Part 1, Pages 1-23 - AHS Region 2

American Hemerocallis Society 

Spring-Summer 2004 

Region 2/Great Lakes Newsletter

American Hemerocallis Society National Officer 

icers 

National President 

Executiv 

ecutive e Secretar 

ary 

Editor or of The Daylily Journal 

Maurice Greene 

3711 Whitworth Drive 

Knoxville TN 37938-4228 

386-752-4654 

E-mail: nmgreene40@comcast.net 

Pat Mercer 

P.O. Box 10 

Dexter, GA 31019 

478-875-4110 

E-mail: gmercer@nlamerica.com 

Jim Brennan 

37 Maple Avenue 

Bridgewater, MA 02324 

508-697-4802 

E-mail: j.r.brennan@worldnet.att.net 

AHS Region Two Director 

Joanne Larson 

May 1 to October 1: 

49 Woodland Drive 

Barrington IL 60010-1912 

847-381-1484 

October 1 to May 1: 

4400 Green Cliffs Road 

Austin TX 78746-1234 

Tel: 512-328-8753 

E-mail: gnjelarson@earthlink.net 

Regional Secretar 

tary 

Virginia Myers 

5157 Bixford Avenue 

Canal Winchester OH 43110 

614-836-5456 

E-mail: edvamyers@aol.com 

E-mail: secretary@ahsregion2.org 

Regional Honors s & Awards Chair 

Greg McMullen 

8753 Westfield Blvd. 

Indianapolis IN 46240-1942 

317-815-0288 

E-mail: watsonpark@comcast.net 

The American 

Hemerocallis 

Society 

Membership Rates 

Individual (1 year) .................. $18.00 

Individual (3 years) ................ $50.00 

Dual Membership (1 year)* .... $22.00 

Dual Membership (3 years)* .. $60.00 

Life Membership .................... 500.00 

Dual Life Membership ............ 750.00 

Youth ....................................... $8.00 

Dues are to be paid by January 1 of each year. 

Make checks payable to the AHS. 

Mail to: Pat Mercer 

P.O. Box 10 

Dexter, GA 31019 

gmercer@nlamerica.com 

*Dual Membership means : Two persons 

living in same household. 

2004 Region Two Officer 

icers s and Liaisons 

Regional Vice President 

Ed Myers 



614-836-5456 

E-mail: edvamyers@aol.com 

E-mail: rvp@ahsregion2.org 

Regional Treasurer 

Charles Bell 

39 W 582 Deer Run Drive 

St. Charles IL 60175 

630-377-3705 

E-mail: cebell@voyager.net 

E-mail: treasurer@ahsregion2.org 

AHS Honors & Awards 

Liaison 

Nikki Schmith 

25729 Annapolis Ave 

Dearborn Heights MI 48125 

248-739-9006 

E-mail: schmiths@msn.com 

Regional Youth Liaison 

Judy Heath 

1155 W. Maple Grove Road 

Boonville IN 47601 

812-897-0600 

E-mail: wekyhe@msn.com 

Regional Ways ys & Means Chair 

Nikki Schmith 

25729 Annapolis Ave 

Dearborn Heights MI 48125 

248-739-9006 

E-mail: schmiths@msn.com 

AHS Monroe oe Endowment Fund Liaison 

Bill Johannes 

1964 Cardigan Ave. 

Columbus OH 43212 

614-486-7962 

E-mail:johannesW@worldnet.att.net 

Regional Archiv 

hives 

Joanne Larson 



847-381-1484 

E-mail: gnjelarson@earthlink.net 

Regional Webmast 

ebmaster 

er 

Don Williams 

12246 Spurgeon Rd 

Lynnville IN 47619-8065 

812-922-5288 

E-mail: webmaster@ahsregion2.org 

Regional Publicity Director 

Paul Meske 

6276 Devonshire Lane 

Sun Prairie WI 53590-9499 

608-837-8737 

E-mail: meske@matcmadison.edu 

E-mail: rpd@ahsregion2.org 

Regional Editor 

or 

Gisela Meckstroth 

6488 Red Coach Lane 

Reynoldsburg OH 43068-1661 

614-864-0132 

E-mail: gisela-meckstroth@worldnet.att.net 

E-mail: editor@ahsregion2.org 

Regional Exhibition Judges Liaison 

Richard Ford 

Box 55 

Petersburg IL 62675 

217-632-3791 

E-mail: dado93047@aol.com 

Regional Garden Judges Liaison 

Sharon Fitzpatrick 

3050 Cedar Hill Road 


614-837-2283 

E-mail: hemnut@worldnet.att.net 

Please note our 

Region 2 Websit 

ebsite e Address 

http://www.ahsregion2.org 

Editorial Policy 

The American Hemerocallis Society is a nonprofit 

organization, and the American Hemerocallis 

Society Region 2/Great Lakes Newsletter 

is published for the benefit of American 

Hemerocallis Society members residing in Region 

2. As such, the editorial focus of the publication 

centers on: 

• Hemerocallis. 

• AHS and Region Two events. 

• Region Two members and 

hybridizers. 

Submissions are encouraged. The editor reserves 

the right to edit for space, grammar, and 

focus on the three criteria cited above. 

Page 2 Spring-Summer 2004 

AHS Region 2/Great Lakes Newsletter

American Hemerocallis Society 

Spring-Summer 2004 

Table of Contents 

Page 

Features 

•Steve Moldovan’s Quest for a PIECE OF SKY ............................... 4,5, 17 

•The Whimsical Garden of the Adams Family .......................................... 44 

Director’s Report .............................................................................................. 6 

RVP’s Message ................................................................................................. 7 

•Region 2 Newsletter Award Criteria .......................................................... 7 

Regional Youth Liaison ............................................................................... 8,23 

RPD’s Message ................................................................................................. 9 

Editor’s Message .............................................................................................. 9 

Treasurer’s Report .......................................................................................... 10 

Region 2 Summer Meeting 2004 

•Agenda, Registration, Guest Speakers, Slides, Auction Plants, etc. ....... 12-14 

•Preview of Tour Gardens ......................................................................... 20 

Region 2 Symposium: 12th annual Event ....................................................... 24 

This and That from AHS to Region 2 News 

•Election and Ballot: For AHS Region 2 Director .................................... 11 

•Looking Ahead: Region 2 and National Convention Calendars .............. 11 

•Contacts/Shipping Information about Englerth Award Candidates ......... 11 

•Exhibition and Garden Judges Listings and Liaisons Messages ....... 15, 16 

•Region 2 Local Clubs–News/Information ............................................... 36 

•2003 Stout Medal Winner and AHS Award Recipients ........................... 41 

•New Members.......................................................................................... 46 

•Region 2 Local Clubs Listing .................................................................. 47 

THE AMERICAN 

HEMEROCALLIS 

SOCIETY 

Region 2/Great Lakes 

Daylily Newsletter 

Deadlines 

Spring/Summer Issue: 

March 1 

Fall/Winter Issue: 

September 1 

Out-of-Region 

Subscriptions 

$11.00 per year in USA 

$16.50 per year Overseas 

Make checks payable to AHS 

Region 2 and send to: 

AHS Region 2 Treasurer 

(see address on inside front cover) 

Front Cover: Phil and Luella Korth’s Pinewood Gardens. Photo supplied by 

Phil Korth. 

Back Cover: The Klarner Garden. Photo supplied by Phil Korth. 

Inside-pages: Photo credits are stated on individual images. All other photo 

credits: Gisela Meckstroth 

Correction: 

This editor identified a cultivar pictured in the Fall 2003-Winter 2004 issue 

(page 29, lower right) as: EGGPLANT (Munson 1984). Word reached the 

editor that Steve Moldovan pointed out the fact that Munson never created or 

registered any cultivars of the EGGPLANT series. 

AHS Region 2/Great Lakes Newsletter 

Display Adver 

ertising 

Rates for (black-whit 

k-white) 

Inside Pages 

Full Page .................. $70.00 

Half Page ................. $45.00 

Quarter Page ........... $30.00 

Make checks payable to AHS 

Region 2 and send it with your 

request to the editor. 

(Please note the deadlines above) 

Spring-Summer 2004 Page 3

STEVE MOLDOVAN’S QUEST FOR 

A PIECE OF THE SKY 

By Sharon Fitzpatrick, Canal Winchester, Ohio. 

or more than 50 years Steve Moldovan has been blessed, or 

some would say cursed, with a driving passion to create 

Fquality, clear-colored daylilies that would thrive in various growing 

climates. Steve learned the art of hybridizing by walking side by 

side with daylily pioneers whose works many of us have only read 

about. Over the years Steve has never taken credit for hybridizing 

alone; instead, he states that he owes his success to the creations of 

other hybridizers before him. Dedicated to his passion through hard 

work, meticulous record keeping of plant parentages, and the unrelenting 

search for the elusive blue daylily, he has only orchestrated 

the gene pool created by others in a way they never thought of doing. 

The best place to start this success story is at the beginning. 

The Early Years 

Steve Moldovan is a professional ornamental horticulturist whose 

gardening roots stem from an onion patch located on a fertile ridge 

of Lake Erie. Purchased in 1959, the property is now known as 

Moldovan’s Gardens. Gardening has always been a driving force in 

Steve’s life. As a teenager he preferred to grow gaudy iris and peonies 

because he liked to see a lot of color. He had read about a 

breeder of iris in the Chicago area by the name of Orville Fay. Steve’s 

brother was a model airplane buff, and their father would take him 

all over the country to fly his planes. When Steve found out they 

were going to Chicago for a model airplane event, he begged to go 

along so he could meet Mr. Fay and witness first hand the advancements 

Mr. Fay was making in iris. By mistake, Steve discovered 

daylilies. 

When Steve arrived at Orville Fay’s garden, there was nothing 

left of the iris but foliage. The Fay garden was, however, full of 

daylilies in bloom. The young Steve was so fascinated by daylilies 

that, during high school years, he returned each summer to Orville 

Fay’s garden to help care for the plants and learn the ins and outs of 

hybridizing. Steve knew daylilies were wonderful plants because 

they took nature’s abuse without skipping a beat, were disease resistant, 

resistant to pests, and did not require treatment with poisonous 

chemicals to keep away the borer that so often hit iris. 

Back in the late fifties, the hottest daylily was a seedling Orville 

Fay referred to as SATIN GLASS, which was registered by that 

name in 1960. Steve was in Fay’s garden the day SATIN GLASS 

(Fay-Hardy 1960) first bloomed. Never had there been such a widepetaled 

daylily. The flower was not the usual orange color but was, 

instead, almost white. It was SATIN GLASS that hooked Steve on 

the daylily. When Steve saw Fay’s wide-petaled seedling FIRST 

FORMAL (registered in 1960) bloom, which was narrow by today’s 

standards, he thought he had died and gone to heaven because, by 

daylily standards of that time, the flower color was considered to 

be pink. Using SATIN GLASS, FIRST FORMAL, its sister sibling 

LAVENDER PARADE (Fay-Moldovan 1960), and Dr. Ezra 

Kraus’s ATLAS, Steve saw his first seedlings bloom in 1958. From 

this group of seedlings in 1960 he registered the cultivar BURIED 

TREASURE (ATLAS X SATIN GLASS), the first of a long line of 

daylilies, with the American Hemerocallis Society. 

BURIED TREASURE grew and multiplied like a weed. By its 

second year Steve had 150 plants. It did not take him long to learn 

that black daylily seed was like gold to a hybridizer. An imaginative 

man on a mission, Steve began the so far unknown practice of 

incorporating evergreen daylilies from Florida and Louisiana hybridizers 

with hard dormant, northern bred cultivars. 

Steve finished his formal education at The Ohio State University, 

and his hybridizing program was just beginning when he was 

called up to serve in the US Army Reserve. Not wanting to leave 

the garden but being a firm believer in “everything happens for a 

reason,” a reluctant Steve was assigned to active duty. By chance, 

Steve was stationed at a base in Louisiana located near the garden 

of premier daylily hybridizer Edna Spalding. In his free time he 

would drive or take a bus to visit Edna and her flowers. On one of 

those visits Edna’s BLUE JAY (1961) was blooming. Steve thought 

BLUE JAY was the most wondrously colored daylily he had ever 

seen. Full of daylily dreams, a young and eager Steve was sure that 

by using BLUE JAY in his hybridizing program he would have a 

sky blue daylily before anyone else knew what was happening. When 

Steve went home to Avon, BLUE JAY went with him. 

Unfortunately, Steve was to find out after breeding with it that 

the plant was a tender evergreen, and it died the first winter. All 

SATIN GLASS (Fay-Hardy 1960) Slide: Howard Hite 


Steve Moldovan’s 1961 BURIED TREASURE (Slide: Howard Hite) 


was not lost, however, because seedlings from BLUE JAY and 

Steve’s other seedlings proved to be winter hardy. Out of these BLUE 

JAY crosses, colors other than gold or yellow were showing up in 

his seedling bed. By today’s standards the purples were a reddish, 

grungy color, but Steve saw it as a color break in daylilies. Out of 

this odd bunch of seedlings, he registered his first purple in 1966 as 

KABUKI DANCER [EMPERORS ROBE X (Sdlg. x BEAUTIFUL 

LADY)]. 

Steve is a firm believer in never using related plants within a 

cross. His gut feeling was that inbreeding creates weakness and defects 

in animals and daylilies. Early on, Steve danced to his own 

drummer. He continued the unheard-of process of incorporating 

evergreen daylilies from Florida and Louisiana hybridizers with his 

hard-dormant offsprings. Planting large numbers of these seeds in 

the ground every fall, he let Old Man Winter cull the seedlings that 

were too evergreen to make it in the frozen North. This breeding 

process helped him create daylilies that would thrive under various 

growing conditions. 

Keeping in touch with his mentor, Orville Fay, Steve learned of a 

new technique that Fay and Dr. Griesbach had been working on to 

convert diploid daylily seeds to tetraploidy, a process that involved 

doubling the chromosomes to produce bigger flowers, huge scapes, 

and lush foliage. Fay and Dr. Griesbach were going to present their 

findings at the 1961 AHS Convention in Chicago and to describe 

their method of converting diploid daylily seeds to tetraploidy by 

using a highly toxic chemical derived from the Autumn Crocus, called 

colchicine. Fay showed slides of his and Griesbach’s new tetraploid 

introduction CRESTWOOD 

ANN. Speaking from his experience 

with tetraploid iris, 

Fay emphatically insisted 

that diploid daylilies would 

be obsolete in ten years. The 

big daylily war was on. Diploid 

breeders felt threatened. 

Die-hard diploid lovers 

revolted. No way were 

they going to let those guys 

ruin the daylily by this conversion 

process. 

Wanting to be in on the 

cutting edge, Steve attended 

this convention and, for the 

first time, met a Florida hybridizer 

from whom he had 

Orville Fay (Slide: Howard Hite) 

Fay-Griesbach’s 1961 CRESTWOOD ANN (Slide: Howard Hite) 


ordered daylilies. That hybridizer was Bill Munson. After the convention, 

Bill Munson stopped by Steve’s garden to see just what 

kind of daylilies Steve had been creating. A lifelong friendship was 

forged by the common interest in a flower. 

At the time CRESTWOOD ANN had a hefty price tag of $200. 

Wanting to explore all possibilities of daylilies and only having diploids 

with which to work, Steve scraped together $800 to purchase 

a collection of Fay’s induced tetraploid daylilies. Bill Munson purchased 

CRESTWOOD ANN at about the same time. So began their 

quest for big, flashy tetraploid daylilies. The CRESTWOOD series 

proved to be hard to work with. Munson felt that being converted, 

they probably were not 100% tetraploid. Pods would drop before 

maturing, and the pollen was sterile. Steve was able to set quite a 

few seed with CRESTWOOD ANN and a cadmium orange, induced 

tetraploid from Dr. Traub of California, named REVEREND 

TRAUB (registered in 1959 as “Rev. Traub”). 

Due to extreme Florida heat, Munson was less successful with 

seed set. When Steve’s seed crop bloomed, his friend Bill made a 

trip to northern Ohio to see them. Both men were disappointed because 

all the bloom was various shades of muddy orange. 

For several years Steve and Munson planted thousands of daylily 

seeds they got from using available induced tetraploids, only to be 

rewarded with flowers in shades of cantaloupe, yellow, or gold. A 

few seedlings were selected and outcrossed to induced tetraploid 

cultivars produced by other hybridizers such as Dr. Traub, Orville 

Fay, James Marsh, and Virginia Peck. Steve would send some of his 

select tetraploid seedlings to Munson for evaluation only to find out 

Dr. Griesbach 

(Slide: Howard 

Hite) 

later that a daylily that looked great in the North would wither and 

die without winter dormancy in Florida. Steve and Munson began 

to share each other’s creations. By mixing dormant and evergreen 

genes, the two worked together to develop cultivars that grew equally 

well in both northern and southern gardens. 

In the early 60’s, with the help of iris breeder and friend Bill 

Barrere, Steve began the tetraploid conversion process. Steve was 

not happy with the dull colors he was getting from the induced 

tetraploids that he had been using. Selecting and doing his own 

seed conversions seemed the logical way to go. Converting seed 

was a long, drawn-out process. Steve took the day shift, and Bill 

Barrere watched over the seeds at night. Once the germinated, converted 

seeds were planted, it was not unusual to see 60 to 98 percent 

of the seedlings die. Worse yet, only a few of the seedlings that 

made it were tetraploid. 

Continued on page 17 


I 

Joanne Larson 



have just returned from Cleveland 

and the 12th annual Region 2 

Symposium! What a great way to get a “daylily 

fix” in the winter! Thanks to Curt 

Hanson, who chaired the event again this 

year, and his committee, all in attendance 

heard great presentations, saw gorgeous new 

introductions, and seedlings that are definitely 

“beyond the edge.” The spirited auction 

Saturday evening, coupled with a teaser 

auction Friday evening, brought great prices 

for some of the newest cultivars. Thank you 

to all those hybridizers and growers who 

donated and to all who purchased. And, if 

From the Board 

by Joanne Larson, Region 2 Director 

you didn’t attend this Symposium, put it on 

your calendar for next year! You missed 

another good one! 

Our region, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, 

Michigan, and Ohio, proudly counts 65 AHS 

display gardens, more than any other AHS 

region. If you are considering display garden 

status, a procedural change has been 

made in the application process as of 1-1- 

04. Display garden applications are to be 

mailed to the AHS Display Garden Chairman 

Mary Lou Lundblade (address is in the 

Our region, Wisconsin, Illinois, 

Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio, 

proudly counts 65 AHS display 

gardens, more than any other 

AHS region. 

Joanne Larson 

The Daylily Journal). She will notify our 

RVP; he or his designated representative 

will visit your garden and write a letter of 

approval or disapproval to the Display Garden 

Chairman. Applications can be downloaded 

from the AHS website at http:// 

www.daylilies.org or you can contact Mary 

Lou. 

A major personnel change for 2004 for 

AHS is the resignations of Jim Brennan and 

Frances Gatlin as of July 1. Jim is Editor of 

The Daylily Journal and Frances has served 

in the capacity of Special Projects/Journal 

Production. They have given us superior 

publications and will be missed. 

A search committee was formed, and it 

chose Allen McLain from Region 14 as a 

candidate for the editor’s position. The AHS 

Board confirmed his appointment in October, 

and I’m sure that he would appreciate 

our support. 

This is the season to concentrate on our 

gardens, but also to take the time to visit 

other gardens. What better way to do this 

than to attend our National Convention in 

St. Louis, July 1-3! The tour gardens will 

be wonderful, but you’re in for a special treat 

when we go to the St. Louis Botanical Gardens. 

The daylily display beds there are not 

to be missed! 

If you want to travel a little farther north, 

the Bay Area Daylily Buds are hosting the 

Region 2 Summer Meeting in Green Bay, 

WI, July 23-25. Again, there will be the opportunity 

to tour beautiful gardens. Speakers 

will be Leo Sharp and Dan Trimmer. 

How about local gardens Many clubs arrange 

bus tours to members’ gardens during 

bloom time. The listing of AHS Display 

Gardens, which will be published in 

the summer issue of The Daylily Journal, is 

another source for possible gardens to visit. 

Put down your spade, find a friend to take 

along, and go! 

We need more Exhibition and Garden 

Judges! If you are planning to attend the 

national and/or regional meetings, why not 

sign up for the beginning clinics and workshops. 

If you have questions about what is 

involved, contact me or our liaisons—Richard 

Ford and Sharon Fitzpatrick. 

Phil Kor 

orth’s 10 0 Top op Reasons why y you ou should come to 

Green Bay’s y’s 2004 Region 2 Summer Meeting July 23-25 

Come on Friday for open gardens, specialized nurseries, and sight-seeing in 

Green Bay. 

Special tailgate party dinner on Friday. 

Seven great tour gardens from country gardens and farms to beautiful city 

gardens. 

Experience the most northerly Region 2 meeting ever. 

See northern hybridizers - 5 tour gardens have active hybridizing programs. 

Huge Englerth seedling bed competition with over 50 plants. 

Two guest speakers: Leo Sharp and Dan Trimmer 

More fun and surprises than other regional meetings. 

All those in Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana: A chance to see a Super Bowl trophy 

in Green Bay. 

Meeting headquarters next to largest Casino in North Wisconsin. 

Have e you ou visited ed our Region 2 

Web eb Pages on the Interne 

ernet 

t 

You can find information about your 

officers, Region Two local clubs and 

their officers, club schedules, Region 2 

Summer Meeting gardens, and much 

more. 

Some articles, which appeared in 

black-white in our newsletters will be 

posted there with their color images. 


http://badbuds.org tourgardens.htm 



A 

s we all eagerly await the 

coming of spring and a new 

bloom season, the Region Two Symposium 

attendees received an inspirational 

start for the year. 

This year’s Symposium was another 

enjoyable experience for daylily addicts 

who were treated to a great diversity of 

speakers. 

Thanks again to Curt Hanson, Juli 

Hyatt, Sharon Fitzpatrick, and Heidi 

Willet for their work in making it a 

meeting to remember. 

Region Two members should take notice; 

we had almost as many attendees 

from out of our region as we did from 

Region Two. 

I hope Region Two members took advantage 

of the e-mail auction in February. 

This was a very successful auction 

thanks to our Ways and Means Chair 

Nikki Schmith and the innovative program 

by our Regional Webmaster Don 

Williams. A big thank you to both Nikki 

and Don as well as everyone in the region 

who donated plants. 

Thanks to our editor’s hard work and 

the generous donations of clubs and individuals 

we are able to honor the many 

RVP Message 

by Ed Myers 

requests for more color in the newsletter. 

We hope you like this issue. 

I hope many of our Region Two 

members are planning to attend the Regional 

Summer Meeting July 23-25 in 

Green Bay, Wisconsin. The photos and 

the garden descriptions tell us that we 

are in for an enjoyable experience in 

the northern part of our Region. This 

should be a great opportunity to see how 

different cultivars grow in this zone. 

Of course, one of the benefits of attending 

a Region Two Summer Meeting 

is to meet old and new daylily lovers 

and to make friendships that may 

last for a lifetime. 

As always, I would like to remind our 

region’s members to become an Exhibition 

or Garden Judge. Your region 

needs you, especially as Exhibition 

Judges, since attrition will deplete the 

judges we have. Please help with this 

important part of being an A.H.S. member 

and through our show displays help 

to educate the public to know what great 

flowers daylilies are. 

I wish you all a healthy and pleasant 

summer and a perfect bloom season. 

Ed 

Ed Myers 


Canal Winchester Oh 43110 

Mark Your Calendars 

for Events in 2004: 

♦ July 23-25 Region Two 

Summer Meeting in 

Greenbay, Wisconsin. 

♦ June 30-July 3 AHS 

National Convention, St. 

Louis, Missouri. 

Region 2 Club Newsle 

wslett 

tter Award 

This award was established in 2001, and it is to recognize the quality of club newsletters in Region 2 

and to honor these club editors. 

Procedures and criteria: 

The award shall be based on publications issued during a single calendar year and shall be presented by the Region 2 

Awards and Honors Chair at the Annual Meeting the following year. 

The award may be given more than once to any club in successive years, but not more than once to any specific editor of a local 

club newsletter. 

The RVP, RPD, and Editor who are in office during the year for which the award is given shall determine the Award. 

Voting shall be based only on the information that is directly received by each officer. 

The criteria for evaluation SHALL include the following: diversity and quality of content, timeliness of information, timeliness 

and consistence of publication. 

The criteria for evaluation MAY include any of the following: graphic layout; incorporation of pertinent photos; and incorporation 

of other graphics (logos, figures, etc.) 

Correction: The Winner of the 2002 Region 2 Club Newsle 

wslett 

tter Awar 

ard was Harold Steen, 

newsle 

wslett 

tter editor for the Daylily Society of Southeast Wisconsin, 

not t the Wisconsin Daylily Society as reported ed in the last issue. 



G 

reeting to the Region 2 Youth! 

Region Two Youth News 

I am so glad to be with you again in 2004. Can you believe, we are 

having a Region 2 meeting in Green Bay, Wisconsin, this summer 

and that you are invited We are working on plans for a really great 

time. Hey guys, this is not just a trip with your parents. We “Youth” 

stick together! Think of all the new friends you will meet and the 

fun you will have. I am excited! I am not going to tell you about all 

the plans, but don’t miss out. There will be lots do. 

I would love to hear from all of you. 

Please e-mail me (wekyhe@msn.com) 

about what you have been doing and any 

special activities you would like to do at 

the summer meeting. Hey, our Daylily 

Enthusiasts of Southern Indiana (DESI) 

club is hosting the Daylily Heaven in 2007 

summer meeting. Mark it on your calendar. 

We are already making plans for 

YOU! 

In this newsletter issue, we are introducing 

some of the Youth members in the 

Judy Heath (DESI) and the Metropolitan Columbus 

DS (MCDS) clubs. 

Kaylee Gray is the daughter of 

Mike and Angie Gray. She lives 

in Velpen, Indiana. Kaylee is six 

years old and is in Kindergarten 

at the Otwell Elementary School. 

Her favorite part of Kindergarten 

is reading and music. Kaylee is a 

very busy young lady. She takes 

dance lessons, plays tee-ball, enjoys 

fishing, works on the computer. 

Now, with all these activities, 

she says her favorite hobby 

is helping her Dad plant daylilies. 

Her favorite daylily is LITTLE 

GRAPETTE. Purple is Kaylee’s 

and her mother’s favorite color. Kaylee Gray 

She is a third-generation daylily 

grower. Her favorite job is deadheading. I wonder who taught her 

how to do that! We are looking forward to a very special purple 

introduction from Kaylee in the near future. 

Our next DESI Youth member is Tanner Gray. Tanner is nine 

years old and is in the third grade at Otwell Elementary School. 

This young man is destined to be a great hybridizer. He has very 

definite traits in mind that he wants to see in a daylily. Number one 

is a bubbly gold edge. His favorite daylily is ICING ON THE CAKE. 

Tanner is in close competition with his grandfather to have the first 

true blue daylily. Like his sister, Tanner also has a very busy schedule. 

He plays basketball, soccer, video games, and he plants daylilies. 

Tanner was also a very gracious host when we were treated to a 

Bar-B-Q picnic at his home this past summer. Who knows, maybe 

Tanner will have the very first blue daylily with a gold edge. We 

have our fingers crossed. 

Two good friends, often seen at the 2003 AHS National Convention, 

are 14 year old McKenzie Williams and 18 year old Tiago 

Bergemann. Tiago lives in Joinville, Santa Catarina, in Brazil. Tiago 

developed a love of daylilies from his parents, Dario and Neussa. 

His favorite hybridizers are Dan 

Hansen and David Kirchhoff. Tiago 

is majoring in International Business 

at a college in his home town. He plays 

tennis and soccer. We are looking forward 

to meeting Tiago this summer in 

St. Louis. 

McKenzie is the other half of this 

vivacious friendship. Not only does 

McKenzie attend Memorial High 

School, but she also works for her 

Mom. They take pictures of newborn 

babies at a large hospital in Evansville. 

Leo Sharp is McKenzie’s favorite hybridizer, 

and she has two daylilies 

named after her. She plays basketball, 

Tanner Gray 

has a golden retriever named Pumpkin, 

a cat named Daisy, and a hamster named Scratchy. McKenzie 

has been attending regionals and nationals with her grandparents, 

Don and Lea Ann Williams, for many years. We hope her brother, 

Evan, will attend some of the meetings soon. Evan and McKenzie’s 

parents are Judy and Eric Williams. 

DESI is delighted to 

introduce you to Shannon 

Hayes their newest 

Youth member. Shannon 

is 13 years old and is in 

the seventh grade at Pike 

Central Middle School. 

Shannon’s favorite daylilies 

are ALIAS PETER 

PARKER and READ 

MY LIPS. She enjoys 

working in the garden. 

However, she spends 

most of her time unloading 

mulch. At school, 

she plays volleyball and 

throws shot put and discus 

in track. Shannon McKenzie Williams (Evansville, IN). 

Tiago Bergemann (Brazil) and 

enjoys spending time 

with her family. She and her brother, 

Johnny, like drag racing and love 

riding 4-wheelers. She also sings in the 

choir and likes to listen to music with 

her friends. Like a typical teen, Shannon 

loves to talk with her friends on 

the phone and the Internet. She is the 

daughter of Mikki and David Asserud. 

Shannon would love to meet other 

Youth members at the Region 2 meeting 

this summer. 

Metropolitan Columbus DS Secretary 

Virginia Myers forwarded information 

about several AHS Youth 

members who belong to MCDS, and 

additional Region 2 Youth members 

will be introduced in our next newsletter 

issue. 

Shannon Hayes 

All images on this page 

by Judy Heath 

(continued, on page 23) 



Your RPD’s Message 

I 

think it this summer is 

going to be a GREAT 

daylily summer! In June the AHS 

National Convention takes place 

in St. Louis, MO, over the dates 

of June 30 to July 3. If you’ve 

never been to a national convention, 

this is the time to see one for 

yourself. Normally the national is 

held in some exotic location like 

Florida or Oklahoma, and it seems 

frivolous to spend the time money 

and effort to go to them. This one 

Paul Meske is in our own backyard and is eminently 

doable. 

My first national was in 1999 in Minneapolis, MN. It is like a 

regional meeting on steroids. It runs a longer, there are more people, 

the gardens are better, the collections are more spectacular, the 

speakers and banquets are spectacular, and you see the “big names” 

of daylilydom riding the tour buses and walking around the gardens 

the same as you. It’s all an experience you will remember for a long 

time. Ask anyone who’s gone to a national, and they will tell you 

the same thing. 

As if having the national in St. Louis isn’t enough, next year it 

will be in Region 2 in Cincinnati, June 29 to July 3. 

This year, three weeks after the national convention, you have 

the opportunity to take part in a “first.” The AHS Region 2 Summer 

Meeting will be held July 23 to 25 in Green Bay, Wisconsin, for the 

first time ever! This is only the second time it will have been held 

in Wisconsin. There are seven gardens on the official tour and if 

you arrive early, you will have the opportunity to visit another six 

gardens. Check out the web site at 

http://www.badbuds.org/convention.htm 

In closing I would like to suggest that, as you wander through 

the gardens of St. Louis and Green Bay, keep track of your favorite 

daylilies and remember to vote in the popularity poll right after 

you leave from Green Bay. Owing to its northerly location, bloom 

almost anywhere else in Region 2 will have already peaked, and it 

is the perfect time to cast your ballot. For 2003 only 132 ballots 

were turned in. If we work real hard, I think we can get that number 

up to 134 or maybe 135! 

Please send your 

club news for the 

Fall 2004/Winter 

2005 newsle 

wslett 

tter in 

“stor 

ory” format by 

September ember 1, 

2004, to your 

editor 

or. 

Include photos os or 

slides of your 

important club events 

ents 

and share them with 

our Region 2 mem- 

bers. 

Please update your 

RVP and editor about 

changes in your club’s 

leadership, their 

addresses, telephone 

numbers, etc. 

Your Editor’s Message 

A 

fter the hectic travels 

of last summer, I enjoyed 

staying in Ohio, cold 

freezes and breezes and all! 

Northern Comfort is seeing the 

first signs of daffodils ‘February 

Gold’ and ‘Tete a Tete’ starting 

to come out of the ground about 

a week into January and looking 

at lilac bushes, bare, but loaded 

with swollen buds. For me, that 

is a wonderful way to watch the 

winding down of winter. 

Gisela Meckstroth 

I hope this newsletter will turn 

out with better color than the last 

issue. The Region 2 Summer Meeting tour gardens are certainly 

going to be a sight to see. Selecting front and back covers was difficult 

since the committee members had sent images that were, pretty 

much, all so well suited for that purpose. 

I am trying my best to keep the newsletter cost down by scanning 

all photos used for inside pages myself. Only the photos/slides for 

the outside covers were (at extra cost) professionally scanned. All 

layout is done by me using PageMaker. By going to self covers 

(using the same paper for covers and inside pages), the cost has 

been lowered by about one third over previous issues. Since some 

local clubs have been donating money to be used for color in the 

newsletter, our RVP and I have decided to add some color pages for 

the write-ups of the Youth liaison’s page(s) and the wonderful Region 

2 Symposium presentations. However, there are always some 

advantages and disadvantage. We had a few color pages available 

for 14 symposium presentation write-ups, and that meant that each 

article gets about 1/2 page color; then, additional article-text must 

be continued on following black-white pages. 

Ours is the largest of the 15 AHS regions with the highest number 

of members and highest number of newsletter copies that have to be 

mailed. AHS contributes only a relatively very small amount of 

money per mailing label, and this means that production of the twice 

yearly newsletter is an extra large burden on our Region. The money 

for it has to be raised entirely by Region 2 members themselves. We 

do this with the Region 2 Summer Meeting plant auction and the 

Region 2 Winter E-mail auction. Not an easy task! (The symposium 

is a break-even event and does not contribute directly to the newsletter 

printing and mailing.) 

A big Thank-You to all of you who have helped pitch in to accomplish 

that large task by donating plants to the summer-meeting 

and electronic auctions, by purchasing plants from both sources, 

and for running the auctions. 

I hope to see you in Green Bay, Wisconsin! 

Do you know... 

...that an AHS Youth membership 

costs only $8 per year 

See the inside front cover for 

details. 



Stat 

tatement of Cash Receipts and Disbursements 

sements 

American Hemerocallis Society ty – Region Two 

For or the Period January y 1, , 2003 Through December 31, , 2003 

BALANCE FROM PRIOR REPORT 12-31-2002 

Checking Account $ 3,493.96 

Business Money Market Account 2,901.06 

Certificates of Deposit 35,347.52 $41,742.54 

RECEIPTS 

E-mail Auction: Plants 5,652.00 

Regional Meeting Auction & Plant Sale 4,753.65 

Contributions 1,830.00 

Newsletter 

Subscriptions 112.75 

Refunds -41.00 

Label Reimbursement 899.45 

Interest 779.19 

Symposium 2003: 

Registrations 13,220.00 

Auction/Raffle 8,735.00 

Symposium 2004 790.00 

TOTAL RECEIPTS 36,731.04 

TOTAL OF BALANCE FORWARDED & RECEIPTS: 78,473.58 

DISBURSEMENTS: 

E-mail Auction Expenses 29.00 

Newsletters Printing 7,385.00 

Postage 669.03 

Symposium 2003: 

Hotel, etc. 21,619.36 

Raffle/Auction 215.82 

Symposium 2004 200.00 

Office Supplies 106.94 

Printing & Postage 304.08 

Regional Director Expense 943.42 

Telephone 348.71 

AHS Liability Insurance 415.75 

RVP, RPD & Editor Nat’l Convention 800.00 

Contributions 379.70 

Web Page 299.40 

Miscellaneous 30.33 

TOTAL DISBURSEMENTS 33,746.54 

BALANCE ON HAD 12-31-2003 $44,727.04 

Checking Account $ 2,967.02 

Business Money Market Account 10,675.39 

Certificates of Deposit 31,084.63 

$44,727.04 

Prepared by AHS Region Two Treasurer Chuck Bell 1/15/2004 



Election for 

AHS Region 2 Director and RVP 

• The candidate was selected by the Region 2 Nominating Committee, 

comprised of Bill Sevetson (IL), Mary Milanowski (MI), and Sandy 

Monroe (IN). Only AHS members who are Region 2 members are 

eligible to vote. A second joint-member is eligible to vote using the 

duplicate of the ballot form below. Ballot must be signed to be 

counted and must be postmarked no later than June 15, 2004. Votes for 

a write-in candidate require permission of the candidate. 

• Election of a regional vice president will be held at the 2004 Region 2 

Summer Meeting. The Nominating Committee will propose a candidate 

at this 2004 meeting. 

` Vote for only one candidate and mark your ballot with an “X” in 

the box. 

` Ballot must be signed and dated to be counted. 

` Ballot must be postmarked no later than June 15, 2004. 

Mail to: 

 

 

..............................Second Member Ballot............................... 

` Vote for only one candidate and mark your ballot with an “X” in 

the box. 

` Ballot must be signed and dated to be counted. 

` Ballot must be postmarked no later than June 15, 2004. 

Mail to: 

 

 

For or AHS Director or from om Region 2 

Three Year ear Term: 2005–2006–2007 

Voter's Signature 

For AHS Director from Region 2 

Three Year Term: 2005–2006–2007 

Voter's Signature 

Joanne Larson 

Joanne Larson 


Nominating Committee Chair 

Bill Sevetson, 5217 Lawn Avenue 

Western Springs IL 60558-6784 

Telephone: 708-246-6784 

(Nominating Committee’s Candidate) 

For Write-in Candidate 

Nominating Committee Chair 

Bill Sevetson, 5217 Lawn Avenue 

Western Springs IL 60558-6784 

Telephone: 708-246-6784 

(Nominating Committee’s Candidate) 

For Write-in Candidate 

Date 

City_____________________________________________State_______ 

Date 

City_____________________________________________State_______ 

This and That from AHS to Region 2 

Looking Ahead 

AHS Region 2 Meetings 

2004: Bay Area Daylily Buds, Greenbay, , Wisconsin. July 

23–25, 2004. 

2005: AHS National Convention, Greater Cincinnati Daylily 

and Hosta Society, June 29-July 3, 2005 

2006: Ohio Daylily Society. 

2007: Daylily Enthusiasts of Southern Indiana. 

2008: Wisconsin Daylily Society, July 18-20. 

Looking ahead at the 

National Convention Calendar 

2004 ..... The Greater St. Louis D. S. , St. Louis, MO .............. June 30-July 3, 2004 

2005 ..... Greater Cincinnati D.S., Cincinnati, OH .................... June 29-July 3, 2005 

2006 ..... Long Island Daylily Society, Long Island, NY .................. July 13-16, 2006 

2007 ..... Hemerocallis Society of Minnesota, MN ....................... July 18-21, 2007 

2008 ..... Combined Texas Daylily Clubs, TX ............................................ May 2008 

Region 2 Englerth Award 

This hybridizing excellence award is open to Region 2 hybridizers 

exclusively. All seedlings and cultivars that have not been 

registered are eligible. Plants entered as candidates for this award 

are to be planted in one of the designated Region 2 Summer Meeting 

tour gardens and are to be marked with a code number only. All 

attendees of the Region 2 Meeting are encouraged to vote on ballots 

to be supplied by the meeting chairperson. The award medallions 

are to be engraved with the winner’s name and are awards to 

be cherished. 

To enter your seedling, ship enough fans of the plant so that it has a 

good chance of blooming on the day of the tour. Information about 

future annual regional meetings and the shipment of plants for 

Englerth consideration and as guest plants follow below. 

Contacts and shipping info o for Englerth th Award 

ard 

candidate e plants: 

2004 – Bay y Area Daylily Buds 

Mark and JoAnn Jankowski 

4297 DePrey Road 

Abrams, WI 54101 

Tel: 920-826-5995 

Email Contact: Nate Bremer, solaris@lakefield.net 

2005 – Greater er Cincinnati Daylily and Hosta Society 

Dan & Jackie Bachman 

1850 S. St. Rt.123 

Lebanon, OH 4503 

Tel: 513-934-1273 E-mail: valleydan@earthlink.net 

Hosts of the 2005 AHS National Convention 

2006 – Ohio Daylily Society 

Ken Blanchard 

3256 S. Honeytown Road 

Apple Creek, OH 44606-9047 

Tel: 330-698-3091 E-mail: cblancha@bright.net 

2007 – Daylily Enthusiasts of Southern Indiana 

Mary Phillips 

RR#2 Box 188 

Princeton, IN, 47670 

Please call 812 385 4529 before shipping in June and July, to 

ensure someone will be here to receive and plant. 


More Than Green and Gold 

American Hemerocallis Society Region 2 Summer Meeting 

Hosted by the Bay Area Daylily Buds 

Headquarter 

ers: The Radisson Hotel and Conference Center 

er 

Green Bay, , Wisconsin 

July 23 to 25, 2004 

Your Host Club is looking forward to welcoming 

Region 2 members this summer. 

Frida 

riday, , July 23, 2004 

9 am–5pm Registration, Bargain Plant Table Sales, 

Boutique, Silent Auction 

10 am – 4 pm Open Gardens 

12:30 pm 

12:30 pm 

Exhibition Judges Refresher Clinic 

Exhibition Judges Clinics II 

1:00 pm Exhibition Judges Clinic I 

3:00 pm 

5:00 pm 

Garden Judges Workshop 1 

Youth Meeting 

5:30 pm Reception (cash bar) 

6:00 pm 

6:30 pm 

Hybridizers Slide Show 

Dinner (included in registration fee) 

7:30 pm Announcements 

8:00 pm 

8:45 pm 

Leo Sharp — Guest Speaker 

Daylily Plant Auction 

Saturda 

day, , July 24, 2004 

7:00–7:30 am Registration 

Breakfast on your own 

7:15–7:30 am Buses leave for gardens 

Garden Judges Workshop 2 en route 

Noon–1:00 pm Lunch en route (included in registration fee) 

4:00–4:30 pm Buses return to hotel 

4:30–6 pm Bargain Plant Table Sales, Silent Auction, and 

Boutique 

6:00 pm Reception (cash bar) 

7:00 pm Banquet (included in registration fee) 

Region 2 Business Meeting 

Guest Speaker Dan Trimmer 

Sunday, , July 25, 2004 

7:30 am Buses depart for gardens 

12 noon Return to Hotel 

Highlights 

♦ Guest speakers Leo Sharp and Dan Trimmer 

♦ Bargain Plant Table, Silent Auction, and Live Auction 

♦ Seven Gardens on Tour 

♦ Exh. Judges Clinics, Garden Judges Workshops 

♦ Friday Evening Tail Gate Party, Slide Show, and Plant Auction 

Regis 

egistr 

tration Information 

$95.00 per person with June 20th postmark 

$120.00 per person after June 20th postmark 

$ 65.00 per person for Youth registration ($80 

after June 20th postmark) 

Make chec 

hecks payable able to the: 

Bay y Area Daylily Buds (BAD Buds) 

Mail to: 

Registrar and Chairman Phil Korth 

1861 Pinewood Trail 

Suamico WI 54173 

Tel: 920-434-5958 

E-mail: pkorth@netnet.net 

Meeting/Lodging 

Radisson Hotel and Convention Center 

er 

2040 Airport Drive 

Green Bay WI 54313 

Telephone: 800-333-3333 or 920-494-7300 

Fax: 920-494-5030 

Ask for “Daylily Society” room block. 

Contact hotel directly and mention the AHS 

Region 2 Summer Meeting 

to get the special room 

rate of $89 single or double plus tax if reserved by 

June, 23, 2004. 



Region 2 Summer Meeting 

Plant Auction 

‘More Than Green and Gold ’ 

in Green Bay, Wisconsin. 

July 23 rd , 24 th , & 25 th , 2004. 

Summer Meeting plant auctions are one of the best 

ways to support our Region 2 activities and are 

looked upon as one of the highlights of the gathering. 

By assembling plants for this auction from all over 

Region 2, attendees will be exposed to a rich variety 

of plants and our organization will be forwarded so 

that all members can benefit from information, 

projects, newsletters, and camaraderie within the 

daylily world. Support AHS Region 2 by donating 

auction plants for the Summer 2004 Meeting in Green 

Bay, Wisconsin. Sharing a daylily cultivar through 

the auction is simple and rewarding (help another 

gardener become a Hemerocallis addict)! For more 

information-form on donating plants please see page 

16 or contact: 

Nate Bremer 

‘More Than Green and Gold’ Auction Chair 

7510 Pine-Sva Road 

Reedsville, WI 54230 

solaris@lakefield.net 

Phone: 920-754-4335 

Meet t our Region 2 Summer Meeting 2004 

Keynot 

eynote e Speaker 

ers: 

Leo Sharp & Dan Trimmer 

Leo Sharp has been hybridizing Hemerocallis for 

more than 30 years in the Midwest. His many small 

flowered ‘Brookwood’ introductions are amongst the 

finest examples of this category of daylilies. Northern 

growers have come to recognize the excellence of 

his diploid plant introductions for their hardiness, 

beauty, performance and superior round forms. Leo 

hybridizes more than just small flowers, and his larger 

flowered cultivars possess the same stellar attributes 

as the ‘smallies’ he has introduced. The Bay Area Daylily Buds are excited 

to acquaint you with Leo Sharp of Brookwood Gardens. 

Dan Trimmer is one of the premier Hemerocallis hybridizers 

in the United States today. His tetraploid hybrids 

are grown across the nation, both north and south, 

with great results. Many of Dan’s hybrids are on the 

cutting edge, due the introduction of diploid conversions 

into his program. He brings a different and much 

sought after look to the modern daylily hybrid. Unusual 

and exceptional eyed cultivars have been the 

dominant flowers coming out Dan’s Water Mill Gardens 

in Enterprise, Florida. The Bay Area Daylily Buds welcome Dan to 

the 2004 convention, and know that all who attend will be in for a special 

presentation. 

Name: 

Additional Name(s): 

Address: 

Clip out and fill in registration form. 

2004 AHS Region 2 Summer Meeting and Garden Tour Registration 

Mail to: Registrar Phil Korth, 1861 Pinewood Trail, Suamico WI 54173 

Make checks payable to: Bay Area Daylily Buds 

City: 

State: Zip: Phone: ( ) 

Number of persons attending Adult: Youth: Amount enclosed: $ 

Friday Dinner Entrees: Saturday Dinner Entrees: 

Tail Gate Buffet Chicken–California Wellington or New York Striploin 

Name:_____________________________________ 

Name & Entree:_____________________________________ 

Name:_____________________________________ 

Name & Entree:_____________________________________ 

Note: 

If you have special needs (either dietary or physical), please note them here for the registrar. 

Please write number of persons 

attending Judges Clinics and Garden Judges Workshops in appropriate box below: 

Exhibition Judges Exhibition Judges Exhibition Judges Garden Judges Garden Judges 

Clinic I 

Clinic II 

Refresher Clinic 

Workshop 1 Workshop 2 

***Reminder: All Clinic and Workshop participants need to have with them a copy of the 2002 Revision of the AHS Judging Daylilies. handbook. 



SLIDE 

REQUES 

EQUEST 

FOR THE YEAR 2004 

AHS REGION 2 SUMMER MEETING 

HYBRIDIZERS: 

Please share slides of your new and 

future introductions. 

Please Donate Auction Plants 

Support t the 2004 Region 2 

Summer Meeting Auction 

July 23-25 in Green Bay, , Wisconsin. 

Proceeds go to the Region 2 

Daylily Newsletter 

To donate plants: 

The slides will be shown before dinner Friday evening, July 

23. Up to 10 slides would be appreciated. 

Please send slides no later than July 15 so they may be 

included on a printed list. 

Mail to: 

Harold Steen 

W310 N6759 

Chenequa Drive 

Hartland, WI 53029-8705 

hnfsteen@speeddial.net 

Graphic contributed by Jill Yost, Pataskala, Ohio. 

Boutique 

Region 2 Summer Meeting 2004 

June 23 from 9 am to 5 pm 

June 24 from 4:30 to 6 pm 

Why not Show Your Goods 

A large area is available for those of you who wish 

to show and sell your daylily art, plant labels, garden 

structures, books, and other related garden items. 

Rental per space: 

$30 with one table, $50 with 2 tables. 

For details and to reserve tables, please contact: 

Karen Trester 

2030 Jourdain Lane, Green Bay, Wisconsin 54301 

Tel: 920-432-6858 E-mail is: KTrester@new.rr.com 

Donor Name:__________________________ 

Address:______________________________ 

_____________________________________ 

_____________________________________ 

Phone or E-mail:________________________ 

Cultivar 

Hybridizer 

Please send your donation information to 

2004 Region 2 Summer Meeting 

Plant Auction Chair: 

Nate Bremer 

More Than Green and Gold Auction Chair 

7510 Pine-Sva Road 

Reedsville, WI 54230 

solaris@lakefield.net 

Phone: 920-754-4335 

The follo 

ollowing 2 methods of donating plants 

wor 

ork k best: 

1)Send a listing (above or a post card) of plants 

to be donated now, and ship plants later, with 

labels and descriptions, by July 10 th , 2004. 

2)Bring labeled plants with description(s) and 

hybridizers’ name to the hotel registration 

table at regional-meeting time. If at all 

possible we’d like to know well ahead of time 

what you are bringing, to allow us to prepare 

properly. An auction plant slide show is 

planned. 



Illinois 

Dolores C Bourisaw EX 2006 I 

Lu Dickhaut EX 2007 I 

Orville Dickhaut EX 2007 I 

Leslie A. Fischer S 2004 

Richard L. Ford EX 2007 I 

Kimberly Isacson EX 2006 

Barbara J. Kelly EX 2006 

William (Bill) F. Kelly EX 2004 

Margaret Klipp EX 2007 I 

Randall E. Klipp EX 2007 I 

Amy Klipp Lundmark EX 2006 

Joanne E. Larson EX 2007 I 

Mary Anne Leisen EX 2005 

Holly Maves EX 2004 

Carol McClintock EX 2006 

Kathleen Pinkas S 2006 

William A. Potter EX 2005 

Carol J. Reich EX 2006 

Marie Seaman EX 2006 

Judith Shaltry E/j 2005 

Bette Thomsen EX 2006 

D Steve Varner 

E/h 

Ann Waite EX 2004 

Dr. Virginia Winkler EX 2007 I 

Indinana 

Thomas J. Connell EX 2007 

Dennis Crooks S 2005 

J. Paul Downie EX 2007 

2004 Region 2 AHS Exhibition Judges 

Brandon Farias S 2005 

Judy Heath E/j 2005 

Dorothy Koons EX 2006 

C. Daniel Overholser E/h 

John A. Phillips E/j 2005 

Mary Phillips E/j 2005 

Laurel Richardson E/j 2004 

Jaclyn (Jackie) Schroeder S 2006 

Marjorie C. Soules EX 2005 I 

Elizabeth Jean Stallcop EX 2007 

Mary Stone S 2005 

Melvin Stone S 2005 

Don R. Williams EX 2006 

Lea Ann Williams EX 2006 

Joyce R. Wozniak E/j 2005 

Michigan 

Phyllis Cantini EX 2005 

Patrice McCollum EX 2004 

Hal H. Rice EX 2005 I 

Nikole Schmith S 2006 

LaVere Webster S 2004 

Ohio 

Daniel E. Bachman EX 2004 

Ann Bixler EX 2005 

Don Bixler EX 2005 

J.R. Blanton E/j 2005 

Patsy Bushdorf EX 2005 

Karen Ciula EX 2007 

Sharon Fitzpatrick EX 2007 

Rosemarie Foltz EX 2007 I 

Marlene Harrington S 2006 

Patricia Crooks Henley EX 2005 I 

Richard D. Henley EX 2007 I 

Alan J. Hersh EX 2005 

Debbie Hurlbert EX 2007 

Jean Johnson EX 2007 

Kenneth Johnson EX 2007 

Jeffrey Kerr S 2006 

Gisela Meckstroth EX 2007 I 

Carol Meglan S 2006 

Edwin L. Myers EX 2007 

Virginia Myers EX 2007 

Barbara Sayer S 2005 

David L. Sayer E/j 2005 

Martha Seaman EX 2004 

Kit Walter EX 2007 

Ruth S. Whitehead E/h 

Bob Wilcox EX 2006 

Ethel Wilcox EX 2006 

Heidi Willet S 2005 

Steve Williams S 2004 

Wisconsin 

Janet Gordon EX 2007 

Legend: 

E/h = Honorary 

S = Student 

E/J = Junior 

EX = Senior 

I = Instructor 

Golden Opportunity for “Doubling Up” 

Exhibition Judges Clinics I and II 

by Exhibition Judges Liaison Richard Ford 

We have a unique situation this year for Region 2 that I hope some can take advantage 

of. With the national meeting in St. Louis and the regional meeting in Green Bay, 

it is possible to “double up” on requirements for becoming an exhibition judge. One 

could take Clinic I in St. Louis and Clinic II in Green Bay. OR if you already have 

your Clinic I completed you could do Clinic II at the national and Clinic III ( Refresher 

Clinic) at the regional. Here you could talk to other judges who have experience 

and could help answer questions about working toward becoming a senior judge. 

I also need to mention that every year we have the same problem with unpaid dues. 

Please find a good way to remind yourself to do this before the end of the year. You 

lose all your credits and have to start over from Clinic I and all the rest of the requirements 

again. 

Enough of that. I’m so glad it’s spring again, and I’m looking forward to seeing all 

of you at the national and /or regional. 

Looking back 20 

Year 

ears...T 

s...Talk about Dedica- 

tion! 

MCDS Member Bernie Grebus 

donated a Spring 1984 Region 2 

newsletter copy to the “Editor’s 

Collection.” Here are names of 

Honors and Awards Judges (Garden 

Judges) that were on the 1984 list 

and that are still there, on the 2004 

listing above, twenty years later: 

Illinois: Luella and Orville 

Dickhaut. 

Indiana: Marjorie Soules, Jean 

Stallcop. 

Ohio: Martha Seaman. 

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.or 

.ahsregion2.org 

• Visit the American Hemerocallis Society Web-Site address at: 

http://www.da 

.daylilies.or 

ylilies.org/da 

g/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. 



Illinois 

BELL, CHARLES ............................................ 2007 

BELL, PATRICIA ............................................. 2007 

BOURISAW, DELORES ................................... 2008 

DICKHAUT , LUELLA ....................................... 2005(I) 

DICKHAUT , ORVILLE ..................................... 2005(I) 

FORD, RICHARD L ......................................... 2008(I) 

FRANKENBERGER, GERALDING (GERRIE) ...... 2006 

FRANKENBERGER, JAMES S .......................... 2004 

ISAACSON, KIM ............................................. 2008 

KLIPP, MARGARET ......................................... 2008 

KLIPP, RANDY ................................................ 2008 

LARSON, JOANNE E ....................................... 2005 

MAVES, HOLLY .............................................. 2006 

RAY, CHARLES ............................................... 2005 

SEVETSON, BILL ............................................ 2006 

SONDALLE, BARBARA ................................... 2006 

THOMSEN, BETTE .......................................... 2005 

VARNER, STEVE ............................................. H 

WAITE, ANN M ............................................... 2006 

WATTS, GEORGE PAUL ................................... H 

Indiana 

CLEMENT, BRET S ......................................... 2007 

CONNELL, DELLA MAE ................................... 2007 

CONNELL, THOMAS J ..................................... 2007 

DEIG, ROSE MARY ......................................... 2007 

GREENLEE, NORMA ....................................... 2008 

HEATH, JUDY ................................................. 2006 

JAMES, LOUISE B .......................................... 2007 

JERABEK, DON .............................................. 2006 

KRAFT, JANICE F ............................................ 2004 

KRAFT, ROBERT E .......................................... 2004 

MALLORY, PHILLIP ......................................... 2005 

MCMULLEN, GREG ........................................ 2006(I) 

MOSLEY, ROSALIE ......................................... 2008 

PHILLIPS, JOHN ............................................. 2008 

PHILLIPS, MARY ............................................ 2008 

RICHARDSON, LAUREL .................................. 2007 

SCHROEDER, JACLYN .................................... 2006 

SHARP, LEO SR ............................................. 2005(I) 

SOULES, MARJORIE C ................................... 2007 

STALLCOP, ELIZABETH JEAN .......................... 2006 

STAM, ROSALIE ............................................. 2008 

STROTHER, RANDALL D ................................. 2007 

WEINGARTNER, DAVID LARRY ....................... 2007 

WILLIAMS, DON ............................................ 2007(I) 

2004 Region 2 AHS Garden Judges 

WILLIAMS, LEA ANN ...................................... 2007(I) 

WILLIAMS, MCKENZIE ................................... 2007 

WINTON, DORIS ............................................ 2008 

WOZNIAK, JOYCE R ........................................ 2007 

ADAMS, RICHARD L ...................................... 2006 

Michigan 

CANTINI, PHYLLIS .......................................... 2008(I) 

CRELLER, MIKE A .......................................... 2007 

DAVISSON, GLENN ........................................ 2008 

DAVISSON, JUDY ........................................... 2008 

DELISLE, ARMAND J ...................................... 2004 

DELISLE, BARBARA A .................................... 2004 

FAUST, GARY ................................................. 2005 

FULKERSON, ILA A ........................................ 2004 

FULKERSON, JED .......................................... 2008 

GUZINSKI, JAMES (GUS) ............................... 2008(I) 

KAMENSKY, MARTIN ..................................... 2006 

KOVACH, BRUCE F ......................................... 2007 

KROPF, JACKI ................................................ 2005 

KROPF, JOHN ................................................ 2005 

KRUER, CHRIS .............................................. 2005 

MC COLLUM, PATRICE ................................... 2004 

MILANOWSKI, TOM ....................................... 2007 

PRUDEN, DIANE ............................................ 2007 

RICE, HAL H .................................................. 2005(I) 

VANDERMEER, JERRY .................................... 2005 

VEURINK, DOUGLAS ...................................... 2008 

Ohio 

BACHMAN, DANIEL E .................................... 2007(I) 

BLANTON,CLESTON I JR ................................ 2006(I) 

BROOKER, GERDA ......................................... 2008 

BUSHDORF, JAMES ....................................... 2005 

BUSHDORF, PATRICIA ................................... 2005 

CALLIS, PATRICIA .......................................... 2007(I) 

CIULA, KAREN ............................................... 2005 

DETMER, BETSY ............................................ 2006 

FITZPATRICK, SHARON .................................. 2007(I)* 

FOLTZ, ROSEMARIE ....................................... 2006(I) 

HAEHN, RALPH .............................................. 2005 

HANSON, CURT ............................................. 2005(I) 

HENLEY, PATRICIA ......................................... 2006 

HENLEY, PATRICIA CROOKS PHD ................... 2004(I) 

HENLEY, RICHARD D ...................................... 2004 

HERSH, ALAN J .............................................. 2006 

HERSH, JOYCE L ............................................ 2008 

HURLBERT, DEBBIE ....................................... 2005 

HYATT, JULIA .................................................. 2005 

ISGRO, RITA .................................................. 2008 

ISGRO, THOMAS R ........................................ 2008 

JOHANNES, Gail ............................................ 2007 

JOHANNES, WILLIAM C .................................. 2007 

MC MURRY, JAMES ....................................... 2007 

MC MURRY, REBECCA ................................... 2007 

MECKSTROTH, GISELA .................................. 2006(I) 

MECKSTROTH, ROBERT ................................. 2007 

MISEL, DEBORAH K ....................................... 2008 

MONDRON, PETER ........................................ 2005 

MONGOLD, EDGAR K .................................... 2008 

MYERS, EDWIN L ........................................... 2007 

MYERS, VIRIGINIA ......................................... 2004 

NICHOLSON, JAMES ...................................... 2007 

NORRIS, RICHARD ........................................ 2004 

ROUSE, WILLIAM D ....................................... 2006 

SAYER, BARBARA .......................................... 2005 

SAYER, DAVID ............................................... 2005 

SEAMAN, MARTHA ........................................ 2005 

TOMAN, JUDY ................................................ 2006 

WALTER, KIT .................................................. 2005 

WILLET, HEIDI ................................................ 2008 

WILLIAMS, JERRY .......................................... 2005 

WILLIAMS, STEVE .......................................... 2008 

Wisconsin 

BENSER, DR CAROLINE ................................. 2004(I) 

BENSER, DR. JERRY ...................................... 2004(I) 

BREMER, NATE .............................................. 2008 

HENNING, KRISTIE ........................................ 2008 

MESKE, PAUL ................................................ 2007 

PEARCY, HIRAM ............................................ 2008 

POPELKA, ROGER ......................................... 2005 

POWELL, WILLIAM E ...................................... 2007 

SHEEHAN, JOHN E ......................................... 2007 

Legend: 

I = Instructor 

200X = Expiration Date 

* = Garden Judges Liaison 

From your Garden Judges Liaison: 

Are you still considering becoming an AHS Garden Judge Every Region in AHS is allotted 15% of its membership. As the largest 

Region in AHS, we are way below our allotment for responsible Garden Judges. I know you are probably tired of the old verbiage “being 

a Garden Judge is an honor.” Truthfully, this position is honorable and one where your vote as a Garden Judge really counts. AHS has a 

great awards system in place to honor daylily hybridizers and their creations. To reach the full potential of this awards system, it takes 

both, the cooperation of hybridizers filling out their nominee ballots sent to them each year by the AHS Awards Chair and conscientious 

Garden Judges from every region of AHS to make it work. All of you who have a current AHS membership and have held membership 

in AHS for 2 consecutive years, grow and are regularly seeing large numbers of award eligible daylilies, have attended at least one of 

your own or neighboring regional meetings that include garden tours, and are familiar with the contents of the Garden Judges section in 

the Judging Daylilies Handbook, are encouraged to take the first step to help make the AHS Awards system work by signing up to take 

Garden Judges Workshop 1. With over 1000 new daylilies being registered with AHS each year, we are not suffering from a lack of good 

daylilies to vote on. Problem is, as each year’s daylily crop gets better and better, your voice is needed to help select the best of the best. 

To help fill our allotted 15% of Garden Judges, every club in Region 2 is encouraged to sponsor Garden Judges Workshops for your 

members who, for some valid reason, cannot attend all regional and national meetings. A list of qualified Region 2 AHS Garden Judges 

Workshop Instructors is available in this issue of the Region 2 Newsletter or can be provided on request. The only time a club cannot 

hold a Garden Judges Workshop is during the Region 2 Summer Meeting and during the time slated for the AHS National Convention. 

Workshop I can be held indoors during off-season bloom time by using slides made up by the AHS Judges Educational Committee and 

provided to you by your Region 2 AHS Garden Judges Liaison. Workshop 2 must be held during bloom season in a garden where award 

eligible cultivars are grown. Workshop 2 can be held in conjunction with club garden tours, picnics, or general meetings. The AHS 

Awards System needs you! Sign up for your club sponsored Garden Judges Workshops now. 

For more information about Garden Judges Workshops please contact: 

Sharon Fitzpatrick 

3050 Cedar Hill Road 

Canal Winchester, Oh 43110-9566 

Tel: 614-837-2283 E-mail: hemnut@worldnet.att.net 



Moldovan’s 

A Piece of Sky (continued from page 5) 

The 1970 Years 

In the late 60’s and early 70’s, hybridizers Virginia Peck, Bill 

Munson, Brother Charles Reckamp, and James Marsh had joined 

Steve in the Fay-Griesbach so-called “Tetraploid Revolution.” This 

movement outraged the powers that be at The American Hemerocallis 

Society. The establishment ostracized anyone associated with 

tetraploid conversions. Steve cheerfully gave up his seat on the AHS 

board. 

Steve and Munson crossed their surviving tetraploid seedlings 

with available induced tetraploids, and colors other than orange, 

yellow, and gold slowly began to appear in the seedling patch. There 

was no blue yet, but blooms definitely on the violet-purple end of 

the color spectrum could be seen. In 1970, Steve registered the 

first of three fully tetraploid siblings with AHS. Violet rose-purple 

ROYAL WATERMARK (Moldovan - Barrere) was followed by 

blue-purple MAGIC ROBE (Moldovan-Barrere) in 1974. The last 

sibling was a small gray purple-eyed flower named PIXIE PLUM. 

Steve was a person who shared his plants and knowledge, so he 

sent a few fans of PIXIE PLUM to live with hybridizing friends in 

the South. Elizabeth Salter incorporated dormant PIXIE PLUM in 

her small evergreen breeding program. Violet colored EMPRESS 

SEAL (Moldovan-Barrere 1975) and, at the time, a near pink EVE 

Brother Charles 

Reckamp 

Slide: Howard 

Hite 

really into flowers, but he liked to be where the action was and was 

good at doing paperwork. With encouragement from Steve, it was 

not long before Roy was dipping pollen like a pro. 


In the 80’s, many other hybridizers joined the “Tetraploid Revolution.” 

Tetraploid conversion techniques became more sophisticated. 

The establishment began to think that maybe this “Tet thing” 

was not so bad. Munson became president of the American Hemerocallis 

Society. 

Consumed by his passion for purple and pink tetraploids, Steve 

combined his purples from HOUDINI with Munson’s tetraploid 

DAMASCAN VELVET (R.W. Munson 1980). A rich purple tetraploid, 

STRUTTERS BALL (Moldovan 1984), was created. When 

he took SINBAD SAILOR to HOUDINI, a rosy colored VERA 

BIAGLOW (1984) emerged. Always outcrossing to get a flower 

that would perform under varied growing conditions, Steve took a 

lot of heat from peers when he crossed Illinois hybridizer James 

Marsh’s CHICAGO APACHE with Florida hybridizer David 

Kirchhoff’s polychrome MING PORCELAIN. Granted, most of the 

seedlings were an awful color, but one was a distinctive clear coral 

pink that met Steve’s high standards of breeding. He later named it 

SOUTH SEAS (Moldovan 1993), and it has proved itself to be a 

good breeder and a strong plant in landscapes from Maine to California. 

One of Steve’s best pink parents came from the LAVENDER 

PARADE gene pool crossed with a flower from two induced tetraploid 

seedlings. The resulting plant was a soft pink color with a 

good bud count and nicely branched scapes, was pod and pollen 

fertile, and hardy in a wide range of growing conditions, but the 

plant was terrible in the “increase” department. This seedling turned 

out to be a super breeder for both northern and southern hybridizers. 

It was finally registered as LOVE GODDESS. It wasn’t long 

before a bluish lavender pink seedling from the gene pool of EM- 

PRESS SEAL, that was christened COUNTY DOWN, showed up 

in the seedling patch . Steve did the pollen dance with COUNTY 

(Moldovan-Barrere) was also registered from this first crop of 

induced seedlings. All of these registered cultivars contained 

induced tetraploid genes from Edna Spalding’s BLUE JAY, 

LAVENDER FLIGHT, and EDNA SPALDING in the background. 

Lavender, with cream watermark, SINBAD SAILOR came from 

ROYAL WATERMARK. Steve continued to outcross his tetraploid 

seedlings to cultivars created by Brother Charles and James Marsh. 

At the end of the 70’s a young man by the name of Roy Woodhall 

joined the tetraploid crusade at Moldovan’s Gardens. Roy was not 

Photo Credits 

Some of these slides from the 1960’s were taken by 

Howard Hite. Before his death, Southern Michigan 

Hemerocallis Society member Harris Olson gave the 

collection of slides to Sharon Fitzpatrick, the author of 

this article, and told her to take care of them and to use 

them for a good purpose. Here are some of these photos. 

Region 2 Hybridizer Steve Moldovan 

at work during the 1980 years. (Image: Roy Woodhall) 



DOWN and LOVE GODDESS, and a ruffled pink polychrome 

HAIL MARY was born. 

Full form daylilies were in vogue. No one wanted a skinny petaled, 

spider type flower. Steve either composted that type of seedling 

or he pawned the undesirables off on a landscaper friend. After 

all, he had worked the last thirty years to fatten up the petals, so why 

keep the skinnies. A few years ago, daylily enthusiasts began to 

notice how tall, thin-petaled daylilies added grace and movement to 

a garden. Twenty years later, Steve was able to retrieve one of those 

landscaper seedlings, and it has become one of the most popular 

daylilies in his garden. Instead of naming this flower 

LANDSCAPER’S DELIGHT, the lovely tetraploid lavender unusual 

form is known as KYOTO SWAN. 


In 1990 a smashing purple diploid, GRAND MASTERPIECE, 

from Texas hybridizer Bob Dove took the daylily world by storm. 

Its color was better than any tetraploid out there. Steve chuckled as 

he described how, later, it was confirmed that Dove sort of rustled 

the plant from another Texas hybridizer, Jack Carpenter, and put his 

own brand on it. A neighboring hybridizer Curt Hanson, with whom 

Steve exchanged daylily knowledge, managed to do a successful 

conversion on GRAND MASTERPIECE, and he shared a couple 

of pollen filled anthers with Steve. Always outcrossing to create 

hardier plants, he used the pollen and was able to incorporate another 

tough southern gene into his hybridizing program from a plant 

that would thrive in a climate as hot as Hades but that would also 

take the abuse of the frozen North. COURT MAGICIAN crossed 

with tetraploid GRAND MASTERPIECE resulted in wide-petaled, 

deep purple NINJA NIGHT. When he crossed STRUTTER’S BALL 

melon colored cultivars of Brother Charles Reckamp. Results were 

a purple bicolor, which added a new dimension to his purple line, 

and he named it FLYING CARPET. Intrigued with eye patterns, 

Steve combined the gene pool of Munson’s lavender watermark 

EMPEROR BUTTERFLY with FLYING CARPET and came up 

with a cultivar he dubbed OLD KING COLE. Steve considers this 

one as one of the nicest eyed bicolor cultivars in his program. 

By the mid 1990’s, Steve was becoming concerned about the future 

of the daylily. Demand was at an all-time high for big, fat, ruffled, 

bubbly, multi-edged daylilies, and connoisseurs would pay any price 

to get them. Greed was taking over the integrity of growers and 

hybridizers. Pretty diploids were being converted without first checking 

for plant defects. Inbreeding ran rampant, flashy cultivars were 

being mass produced by unnatural process and grown under greenhouse 

conditions. Many plants were never kissed by the sun or 

brushed by a breath of fresh air before being thrown onto the market. 

The daylily world was getting upset because some of these plants 

were so weak, they died before being planted in the ground. The 

modern daylily was becoming an expensive annual. 

On a visit to Moldovan’s Garden a few years ago, an outstanding 

flower with a multiple eye pattern jumped out at me while I was 

inspecting the seedling field. When I questioned Steve about the 

seedling, he said, “I didn’t do it–Tony did.” Tony Slanec was a horticulture 

student from The Ohio State University doing graduate 

work at the garden and who wanted to learn how to hybridize. Steve 

showed him the ropes and turned the young man loose. Tony crossed 

one of Steve’s patterned, eyed OLD KING COLE seedlings with 

Elizabeth Salter’s tetraploid LADY VIOLET EYES. The match resulted 

in a uniquely distinctive seedling with a washed violet eye 

pattern that showed every day, no matter what the temperature. This 

Image: Roy Woodhall 

FRIAR’S LANTERN 

(STRUTTER’S BALL X TET GRAND MASTERPIECE) 

OLD KING COLE (Image: Roy Woodhall) 

with the potent pollen from MEPHISTOPHELES, a dark violet 

purple materialized. NOBLE LORD was a result of taking 

MEPHISTOPHELES pollen to FENCING MASTER. A grape colored 

flower with a white edge named SHAKA ZULU came from 

crossing MEPHISTOPHELES with COURT MAGICIAN. Outcrossing 

the MEPHISTOPHELES seedlings to his older line produced 

a white edge on dark purple WATERSHIP DOWN and the 

frilly, white edged, deep purple VATICAN CITY. 

Steve noticed a slight multiple eye pattern in a seedling from 

STRUTTERS BALL and tetraploid GRAND MASTERPIECE, that 

he named FRIAR’S LANTERN. The eye pattern did not show every 

day, but when it did there was something different about the 

flower. Starting to explore the possibilities of the eye pattern in 

FRIAR’S LANTERN, he took its pollen to strong, multibranched, 


DIGITAL 

IMAGERY 

(Image: Roy 

Woodhall) 


plant was registered as DIGITAL IMAGERY, and Tony went on to 

discover that girls were more fun than daylilies. 

Fascinated with eye patterns, Steve began to explore the gene 

pool of Salter’s northern-hardy, semi-evergreen MOONLIT MAS- 

QUERADE and combined it with his own eyed cultivar MASON’S 

MARK. A seedling resulting from this cross, when mated to DASH- 

ING PRINCE (Moldovan) and KING OF PRUSSIA (Biaglow), 

produced a patterned, eyed cultivar named VERTICAL HORIZON. 

Steve crossed VERTICAL HORIZON with DIGITAL IMAGERY, 

and the unthinkable occurred. On the day this seedling bloomed, 

Steve could not believe what he saw, because he never thought he 

would live long enough to see a blue daylily. On that day, it took 

Roy Woodhall and three garden visitors to convince him that it was, 

indeed, so. Yes, the flower’s eye was the color of blue damask. It 

only took Steve 50 years to come up with a flower he refers to as 

VERTICAL 

HORIZON 

(Image: Roy 

Woodhall) 

Steve 

Moldovan’s 

recently 

registered 

PIECE OF 

SKY. 

Image: Roy 

Woodhall 

√ Outcross to hardy cultivars to help insure that the 

perennial daylily does not become an annual. 

√ Don’t be too sure about results from a cross because 

Mother Nature has a way of creating beauty that a 

hybridizer never dreams of. 

√ Keep your eyes open for that special little trait in a 

bloom that could lead to a distinctively unique flower. 

√ Plant your seedlings in the ground and grow them 

nature’s way. 

Steve and Roy Woodhall have full time jobs and very little garden 

help. Planting seeds in the ground in the fall is no longer an 

option. They have rented greenhouse space where seed is planted in 

flats in January. By mid April or early May all the seedlings are 

planted in the ground where, once again, Old Man Winter separates 

the weak from the strong. 

In over a half a century Steve Moldovan has registered almost 

500 daylilies with the American Hemerocallis Society. Urban sprawl 

is threatening the serenity of the Moldovan’s Gardens, but at age 

66, Steve is still as excited about the flower today as he was when 

he saw first bloom on SATIN GLASS. What he has learned over the 

years about daylilies is that he is learning more and more each and 

every day. The daylily was meant to be a garden plant, and he hopes 

it stays that way. 

Moldovan’s 

2004 

QUEEN OF 

ANGELS 

brought 

$700 

as an 

unregistered 

seedling 

during the 

2003 Region 

2 Symposium 

in 

Cleveland. 

Image: Roy 

Woodhall 

PIECE OF SKY, which has recently been registered. According to 

Steve, he didn’t do it alone. He gives credit to the 25 or more hybridizers 

who have gone before him to create this blue-eyed beauty. 

Many people may think today’s daylily isn’t doing much, but Steve 

cautions, “You just wait.” His advice to new hybridizers is, “Go for 

it!” Patterns and forms are showing up that have never before been 

seen. The lure of bland-colored daylilies is beginning to wane. New 

clear color hues are emerging that, when planted in a mixed border, 

now compliment bright colored petunias. Steve is glad to see more 

people jumping on the spider and unusual form daylily bandwagon. 

After all, looking at a garden full of stiff cookie-cutter daylilies can 

be rather dull. 

He urges want-to-be hybridizers to follow these points: 

√ Plant those seeds but get ready for many disappointments 

because maybe one out of a thousand seedlings 

will be a keeper. 


Roy Woodhall and Steve Moldovan at the Fall 2003 Ohio Daylily 

Society’s meeting. Steve was the guest lecturer. 

Image: Karen Ciula 

 


2004 Region 2 Summer Meeting Tour Gardens 

“More Than Green and Gold” 

ANGELIC ACRES 

Mark and JoAnn Jankowski 

4297 Deprey Road, Abrams, WI 54101 

Sharpen your pencils, loosen those chads! The 2004 Englerth 

Award Garden is nothing short of an extravaganza. Cast your 

ballot from among more than 50 new seedlings of all forms and 

sizes, including plants from well-known and new Region 2 hybridizers. 

If that’s not enough to catapult you off the bus, how about the 

80-plus guest plants from who’s who of the daylily world! Guest 

plant donors include well know hybridizers like Bachman, Gossard, 

Peat, Petit, Salter, Sharp, Shooter and Stamile. 

The Englerth Garden is only the beginning of the treats in store at 

Angelic Acres, the home of Mark and JoAnn Jankowski. Nestled 

amongst nature, this partially wooded, rural, private gardens on a 

dead-end road, features more than 700 daylilies. Recent introduc- 

tions from Doorakian, 

Webster, Gossard and 

Stamile are accented 

along with favorite garden 

sculptures in a sequence 

of ever-expanding beds. 

200-plus hostas and perennials 

will also be on 

display. 

Angelic Acres began as 

a labor of love. Several 

years ago, Mark created a 

colorful garden for JoAnn 

who was recovering from 

a serious accident. 

Housebound, JoAnn enjoyed 

the garden view 

where daylilies put on a 

prominent show. JoAnn 

recovered and soon the 

hem-bug bit (a variety of 

ANGELIC ACRES 

mental ‘thrip’ that is 

any folks south of the “Cheddar Curtain” find it hard to believe there’s more to Green Bay than a certain famous football team. 

So the BAD Buds (Bay Area Daylily Society) invite you to be amazed and delighted. Despite its reputation, northeast Wisconsin 

Mis a hotbed of rabid hobbyists, commercial growers and hopeful northern hybridizers who are carving out a hemerocallis paradise in the 

“frozen tundra”. 

Come join us! Being from Green Bay, we know how to throw a prime-time party. You’ll be double-teamed with presentations from Leo 

Sharp and Dan Trimmer, you can compete for gotta-have cultivars at the region’s auction, and you will participate in a tailgate bash to kick 

off the fun. (Did we mention the casino for members who like to gamble on more than evergreens) 

Best of all are the tour gardens: AHS Display Gardens, commercial daylily nurseries, an Englerth Display with more than 50 entrants, 

and captivating private gardens, one with an R-rated daylily bed. You’ll see tetraploids, dips, doubles, spiders, miniatures, variants, eyes, 

edges and more. Plus thousands of eye-popping seedlings from local hybridizers. 

Green Bay’s home fields will be decked out in green, gold, and a blaze of glorious gardens. We can’t wait to show you our colors! 

You ou can Tak 

ake e a Cyber Tour our of the Bay y Area Gardens at 

http://badbuds.org/tourgardens.htm 

 

highly infectious to new gardeners). In less than four years, Mark 

and JoAnn have collected hundreds of daylilies and perennials and 

are expanding their gardens at the rate of one to three beds a year. 

Mark enjoys large flower forms, doubles, and spiders, while JoAnn 

is drawn to spiders and large patterned eyes. 

Like many Region 2 couples, the two plan vacations around visits 

to hybridizers, association meetings and buying trips. They have 

recently begun a hybridizing program and their “angelic” seedlings 

can be viewed on the tour. 

Come stroll through the gardens, sit and relax and enjoy their 

labor of love. 

ROSE-HILL GARDENS 

Leo and Eileen Bordeleau 

472 Rose Hill Drive, Oneida, WI 54155 

Rose-Hill Gardens is a charming commercial garden set in 2.4 

acres in the beautiful, gently rolling hills west of Green Bay. 

Curving display beds bordered with natural fieldstone are terraced 

up a hillside—the perfect setting for a leisurely garden stroll. 

Daylilies are complemented with gently waving ornamental 

grasses, shaded hostas, astilbe, bleeding heart and other accent perennials, 

displaying garden settings for sun and shade. 

This tour stop is the BIG show! As you wander, you’ll notice the 

Bordeleaus like their daylilies large (six inch flowers plus, please!) 

with prominent eye zones, deep colors and dramatic edges. Today, 

80% of all varieties in Rose-Hill Gardens are tetraploids, with representation 

for hybridizers Webster, Gates, Moldovan, Stamile, 

Bachman and more. An account of some of the finest showy spiders 

will please the arachnid-crowd. 

Garden favorites include CAMEROON NIGHTS, GINGER TWIST, 

BROOKLYN TWIST, PERSIAN RUBY, and SHAKA ZULU. Leo’s own 

hybrids will also be on display, showing his pursuit of the perfect 

plus-size flower on robust northern-hardy foliage. Like many area 

gardeners, Leo doesn’t limit himself to daylilies. Visitors will view 

hostas, heucheras, brunneras, heucherellas and other unique peren- 

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ROSE-HILL GARDENS 

PINEWOOD GARDENS 

Phil and Luella Korth 

1861 Pinewood Trail, Suamico WI 54173 

North of Green Bay, down a quiet country lane, lies Pinewood 

Gardens, home of Phil and Luella Korth. Here, tucked among 

pines, birch and tranquil ponds, you’ll find a truly “TETalizing” 

garden and outdoor seedling laboratory. 

The Korths have been growing daylilies for eleven years, seven 

at their current location. Avid gardeners, the couple built their home 

in a tranquil rural setting, leaving plenty of room for daylilies, hostas 

and perennials. 

Phil and Luella are fond of big, bold, tetraploids and skinny-petaled 

spiders. Favorite Hybridizers such as Trimmer, Stamile, Benz 

and Hanson figure prominently in their collection. Visitors will see 

more than 250 of the daylily world’s most recent introductions, as 

well as the best of classics from Munson and Moldovan. Favorite 

cultivars include RAPID EYE MOVEMENT, JANET BENZ, RUBY 

SPIDER, and RON DUNN. 

PINEWOOD GARDENS 


nials for a well-rounded 

look at the northern garden. 

Region 2 members 

should know that this 

soft-spoken man is responsible 

for the daylily 

addiction of many a 

BAD Bud member. 

Founder, president and 

force behind the Bay 

Area Daylily Society, 

Leo recalls receiving his 

first daylily in a 1967 

“Flower of the Month” 

offering. He began collecting 

seriously in 

1986. Now, nearly 20 

years later, his fascination 

hasn’t dimmed, and he is 

cultivating a whole new 

generation of daylily 

devotees. 

The Pinewood seedling beds showcase the efforts of the Korths’ 

prolific hybridizing program. Row after row of tidy raised beds will 

burst with some 3,000 new seedlings. The Korths hybridize for size, 

unusual eye zones, fancy edges and substance. Partial to reds and 

purples, they pursue flower forms that open perfectly, feature vigorous 

foliage and adapt to the northern growing season. To get a jump 

on Zone 4 conditions, Korths cultivate seedlings and set seed in 

their basement during winter, then transfer them to the gardens in 

early spring. Pay special attention to Pinewood registrations 

ARNOLD RAEKER and DAWN IN LORIEN, of which Phil and 

Luella are particularly proud. 

The dynamic couple are founding members of the BAD Buds, 

and accuse Leo Bordeleau of hooking them on this irresistible compulsion. 

Phil, an accomplished shutter bug, is the official tour garden 

photographer. His work has been featured in Wisconsin Trails 

magazine, as well as numerous calendars and daylily publications. 

SIUDZINSKI’S GAZEBO GARDEN 

Jerry and Jan Siudzinski 

2138 Kensington Lane, Green Bay, WI 54311 

Want to see how to transform a small, open suburban 

lot into a gardener’s showcase Then tour the home of 

Jerry and Jan Siudzinski. Right from the curb, you know greenthumbed 

fanatics live here. “We like everything in the garden, not 

just the daylilies,” say Jerry and Jan. 

The couple’s 90’ x 120’ yard is lush explosion of color, form and 

fragrance, with 300-plus named varieties in a series of beautifully 

kept beds and borders. Miniature lovers will be dazzled by the 

sheer diversity of Jan’s collection, an incredible display of doubles, 

miniatures and miniature doubles under 18”. Her favorites “Mighty 

Mite” and “Cute as a Button”. Jan is in her second year of hybridizing 

miniatures, and her latest seedlings can be seen in beds located 

to the side of the house. 

Jerry prefers unusual forms, edgy profiles and bold colors, spiders, 

with top favorites TECHNY SPIDER and RADIATION BIOHAZ- 

ARD. These wilder life forms are contrasted with the couple’s serene 

PRAISE AND WORSHIP bed, where CLOTHED IN GLORY, 

GENTLE SHEPHERD, and 

LIGHT OF FAITH are 

planted with inspirational 

garden accents. 

Visitors will be in awe 

of all the Siudzinski’s 

have accomplished in 

such a small space. Gardens 

surround porches, a 

Victorian gazebo and 

walkways. A backyard 

pond offers performances 

with singing frogs and pet 

goldfish. Architectural ornaments, 

overflowing 

pots of annuals, and riot 

of poppies, phlox, delphinium 

create a vibrant 

and ever-changing scene. 

Don’t miss the arch dripping 

with William Baffin 

SIUDZINSKIS’ GAZEBO 

GARDEN 



roses, a hardy northern climber that stops the show. 

Gardeners will appreciate the unseen hours behind the immaculately 

groomed grounds, a testament to an artistic eye and loving, 

constant care. 

TROWBRIDGE GARDEN 

3207 South Webster, Green Bay, WI 54301 

Surrounding a gracious turn-of–the-century home near 

downtown Green Bay rest the deceptively refined gardens of 

Ruth Trowbridge. Ruth has cultivated daylilies for more than four 

decades. First glances–the white picket fence, waves of perennials, 

canopied horse chestnut trees—create an impression of a proper private 

garden. Look closer. Read the labels. You’ve been suckered. 

In Green Bay Daylily circles, Ruth is known as the Daylily Madame. 

Her beds of ill repute feature bawdy, bodacious cultivars from 

Curt Hanson and others, pander to a racy sense of humor. Gathered 

together in a bordello bed are WOMEN SEEKING MEN, EROGENOUS 

ZONE, PERFORMANCE ANXIETY, and DEN OF INIQUITY. 

Other theme gardens include a Booze Garden with roses MAI 

TAI, MERLOT AND PEACH BRANDY, a Poker Garden with hostas 

named ROYAL FLUSH and GOLD BULLION, a kitchen garden 

with hostas ‘Golden Waffles’ and ‘Squash Casserole’. Gift 

plants from friends and loved ones figure in the gardens, with daylilies 

hybridized by Ruth’s sister Doris Simonsen. 

Visitors will find a playful mix of old favorites with new introductions, 

and beds beautifully laced with salvia, perennial sunflowers, 

daisies and phlox. Ruth’s favorite daylily varieties include WA- 

TERMELON MOON and CHAMPAGNE MOON. 

Ruth also cultivates a variety of magnolias, peonies, flowering 

shrubs, and unusual plant forms. Her tree-shaded front yard is a 

home to hundreds of hosta plants. Says Ruth, “Most daylily freaks 

become hosta nerds.” 

Enjoy... With Ruth’s playful theme beds and charming city setting, 

it’s not your garden variety tour. 

Kim and Joe Klarner 

N9375 Lawn Road, Seymour WI 54165 

The Klarner acreage beckons to gardeners who enjoy travelling 

off the beaten path, exploring a fascinating collection of flowering 

shrubs, unusual trees, native plants and rare, weird and wonderful 

species. 

This eclectic gardener’s mix began just four years ago, when Kim 

and her husband Joe escaped to ten acres in the country. Immediately, 

Kim began gardening with gusto. 

Four island beds form the mainstays of the Klarner gardens. They 

include a perennial bed; a woodland bed with native tree and plants; 

a booze bed with iris, roses and lilies named for drinks; and a mixed 

bed, of flowering shrubs such as witch hazel, Xanthocerus and 

Heptocodium. A focal point for the tour is a 1.5 acre pond with an 

island garden connected by a picturesque footbridge. The island 

forms a miniature prairie garden, complete with prairie coneflowers, 

black-eyed Susan and native plants. 

In addition to daylilies, 

Klarners’ Garden 

offers mix of magnolias, 

tree peonies, herbaceous 

peonies combined 

with perennials 

such as phlox, dianthus, 

spirea and roses. 

She also has an a sizable 

iris collection 

with more than 120 

bearded iris and several 

Spuria iris (iris 

which grows up to 6 

inches in height.) She 

is an active trader on 

gardenweb.com and 

also enjoys chatting 

and swapping cultivars 

with other cyber-gardeners. 

Klarner also 

admits she likes “pushing 

the zone,” trying 

her luck with tender 

The Klarners’ Garden 

azaleas, red buds, Carolina silver bell, Bowman’s root and bear berry, 

and exploring the possibilities of her own microclimate. 

Growing daylilies for the last 15 years, Kim professes to have no 

real favorites, other than a preference for pure color and shades of 

purple. She says simply, “I like ‘em all!” A favorite hybridizer is 

Frank Childs. Like many other BUDS, she dabbles in hybridizing, 

and has a plant she calls “Pretty on Pretty,” with a dramatic white 

border. 

TROWBRIDGE 

GARDEN 

Solaris Farms 

Nate and Kimberly Bremer 

7510 PineSva Road, Reedsville, WI 54230 

www. solarisfarms.com 

Set in a century-old Wisconsin farmstead south of Green Bay, 

Solaris Farms specializes in hardy, field-grown daylilies cultivated 

to withstand the rigors of the upper Midwest. An AHS Display 

Garden, the farm displays a dazzling number of daylilies, perennials 

and ornamentals against the backdrop of a circa 1858’s 

barn and outbuildings. 

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2004 Region 2 Summer Meeting Tour Gardens Continuing the Region 2 Youth News 

The farm accents numerous beds and gardens with old farm tools 

and implements, winding stone walks, strategically placed garden 

benches and a shady pergola, inviting visitors to leisurely exploration. 

While more than 900 varieties of tetraploids and diploids are 

represented at Solaris, Bremers’ favorite varieties to note include 

Northern performers, READ MY LIPS, LOVE’S CALL, BELA 

LUGOSI, and CARIBBEAN WHIPPED CREAM. Among the diverse 

collection is the 6-ft high SEARS TOWER, 8-inch high PENNY’S 

WORTH, and monster flowered TROPICANA TREAT. Bremer’s own 

registrations, including ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, DIANE 

BREMER, MAGENTA 

ASSAULT, and AN- 

GELS ON HIGH, demonstrate 

Nate’s hybridizing 

goals for high 

bud count, hardy plant 

habit and performance 

(total plant). 

Solaris Farms 

Visit our Region 2 Websit 

ebsite e at.......... 


or at 

http://badbuds.org/tourgardens.htm 

ourgardens.htm 

......where you can..... 


This commercial 

nursery is a family affair, 

helped along by 

various domestic and 

wild critters. Finn, the 

collie, acts as official 

greeter, while barn 

swallows and wild 

cranes fly overhead, 

barnyard ducks quack, 

and farm cats snooze 

amid the lilies. Nate, 

the brains/brawn, runs 

the operation; children, 

Emma and 

Ethan, assist visitors, 

and wife Kim acts as 

the bag lady and art critic (“honey, that flower color is NOT magenta”). 

Believing that dormancy is a key genetic component to zones 

where frost reaches four feet deep, Nate bases his program on northern 

hybridizers such Moldovan, Benz, Ellison, Hanson, Rice, and 

Reckamp. Bremer tests the new varieties several years in the display 

beds prior to offering them for commercial sale or hybridizing 

to ensure zone hardiness. 

To see what’s coming up in Solaris’s northern hybridizing program, 

step into Solaris’ Seedling Field. Featuring many thousands 

of 1 to 3 year old seedlings from Bremer and fellow BUD member, 

Bill Seidl (a nationally recognized breeder of peonies). Well-marked 

labels demonstrate the diversity of seedling characteristics generated 

through one simple cross, from the good to the bad to the ugly. 

Note: All tour garden images were provided by Phil Korth 

take a virtual tour of the 2004 Region 2 

Summer Meeting gardens and also read 

Region 2 Newsle 

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tter er articles in full color. 

(continued from page 8) 

Mark Williams is 11 years old and 

is a 6th grade student at Bloom 

Carroll Junior High School in 

Carroll, Ohio. He is in the percussion 

section of the school band and also 

takes piano lessons. He likes to play 

golf, tennis, and basketball. 

Mark has had his own daylily bed 

for 5 years and has been a member 

of MCDS and AHS for 3 years. His 

favorite color of daylily is red, and 

his favorite cultivar is EZEKIEL. He 

enjoys hybridyzing and likes to take 

daylilies to the annual show. He won 

the Novice Award in 2002 and won Mark Williams 

the prize for Best Youth in 2003. Image: Steve Williams 

Megan Ritchey 

Megan is a Sophomore at Pickerington Central High School, 

Pickerington, Ohio. She is an honor student and plays in the marching 

band; she plays both the flute and the tuba (at different times). 

She also sings in the school choir, and her favorite sport is playing 

soccer at school. Megan’s favorite daylily is MUNCHKIN MOON- 

BEAM (a 3 1/2 inch creamy white), she also likes purples, and she 

loves helping her mother with planting and taking care of their 

daylily gardens. Megan has been a member of MCDS and AHS for 

one year. 

Ryan and Cory Gossard (Don’t miss 

looking at their photos on page 27!) 

Ryan has been a member of AHS and 

MCDS for the past 2 years and has also 

been into hybridizing daylilies for 

more than 2 years. At the present time 

has introduced and registered RED 

EYED JACK in 2003, CLAWS OF 

MOONLIGHT (a 7 inch cream) in 

2004, and BUTTER FLIES (a 7 1/2 

inch butterscotch / red eye) also in 

2004. These daylilies can be found in 

Megan Ritchey 

his father Jamie Gossard’s brochures. 

He is more into large and unusual forms. Ryan has to get up at 5:30 

am in order to catch the school bus. He attends the sixth grade at 

Hilliard Middle School, Hilliard, Ohio. His after-school activities 

are in Martial Arts. He holds a red belt in Tae Kwon Do (two away 

from black belt) and works in Haidon-Gumdo (Korean Swords). 

Ryan raises chickens and shows them at the local fair where he 

won Grand and Reserve Champion two years ago. 

Cory Gossard has been a member of AHS and MCDS for the past 

2 years and has been hybridizing with yellows for the past 2 years. 

He is planning to register his seedlings in 2005. 

Cory is also into Martial Arts, Tae Kwon Do and Haidon Gumdo, 

with the same degree of belts ranking as his brother Ryan is. He is 

in the fourth grade at one of the Hilliard Elementaries (there are 

11). He gets to sleep in a little later than Ryan. 

Cory also raises chickens and has won Grand and Reserve Champion 

this year; the boys trade years to win. They have won Grand 

Champion overall with their rooster. 

Both boys are wonderful, working with the MCDS club in digging 

and cleaning plants for the plant sale in August. The club really 

appreciates all their hard work. (See photo on page 27!) 

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