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From the Board
By Joanne Larson, Region 2 Director
Joanne Larson
49 Woodland Drive
Barrington IL 60010-1912
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battle with the hummingbirds at the nectar
feeder. Because of droughty garden conditions,
there is no rebloom in the daylily beds,
and trees are shedding their leaves early.
Autumn is coming!
On behalf of all Region 2 members, thank
you to the Greater Cincinnati Daylily and
Hosta Society for hosting a wonderful national
convention. If you were not able to
attend, you missed a great time, beautiful
gardens, a spirited plant auction and much
“daylily” talk.
During the convention awards banquet,
a special national award, the Bertrand Farr
Silver Medal, was given to Region 2 hybridizer
Dr. Charles Branch, and Dan Bachman
received the AHS Regional Service Award.
Of course, other awards were bestowed on
Region 2 members for cultivars and photography.
Congratulations to all of you!
News from the AHS Board of Directors
meeting in Cincinnati:
• AHS membership is down from last year
for a total of 10,257 as of 6-27-05. Membership
continues to be a concern since
it is the major source of society income.
A survey was approved that will be sent
to a random sample of current AHS
members regarding services and programs.
If you have received one, I hope
you have completed and returned it.
• A dues increase will be on our agenda
for the fall board meeting.
• The purchase of updated technology
to handle the registration database was
approved by the Board. Good news is
that when the new program is up and
running, registration information will be
available on-line for our research. And
speaking of research, if you have
internet access, check out the AHS
website at www.daylilies.org. Award
winners are listed, the dictionary is very
useful, all kinds of AHS forms can be
downloaded, and there are lists of
doubles, spiders, unusual forms and
polytepals.
• A very important part of the cultivar
awards and honors process is the Garden
Judge. Over the last few years
changes have been made in the requirements,
but those have been relaxed a
bit. Now you need only two years of
AHS membership before becoming a
Garden Judge. (Read more about this
on page 7.)
• A new AHS publication, 100+ pages
with color photos, on spiders and unusual
forms is in process and should
be available for pre-purchase when you
send in your 2006 dues. In the planning
stage is a booklet on doubles.
• Five new slide/video programs have
been created, available for club programs
or for your use if you present
programs to garden clubs or other
groups in your community. A total of
36 programs are available for rent.
• For photography awards, requirements
have been changed for Mildred Schlumpf
Awards. Digital images are now eligible
for these individual bloom and landscape
awards; permission for digital
image submission is sought for the
Roquemore (clump photos) and Region
14 Slide Sequence Awards also.
Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you
have concerns or questions about AHS.
I hope to see you at our Region 2 Symposium!
DO YOU KNOW ...that you can...Surf the Net and learn more about daylilies!
• Visit our Region 2 web pages and local club links at: http://www.ahsregion2.org
• Visit the American Hemerocallis Society Web-Site address at: http://www.daylilies.org/daylilies.html
• You can “travel” to many interesting daylily sites by clicking on links on the AHS Web Site. If you don't have a computer,
visit your local library. Friendly librarians will be glad to help you navigate the high seas of the Internet.
• Visit http://www.eurocallis.be where you can see hundreds and hundres of images of the latest daylily blossoms.
Page 4 Fall 2005 - Winter 2006
AHS Region 2/Great Lakes Newsletter