| Winter Gathering 2012 | ||||
| Southern Hills Hilton - Tulsa, OK | ||||
| Feb. 17-19, 2012 | ||||
| Date | Time | Event | Leader | Room |
| FRI | 6 PM TO 8 PM | Registration in the lobby (Dinner on your own) | Ron Azzanni | Lobby |
| 17th | 7 PM TO 10 PM | Garden Judge 1 | Bouman | Illinois |
| 7 PM TO 10 PM | Exhibiton Judge Clinic 1 | Holmstrom | Washita | |
| 7 PM TO 10 PM | Exhibiton Judge Clinic 3 | Tankesley-Clarke | Washita | |
| SAT | 7:00-8:00 AM | Registraton in Lobby | Ron Azzanni | Lobby |
| 18th | 7:00-8:00 AM | Breakfast buffet | Hotel | State |
| 7:30-9:00 AM | Region and Club Officers Meeting | Randall Barron | Illinois | |
| 9:30-11:30 AM | “Converting Dips” | Jamie Gossard | Tulsa II | |
| 12:00-1:00 PM | Lunch Buffet Special Hotel Dining Room $10 (pay the hotel) | Menu: Chicken Piccata, Mashed Potatoes, Vegetable Soup & Salad, Dessert, Soda, Coffee, and Ice tea | ||
| 1:00-1:30 PM | "Evaluating Daylilies" | Nicole Harry DeVito | Tulsa II | |
| 2:00-2:45 PM | “Heavenly Gardens” | Jamie Gossard | Tulsa II | |
| 3:00-4:30 PM | Hybridizers Roundtable All interested in Hybridizing | Jamie Gossard Nicole Harry DeVito | Tulsa II | |
| 5:30-6:00 PM | Social Gathering | State | ||
| 6:00-7:30 PM | Dinner | State | ||
| 7:30-8:30 PM | "Nicole’s Daylilies" | Nicole Harry DeVito | Tulsa II | |
| 8:30-10:00 PM | AUCTION | Jamie Gossard | Tulsa II | |
| SUN | 7:00-8:00 AM | Breakfast | State | |
| 19th | 8:00-10:00 AM | Hybridizer's New Daylilies | Rick Pearce | Tulsa II |
| 10:00-10:15 AM | Break | |||
| 10:15-11:30 AM | Business Meeting | Randall Barron | Tulsa II | |
| 12:00 PM | ADJOURN | |||
| Thank You for attending the Winter Gathering 2012 ! See you next year | ||||
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
2012 Region 11 Winter Gathering
Friday, September 9, 2011
AHS REGION 11 Ocie Whatley Seedling Award, Amended 2010
AHS Region 11 OSCIE WHATLEY SEEDLING AWARD
Amended 2010
Moved by John Eiseman and approved by the Region 11 membership at the 2006 Region 11 Meeting (and amended in 2008):
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. [Deleted fall 2010]
5. Only one seedling can be entered by any hybridizer per annual Meeting.
Up to five 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
13. The Greater St. Louis
Thursday, September 8, 2011
AHS Tricolor Medal Winner
Region 11 member wins 2011 AHS TRICOLOR Medal.
Jess Danner of Topeka Kansas won the AHS tricolor Rosette at the Topeka Daylily Club’s 2011 show. It was one of 15 AHS Tricolor Rosettes winning entries from 60 AHS accredited shows competing for 2011’s award medal. A panel of three National Garden Clubs, Inc. accredited judges selected Jess’s design as the best of those 15. This is quite a remarkable achievement, and this the second time Jess has earned this prestigious award medal.
Look for the award winning design in the THE DAYLILY JOURNAL. The medal will be presented to Jess at the awards banquet in Columbus Ohio
Congratulations Jess, Region 11 is proud to claim you as one of our own.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Monday, July 11, 2011
Hybridizing advice by Bob Faulkner
Bob Faulkner
Dayton, Ohio
Do I hear a "Tut-Tut?"
It's interesting how many well intentioned folks will tell you how to
hybridize. Even at the beginning these folks were plentiful. The first
three years of hybridizing I listened politely and obediently to every word.
After all, if you don't know, you appreciate someone telling you.
So I did all the "you shoulds" I could, and I avoided all the "you
shouldn'ts" I could. By the fourth year I should have been a star.
By the fourth year I realized that my obedience to all the
'instructions' were leading me directly and in full force down the path to the Kingdom
of Boring.!!!!!
So on the fourth year I let my friend 'Mr. Instinct' and his partner
'Gut Feeling' take over the breeding program.
Those guys are so smart and helpful. We don't like to trust them
because doing so means I have to take chances.
Following safe instructions is like dancing on a sheet with the
footprints on it. You do it just right, you never look silly, but the results
are predictable, disappointing and nobody wants to see it.
The best dancers learn all the steps, then they add themselves to the
mix, they add heart, and the results can be pure magic.
If we don't add ourselves to our hybridizing, if we don't add our
heart, we are sure to miss much of the magic.
But there are some rules that should be understood, I will list some
of them.
1. Plant your seeds face up.
2. prayer helps.
3. watering is more beneficial that fertilizing.
4. In order to know if your daylily is special, it helps to have seen
a lot of other folks' work first. Don't get stuck in your own yard, it
will keep you from being selective enough.
5. Never steal pollen. Matter of fact, never steal anything.
6. visualize what you want to get, often. Even draw it on paper.
7. You can ask what people think of your work, but honestly, 95% of us
will say your flowers are beautiful. Don't trust us. Use your own
judgement.
8. Share your work. I believe we aren't given these beautiful things
just to hoard them.
9. There can be this tendency to want people to pat you on the back
all the time. Avoid this tendency like a hoard of locusts. Those who have
reason to brag never need to.
10. If you want good feedback, brag on others' work, a lot; and mean
it. You will be surprised what the results will bring you.
11. Don't tell others what to do, unless they ask.
12. Ignore rule #1.
To hybridize can be wonderfully rewarding. But if Norman Rockwell
tried to paint like Picasso the Saturday Evening Posts would have been much
less.
The daylily world doesn't need your version of "someone else." It
needs you. "Someone else" has already been taken.
Dayton, Ohio
Do I hear a "Tut-Tut?"
It's interesting how many well intentioned folks will tell you how to
hybridize. Even at the beginning these folks were plentiful. The first
three years of hybridizing I listened politely and obediently to every word.
After all, if you don't know, you appreciate someone telling you.
So I did all the "you shoulds" I could, and I avoided all the "you
shouldn'ts" I could. By the fourth year I should have been a star.
By the fourth year I realized that my obedience to all the
'instructions' were leading me directly and in full force down the path to the Kingdom
of Boring.!!!!!
So on the fourth year I let my friend 'Mr. Instinct' and his partner
'Gut Feeling' take over the breeding program.
Those guys are so smart and helpful. We don't like to trust them
because doing so means I have to take chances.
Following safe instructions is like dancing on a sheet with the
footprints on it. You do it just right, you never look silly, but the results
are predictable, disappointing and nobody wants to see it.
The best dancers learn all the steps, then they add themselves to the
mix, they add heart, and the results can be pure magic.
If we don't add ourselves to our hybridizing, if we don't add our
heart, we are sure to miss much of the magic.
But there are some rules that should be understood, I will list some
of them.
1. Plant your seeds face up.
2. prayer helps.
3. watering is more beneficial that fertilizing.
4. In order to know if your daylily is special, it helps to have seen
a lot of other folks' work first. Don't get stuck in your own yard, it
will keep you from being selective enough.
5. Never steal pollen. Matter of fact, never steal anything.
6. visualize what you want to get, often. Even draw it on paper.
7. You can ask what people think of your work, but honestly, 95% of us
will say your flowers are beautiful. Don't trust us. Use your own
judgement.
8. Share your work. I believe we aren't given these beautiful things
just to hoard them.
9. There can be this tendency to want people to pat you on the back
all the time. Avoid this tendency like a hoard of locusts. Those who have
reason to brag never need to.
10. If you want good feedback, brag on others' work, a lot; and mean
it. You will be surprised what the results will bring you.
11. Don't tell others what to do, unless they ask.
12. Ignore rule #1.
To hybridize can be wonderfully rewarding. But if Norman Rockwell
tried to paint like Picasso the Saturday Evening Posts would have been much
less.
The daylily world doesn't need your version of "someone else." It
needs you. "Someone else" has already been taken.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS YEAR 1961
If you have ever wondered what went on in AHS fifty years ago, you can now find out thanks to Sharon Cusick of the Archives and History Committee. She has written a fascinating review of the highlights of 1961. This can be accessed from the newly revamped Archives Main page on the AHS web site. (Special thanks go to Tim Fehr for not only formatting the article, but for revising the look of the Archives Main page which is now clear and concise.)
This was a significant year when the word "tetraploid" became the new buzz word at the Chicago Convention. True, induced tets go back to the mid to late 1940s, but Orville Fay declared that all daylilies would be tets in ten years and others were also touting them as well. Did you know that at least one tet was selling for $500 in that year! I am not going to spoil it by telling you what it was or who hybridized it. Willard King, commented on all the hoopla about tets and dips, by adding that he was "just getting around to calling them Hemerocallis instead of 'Lilies'." Yes, the old L word was being incorrectly applied even then.
I think some of us senior citizens can understand why we are in the age demographic that did not become members in 1961. The photo of all the guests at the convention banquet is priceless. As a twenty-something then, I think I would have died before getting all gussied up to attend that event with all those "old" people. Check it out!
A sad note of that year was the passing of Dr. Ezra Kraus. The AHS Yearbook was dedicated to him. The covers of that issue, front and back, were unique. Do you know why? A large part of the article discusses this man and his importance to AHS.
I recommend this quick read as a way to get to know something about those upon whose shoulders we stand today. Sharon has done a superb job of bringing that year back to life for us.
Ken Cobb
AHS Archivist/Historian
This was a significant year when the word "tetraploid" became the new buzz word at the Chicago Convention. True, induced tets go back to the mid to late 1940s, but Orville Fay declared that all daylilies would be tets in ten years and others were also touting them as well. Did you know that at least one tet was selling for $500 in that year! I am not going to spoil it by telling you what it was or who hybridized it. Willard King, commented on all the hoopla about tets and dips, by adding that he was "just getting around to calling them Hemerocallis instead of 'Lilies'." Yes, the old L word was being incorrectly applied even then.
I think some of us senior citizens can understand why we are in the age demographic that did not become members in 1961. The photo of all the guests at the convention banquet is priceless. As a twenty-something then, I think I would have died before getting all gussied up to attend that event with all those "old" people. Check it out!
A sad note of that year was the passing of Dr. Ezra Kraus. The AHS Yearbook was dedicated to him. The covers of that issue, front and back, were unique. Do you know why? A large part of the article discusses this man and his importance to AHS.
I recommend this quick read as a way to get to know something about those upon whose shoulders we stand today. Sharon has done a superb job of bringing that year back to life for us.
Ken Cobb
AHS Archivist/Historian
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