2008 WINTER GATHERING (WG)
DATES: February 15-17, 2008
Hotel: Hilton Garden Inn, 5800 College BLVD, Overland Park, KS 800-804-6835 or
913-345-2661. Click for online hotel registration
Registrar: Ron Azzanni, P.O. Box 1239, Florissant, MO 63031-0239
Friday, February 15
5:00—7:00 Registration in the lobby
7:00 –8:30 (Dinner on Your Own)
7:00 –8:30 Planning Session Steve Amy
8:30—? Social Gathering in Hospitality Room
Saturday, February 16
(Breakfast on your own)
7:00 A.M. Registration Begins
8:00—9:45 Garden Judge 1 Michael Bouman
10:00—10:45 Soil Matters: Digging into soil Steve Thien
[Questions posed by daylily growers]
11:00—11:45 (In Region Speakers) Diana & Craig Plahn
11:45—1:00 Lunch
1:00—3:45 Exhibition Judge Clinic 1 Bob Tankesley-Clark
1:00—3:45 Exhibition Judge Clinic 3 Betty Coughenour
4:00—4:45 Hyberdizer Introductions Bob Tankesley-Clark
6:00—7:30 Dinner
7:30—8:30 Key Note Speaker: Tim Herrington
8:30—10:00 AUCTION
Sunday, February 17
8:00-9:30 Hybridizer Round Table Bob Tankesley-Clark
10:00—11:30 Business Meeting Steve Amy
2008 AHS REGION 11 MEETING
Region 11 Summer Regional
Wichita, Kansas
July 4, 5 & 6, 2008
REGISTRATION FORM (Word Document)
REGISTRATION FORM (pdf format)
REGIONAL 11 MEMBERS OF NOTE
REGION 11 HYBRIDIZER'S AWARD WINNERS
| 1975 | George Pettus | LION'S PRIDE |
| 1976 | R Wild | KNOCKOUT |
| 1977 | Lloyd Schoonover | KANSAS GOLD |
| 1978 | W. Marley | MOON LANDING |
| 1979 | H. Lacey | ROBIN COLEMAN |
| 1980 | L. Lenington | WINE DELIGHT |
| 1981 | George Taylor | COPPERHEAD |
| 1982 | R.S. Mannoni | CARMI |
| 1983 | Oscie Whatley | CARONDOLET |
| 1984 | Lloyd Schoonover | NICHOLAS LEIGH |
| 1985 | George Wild | SUDDENLY IT'S AUTUMN |
| 1986 | Wilma Bryant | WINTER BALLET |
| 1987 | George Taylor | BILLY ED |
| 1988 | Wilma Bryant | FANTASY WORLD |
| 1989 | Frank Kropf | ZELLA VIRGINIA |
| 1990 | Russell Morgan | KRIS GARST |
| 1991 | George Taylor | RUTH BROWN |
| 1992 | George Taylor | KATHRYN SUMMERS |
| 1993 | Elvan Roderick | PICTURE PRETTY |
| 1994 | Rose McClarren | ARIEL ROSE |
| 1995 | Wanda Faller | SUMMER SILHOUETTE |
| 1996 | Rose McClarren | CHERYL RAE |
| 1997 | Marvin Shepherd | GRANDSON ISAAC |
| 1998 | Al Apsher | LITTLE PEEP EYE |
| 1999 | Dale Satterwhite | WESTERN WALTZ |
| 2000 | Elvan Roderick | CHEROKEE PASS |
| 2001 | Tom McClarren | CHEEKS BLUSHING |
| 2002 | Vern Apsher | IONA PINK PROMISE |
| 2003 | Tankesley-Clark | KASHAN |
| 2004 | Oscie Whatley | RAM |
| 2005 | Dennis Mitchell | KAYLE'S SONG |
| 2006 | Julia Semon | JULIA'S DOUBLE DREAM |
| 2007 | Bob Tankesley-Clarke | TRICKSTER |
REGION 11 Service Award Winners (The Mavis Smith Award)
1993 Mavis Smith – MO1994 Peggy Estes – OK
1995 Dr. Hal Daum – MO
1996 Fred & Jo-An Finke – MO
1997 Bob McConnell – MO
1998 George & Naomi Taylor – KS
2000 Richard Dixon – MO
2001 Betty Marcy – MO
2002 Barbara Dean – OK
2004 John Eiseman – MO
REGION 11 Regional Vice Presidents
1960 Arthur Odel
1961-62 Mrs. George Cunningham
1963-64 Sol Mannoni
1965-66 Oscie Whatley, MO
1967-68 Mrs. Lee Parker
1969-70 Mavis Smith, MO
1971-72 Bertha Plato
1973-74 Vivian Parsons
1975-76 Gertrude Hardie
1977-78 Mavis Smith, MO
1979-80 Peggy Estes, OK
1981-82 Frances Gatlin, MO
1983-84 Olin Frazier, MO
1985-86 Pat Steinborn, MO
1987-88 J. Wayne Merrill, MO
1989-90 Bob McConnell, MO
1991-92 Mary Lou Lundblade, KS
1993-94 Jo-an Finke, MO
1995-96 Richard Dixon, MO
1997-98 Barbara Dean, OK
1999-2000 John Eiseman, MO
2001-2002 Helen Adams, KS
2003- 2006 Bob Tankesley-Clarke, MO
2007- Steve Amy, KS
AHS Region 11 OSCIE WHATLEY SEEDLING AWARD
Moved by John Eiseman and approved by the Region 11 membership at the 2006 Region 11 Meeting:
There will be a new Region 11 award named the OSCIE WHATLEY SEEDLING AWARD that will be awarded at the end of each year’s summer annual meeting (during the business meeting) for the best seedling grown in a special seedling bed for such purpose in one of the host gardens. The award is sponsored by and will be endowed in perpetuity by the Greater St. Louis Daylily Society. The award will first be given at the 2008 Regional Meeting.
Rules for the Award are as follows:
1. For each summer Regional Meeting, the host club will establish an “Oscie Whatley Memorial Seedling Bed" in one of the host gardens, in spring two years before the event. (The Greater St. Louis Daylily Society will provide an appropriate sign to be displayed in the garden to identify the bed during the Meeting.) The host club will be responsible for making sure that Region 11 notifies prospective entrants well in advance where to send their entrees (i.e. the name and shipping address of the host garden). Notification to Region 11 membership will be included in the first MoKanOk that is published after the host club provides the needed details. During the years preceding the meeting, the host garden will accept eligible entries and plant them in a fair and suitable manner such that each entry can be easily viewed during the day(s) his/her garden is on tour.
2. Each registered attendee of the regional meeting, AHS member or not, will have one vote to choose the seedling they believe to be best. Ballots to be collected at the end of the bus ride on the day each bus visits the host garden that maintains the Region 11 Seedling Bed.
3. Each plant entry will be identified in the Oscie Whatley Memorial Seedling Bed by only a number that is randomly assigned by the garden host and known only by the garden host until the voting is over.
4. To be eligible, at the time of the regional meeting a seedling must be unregistered and have been hybridized by a person who is a living member in good standing of at least one Region 11 daylily club and who is a current member of the AHS. (The name of the seedling may have been reserved with the AHS.) In addition, to restrict the contest to legitimate hybridizers, in order to be eligible, the submitting party must have registered at least one cultivar with the AHS prior to the year of any regional meeting in which he/she wishes to enter a seedling for this award.
5. Only one seedling can be entered by any hybridizer per annual Meeting. Up to two fans can be submitted no earlier than two years in advance. For 2008 only, up to three fans can be submitted.
6. A plant entry will be disqualified if the hybridizer or any member of the hybridizer’s household reveals the identify of the hybridizer’s entry to anyone outside the household. Of course the host garden owner(s) will know which hybridizer enters which seedling.
7. It will be preferred and become the ethical standard that any hybridizer who enters a seedling will not even reveal the fact to anyone, even if asked.
8. The vote of anyone revealing the hybridizer’s name of any entry to anyone will be disqualified.
9. The vote of anyone who has been told the hybridizer’s name of any entry by anyone will be disqualified.
10. Upon entry, each hybridizer contestant will prescribe whether or not his/her seedling can be used for pollen purposes while it is being guested and will designate the plant’s final disposition. If the hybridizer wants any portion of the clump returned after the event, he or she must pay shipping fees to the garden host. Under no circumstances may guest seedling plants be used as pod parents, even with its hybridizer’s permission.
11. The winning entry must be registered with the AHS within one year.
12. The Greater St. Louis Daylily Society will provide a suitable trophy to the host club for their presentation to the winner.
13. The Greater St. Louis Daylily Society will pay the garden host $150 as a stipend to reimburse him/her for the trouble and expense of maintaining the Region 11 seedling bed. The stipend is intended to cover the host garden’s cost of bed preparation, plant labeling, plant care, etc. The value of the stipend will be reassessed every five years beginning in 2010 for a possible increase necessitated by the effects of inflation.
AHS ORGANIZATIONAL HIERARCHY
American Hemerocallis Society (AHS)
The AHS is the official organization for the promotion of the daylily flower in the US. Hemerocallis is the botanical name for the daylily and comes from the Greek words: beauty for a day. (Daylilies are not part of the Lily genus.)
Among other things, the AHS has the responsibility of registering the names of new daylily introductions. It annually publishes a list of all new cultivars. It also publishes a periodical called The Journal four times a year. Membership in the AHS is $18/year (for a single membership).
It is important to note that although our club is affiliated with the AHS, membership in our club does not automatically make you a member of the AHS. You must individually join the AHS if you desire. We strongly encourage it.
The AHS holds a national convention each year in a different location. In 2005, it will be in Cincinnati.
Region 11
For several reasons, the AHS is divided into regions. Clubs in Missouri are combined with those in OK and KS to form Region 11.
Each region has its own officers, the Regional VP and Regional Publicity Director, and elects a Director to the AHS Board.
Each summer, Reg 11 holds a business meeting that has come to include tours of local gardens and social events. Each year's meeting is held in a different city, hosted by one of the region's local clubs.
Reg 11 also publishes a newsletter for AHS members of Reg 11. Only members of the AHS who live in MO, KS, or OK receive the newsletter automatically. However, our club subsidizes subscriptions for any other club member who wishes to subscribe to the newsletter. Please see the Treasurer for details.
Local Clubs
Local clubs are usually incorporated as a nonprofit organization, under IRS Section 501(c)(3). They are also often affiliated with the AHS and become active members within their local AHS region, but unlike Region 11, they are not officially a subdivision of the AHS. It is the local clubs which host annual Regional Meetings.
Most clubs have their own Bylaws and Standing Rules.
Standing rules are less serious than by-laws and deal with the more routine day-to-day operation of our club, but these are often more important to a newcomer because they describe meeting dates and attendance prizes, for example. If you are not offered a copy, please ask and don't be bashful.
To find a local club in Region 11 (KS, MO, or OK), CLICK HERE.
What is an AHS DISPLAY GARDEN?
Do you find many of the latest daylily introductions in an AHS Display Garden (AHSDG)? Sometimes, but not always: there are no requirements about recent material for a garden to eligible for AHSDG status.
Is a garden that is 'right out of House & Garden', which features many expensive lawn decorations, furniture, statues, fountains, and professional landscaping eligible for AHSDG status? Yes, but to be an AHSDG a garden need not meet such high standard; in fact, most do not.
Might an AHSDG garden include many exotic, expensive "companion" plants, such as dwarf conifers, Japanese maples, Bonsai plants, etc.? Yes, but again, they are not requirements!
The purpose of an AHSDG is often misunderstood. These gardens are not intended to be showplaces for daylily hobbyists. They can be, but the primary purpose of an AHSDG is to allow the public the opportunity to become acquainted with the daylily. Thus, the average, well-maintained backyard daylily garden can be just as appropriate for this purpose as the 'centerpiece' garden. The AHS is simply trying to make plantings of daylilies more available for public display-trying to spread the word of the daylily to more people.
So, in keeping with that goal, the actual requirements are quite appropriate and relatively simple. Generally, they include only:
* The garden should contain a wide variety of types of registered daylilies.
* The daylilies should be clearly marked with both the cultivar name and hybridizer (year of registration or introduction is optional).
* The garden should be clean and relatively free of weeds.
That's not too hard, is it? Of course, you have to be willing (and enjoy) strangers coming to visit your garden. For some, this is desirable; for others, it is not. But if you think you might be interested in becoming an AHSDG, please contact your region's RVP for a copy of the official AHS rules and application.
By the way, if you want to see a current list of
all display gardens,
visit them online at the AHS
Internet Web site.
HERE IS A COPY (Acrobat .pdf file) OF A DISLAY GARDEN APPLICATION.
TO USE IT, download it, print it, fill in the information, round up some pictures, and submit to your Mary Lou Lundlbade for approval.
