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in the Great Northeast
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 1 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: YES NO 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. Daylilies In The Great Northeast Spring 2016 3 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. 4Daylilies In The Great Northeast 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 ! W 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. Daylilies In The Great Northeast Thank you! Spring 2016 5 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 6Daylilies In The Great Northeast 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 Daylilies In The Great Northeast Spring 2016 7 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 8Daylilies In The Great Northeast 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 Daylilies In The Great Northeast Spring 2016 9 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 10Daylilies In The Great Northeast 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.________ Daylilies In The Great Northeast Spring 2016 11 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 [email protected] (585) 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 [email protected] (718) 8178077 Planting Fields Arboretum, Liaison Pam Milliken, Long Island Daylily Society, Planting Fields Road, Oyster Bay, NY [email protected] (516) 7596691 QB Daylily Gardens, Dennis & Mary Quackenbush, 557 Sand Hill Rd, Caledonia, NY 14423 [email protected] (585) 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 [email protected] (585) 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 [email protected] (802) 7852916 Hudson Adirondack Daylily Society Display Garden, Don & Pat Salhoff (Chairmen) Cornell Cooperative Extension of Albany County, Martin Rd., Voorheesville, NY 12186-9699 [email protected] (518) 439-1484 12Daylilies In The Great Northeast 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 2019 I I CONNECTICUT 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 Daylilies In The Great Northeast I ** I I I H H I H I 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 20XX I ** H I I I I H I H H I = GJ Status expiration = Instructor = Regional Garden Judge Liaison = Honorary Spring 2016 13 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. 14 14Daylilies Daylilies In In The The Great Great Northeast Northeast Spring Spring 2016 2016 2016 Region 4 Hybridizer Award Nominees 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. Daylilies DayliliesInInThe TheGreat GreatNortheast Northeast Spring Spring2016 2016 15 15 2016 Region 4 Hybridizer Award Nominees 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] 16Daylilies In The Great Northeast Spring 2016 2016 Region 4 Hybridizer Award Ballot 1 4 7 10 13 16 2 5 8 11 14 17 3 6 9 12 15 18 Member #1 Member Hemerocallis #2 1. ______ _______ 'Adele Keohan' (Lippé, D. 2016) 2. ______ ______ 'Altesse Royale' (Martel, F. 2011) 3. ______ ______ 'Arterial Blood’ (Huben, M. 2011) 4. ______ ______ 'Bleu Couleur Passion' (Thibault, R. 2016) 5. ______ ______ 'Claude Gauthier’ (Lagroix, L.-Gauthier 2015) 6. ______ ______ 'Cobbs Hill Jester' (Zettek, C. 2012) 7. ______ ______ '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 __________________________________ 19 20 21 Member #2 _______________________________ Address ___________________________________ 22 23 24 Vote ONLINE at the AHS Region 4 Website! www.ahsregion4.org Daylilies In The Great Northeast Spring 2016 17 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 Student Student Student Senior Student 2015 2015 2015 2016 2017 Junior 2015 Senior Senior Senior Student Senior 2015 2017 I 2015 2015 0 H 2015 Senior Senior Senior Junior Junior Senior Junior Senior Senior Senior 2017 2018 2018 2017 2017 2017 2016 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 2018 2016 2018 I 2016 2016 2016 2016 2018 I 2016 2018 2018 I** 2016 Junior Senior 2017 2017 I RHODE ISLAND RACHEL FLAKSMAN KATHERINE L. REED VERMONT CHARMAINE RICH Student LEGEND 20XX = EJ Status expiration I = Instructor ** = Regional Exhibition Judge Liaison H = Honorary 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. 18Daylilies In The Great Northeast 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. Daylilies In The Great Northeast Spring 2016 19 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] 20Daylilies In The Great Northeast 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 Daylilies In The Great Northeast Spring 2016 21 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) 22Daylilies In The Great Northeast Spring 2016 Bokeh: When Blurriness is Next to Godliness 8 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) Daylilies In The Great Northeast Spring 2016 23 Bokeh: When Blurriness is Next to Godliness 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 13 24Daylilies In The Great Northeast Spring 2016 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 Daylilies In The Great Northeast Spring 2016 25 Molecular Issues Concerning Daylily Fertility 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 26Daylilies In The Great Northeast Spring 2016 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. REFERENCES 1. Tremblay, Roland R.: Regards intimes sur les interactions pollen-ovaire chez l’hémérocalle. L’Amirocallis, No 22, Mars 2010. 2. Tremblay, Roland R.: Systèmes explicatifs de l’hypofécondité des hémérocalles. L’Amirocallis, No 22, septembre 2010. 3. Mckenzie Ryan, M. and Billingslea, O.: Cooking up some goodies. The Daylily Journal, Vol 70, No 4, p. 28, 2015. 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 new proteins and functions of the plant stigma exudate. J. Exp. Bot., Vol 64 (18) 5695-5705, 2013. 6. Rodriguez-Enriquuez, 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, 2013. 7. Michard, F., Alves, F. and Feijo, J.A. : The role of ion fluxes 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: 1573-15821, 2013. 9. Tremblay, Roland R.: Daylilies as plant models : why not? Daylilies in the Great Northeast, Vol 7, Issue 2, Fall 2014. 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 Daylilies In The Great Northeast Spring 2016 27 À la découverte d’aspects moléculaires de la fécondité des hémérocalles 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. 28Daylilies In The Great Northeast Spring 2016 À la découverte d’aspects moléculaires de la fécondité des hémérocalles 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 Daylilies In The Great Northeast Spring 2016 29 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 30Daylilies In The Great Northeast Spring 2016 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 Daylilies In The Great Northeast Spring 2016 31 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 32Daylilies In The Great Northeast Spring 2016 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] Over 3,500 cultivars on display and 1,000+ varieties listed for sale Currently taking Canadian orders to hand deliver or mail from Canada at the CAN - AM 29 April, 2016. We are the new introduction source for Huben, Sobek, Matzek, Maher and L. Jones. See our pricelist at www.harmonhillfarm.com Harmon Hill Farm Daylilies In The Great Northeast Carl & Marlene Harmon 49 Ledge Road Hudson, NH 03051 603-880-6228 [email protected] Spring 2016 33 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. 34Daylilies In The Great Northeast 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 Spring 2016 Region 4 Club News 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, Daylilies In The Great Northeast “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 Spring 2016 35 Region 4 Club News 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 36Daylilies In The Great Northeast 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. Spring 2016 Region 4 Club News 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, Daylilies In The Great Northeast 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 Spring 2016 37 Region 4 Club News 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. 38Daylilies In The Great Northeast 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 Spring 2016 Region 4 Club News 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. Daylilies In The Great Northeast 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 Spring 2016 39 Region 4 Club News 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 40Daylilies In The Great Northeast 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 Spring 2016 club raises funds for other functions. 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. Region 4 Club News 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 Daylilies In The Great Northeast 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 Spring 2016 41 Region 4 Club News 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. 42Daylilies In The Great Northeast 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! Daylilies In The Great Northeast Spring 2016 43 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