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2005 AHS National Convention Gardens
JERRY’S GARDEN
Pam and Jerry Williams
8497 Wetherfield Lane, Cincinnati, Ohio 45236
By Greg Finch, Hinckley, Illinois
Jerry’s garden was the first garden at which we stopped on the
second day of the convention. This was a bright clear morning
with very little humidity. The sun was just rising above the neighbors’
trees which made the daylilies light up. The garden was on a
corner lot in a neighborhood with quiet, tree lined streets.
I have always felt that a corner lot gives the gardener in the city
a greater advantage to show off daylilies to the public. Jerry and
Pam have used the corner lot to their advantage by having the beds
in the front of the house flow around to the side of the house and
open to the street. They did this by creating beds that curved
through the side yard. They also have built a small patio on this
side of the house so they are able to enjoy the daylilies with their
friends while entertaining or as a place to rest while working in the
gardens.
The front entrance to the house had two flags on display, reminding
me that we were only two days away from the 4 th of July.
Beds on either side of the entrance contained daylilies along with
other shrubs and perennials. On the right hand side of the front
entrance was an outstanding bright red clump of Hemerocallis ‘Up
in Flames’ (Carr 1999) that was
getting a lot of attention from
several of us. The clump of H.
‘Up In Flames’, with its many
blooms open, offered a great
photo opportunity. On the left
side of the front entrance in the
middle of the front yard stood a
garden figure of a goose dressed
in a red, white, and blue outfit.
She had her own bed of daylilies
to stand guard over. She seemed
to fit right in with the daylilies
around her.
When I asked Pam if they were
near peak bloom she thought
they were about one week away
from peak. After looking at the
clumps, I realized even though
there were a large number of
blooms on most of the daylilies
there would be many more to follow.
There were many clumps that
were really showing off. Karol
Emmerich’s H. ‘No More Tears’
(Emmerich 2003) , a pink with a
pale ivory throat and gold ruffle,
was putting on a good display.
Bob Scott’s H. ‘Topguns Lola
Scott’ (B. Scott 2000), a yellow
double with a red eye had multiple
blooms on several scapes,
and it looked as if the blossoms
would cover the entire plant once
it reached peak. H. ‘Topguns
Lola Scott’ was a guest plant at
Jerry’s garden, and it won the
AHS Region 2/Great Lakes Newsletter
H. ‘Joan Derifield’ (Hanson 2000)
Image: Karen Ciula
H. ‘Ocean Rain’ (Hanson 1987)
Image: Karen Ciula
Georgia Doubles Award. This cultivar grew in several of the other
tour gardens, and it was always performing well.
I have always seemed to have gone through phases of what I
like, and at this time H. ‘John Kirkland’ (Kirchhoff D 1999) fits into
the group of daylilies that catches my eye at this time. It is a flesh
pink self with a peach rose halo above a yellow to green throat. The
day we were in Jerry’s garden, the peach rose halo really stood out.
A clear pink we saw in Jerry’s garden was H. ‘Palladian Pink’ (Stamile
1996). It is a pristine pink self with a bright green throat and ruffled
edges. On this day the throat was a deep green, and the ruffled
edge was a darker pink. The green throat and pink flower made for
a really pretty combination.
VALLEY OF THE DAYLILIES
Jackie & Dan Bachman
1850 S. St. Rt. 123, Lebanon, Ohio 45036
By Duane Hurlbert, Howard, Ohio
This was the first day of the “official” bus tours for the national
convention. It was a very nice day, sunny and a blue sky. After
much pushing and shoving from the front of the hotel to the back
of the hotel and then over to the side of the hotel, we managed to
get on the bus. As luck would have it, we were privileged to be
going to Dan and Jackie Bachman’s garden first. We had been
fortunate enough to have been
there a few years ago during a
Region 2 summer meeting when
they had just moved into their
new house. We were in for a
wonderful surprise today, because
Dan and Jackie have been
very busy since our last visit.
As the bus slowly entered the
property, we were greeted with a
very picturesque sight. The long
winding driveway started back
and then made a turn to the right
to allow space for a beautiful
pond that made a great setting
for their lovely home. The yard
was broken up by smartly laid
out beds of our beloved flowers
H. ‘Shoutin’ the Blues’
and companion plants. There
Image: Duane Hurlbert
was a very nice daylily lined
pathway to a picnic pavilion that added some much needed shade
from the sun which was beginning to get quite warm by this point.
But I am jumping ahead here. As the bus stopped, Dan jumped
aboard and gave us all a very warm and friendly greeting. We got
off the bus as fast as we could and yanked our cameras out and
started taking pictures almost immediately. The only thing that held
us up at all was Nate, Dan’s Yellow Lab, and as friendly as any lab
can be, he only wanted to greet us in his own way, giving us a little
sniff of approval.
The driveway that continued to the garage had a neatly arranged
array of daylilies and other plants full of blooms just posing for us,
so we obliged and took their pictures. This led me right to the
Region 2 Englerth Award bed. It was just full of mostly vigorous
plants, full of blooms. It took me a while to evaluate all the seedling
candidate plants in it.
There were display beds all around the house, and throughout
the yard. I started up by the house by the covered wraparound
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