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O.D.S & Ends Newsletter - Volume 16

October 2013

2013 ODS FALL CLASIC AND ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING IN THIS ISSUE

Fellow ODS members...

It's a rainy Fall day and The Naked Ladies, no longer cavorting through the garden in their lavender-pink finery, are looking just a bit tattered. The gardening season is definitely drawing to an end for another year although the late garden has its appeal...the aforementioned colchicums, aka Naked Ladies and autumn crocus, the ornamental grasses’ dramatic plumes - a show that will last all winter ‘WHAT ME WORRY's’ last gasp and the shifting light and colour as the days shorten. Just a little bit of garden talk...a delaying tactic as I try to frame a club issue that needs addressing.

As many of you already know, Brian Jones has stepped down as Vice-President of ODS although he will continue to send out technologically- challenged- yours- truly ’s messages and updates to the membership. Unfortunately no one was willing to stand for vice-president for the

remainder of his term, so the position is vacant. Many were approached, all declined, basically because there was an expectation that that person would be a president in training. I was particularly struck by one response that likened being ODS President to “herding cats" saying there was more than enough of that in his day job. An interesting perception and yes there are elements of "cat herding" to the position, a reality in any organization. And I'm not saying it is all daylilies and sunshine, but the posi-tives by far outweigh the negatives.

What makes this club work and what has kept me going over the years (besides developing a very thick skin) is the diversity of its membership. We are certainly not a homogenous lot. any given meeting besides the usual daylily talk, news and views, I can depend on a lively discussion..... literature, music, culture and, my personal favourite, politics and at any given meeting there

Cloverleaf Garden Tour Adventure unfolds at a local garden tour.

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Fall Classic

See what happened at the Fall Classic and AGM.

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Coping with cold shoulders!

An experiment we should all try in our gardens.

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Popularity Poll

Get all the results from the ODS member vote that happened this summer.

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ODS Fall Meetings

See who is on the agenda for October and November with these meeting profiles.

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President’s Message by Faye Collins

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will be new ideas, dissenting views and those wanting the status quo. And it's not just the president and the Board who determine what will fly, what will not, what stays, what goes, who speaks, who does not. But it is our responsibility to see that things get done and to give a voice to all ODS members, long-time and new... and to manage to do so with a membership that covers a very large geographical area and a broad spectrum of interests. Sometimes we (the collective) forget that ODS is a non-profit, volunteer run organi-zation with all the challenges that that entails. From time to time it has been a daunting task but I can confi-dently say as spokesperson for the club based on past years and looking forward, we are up to it. And if there is an aspiring president out there (just a little experience required) please let me know. To continue the earlier analogy, I am looking forward to putting my feet up on November 2014 and leaving the “cat herding” to someone else.

As always it’s daylilies…

Faye

[email protected]

Daylily Seuss

by Richard Akers, Oregon

The Daylily Journal Spring 2006

One Hem Two Hems Red Hems Blue Hems Tall hems Short hems Old hems New hems Some are dips and some are tets Some we even treat as pets Where do they come from? I don’t know But that one just won best of show This one’s shaped just like a spider This one, too - that one beside her Some have ruffles, some have eyes Some have teeth, what a surprise Some are better some are worse Some depend upon your purse Some we like are very cheap The price of some will make you weep Salter, Petit, Kinnebrew, Carr Grace or Kirchhoff, who’s the star? Stamile, Moldovan or Morss I’d say I like them all, of course Some stand straight, and some have fallen Some from dabbing too much pollen Sometimes when I’m busy seeding Think I’m doing too much breeding Some grow near and some grow far Some are grown inside a jar It’s in a box? I’ll take a stab It musta come out of a lab Purple hems Yellow hems Fifty hems Hundred hems

I’m needing more, I can’t decide It must be time, now, to divide I am obsessed, I’m wanting more Proliferations by the score Orange hems Pinkish hems Thousand hems Million hems Oh look, what are those funny spots? Look, there’s more – oh my, there’s lots I think I’ll spray, I think I’ll drench I think I’ll toss them in a trench Will talk about them ever tire us?

If so, I guess there’s always iris……

NEW MEMBERS - WELCOME

A big ODS welcome to new members

James Blemkie, Picton, Ontario Marlene & Dennis Duchemin, Washago, Ontario Ross Kenyon, Corfu, NY Sandra Lex, Toronto Alan LeBourveau, Niagara Falls, Ontario Vivaces Nordiques, St. Leon-le-Grand, Quebec Lynn and Art Bisschop, Aylmer, Ontario Angela Williams, Etobicoke, Ontario Kathy Wells, Inglewood, Ontario

mailto:[email protected]


Over 60 members enjoyed the picnic on August 3rd at the

Culver Farm. Those who attended enjoyed the hotly contested plant swap, growing fields looking their best, the Daylily Bean Bag game, delicious food and great company. Thank you to Bryan Culver for his continuing support of ODS; the picnic was as advertised...great fun, food, hospitality, weather and an amazing garden with exceptional bloom. He went above and beyond and we are certain we can say a great time was had by all! Also thank you to Brian Schram, Barbara White, and Bryan Culver for daylily donations to the bean bag game and Mike Georges for organizing the game. Thanks also to Sonia, Rick and Gabriel for helping monitor the game and collecting the money. Over $260 was raised by tossing those bean bags. Fabulous

plants were won.

2013 ODS Picnic at Culver Farm Daylilies by Brian Jones/Faye Collins


‘Little Red Spring Song’

When approached over the years to

open his garden to a tour in June, Murray, my husband, had always said no for two reasons: the fluff is flying off the poplar tree and the hems are not blooming yet. But one year we attended the Toronto Island Garden Tour and they had so much fluff from their abundance of cottonwoods that they were using shovels to get rid of it all. It was then I told Murray we had nothing to worry about in that regard as we only need to sweep away our accumulations. The ladies said they would put on the program that attendees could return, for free, on a designated day in July to see the daylilies in bloom. So, Murray relented.

On Sunday, we were one of 15 gardens on the Cloverleaf Garden Tour. We were up at 6 a.m. doing the last minute things in preparation for the 10 a.m. start. Although the designated washroom location was less than one mile away from our home, I thought I should stage our bathroom for emergency comfort breaks. I think I am becoming prescient in my old age.

The masses started arriving before the appointed hour as we had been warned they would. Volunteer sitters checked tickets. Out of a thousand hems, the only ones in bloom were PENNY’S WORTH, BLACK-EYED STELLA, and an impressive clump of LITTLE RED SPRING SONG. Nobody seemed to care, or were too polite to say, as they roamed the property and looked at the collection of hostas, peonies in beautiful colours,

heucheras, various other perennials, and garden art. The fluff did fly a couple of times but one woman commented that it was ‘magical’.

Then, it happened. A

woman was talking fast, and moving quickly and I knew she was in need. I told her she could use the washroom in the house but that I would have to accompany her as our two dogs were inside. She said she did not mind as she, too, had dogs. In her haste to get to the privy, she almost knocked me over. I pointed her in the right direction and in she charged. She yelled out that she would not lock the door. (She did not say why). But neither did she close the door. I made my own dash to the kitchen to quench my thirst. Temps outside were in the high 80s. We were not one of the designated water sites but we provided water, juice, and cookies anyway. Almost immediately, I heard her call out that the dogs had followed her in and were begging for her attention as she sat on the throne. What could I do? I could not go in and rescue her as she was exposed and was an unknown stranger. So, I grabbed the dog treats and called out to them to come, which thankfully they did.

At that moment, I had no time to appreciate the humour in the situation. The record number of attendees one year was 675. Final numbers for this year were 320. Consequently, it was not until it was all over that I could have a giggle over what had transpired.

So, now we have a month before the return of the masses. As we will be

the only open garden that day, I do not know what to expect. Since it will be vacation time for many, maybe all who said they’d be back, might not. Instead of being open for 6 hours as we were on Sunday, we will only be open 3 hours on July 21. Those who arrive without a ticket will be asked by the CGC sitters to make a donation to the Breast Cancer Society. Unfortunately, the organizers printed 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. on the programs. (I know what you are thinking as I am thinking it too). But one thing is certain, I will have

the restroom ready, just in case.

Cloverleaf Garden Tour 2013 by Cheryl Taylor

Quotable Quotes

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

~Anais Nin


Daylily enthusiasts gathered on a warm fall Saturday to

share the delight of daylilies from Sandy Veurink from Byron Center, Michigan; Dawn Golloher from Peterborough, Ontario and Melodye Campbell from Rochester, New York. Sandy Veurink started the day off with an entertaining presentation entitled “Not Karol Emmerich and My Tale of Woe”. She explained how her husband discovered daylilies and slowly and somewhat against her best judgment how she got wrapped up with them too. Their hybridizing and hobby has now grown into a small business. Sandy had many comical comments and advice throughout her presentations such as “Powerpoint has lots of tools but it doesn’t come with a hoe so weed before you take pictures”. Sandy wrapped up by explaining that for years she has seriously resented the fact that she is a daylily widow. She resisted it, fought against it, complained about it, and tried not to get sucked into it, all to no avail. Thus her “Tale of Woe” was born. Sandy read to the crowd the prose she wrote in 2002. Accompanying the tale with pictures of the daylilies mentioned. What a treat! (Check it out later in the newsletter.) Next up was Dawn Golloher who spoke about “Creating a Memorial or other Themed Garden”. Garden themes can range from person; pet to celebrations. Dawn took us through the process of finding that special place you enjoy and then adding plants and little extras and symbols to make the space important for you. For shady garden spots there are many hostas such as Guardian Angel, Journey’s End or Remember Me to mark your place to visit. For sunny spots daylilies named after a loved one can be used to fill that spot as well. Key for your memorial garden is to use plants and names that are special to you. Dawn also shared with the crowd her secret to keeping slugs away from all her hosta. Just use household ammonia 1 part to 9 parts water and spray the plants at sundown once a week for three weeks. She sprays the plants when they just tipping up in the spring, again when they unfurl and finally once they are open.

Just after lunch, delicious as always, Melodye Campbell highlighted “It Ain’t Over till it’s Over…..How to have Daylily Bloom till Frost”. We all have many daylilies for peak bloom but then it seems the show is over. Melodye reviewed her favourites like ‘After a while Crocodile’ and ‘Lord of Autumn’, and many others from Region 4 hybrid-

izers, that keep the season going 4 weeks post peak bloom. Her advice is to visit the same garden many times during the season to see how the plants blend together.

Next up was Dave Mussar with the annual ODS Popularity Poll. Membership participation was lower this year; hey did you all forget to vote? It is easy just check the ODS website during the summer months and there is a link to pick your favourites. Check out the article in the newsletter for all the key results.

An important part of every Fall Meeting is the Annual General Meeting for the club. With Treasurer’s report, membership update, currently at 204 members, and setting the club meeting dates for the next year. The final part of the AGM is the election of officers for the coming year. Check out the listing of the new executive and committee chairs elsewhere in this newsletter. The position of Vice President is vacant if any club member is interested in contributing to your club by participating on the executive in this position.

Oh…. I can’t forget the plant sale that ran all day and the Live Plant Auction. With a smaller crowd than the Can-Am many went home with great additions for their gardens.

So if you missed the ODS Fall Classic be sure to mark your calendar for next year, September 20th, 2014. The group

might be smaller but the food, fun and fellowship is great

and it is still an important fundraiser for the club.

ODS Fall Classic and AGM by Howard Hansford


Get those creative minds and hands working

this fall and winter! The Ontario Daylily Society’s first Birdhouse Contest at the 2010 Can-Am CLASSIC was enthusiastically supported by all in attendance and now has become an annual tradition. Now is the time to get organized, design and build that bird house for the judging at the 2014 CAN-AM Classic. There are always great prizes! We want this to be an entertaining event for Can-Am Classic participants – viewing, voting and the auction - as well as a rewarding experience for those who create and enter a birdhouse.

1) Any registered 2014 Can-Am Classic participant is eligible to enter. There is no entry fee.

2) One birdhouse entry per registered participant (Thus couples may enter 2 houses.)

3) All birdhouses will be in one ‘Class’ only and judged comparatively against each other.

4) All 2014 Can-Am Classic participants and guest presenters are eligible to vote during the Can-Am Classic for their three favourites. Ballots will be provided in your registration packages.

5) Popular appeal will decide placements. Winners will be announced during the Can-Am Classic.

6) Prizes will be selected by the Can-Am Classic Committee. Details available at the Can-Am.

7) All birdhouses entered become the property of the 2014 Can-Am Classic and will be auctioned off to the highest bidders during the event. The auction proceeds go to the Ontario Daylily Society.

8) Your birdhouse entry must be able to withstand normal outdoor garden placement and must be built to provide actual use by your selected specie (i.e. appropriate access hole, inside space for a normal nest, etc.) The material used is up to you and the interior should be paint free. Exterior? ….. Use your imagination! …. painted, carved, adorned with jewels and baubles, natural rough sawn wood, attached doorknobs or license plates or antique hinges or mini cupolas ………. We’ve all seen both simple and elaborate birdhouses during our garden visits.

9) For practical reasons of displaying and handling the overall exterior dimensions cannot exceed 18” x 18” x 24” or 46 cm x 46 cm x 61 cms. (NB: If your entry will not stand on its own on the contest table display, you may provide a simple stand for support).

10) Do not place any permanent identification on your entry.

11) Simply create your birdhouse following these guidelines and bring it with you to the 2014 Can-Am Classic. We will register it in the contest when

you arrive.

2014 CAN-AM Classic Birdhouse Contest

Invite a neighbour to

join you at the 2014

Can-Am Classic!


In general, we ODS daylily enthusiasts are usually busy

outdoors in our gardens from early April through to late October. Those who garden in Ontario’s ‘tropical regions’, down around Lake Erie, are able to add a week or two at each end of this linear scale. Those who tend their plants from about Lake Simcoe northward would probably drop their dates back by about the same length of time, as they obviously experience a shorter season. Scattered across these generalizations are a myriad of local micro-climates – both positive and negative - that contest Mother Nature’s best efforts at trying to find the middle ground.

Wherever one gardens, we all experience those shoulder months of early spring and late fall with their limited sunlight and warmth. “Spring Forth” is the optimistic fitting cliché, as we’re headed for longer days and warmer evenings as our season advances toward full summer conditions. “Fall Back” truly predicts those deteriorating garden conditions as we trend toward winter’s cold and snows.

Of the main four, my favourite season is autumn - perhaps I should explain … With the improving gardening days of spring and early summer, there’s always tomorrow, or next week, to get things done. However with autumn, we procrastinators soon confront the reality of running out of time. One day we have dew drops on the foliage and puddles between the rows … Then one morning, like the Disney rabbit Thumper proclaimed, “…the water’s hard! “

One thing that we procrastinators excel at is creating excuses, and at finding ‘things’ to justify our mind-set, and things to offset those predicaments that arise from not having done what should have been done last week, or worse ....

So … I would like tell you about one of those things I’ve found that has saved me from myself when I have daylilies that should’ve been planted last …. Well, here’s the original title I selected for this ODS Newsletter note – “How To Minimize Or Even Eliminate Winterkill When One Finds Oneself Planting Daylily Bare Root Plants Late In The Season Due To Procrastination”.

In 2011 I discovered a Lee valley Garden Product – ‘Cloches’ – that have rescued me from my predicament(s) quite well. I’ve been able to create my own warmer micro-climates. I’ve extended my shoulder seasons to perhaps

almost match those of my more southerly, Southern Ontario colleagues.

The contrasts between inside vs. outside temperature conditions for unheated greenhouses and cold-frames are known to most. These cloches help to create the same interior improvements, but on a more limited scale and with greater portability and adaptability. In general, September gardening temperatures – both air and soil – are already conducive with what we want to achieve- continued plant root growth. Thus, these cloches are used to effectively improve October and early November plant development conditions.

It should be noted that the confines of the UV resistant plastic cloches do tend to also increase humidity inside. To date I’ve not detected any negative effects such as fungal developments from such higher humidity with my experiment. There is an adjustable valve on top should you want to modify internal moisture or temperature. (Lee Valley catalogues them in both the US and Canada as ‘Ventilating Cloches’ - Product #ED945 @ approx. $6 each.)

Mindful of the humidity aspect, my focus has been on both air and soil temperatures improvement, and the cloches have delivered well for me. On overcast days I’ve measured approx. 20% higher soil temperatures on average, with air temps being a few points warmer. With bright sunny days, both the soil and air temperatures increase inside, with air temps climbing to as much as 80% warmer. Such higher temperatures certainly encourage additional growth development in preparation for the plant’s winter dormancy.

Coping with Cold Shoulders! by Mike Patterson


I’ve listed a few selected entries from my two annual charts (Total of 36 temperature readings taken – Always from the same cloche for consistency) … so that you can see for yourself some of the ranges I have measured over the two year experiment which started in October 2011. To be pertinent, temperatures were taken at about mid foliage height & in the soil at the upper root-zone levels.

(Date & time of day …. ‘O/S’ - Temperature reading outside of cloche …. ‘I/S’ - inside reading)

Date Time Air O/S Air I/S Soil O/S Soil I/S Weather Conditions

22/10/11 12:30 PM 10.8 12.9 10.7 12.7 Full cloud-cover (No sun)

25/10/11 1:30 PM 15.9 18.3 11.1 16.4 Mixed sun & cloud

27/10/11 7:30 AM 1.0 1.8 4.6 5.5 Overcast + No frost yet!*

15/11/11 3:30 PM 14.3 26.3 12.2 18.6 Bright sunshine + Butterfly!**

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

12/10/12 5:30 PM 2.2 6.7 11.6 11.6 <10 minutes after set-up

15/10/12 5:30 PM 7.4 8.2 12.1 13.2 Windy + drizzle all day

01/11/12 2:00 PM 7.8 9.9 11.8 9.6 Soil saturated + overcast***

05/11/12 12:30 PM 1.9 3.5 6.8 9.6 Sunny/dry + Expected high of 3

20/11/12 12:30 PM 12.2 18.5 10.2 11.5 Clear + mild + sunny periods

NOTES:

- Preparing this report, I realized I’ve NOT taken any measurements after dusk or before dawn.

- * 27th October & we’d come close to a killing frost - However, not yet this autumn (Unusual!)

- ** VERY mild. Mid November & various insects about including a small yellow butterfly!!

- *** Assumed the rain warmed the O/S soil?

It is also of interest to report that I left the cloches on throughout the winter and on into April. Spring foliage growth start and development occurred sooner and was more rapid than for neighbouring normal open-air plants – both newly planted and established. I did not notice any advance in FFO dates however.

Out of 30 experimental plantings with cloche covers, I did not lose any plants. Comparably, 3 cultivars were lost from plants put into place with 6-7 weeks lead time before first frost, considered by most to be the safe time-line for fall planting. (Question: Could the cloches possibly increase survival of winter sensitive southern cultivars?)

The cloches come with pins to secure them to the soil. However, I also scraped some soil around the 360 degree base to seal against air - thus temperature – leakage, plus the added security from possible wind displacements. Not a single

cloche shifted or had the ‘soil-seal’ broken of 30 (2 winters x 15 cloches) test plantings.


The 2014 ODS Executive and

Committee Chairs

The Board

President Faye Collins

Vice President Vacant

Secretary Sonia Rizzato

Treasure Ross Dettweiler

Director Don Blakely

Director Mike Falconer

Director David Retallick

Member at Large Kelly Noel

Past President Dave Mussar

Committee Chairs

Membership Barbara White

Newsletter Editor Howard Hansford

Babysitting Jenny-Lyn Gasparek

Hybridizer Forum Brian Schram

Can-Am Chair Dave Mussar

Douglas Lycett Award David Jewell

Web-master Kelly Noel

Communications Brian Jones

Hospitality Kathy Conway

Nominations Chair Julie Wilson

It takes a village to hold a successful Fall Classic, and there

certainly was a host of volunteers and plant donors, both front and center and behind the scenes, involved in making this year's event such an unqualified success. The Board took a risk and decided that instead of purchasing plants for the live auction, plant sales table and door prizes, we would rely almost exclusively on donations and it worked so a big ODS thank you (and in no particular order) to the following people for your generosity. For the live auction...Bonibrae Daylilies - Barry Matthie and Maggie Goode; Hillside Daylilies-Dave Mussar; Gryphon Gardens (AHS) - Gil and Sally Stelter; Gardens Plus (AHS), Dawn Golloher; New Every Day Daylilies - Doug and Sandy Veurink; We're In The Hayfield Now -Henry Lorrain; Mike Georges - Guelph; The Mad Gardener - Faye Collins; Nottawasga Daylilies -Tom and Julie Wilson and the auction crew... Dave Mussar, Barbara White, Karin Cassidy, Brian Schram, Maureen Strong, Jenny -Lyn Gasparek and Susan Armstrong Reid. For The Plant Sales table...John Clarke - Clarke's Farm in Barrie; New Every Day Daylilies - Doug and Sandy Veurink; Ridley Gardens - Reggie Morgan; Gardens Plus -Dawn Tack; Lasting Dreams Daylilies - Carol and Anthony Haj; Robert Brown, a retired ODS member who sent us 14 great plants all potted up and ready to go and to the plant sales crew of two...Don Blakely and Sonia Rizzato And of course thank you to ...our three engaging speakers, Melodye Campbell, Dawn Golloher and Sandy Veurink, our hard working Registrars - Ross and Gabriele Dettweiler, member-at-large Kelly Noel, nominations chair Julie Wilson, emcee and auctioneer Dave Mussar, all members of the Board who spent hours on the phone and/ or computer planning and most of all, the 53 people who came out on a beautiful late summer day. If I have missed anyone... apologies and do let me know. Once again, thank you on behalf of The Ontario Daylily

Society….Faye.

The Fall Classic: It's You That Made It Happen

by Faye Collins


Well the blooming season is over and I know you have a

mountain of seedling photos to sort through. You better get at it for the 2013 Douglas Lycett Award deadline for submission is February 28th, 2014. Voting for this award will take place at the 2014 Can-AM Classic.

Here are the rules:

This award formally recognizes a daylily seedling hybridized by an ODS member that has shown itself to be of high quality in both plant and flower attributes.

All submissions must have been grown in Canada by an ODS member residing within Canada.

Seedlings submitted must been grown in regular or amended garden soil and not in a greenhouse, nor in a pot.

Each submission to the competition must include two pictures of the daylily, one showing a close up of the flower and the second clearly showing the plant branching and bud count with an open flower visible in the picture.

For each submission please indicate the category the entry is to be entered in and include key statistics such as flower diameter, scape height, bud count and number of branches. For spiders please indicate spider ratio and for unusual forms the UF category. No markings identifying the parents of the seedling should be visible in the picture, nor should there be any markings that might identify the submitter.

For full details on the Lycett Award please visit the ODS website at

www.ontariodaylily.on.ca/pages/Lycettpages/LycettA

wardCRITERIA.html

Douglas Lycett Award Submissions

18th ANNUAL CAN-AM DAYLILY CLASSIC

May 9th - 11th, 2014

Featuring:

MICHAEL GROSSMAN – West Concord, Minnesota

CARL HARMON – Hudson, New Hampshire

RICHARD HOWARD – Wallingford, Connecticut

HENRY LORRAIN – Orono, Ontario

BILL WALDROP – Marietta, Georgia

OTHERS TO BE ANNOUNCED…..

FRIDAY 7:00 p.m. - Region 4 Business Meeting 8:00 p.m. - Speaker Presentations SATURDAY 8:00 a.m. – Registration/continental breakfast 9:00 a.m. - Full day's program of speakers - includes lunch plus Plant Sale, Live Auction, Silent Auction, Chinese Auction and lots of fun! 6:00 p.m. - Evening banquet–dine with the speakers (optional)

SUNDAY 9:00 a.m. - Garden Judges’ Workshop I

Registration - $90 (Cdn/ US) postmarked before April 1st

After April 1st

- $100; Youth - $50

Registrars: Gabriele and Ross Dettweiler 5003 Fountain St. N.

Breslau, Ontario N0B 1M0

Phone 519-648-2408 or email: [email protected]

Delta Toronto Airport West (1 block south of the 401)

5444 Dixie Road Mississauga, Ontario. L4W 2L2

Phone 905-624-1144

Further details and registration forms (mail in or online)

will be available in the new year.

at

http://www.ontariodaylily.on.ca

http://www.ontariodaylily.on.ca/pages/Lycettpages/LycettAwardCRITERIA.html

http://www.ontariodaylily.on.ca/pages/Lycettpages/LycettAwardCRITERIA.html

http://www.ontariodaylily.on.ca/


2013 Pop Poll Results

For those of you who were unable to attend the Fall

Classic this year, you missed the presentation of the results of the Ontario Daylily Society Popularity Poll for 2013. While membership participation in the poll was down from last year, 32 ODS members participated in the poll identifying their favourite, best performing daylilies in their gardens. Again this year there was no pre-selected ballot, the poll was entirely open and members wrote-in their top 10 cultivars. Most members voted on-line at the Ontario Daylily Society website which then automatically forwarded the votes to me in an email. Some members just emailed me directly with their choices. Regardless of how they voted, each member was only allowed to vote once. A total of 195 cultivars received votes, with 12 with 4+ votes, 46 with 2+ votes and 137 with 1 vote.

The purpose of the annual poll is to identify cultivars that are superior performers and are beautiful as well in our gardens. By voting, we are recommending these cultivars not only to other club members but to the gardening public too as the ODS will publicize the results. The poll is meant to be a fun activity and is a way to express our opinions and tastes. It’s not surprising that we don’t all like the same thing! Some like them big, others small. Some like bagels, others spiders and UF’s. Below are the top cultivars as voted this year by you, the ODS membership. Due to a few ties, there are more than 10

cultivars in this list.

‘Barbara White’ Culver

Cultivar Total Rank

‘Sun Panda’ 12 1

‘Barbara White’ 10 2

‘Spirit Zone’ 6 3

‘Dangling Participle’ 5 4

‘Potala Tapestry’ 5 4

‘Diane Crawford’ 5 4

‘Ruby Spider’ 5 4

‘Beautiful Edgings’ 4 8

‘Lord Trickster’ 4 8

‘Elsie Stelter’ 4 8

‘Moonlit Masquerade’ 4 8


‘White Eyes Pink Dragon’ 4 8

2012 Pop Poll Results

Cultivar Total Rank

‘Sun Panda’ 15 1

‘Spirit Zone’ 14 2

‘Barbara White’ 10 3

‘Beautiful Edgings’ 7 4

‘Lord Trickster’ 7 4

‘Dragon So’ 6 6

‘Potala Tapestry’ 6 6

‘Diane Crawford’ 5 8

‘Elsie Stelter’ 5 8

‘Jade Princess’ 5 8

‘Primal Scream’ 5 8


‘Spirit Fox’ 5 8

2013 ODS Popularity Poll by Dave Mussar


NOW GROWS ABOUT 200 PLUS NAMED VARIETIES AT H

A Year in the Life of a Northern Hybridizer

I grew up in Windsor Ontario, where my family always had

a small vegetable garden and had early interest in growing both vegetables and fruit but not so much flowers

My interest in daylilies emerged in 1997 while working as a hospitality consultant at a large resort on Georgian Bay. The owner grew a striking bed of vintage daylilies along the shoreline of the property and experimented with hybridizing on a small scale. I was gifted with some of these plants and later as my interest perked, I purchased some additional older introductions from Gary Carlson along with some helpful advice on how to proceed with my “new hobby”.

I have been living in Barrie in the same location for nearly 40 years. My perennial garden of approximately 700 sq. feet and since 2002 has been completely converted to manage my daylily hybridizing program and I also have the usual hosta collection for the more shady areas. My daughter Kirsten purchased a rural home, and for the last 4 years I have been developing additional seedling beds to expand my seedling capacities.

I decided that I was going to make hybridizing daylilies interesting and I imagined that it would extend my overall gardening season. Early on, I came to the conclusion that hybridizing daylily seedlings was a “numbers game”, the more you could bloom, the more chance of an exciting breakthrough in the flower. Acknowledging that I did not have very much garden space and was not going to be able to introduce new daylilies, I decided to put my hybridizing hobby on a two-year rotation and just go for the progressive appearance of my blooming talents, in

other words I’m basically a “pretty face” hybridizer.

MGP’s Mom tells people that he bought his first packet of seeds when he was about 6 years old and tried growing them

under the back porch … Mike’s gardening knowledge has improved quite a bit over the next 60 years – he’s now aware that seeds need sunlight – and it took most of those years for him to also discover daylilies.

Before becoming a founding member of our Ontario Daylily Society in the late 1990’s, Mike had assembled a nice collection of cultivars from over-the-fence gifts, yard sales, and grocery store packages and now has one of the best NOID collections in The Society. In recent times he has become more selective, buying from such credible sources as our own ODS and Region #4 auctions, focusing on both modern and historical diploids.

Nowadays Mike attempts his daylily gardening and breeding in the ancient glacial deposits of sand & gravel located on the northern perimeter of the Oak Ridges Moraine near Uxbridge. Surrounded by active farms, woodlands and natural waterways, he and his wife Mhairi keep a few cats, canaries and chickens, and have created a 4 acre wildlife haven for a

myriad of creatures.

October Meeting Profile by John Clarke

November Meeting Speaker Profile by Mike Patterson


There were no amendments made to the ODS Bylaws at the recent AGM, held during the Fall Classic on September 14,

2013. There will be some proposed for next year.

The first change is largely housekeeping. Right now, the bylaws require that notice of proposed changes be given at a regular meeting and then circulated to the members at least two months prior to the AGM. This means that notice would have to be given at the latest at the June babysitting meeting.

I am suggesting that we remove the requirement that the proposals be presented at a meeting. Instead notice will be circulated to all members with an issue of O.D.S. & Ends, still at least two months prior to the AGM.

For this coming year, I expect to present the proposed changes at the Can-Am in May (to meet the requirement that it be done at a meeting) and then have them circulated with the June newsletter. One amendment that is needed is that the chair of the Can-Am committee be appointed rather than elected. The bylaws now say “elected” but the practice for the last several years has been that this position is appointed by the board and ratified by the membership.

Right now we are using the calendar year as the fiscal year and we hold our AGM 4 months before the year ends. This is out of sync! We should make the fiscal year end prior to the AGM, perhaps July 31, so the financial report given at the AGM is for the full year just ended.

Proxies anyone? As I mentioned at the Fall Classic, a member has suggested that we implement a proxy procedure for the AGM. Right now we follow Robert’s Rules of Order which do not allow for proxy voting - only members who are present can vote. But we could write our own rules for a Proxy procedure and adopt them if there is a will. What I would like to know is whether there is any significant support for this idea. Let me know by email ([email protected]) what your opinion is - do you supprt this concept of proxy voting or are you opposed? If there is enough interest, I will write up a

proposal which can be voted on next September.

ODS Hybridizer Forum

Don’t forget to register for the ODS Hybridizer Forum.

March 23, 2014

‘Regina Sitko’ Kulpa

By the Way…..ODS Bylaws by Kelly Noel


My husband's involved with another woman. Oh, it's not

the first time. In fact, it's become a perennial thing. It

seems like there's someone new every day! It all started

with a girl named STELLA. She refused to stay away, and

she kept coming and coming. She was replaced by a lady

named MARY TODD, but she was pretty yella'. She

turned tail and ran the first time I confronted her! Then he

hooked up with this chick named BETTY WOODS. Things

were going well until he discovered she was a two-timer;

she kept doubling up on him! If you ask me, it only served

him right. But once he recovered, there was no stopping

him. There was KAREN SUE, ADDIE BRANCH SMTH,

ERIN LEA, ELSIE SPAULDING, LORI ANN COOK. He

couldn't even stay away from ROSE EMILY, the

FARMER'S DAUGHTER! I guess it came as no surprise; my

husband is, after all, a very HANDSOME DUDE!

But this new lady was different; she was a BREED APART. I could tell by the way her name just rolled off his tongue: SHERRY LANE CARR. I asked him what made her so special. He said it was her ANGEL'S SMILE, but I knew there was more to it than that. I insisted that my husband introduce us, but it was a request I lived to regret, for my worst fears were confirmed. There she stood before us in her BROCADED GOWN with such GRACE AND GRANDEUR, and I knew that this was not just another PRETTY WOMAN. Her skin was like MING PORCELAIN, and her lips were BABY FRESH, but I knew that underneath it all, she was just like all the rest, even if she did have a BIT MORE CLASS than all the others. I remembered the times I'd heard my husband whisper,

"MY SWEET ROSE" and "RACHAEL MY LOVE" , and I could feel a QUIET STORM building deep

inside me. I wanted desperately to shove his gold WEDDING BAND right into her pretty face, hard enough to give the wench a BLACK EYE; but I could tell she was the kind of woman who wouldn't care. She reached out and laid her hand on his arm with a SILKEN TOUCH and winked at him with her INTRICATE EYES. I took a deep breath; THUNDER AND LIGHTNING were only a hairsbreadth away. Then she had the audacity to offer me a pink STRAWBERRY CANDY, and when she leaned over

to share a little HOT SECRET, it sent me OVER THE EDGE! I got out and got out fast, determined to make my husband pay. I was going to find a man of my own. The first guy I met was EDDIE GAGE. He was a smooth talker, but I could tell he was a low-down CREEPY CRAWLER. He gave me the willies! Then I met BILL NORRIS. He was a flashy fellow, and I liked him right away. The only problem was that he insisted on SINGING SIXTEEN serenades every night, and that man could not CARRY THE TUNE. I was angry and frustrated. All of this, and I still hadn't found what I was lookin' for. Then, it happened; I fell in love. It all started with a CHANCE ENCOUNTER. His name was ED BROWN. He had a much more subtle personality than the others, but he was just DRIPPING WITH GOLD. He talked to me softly and promised me HAWAIIAN NIGHTS where we could watch the OCEAN RAIN and feel the COOL SUMMER BREEZEs. He talked of SMOKY MOUNTAIN AUTUMNs where it was ALWAYS AFTERNOON, and ALLEGHENY SUNSETs on CAMEO BAY. I pictured myself sitting in SUNLIT SPLENDOR on the island of MAUNA LOA, and I said,

"Buddy, I'm GOING YOUR WAY!" For our first date, he invited me to the 3rd annual STRUTTER'S BALL in Florida where they were planning a MOONLIT MASQUERADE. I couldn't wait for a little SOUTHERN ROMANCE, and I quickly accepted the invitation. He told me he would be the one wearing a PIRATE'S PATCH, and I decided to wear a GRECIAN GOWN with a sash of ORANGE VELVET. The party was glorious! ELIZABETH SALTER outdid herself as a HOSTESS. The butler was wearing a WHITE TUXEDO; the desert was a frothy WHITE PERFECTION, and they were serving SPARKLING CHAMPAGNE. CREATIVE and FESTIVE ART was scattered throughout the garden. The guests, too, put forth their best efforts. There was an ISLAND WARRIOR, a CASINO COWBOY, an ORIENTAL DANCER, a TOOTSIE roll, and even a JALAPENO PEPPER. But the highlight of the evening was when one little girl was in the middle of the ballroom while

My Tale of Woe! by Sandy Veurink


we cheered and chanted, "DANCE, BALLERINA, DANCE!"

ED BROWN and I danced together until DAY HAD(s) RISEN. He was ALL FIRED UP, and when he asked me if he could steal me away to another country, I quickly agreed. We headed north, but as we drove, I could tell his enthusiasm was fading. By the time we reached our destination, he had completely lost his nerve; he didn't even have the courage to slip past the CANADIAN BORDER PATROL. And that was when I had to face my MOMENT OF TRUTH. For all his BEAUTIFUL EDGINGS, ED BROWN had no depth. Then I knew I needed to find a much more colorful character. So I went back DOWN HOME and tried again. I met CHARLES JOHNSTON, CONRAD BLASCO, ED MURRAY, and JOE MARINELLO. Soon I was racing down the same wretched path I had condemned my own husband for traveling only a few short months before. I thought I was just HAVING FUN, but collecting men had become some kind of MAGIC OBSESSION with me, and I knew I had to get help somewhere fast. I went straight to Father FRANCIS OF ASSISI, but after hearing my story, he said that he had no idea how to deal with such a pack of wild animals. He told me to go talk to MOTHER SUPERIOR, so I did. I sat before her and blurted out my tale of woe. I confessed that my affair with ED BROWN had been a DESPERADO kind of LOVE, but I insisted that it was all my husband's fault and that I would never, never forgive him. She looked me straight in the

eye and said, "My daughter, NEVER SAY NEVER!" Then she gently reminded me that despite

my husband's delinquent lifestyle, it was still my duty to remain PURE AND SIMPLE. She suggested that I find a support group with which I could share my story, so I could move on. I promised to do so, asked for her BLESSING, and thanked her for our TIME TOGETHER. I took her advice to heart and called all of my gardening friends together so I could share what I thought was one of my BEST KEPT SECRETs. Most of them made it, but some of them were just too tender and couldn't take the cold and difficult subject matter. Old friends JANICE BROWN, MARGARET DICKSON, DELLA ROBIA, and my dear AUNT GRACE all showed up to show their support. I shamefully and with many a blush told them all about my wickedness. I patiently waited for their condemnation,

but when I looked up; I could tell from their expressions that I had opened up a PANDORA'S BOX. It turned out that their husbands too had all deserted them for other women. We began to compare notes, and to our collective horror, we discovered that all of our husbands had had a piece of the same women! SABRA SALINA, JANET GAYLE, BARBARA MITCHELL, JOLYENE NICHOLE, BECKY LYNN, SUSAN WEBER, all when they were in the pink of their deceptive careers. JANICE said that SABRA SALINA was her husband's favorite, and DELLA said that she was KENT'S FAVORITE TWO! BARBARA MITCHELL didn't last long for she was way too Stout, and JANET GAYLE turned out to be nothing but a BIG FLIRT. We commiserated there together in my KYOTO GARDEN, realizing that we had married a bunch of BELOVED DECEIVERs. But they were men that we had chosen, and we would keep them all, BITTERSWEET DESTINY though it may be. That evening was one of those SOFT SUMMER NIGHTs, and I approached my husband with EYES THAT SEE him for the wonderful man he truly is. We sat together sipping SPARKLING ORANGE juice with a TWIST OF LEMON. It was then that I made a HEARTFELT confession of all I had done. My husband pulled me into his arms, placed a HOT KISS on my ready lips and lovingly presented me with a huge, diamond-dusted BRAZILIAN EMERALD. It was an ABSOLUTE TREASURE! He swore to return to me to be my BRAND NEW LOVER and reassured me that his love

for me would still be strong.......after the girls of summer were gone.

Stories and Articles Needed

Hey don’t sit around all winter watching the snow fly….be creative - put pen to paper or fingers to the keyboard and write something for your ODS & Ends Newsletter.

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O.D.S & Ends

Newsletter - Volume 16

Editor Howard Hansford

Photography Nick White

Proofing & Distribution Kelly Noel

Next Newsletter Deadline

February 1st, 2014

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Upcoming ODS Events

Most meetings are at The Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington and begin at 10

am. It is a great opportunity to meet other folks who are just as excited about daylilies as you are. Please check the club website for the most current meeting and event details.

October 19, 2013– The Autumn Get Together - Royal Botanical Gardens, Rooms 3&4. 'A Year in the Life of a Northern Hybridizer' - John Clarke.

November 30, 2013– The Holiday Meeting & Potluck - Royal Botanical Gardens, Rooms 3&4. 'Definitely Dips', Mike Garry Patterson.

January 18, 2014– Winter Meeting - Royal Botanical Gardens, Rooms 3&4. ‘Chasing The Dream’ – Carol and Anthony Haj.

February 22, 2014– Escaping The Winter Doldrums - Royal Botanical Gardens, Rooms 3&4. ‘It’s Show Time’ – Selections from the AHS Library.

March 23, 2014 - 11am – 5pm – Hybridizer’s Forum - Royal Botanical Gardens, Rooms 3&4.

May 9-11, 2014– 18th Annual CAN-AM Classic – Delta Toronto Airport West.

June 14, 2014– Baby Sitting Program - Royal Botanical Gardens, Rooms 3&4.

July 19, 2014 - 11am – 4pm – ODS Picnic – Mike Georges hosting

September 20, 2014– Fall Meeting and AGM -Delta Toronto Airport West

October 25, 2014– The Autumn Get Together - Royal Botanical Gardens, Rooms 3&4. ‘Showcasing True North Daylilies’ – Tim Hobbs

November 29 ,2014– The Holiday Meeting & Potluck - Royal Botanical Gardens, Rooms 3&4. ‘Some Like it Red’ – Brian Schram.

Dates to Remember - Future AHS National Conventions:

2014 - Western North Carolina Daylily Club, Asheville, NC, June 25 - 28, 2014 2015 - The Daylily Society of Greater Atlanta and The Cobb County Daylily Society, Atlanta, GA, June 10 - 13, 2015.

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