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Th e Daylily Pioneer
Volume 18, No. 1 – Spring 2017
AHS REGION ONE – ‘WHERE IT ALL BEGAN’
Iowa / Manitoba / Minnesota / Nebraska / North Dakota / South Dakota
Wonderland Gardens. Garden of Jenn and Steve Lanz featured on the 2017 Regional Tour
AHS Officers AHS Region One
Summary Officers Summary
2017 2017
President Regional Director - 2016-2018 Garden Judge Liaison/ Historic Daylily
Nikki Schmith Kathleen Nordstrom Garden Liaison - 2017-2018
424 Pheasant Ct. 22065 605th St. Mary Baker
Worden, IL 62097 Dodge Center, MN. 55927 7114 South 49th St.
248-739-9006 701-202-0404 Omaha, NE 68157-2273
president@daylilies.org kndl144@gmail.com 402-933-1496
maryskbaker@aol.com
Vice President Regional President / Youth Liaison /
Charles Douglas Awards and Honors Chair - 2017-2018 Historian - 2017-2018
13515 Brown’s Ferry Road Zora Ronan Bryce Farnsworth
Georgetown, SC 29440 5031 N. Marion Ave. 1334 14-1/2 St. S.
843-240-2531 Central City, IA Fargo, ND 58103
vicepresident@daylilies.org 52214 319-360-0002 701- 237-3597 home
zronan@aol.com 701-793-8812 cell
Chief Financial Officer bryce.farnsworth@ndsu.edu
Lois Hart Secretary - 2017-2018
P.O. Box 100 Kris Henning Science Liaison - 2017-2018
Louisburg, KS 66053-0100 22163 Spirit Lake Road East Jonathan Poulton
913-837-5209 Frederic, WI 54837 729 Alpine Drive
cfo@daylilies.org 715-689-2333 Iowa City, Iowa 52245
henning@grantsburgtelcom.net 319-354-1735
Administrative Staff - 2017 Jonathan-poulton@uiowa.edu
(Overseeing Committees are shown in parentheses) Regional Publicity Director - 2017-2018
Steve Horan Webmaster - 2017-2018
Executive Editor, The Daylily Journal and 3674 Commonwealth Draw Jonathan Poulton
Advertising Sales Manager (Publications) Woodbury, MN 55125 Jonathan-poulton@uiowa.edu
Meg McKenzie Ryan 651- 402-4681
1936 Wensley Avenue smhoran1@gmail.com Audit Committee - 2017-2018
El Centro, CA 92243 Jackie Westhoff
760-235-8243 (voice); 760-337-2139 (fax) Regional Newsletter Editor - 2017-2018 6161 32nd Ave.
journal@daylilies.org Susan Holland Shellsburg IA 52332
222 West Avenue C 319-521-1607
Executive Secretary (Membership) Bismarck, ND 58501 jackie.mysavanna@fmtcs.com
Pat Mercer 701-751-0466
P.O. Box 10 susanh.holland@gmail.com
Dexter, GA 31019
478-875-4110 Treasurer - 2017-2018
secretary@daylilies.org or renewal@daylilies.org Karol Emmerich
7700 Old Highway 169 Blvd.
Jordan, MN 55352
952- 941-9280
kdemmerich@aol.com
AHS Region One The Daylily Pioneer Spring 2017 Vol. 18, No. 1 Page 2
Th e Daylily Pioneer
Volume 18, No. 1 – Spring 2017
Website: www.ahsregion1.org
Table of Contents EDITOR
Susan H. Holland
Front & Back Cover Wonderland Gardens: Garden of Jenn and Steve Lanz
featured on the 2017 Regional Tour PROOFREADERS
Kris Henning
Inside Front AHS Officers & AHS Region One Officers Kathy Lamb
Cover - Page 3 Table of Contents
DESIGN
4 Region One Director Report, Kathleen Nordstrom Susan H. Holland
4 Region One President Report, Zora Ronan CONTRIBUTING WRITERS
Susan Holland
5 Notes from the Editor, Susan H. Holland
Kathy Lamb
6-9 AHS Region One 2017 Summer Regional Jonathan E Poulton
Daylily Dreams in '17 R. Keith Riewerts
Val Hoefer
10 2017 Regional Featured Gardens, Wonderland Gardens Kathleen Nordstrom
Zora Ronan
11 2017 Regional Featured Garden, L & D Gardens
Lisa Schmidt
12 2017 Regional Featured Gardens, Lidinsky Garden
CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS
13-14 2017 Regional Featured Gardens, McGraw Garden Suzanne Karl,
Linda and Scott Ferguson,
15 2017 Regional Featured Gardens, Springwood Gardens Don Lovell, Selwyn Rash,
R. Keith Reiwerts, Kris Henning,
16 Region One Science Report - Jonathan Poulton,
"Are You Ready for GE Daylilies?" Lisa Schmidt,
Jonathan Poulton, Brenda Macy
17 2017 AHS Region One Garden Judges and Instructors
19-23 AHS Region One Daylily Clubs – 2017 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
The PIONEER is published for the benefit of AHS
24-25 Hybridizer Highlights – Suzanne Karl Region One members. As such, the PIONEER
focuses on regional members, hybridizers and
26-27 Selwyn Rash – Interview with Susan Holland events.
Submissions are encouraged! All contributions
The PIONEER is the newsletter of American Hemerocallis Society Region One Inc. The AHS is a are edited for length, grammar, and clarity, in
non-profit educational and scientific organization dedicated to promote, en-courage, and foster the order to ensure the highest possible quality
development of the genus Hemerocallis, commonly known as the daylily. Region One is comprised of publication.
Iowa, Manitoba, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota.
Send articles and photographs by email to
susanh.holland@gmail.com. Digital images
Information is presented herein as a service to members and is not necessarily endorsed by the AHS should be high quality and resolution. Plant
or by the editor. Rights to material published in this newsletter remain with the author; to reprint or name, hybridizer, and photographer should be
otherwise reproduce material, please obtain permission from the author. incorporated in the image name. Contact the
editor Susan H. Holland for further specifications.
Next Issue Deadline: Fall 2017 - September 1, 2017; Spring 2018 - Feb 15, 2018
AHS Region One The Daylily Pioneer Spring 2017 Vol. 18, No. 1 Page 3
Region One President’s Report –
Region One Director’s Report – Kathleen Nordstrom Zora Ronan
What a crazy up and down weather
Spring Greetings to My Friends cycle we have had this year in Iowa.
Winter came late and was more
Throughout Region One mild than usual. We had record-
high February temperatures in
Cedar Rapids but the cold is likely
The AHS fall meeting took place to return. It is not quite time to get
in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, out, uncover those plants, and start
in October at the hotel where the serious gardening yet.
National Convention will be held in
2018. It is a beautiful convention It is time to make plans for the
center just a few blocks from the new gardening season. What
beach. It looks like this convention better place to start than to
will be great fun! make reservations to attend the
Region One Regional Meeting in
There are lots of exciting changes about new introductions quarterly Minneapolis. Regional meetings
taking place within AHS. Updating rather than annually. are a great opportunity to meet old
technology has been a major focus friends, make new ones, tour great
in recent months. The Daylily The site for the 2020 National gardens, find “can’t live without”
database has new and improved Convention was announced. It will daylilies at the boutique and
search capabilities. When typing in be held in Savannah, Georgia. auction and generally have a great
the search box, it autofills with names There are two new books now time.
that contain what you have typed, available for purchase, The Open
thus you no longer need to know Form Daylily: Spiders, Unusual Forms, The regional meeting also provides
exactly how to spell the name you and Other “Exotics” and a revised and an opportunity to attend Garden
are searching. You can now search updated Illustrated Guide To Daylilies. Judges Workshops I and II. If you
by color. I won’t list all of the changes Books can be purchased at the AHS take the workshops at the regional
here. I encourage you to check it out. online store, or you can contact meeting and pass the written test,
Brenda Macy, Publication Services you will be eligible to vote on the
Manager at pubsales@daylilies.org or 2017 ballot. If judging is not quite
(270) 737-9058 or mail a check to 109 for you yet, think about auditing
West Poplar Street, Elizabethtown, KY the workshops. It is interesting
42701. to see a daylily from another’s
perspective. I learn something new
The auction held on Facebook in at every workshop.
January was successful in raising over
$14,000 for the AHS general fund. With spring coming, I think of
Frog on Bloom
Photographer: Jonathan Poulton a quote heard at a gardening
That is your brief summary of what is seminar years ago.
The Publications Committee new on the national front.
proposed that we no longer “Gardening simply does not allow
physically publish the annual I look forward to seeing many of one to be mentally old, because
Checklist. It will be published you this summer at the National in too many hopes and dreams are
electronically. This will result in Norfolk, Virginia, or at the Regional in yet to be realized.” - Allan Armitage
significant savings in printer’s fees, Minneapolis. Happy gardening!
and also allow earlier access to the See you in Minneapolis.
information about new introductions Kathleen Nordstrom
on the Daylily database. In the future, Director, Region One Zora Ronan
we are planning to upload the data Region One President
AHS Region One The Daylily Pioneer Spring 2017 Vol. 18, No. 1 Page 4
Notes from the Editor – Susan H. Holland
Obtaining operating funds to keep Because I work with graphics which are updated automatically
the American Hemerocallis Society and images preparing the Daylily as improvements are made. It is a
(AHS) financially sound and moving Pioneer, I bid on the virtual live “cloud” based program, so your bits
forward is always of concern to the training session in Using Photoshop and pieces of design, colors, photos,
national and regional staff, directors with AHS webmaster Tim Fehr (25 layouts, and fonts are all stored in
and representatives. The new AHS seats at $50 fixed-price per seat). your “library” on the cloud, accessible
President, Nicki Schmidt, is spunky, The actual event was great, and to you with whatever tool you are
creative, and uses her abundant helped me understand how much I using – desktop computer, phone,
energy on behalf of the AHS. She, do know about Photoshop and how laptop, etc.
with the help of others, created much more there is to learn.
a new, fun way to encourage The Region One Board provides
members to support the national Tim Fehr, the instructor, and the Editor with a subscription to
organization, which in turn, greatly webmaster for AHS, asked us before a layout program called InDesign,
benefits the regional clubs. the on-line event to submit one or which provides the ability to “lay
more images that needed “help” so out” formats and save them for
On January 15, 2017, the inaugural he could show us the capabilities of future use, lessening the time
Facebook Fundraiser Auction to Photoshop. Below is an example of required with each newsletter issue
benefit the AHS General Fund what the program can do. I produce. At this point the learning
began on the official Facebook curve is substantial, but I am glad
Page - www.facebook.com/ The production of the Daylily Pioneer I am knowledgeable about and
ahsdaylilies/. There were so is a labor of love for me. Part of have been using print production
many unusual offerings from the fun is learning new software photography and layout tools for
the imaginative members who called Adobe Creative Cloud. One over 30 years. Hope it does not take
donated their services, vacation purchases a yearly subscription, and me that long to learn InDesign!
homes, quilts, pottery, art work, the programs associated with the
stained glass, and once in a lifetime plans vary. I have the simplest – A Happy Spring!
Susan
visits with hybridizers. The list was photography plan. This gives me
long, complex, and very exciting. access to Lightroom and Photoshop,
SHH - 1 Image as submitted “H. ‘Blessed Art Thou’ (Moldovan 1998) SHH - 2 Image “helped” by Tim Fehr using Photoshop.
AHS Region One The Daylily Pioneer Spring 2017 Vol. 18, No. 1 Page 5
AHS Region One 2017 Summer Regional
Daylily Dreams in ‘17
Hosted by the Daylily Society of weekend of garden tours, banquets,
Minnesota educational sessions, AHS Garden
Friday, July 28–Sunday, July 30 Judges Workshops 1 & 2, Bargain
Table & Boutique, and not-to-miss See the Registration Form, Region
Bryan Culver, Guest Speaker Silent & Live Daylily Auctions! 1 website, and/or DSM website
Follow your daylily dreams with us! And breakfasts! And garden for schedule details, fees, and
refreshments! And bus plants! And deadlines.
After Mother Nature teased many of door prizes!
us with EE golf and shorts weather, See the Registration Form for
our “daylily dreams” will soon burst Register early, because attendance is details about the Headquarters
into bloom for real! And what better capped at 112 attendees! Hotel
way to follow those dreams than
by coming to the 2017 Summer Our lovely headquarters hotel is the Visit Paul Owen’s website at
Regional! Crowne Plaza Hotel in Plymouth, MN. www.slightlydifferentnursery.com/site/
Some of you may remember this
The Daylily Society of Minnesota hotel from our Fall Regional a few Take a peek at Bryan’s introductions at
(DSM) invites you to a fabulous years ago. www.culverfarmdaylilies.com/index.html
Headquarters Hotel
Crowne Plaza Minneapolis West Hotel
3131 Campus Drive (near the
junction of I-494 and Hwy 55)
Plymouth, MN 55441
Hotel Reservations
Reserve your guest room directly
with the hotel.
Group rate is $119/night plus tax
until June 28.
Mention “Daylily Society of
Minnesota” for group rate.
Toll-free: 1-800-227-6963
Hotel (direct): 763-559-6600
Website: www.CPplymouth.com
AHS Region One The Daylily Pioneer Spring 2017 Vol. 18, No. 1 Page 6
AHS Region One 2017 Summer Regional
Boutique
Boutique Chair Myrna Hjellming
Donations is seeking donations of garden-
All Live Auction proceeds go toward support of AHS related art/items for a fun Boutique!
Region One, which receives no dues or other funding If Myrna receives notification and a
from AHS. Bargain Table, Boutique, and Silent Auction photo of your donation by May 1,
proceeds will be used to offset Regional expenses. Both we may be able to include photos in
AHS Region One and the Daylily Society of Minnesota are the handbook and/or add photos to
our website. Please contact Myrna
501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations, and donations may be regarding your donations.
tax deductible.
Boutique Chair
Live Auction Donations Myrna Hjellming
Please consider donating one or more newer daylilies for email: mhjellming@moneygram.com
the Live Auction! To make Auction donations—or if you telephone: 763-486-8628
have questions—please contact Mike Grossmann.
2017 Summer Regional Chairs
Auction Chair, Mike Grossmann If you have questions or comments,
please contact a Chair/Co-Chair. We
email: mike144mann@msn.com want you to have a great time at the
telephone: 507-271-2501 2017 Summer Regional!
Bargain Table Donations Chair/Registrar
Bargain Table Chair Jenn Lanz asks for names of your Kris Henning
email: henning@grantsburgtelcom.net
donations ahead of time, so she can make labels. telephone: 715-689-2333
PLEASE send names of daylilies by July 17 and the number
of fans by noon on July 28. Co-Chairs
Karol Emmerich
Bargain Table Chair, Jenn Lanz email: kdemmerich@aol.com
email: froggymcgee@yahoo.com telephone: 952-941-9280
telephone: 651-270-0281
Kathy Lamb
email: kmlamb@earthlink.net
telephone: 763-422-0015
AHS Region One The Daylily Pioneer Spring 2017 Vol. 18, No. 1 Page 7
AHS Region One 2017 Summer Regional
Weekend Highlights
Please note: For your convenience, we will
be accepting credit cards, checks, and/
or cash for purchases from the Boutique,
Bargain Table, Silent Auction, and Live
GUEST SPEAKER
Bryan Culver
Auction during the Regional. FEATURED TOU
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Dave Beckman
Steve & Jenn Lan
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715-689-2333
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WELCOME 2017 New Members!
Stacy Alderman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Big Lake, MN
Mary Jo Duffy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Iowa City, IA
Dave Emerson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Prior Lake, MN
Deborah Herbert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bemidji, MN
Erin Houston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dodge Center, MN
Lisa and Jeffrey Schmidt. . . . . . . . . . . Bismarck, ND
Darin Spelhaug. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wahpeton, ND
AHS Region One The Daylily Pioneer Spring 2017 Vol. 18, No. 1 Page 8
AHS Region One 2017 Summer Regional
Saturday is Garden Tour time! Guest Speaker -
We’ll start the day with a plated breakfast at the hotel, Bryan Culver
then a deluxe air-conditioned motor coach bus will take
you to four daylily gardens, including a stop for an Italian
of Culver Farm
buffet lunch. Daylilies
(Ontario, Canada)
After our evening banquet, we will have a special auction
of Bryan Culver daylilies! You can see the daylilies that will An award-winning
be dug for the auction in the Lidinsky Garden during the hybridizer, Bryan has
bus tour. introduced northern-hardy
daylilies that have become
Dave Beckman & Linda Horsmann favorites in AHS Region
Steve & Jenn Lanz One gardens.
Bill & Dory Lidinsky
Judie McGraw Our special Culver auction
is a great opportunity to
‘Star of the North’ daylily award— obtain cultivars from Bryan
it’s up to YOU! without having to arrange
While you stroll the gardens, keep an eye out for the best for importing through a
of the best so you can vote on Saturday for the ‘Star of U.S. nursery.
the North’ award, an informal ‘President’s Cup’ for our
Minnesota Regional!
Sunday at Springwood the workshop(s). GJW1 will be at the
Gardens hotel on Friday, 1:00–3:00 P.M.,
Your daylily extravaganza continues Nan Ripley, Chair/Instructor. GJW2
on Sunday with a visit to Karol will be at Springwood on Sunday,
Emmerich’s Springwood Gardens 10:00 A.M.–12:00 noon.
(Jordan, MN). Registration fees
include a hot buffet breakfast
in the garden, 8:30–10:00 A.M.
Transportation from the hotel to
Springwood will be on your own; we
will provide driving directions.
We are offering Garden Judges
Workshops 1 and 2 during the
Regional.
Please reserve a spot on the
Registration Form, but pay fees at
Butterfly on Bloom, H. ‘Supermodel’ (Gossard, 2008)
Photographer: Jonathan Poulton Photographer: Kris Henning
AHS Region One The Daylily Pioneer Spring 2017 Vol. 18, No. 1 Page 9
2017 Regional Featured Gardens
2017 Regional Tour Gardens
Wonderland Gardens
Jenn & Steve Lanz
Newport (MN)
You don’t have to go down a rabbit
hole for this adventure! Jenn’s own
sunset wonderland will greet you as
soon as you step off the bus.
Jenn loves the warm colors of
sunset— red, orange, yellow, coral
and white—and she has re-created
a sunset in her garden. She is a
collector, so with only a couple of
exceptions, you will usually not find her), and their house, reflect her love all grass.
just one of a variety in her gardens. of plants that bloom with hot colors.
As you continue to the backyard,
A couple of years ago, Jenn began A collection of hardy cacti and you will discover the majority of
to replace the border annuals with succulents along the hand-crafted Jenn’s daylilies, irises, and lilies
hundreds of different hens and walkway will welcome you. Then (especially Martagon lilies). Over 500
chicks. All of her plantings, her you can follow along the sunset daylily cultivars are in her collection
one-of-a-kind pathway (built by her paths through the front yard where at this time.
husband and pieced together by blooming perennials have replaced On the back berm you will find the
beginnings of an
evergreen collection
and a newly installed
pondless waterfall.
From the time the
daffodils open
until the snow flies,
something is always
in bloom! Jenn and
Steve invite you
to celebrate your
Unbirthday while
exploring impossible
curiosities, and if it
brings you even an
ounce of the joy it
does Jenn, her job is
done!
Jenn Lanz
AHS Region One The Daylily Pioneer Spring 2017 Vol. 18, No. 1 Page 102017 Regional Featured Gardens
L & D Gardens Year by year, he removed more
Linda Horsmann & trees and added more gardens. He
decided he also needed to fence the
Dave Beckman’s
backyard to prevent visits from the
Lily & Daylily Garden local—and hungry—deer.
Mounds View (MN)
In the fall of 2015, Linda and Dave
It all started with a new home married. Together, they have
purchase in September of 2012. continued to fill the gardens with
The house happened to come on a newer and more daylilies, as well as
lot that was almost one acre in size. with companion plants. Dave has
Dave spent the first spring cutting great fun finding unique yard art to
out and digging up 15 pine trees complement the flowers.
and pulling out overgrown bushes.
Their lot is
on level land
and easy also have a backyard dance floor in
to traverse. case you want to kick up your heels!
It is very
handicap Dave always says he does the
accessible. bull work and Linda does the
They do have beautifying! They are looking
two small forward to opening up their garden
dogs that to the 2017 bus tour and hope you
will bark will enjoy what they have done with
until you pet their gardens!
them. They
Beckman 8
AHS Region One The Daylily Pioneer Spring 2017 Vol. 18, No. 1 Page 112017 Regional Featured Gardens
Bill and Dory
Lidinsky Garden
Ham Lake (MN)
The Lidinsky gardening adventure
began about 25 years ago, when
they noticed the attractive large
clumps of H. fulva in the neighbor’s
yard. They looked on-line and
bought about eight double fans of
H. ‘Purple Waters’ (Russell 1942) and
have been exponentially expanding
their collection ever since.
About nine years ago, they moved
to a new home in Ham Lake (MN)
that sits on a one-acre lot. They
have been adding two-to-three new
beds per year as they needed more yard. They met those goals and then of bright daylilies that flow through
garden space. Their garden currently had planned to continue to work on their gently rolling yard. Visitors
has about a fifty-fifty mix of well- the flowers. Meanwhile, the daylilies will also notice touches of garden
marked seedlings and cultivars, all had their own ideas and started ornaments and companion plants—
showing results of attentive culture telling them that they wanted to see but the daylilies are the main show
and irrigation. crested flowers… Their current goal here!
is to create cultivars that have large
About 10 years ago, they began crested blooms that occur greater Be sure to look in the Lidinsky
to hybridize. Their initial goal was than 80% of the time. Garden for the Bryan Culver cultivars
to create cultivars that have large that will be in the Culver auction on
flowers, a high bud count, instant The Lidinsky Gardens offers views Saturday after the banquet.
re-bloom, and hardiness in their of open countryside beyond swaths
AHS Region One The Daylily Pioneer Spring 2017 Vol. 18, No. 1 Page 122017 Regional Featured Gardens
Judie McGraw Garden daylily purchases, her perennial
Lakeland (MN) gardens gradually became daylily
gardens.
It all started with what was going
to be a short trip to Norm Baker’s Judie’s garden is on a peaceful
North Star Daylily Nursery, which one-half-acre suburban lot, which
used to be a favorite daylily features over 500 daylily cultivars
destination for local daylily in beds around the perimeter and
collectors. Three hours later, Judie in curving island beds. Varieties
was still admiring daylilies in one include all types of new and classic
bed after another. After several daylilies, including a collection of
visits to Norm’s along with many doubles.
AHS Region One The Daylily Pioneer Spring 2017 Vol. 18, No. 1 Page 132017 Regional Featured Gardens
A waterfall greets visitors in the
entry garden, while the cul-de-
sac is also planted with more
daylilies. Companion perennials,
Itoh peonies, ornamental shrubs,
and grasses complement the
daylilies. Pine and spruce surround
the garden, along with crab trees,
hydrangeas, and ‘White Silk’
Japanese tree lilacs. Shady areas
feature hostas, astilbe and ferns.
If you look carefully, you might
also catch a glimpse of hidden
fairy gardens and a gnome village.
AHS Region One The Daylily Pioneer Spring 2017 Vol. 18, No. 1 Page 142017 Regional Featured Gardens
Springwood Gardens
Garden of Dick and
Karol Emmerich
Jordan (MN)
Dick and Karol Emmerich’s
Springwood Gardens sits high on
a wind-swept hill overlooking the
Minnesota River valley. A wide
umbrella of sky stretches as far as
the eye can see. It is an amazing
place to watch the seasons change
and the storms pass by. The vine-
covered house with its stone walls,
green shutters and coral bricks will
transport you to another time and
place. Springwood Gardens front entrance - Photographer: Brenda Macy
Flowers and wine-colored shrubbery Springwood started out as a place the shipping building, Dick’s
fill the gardens. The courtyard to grow daylily seedlings, but it soon workshop, and the old house built
gardens and areas adjacent to the turned into a project that will keep in 1862 (renovated in 2011, so
house feature many interesting Dick and Karol busy and inspired Dick and Karol could live there full
perennials which flower in May/June for the rest of their lives. Numerous time). Visitors will find places to sit
and mid-August through September. bronze statues add year-round throughout, and the courtyard in
But in July and August, the daylilies interest, while concrete walkways front of the house is a great spot to
are what will capture your heart. throughout provide accessibility, take it all in.
You can see approximately 25,000 and an arborvitae hedge to the
daylily seedlings in various stages south and east of the garden elicits a Even if you have visited Springwood
of evaluation and about 300 named sense of enclosure. Massive boulder many times before, you can see
cultivars, including 173 of Karol’s. To- walls and granite staircases to thousands of new seedlings (don’t
date, Karol’s introductions have won nowhere add to the charm. forget to visit the gravel pit across
5 Awards of Merit, 39 Honorable Buildings of interest on the the street from the main garden
Mentions, and 2 Specialty Awards property include the old one-room where about 10,000 of them are
from the American Hemerocallis schoolhouse now serving as the located) and enjoy new landscaping
Society. local town hall, Karol’s greenhouse, features.
Springwood Gardens is the site
of Garden Judges Workshop 2 on
Sunday, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 noon,
Mary Baker, GJW2 Chair/Instructor.
All attendees are invited to a hot
breakfast buffet (included with
registration), 8:30–10:00 a.m. Garden
visiting hours are Sunday, 11:00
A.M.–2:00 P.M.
Transportation to Springwood
Gardens is on your own; we will
provide driving directions.
AHS Region One The Daylily Pioneer Spring 2017 Vol. 18, No. 1 Page 15Region One Science Report – Jonathan Poulton
Are You Ready for GE Daylilies?
Survey Data
By Jonathan Poulton, DPhil
In my recent article “Genetically
Engineering those Blues?” in The
Daylily Pioneer, Fall 2016, pp. 8-11,
I described how biotech companies
have since the mid-1980s attempted
to create blue carnations and roses
by genetic engineering (GE). Since
the same experimental approaches
could be used with daylilies, it
is possible that GE Hemerocallis
could be produced in the not-
too-distant future. Having said
that, please keep in mind that
biotech companies would only
invest time, corporate funding, and
skilled personnel in engineering of sellers not to disclose this hybridization programs, thereby
daylilies and overcoming the information, given the anxiety that allowing desirable genes to pass to
necessary regulatory hurdles if they most people in United States share future generations (Question i).
sensed that they would receive a about GE organisms (ABCNEWS.com Finally, like the Tennessee Master
good return on their investment. survey, 2016). Gardeners who overwhelmingly
I encouraged our readers to favored that GE plants be labeled
complete a questionnaire that In 2006, a survey of Tennessee as such at time of sale, 60% of our
might gauge just how comfortable Master Gardeners revealed that survey participants had the same
they might be with GE daylilies. almost three-quarters would very preference (Question e) and wanted
likely or somewhat likely buy GE GE daylilies and cultivars derived
From the 10 responses received, ornamentals or grasses if plant from a GE parent annotated as such
I drew the following tentative cost, appearance, and size were the in the AHS database (Question f ).
conclusions. Although most same as their non-GE counterparts
respondents were not concerned (Klingeman et al., 2006). This positive Literature Cited
about GE food/food plants and regard for GE plants was also
were even less concerned about displayed by our Region One survey ABCNEWS.com survey: abcnews.
GE ornamental crops, only two had participants. All would definitely go.com/Technology/story?id=97567
great confidence in the ability of (7/10) or perhaps (3/10) purchase a
the U.S. federal agencies to decide GE daylily if it displayed traits that Klingeman W, Babbit B, and Hall C
which GE food crops/ornamental they found important (e.g. true blue (2006) Master Gardener perception
crops should be approved for flowers, rust resistance, long-lasting of genetically modified ornamental
commercialization (Questions a-c). blooms) (Question g). Furthermore, plants provides strategies for
This author was one of only two all but one would fully integrate promoting research products
respondents who knew that “Moon the GE Hemerocallis cultivars into through outreach and marketing.
series” carnations were genetically their collection and not segregate HortScience 41, 1263-1268
engineered (Question d). them from other daylilies (Question
h). Seventy percent of respondents
This perhaps reflects the strategy would use the GE daylilies in their
AHS Region One The Daylily Pioneer Spring 2017 Vol. 18, No. 1 Page 16AHS Region One 2017 Judges and Instructors
2017 AHS Region One
Garden Judges and Instructors
2021 Aughenbaugh, Vicky
2018 Baker, Mary I**
2018 Billadeau, Kyle I
2020 Bremers, Jacqueline
2020 Bremers, Roland
2018 Bremers, Doug I
2020 Carlisle, Nancy
2018 Connolly, Peter
2018 Deemer, Deborah
2021 Emmerich, Karol I
2020 Farnsworth, Bryce
2021 Fass, Philip I H. 'American Chief' (Sellers 1994)
2021 Ferguson, Linda Photographer: Susan Holland
2017 Gardner, Jill
2020 Grossmann, Michael
2020 Haag, Janet
2018 Helm, Barbara
2018 Henning, Kristie
2021 Hoefer, Val
2019 Horan, Steve I
2020 Kahnk, Rita
2017 Kramer, Sue
2021 Lamb, Kathleen I
2020 Larson, Kathy
2016 Lick, Kathy
2021 Lidinsky, Dorothea
2021 Lidinsky, William
2020 Lovell, Don I
2020 McIntosh, Phyllis H. 'Purple Kaboom' (Gossard 2006)
Photographer: Susan Holland
2017 Mullins, Karmin
2021 Nordstrom, Kathleen
2019 Rash, Selwyn
2019 Ripley, Nan I
2018 Ronan, Zora I
2017 Scott, Debra
2020 Steele, Donna
2020 Steffenhagen, Jolly
2021 Stoll, Barry
** = Garden Judges Liaison
I = Instructor
20XX = Expiration date H. 'Siloam Tiny Tim' (Henry -P. 1984)
Photographer: Susan Holland
AHS Region One The Daylily Pioneer Spring 2017 Vol. 18, No. 1 Page 17AHS Region One Daylily Clubs – 2017
Beausejour Daylily Gardens Central North Dakota Daylily Daylily Society of
www.beausejourdaylilygardens.com Society (CNDDS) Minnesota (DSM)
C/O Carol Bender, Coordinator www.centralnddaylilysociety.com www.daylilysocietyofminnesota.org
1st Street North Gwen Brady, Co-President Steve Horan, President
Beausejour, Manitoba R0E 0C0 120 6th Ave SE 3674 Commonwealth Drive
204-268-3950 Mandan ND 58554 Woodbury, MN 55125
beaudlg@mts.net Home 701-663-6998 651-739-7506
Cell 701-367-0764 smhoran1@gmail.com
Cedar Valley Iris and mbrady@bis.midco.net
Daylily Society (CVIDS) Nebraska Daylily Society
www.cvids.org Lisa Schmidt, Co-President (NDS)
Keith Riewerts, President 6024 Pine Ave. www.nebraskadaylilysociety.com
P.O. Box 67 Bismarck, ND 58503 Val Hoefer, President
310 Eastwood Drive 701-595-3263 51917 834 RD
Long Grove, IA 52756 Lisaschmidt51@gmail.com Petersburg, NE 68652
Home 563-285-8941 402-386-5219
Cell 563-940-1895 hoefrv@gmail.com
RKRKRKR@netins.net Dakota Prairie Daylily Society
Le Walls, President 8940
Central Iowa Westview Rd.
Daylily Society (CIDS) Brookings, SD 57006
www.centraliowadaylilysociety.com 605-693-4300
Don Lovell, President 605-695-6736
3352 275th St. leeannwalls@hotmail.com
Marshalltown, IA 50158
641-479-2190 or 641-691-5070
dmlovell@aol.com
Central Iowa Daylily Society (CIDS)
Friday & Saturday, Saturday, May 20th Saturday, August 12th
March 17th & 18th Annual spring plant auction Pot Luck and Fall
Pollen Dabbers 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Plant Sale
Marshalltown Community College, 12:00 Noon –5:00 pm
Friday Night Room 608
4:00 pm - 9:00 pm Marshalltown Community College,
Room 608
Saturday
8:00 am - 6:00 pm Saturday, June 17th
Marshalltown Community College, Ed Seims and Teresa Vokoun Saturday, September 16th
Room 608/610 “Photographing Flowers” Mike Grossman and Kathleen Nordstrom
www.northernlightsdaylilies.com/
Guest Speakers 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Rich Howard Marshalltown Community College, Marshalltown Community College,
www.ctdaylily.com/ Room 608 Room 608
Barry Matthie
www.bonibraedayliliesandhosta.com/
July 28th through 30th Saturday, October 21st
AHS Region One Scott Keller
Saturday, April 15th “Nebraska Hybridizers”
Patti Waterman Summer Regional
2:00 pm – 5:00 p.m.
www.watermandaylilies.com/ “Daylily Dreams in ’17” Marshalltown Community College,
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Plymouth, Minnesota Room TBA
Marshalltown Community College, 2016 Registration Form
Room 608 (see inside cover)
AHS Region One The Daylily Pioneer Spring 2017 Vol. 18, No. 1 Page 18AHS Region One Daylily Clubs – 2017
Richard Norris and Val Hoefer NDS members at the 2016 Regional
Nebraska On-Scape display. It was fun and
great comments were made about
I mentioned last year that Dave
Hansen was retiring from layout
Daylily Society the displays. The blooms on the
scapes are much showier! After
editor and Scott and Linda Ferguson
were taking over. Dave must have
The Winter Social is always a great the show was set up, we had the given them all the right tools
time to share stories with friends opportunity to visit the gardens of because they are filling his footsteps
about daylilies and this meeting was Leslie Rule and Lyle and Rita Kahnk. wonderfully.
no exception. Scott Keller treated That was a real treat, especially
the members to a great presentation when NDS decided later in the year Val Hoefer, President
of hybridizing that NDS members to hold the Regional in 2019 and Nebraska Daylily Society (NDS)
were doing. The seedlings did not Lyle and Rita will be one of the host
disappoint us along with seeing gardens.
some of the introductions. It was
very enlightening to see what our Web sites are great when they work
members are doing and who is and frustrating when they don’t.
hybridizing. NDS has had its share of problems
this year with our website but with
The Lauritzen Garden’s Spring into lots of determination and long
Spring plant sale kept the members phone calls, she prevailed and our
busy this year because we had web site is up and running again
shorter hours than previous years. with timely changes. Check it out!
The proceeds from this event, once Thank you, Robin!
again, funded our scholarship
program for another year. Richard Norris was our featured
speaker this year and if you like
Each year at the flower show, our large, open face daylilies these
members have always displayed are the ones for you. He is a very
blooms only, but this year we also interesting speaker.
had an option to participate in an
Paul Owen and Linda Ferguson at
2016 Regional
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Central North
Dakota Daylily
Society (CNDDS)
2017 has come in with quite an
entrance. Here in North Dakota we
have had three major snowstorms
which have afforded us with 54.5
inches of snow up until the end
of January. In the past three years,
we hardly had any snow cover. The
snow provides us with quite a bit of
needed precipitation. With all this
snow, hopefully we will have a slow For the Central North Dakota Daylily
thaw in the spring and probably Club, we planned several events
won’t see our daylilies until May. for this summer. Our program this
spring is Barb Laschkewitsch from
We are excited about hosting the NDSU coming May 9th to talk about
2018 Region One Daylily meeting, the historic daylily bed in Fargo. On
have been working hard to make it June 6, we will enjoy our annual club
worth coming up North. We have member auction.
exciting things planned.
On July 22, we have our daylily
garden tours in the ever-delightful
gardens of Karen Schock
and Jan Maddock. We will
also celebrate Awesome
Blossom Blast where we can
bring blossoms for other club
members to look at and add
to their want list. It’s amazing
to look at the blossoms and
see the difference in each
daylily. The blossom array also
provides a great teaching tool
for new members. Our fall
program (not yet confirmed)
is Mr. Roy Klehm, from Klehm
Song Sparrow Gardens.
Lisa Schmidt, President,
Central North Dakota Daylily
Society (CNDDS)
Lisa Schmidt with Asiatic Lily,
Lilium ‘Golden Stone’
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Central North Dakota Daylily Society (CNDDS)
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Cedar Valley Iris
and Daylily
Society (CVIDS)
CVIDS is alive and well for 2017. With
more than 150 current members in
eastern Iowa and northwest Illinois,
we are a strong and healthy club
heading into the new year.
In November, our annual CVIDS
Banquet drew 92 members to
Iowa City to hear AHS president
Nikki Schmith speak on the role
of technology in our gardens. She Many door prizes, the CVIDS term of 2017-18, following the very
modeled technology use with a annual Betty Miller Photo Contest, successful term of Nancy Carlisle.
“Facebook Live Feed” during her a “bucket” raffle and a live auction
presentation. She also used a live of plants donated by Bob and The year ahead kicked off on January
Internet access to demonstrate many Barb Papenhausen, Keith Riewerts, 14, in Coralville, Iowa. Each of our
of the features available on the AHS Jonathan Poulton, Nan Ripley, Don monthly meetings is highlighted by
web site and to give a preview of Lovell and Nikki Schmith rounded member presentations. In January,
several coming AHS exciting web out the banquet activities. Nancy Carlisle presented “What
site features. Another topic of her Scapes Can Tell You,” and Zora Ronan
presentation was daylily flower In a short business meeting following reported on the many annual AHS
shows. Region One has rarely, if ever, dinner, Keith Riewerts of Long Grove, Daylily awards for 2016, ranging from
had either on-scape or off-scape Iowa, was unanimously elected the Regional Popularity Polls to the
flower show. CVIDS Club President for a two-year
cont. on page 23
Banquet speaker and AHS president Nikki Schmith, CVIDS web master Jonathan Poulton, and CVIDS member Shirley Waters view the final draft
of the 3rd Edition of the Members Photo Gallery (Directory), which is being distributed to the membership. R. Keith Riewerts photo
AHS Region One The Daylily Pioneer Spring 2017 Vol. 18, No. 1 Page 22AHS Region One Daylily Clubs – 2017
H. ‘Bea’s Afternoon Delight’ (Polston, 2014) - Photographer: R. Keith Riewerts
Awards of Merit to the Stout Award We also are picking dates for our location details of our meetings and
and many others. Future topics “Club Plant Distribution” in April, activities. Everyone is welcome, so
include “Great Botanical Gardens and Garden Plant Sale in May, Club please join us.
their Resources,” by Nancy Rash, “All Garden Tour in July, and our club-
About BioMarkers,” by Sam McCord, sponsored community sale and “Club Finally, we are in the early planning
and finally, “Genus Lilium and Genus Plant Return” in Monticello, Iowa, in stages of the 2020 Region One
Hemerocallis,” by Nan Ripley. August. Summer Regional Meeting. By the
end of 2017, our budget will have
Our 2017 year will include Our November CVIDS Annual set aside $4,000 for hosting the
participation in local garden shows, Banquet will feature Dr. Scott Elliott 2020 Regional.
which are scheduled in February and of Maneki Neko Gardens in Georgia.
March. These shows give CVIDS an So, a busy and exciting year is in R. Keith Riewerts, President,
opportunity to promote the club and store for CVIDS. Our web site, Cedar Valley Iris and Daylily Society
to interact with other garden clubs. CVIDS.org, will give date and (CVIDS)
AHS Region One The Daylily Pioneer Spring 2017 Vol. 18, No. 1 Page 23Hybridizer Highlights – Suzanne Karl
H. ‘Calypso Fringe’
(Blaney Karl) 7.5" EM 32" Dormant Tetraploid
(‘Erin Lea’ X ‘Startle’)
H. ‘Calypso Fringe’
(Blaney Karl) 7.5" EM 32"
Dormant Tetraploid
(‘Erin Lea’ X ‘Startle’)
AHS Region One The Daylily Pioneer Spring 2017 Vol. 18, No. 1 Page 24Hybridizer Highlights – Suzanne Karl
H. ‘Red Rebel’ H. ‘Royal Amazon’
0933 Karl 6" EM 38" (Karl) 6" EM
23b re Sev Tet (‘Cool Raspberry Dormant Tetraploid
Smoke’ X ‘Dakota Bliss Sid5B1’) (‘Erin Lea’ X ‘Startle’)
H. ‘Dakota Sun Frost’ H. ‘Tropical Trubadore’
(Karl) 7.5" EM 32" (Karl) 6.5 M 28" Dormant Tetraploid
Dormant Tetraploid (‘Pretty Katie’ X ‘Embrace
(‘Best Buddy’ X ‘Dakota Bliss’) the Sunshine’)
AHS Region One The Daylily Pioneer Spring 2017 Vol. 18, No. 1 Page 25Selwyn Rash – Interview Susan Holland
Selwyn Rash Interview with Susan Holland
Selwyn–tell me about your I’m also working on orange
garden. cultivars, because I think they
are so attractive, but I’ve found
Our garden name is Amazing out that many ‘by-products’ can
Days Garden, 1621 Dewitt, be VERY special too!
Ellsworth, Iowa, and it is owned
by me, Selwyn Rash, and my Focuses change! Obviously, the
wife, Mary Kay Rash. flower must be eye-catching,
but it must be borne on a
When did you begin thinking well branched and budded
about hybridizing daylilies? scape, coming from a plant
that thrives in our climate.
I planted my first seedlings at Registering a plant that I would
Don Lovell’s Timbercreek Garden be remembered by has taken on
in 2007, wanting to see positive more priority. Vain as it may be,
and enjoyable results. And the a part of ME, living on, that my
thought of all the MONEY I could family, friends, and others would
make was encouraging! (I wasn’t enjoy, has become my goal. And,
dealing with reality at that I think I’m getting there!
point!)
Do you have a specific goal in
What daylilies do you use most
mind for what you want your
What is your hybridizing focus? frequently as parents?
seedlings and selections to
look like?
I purposely focus on tetraploids, On the ‘dark side’, my best
due to space limitations. I performer has been Chris Rogers’
Initially, I wanted to develop a
acquired the best cultivars I (2006) 'Geneva Black Shadow'
‘black’ northern hardy daylily, so
could afford at the time. I found (inaccurately identified in the
I acquired stock that I thought
out the hard way that many Fall/Winter 2015 Daylily Pioneer).
would lead me in that direction.
Southern plants, as they are, Many of Karol Emmerich’s
The name 'Phantom’s Mask' has
couldn’t endure an Iowa winter. purples have gone into the
been (hopefully) reserved for
We live and learn! mix, and more recently, her 'All
that plant.
Things To All Men' has been an
AHS Region One The Daylily Pioneer Spring 2017 Vol. 18, No. 1 Page 26Selwyn Rash – Interview Susan Holland
Seedling #10GB2 Seedling #12COC4 Seedling Unknown X Unknown
(‘Gabi Behrens’ X ‘Pacific Coast’) (‘Clash of Civilizations’ X Pending name ‘Sunshine Tomorrow’
Pending name ‘Summer Friend’ ‘Panic in Detroit’) Named for the band Selwyn Rash
Photo by Don Lovell played in
outstanding parent both ways! I’ve what surprises await! And it’s worth in the pleasure your garden gives
also used Bob Selman’s 'Blue Corn the gamble! What really matters you! Just be sure to take the time
Moon' extensively. Keep in mind, is what YOU, the grower, receive to stop and ENJOY it all!
this is a backyard garden, so I’m
limited! Who introduced you to the
joys and techniques of daylily
What advice would you give hybridizing?
someone just starting out with
hybridizing? Foremost, my friend and mentor,
Don Lovell, is responsible for
Keep an open mind. Use the best putting my feet on this path.
parent stock that you can afford Others, including Nan Ripley,
in your growing area. Within Karol Emmerich, Lee Pickles, Mike
reason, don’t limit yourself so Grossman, and so many others,
that you are constricted by form, have inspired my efforts. If nothing
color, or ploidy. It’s all a well- else, the many friends I have made
informed crap-shoot! I use what going down the daylily path have
happens to be open on a given made this journey so enjoyable
day, depending on weather, Seedling and worthwhile!
temperatures, etc. You never know (‘Paha Sapa Thundercloud’ X
‘Pat Soileau’)
Pending name ‘Terminally Pretty’
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