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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. The weather is snowy and cold across much of the country this time of year. To remind us of daylily bloom season, we have the AHS Photography and Video Awards for you to enjoy in this issue. Also in this issue, our featured photographer is Ken Cobb, past president of the AHS and current Archivist/Historian. Ken and his wife, Ann, garden in Raleigh, North Carolina, and have belonged to AHS and the Raleigh Hemerocallis Club for over 30 years. Ken's photos have won the Mildred Schlumpf Award and the A.D. Roquemore Memorial Award; and he and Ann have won many regional photo awards as well. Ken's photos, on the masthead and along the sidebar, feature cultivars of AHS Region 15 (North and South Carolina) hybridizers.
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Elizabeth Trotter
E-News Editor
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AHS The American Daylily Society Promo Video
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Send your name to Kathy D'Alessandro, Youth Chair, youth@daylilies.org, for a chance to win a surprise gift! Contest runs from January 1 to June 1, with a drawing on June 2, 2015. You can enter once a month.
Perform required tasks in the Youth Group to get the letters
B I N G O and win daylilies donated by Mike & Sandy Holmes of Riverbend Daylily Garden! March 1 - September 1
 The application period for the Christine Erin Stamile Youth Award and the Bertie Ferris Scholarship is January 1
to March 31. The youth award offers a life membership in AHS to one applicant annually and at least one $1,000.00 scholarship is offered per year. Get details and application forms on the AHS website: Youth Page, or contact the Youth Chair, Kathy D'Alessandro, at youth@daylilies.org.
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You are cordially invited to attend
the 2015 AHS National Convention
June 10-14
Atlanta, Georgia
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AHS Photography & Video Awards
The AHS Photography & Video Awards were announced at the 2014 National Convention in Asheville, North Carolina. The deadline for this year's contest will be November 1, 2015. For the rules for this contest, please see the AHS website: AHS Photography & Video Awards.
AHS Multi-Bloom Image Award
Charles Harper, Region 2
'Jerry Nettles' (Kinnebrew-J., 2002)
Artistic Garden Image Award
John Stahl, Region 4
'Orangutan' (Reed, 1991)
Mildred Schlumpf Award - Single Bloom Claude Carpenter, Region 5 'Green Inferno' (Gossard, 2006)
Mildred Schlumpf Award - Landscape Paul Owen, Region 15 Slightly Different Nursery, Polkville, NC
AHS Youth Award - Intermediate Division Stephen Smith, Region 10 'Brandywine Vampire Revenge' (Smith-HB, 2009)
Lazarus Memorial Award - Best Video Charles Dorsey, Region 2 "An Interview with Shirley Farmer"
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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. |
| AHS Daylily E-News Committee: Elizabeth Trotter (KY), Editor, E-News; Sue Bergeron (ON, Canada); Ken Cobb (NC); Julie Covington (VA); Nikki Schmith (IL); John Ware (VA). |
| Daylily E-News © 2015 by the American Hemerocallis Society, Inc. |
 | | H. 'Wicked Ways' (Hensley-D., 2014) photo by Ken Cobb |
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Hemerocallis 'Grand Canyon Sunset' (Douglas-C., 2008). Click photo for larger image.
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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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Hemerocallis 'Mapping Tokyo'
(Weston-J., 1996). Click photo for larger image.
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Why Join AHS?
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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 online and email 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 'Cherokee Bonfire' (Hensley-D., 2014). Click photo for larger image.
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What is the AHS Membership Portal?
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The AHS Membership Portal is a feature-rich website operated by AHS for the benefit of its members.
In 2013, the Portal was completely redesigned for easier navigation and user convenience. A new tour of the Portal's features and benefits has been created by Portal Help Desk member Michael Bouman, with recorded narration for every slide. A video of the tour is available for people who don't have PowerPoint on their computer. Both the PowerPoint download and the streaming video are posted on the Portal's Help Page. (The "Help" button is located on the right side of the listing of drop-down buttons near the top of the page.) The Portal home page is located at www.daylilynetwork.org.
We hope members will take a look around the site to see the changes that have been made. If you are having a problem accessing any of the features, hit the "Contact Us" button at the very top row of buttons on the right of the page or click on the "Contact" button just to the left of "Help" in the row of buttons near the top.
If you are not a member of the AHS and are interested in joining, you can do it right from the home page noted above.
Want to learn more about the benefits of joining the AHS? Click on the "Membership" button near the top, pick "Join/Renew" from the drop-down menu, and then pick "Membership Benefits."
We hope you enjoy the new look of the site!
Mary Collier Fisher,
There is something for everyone on the AHS Membership Portal.
Discover it today!
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Hemerocallis 'Sarahbelle' (Douglas-H., 2013). Click photo for larger image.
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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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Hemerocallis 'Conway Red Light' (Zahler, 2014). Click photo for larger image.
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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.
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Hemerocallis 'Blue Eyed Bear' (Webb-M., 2012).
Click photo for larger image.
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