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AHS Region 2/Great Lakes Newsletter Cedarthorn Gardens Old & New Varieties Displayed in Several Landscape Designs Daylily selections available at the garden... ...select potted daylilies or divisions ready to dig and take home from April 1st on... Open to garden visitors on Saturdays during bloom season and annual "Open Garden." WEEKENDS in mid-May and at peak bloom in early July (Call for exact weekends) Louise & Bobby James P.O. Box 869 * 1487 E. Cedarthorn Drive Shelbyville, Indiana 46176 317-392-0264 * fax 317-398-6019 Email: lbjames@shelbynet.net http://www.bloom@GardenEureka.com/CEDA An AHS Display Garden Growing & Hybridizing Daylilies of Distinction >>> 2001 CALENDAR
AHS Region 2/Great Lakes Newsletter Career Decisions (continued) In May 1993, Karol left Dayton-Hudson to work with several nonprofit organizations and to create new gardens on the lot next door. She would create a series of rooms with all of the perennials, hardy in Minnesota, displayed and with a major emphasis on daylilies. She sought to create a refuge that informed and inspired the visitors. She attended her first National (Orlando) that year and quickly had a wish list of 1000 cultivars. (Does this sound familiar to any of you) Over the next four years as Dick built walls and pathways, Karol planted over 1000 daylily cultivars, 325 varieties of hostas and over 600 other perennials. The slides Karol showed of her gardens documented a lushly growing, well designed perennial garden in Region 2 Symposium 2000 (continued) of land that will not only accommodate a new greenhouse for Karol, but also the business their son wants to start. The property has a large house and buildings, which was the site of a stagecoach station in the 1860’s. It has been restored, and has Karol and Dick thinking of several possibilities. It appears her third career will be at least as busy as those that preceded it. And a large piece of land, complete with a gravel pit is for sale across the street...of the new property! Look for these two additional Region 2 Symposium presentations in the next issue: Elizabeth Salter’s From Wimberlyway to Rollingwood and John Rice’s Thoroughbred Daylilies A discussion with Dan Trimmer got her started, and during the first year she produced 7000 seeds. She recounted her various solutions to finding enough space to plant them all, including showing a slide of my favorite, “The cutting the driveway in half trick.” which daylilies had pride of place. Dick’s walls and the other structures, as well as the trees, provided a tremendous backdrop for Karol’s plantings. As these gardens were finished, as Karol puts it, “as much as a garden is ever finished,” it was time for a third career decision. Karol decided she was interested in hybridizing lavenders and purples and eyes. She was also interested in naming daylilies to reflect her religious beliefs. A discussion with Dan Trimmer got her started, and during the first year she produced 7000 seeds. She recounted her various solutions to finding enough space to plant them all, including my favorite, The cutting the driveway in half trick. While attending MWS in 1997, Karol met Larry Grace. Larry told Karol that if she was really serious about hybridizing, she could join him in his new greenhouse venture where he would teach her. Despite a long list of “why nots,” Karol decided this was the chance of a lifetime. In the fall of 1997 she took a number of her plants to Larry’s greenhouse and returned the next spring to hybridize with them, spending several weeks away from home. A year ago she saw the first blooms of those crosses and by the time you read this, she will have seen her second crop bloom. Now, Dick and Karol have decided that it’s time for her to return to Minnesota. They have located a piece Region 2 Symposium 2000: An unqualified Success! Left to right: Registrar Juli Hyatt, Joan Kepf, Chair Curt Hanson, RVP Mary Milanowski A happy crew from Columbus, Ohio: Gail Johannes, Becky McMurry, Jim McMurry, Bill Johannes. Spring/Summer 2000 Page 33
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