Lucie
Turcotte pour la révision soignée de cet article.
Références
1. Tremblay, R.R. : Regards intimes sur les interactions
pollen-ovaire chez l’hémérocalle L’Amirocallis, No 22, mars 2010.
2. Tremblay, R.R. : Systèmes explicatifs de l’hypofécondité des
hémérocalles. L’Amirocallis, No 22, septembre 2010.
4. Pinkham, L. : Pollen in Tiduwater, Virginia. The Daylily Journal,
Vol 70, No 4, p. 60, 2015.
5. Réjon, J.D. et al. : Proteomics profiling reveals novel proteins
and functions of the plant stigma exudate. J. Exp. Bot., Vol 64
(18) 5695-5705, 2013.
6. Rodriguez-Enriquez, M.J. and Grant-Downton, R.T. : A new day
dawning : hemerocallis as a future model organism. AoB plants.
Oxford Journals, 5 (piss055), 1-5, 20, 2013.
7. Michard, F., Alves, F. and Feijo, J.A. : The role of ion influxes in
polarized cell growth and morphogenesis : the pollen tube as an
experimental paradigm. Int. J. Dev. Biol. : 53 : 1609-1622, 2009.
8. Steinhorst, J. and Hudla, J. : Calcium-a central regulator of
pollen germination and tube growth. Biochem. Biophys. Acta,
1833 : 1573-1581, 2013.
9. Tremblay, Roland R. : Daylilies as plant models; why not ?
Daylilies in the Great Northeast, Vol 7, Issue 2, Fall 2014.
Lexique
Sapiens : désigne expressément « Homo Sapiens ». Mais, Sapiens
est constamment utilisé par Yuval Noah Harari dans son livre
intitulé : Une brève histoire de l’humanité 2015. ISBN : 978-2226-257-7.
Protéine : macromolécule biologique composée d’une ou
plusieurs chaînes d’acides aminés reliés entre eux par des liaisons
peptidiques. Un peptide réfère à un assemblage d’acides aminés
qui est de petite taille.
Phosphorylation : fixation d’un groupe phosphate à une protéine.
La phosphorylation est un mécanisme courant de régulation de
la fonction des cellules.
Oxydation : réaction chimique impliquant la molécule d’oxygène.
Les réactions d’oxydoréduction dans tout organisme permettent
de fournir de l’énergie aux différentes cellules.
Above: Carpenter bee on H. 'Ta-dah' (Brooks, BB. 2007)
Photo by John Stahl
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Journey of a Generalist
in the Daylily Hybridizer’s World
By Jean-Sébastien Poulin
Lévis, Québec, Canada
“The first step towards philosophy
is incredulity.”
-Denis Diderot (1713-1784)
I fell into the world of daylily hybridization in the most common way: in the morning, while drinking a cup of coffee in my
garden I wondered to myself what a great flower might result
if I could cross THIS lavender flower with THIS other yellow
flower. From 2006 to 2012, I had bought only a dozen different
daylily cultivars. Being a collector type, unfortunately, I had to
resist the compulsion to buy more flowers during this period.
But I’m also an encyclopedist type and nothing interests me
more than the habits and behaviors of humans, the secrets of
nature and the scientific approach in general. I would gladly say
that I’m more interested by the journey than the destination. It
could explain, maybe, why I studied philosophy (1993), French
literature (1997) and computer science (2001) at University.
Being a generalist is an interesting way to observe the world,
mostly in societies where social structures and political systems
often value specialists and their deep analysis approach. The
Jack of all trades version is not better, but different. It permits
one to see potential links between seemingly unrelated topics,
to draw lines from A to C without going through B, etc.
My passage to daylily madness happened in 2012. After
a few readings of amateur articles, I crossed my first daylilies
(Prairie Blue Eyes X Joan Senior) and it was the beginning of my
new life. I was 39 years old at that time. Then I purchased more
cultivars. My wife looked at me with an amused look during the
first months and then she became more puzzled when she
understood that I wanted to go back to University (Horticulture)
to learn more about “all this.” To my three young kids I was
a cool father because I was growing wonderful plants in my
home workshop but to my friends I was not cool anymore…
because I was now growing plants in my home workshop!
During the first winter of my new hobby, I read, learned and
observed many facts. A short excerpt:
•
In general, the first year of blooming is the second
year in the garden… (Ouch! What a bad summer I had
the first year…);
•
The odds to have valuable crosses (winning the jackpot!) are super-duper thin, even with parent plants
with good genetics;
•
There exist many web sites and articles on how to
induce germination in a daylily seed, but not much on
how to grow daylilies once the seed is in the substratum;
•
Experienced hybridizers are not always interested in
sharing their knowledge on their web site or elsewhere…
Considering that in daylily hybridization, it’s not like brewing
beer, meaning that we don’t have to be scared to share a secret
established commercial recipe (in our amateur hybridization
activities we have little control over gene division), I tried to get
around this lack of information sharing by doing two things:
first, I created my own Facebook group on the daylily exclusively
(“Projet hémérocalles/Daylilies project”); then, I joined the daylilies club of Québec city, the AAHQ (Association des amateurs
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Journey of a Generalist in the Daylily Hybridizer’s World
d’hémérocalles du Québec).
On the Facebook group, in the space of a year, I succeeded
in reuniting the majority of the current and active hybridizers
from la Belle Province. There, we share knowledge, techniques
and tricks about our hybridization practices. My goal is to democratize the practice of hybridization and I want my approach to be like
the one Denis Diderot and Jean Le Rond D’Alembert (French
philosophers and authors) had in mind when they wrote their
famous “Encyclopédie” between 1751 and 1772: concrete
illustrations (diagrams, drawings or schemas) supported by short
text, documented and well referenced. In summary, I want
my communication to flirt with the scientific approach, but
with a smooth rendering and without academic rigidity. Many
members of my club (AAHQ) have joined me in this task and I’m
really happy with the results.
Another passion was born during my activities as a hybridizer:
the creation of a photo montage in macro perspective, with
or without text, by which a person can understand, in a single
look, a perticular aspect of plant anatomy, or a specific step
in the hybridization process. I call these photos “cookbook
photos” to refer to the great photos that can be found in recipe
books for cooking enthusiasts.
I would also like in the near future to put the entire hybridization
production process in schemas (flow charts) to be able to standardize the different steps (I know… I know… another Information
Technology folk’s strange habit: we like data structures, patterns
and dynamic diagrams).
counts to make sure to have a long flowering period with a
single daylily. I have a preference for flowers with simple patterns
and features. Most of the time during a new garden visit, without knowing the pedigree of the cultivar I’m shooting with my
Nikon camera, I realize afterwards that I have an inclination for
the diploid subject. I like their natural elegance, their finesse
and their very saturated colors.
Since I’m a small producer, around 100 seedlings per year,
I use noted multi-cell recipients (Robert Muckle’s system) to
follow each individual. It gives me less chance to win the jackpot
but I like to be able to follow the growth of each seedling very
closely in my MS Excel sheet. Another key argument for my
limited production: my plot of less than 6,000 square feet.
What’s next? I have many projects in mind: 1- to win the
jackpot (!); 2- to create a mobile application tool (for iPad, iPod)
to help the hybridizer’s practice in the field; 3- to promote the
work of my fellow hybridizers in Québec because we have hard
workers here with very interesting hybridization programs,
but we have less visibility despite our club efforts; 4- to try to
create more “cookbook photos”; 5- to write about my passion
for photography, a side effect of growing plants; 6- to design a
garden in LEGO...? No.
Like my fellow hybridizers of the North, I want to grow
plants with very good resistance to cold and disease, ideally
with dormant foliage. Of course I want plants with good bud
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Itinéraire d’un généraliste
dans le monde des hybrideurs d’hémérocalles
Par Jean-Sébastien Poulin
Lévis, Québec, Canada
“Le premier pas vers la philosophie, c’est l’incrédulité.”
-Denis Diderot (1713-1784)
Mon premier pas dans le monde de l’hybridation des
hémérocalles s’est effectué de la manière la plus simple : tôt
le matin, en buvant un café dans mon jardin, je me suis mis
à penser à la merveilleuse fleur que je pourrais obtenir si je
croisais CETTE fleur lavande avec CETTE autre fleur jaune.
De 2006 à 2012, j’avais acheté seulement une douzaine de
cultivars d’hémérocalle. Étant enclin à collectionner les objets,
malheureusement, j’étais très heureux d’avoir résisté à l’impulsion
d’acheter davantage de fleurs pendant cette période…
Mais je suis aussi du type encyclopédiste et rien ne m’intéresse
davantage que les habitudes et les comportements humains,
les secrets de dame nature et l’approche scientifique en
générale. Je dirai sans détour que je suis davantage intéressé
par le voyage que par la destination. Ceci pourra probablement
expliquer la raison pour laquelle j’ai étudié la philosophie (1993),
la littérature française (1997) et l’informatique (2001) pendant
mon passage à l’Université. Être un généraliste est une manière
intéressante d’observer le monde, surtout dans des sociétés où
les structures sociales et les systèmes politiques valorisent
davantage les spécialistes et leurs approches plus pointues et
très fouillées. La vision du « touche-à-tout » n’est pas meilleure,
mais différente. Elle permet de voir des liens potentiels entre
deux sujets apparemment non liés, de tracer une ligne de A à
C, sans passer par B, etc.
Mon intérêt pour les hémérocalles s’est accentué de
manière significative en 2012. Après quelques lectures d’articles
amateurs, j’ai effectué mon premier croisement d’hémérocalles
(Prairie Blue Eyes X Joan Senior) et ce fut le commencement
de ma nouvelle vie. J’avais 39 ans à ce moment-là. J’ai ensuite
acheté plusieurs autres cultivars… Mon épouse me lançait des
regards amusés pendant les premiers mois et elle est devenue
plus intriguée quand elle a compris que je voulais retourner à
l’Université (Horticulture) pour en apprendre un peu plus sur
« tout cela ». Pour mes trois jeunes enfants, j’étais un papa
cool parce que je faisais pousser des plantes dans mon atelier à
la maison, et pour mes amis je n’étais plus cool du tout… parce
que je faisais pousser des plantes dans mon atelier à la maison!
Au cours du premier hiver de mon nouvel hobby, j’ai lu,
appris et observé plusieurs faits. Par exemple :
• En général, la première année de floraison d’un plant survient
au cours de sa deuxième année au jardin… (Ouah! Quel mauvais
été j’allais passer pendant la première année…);
• Les chances d’obtenir un plant d’exception (gagner le
jackpot!) sont très minces, même avec des parents ayant une
bonne génétique;
• Il existe plusieurs sites web et articles qui traitent de l’induction
de la germination chez les graines d’hémérocalle, mais très peu
traitant de la manière de faire croître un plant d’hémérocalle
une fois que la graine germée est dans le substrat;
• Les hybrideurs expérimentés ne sont pas toujours enclins à
partager leurs connaissances sur leurs sites web ou ailleurs…
Étant donné que l’hybridation d’hémérocalle, ce n’est pas
comme brasser de la bière, à savoir que nous n’avons pas à
craindre de divulguer les secrets d’une recette commerciale
établie (dans nos activités d’hybridation amateur, nous n’avons
que trop peu de contrôle sur la répartition des gènes), j’ai
tenté de contourner ce manque de partage d’information de
deux façons : j’ai d’abord créé mon propre groupe Facebook
dédié exclusivement à l’hémérocalle (“Projet hémérocalles/
Daylilies project”), et ensuite j’ai adhéré à une association de
passionnés d’hémérocalle au Québec, l’AAHQ (Association des
amateurs d’hémérocalles du Québec).
Sur le groupe Facebook, dans l’espace d’une année, je suis
parvenu à réunir la majorité des hybrideurs actifs de la Belle
Province. Sur le site, nous partageons des connaissances, des
techniques et des trucs touchant nos pratiques respectives
d’hybridation. Mon objectif est de parvenir à démocratiser la
pratique de l’hybridation et je veux que mon approche s’apparente
à celle que Denis Diderot et Jean Le Rond D’Alembert (philosophes et auteurs Français) avaient en tête quand ils ont rédigé
leur fameux “Encyclopédie” entre les années 1751 et 1772:
des illustrations concrètes (diagrammes, dessins ou schémas)
complétées par des textes brefs, documentés et bien référencés.
En résumé, je veux que mes communications flirtent avec l’approche scientifique, mais en adoptant un style plus accessible,
sans rigidité académique. Plusieurs membres de mon association
(AAHQ) se sont joints à moi pour cette tâche et je suis très heureux
des résultats.
Une autre passion est née au cours de mes activités
d’hybrideurs : la création de montage photo avec une perspective
macro, avec ou sans texte, sur laquelle une personne pourrait
comprendre, d’un simple coup d’œil, un aspect particulier
de l’anatomie d’un plant, ou une étape bien spécifique dans
les processus entourant l’hybridation. J’ai baptisé ces montages
photos les “cookbook photos” pour faire référence aux splendides
photos que l’on retrouve dans les livres de recettes culinaires.
J’aimerais également dans l’avenir pouvoir modéliser dans des
diagrammes de flux, le processus entier d’hybridation afin d’être
en mesure de pouvoir normaliser les différentes étapes (je sais…
je sais… une autre étrange habitude des gens des technologies
des informations : nous aimons les structures de données, les
patterns et les diagrammes dynamiques).
Comme mes collègues hybrideurs du Nord, je veux des
plants qui ont une excellente résistance au froid et aux maladies,
idéalement avec un feuillage dormant. Évidemment, je désire
que mes plants possèdent beaucoup de boutons floraux
(performance) afin de m’assurer d’avoir une longue période
de floraison pour un plant donné. J’ai une préférence pour les
fleurs possédant des patterns et des caractéristiques simples.
La plupart du temps lorsque je visite un nouveau jardin, parfois
sans même connaître le pédigrée du cultivar sur lequel l’objectif
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de ma caméra Nikon s’arrête; je réalise après coup que j’ai
une forte préférence pour les diploïdes. J’aime leurs élégances
naturelles, leurs finesses et leurs couleurs très saturées.
Comme je suis un petit producteur, environ 100 semis par an,
j’utilise des multi cellules annotées (système de Robert Muckle)
afin d’assurer la traçabilité de chaque individu. Ce petit volume
amenuise mes chances de gagner le jackpot, mais j’aime bien
pouvoir monitorer de près la croissance de chaque plantule
dans mon classeur MS Excel. Un autre argument clé de ma
production limitée : mon terrain ne fait pas tout à fait 6000 pieds
carrés…
Et la suite? J’ai plusieurs projets en tête: 1- gagner le
jackpot (!); 2- créer une application mobile (iPod, iPad) pour
faciliter le travail des hybrideurs sur le terrain; 3- promouvoir
le travail de mes collègues hybrideurs au Québec parce que
nous avons des gens qui travaillent très forts ici et ils ont des
programmes d’hybridation très intéressants, mais ils ont peu de
visibilité malgré les efforts soutenus de notre association; 4- créer
encore plus de “cookbook photos”; 5- rédiger des articles sur
ma passion pour la photographie, un
effet de bord de la culture de plants !
6- Faire du design de jardin en LEGO?
Euh… non.
[English and French versions of this
article and photos by Jean-Sébastien
Poulin]
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Region 4 Club News
AAHQ
Association
des Amateurs
d’Hémérocalles
du Québec
Conseil d'administration:
Judith Mercier, présidente
Yves Pomerleau, vice-président
Sylvie Champagne, trésorière
Lucie Turcotte, secrétaire
Jocelyn Blouin, administrateur
Jacques Hallé, administrateur
Jean-Sébastien Poulin, administrateur
Roland R. Tremblay, administrateur
Programmation 2016 de l’AAHQ
Concours de l’AAHQ 2016 : Concours en
deux volets, un premier volet destiné au
« Coup de Cœur 2016 » où les membres
présentent leurs plus beaux hybrides.
Celui ayant récolté le plus grand nombre
de votes de la part des membres remporte
le prix de 50$. Le deuxième volet est
destiné à récompenser le plus bel hybride
et sera jugé par des membres ayant reçu la
formation de juges de jardins. Le premier
prix se méritera un montant de 100$.
Commandes de Groupe : L’Association
facilite encore cette année l’acquisition
de magnifiques hémérocalles par les
membres auprès d’un fournisseur
américain, soit Guidry’s Daylily Garden.
La date limite pour commander est le 7
février 2016.
Journal l’Amirocallis : La date de tombée
pour la réception des articles de nos
membres est le 6 mars 2016 pour une
parution du journal le 1er mai 2016.
Hémérobrunch : C’est le dimanche 3 avril
2016 à l’Hôtel Clarion, Sainte-Foy, que les
membres sont attendus pour le lancement
officiel de la saison 2016. Les gagnants du
concours de l’AAHQ 2016 seront connus.
Activité ouverte à tous (réservation
requise).
Base de données de l’AAHQ : Tous les
membres sont invités à soumettre la liste à
jour de leurs cultivars à M. Jocelyn Blouin
avant la date limite du 30 avril 2016.
Plantation de cultivars : Le samedi 28 mai
2016 (ou le lendemain si pluie), il y aura
plantation de cultivars enregistrés par les
membres et de cultivars servant à illustrer
les diverses catégories d’hémérocalles, le
tout en lien avec la nouvelle orientation
de la plate-bande de démonstration de
l’AAHQ au Jardin botanique Roger Van den
Hende de l’Université Laval.
Journée de l’hémérocalle : C’est le samedi
30 juillet que devrait avoir lieu la journée
de l’hémérocalle 2016 et elle se tiendra
dans le jardin d’un membre. L’endroit reste
à préciser.
Visite de jardins : la sélection des jardins
est présentement en cours.
Assemblée générale : Le dimanche 13
novembre 2016 se tiendra l’assemblée
générale de l’association. Le bilan de
l’année y sera présenté ainsi que le
nouveau conseil élu par les membres.
Planting Cultivars : On Saturday May 28,
2016 (or the day after) the planting of
cultivars, registered by members as well
as other cultivars to offer a large variety of
daylilies, will take place at the Roger Van
den Hende botanical Garden of University
Laval.
Daylily Day: On July 30, 2016 the Daylily
Day will take place in the garden of a
member. The CA Team is finalizing this
activity and the logistic will be announced
later.
Garden Tours: the selection of the gardens
is in progress.
General Meeting: On Sunday November
13, 2016 AAHQ will held its annual
meeting and election of a new board of
directors is expected.
Bonne saison 2016 à tous!
Wonderful Season 2016 to all!
Votre Équipe du CA
The CA Team of AAHQ
AAHQ Programming in 2016
AAHQ 2016 Contest: The contest have
2 aspects, the first being labelled “Coup
de Coeur 2016” where members pictures
of the most elegant seedling will be
rewarded of 50$ for the first prize; the
members of the society at large will be
entitled to vote for the winner. The second
part of the contest is for the ones who are
interested to present their best seedling
with pictures of the flower, the branching
and the whole plant. The material of those
participants will be submitted to members
who were attending Garden Judge training
in the past.
Club Plant Purchase: AAHQ facilitates
again this year the acquisition of beautiful
daylilies from a US supplier. Guidry’s
Daylily Garden is the supplier and orders
will be received till February 7, 2016.
The Journal l’Amirocallis: Articles from
members must be received by March 6,
2016 for publication of the Amirocallis in
early May.
Daylily-Brunch: April 3, 2016 is the date
where the activity will take place at the
Clarion Hotel, Sainte-Foy. Members are
requested to reserve for this dinner. The
Contest winners will then be announced.
AAHQ Daylilies Database: Members are
invited to submit their updates to Jocelyn
Blouin by April 30th, 2016.
BADS
Buffalo Area Daylily Society
Submitted by Kathy Guest Shadrack
...second star to the right and straight
on till morning.
The Buffalo Area Daylily Society is
undergoing a metamorphosis.
Most clubs have ebbs and flows.
Key people become ill or move away or
there are other pressures and changes
that cause the balance to shift. We are
working hard now to reinvigorate our
calendar and to get our mojo working.
Happily, we have an energized group
of folks who are helping to do just that.
At the end of 2015, we decided
that we would put our bylaws aside
temporarily and move forward with
a Steering Committee. The sitting
Board was all invited to be part of
the Committee, along with any other
interested parties. With this new
group we hit the ground running and
announced that we are emphasizing fun
and that it’s going to be a fabulous year.
We started with a members meeting
in December with none other than (at
the time) President-elect of AHS, Nikki
Schmith, as our speaker. Her topic was
“The Collective Experience” and she
pitched it to inspire and enthrall. After
all, this is a club that is made up – not
of daylilies – but of people who love
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daylilies, and so her program spoke to
that passion. A fabulous way to energize
us again.
We then had another meeting of our
membership that was intended solely at
taking a 50,000-foot view of the club. We
took down peoples’ thoughts and hopes
and suggestions and from that we are
building a calendar.
The 2016 Calendar is looking great.
We are starting the year with a “Winter
Blahs” meeting at the end of February
with Charlie Zettek, Cobs Hill Garden, as
our speaker. His topic is “Daylilies, as I
see them.” He promises to stimulate and
titillate during the dreary waning days of
winter.
In May, we will have our
“Plantapalooza” meeting where members
have access to the first new daylilies of
the year.
On June 25th & 26th, BADS will
participate in the Buffalo Garden Art
and Plant Society Avenue at the Buffalo
Botanical Gardens. This is part of the
Annual GardenWalk Festival that lasts
for the entire month of July and kicks off
with the Garden Art Sale. Here BADS will
have an opportunity to outreach to the
public, give demonstrations on dividing
daylilies and even show off some early
blooms. Some members will give short
daylily talks as well.
In mid-July, we’re hoping to organize a
self-driven daylily tour and we’re thinking
of pairing that with a progressive light
meal.
In August, we will have our Annual
Picnic at a local park with daylilies galore
for purchase with “BADS Bux” or federal
reserve dollars.
Later in August, we will have our huge
public sale with the hosta society at the
Botanical Gardens.
In October, we are looking to tweak
our usual banquet and instead have
a Sunday brunch. Members are still
gathering information towards that end.
Then December we will end the year
with our Cookie Exchange meeting and
another excellent speaker.
Lots of lofty plans! And in support
of these plans, the website www.
buffaloareadaylilysociety.com is
undergoing a total revamp. We have also
launched a new Facebook page and a
twitter account in order to stay relevant
today. We are keeping our members
informed with regular “BADS Blasts” as
well with ephemeral information and
reminders (something we all need from
time to time).
The Buffalo Area Daylily Society is
made up of good, energetic people who
love daylilies. We are looking forward to
the future. Stay tuned.
www.BuffaloAreaDaylilySociety.com
CDS
Connecticut Daylily Society
Submitted by Russ Allen, President
CDS invites all daylily enthusiasts to
attend our meetings which are held at the
Avon Senior Center, located about eight
miles west of Hartford at 635 West Avon
Road in Avon, CT. There are no dues
to join -- just wonderful daylily related
events, friendly folks, and great food!
Bring some friends with you to our next
meeting to enhance their appreciation for
daylilies!
Jan. 16, 2016 – This year’s January
traditional “Soup’s On” meeting was also
our special 25th Anniversary Celebration,
which featured two spectacular photo
presentations. The first slideshow,
“Celebrating 25 Years of Flowers and
Friendship” was prepared by Tina Cotter
[below, with Gary Jones] and gave us a
look back at the people and events since
the Club’s founding. The show highlighted
the CDS members and past events that
made our club what it is today, and was
truly a wonderful walk down memory
lane. Next up was a presentation by
Kim Krodel and Rebecca Nisley entitled
“Member Daylily Favorites – Cultivars and
Seedlings,” which focused on fabulous
photos provided by our members. The
diversity of favorites was truly astounding
– proving that the wonderful world of
daylilies has seemingly endless cultivars
for one to fall in love with!
February 18-21, 2016 -- The Club
once again had a newly designed booth
at the Connecticut Flower & Garden
Show held at the Convention Center in
Hartford from Feb. 18th – 21st. We wish
to thank the twenty-eight club volunteers
who helped to design and staff the blueribbon winning booth which touted
the wonderful world of daylilies while
obtaining names of new gardeners who
may participate in future CDS activities!
Key upcoming events include the
following:
March 19, 2016 Meeting – Melodye
Campbell will speak on late blooming
daylilies, a hot topic as folks seek to
extend the peak blooming period for
their gardens. Melodye has a long service
record in support of the AHS and is
currently the Region 4 Representative on
the AHS Board of Directors, as well as the
Awards and Honors AHS chair.
May 21, 2016 Annual Plant Sale – Our
annual plant sale will be held on Sat. May
21st and we encourage all daylily lovers
to participate either by offering plants
for sale or by buying additional gorgeous
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cultivars. This event is held on the lawn
outside the Avon Senior Center where
our regular meetings take place.
2016 Summer Open Home Garden
Program -- We invite folks throughout
New England to open their home gardens
to visitors on selected dates this summer.
Please consider sharing your personal
oasis with others this year! A sign-up will
be circulated in the near future.
July 17, 2016 CDS Picnic & Annual
Meeting (Sunday) – This year’s picnic
will be held at the commercial gardens
of O’Brien Nurserymen located at 40
Wells Road, Granby, CT 06035. O’Brien
Nurserymen contributed enormously
to the success of last year’s Regional
Meeting by providing all the phenomenal
table centerpieces. They offer a wide
assortment of daylilies, hosta, and
countless other hard-to-find perennial
varieties, and will be open for business
during the picnic. Thank you for hosting
CDS, John!
Sept. 17, 2016 Meeting – Karol
Emmerich from Springwood Gardens,
Jordan, Minnesota will speak on her
breeding program. Karol is a well-known
newer hybridizer whose passion has been
to “paint the world with flowers.” After
retiring from corporate life, she focused
on producing world class daylilies that
are terrific northern garden flowers.
Her spectacular gardens are designed
to provide visitors with “an unexpected
experience that provides joy, wonder at
God’s creations, inspiration, peace, and
rest to those who are weary.” Don’t miss
Karol’s photo presentation!
Nov. 5, 2016 Meeting – Pat
Sayers from Whispering Hills Garden,
Huntington, New York (Long Island) will
visit CDS. Pat hybridizes both diploid and
tetraploid daylilies, and has introduced
some beautiful cultivars based on the
dozen-plus new daylilies she’s registered
in 2014 alone. Don’t miss this photo
presentation!
Many thanks to the myriad of
volunteers who make our CDS Club work
so smoothly!
FieLDS
Finger Lakes Daylily Society
Submitted by Jane Ryan, Chairperson
Chairperson – Jane Ryan
Vice-Chairperson – Deb Lawrence
Secretary – Mary Quackenbush
Treasurer – Sue Zwecker
Members-at-Large: Shirley Cappiello,
Brent Ross, and David Schlossnagle
FieLDS invites all daylily aficionados
to join us at our meetings, which start at
10 AM at the Good Shepherd Lutheran
Church at 320 South Pearl Street in
beautiful Canandaigua, NY. Annual dues
are only $5.
Souper Meeting – February 20
As usual, we started our season with
the Souper meeting – lots of homemade
soups, bread and desserts. What a
difference a year makes! This time last
year, we still had four feet of snow on
the ground. Charlie Zettek had us close
our eyes and listen to restful music, as
we imagined blue skies, warmth, flowers,
the smell of growing things… This year,
it was a beautiful 57-degree day here
on the North Coast and the snow was
quickly melting. Our own Tom & Kathy
Rood of Grace Gardens in Penn Yan were
the presenters. They shared their recent
intros, the history of Grace Gardens, and
some of the basics of hybridizing. Tom
also shared details of his beekeeping
operation, started when Kathy asked for a
jar of homemade honey.
Featured Speaker - April 2
Stuart Kendig of Perfect Perennials in
York, PA, will be our speaker. His topic will
be “Daylilies from Central Pennsylvania.”
You can check out his website at www.
kendigdaylilies.com to see his beautiful,
northern hardy selections.
Silent Auction – May 21
Our silent auction this year will feature
plants from Jordan’s Daylilies in South
Carolina and will also include selections
from many of our local hybridizers. This is
always a perfect time to pick up a couple
new plants to kick off the growing season.
Babysitter plants are coming from
Don Herr, Don Herr Daylilies in Lancaster
County, PA. Don was our speaker at the
2015 Banquet. Check out his website at
www.donherrdaylilies.com , especially if
you are a fan of polys. We will finish out
this meeting with a new event a perennial
exchange. Members will be bringing in
their favorites, potted and labeled.
Proud Market – May 28
We are trying something new this
year. We will be renting a space at the
Proud Market – the Rochester Civic
Garden Center’s annual plant sale, held
on the grounds of the Warner Castle.
We do plan to sell a few select daylilies
but are chiefly planning to use this as an
awareness and recruiting opportunity for
FieLDS.
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Garden Stay – July 10
Last year, instead of touring a number
of member gardens, we focused on
doing summer upkeep at our daylily
garden [pictured below] at the Webster
Arboretum. This was a good idea
borne of necessity after our Garden
Tour organizers were offered a new job
in Florida and quickly headed south.
Following the work session on July 10th,
we will have lunch, then tour the garden
of Melodye Campbell. We generally
schedule club work sessions at the
Arboretum in the spring and fall as well.
New this year (as space opens up)---a
hard work and daylily donations of our
club members. And we LOVE the folks at
Bristol Garden Center, who donate space
to us and also provide garden discount
coupons to our shoppers.
section of the garden will be dedicated to
local hybridizers.
hamburgers & hots.
Public Plant Sale at Bristol Gardens– August 6
Our public plant sale [below] is held
every year, usually on the first Saturday in
August, at the Bristol Garden Center, Rte.
96 in Victor, NY. We really appreciate the
Members’ Auction & Picnic– August 20
Charlie & Judy Zettek, Cobbs Hill
Daylily Gardens, in Rochester, NY, are
hosting the event this year. The sale will
feature plants from Stuart Kendig and will
include some returned babysitters and
donations from club members. Members
will bring a “dish to pass” and we will
“man the grill” for the main entrees –
Annual Banquet– September 25
We will be returning to the Burgundy
Basin Inn in Pittsford, NY. Our speaker
will be Karol Emmerich of Springwood
Gardens in Jordan, MN (www.
springwoodgardens.com ). Great food,
great company, a fantastic speaker and a
door prize exchange – what a wonderful
way to end the year!
HADS
Hudson Adirondack Daylily
Society
Submitted by Debi Chowdhury, past
HADS chair
It’s the end of February, and I’m
peeking at my spring garden from my
window. Some of the snow drops are
showing. Hellebores are peeking, so are
a few lilies with their green tips. The
ground should be covered in snow, letting
the plants hibernate a little longer. But
it’s 53 degrees F outside, going to be 70
tomorrow! I’m going to put in some bulbs
that have been sitting around since the
fall. Ground isn’t frozen, though we’ve
hardly had any snow. I’ve covered plant
tips with mulch just to help them along.
A fellow gardener gave me a box full
of cannas that I need to find space for
in my summer garden. This is the time
to day dream and put those dreams on
paper and get ready for spring. Time to
be reborn---with a new challenge, to
create a garden.
In January, David Chinery spoke us
about the gardens of the Hudson Valley--there are so many beautiful ones.
But then in February, several smaller
gardening groups gathered to hear and
speak about gardening. In March we
plan to travel to other gardens. Several
of us dropped by Tower Hill on our way
back from Boston just to see the garden
and we have plans to attend the Newport
Flower Show, Philly Flower Show ,
and the orchid show at the New York
Botanical Garden.
Spring Garden Day is coming up
this weekend, and the Capital District
Flower and Garden Show is the following
weekend. HADS will be showing off
its booth, give way lots of goodies,
recruit new members, and speakers.
We hope that we can not only recruit
new members but retain them---to keep
HADS healthy and continue our garden
journey we must actively make new
friends/members. For our gardens are
constantly changing. Managing, flowing
masterpieces, creating new dreams
encouraging growth. We’ll have our
March meeting, go to lunch then go to
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the flower show as a group, even though
a few of us will live there the whole
weekend, taking care of our flowers and
look after our table and setups.
April on we’ll be taking a few side
garden trips to our local botanical gardens.
Our schedule for the year is as follows:
March 12 - Spring Garden Day
March 19-21 - Capital District Flower Show
April 16 - Local hybridizer to speak
May 14 - Member’s Auction
June 18 - Distribution of babysitting plants
July 9 - Meeting with Hosta Society- with
speaker Rick Goodenough and picnic
July 22-24 - Regional Meeting @ Nashua,
New Hampshire
August 20 - Sale to the public
September 17 - Debi & Kathy to talk
about Chelsea Flower show
October 15 - Putting the HADS plant bed
to rest
November 19 - TBA
December 10 - Holiday Party
A garden is what we create; from
paper plans to reality. A garden is never
the same, always evolving with the
seasons and our own daydreams.
There are so many gardens to see and
so little time in which to see them all.
HVIDS
Hudson
Valley Iris
and Daylily
Society
HVIDS EVENTS CALENDER
SPRING/SUMMER 2016
April 5 - Meeting Garden Photography by
Brooke Moore
May 21/22 - HVIDS Iris Weekend
The 20th Annual Iris Show at the
Poughkeepsie Galleria, Center Court,
Route 9, Poughkeepsie, 1 PM to 4 PM.
Dinner Meeting featuring Howard Dash
about hybridizing iris in New Mexico.
July 16/17 - HVIDS Daylily Exhibition/
Open Gardens Poughkeepsie Galleria,
Center Court, Route 9, Poughkeepsie
1PM to 4 PM. Open Gardens to be
announced.
August 13 - HVIDS Sale at Poughkeepsie
Adams
August 14 - Iris Prep Party at Sorbello
Home
August 19 - Daylily Prep Party at
Robinowitz Home
August 20/21 - HVIDS Sale at
Poughkeepsie Galleria
LIDS
Long Island
Daylily Society
Submitted by Gene
Moglia
President: Christine
Petersen
Vice President: Luanne Madden
Treasurer: Barbara Schenk
Corresponding Secty: Joan Turano
Recording Secretary: Joan Lundin
Editor: John Stahl
Member at Large: Liz Koraleski
2015 in Review
January 17, 2015 was our annual
January Luncheon at the Clarion Hotel in
Hauppauge, NY and our speaker was Bob
Faulkner of Natural Selection Daylilies.
Bob lives in Canton, Ohio and breeds
for patterns and hardiness, as he is in
USDA Zone 5. He is the quintessential
‘backyard’ hybridizer, living in a home in
which his parents had lived and which
was built in 1834. A lot of Region 4
members were able to visit his garden
as part of the pre-convention tour
during the Columbus Ohio AHS National
Convention, but Bob was in the midst of a
serious drought then.
Mr. Faulkner works essentially with
diploid daylilies and has become quite
accomplished in his program on patterned
daylilies, with multiplex eyes and strong
colors. Bob is an interesting speaker and
showed us views of his gardens, in which
a number of rare trees are growing, and
his pigeons, which he has been breeding
for some time and thus is familiar with
genetics, which has helped in his line
breeding of daylilies. In as much as Bob
does not have an extensive garden, his
daylilies are difficult to get. H. ‘Almira
Buffalo Bone Jackson’ has been registered
since 2011 and is rarely offered for
sale. Bob showed us a lot of seedlings,
demonstrating that his efforts have many
fine offerings down the road.
March 28 was our next meeting,
back at our usual venue of Planting
Field Arboretum, Oyster Bay, NY. Our
program was ‘New and Under-used
Perennials’ presented by Tom Stemmler
of Daisy Gardens, Bayport, NY. Daisy
Gardens is one of those increasingly rare
independent garden centres that carries
plants not found in the Big Box stores.
Tom brought an enormous amount of
plant material and other garden-related
things to the talk and showed us unusual
ferns, heucheras, hosta, rudbeckias and
shrubs. To make it more interesting, we
all had an opportunity to buy tickets for a
raffle of all the things he brought; no one
went home empty-handed.
April 18 was our first time to work on
refurbishing our daylily display garden
at Planting Fields and many members
showed up to clean-up, divide, plant
and help maintain the garden. We
then had Richard Norris of Ashwood
Garden, Gloucester, Ohio as our featured
program. Richard works in both diploid
and tetraploid lines and has many
distinctive daylilies. His H. ‘Pigment of
Imagination’ is one of his more widely
known daylilies and is distinctive as
its color changes through the day. Mr
Norris’ main goals are expanding throats
and the size of the bloom. He is also
working on the form of the bloom and
has the goal of a hibiscus form in the
daylily. He showed us many fascinating
plants with distinctive colors and throats.
The program concluded with a spirited
auction of plants from his program.
May 12 was our annual auction,
which is the only meeting we have on
a weeknight. The auction is a chance
to get newer varieties and popular
older varieties at a competitive price.
Additionally, members can bring in newer
varieties for 50/50 sales, half of which
goes to the club and the other to the
person who brings in the plant. Several
members, including Pat Sayers, brought
in a number of plants which grow well
in their gardens and which are usually
difficult to find. Members also are able
to bring in older plants for a $5 bargain
table, to share hardy good growing
daylilies with members.
June was a busy month for LIDS
members as a dozen or so of us went to
the AHS Convention in Atlanta, Georgia.
Our own meeting was on the 20th and
was a plant sale of daylilies and other
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plants, half of the proceeds going to
the club. This is an opportunity to get
interesting and hardy perennials and
daylilies at a cheap price and has become
a popular event. Also, time was spent on
show preparation, entering and grooming
flowers, as we want to encourage our
members to enter as many scapes as
possible to help educate the public on
the daylily.
Our annual show was held on July
12, and was covered in the last issue of
Daylilies in the Great Northeast. July 1719 found many LIDS members in Enfield,
CT for the Region 4 Summer Meeting,
hosted by the Connecticut Daylily Society.
Anyone who has not attended a national
convention (Louisville, KY this year) is
missing a great opportunity to meet
friends and see daylilies not usually seen
in our own region. A regional convention
is closer to home and less costly than
a national convention and is a chance
to see daylilies that do well in our own
region. This year Region 4 will be hosted
by NEDS and I hope to see a lot of our farflung Region 4 members there.
July 26 was when our own LIDS
gardens tours took place. Our first visit
was to the garden of Liz and Steven
Koraleski in Sea Cliff, on the north shore
of LI. Liz has been a long-time member of
LIDS and has always been an enthusiastic
collector. The Koraleski garden is on
several levels and has a wealth of daylilies
and other perennials. From there we
headed east to the Huntington garden
of Pat Sayers. You can do a virtual visit
to Pat’s garden via the Garden of the
Week feature at Charlotte’s Daylily
Diary, which is maintained by our own
Region 4 member, Charlotte Chamitoff
of Southern Quebec, Canada. Pat has
her own hybridizing program and has
many unusual form daylilies with great
bud counts and branching. Pat grows
her plants exceptionally well and there’s
always something new to discover in her
various plant rooms. Our final garden to
visit was that of our 2016 LIDS president,
Christine Petersen. Chris and her
husband Steve Widom live in Asharoken,
NY, a narrow sandy spit of land
connecting LI and Eaton’s Neck. Chris has
had some serious garden challenges the
prior 2 years, with Hurricane Irene one
year and Super storm Sandy the next,
flooding the garden with salt water. She
lost many plants but her daylilies fared
tolerably well and her garden is always
interesting, as Chris collects a plethora of
unusual plant material, including annuals,
perennials, shrubs and bulbs. And
there’s usually a breeze at Chris’ garden,
overlooking Northport Harbor.
After a busy July, we had our annual
public plant sale at Farmingdale
University. We did forgo the “Split
‘n’ Splash” for a “Bag and Tag” with
members bringing divided, washed
and labeled daylilies to the home of
Joan and George Rasmussen, where we
individually bagged and labeled each
plant. We did the sale a little differently
this year, as we used colored tablecloths
to delineate the predominant color of
the daylily, such as lavender, yellow
and red plastic for daylilies of the same
color, as we found most of the public are
interested in specific colors rather than
named varieties or prices. It seemed to
work as we sold out of the 700+ plants.
September 12 was our annual picnic
to reward our workers and it was held at
the garden of Joan Turano. The weather
was fine and there were plenty of door
prizes of daylilies to add to our gardens.
Our meeting on October 24 was Judy
Ogden of Ogden’s Design and Plantings in
St James, NY. Judy had been our speaker
once before and spoke on hydrangeas,
a specialty of hers, but this meeting was
about ‘Native Plants of Long Island’ and
focused on trees and shrubs that are
native to our region that enhance our
gardens while attracting and supporting
local wildlife. Ms. Ogden had a lot of
information to share with us, as she
has taught at the NY Botanical Garden,
Bayard Cutting Arboretum on LI, been
on HGTV when the “G” still stood for
“Gardens” and lectured at many local
horticultural events. We concluded
2015 on November 21 with our annual
business meeting and covered dish
buffet, adopting our annual budget and
electing our officers.
It was a busy year for LIDS and we
are looking forward to having another
great year in 2016 with our show, garden
visiting and guest speakers.
MDS
Maine Daylily Society
Submitted by Susan Shaw
Co-directors:
Susan Shaw 13 Mill St., Camden, ME
04843 [email protected]
207-230-9518
Laura Evans [email protected] 207236-9635
Dottie Hokkanen [email protected]
Our club has been pretty quiet for
the last few years. We have kept busy
maintaining our daylily display garden
at the Merryspring Nature Center in
Camden, Maine. Thousands of visitors
enjoy the seasons at Merryspring, http://
www.merryspring.org/.
The Maine Daylily Society Display
Garden is only one of the delights found
in the park. The long season of daylilies is
complemented by our daffodil collection
in spring, and colchicum in fall. We try to
keep the weeds and the groundhog from
taking over, with stomping and traps.
Come visit the garden anytime!
Thank you to the crew of volunteers
who make our garden so beautiful.
Especially Dr. Joanne Sharpe, the keeper
of the garden map and labels. She keeps
us organized!
Saturday July 25, we plan to hold our
Daylily Celebration Day at Merryspring.
The way the weather is progressing
though, it is possible we will shift it back
a week to July 18th! Here in Maine, near
the end of February, Snowdrops are in
their full glory and the helleborus niger
has lots of blooms, opening at least a
month earlier than usual. Hopefully the
crazy early spring won’t move our peak
daylily season back to June!
NEDS
New England Daylily Society
www.nedaylily.org
Submitted by Kathy Viamari, secretary
January 9, 2016 was the date of our
daylily photo contest. We also had our
annual business meeting where 2 new
officers were elected to fill vacancies.
Shirley Robins will be President and
Allison Tanner will be Vice-President.
A new board member was also added,
Joan Hutcheon. In addition, Curt Turner,
Bob Sobek and Mike Huben each gave
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update presentations on their hybridizing
programs.
March 12, 2016. Bill and Diana
Waldrop [below, photo: Marlene Harmon]
from Kennesaw Mountain Daylilies were
our guests. After Bill's presentation, we
held an Auction for a large group of Bill's
recent introductions. We also had some
fun with a few games of Daylily Bingo and
enjoyed conversatiopns during pot luck
lunch [below, Darlyn Wilkinson of Greywood
Farm samples a treat from the dessert table,
hybridizers Curtis Noel, Zachary Hickey and
Cameron Stern talking shop].
April 9, 2016. Charmaine Rich from
Hold'n Heaven Daylilies will be our guest
for the day. In addition to lending us her
expertise on how to hold a successful
Regional Auction, she will give a
presentation and offer many of her own
introductions for an auction.
On May 7th, NEDS members will do a
cleanup at the AHS Display Garden at Elm
Bank in Wellesley, MA.
NEDS will be selling Daylilies at the
Gardeners Fair at the Massachusetts
Horticultural Society's Elm Bank
Reservation on May 14th. In addition to
the NEDS table, there will be space for
individual sellers to set up and display
their Daylilies for sale.
We will be the hosts for the AHS
Region 4 Meeting in Nashua NH this July
22nd thru the 24th.
Our August public sale and auction
will be August 20th at the First Parish
Congregational Church in Wakefield MA.
Our Fall meeting will be November. We
will be recapping the Regional Meeting as
well as having a guest speaker.
NSDS
Nova Scotia Daylily Society
Submitted by Mary Ridgley, President
Our 2016 Executive Members are:
Mary Ridgley - President
David Williams - Treasurer
Carol Harvey - Member at Large
Graham Veinot - Member at Large
Peggy-Anne Pineau - Past President
Our regular monthly meetings are
held the second Thursday of each
month with the exception of January
and February when we experience
particularly nasty road conditions here
in Nova Scotia. We hold our first regular
meeting in March which is also Bingo
Night. We now hold our Annual General
Meeting in September, which includes the
election of executive officers for vacant
or completed positions. After September
we have our regular monthly meetings
until December. As part of our December
meeting we have our Christmas pot
luck party and vote for our favourite
hybridizers collection put forth by the
Babysitting Plant Committee for plants
which will be drawn for in June.
We currently have 95 members
sprawled all across Nova Scotia including
four youth members. Gaelan MacKay
joined several years ago and was our
first youth member. We now have three
more youth members Andrew, Rebecca
and Davie Cameron, the children of
our current membership chair Arnold
Cameron. The Camerons have a long
family history involving daylilies, going
back to Arnold’s childhood. Davie who is
now six may be the youngest member of
our club, but make no mistake he is very
particular in what he likes for daylilies.
Davie is super excited for this June’s
meeting as he qualifies this year to go
into the babysitting plant draw. Rebecca
who is eight has a passion for the pink
and purple shades of daylilies, which is
why Arnold paid significantly more for a
“Blue Throated Hummingbird” than he
planned. The smile on Rebecca’s face
was priceless and well worth the money.
Andrew, 12, is the “budding” hybridizer of
the family, and is up at the crack of dawn
all summer to see what new blooms open
each day during peak season. Andrew
keeps accurate records of his various daylily
crosses and providing their parentage.
Andrew is also very knowledgeable about
diploids and tetraploids and shares this info
with his teachers and classmates. As I write
this, I know I am going to have to book a
day with Andrew this summer! It is such
a pleasure to learn of the patience and
nurturing Andrew has for hybridizing.
Bingo Night
Our first meeting in March will also
be the first of many events during
the year. We play bingo for free for a
chance to win one of our hybridizer’s
exquisite new introductions. For the
third consecutive year on March 10th,
I will have the pleasure of chairing our
annual Bingo Night. On Bingo Night our
local hybridizers donate their new or
previous year’s introductions to the club
as prizes. It is so reassuring to know that
these introductions have been hybridized
to withstand our harsh winters. The
generosity of our hybridizers makes this
job a delight. I would like to thank Coral
Kincaid, Nancy Oakes, Don Longton, Brainard
Fitzgerald, Ed Kimball, Allan Banks, Richard
Morash and Wayne Ward for all their
support over this time. This event is one of
the most popular N.S.D.S. nights.
Members’ Plant Sale
In May we hold our annual “Members
Plant Sale”. During this evening all club
members who want to thin out their
daylilies donate the extra plants to the
club. We send out the list of plants
offered and at $5.00 a daylily you can
increase your plant inventory pretty fast.
We offer the courtesy for new members
to have first pick, then after 15 minutes
the remaining members get to go up to
make their purchases. This has proven
to be a win, win situation - members get
to increase their daylily gardens and the
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Babysitting Plant Committee
More than ten years ago one of our
founding members, Coral Kincaid, initiated
our Babysitting Plant Program. Coral with
the assistance of two enthusiastic helpers
formed our first Babysitting Plant Committee
in 2005.
Every year at the December regular
meeting, members vote for their favourite
hybridizer’s collection put forth for
consideration by the Committee. In early
May the Committee pots the purchased
choices for June’s meeting. This ensures they
will be in great condition by then. Qualifying
members’ names go in for a draw and
they pick their favourite to take home and
nurture for three years. This gives the plants
time to adjust to the environment in Nova
Scotia. After the three year period each
will then keep one or two fans depending
upon how well the plant has increased, with
the others being returned to the club to be
auctioned off. Not all survive and we have
had a few casualties over the years.
Coral, who has been the Chair all this
time has decided to step down this year.
On behalf of the executive and the general
membership we wish to extend our sincere
gratitude to Coral for all her hard work.
Our new chair, Louise Plourde, and her
helpers Mardi Rawding, Mary Trott and
Heather Caseley form our 2016 Babysitting
Plant Committee. Thank you ladies! The
2016 collections are from the following
hybridizers:
1. Brown’s Ferry - Heidi Douglas, Charles Douglas and Gene Tanner
2. Culver Farms - Brian Culver
3. Kim’s Daylilies - Kim McCutcheon
4. On Russell - David Jewell
Daylily Daze
The first week-end in July is reserved for
our Daylily Daze event. This year it will be
July 2nd. For an entry fee of $5.00 you get
a free daylily, take in a couple workshops,
shop from daylily growers/vendors in one
place, and have a cup of tea and sweets.
Most people feel this is good value for their
money.
Last year we tried something new by
having a raffle table with the more expensive
daylilies, stepping stones, paintings, benches
and other garden related items. We had
a really positive feedback raising $513.00
from the raffle table alone. In total we
raised $943.00 and welcomed a couple new
members to the club.
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Summer BBQ
Every year we hold our annual BBQ
in different locations across Nova Scotia,
usually in the gardens of one of our
members. On August 8, 2015 we held
the BBQ in Truro, Nova Scotia. It was
hosted by Heather & Norm Patton and
Lillian & Cecil Dunlap (Pheasant Gardens),
with moral support and assistance from
Heather Casely. They all opened their
gardens for viewing, then we went to
Dalhousie Agriculture Campus for the
BBQ. Immediately following the meal,
guest speaker Eric Simpson of Indiana
spoke about his hybridizing program.
This was followed by an auction of Eric’s
plants he brought with him. We also had
many draws for daylilies donated by the
Pattons and the Dunlaps. Once again,
this event proves to be one of the most
attended events the club holds each year.
We are looking forward this year to
August 6, 2016 when our BBQ is being
hosted by Greg & Brenda Sutcliffe in
Shelburne, Nova Scotia. Our guest
speaker will be Paul Owen of Slightly
Different Nursery in North Carolina. The
meal will be hosted at the Black Loyalist
Heritage Center, in Birchtown. In the late
18th century Birchtown was the largest
free Black community in British North
America. So, to me, this sounds like once
again our BBQ is going to be the most
attended event of the summer.
Personally, I am looking forward to
viewing a few more gardens and making
many new gardening friends this summer.
Hybridizer’s Forum, which is one of our
signature events drawing a large crowd. It
is an all day program with several speakers
discussing all aspects of daylily growing.
We also hold a seed auction with funds
raised going to support club activities.
ODS
Ontario
Daylily
Society
Spring/Summer 2016 Activities
Submitted by Kate Reed, president
Submitted by Don Blakely, president
It is a milestone year for the ODS
being the 20th Anniversary since its
establishment and the 20th occasion of
the Can-Am Classic. An interesting statistic
is that 18 of our present members were
part of the initial membership, so we have
a long-term commitment to ODS. We are
planning a trip down memory lane as part
of this year’s Can-Am.
As usual we have a full list of activities
planned for 2016. Our January meeting
featured a speaker on Natural Insect
Control. Our March meeting is the Annual
Future events for 2016 are as follows:
April 29-30 – 20th Can-Am Classic to
be held at the Toronto Airport West
Hotel, Mississauga. There is a full list of
interesting speakers, plant auction and
plant sale table. Go to the ODS website for
full details and registration. There will be
a Lucky Draw for Early Bird Registrations
before April 1 for introduction – H.
Maureen Strong (Culver, 2016) named
after one of the first members of ODS.
June 4 – Babysitting Program and Plant
Sale featuring plants from Karol Emmerich
July 16 – ODS Picnic, True North Daylilies,
Hobbs Hollow Gardens owned by Tim
Hobbs and Donna Pass, Warkworth
September 17 or 18 – Annual Meeting,
speakers, plant auction and sale table.
Location TBA
October 22 – Monthly meeting
November 26 – Holiday potluck and
meeting
Unless otherwise stated, all meetings
are held at the Royal Botanical Gardens,
Burlington. Consult the ODS website
for meeting details and updates (www.
ontariodaylily.on.ca).
PDS
Patriot Daylily Society
Big news from the Patriot Daylily
Society. We are once again holding
a summer Exhibition at Tower Hill in
Boylston, Massachusetts. It will be held on
July 16th, the weekend before the Regional
which NEDS is hosting in New Hampshire.
Patsy Cunningham, our immediate past
president, is chair and I am co-chair.
Please contact Patsy or myself for more
information and to serve on a committee.
Clerks/placement are especially needed.
Activities besides the exhibition of
course will include a plant sale to benefit
our small club with a pure donation table
and a 50/50 table. We are a 501c3 and
Mary Warbasse has agreed to be in charge.
Also, we plan on a design division, tours,
a presentation on growing daylilies for
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the public, daylily seed staring for children
and possibly an exhibition clinic for AHS
members. Please come and bring your
scapes!
Our program on February 6th, the very
informative and fascinating guest was Joann
Vieira presenting the history of Tower Hill.
It originated from the Worcester County
Horticulture Society, “the third oldest
active horticultural society in the United
States”, which incorporated in 1842. “In
1996 the society pulled up its 144 year old
roots in downtown Worcester and began to
create the garden at Tower Hill Farm.” She
showed many slides and anecdotes which
delineated the progress of the renovations
and the reason certain decisions were
made. Of special interest is the new Garden
Within Reach, for those with and without
mobility issues, centrally situated behind
the farmhouse near the main entrance. I
can’t wait to see it and the custom artwork
displayed there.
Next month, on March 5th, is our annual
photography contest that forms the basis for
our celebrated calendar designed and is run
by the incomparable, renaissance woman,
Patsy Cunningham. We, usually print only
100 copies but we could print more if
enough were preordered. It is our only
fundraiser as the Bedford Library will not
permit us to sell anything at the library.
April 2nd, the club’s preeminent
hybridizer George Doorakian will share his
latest and greatest. Sure hope something
rivals H. Rose F. Kennedy which came within
a whisker of winning the Stout Silver medal
last year and will be up for it again. Good
luck, George, and we extend our belated
congratulations and most likely our future
votes to you. It is very exciting for all of us.
Future programs may include exhibition
clinics, programs on grooming for exhibition,
a summer picnic and an already confirmed
noted hybridizer Margo Reed visit the first
Saturday in October 2016. Mary Fisher and I
visited Jim Murphy and Margo Reed’s garden
on our way back from the Nashville National.
It was a wonderful garden to wakeup and
explore. Visit if you are in Virginia. She will
probably not bring plants but catalogs due to
the restrictions placed on us by the library.
Ideas for future local speakers are welcome
especially for November and February due
to possible inclement weather. I’ve already
sent out an invitation for April 2017 to a
noted northern hybridizer. Guests and new
members are always welcome on the first
Saturday of the month October through
April, 12-3 PM, Bedford, Massachusetts
Public Library, 4 Mudge Way. Checkout our
website for changes and details.
For club members, don’t forget to get H.
Green Icon pollen at my house, 36 Naushon
Road, Pawtucket, RI. I hybridized for the first
time in 30 years with H. Green Icon as the
pollen parent and on dormants like, H. Lady
Fingers, Lullaby Baby and Picasso among
others. I am keeping my bookkeeping simple.
Happy Spring,
Kate Reed, President Patriot Daylily Society.
[email protected]
Phil Warbasse, Vice president, castreum@
aol.com
Nick Chase, Secretary,[email protected]
Mary Collier Fisher,
Treasurer,[email protected]
June 4 - Annual Member / Guest plant auction.
SMDHS
Southern Maine Daylily and
Hosta Society
Greetings, all daylily lovers!
Finally, there are hopeful signs of spring
here on the South Coast of Massachusetts.
There is barely a mound of snow to be
found and the crocuses are blooming
away!
SMDS meetings are held at the Wesley
United Methodist Church 462 Main Street,
Wareham, MA 02571.
SMDS hosted Chuck Doughty and
Sue DeBrava of Cochato Nursery on
February 21 and they were quite a hit!
Their presentation was comprehensive
regarding the establishment and
development of their garden and its many
outstanding elements, including the many
different varieties of hosta and their value
in the garden.
If you ever get the chance to see this
couple, do not hesitate. They are quite
entertaining and extremely knowledgable
regarding our favorite companion plant,
the hosta.
In March, the presentation will be a
power point program on the different
types of Daylily forms. It is a very
interesting program that clears up a lot of
misconceptions about forms in daylilies.
Our sale is scheduled for May 7, 2016
so save the date! The sale will be held at
the same location as last year, 495 Main
Street, Wareham, MA 02571 (at the Old
Methodist Meetinghouse down the street
from where our current meetings are
held.) If you have any questions do not
hesitate to call me at 617-285-1181.
Take care all, and I look forward to
seeing you at one or all of the above
festivities!
Submitted by Rex Beisel, President
It is hard to believe that 2016 is
here and another gardening season is
approaching. How time flies! SMDHS
will be hosting its 5th annual “Lobstah
Classic” in August. Once again we had a
near capacity attendance at last year’s
event. This year’s featured speakers will
be Melanie Mason from North Country
Daylilies in Buskirk, New York and Rick
Goodenough, Hosta hybridizer from
Marshfield, Massachusetts. In addition,
the “Lobstah Classic” will feature a silent
auction, a live auction and a delicious
Maine lobster dinner. If you are interested
in attending this year’s “Lobstah Classic”,
there is a registration form on our website
www.SMDHS.info.
SMDHS meets in South Portland, Maine
at the Southern Maine Community College
Horticulture building on Slocum Drive.
Meetings are on Saturday and start at
11:00 AM unless otherwise noted.
SMDHS events for 2016:
March 19 - Annual Photo Contest
April 16 - Spring Pot-Luck. Featured
speaker will be Don Church from Bluehill
Country Garden in Bluehill, Maine.
May 15 (Sunday) - Annual plant sale.
Sellers can keep up to 50% of sales. Please
support the club by donating daylilies,
hostas and other plants to our sale.
July 30 - Field trip to Coastal Maine Botanical
Gardens.
August 13 - 5th annual SMDHS Lobstah Classic
(see above for details).
October 8 - Annual business meeting and Fall
Soup Social. Election of officers for 2017-2018.
November 5 - Speaker TBD.
December 3 - Annual Holiday Party. Potluck
dinner and Yankee swap.
SMDS
Southeastern Massachusetts
Daylily Society
Submitted by Pat Wessling, President
Spring 2016
AHS Region 4 Local Organizations
Association des Amateurs d’Hémérocalles du
Québec (l’AAHQ)
Judith Mercier
95 rang Saint-Joseph,
Cap-Santé,
Québec, Canada
G0A 1L0
[email protected]
Buffalo Area Daylily Society (BADS)
Carol Haj
6425 South Abbott Road
Orchard Park, NY 14127-4704
(716) 649-8186
Fax - (716) 648-0543
[email protected]
Personal E-mail - [email protected]
(716) 649-8186
Fax - (716) 648-0543
Connecticut Daylily Society (CDS)
Russ Allen
18 Point Arrowhead Road
Guilford, CT 06437
203-457-0121
[email protected]
Finger Lakes Daylily Society (FIELDS)
Jane Ryan
[email protected]
Hudson-Adirondack Daylily Society (HADS)
Debi Chowdhury
4 Derby Ct.
Loudonville, NY 12211
518-786-1107
[email protected]
Hudson Valley Iris & Daylily Society (HVIDS)
Jim Robinowitz
10 Baldwin Road
Poughkeepsie, NY 12603
845-454-6415
[email protected]
Long Island Daylily Society (LIDS)
Chris Petersen
[email protected]
Maine Daylily Society
Susan Shaw
13 Mill St.
Camden, ME 04843
207-230-9518
[email protected]
New England Daylily Society (NEDS)
Kathy Viamari
[email protected]
To All Region 4 Members:
Please share your daylily experiences with
your fellow Region 4 members.
Write an article about how you came to be a
member of the AHS, share your thoughts on
Nova Scotia Daylily Society (NSDS)
Mary Ridgley
[email protected]
Ontario Daylily Society (ODS)
Don Blakely
[email protected]
Patriot Daylily Society (PDS)
Kate Reed
[email protected]
Société Québécoise des Hostas et des
Hémérocalles/ Quebec Hostas & Hemerocallis Society (SQHH/QHHS) Reggie D. Millette
62 7th Avenue
[email protected]
Southern Maine Daylily & Hosta Society
(SMDHS)
Rex Beisel
P.O. Box 245
Casco, ME 04015-0245
207-595-5600
[email protected]
Southeastern Massachusetts Daylily Society
(SMDS)
Pat Wessling
320 Mendall Road
Acushnet, MA 02743
508-995-0362
[email protected]
Visit the Region 4 Website
For: information and links to all Region 4 Daylily Clubs,
Garden and Exhibition Judges, Popularity Poll ballots
and results, AHS Official Display Gardens, Daylily
Sellers, Hybridizers, National and Regional Awards, and
any daylily-related topic, or write about your
much more! Webmaster: Kelly Noel of Ottawa, Ontario
daylily garden visits.
http://www.ahsregion4.org/
Your photos of daylilies are always welcome!
Send your submissions to the
Region 4 Newsletter Editor at
[email protected]
Scan the QR (Quick Response)
Code at right with your smartphone
and you’ll be taken directly to the
AHS Region 4 Website!
Spring 2016
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American Hemerocallis Society
Adele Keohan, Region 4 Editor
304 Lowell Street
Wakefield, MA 01880-1761
Daylilies in the Great Northeast is printed by Arvest Press, Inc., Waltham, MA
Hemerocallis ‘Carmine Elizabeth’ (Seawright, 2010) Photo, Jerry Gantar

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