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Hello!
WELCOME TO DAYLILY E-NEWS, a free electronic newsletter brought to you by the American Hemerocallis Society, also known as AHS. Daylily E-News is for all who share an interest in daylilies, including members of the American Hemerocallis Society and other horticultural organizations, educators, garden writers, news media, and anyone who loves to garden.
Have you ever wondered what those trailing tunnels on your daylily leaves might be? Read the special report from the AHS Scientific Committee to find out more. Also in this issue we have the 2011 AHS Daylily Award Winners!
Our featured photographer this issue is Debra Zimmerman. Debra began growing daylilies along with other perennials about 20 years ago. Her interest in photographing daylilies started about the same time her husband purchased their first digital camera. As both daylilies and digital cameras evolved, Debra worked on improving her photography skills to better document her growing collection. She now grows nearly 700 daylilies in her Nashville, Tennessee garden, and is always looking for a place where she can tuck "just one more." Documenting the beauty and uniqueness of daylilies through photography is one of her great joys in life.
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Elizabeth Trotter
E-News Editor
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 Thoughts from the AHS President
Hope you enjoy this issue of the Daylily E-News. There's lots of good information here for all of us who enjoy gardening and especially including daylilies in our homescapes.
AHS Presidents usually serve a two-year term and are chosen from among the 15 Directors elected from the various regions composed of states in the U.S. and provinces in Canada. I was elected the Director from AHS Region 4 (composed of primarily of New York, New England, Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritime Provinces of Canada) starting in 2006, and am completing my sixth and final year of my term this month. I was elected to serve as President for 2010 and 2011. The annual convention was held in Baton Rouge, Louisiana this year in May. At this meeting, the Board of Directors voted in our next AHS President, who is Julie Covington from Virginia. Julie lives in Region 3 of the AHS (composed of Virginia, Washington DC, Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania), and she will take over the leadership on January 1. I am happy to leave the Society in such good hands.
This year our Society reached one of our most important goals - for the first time since 2002, our membership numbers grew. We are a vibrant Society, not afraid to embrace new methods, and willing to listen to our members to grow together. Feel free to check out the AHS website (www.daylilies.org) to get a sense of the modern daylily and to see some of the benefits we offer our members. Also, check out the Members' Portal (www.daylilynetwork.org) to see some of the areas that members have access to by choosing to join the Society.
One of the benefits of the Members' Portal is that each member is allowed 5 personal pages (with practically unlimited space) to put photos or information such as your garden layout or inventory. You can have other members indicated as your contacts to ease communications. You can have photo galleries, start a blog, join forums and groups, and shop in our online store - there is even a link in the online store to a section of Zazzle ® that has great merchandise with daylily themes. You can check out a preview of our new book to be published in the spring by clicking on the link "Landscaping with Daylilies" there or on the ad located elsewhere in this issue. I've been enjoying the task of serving as a proofreader and the author, Oliver Billingslea, has packed a huge amount of information and terrific pictures into the volume. It has more than 600 photos and is over 320 pages strong. Members, if you have a problem remembering your password to the Members' Portal or logging in, just click on the "Contact Us" button on the top left column and our Community Manager or another one of our volunteers will help you get the information you need.
If anyone has any questions or comments about anything relating to daylilies or the Society, please feel free to contact our Ombudsman, Donna Peck, at Ombudsman@daylilies.org or me (until December 31) at President@daylilies.org. After that date, your request will go directly to our new President.
Best wishes for a very happy holiday season and a wonderful New Year.
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AHS membership includes the fabulous quarterly Daylily Journal, jam-packed with informative articles and colorful photos, plus your regional newsletter at no additional cost.
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This popular program debuted in 2007, and vendors have agreed to continue for 2011. Current AHS members who upgrade their membership to a higher level will also qualify for a voucher.
Vendors may require a minimum purchase, and some vendors may offer a voucher of higher value than others. Members must pay shipping (and phytosanitary certificates where applicable).
A member may receive a voucher one time only. Upon receipt of your membership application, the AHS Executive Secretary will send you a voucher along with a list of participating vendors.
Join AHS today and discover the exciting world of daylilies!
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Ask the Ombudsman 
Donna Peck has been the Ombudsman for the American Hemerocallis Society for the past three years. An Ombudsman "is an independent, neutral party who is able to look at problems that come up in an unbiased fashion." The Ombudsman also answers questions about Society rules and procedures. Donna has been writing Ombudsman columns for regional newsletters and the Daylily E-News, and now the columns are available on the AHS website. In this series of columns, she will answer questions that may benefit not only the member who had the concern but others as well. If you have a problem, question or situation with which you need help, contact Donna at AHS Ombudsman.
Donna Peck has received a variety of questions dealing with the use of the terms registration date and introduction date when discussing a new daylily cultivar. Recently Region 6 received a generous donation of a beautiful red daylily hybridized by Bill Maryott. He introduced it, H. 'Red Chile Rendezvous', in 2011 so the members would receive a current year introduction, never before sold. According to Bill, he introduced it in 2011 just for the regional meeting. However, he had registered it in 2009 and sent fans to the Albuquerque club host gardens so the plants would be established by 2011 for the meeting. This caused some confusion when the daylily was advertised as a 2011 introduction.
This confusion has occurred in other situations, and that is what prompted this column to clear up any misunderstandings. Bill Maryott, Ombudsman committee member, explains the differences between registration and introduction. Kevin Walek, AHS Registrar, has reviewed and concurred with this explanation.
Question:
I had some confusion when I entered a daylily in this year's flower show. I had bought the daylily this year as a 2011 introduction, but when I went to fill out the entry form for the show, I was told it was a 2010 registration. I don't understand this distinction. What is the difference between registration and introduction of a daylily cultivar?
Response:
Registration is the process of documenting the details about a specific cultivar. Daylily registration is carried out by the AHS Registrar (currently Kevin Walek) under the guidelines developed and promulgated by the International Union of Biological Sciences International Commission for the Nomenclature of Cultivated Plants, and is published by the International Society for Horticultural Science as the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants, often referred to as the ICNCP or Cultivated Plant Code. These guidelines are set forth as horticultural regulations detailing the rules by which a plant can be registered. The registrar does not have the right to deviate from these rules.
The year of registration is the year the plant registration information was submitted by the hybridizer to the Registrar. The registration year begins on November 1 of one calendar year and ends on October 31 of the following calendar year. The Registrar is required to publish these registrations in a hard copy publication, and only then are they actually considered to be registered, and the registration details can then be posted on the AHS website.
All awards within the AHS are based on the registration date. Effectively, this is the only date with which the Registrar is involved.
Introduction dates (also sometimes called availability dates or release dates) are determined by the originator (hybridizer) of the cultivar and can be, but are not required to be, the same as the registration date. Introduction dates are used for commercial purposes, usually to establish the price of a cultivar. Generally, the longer a cultivar is available in commerce, the lower the price.
The AHS requires that any cultivar published in an AHS publication with a cultivar name be registered before being published.
All AHS-sanctioned shows require that any named cultivar entered must be formally registered. If an unregistered cultivar is used as a parent in registering a later cultivar, it must be registered under a seedling number and not an unregistered name. If a commercial garden enters a non-registered cultivar into commerce before it is officially registered, there is the chance the name will be rejected or taken by someone else before it is registered. Occasionally an older cultivar that has been in commerce unregistered and widely distributed gets registered long after it is introduced into commerce.
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News from the AHS Scientific Studies Committee
by Patricia Loveland, Chair
The Scientific Studies Committee (SSC) works behind the scenes on many responsibilities, like reviewing articles that have been submitted for publication in The Daylily Journal. SSC also works on projects geared to help AHS members (and the public) understand botanical concepts as they apply to daylilies. SSC also seeks and reviews proposals for scientific research on daylilies.
In the last few years, reports of leafmining damage to daylily leaves have been received from several states. This damage appears as whitish meandering, serpentine trails caused by larvae feeding between the upper and lower surfaces of leaves.
Leafminer tunnels in daylily leaf; photo courtesy Linda Sue Barnes
In 2011, specimens were reared and identified as Ophiomyia kwansonis Sasakawa, an agromyzid fly not previously known outside Japan and Taiwan. So far in the United States it has been reported from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, New York, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia (see link below). The small, pale yellow larvae (up to 5mm) travel up and down in leaf blades, leaving long mines which become progressively wider as the larvae grow. This damage remains until the leaf dies. Pupation occurs in the larval tunnel, with the pupa appearing like a small, tan rice grain (3-4mm) under the surface, often near the leaf base. The adult fly (3-4mm) is small, black, and rather stocky with broad triangular clear wings. Adults are often seen on daylily flowers. There may be one to several generations per season, depending on your growing region. The species might overwinter as pupae in crowns or dead leaves. No effective chemical control methods have been formally tested yet. Larvae and pupae would be unaffected by contact insecticides which would likely kill predators and tiny wasp species that have been found to attack this pest. Removal and destruction of infested leaves can reduce fly numbers in the garden. However, larvae have also been found in naturalized roadside daylily populations. Careful examination of newly purchased daylilies will enable visibly infested leaves to be removed and destroyed, reducing the potential for bringing the pest into one's garden although, unfortunately, small larvae can easily be overlooked in the pale tissue at the plant's base. As more information becomes available, this entry will be further updated and may be viewed at http://www.daylilies.org/ahs_dictionary/leafminer.html.
We would like to thank Gaye Williams of the Maryland Department of Agriculture Plant Protection Section for assistance with this update. Further details concerning this pest can be found in the National Plant Diagnostic Network Newsletter September 2011 at http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/hodges/september_2011.pdf.
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2011 AHS AWARD WINNERS
Atlanta, GA-October 14, 2011. Daylily garden judges throughout North America have voted and awarded the American Hemerocallis Society's highest honor, the Stout Silver Medal, to Hemerocallis 'North Wind Dancer'. Gary Schaben of Monticello, Minnesota is the hybridizer. AHS established the Stout Silver Medal in 1950 and named the award in honor of Arlow Burdette Stout for his more than fifty years of dedication to, and advancement of, the daylily. Hundreds of AHS garden judges throughout the United States and Canada cast votes to select one superior daylily to win this annual award. In determining this award, garden judges evaluate the complete plant (including performance, vigor, and distinction) as well as beauty.
All photos courtesy of Julie Covington, unless otherwise noted.
The Lenington All-American Award:
'Ruby Spider' (Stamile, 1991)
This award is given annually to a daylily that has been registered for at least ten years and is a stellar performer throughout most regions of the country. As a result, gardeners can count on this tried-and-true winner for excellent garden performance. The Lenington All-American Award is voted on by the AHS Board of Directors, unlike the other awards which are voted on by AHS Garden Judges.
Special Awards
The following AHS Special Awards went to the most outstanding cultivars that met the requirements as stated. Certified AHS Garden Judges vote by ballot to determine the winners.
The Extra Large Diameter Award:
(Bloom larger than 7")
'Judy Farquhar' (Stamile, 2004)
Early Season Bloom Award:
(Registered as Early or Extra-Early)
'Julie Newmar' (Morss, 2000)
photo by David Kirchhoff
The Donn Fischer Memorial Award:
(Miniature flowering daylily with bloom under 3")
'Little Gold Nugget' (Herrington-T., 2005)
The Annie T. Giles Award:
(Small flower: larger than 3" & less than 4.5")
'Baby Blue Eyes' (Shooter-E., 1998)
The Don C. Stevens Award:
(Boldly eyed or banded daylily)
'Carnival in Mexico' (Santa Lucia, 2000)
photo by Lynn Thor
Ida Munson Award:
(Double flowered daylily)
'Firefly Frenzy' (Joiner-J., 2002)
Eugene S. Foster Award:
(Best late blooming daylily)
'Grapefruit Truffle' (Kirchhoff-D., 2002)
The Harris Olson Spider Award:
(Petal width to length ratio > 4.0:1)
'Free Wheelin' ' (Stamile, 2004)
The R. W. Munson, Jr. Award:
(Distinctly patterned daylily)
'Starman's Quest' (Burkey, 1989)
The Lambert/Webster Award:
(Best unusual form daylily)
'Margo Reed Indeed' (Murphy-J.P., 2004)
About The American Hemerocallis Society (AHS)
The American Hemerocallis Society, Inc., also known as The Daylily Society, is a non-profit organization organized exclusively for educational and scientific purposes, and especially to promote, encourage, and foster the development and improvement of the genus Hemerocallis (commonly known as the daylily) and public interest therein. Visit the AHS website at www.daylilies.org.
An invitation to join...
Interested gardeners and flower enthusiasts are invited to join The American Hemerocallis Society. There are over 180 daylily clubs located throughout the U.S. and Canada. Members receive The Daylily Journal, a full-color quarterly publication featuring the latest information about daylilies, photos of award-winning cultivars, and news of meetings and conventions. For more information, visit the AHS Membership Information page on the AHS website at www.daylilies.org/AHSmemb.html.
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The American Hemerocallis Society, Inc., is a non-profit corporation 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.
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AHS Daylily E-News Committee: Elizabeth Trotter (KY), Editor, E-News; Sue Bergeron (ON, Canada); Ken Cobb (NC); Mary Collier Fisher (MA); David Kirchhoff (KY); Nikki Schmith (IL); Maureen Strong (ON, Canada).
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Hemerocallis '
Blue Eyed Bandit' (Hansen-D., 2006). Click photo for larger image.
SPELLING LESSON
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How to spell
"daylily"
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The word "daylily" is properly spelled as one word. Many of today's spellcheckers and media style books incorrectly use the old-fashioned spelling "day lily" instead. The single word has been the preferred spelling for decades.
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The American Hemerocallis Society is all about daylilies and people.
AHS is organized into 15 Regions including USA, Canada, and International designations. Each offers a variety of regional and local club daylily activities.
When people join AHS, they also become a member of the AHS Region in which they live. AHS Regions do not charge additional dues. Most AHS regions publish their own newsletter and mail it to all regional members at no extra charge. Members often participate in events outside their own region.
To learn about daylily activities and events near you, visit the webpage:
AHS Regional Activities
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The AHS Media Library | Easy programs for your club--
OR...
add your presentation to the Library!
By Nikki Schmith
AHS Media Librarian
AHS Region 2, Illinois
One benefit of your American Hemerocallis Society (AHS) membership is access to rental programs from the AHS Media Library for club presentations, public education events, and personal use.
Over the last decade or two, AHS collected and organized presentations on traditional slide media and made them available for rental to AHS members. Many members took advantage of this easy way to offer entertaining and educational programs to their clubs.
In recent years, we saw a decline in the rental of these traditional 35mm slide programs. In the interest of supporting our educational mission and providing more people access to these programs, a conversion to digital media began.
Today, rental programs are available on CD in Microsoft (MS) PowerPoint format. Each program has a $10 rental fee (unless indicated otherwise); return postage and insurance are not included.
For a listing of programs currently available, go to: AHS Media Library
There are several great choices, but with an organization our size, we should have more: more to provide to outside, like-minded organizations to spread the news about daylilies; more to provide to local clubs to continue the excitement about daylilies; and finally, more to document where we've been, because we are headed into the future so fast.
With the exception of the classic Sarah Sikes presentation, "Gardening with Daylilies," all of the original 35mm slide programs have been archived and are not available for rental at this time. Some are being considered for digital conversion in the coming years, while others will reside in the AHS archive.
If you have developed any programs, please consider sending a copy to the AHS Media Librarian if you are willing to have it rented to members. You can allow such use without giving up your copyright to the images if that is a concern to you. A Deed of Gift form can be provided in that case, covering the use and disposition. No special formatting or programming is required. You could simply send in a CD of labeled images or a completely formatted and animated PowerPoint. You could send in a presentation you've done on hybridizing, dividing, planting or designing with daylilies. You could send in a presentation on conducting a daylily exhibition. The possibilities are endless!
If you are interested in the library in any way, such as donating, renting, and volunteering to help, or if you have questions, please contact the Media Librarian, Nikki Schmith at schmiths71@gmail.com, or call 248-739-9006.
We look forward to a deluge of presentations!
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Learn about daylilies.
Receive the quarterly publication, The Daylily Journal.
Receive a regional newsletter 2-3 times per year.
Enjoy a members-only social networking site with forums, blogs, calendars, and more.
Meet daylily growers and hybridizers.
Vote for favorite daylilies in the Popularity Poll.
Participate in daylily exhibitions.
Become an AHS Exhibition Judge.
Become an AHS Garden Judge.
Have an AHS Daylily Display Garden and/or AHS Historic Daylily Display Garden.
Attend daylily symposiums, garden tours, meetings, conventions, and more.
Participate in on-line discussion groups.
Join special interest snail-mail groups.
Become a better gardener.
Form friendships for life!
AHS members belong to one of 15 U.S./Canadian regions. Those outside the U.S. and Canada may join as International members. Over 180 local clubs form the backbone of every region, and you may find that one of them is near you. If not, meet with local gardeners and form a daylily club of your own!
It's easy to become a member. Just use this link: Join AHS
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Hemerocallis 'Westbourne Little Lamb' (Meadows-M.J., 2005). Click photo for
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What is a Daylily? | A daylily is an herbaceous perennial that will return year after year in a suitable climate. Some are evergreen and will retain their green foliage throughout the year in a mild climate.
Daylilies may be hardy or tender, depending on genetics, so gardeners should choose cultivars based on their local growing conditions.
Daylilies belong to the genus Hemerocallis, from the Greek meaning "beauty for a day." A typical daylily bloom lasts for one day, but an established clump will produce many flowering scapes with plentiful buds that will produce a fresh flush of blooms over many days.
Daylilies do not form bulbs (as do members of the genus Lilium, otherwise known as "true" lilies).
Due to the distinctive characteristics of Hemerocallis, taxonomists have removed daylilies from the family Liliaceae and placed them in their own family Hemerocallidaceae.
Daylilies form a crown, with fibrous roots below and foliage and flowering scapes above. The daylily crown is the essential growth center of the plant. Neither true daylily root structures nor daylily foliage will grow without a piece of the crown.
Some daylilies form rhizomes -- special underground structures with scales and internodes -- that can produce new plants. The species or "wild" types often have this trait. Many modern hybrids do not form rhizomes, although there are some that do.
For more daylily terms, see the AHS Daylily Dictionary.
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International daylily enthusiasts are welcome to request seeds from the AHS International Seed Bank. The aim of this
outreach program is to spread the interest in growing and enjoying daylilies around the world.
For more information, please contact Maureen Strong at
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AHS Publications
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