The American Hemerocallis Society (AHS) is pleased to present information about our National Conventions, Regional Meetings, and other events.

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• 2009 AHS National Convention
  Thank you Florida for a GREAT 2009 Convention.
  
  

  • For future AHS National Conventions and hosts, click HERE.
    
    
• AHS Regional Meetings
• (Click here to see which AHS Region you may live in.)

  • AHS Region 1 Pollen Dabbers - March 21, 2009, Marshallstown, IA
  • Region 1 Spring Fling, May 3, 2009, Karol Emmerich's Springwood Gardens
  • AHS Region 1 Meeting, July 17-19, Marshallstown, IA
  • AHS Region 2 Winter Meeting, 2010 - To be announced
  • AHS Region 2 Meeting, July 10-12, Naperville, IL
  • AHS Region 3 Meeting, July 10-12, 2009, Gaithersburg, Maryland
  • AHS Region 3 Lilyhemmer, To be announced...
  • AHS Region 3 Meeting, To be announced...
  • AHS Region 4 Meeting, July 17th & 18th, 2009, Buffalo, New York
  • AHS Region 4 - Can-Am Classic, April 24-26, 2009,  Mississauga, Ontario
  • AHS Region 4 - Can-Am Fall Classic, September 12th, 2009, Mississauga, Ontario
  • AHS Region 5 Meeting, March 20-22, 2009, Atlanta, GA
  • AHS Region 5 Meeting, June 5-7, 2009, Perry, GA
  • AHS Region 6 Meeting, May 28-30, 2009 in Fort Worth, TX
  • AHS Region 7 Meeting, To be announced...
  • AHS Region 8 Meeting, July 10-12, 2009, Langley, BC Canada
  • AHS Region 9 Meeting, July 17-18. 2009,
  • AHS Region 10 Mid-Winter Symposium, 2010 To be announced...
    
  • AHS Region 10 Summer Meeting, June 19-20, 2009, Nashville, TN
  • AHS Region 11 Winter Meeting, February 13-15, 2009, Overland Park, KS
  • AHS Region 11 Meeting, July 3-5, 2009, Manhattan, KS
  • AHS Region 12 Meeting, To be announced...
  • AHS Region 13 Meeting, May 29-30, 2009, Alexandria, LA
  • AHS Region 14 Spring Meeting, June 5-6, 2009 Montgomery, AL
  • AHS Region 14 Fall Meeting, October 2-3 2009, Hattiesburg, MS
  • AHS Region 15 Meeting, June 12-13, 2009, Anderson, SC

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2009 AHS National Convention Was held in Lake Mary, Florida May 20TH - 24th, 2009 Hosted by Region 12 & The Sunbelt Daylily Chapter

Thanks to all the particapants and sponsors for a job well done.

Additional information about this National meeting will be posted as soon as the Webmaster gets the updates. If you can help supply it, please send what you have to: webmaster@daylilies.org

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AHS Region 2 Winter Meeting 2010
To Be Announced...

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AHS Region 2 Summer Meeting

Where the Revolution Began - the Chicagoland Daylily Society hosts...

July 10-12, 2009 - Naperville, IL

Additional information is available in three pdf files below.

Schedule .pdf file
Registration Form .pdf file
Hotel Information .pdf file

Link to more convention information at: http://www.chicagolanddaylilysociety.org/

Additional information about this National meeting will be posted as soon as the Webmaster gets the updates. If you can help supply it, please send what you have to: webmaster@daylilies.org

Lilyhemmer 2009

Additional information about this National meeting will be posted as soon as the Webmaster gets the updates. If you can help supply it, please send what you have to: webmaster@daylilies.org

Registration Information and Schedule and more at:

http://ww.lilyhemmer.org

2009 Region 4 Regional Meeting
Hosted by the Buffalo Area Daylily Society (BADS) - Web site
July 17th & 18th, 2009

** Featured Speaker **
Bill Maryott
Maryott's Daylilies

Meeting and Lodging

Millennium Airport Hotel
2040 Walden Avenue Buffalo NY 14225
For Reservations: 716-681-2400 or 800-323-3331
Call hotel directly - identify with American Daylily Society
Free Airport Shuttle - Next door to the Walden Galleria Mall
Rate: $125/night (single, double, triple, quad) plus tax
Reserve by June 1st.

Schedule of Events:

Thursday, July 16th - 1 pm till 6 pm
Frank Lloyd Wright's Buffalo - a guided tour of two of FLW's masterpieces, the famous Darwin Martin House and the summer home, Greycliff. Included in this tour will be a drive by other Wright houses in Buffalo, as well as the recently constructed Boathouse (built from FLW's original plans).
Cost :$62 pp (minimum of 25 reservations required)

Friday, July 17th - 8:30 till 1:30
Niagara Falls, Canada, Ontario Schoo lof Horticulture and the Butterfly Conservatory. You will have time to enjoy the spectacular beauty and power of "The Falls". Further plans include a visit to the grounds of the Ontario School of Horticulture and paid entrance to the Butterfly Conservatory.
Cost:$62 pp (minimum of 25 reservations required)

Registration open 8 am - 6 pm
Judges Training (Clinic I)
Board Meeting & Membership Meeting
Welcome Banquet with Special Guest
Bill Maryott - Maryott's Gardens
Freedom, California

Saturday, July 18th
Garden Bus Tours
Mystic Meadows - Garden of Pam Hoffman
Daredevil Daylilies - Garden of Linda Michaels
Cottage Gardens - Garden of Brent Ross
Gladstone Garden - Garden of Kris Weitz

Cash Bar - Awards Banquet (A Taste of Buffalo)
Exciting Auction
The bus plants will be donated by the above hybridizers, so everyone will go home with a daylily from a BADS hybridizer.

Please visit our Member Pages for previews of these gardens.

Sunday, July 19th
Garden Judges Training - Garden of Mary Beth Lee

BADS is pleased to host the 2009 Regional.  We are currently in the planning stages, so check the BADS web site regularly for updates.  The bus trip on Saturday will visit 4 of our local hybridizer's gardens:

Cottage Gardens, Brent Ross
Daredevil Daylilies, Linda Michaels
Kris Weitz Gardens
Mystic Meadows Daylily Farm, Pam Hoffman

The bus plants will be donated by the above hybridizers, so everyone will
go home with a daylily from a BADS hybridizer.

Please visit our Member Pages  for previews of these gardens.

The following committees have been formed:

Co-Chairs of the Regional, Kathy & Mike Shadrack
Registration, Kathy Guest Shadrack
Finance, Dolores Galbo
Hospitality, Mary Beth Wagner-Lee
Guest Plants & Saxton Seedlings, Pam Hoffman
Publicity, Carolyn Schaffner
Speakers & Clinics, Peter Weixlmann
Boutique, Linda & Kevin Bennett

Please contact any of the above BADS members to volunteer, or ask questions.

Heads Up all Region 4 Hybridizers!
2009 Stanley Saxton Seedling Award Bed and 2009 Guest Plants

For the 2009 Region 4 Meeting, take advantage of this opportunity
to showcase some of your introductions.
Your daylilies will be viewed by the meeting attendees as the plants
will be prominently displayed and labeled in the tour gardens.
Please contact Pam Hoffman if you are willing to guest your plants for the 2009
evernt, plants should be sent in the spring of 2008.

In addition, at this Region 4 Meeting, the Stanley Saxton Seedling Award will be
awarded to the best seedling hybridized in region 4.  Purchased seeds and
seedlings are not eligible.  Region 4 Hybridizers may submit up to a
maximum of three (3) unregistered seedling entries.  At least 3 fans
of each seedling are desired, but no more than the maximum of 5 fans
for each is allowed.  These plants will be grown at one of the tour gardens in
a specified bed and during the bus tours, all attendees will have the opportunity
to view and vote for the best overall seedling.  The award will be presented
to the winner at the Saturday evening banquet.

Seedling entries should be clearly labeled, plus height and color
information should be included.  Seedling entries should be sent next spring to:
Pam Hoffman
5362 Merlau Road
South Wales, NY 14139-9766
716-655-9223

Registration form in pdf format HERE.

So mark your calendars for July 17th & 18th, 2009, and plan on joining us for some fun and flowers in Buffalo, New York.

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13th ANNUAL CAN-AM DAYLILY CLASSIC

April 24th, 25th & 26th, 2009

Featuring:
MICHAEL BOUMAN - St. Louis, Missouri
DON CHURCH - Blue Hill, Maine
JAMIE GOSSARD - Columbus, Ohio
CURT HANSON - Gates Mills, Ohio
DON LOVELL - Marshalltown, Iowa
RICHARD NORRIS - Glouster, Ohio
NANCY OAKES - Belfast, Prince Edward Island

FRIDAY
7:00 p.m. - Region 4 Business Meeting
8:00 p.m. - Speaker Presentations

SATURDAY
8:00 a.m. - Registration and continental breakfast
9:00 a.m. - Full day's program of speakersm- includes lunch plus Plant Sale, Live Auction, Silent Auction, Chinese Auction and lots of fun!
6:00 p.m. - Evening banquet-dine with the speakers (optional)

SUNDAY
9:00 a.m. - Garden Judges' Workshop I

Registration - $75 Cdn ($70 US) postmarked before April 1st
After April 1st - $85 Cdn. ($80 US) Youth $40 Cdn ($35 US)

Registrars: Gabriele and Ross Dettweiler, 5003 Fountain St. N.,
Breslau, Ontario N0B 1M0
Phone 519-648-2408 or e-mail: dettweiler@sympatico.ca

Location: Delta Toronto Airport West, 5444 Dixie Road, (1 block south of the 401), Mississauga, Ontario. L4W 2L2
Phone 905-624-1144.

For further details and registration forms please visit:
http://www.ontariodaylily.on.ca

Or download form here.

Can-Am Fall Classic - The Ontario Daylily Society proudly presents the 2009 Fall Classic. September 12th, 2009.

Location: Delta Toronto Airport West, 5444 Dixie Road, (1 block south of the 401), Mississauga, Ontario. L4W 2L2
Phone 905-624-1144.

Information about this Regional meeting will be posted as soon as the Webmaster gets the information. If you can help supply it, please send what you have to: webmaster@daylilies.org

REGION 5 Spring Regional Meeting

March 20-22, 2009

Meeting and Lodging
The Crowne Plaza Atlanta Airport
1325 Virginia Avenue, Atlanta, GA 30344
For Reservation: (866)750-3365
$92.00 Single/Double (plus tax) by February 27, 2009
Be sure to mention Daylily Society Region 5 for Hotel Discount
Free Shuttle Service Available to/from Airport

REGISTRION FORM HERE. in pdf format.

Barbara Kirby, Registrar
102 Haag Drive, Warner Robins GA 31093
Phone: (478)922-8416); Cell (478)335-9370
Email: bkirby2@earthlink.net

For additional Information:
Claude Carpenter, Symposium Chairman
2426 Ballantrae Circle, Cumming GA 30041
Phone: (770) 886-4731; Cell (678) 469-4731
Email: claudecarpenter@bellsouth.net

Auction Plants:
Bill Waldrop, 310 McDaniel Road, Marietta, GA 30064
Email:  dianarae@aol.com
Phone: 770-429-0204

Schedule:

Friday        March 20, 2009

2:00 pm   Judges Workshops Exhibition Judges I, II, III and Garden Judges I
5:30p - 7:00 pm Registration
6:00 pm   Informal Social Hour/Cash Bar
7:00 pm   Dinner Buffet (Included) Welcome by Region 5 RVP
8:00 pm   Direction of AHS Keynote Speaker: Kevin Walek, President of AHS

Saturday   March 21, 2009

8:00 am   Continental Breakfast Buffet (included)
8:45 am   Hybridizing for the Unusual Jan Joiner, Savannah, Georgia
9:45 am   Growing Healthy Daylilies, Soil, Chemicals, Fertilizers Bill Waldrop, Marietta, Georgia
10:00 am Digital Photography, Wolf Camera Representative
11:00 am Hybridizing from a Southern View Nicole Harry, Florida
Noon         Lunch on your own
1:30 pm    Hybridizing, A Labor of Love Tim Bell, Sycamore, Georgia
2:30 pm    Building a Daylily Club David & Camilla Arthur, Marietta, GA
Tim Bell, Sycamore, Georgia
3:45 pm    The Art of Converting Don Eller, Leesburg, Georgia                 
5:00 pm     Region 5 Business Meeting
6:00 pm     Informal Social Hour/Cash Bar
7:00 pm     Dinner (included)
8:00 pm     Daylily Auction

Sunday       March 22, 2009

8:30 am     Continental Breakfast Buffet (included)
8:45 am     Producing Digital Presentations with PowerPoint  Sue Calbreath, Atlanta
9:45 am     Hybridizing From a Northern View Karol Emmerich, Minnesota
10:45 am   Slide Show - 2009 Introductions and Futures
11:30 am   All speakers on platform as a Panel of Experts
11:55 am   Drawing for a $250 Daylily Certificate From The Hybridizer of Your Choice (Must be present for drawing to win)

Noon           Adjourn

REGION  5  SPRING  REGIONAL  MEETING PERRY, GA
June 5 - 7, 2009
Headquarters:  Holiday Inn, I-75, Exit 136, Perry GA.  1-800-808-8804. Rate is $69 per night, for price use "Region 5 Daylily Meeting".  Rate Good through 15 May 2009 and includes full buffet breakfast.

Registrar:  Barbara Kirby, 102 Haag Dr, Warner Robins GA 31093, phone number: 478 (922-8416) bkirby2@earthlink.net
Registration Fee:  Adult:  $95, Youth (under 12) $75, if paid by 15 May 2009.  Afterwards $25 late fee.
Registration Times:  Friday 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and Saturday, 6:30 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. in the hotel lobby.

Friday:    GARDEN JUDGES WORKSHOPS
Clinic 2: 1:00 p.m.   Location:  Eula Fluellen, 2216 Highway 341 South, Perry, GA
Clinic 1: 4:00 p.m.   Holiday Inn
Friday: EXHIBITION JUDGES CLINICS
Clinic 1:  10:00 a.m.  Location:  Holiday Inn
Clinic 2:  2:00 p.m.   Location:  Holiday Inn
Refresher:   2:00 p.m.   Location:  Holiday Inn
Friday:   Boutique 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., Holiday Inn
Friday:   Dinner and Auction:   6:00 p.m., Holiday Inn

Saturday:   Bus Tour Of Gardens:  Buses load at 6:45 a.m. in front of the Holiday Inn for departure at 7:00 a.m. promptly.  Tour Gardens:  Billy and Sarah Dick's Peachland Farms (seedling beds), Morris & Barbara Kirby's Garden, Winfred and Janie Huff's Garden, Eula Fluellen Garden 
Lunch and Business Meeting:  Holiday Inn
Saturday:  Region 5 Hybridizer Seedlings/Intro's Presentation: 3:15-4:30 p.m. Location:  Holiday Inn
Banquet:  Holiday Inn
Social Hour:  5:30 p.m.
Dinner:  6:30 p.m. 
Speakers:  Linda Agin and Larry Grace
Boutique:  4:00 to 6:00 p.m.

Sunday:    Open Gardens (on your own) in Milledgeville: Earnest & Nita Yearwood (breakfast), Joe & Janet Watson, Cody & Velma Brett, Ralph & Jane Carson.

Registraion form and information in pdf format HERE.


Additional information about these Regional activities will be posted as soon as the Webmaster gets the information. If you can help supply it, please send what you have to: webmaster@daylilies.org

AHS Region 6 Meeting

AHS Region 7 Summer Meeting

Information about this Regional activity will be posted as soon as the Webmaster gets the information. If you can help supply it, please send what you have to: webmaster@daylilies.org

AHS Region 8 Summer Meeting

Date: July 10-12, 2009

Place: Langley, BC, Canada

Speakers: Jamie Gossard of Ohio

Hotel headquarters: The Coast Hotel and Convention Center, Langley, BC. Ph: 604-530-1500. This is a new hotel since we last hosted the regional meeting, and is an extremely high-rated, clean and modern establishment. Our meeting room will be all glass overlooking the City of Langley.

Block of rooms reserved under Aldergrove Daylily Society/AHS Region 8 with special rate of $98 Cdn per night.

Price includes: Friday evening casual barbeque at the home of Joanne and Steve Brown, home of acres of colorful daylilies!

Saturday morning champagne breakfast. All day bus tour Saturday, including a by-invitation-only visit to the new garden project of famed Vancouver personality Thomas Hobbs; buffet lunch at Erikson’s Daylily Gardens and banquet dinner at the hotel, plus three other stops to be announced. Chinese Auction tickets for sale during dinner; draws at evenings end.

Sunday business meeting and elections, followed by our speaker and the regional auction. Coffee and mid-morning snack included.

Cost: $70 USD until June 1/09

Contact: Pam Erikson, president of Aldergrove Daylily Society. Ph: 604-856-5758 Email: pamela1@istar.ca

AHS Region 9 Summer Meeting

AHS Region 9
2009 Regional Meeting
July 17-18
Featured Speaker: Hybridizer Bret Clement

Registration Fee:
$55 until May 15 after, $65 Youth $35
Saturday Banquet only $35
Make checks payable to:
Northern Colorado Iris and Daylily club
$5 fee each clinic/workshop will be collected at class time
For clinic/workshop information, please contact Betty Roberts
email: Florabetty@aol.com
phone: 719-282-9642

Regional Meeting Chair
Dick Christiansen
Sandy Cove Lane,
Fort Collins, Colorado 80525
Phone: 970-225-2212
Email: linden806@comcast.net

Registrar
Sandy Bowden
2330 Valley Forge Court,
Fort Collins, Colorado 80526
Phone: 970-484-5494
Email: LadyBlily@comcast.net

Lodging
Hilton Fort Collins
425 West Prospect Road
Fort Collins, Colorado 80526
Phone: 970-482-2626
make reservations direct with Hilton

Schedule of Events

Friday, July 17
12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m. Early registration - at the Hilton

1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Exhibition judges clinics - at the Hilton

4:30 Greeley Garden Tours (self guided)

6:31 pm Welcome dinner - at the home of Nancy Kurtz

REGISTRATION FORM

Return completed form & fees to registrar by June 15 (deadline extended!!)

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Names (as they should appear on nametags):

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Address (street, city, zip code)

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Phone Number ( )______________________

Email:__________________________________

Total Registration Amount

$___________________________

Saturday Banquet indicate choice:

chicken (#) ___ pork (#) ___

salmon (#) ___ vegetarian (#) ___

Special dietary needs:

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AHS Region 10 Annual Meeting & Garden Tours

AHS REGION 10
SUMMER MEETING AND GARDEN TOURS
"Music City Hit"
June 19-20, 2009

Hosted by the Middle Tennessee Daylily Society
Radisson Hotel at Opryland, 2401 Music Valley Dr., Nashville, TN, 37214

FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2009
9:00-4:00 pm Open Gardens
11:00 am Registration Begins
11:30 am Garden Judges Workshop I
12:30 pm Exhibition Judges Clinic I
1:30 pm Exhibition Judges Clinic II & III (Refresher)
2:30 pm Garden Judges Workshop II
5:00 pm Hospitality Hour - Hotel - Cash Bar
6:00 pm Dinner
7:00 pm Region 10 Business Meeting
PowerPoint Presentations
Region 10 Personalities and Gardens
Region 10 Hybridizers
Submit Programs to:
Jack Alexander
PO Box 22537., Nashville, TN 37202
(615) 837 - 8868
Jxander@aol.com
Cut off date: May 29, 2009
8:00 pm Region 10 Plant Auction

SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 2009
7:00 am Bus departs for Garden tour.
Brewer Garden, Coltharp Garden, Ligon Garden,
Robertson Garden, Zapel Garden; breakfast at Ligon
Gardens, lunch at Grace Cumberland Presbyterian Church
5:30 pm Bus returns to hotel
6:00pm Hospitality Hour - Cash Bar
7:00pm Region 10 Banquet and Awards
8:00pm Speaker: Frank Smith, Apopka, FL

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Sandra Merritt
PO Box 22537, Nashville TN 37202
615.297.5132
sesmerritt@comcast.net

HOTEL: Radisson Hotel at Opryland
2401 Music Valley Drive
Nashville, TN 37214
(615) 231 - 8888 or (800) 333 - 3333
Room rate: $79.00
Mention AHS Region 10 Meeting
HOTEL Reservation Deadline - May 20, 2009

PLEASE PRE-REGISTER FOR CLINICS/WORKSHOPS

Registration form in .pdf format available here.

AHS Region 11 Summer Meeting

Prairie Promenade
The Flint Hills Daylily Society invites you to join us as we host,
 Region 11 Summer Meeting 2009, Prairie Promenade, in Manhattan, Kansas, July 3-5

The Flint Hills Daylily Society of Manhattan, Kansas wishes to invite you to the 2009 Summer Meeting, "Prairie Promenade". This is the first Regional Meeting that the Flint Hills club is hosting in our many years of existence.

We will have John Shooter as our guest speaker from Marietta Gardens, Marietta, North Carolina. They have wonderful introductions and are great people as well. Many in our region grow their cultivars and they do well.

We will have seven of our area gardens on tour. Three of them are AHS Display Gardens, Steve and Maureen Thien's "Mateo Tipi Gardens", Irene and Rick Johnson's "Prairie Wind Gardens", Jane and Steve Amy's "The Amy Garden" as well as four other wonderful gardens of Ann Redmon, Mardi Finn, Pat Freeman, and Bernadette and Joe Schmidt.

We will have a great live auction (including several Shooter introductions), bag raffles and silent auction as well. We expect to have some surprises for all and a fun weekend!
Plan to attend and celebrate with us. More details and registration information will be appearing soon.

Regional Chairperson - Steve Amy

We have seven wonderful gardens lined up for your enjoyment

Manhattan:

Steve and Maureen Thien – Mateo Tipi Gardens

The garden's name, Mateo Tipi, is derived from an Indian legend and means "home of the bear." In this 5b plant hardiness zone, the daylilies, just like bears, hibernate over winter.

Steve and Maureen Thien (pronounced 'teen') garden on a large city lot located on a quiet cul-de-sac bordering onto a wooded boundary. Numerous island and periphery plots host 600+ daylilies, a few vegetables and some accent plants. An inviting Amish swing, tempting benches, and comfortable patio greet visitors to this American Hemerocallis Society Display Garden.

Pat and Fred Freeman

Fred and Pat Freeman's ranch style home sits on a large hilly lot. All sides of the house have daylilies with the majority on the west or lower part of the yard. The three hundred daylilies are conveniently located at the front of the beds, with many areas having contrasting color schemes such as red/yellow or peach/wine.

Behind the daylilies is a colorful array of bird and butterfly plants. The eco-friendly yard hosts many creatures, welcome and unwelcome.

Their loss of many trees in last year's tornado set off a flurry of renewal and rearranging. All will be put back together by daylily show time.

Ann and Dave Redmon

Ann and Dave Redmon have lived and gardened on this corner lot since 2000 when they moved 200 daylilies from a previous home in Manhattan. Over 900 named daylily varieties plus seedlings from Ann's beginning hybridizing efforts now grow in curved beds and borders on the 2/3 acre lot.

The Redmon garden has a large selection of spider and unusual form daylilies as well as a good variety of Leo Sharp's Brookwood series. Many of the daylilies, some by less well known regional hybridizers, have been acquired while attending both Nationals and Regionals in various parts of the country.

The Schmeidler/Diaz Garden

Located in one of the older neighborhoods of Manhattan, the Frank Schmeidler and Ralph Diaz garden has been through a continuous evolution of growing conditions and plant material since they began it 12 years ago.

At that point, the yard included a huge patch of prickly pear cactus, 4 yucca plants and several overgrown yews. Due to the many large trees surrounding their home, the focus originally was to create a shade garden.

Frank began his love of daylilies about nine years ago when a friend invited him to go on a buying trip to the Langley Gardens in Topeka, KS. He was awestruck at the beautiful landscaping and more so at the many varieties of daylilies. So many beautiful choices, so little time! At that point, the Schmeidler/Diaz garden boasted a total of ten daylily plants, though just as the garden area has expanded, so has the number of daylilies -- nine years later, there are a few less than 500.

Olsburg and Wamego

Irene and Rick Johnson - Prairiewind Gardens - Olsburg

Rick and Irene Johnson have a 340 acre farm/ranch where they have a cow/calf operation and grow alfalfa, brome, soybeans, corn, and yes, flowers. One day at the mall Irene saw a club display of daylily blooms and life around the farm hasn’t been the same since.

Their yard became an AHS Display Garden in 2002 with over 1,000 varieties of daylilies. Rick, Irene and their friend Tom Hulbert love to garden and are usually found outside working in the gardens. As you walk around the 3 acres of garden you will notice the many beds lined with rocks and paths paved with them. Three ponds are also rocked with native limestone.

Bernadette and Joe Schmidt – Wamego

The Schmidt garden was a cow pasture and now it’s not. It’s now a garden because we love to work the soil, and see things grow. After landscaping the acre, where our house is located, all eyes were turned to our second acre, still in native grass. Random flower beds, trees and shrubs gradually began to appear, because we couldn’t resist the temptation to continue planting. It soon became apparent that we were greatly in need of a plan. As a result, we designed new beds with the help of our local garden center. We had to dig and transplant over 300 daylilies and numerous other flowers and shrubs into the new design.

In addition to the glorious daylilies, our garden includes a vegetable garden and an orchard with apple, peach, pear, and apricot trees. You’ll also find blueberry bushes and grape vines. We are hosting the Oscie Whatley Memorial seedling bed. So, be sure to look for it.

Jane and Steve Amy – The Amy Garden – Wamego

The whole Amy yard is filled with flowers and the favorite is the daylily.

The yard was on tour in 2003 and has changed considerably since then. The ice storm in 2008 took many branches (six trailer loads) and so hosta had to be moved and the daylilies in the main back yard are in more sun. We took down the older crab trees in the front. All of these losses have meant more sun and more plants. We have probably traded out at least half the plants or more that were here in 2003 and replaced them with newer plants while retaining some favorites that we can’t let go.

A couple more wind sculptures by Lyman Whitaker have been added on the South Lot. The yard is still a mix of over 600 daylilies, oriental, orienpet and asian lilies, around 150 cultivars of hosta, salvias, and penstemons to name a few. There are still two small water gardens, a short stream bed and one bubbling rock. Come spend the 4th of July in Manhattan KS for your best Fourth of July ever.

A pdf file with photos of gardens available HERE.

Host Hotel information:
The Clarion Hotel
530 Richards Drive
Manhattan, KS 66502
785-539-5311
Key phrase for Meeting Group Rate is …
Flint Hills Daylily Society
To be taken to the Clarion web site click HERE
Or enter http://www.clarionhotel.com/ then Manhattan, KS
Room Rate is $106.69 taxes include per night double
occupancy this includes breakfast on Saturday and Sunday in the hotel restaurant

Registration fee: $105 per adult and $50 for youth (17 yrs and under)
Return completed registration
form and check made payable to:
Flint Hills Daylily Society (FHDS for short)

Jane Amy
Registrar
611 Adam Dr
Wamego, KS 66547
Tel: 785-456-7053
E-mail: sjamy@wamego.net

Registration Form in pdf format available HERE.

AHS Region 11 Winter Meeting

2010 - To be announced...

AHS Region 12 Meeting

Additional information about this Regional activity will be posted as soon as the Webmaster gets the updates. If you can help supply more data, please send what you have to: webmaster@daylilies.org
 

In 2009, Region 12 will be hosting the AHS National Convention.

AHS Region 13 Meeting

REGION 13 ANNUAL MEETING 2009

Dates: May 29-30, 2009

Host: Cenla Daylily Society

Place: Alexandria, La.

Lodging: The Best Western Hotel
2720 N. MacArthur Drive
Alexandria, Louisiana
(318) 445-5530
Hotel reservations must be made separately and directly with the hotel.
For event rate, mention Group code ?Daylily.?
Event rates: Single or double room $79.00+tax a night
2 room Suites are $93.00+tax a night
Suggest you reserve early - before April 1.

Regional Meeting Registrar:
Ellis Powell, 405 Sweetbriar Dr.; Alexandria, LA 71303

Meeting Registration Fee: $100.00 per adult
AHS Youth member Registration under age 16: $50.00
A card confirmation will be sent on receipt of payment.

Events:
Hospitality Hour Thursday evening in the Hotel Atrium
Bus Tours Friday and Saturday
Meals on Friday and Saturday
Live Auction
Dan Trimmer as Guest Speaker
Exhibition Judges Clinics 1, Clinic 2 & Refresher:
Garden Judges Workshops 1 & 2

Additonal information will be posted HERE when available.

AHS Region 14 Spring Meeting

JUNE 5 - 6, 2009

HOST - MONTGOMERY AREA DAYLILY SOCIETY

Headquarters: Embassy Suites Hotel Call 1-800-362-2779 for reservations.

Room rate: $109.00 double or single, $119.00 triple. $129.00 quad (plus tax)
Bedroom includes two beds, Living room couch has double bed.

When making reservations mention "Group Code MAD" (Montgomery Area Daylilies)

Rate includes full breakfast.

Registration fee: $88.00. Youth $46.00

Includes dinner Friday night. Saturday , lunch and banquet dinner.

Closing date for registration May 20th

Send registration form and registration fee to:
Link to Registration Form is at end of this page

Barbara Barnes
864 Greg Drive
Montgomery, AL 36109

Saturday Banquet speaker: Georgia Rehnberg will present the program that she and Linda Agin had already done. It is Linda's program.

Four large beautiful gardens on tour Saturday. First regional tour for all four gardens.

Registration confirmation letter will contain detailed map directions to hotel and more in depth information.

Write or call Jack Harrison if needed. E-mail jharr73808@knology.net or 1-334-288-7176.

Link to Registration Form

AHS Region 14 Fall Meeting

Fall Meeting October 2-3 2009 Hattiesburg, Miss.

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Region 15 Summer Meeting

AHS Region 15
Summer Meeting and Garden Tours
Electric City Daylilies
June 12-13, 2009
Anderson, SC

Friday June 12, 2009
Accredited Daylily Show
Anderson Mall
Flowers arrive 9:00-10:30 AM
Open to public 1:00- 4:00 PM
Exhibition Judges Clinic II 2:00 PM
Quality Inn Palmetto Room
Garden Judges Clinic II 2:30 PM
Persimmon Garden
Charles and Brenda Coggins
Registration 4:00 PM
Quality Inn Plantation Room
Heavy hors d’oeuvres 6:00 PM Plantation Room
Scientific Session 7:15PM Plantation Room
Sexual Encounters of the Daylily Kind
Jan Haldeman , PHD
Professor Emeritus, Biology, Erskine College
Business Meeting 7:45 PM
Daylily Auction 8:00 PM

Saturday June 13, 2009
Complimentary Continental Breakfast Quality Inn
Buses leave for Gardens 9:00 AM
Buses return 4:45 PM
Banquet 6:30 PM Plantation Room
Awards 7:30 PM
Guest Speaker 8:00 PM
Brian Mahieu
Fulton Missouri

Sunday June 14, 2009

Open Gardens (to be announced)

Meeting Site:
Quality Inn
3025 North Main Street
Anderson, SC 29621
864 226 6051
Rooms for meeting $57.00 (Mention Upstate Daylily Society)

Registration fee: $90.00 Youth $45.00

Registrar: Kelvin Bryant
147 Grant Mill Road
Salem, SC 29676
864 557 4025

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