RADS Newsletter, April 2009

Richmond Area Daylily Society

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This is a beautiful time of year when the gardens are really starting to grow. With all this rain, the daylilies are growing in leaps and bounds! Start now with good garden management. Please look around your garden and tag plants for digging that you could contribute for our sale on April 30th. These sales really help our club.

Happy gardening everyone! Paulette Miller

Trip to North Carolina Reminder: Two vans are headed to North Carolina to Tony Advent’s Plant Delights Nursery and Juniper Level Botanic Gardens on Saturday, May 9, 2009. One van is a 15-passenger van and the other will be for our purchases! This will be a fun trip for both those wanting to browse and those wanting to shop! Annual Daylily Flower Show & Sale Reserve June 20th on your calendar this year for the RADS annual daylily flower show and sale at Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens. There are many ways you can help with this huge affair, so please contact Paulette Miller if you’d like to volunteer. Welcome New Members! It’s always exciting to have new members join in the quest for fun with daylilies!

Leon Swell Terri Walker David, Christina, & Grace Neiswander

Next Meeting: Saturday, April 25th 11:00 am at the Wagner Building. Our guest speaker Kathy Griffin from

Boulevard Flowers will talk about perennials and .soil amendments. A New Daylily Club in Virginia Virginia now has 6 daylily clubs with the newest one in the south central area. The

Southern Virginia Daylily Club (SVDC) was formed July 26, 2008 with 14

members and is now up to 29 members! Several RADS members are actively involved in this new

club and we wish them lots of success. At their next meeting, Tuesday April 21st at 6:30 pm,

Paulette Miller and Michael Miller will be their guest

speakers. They will also bring lots of auction plants from Small World Daylily Gardens in an effort to fund the club’s plants-for-members program. RADS members are invited to join SVDC that evening for a wonderful presentation, an auction, and fellowship with other daylily enthusiasts. SVDC holds their meetings at MacCallum More Museum and Gardens in Chase City, Virginia.

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Look for an article in the Fanfare about the new club!

QUIZ: Can you identify the 10 daylilies pictured in this newsletter? HINT: Popular! (Answers on bottom of page 4.)

RADS 2009 President Paulette Miller (804)520-0807 Psm229@aol.com Vice President Pam Rutledge (804) 740-0089 Lrutledge28@comcast.net Treasurer Paul Compton (804)452-0239 bayberry@ctg.at Secretary Judy Durant (804)746-7426 igdurant@verizon.net Newsletter Editor Belinda Sheppard (434)374-4910 belinda23955@yahoo.com Membership Chairman Don Merkle (434) 392-8335 merkleda@longwood.edu Membership Applications can be sent to: 711 First Avenue Farmville, VA 23901 Annual Dues: $5.00 single, $8.00 family RADS Web Site http://mysite.verizon.net/vzepo9m6

Activities for 2009: 4

April 25: 11 am – Speaker: Kathy Griffin from Boulevard Flowers & Plants for Members Auction at the Wagner Building.

April 30 – May 2: Spring Plant Sale at Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens.

May 20 – 24: 2009 AHS National Convention in Lake Mary, Florida, hosted by Region 12 and

Sunbelt Daylily Chapter.

Jun 20: Daylily Flower Show at Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens.

July 10-12: 2009 AHS Region 3 Summer Meeting in Gaithersburg, Maryland

July 18: 11 am – Club Picnic at David Metzger’s home.

Aug 15: 11 am – Plant Swap and Pot Luck Lunch

Sep 18-19: Fall Plant Sale at Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens.

Oct 10: Annual Dinner with Guest Speaker Nicole Harry

Nov 14: 11 am – Thanksgiving Meeting at the Wagner Building. Business meeting with election of officers for 2010.

5 Newsletter Articles Please forward all newsletter articles or ideas for inclusion in the February newsletter to Belinda Sheppard by May 21, 2009. I would love to hear from you. Daylily Dictionary: Did You Know?

What is a Perianth Tube? The typical daylily flower consists of a funnel-shaped perianth tube and limb with six colored perianth

segments called tepals arranged in two rows. The inner row of segments are petals, and

the outer are sepals. These segments (petals and sepals) are joined for a portion of their length

at the base of the flower into a perianth tube that surrounds the ovary.

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Perianth Tube

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2009 Popularity Poll Top 20 Results (2008 data)

As a service to its members and to the general public, each year the American

Hemerocallis Society (AHS) conducts a popularity poll among its members to determine the favorite daylilies from each region. It is the hope of the AHS that this Popularity Poll presents a true picture of which

daylilies perform well in a given area and which are best liked by the membership. Popularity polls are important

to daylily growers -- both AHS members and nonmembers -- who make daylily selections for purchase.

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cultivar total 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 151 PRIMAL SCREAM 215 13 47 45 25 5 6 2 10 2 23 14 0 4 8 11 2 RUBY SPIDER 206 14 51 46 20 5 3 1 19 1 19 5 4 8 2 7 3 RED VOLUNTEER 145 1 20 14 19 0 15 0 20 0 35 3 2 6 7 3 4 J.T. DAVIS 113 2 2 3 3 36 2 1 0 0 16 5 3 7 31 2 4 ORANGE VELVET 113 1 6 11 7 28 17 2 7 0 9 1 2 7 11 4 6 VICTORIAN LACE 111 3 13 14 4 10 4 1 2 0 14 7 4 9 18 7 7 MOONLIT

MASQUERADE 105 1 13 14 14 10 6 1 14 1 15 2 0 3 6 5 8 LAVENDER BLUE

BABY 104 8 9 7 8 15 13 0 9 0 9 1 1 12 10 2 9 PEGGY JEFFCOAT 102 0 10 13 19 3 1 0 0 2 25 4 0 0 0 24

10 SABINE BAUR 100 1 10 9 1 3 7 2 13 3 20 4 2 5 10 9 11 ALL AMERICAN

CHIEF 99 0 34 22 11 2 0 1 0 0 5 1 2 5 2 14 12 STRAWBERRY

CANDY 97 1 16 11 11 6 4 1 16 1 11 4 1 6 6 2 13 BELA LUGOSI 92 10 24 15 14 0 1 0 2 2 12 5 2 2 0 3 13 LINDA BECK 92 0 7 0 0 16 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 66 0 15 BEAUTIFUL EDGINGS 89 1 20 11 10 1 11 0 2 1 13 3 1 10 5 0 16 KING KAHUNA 88 0 4 4 0 1 11 1 0 0 4 2 18 36 2 5 17 BILL NORRIS 87 2 17 9 3 12 1 4 0 7 8 3 2 5 6 5 17 SHORES OF TIME 87 0 13 18 7 1 1 0 3 2 7 8 2 1 13 11 19 SKINWALKER 76 0 4 9 6 18 3 1 8 8 9 4 0 1 1 0 20 FOOLED ME 75 0 17 11 11 1 2 1 15 1 6 2 1 1 2 4

How many of these do

you have in your garden?

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Let’s Talk Daylilies! By Sheila P. Weisensale

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Answers to Quiz: 1 Primal Scream; 2 Ruby Spider; 3 Red Volunteer; 4 J.T. Davis; 5 Orange Velvet; 6 Victorian Lace; 7 Moonlit Masquerade; 8 Lavender Blue Baby; 9 Peggy Jeffcoat; 10 Sabine Baur.

We had a very successful “Let’s Talk Daylilies” segment at our February 7, 2009 meeting. Our topic this month was “favorite reds” which “fired” members up! There were lots and lots of favorite reds

discussed.

Following are the daylily varieties that fellow RADS members shared as their “favorite reds”:

Africa Fire Down Below Roses in the Snow All American Chief Forever Red Ruby Spider Atomic Inferno Highland Lord Scarlet Orbit Balls of Bread Indy Rhapsody Siloam Paul Watts Betty Ford Indy Spirit Walk Small World Zachari Big Apple Iwanna Piranha Spacecoast Dark

Obsession Charles Johnson Jingle All The Way Chicago Apache John Philips Sousa Spiderman Chicago Atlas Leaving Me

Breathless Thin Man

Complimentary Colors

Thomas Jefferson and Liberty Little Red Charmer

Dunrobin Red Velvet

Marie Callas Vesuvian Point of View Willy Marcus

Ed Murray Red Volunteer Woodside Ruby

Thanks to all of you that participated in this discussion! The next opportunity for a “Let’s Talk Daylilies” segment is the RADS April meeting. For April, our members have requested that we have a local speaker come in and give a brief presentation on “Soil” with time allotted for questions and discussion from the membership. As we all know good soil is the key to any successful garden—daylily or otherwise—and hopefully, the speaker can answer all of our questions about soil nutrients, how and when to fertilize, and so on, so that we can have the most beautiful daylilies ever this year. Our Vice President will look into this program possibility for April in combination with the Plants for Members auction. If you have any ideas for “Let’s Talk Daylilies” topics for future meetings, please email your ideas to me at bloomage@verizon.net. Also, if you have any questions or suggestions regarding this new segment, please don’t hesitate to contact me.