Greetings from Kathy Lamb, ADS Region One Editor  

On Friday evening, 11/22/2019, I emailed (via Constant Contact) the digital issue of the Fall/Winter 2019 issue of The Region One Daylily Pioneer to all Region One members who had provided us with email addresses. I am following up on email addresses, so if you did not receive the email, please contact me. I will check my member list for missing information and for errors.

WAIT FOR THE PDF BEFORE PRINTING!

You may want to print a copy of the Pioneer, but please wait until I post a pdf version on the Region One website at www.ahsregion1.org. 

The email version—which is optimized for screens—will not produce the best print document: 1) It uses low-resolution images; 2) It's not sized for letter-size paper; and 3) It will be close to 100 pages long in its current form.

The Fall/Winter 2019 issue is packed with daylily news—from last summer to upcoming events—with lots of photos to take you there. Our dedicated Region One contributors who helped with this issue deserve a big thank you!   

Please contact me with comments, questions, ideas, and concerns about the Pioneer. I welcome your feedback! And keep the Pioneer in mind for future articles and photos.

For your convenience, I am including a link to the emailed version of the Fall/Winter 2019 Region One Daylily Pioneer.

See the digital issue here: https://conta.cc/2rdVs0h

2019 Region One Meeting—Early Registration Drawing

Fireworks in the Gardens

2019 ADS Region One Meeting • Omaha, Nebraska • July 5-7, 2019

Hosted by the Nebraska Daylily Society—click HERE for registration form

Charles and Heidi Douglas of Browns Ferry Gardens, Guest Speakers

Extra, extra! All full registrations to attend our 2019 ADS Region One Meeting postmarked on or before Saturday, May 25, 2019 will be entered into a drawing to win a very special prize: a potted three-fan plant of Dave and Val Jean Hansen’s PAPIO KYLIE RAE (2018, tet, pictured below). 

'Papio Kylie Rae' (Dave and Val Jean Hansen, 2018, tet)—pic courtesy of Dave Hansen

PAPIO KYLIE RAE has dormant foliage and features lovely 5 inch burgundy red blooms with large white toothy edges and green throats. Scape height is 32 inches with three-way branching and 15 buds. Parents are {(VELVET EYES x FORESTLAKE RAGAMUFFIN) x GOD SAVE THE QUEEN} X LARRY’S OBSESSION. Thank you, Dave and Val Jean Hansen, for generously donating this beautiful daylily. 

The lucky winner will be announced and presented with PAPIO KYLIE RAE during the Region One Business Meeting on Saturday, July 6.

So why wait? Click HERE to access the registration form with typable/fillable fields, and mail it to our Registrar Leslie Rule today (her address is on the registration form). Don’t let the only thing missing be you!

2019 Region One Meeting Open Garden—Quick Reference Guide

 Fireworks in the Gardens

2019 AHS Region One Meeting • Omaha, Nebraska • July 5-7, 2019

Hosted by the Nebraska Daylily Society—click HERE for registration form

Charles & Heidi Douglas of Browns Ferry Gardens, guest speakers

The Nebraska Daylily Society (NDS) invites you to join us Friday, July 5 through Sunday, July 7, in Omaha, Nebraska, for the 2019 AHS Region One Meeting.

Guest speakers are hybridizers Charles and Heidi Douglas of Browns Ferry Gardens of Georgetown, South Carolina. Browns Ferry Gardens was a 2018 AHS National Convention tour garden. Charles and Heidi will present their programs on Saturday evening following the banquet. Click HERE to read all about Charles and Heidi, Browns Ferry Gardens, and their gorgeous daylily cultivars.

The host hotel is the Marriott Hotel, 10220 Regency Circle, Omaha, Nebraska 68114-3706, 402-399-9000. Mention “Nebraska Daylily Society” to get the reservation group rate of $106 per night. Click HERE for more information about the host hotel, and information about fun things to see and do while you're in Omaha.

Your registration includes the bus tour and four meals: Friday banquet, Saturday breakfast, Saturday lunch at Keast Daylily Gardens, and Saturday banquet. Guest meals for Friday banquet and/or Saturday banquet and/or Saturday breakfast are also available. Please see the registration form for details and fees. For your convenience, the registration form has fillable fields, so you can use your computer keyboard to type your information—no handwriting is necessary!

Four large tour gardens and five lovely open gardens await you. Three tour gardens and all of the open gardens belong to hybridizers, so in addition to seeing the latest and greatest well-known daylilies, you will meet several “new to you” daylily introductions and seedlings from our very own metro-area hybridizers. To supplement all the beautiful daylilies in the four tour gardens, NDS gave each tour garden funds to purchase a collection of daylily club plants from the hybridizer of their choice (to be auctioned off during a future NDS meeting).

GARDENS ON SATURDAY’S BUS TOUR:

·         Keast Daylily Gardens (Oakland, Iowa) Tom & Mary Keast—Jamie Gossard club plant collection—click HERE for garden description

·         McIntosh Daylily Place (Omaha) Phyllis McIntosh—Charles & Heidi Douglas club plant collection—click HERE for garden description

·         Daylilies on the Fritz (Cedar Creek, Nebraska) Lyle & Rita Kahnk—Paul Owen club plant collection—click HERE for garden description

·         Farmony Gardens (Omaha) Nancy Lee Anderson—Richard Norris club plant collection—click HERE for garden description

OPEN GARDENS ON FRIDAY AND SUNDAY:

·         Mary Baker’s Garden (Omaha) Mary & Rich Baker—click HERE for open garden hours, directions, and garden write-up

·         Hansen’s Daylily Haven (Papillion, Nebraska) Dave & Val Jean Hansen— click HERE for open garden hours, directions, and garden write-up

·         Ferguson Fantasy Flowers (Omaha) Scott & Linda Ferguson— click HERE for open garden hours, directions, and garden write-up

·         Doug Bremers’ Garden (Omaha) Doug Bremers—click HERE for open garden hours, directions, and garden write-up

·         Bob & Joanne Langabee’s Garden (Bellevue, Nebraska) Bob & Joanne Langabee—click HERE for open garden hours, directions, and garden write-up

The Region One Daylily Auction begins on Friday evening at 7:00 p.m. and credit cards will be accepted. 

Shop our Bargain Table for outstanding daylily buys on Friday and Saturday (see the registration form for bargain table hours). Click HERE for more information about the daylily auction and bargain table, plus a description of two large, fabulous area nurseries (don't miss checking them out!).

Region One garden owners, please donate daylilies for the auction and bargain table! Auction Plant Chair is Doug Bremers (dbremers@cox.net) and Bargain Table Chair is Susanne Milbourn (srmilbourn@hotmail.com).

Phil Fass will chair and instruct Garden Judges Workshop 2 with Don Lovell from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on Sunday at McIntosh Daylily Place (outdoor restroom facilities will be available). Garden Judges Workshop 1 is canceled due to lack of available Garden Judge Instructors (it will be offered during the 2019 ADS National Convention the following week). Click HERE for more information about Garden Judges Workshop 2, plus everything you want to learn about garden judging (and then some).

But wait—there’s more! On Friday from 4:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m., Tim Morrissey (teleost.tim@gmail.com) will host the Region One Hybridizers Slide Presentations. See the latest, greatest daylily creations from our very own hybridizers! All Region One hybridizers are invited to participate—contact Tim Morrissey with any questions. This is a wonderful opportunity to share your latest and greatest daylily introductions and seedlings with our guests, and a great way for our guests to enjoy all the beautiful daylilies created by our very own talented Region One hybridrizers.

While you’re in Omaha, don’t forget to sample some of the many delicious restaurants Omaha is famous for. Click HERE for a long list of wonderful dining experiences.

Questions? Contact our 2019 AHS Region One Meeting Chair, RP Val Hoefer (hoefrv@gmail.com) or Registrar Leslie Rule (Leslie1967.2003@gmail.com).

Celebrate daylilies with us in Omaha on July 5-7. Visit with friends and meet new ones while we all enjoy beautiful daylily Fireworks in the Gardens—don’t let the only thing missing be you!

2019 Region One Meeting Open Garden—Mary Baker’s Garden

Mary Baker’s Garden—Mary and Rich Baker

Mary Baker’s Garden is a state-licensed and inspected urban daylily, allium, and daffodil nursery. Mary Baker’s Garden is .2 acres in size. Garden layout and design plus spacious grass paths maximize efficient use of available space and provide the illusion of much larger size. 

Welcome to Mary Baker's Garden—pic taken during late midseason by the Sarpy County Assessor's office

Terraced backyard beds of graduated height with stairs in the middle transformed a formerly steep back yard into usable multi-level gardening space. 

Backyard terraced beds shortly after collapsed steps and side walls were replaced during early to early midseason daylily bloom—this pic and all subsequent pics courtesy of Mary Baker

Backyard terraced beds from the southwest looking northeast

Mary Baker’s Garden was a 2002 ADS Region One Meeting tour garden and an International Garden of the Week 13^th Winter Series 2018-2019 on February 2 on Charlotte Chamitoff’s Daylily Diary.  

 A portion of the backyard terraced beds accented by Spigelia marilandica (Indian pink; front) and Lysimachia punctata (back left)

About 200 registered daylily cultivars grow in Mary Baker’s garden. Almost all are tetraploids, and 140 are newer daylily cultivars registered during the past ten years. Daylilies created by many hybridizers are featured, including several from Daylily World (David Kirchhoff and Mort Morss), Michael Bouman, Bryan Culver, Judy Davisson, Karol Emmerich, Dan Hansen, Kathy Lamb (registered cultivars plus Kathy’s selected tetraploid seedlings), and Guy Pierce. 

David's Gift' (David Kirchhoff/Mary Baker, 2018) 

'Joseph Christopher' (Mary Baker, 2013)

'Picasso's Dream' (Mary Baker, 2013)

You will also see Mary’s favorite cultivars from retired hybridizers Bob Schwarz and Nan Wilkerson as well as the late Oscie Whatley.

'Isaiah James' (Nan Wilkerson/Mary Baker, 2016) 

'Nan Wilkerson' (Nan Wilkerson/Mary Baker, 2017) 

'Sharyn Jones DVM' (Nan Wilkerson/Mary Baker, 2016)

Mary started hybridizing daylilies in the early 1990s before joining the American Daylily Society in 1992. Mary served as Region One President for five consecutive years from 2000 to 2004. She has registered several daylily cultivars so far. Mary’s training as a Garden Judge since 2000 and a Garden Judge Instructor since 2004 helped formulate her approach toward seedling selection. 

First batch of daylily seedlings planted in the garden on July 3, 2018 (others were planted later in July). 

Mary’s creations include MARY BARBARA (Mary Baker, 2020, tet), an unusual form cascade named for Mary’s mother. Parents are DRAGON NATION (Bryan Culver/Dave Mussar, 2014, tet) X BUSY BEING FABULOUS (Nan Wilkerson, 2013, tet). MARY BARBARA has pronounced fragrance and is an early midseason bloomer. Graceful lemon yellow blooms have feathered red, darker-edged eyes and measure from 8 inches to 9 inches as naturally standing on 30 inch scapes with three-way branching and 14 buds.

 'Mary Barbara' (Mary Baker, 2020, tet)

'Mary Barbara' (Mary Baker, 2020, tet)

FRACTURED HEART (David Kirchhoff/Mary Baker, 2020, tet) was a generous gift from David Kirchhoff and is registered with his permission. Parents are (UNIVERSAL SOLDIER x seedling) X seedling. FRACTURED HEART’s distinctive blooms feature darted bright green throats and corduroy texture. Blooms measure 5.5 inches on 30 inch scapes with three-way branching and 15 buds. FRACTURED HEART is an early midseason bloomer. 

'Fractured Heart' (David Kirchhoff/Mary Baker, 2020, tet)

You will also see ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM (Mary Baker, 2019, tet), introduced in 2020. Parents are ALIENS IN THE GARDEN X WAVES OF JOY. Dramatic 7 inch near white blooms are edged in dark purple and feature contrasting feathered dark purple eyes. Scapes are 33 inches tall with two-way branching and 14 buds. ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM begins blooming in early season and continues through midseason. It sometimes forms proliferations on the lower portion of the bloom scapes, making baby elephants in the room. 

'Elephant in the Room' (Mary Baker, 2019)

Following are some of Mary’s favorite daylily registrations. 

'Bryce Farnsworth' (Mary Baker, 2013)

'Driving through Des Moines' (Mary Baker, 2013)

'Sean Michael' (Mary Baker, 2013)

'Tripping through Tekamah' (Mary Baker, 2013, tet)

Click HERE to see Mary Baker’s Garden’s website, where you will find pictures and complete descriptions of her registered cultivars. 

In addition to Mary’s registered daylily cultivars, several of her selected daylily seedlings grow in her garden. Mary’s garden has very little shade, so she breeds for tetraploid daylilies with good sun resistance. Her primary goals are full-formed flowers and unusual forms of all sizes with good green throats and clear, clean colors. 

'Lojza' (Mary Baker, 2025, tet)

'One Hot Dragon' (Mary Baker, 2022, tet)

'Omaha Beach' (Mary Baker, 2022, tet)

Mary Baker tet seedling 1503-4: 'Blackthorne' X 'Black and White Ball'

Mary’s late mentor and friend, Oscie Whatley, often said a green throat makes a daylily stand out from a distance, especially if the daylily is red. Mary is especially interested in hybridizing red and near-white daylilies. 

'Pent-up Passion' (Mary Baker, 2022, tet)

'Bonfire of the Beatniks' (Mary Baker, 2022, tet)

'Beatnik' (Mary Baker, 2022, tet)

'David Hugh Adams' (Mary Baker, 2023, tet)

'Bison Blizzard' (Mary Baker, 2020, tet) out of 'Sparkling Snow' X 'Tripping through Tekamah'

Mary is also working on a promising purple line. 

'Kathleen M. Lamb' (Mary Baker, 2022, tet)

Mary Baker tet seedling 1533W: 'Mount Ararat' X 'The Ultimate Sacrifice'

Mary Baker tet seedling 1533E: 'Mount Ararat' X 'The Ultimate Sacrifice'

A wide variety of Mary’s favorite companion plants are interspersed throughout the garden, including Spigelia marilandica (Indian pink); Baptisia (false indigo); clematis; and lysimachia. 

Spigelia marilandica (Indian pink) 

Lysimachia punctata (or is it another Lysimachia species? Foliage is soft and felted.)

Tiger lilies, iris, blue flax, and peonies from Mary’s grandmother plus modern iris and peonies; Oriental and Orienpet lilies; and many other types of companion plants complement the daylilies, alliums, and daffodils.

Eastern black swallowtail butterfly enjoying tiger lilies in Mary's garden

Mary grows dill and varieties of milkweed throughout her garden for monarch, swallowtail, and other butterflies to enjoy. 

Wildflowers can be majestic—goldfinches love munching on Verbascum thapsis (common roadside mullein) seeds and butterflies love Knautia macedonica, which blooms from spring until stopped by frost in the fall

If you missed Mary and Rich's beautiful urban oasis during the 2019 ADS Region One Meeting on July 5-7, or if you want to see it again, visit their open garden on Sunday, July 11, 2021 from noon to 2:00 p.m. Don't let the only thing missing be you!

 'Shakin' All Over' (Mary Baker, 2023, tet)

2019 Region One Meeting Open Garden—Hansen’s Daylily Haven—David & Val Jean Hansen

Fireworks in the Gardens

2019 ADS Region One Meeting • Omaha, Nebraska • July 5-7, 2019

Hosted by the Nebraska Daylily Society

Charles and Heidi Douglas of Browns Ferry Gardens, Guest Speakers

Hansen’s Daylily Haven–David and Val Jean Hansen

Hansen’s Daylily Haven is a suburban American Daylily Society (ADS) Display Garden featuring clumps of over 230 registered tetraploid daylily cultivars from a variety of hybridizers.

Welcome to Hansen's Daylily Haven—unless otherwise indicated, all pics courtesy of David and Val Jean Hansen

Dave and Val Jean Hansen, July 2019—pic courtesy of Joan Zettel

A beautifully blooming backyard daylily border

Dave and Val Jean grow daylilies that are hardy with good height. Dave and Val Jean’s friend, the late Bob Smith, introduced them to hardy hibiscus, which adds lots of color and different form to their garden.

Hibiscus seedling and garden art

Hosta grow here, too, as do colorful annuals such as small red begonias. Large pots of dragon wing begonias, vinca, and Asparagus densiflorus ‘Sprengeri’ (Sprengeri fern) accentuate the garden.

Colorful blue pots filled with dragon wing begonias accentuate the garden

Dave is a hybridizer, and his gorgeous registered daylily cultivars and cutting-edge seedlings are ADS Region One’s best-kept secret. It’s time to let the cat out of the bag and introduce Dave’s cultivars to the rest of the daylily world.

David & Val Jean Hansen seedling 14-47A: 'Papio Leah Serenity' X 'Thistles and Thorns'

Dave hybridizes exclusively with tetraploids, and he’s been hybridizing for the past 20 years. His goal is to produce toothy flowers, and red toothy flowers take center stage when it’s time to select keepers from his annual seedling crop.

David & Val Jean Hansen seedling 16-19: Seedling 11-162A X 'Papio Trevor Thomas'

Dave’s first daylily registration is named for their oldest granddaughter, CAITLYN MCKENZIE (2006), a round flesh gold with a rosy mauve halo and a large yellow to deep green throat.

'Caitlyn McKenzie' (Hansen-D.V., 2006)

Eight more registrations followed for Dave and Val Jean’s other eight grandchildren, plus four for their four great-granddaughters and others. So far Dave has registered 23 daylily cultivars. Many of the 2019 ADS Region One Meeting registration gift plants are Dave’s lovely registered daylilies.

Dave’s favorite registration is a beautiful green-throated toothy rose red daylily named IN VAL’S HONOR (2016) for his wife of 61 years, Val Jean.

'In Val's Honor' (Hansen-D.V., 2016)

Another favorite from Dave is the beautiful KURT REMEMBERED (2013), a saturated rose red named for Dave’s late brother.

'Kurt Remembered' (Hansen-D.V., 2013)

Another stunning daylily from Dave is AVIANNA GRACE (2016), a rose pink with light pink eye and white teeth on all segments.

'Avianna Grace' (Hansen-D.V., 2016)

Yet another of Dave’s gorgeous toothy creations is the spectacular PAPIO KYLIE RAE (2018), with saturated bloom color and contrasting white teeth.

'Papio Kylie Rae' (Hansen-D.V., 2018)

The lovely PAPIO BRIANNA LYNNE (2018) features a frosted watermark and a pale sharky edge.

'Papio Brianna Lynne' (Hansen-D.V., 2018)

The exquisite PAPIO TWILITE BITE (2018) is breathtakingly beautiful. Its pod parent is the lovely AVIANNA GRACE (2016).

'Papio Twilite Bite' (Hansen-D.V., 2018)

But wait—there’s more! Many lovely toothy tetraploid seedlings are waiting in the wings. Following are just a few potential future registrations and introductions.

David & Val Jean Hansen seedling 15-25C: Seedling 11-17A X 'All Things to All Men' 

 David & Val Jean Hansen seedling 15-26: Seedling 11-17A X 'Larry's Twilight Bite'

 David & Val Jean Hansen seedling 15-159: 'Heartbeat of Heaven' X 'Happy Holidays to You'

 David & Val Jean Hansen seedling 15-207A: 'Oklahoma Sand Burr' X Seedling 13-159A

David & Val Jean Hansen seedling 16-69: Seedling 8-292B X Seedling 13-159A

Dave and Val Jean’s good friends Tom and Mary Keast grow several of Dave’s beautiful, toothy daylily creations at their Keast Daylily Gardens in Oakland, Iowa, where they are listed for sale. Click HERE to view pictures and descriptions of available daylily cultivars on Dave and Val Jean Hansen’s page on Keast Daylily Gardens website.

 A portion of Dave and Val Jean's colorful backyard daylily bed

Dave and Val Jean cherish the friendships they have made over the years from the many Nebraska Daylily Society (NDS) and ADS Region One meetings they attended. Their daylily friends enrich and enhance the joy of the flowers.

Conifers, Japanese maples, and garden art set off the daylilies like jewels

Dave and Val Jean have been ADS and NDS members for many years. Dave served several terms as NDS President, and he also chaired past ADS Region One meetings hosted by NDS. Dave and Val Jean’s garden (then in Bellevue, Nebraska) was a tour garden during the 2002 ADS Region One Meeting. Dave and Val Jean received the ADS Region One Service Award in 2015.

A windmill, shed, bird bath, and specimen Japanese maple frame this colorful splash of blooming daylilies

Dave and Val Jean invite you to visit Hansen’s Daylily Haven. They enjoy visitors, and welcome everyone to tour their beautiful garden. You’ll see Dave’s spectacular registered cultivars and his exciting future registrations in addition to many cutting-edge tetraploid cultivars created by other hybridizers.

A sea of colorful daylilies at Hansen's Daylily Haven