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The Garden State Daylily Growers Newsletter

GSDG Picnic

Presidents Message
Thank you to everyone who attended our spring meeting! It
was wonderful to see everyone and share such delicious food at
the luncheon. Margo Reed and Jim Murphy delighted us with
pictures of their gardens and beautiful daylily creations and we
welcomed five new members to our club. I appreciate all of the
kind words and positive feedback about the new meeting format
and hope to see you all at our upcoming events. Spring is such a
special time for all gardeners especially this year after the long
and challenging winter weve had. Enjoy! - Jane

Save the Date!

Open House
June 8, 2014
Deep Cut Gardens
GSDGs exhibit
and information
display.

Region 3 Meeting
June 20 22, 2014
Hosted by
Richmond Area
Daylily Society,
Richmond, VA.

Daylily Day
June 28, 2014
Deep Cut Gardens
Bloom exhibit and
daylily sale.

Our club picnic will be held on

Sunday, May 18th at Falcon Turn
Daylily Gardens. The picnic will
include a plant swap. Please bring
a double fan daylily or other
garden plant to swap. Everyone
who brings a plant will go home
with a new addition to his or her
garden!
John Monschauer will
distribute the garden angel plants
at the picnic. If youve signed up to
be a garden angel, please plan to
attend.
Members will also have an
opportunity to share daylily
information, stories and ideas for
future club activities and events.
Please bring any extra 1-2 gallon
pots well need them to pot up
the auction plants. Directions and
additional picnic information will
be emailed as the date draws near.

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Club News
GSDG is now on Facebook!
The Garden State Daylily Growers has a new
Facebook page! Anyone can access it you dont need
to have a Facebook account or personal profile. Go to
Facebook.com/GardenStateDaylilyGrowers to see
club news and updates. If you are a Facebook fan,
Like our page to receive posts right to your timeline.
Members can post comments, questions and daylily
photos on the page. Lynn Hopkins is our Content
Creator for the page and is doing an amazing job.
Contact Lynn at lynnphop@gmail.com or message her
through Facebook, if you have questions or post ideas.

Rutgers Gardens Open House

Volunteers Needed
For the first time, the Garden State Daylily Growers
will participate in Rutgers Gardens Open House
Festival on July 26, 2014 from 10:00 - 4:00. GSDG will
have a display and exhibit at the festival. We need
volunteers to help set up and be available to answer
questions and give advice about daylilies. Thanks to
Mary Lovasz for coordinating this event.

Newsletter Contributions
Thank you to Lynn Hopkins for contributing to the
newsletter with photos and an article about last
summers Region 3 Meeting in Delaware. Hopefully it
will inspire you to attend an AHS Regional or National
event. The garden tours at these meetings will simply
take your breath away! Thank you also to Mary Lovasz
for the historical information used in the article about
Daylily Day. If you are interested in sharing a daylily
story, photos, or experience or have ideas for the
newsletter please let me know.
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Daylily Day How It All Began

Historical background information provided by Mary Lovasz.
Daylily Day started in 1996 when the
Garden State Daylily Growers Club was asked
to sponsor a daylily flower show by the AHS
Region 3 administration. Dottie Kiel, the
GSDG president at that time, felt that it would
be a good idea to try a practice flower show and
the board decided to have a daylily exhibition to
see if the members would be able to sustain a
real show. Deep Cut Gardens was happy to
co-sponsor the event and allowed us the use of
their facilities. Mary Lovasz, along with Cindy
and Kevin Ruddy, worked with other members
to set up, make the daylily displays and
contribute blooms for the very first exhibit. A

free daylily souvenir was given to each guest

to spread the word about daylilies and to meet
new daylily enthusiasts. The following year it
was decided to charge a small amount for each
plant to raise some money for club activities.
Mary continues to coordinate Daylily Day,
which is our clubs biggest event and fundraiser.
Members contribute beautiful blooms for
display and for sale. We need everyones help
this year to donate daylilies, either registered or
seedlings. So as the warm temps draw you into
your gardens to clean up and separate your
oversized clumps, please consider donating
those extra fans to Daylily Day this summer.

Michael Miller
Small World Gardens
Chester, Virginia
Michael Miller of Small World Gardens, VA, will join us as our
guest speaker on Sunday, October 5th at the EcoComplex in
Bordentown, NJ. Small World Gardens, filled with over 1,000 of
the newest daylilies available along with 1,500 to 5,000 seedlings,
will be one of the tour gardens at the Region 3 Summer Meeting.
His hybridizing goal is to produce taller northern hardy plants
with great branching, plant habit and a pretty face. The Oct. 5th
meeting will include an auction of Michaels introductions. He is
bringing a ton of plants so you wont want to miss this one!
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Daylilies at the Beach

AHS Region 3 Summer Meeting
June, 2013
Submitted by Lynn Hopkins
One of the best traits of a gardener is our ability to make
that instant connection with another gardener. Am I right?
So, without hesitation, and not knowing anyone beforehand,
I was willing to commit to a 3-hr. drive to attend the first
ever (!) Regional in Delaware. A last minute e-mail to
Registrar Doris, and my seat on the tour bus was secured.
Unfortunately, I had to miss the full Fridays agenda:
Members Meet and Greet, Beach Party, Dinner with
Guest Speaker, Curt Hanson (darn!) and even the fun
Silent Auction.
But, the best part was still to comethe garden tours!
I, along with my 50 new friends, all daylily enthusiasts
or course, boarded the bus for an early 7AM departure.
And I mean seven oclock sharp! Afterall, we had a
schedule to
keepfour beautiful gardens to
tour with a catered lunch in between the pressure! Did I
mention there were actually 2 full busses? We had a
wonderful bus captain and the time passed quickly with
stories and games. There were even free daylilies being
passed around!
First garden on tour was the home of Randy Kobetich
and David Guleke, Region 3 President and President of the
Delaware Valley Daylily Society. The oohs and aahs
were loud as we pulled up the driveway. Oh why did I sit so
far back in the bus? A lovely front garden displayed native
plants mixed in with our favorite perennial. I so remember
the unique Monkey Puzzle tree, as well as fragrant
magnolias serving as backdrop to their immense collection
of 1,200+ daylilies. It had rained earlier that morning so
the newly opened blooms, adorned with raindrops, made
for perfect photo subjects! But where to start? The tall red
scapes in the back corner called to me! Wow, look at
those huge, yellow blooms to my right! (contd on pg.5)
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But first, whats this dainty pink double at my
feet? Each of us, armed with camera, pen and
paper (for the Wish List), were in heaven! There
was a garden judging class going on as well. The
tour ended much too quick! Guess who was the
last one to get on the bus!

the East Coast Garden Center. BBQ with all the

fixingsYUM!! Here, we also had a chance to
view and vote for best seedlings!
Last on our tour belonged to newlyweds, David
and Heather Giglio. Willow Rock Gardens has the
distinction of being an AHS Historic Display
Garden with a great collection of Stout Silver
Medal winners. This eco-friendly garden is also a
Certified Wildlife Habitat, created by Heathers
daughter, Amanda Jack Hotaling. Just shy of 2
acres, Willow Rock is home to about 3,000
daylilies. Yes, I said 3,000!!! With the help of
Heathers mom, Grace, Willow Rock is the only
garden in Delaware run by 3 generations of
womenhow cool is that! The OZ theme here
was complete with yellow brick road and a life-size
Dorothy! Viewing 65 different themed beds,
(Famous People, Spiders, UFOs, Minis, 9/11
Memorial, etc.), filled with whimsical garden art,
leaves one truly inspired! This labor of love
garden is complete with pond and bridge. I know
I wont be the only one to fondly remember David
and Heather waving goodbye as our bus rolled
out. Dave holding a pitchfork and Heather in her
wedding gown!!

Second stop brought us to Jeff Coxs garden. Jeff

recently moved from 2 acres to his new home on
.6 acre. He brought about 800 daylilies with him,
the majority of which are cultivars of 2007 and
forward! In this new neighborhood, where most
of the yards lacked landscaping, Jeffs garden
really stood out! In fact, he hardly had a patch of
lawn to maintain. Every curve of the sidewalk
and driveways edge was lined with blooming
daylilies! I fell in love with so many of Jeffs
collection of bold colors and patterns. Walking
into his backyard, one has the feeling of being on
a daylily farm; there are rows upon rows of
bloomseach one topping the next. Jeff plans to
incorporate foundation plants and trees into his
landscape; but boy oh boy, what hes
accomplished in such a short timeamazing!
Keeping well on schedule, we arrived next at
Jan and Greg Thompsons home. Their long
driveway and wooded property overlooked the
Indian River Bayso peaceful! The Thompsons
grow about 350 varieties of daylilies, and just as
an impressive collection of hostas! A big fan of
Herringtons, there were many OZ themed
dayliliesI loved them all and, of course are
now on my Wish List. Sitting on the deck,
surrounded by daylilies, watching sail boats on
the baywhat can better! How about the lovely
and colorful shade garden? I can still picture the
blue lace-cap hydrangeas in full bloom.

I met such warm and delightful people

throughout this wonderful day. Such dedicated,
like-minded enthusiasts, ready to share their
experience, heart and home with total strangers.
Just goes to show, once again, that gardeners
make the best friends!
Saturday night dinner and live auction, hosted by
Paul Owens, A Different Kind of Nursery, NC,
was another wonderful highlight of this meeting.
And worth another story for another time.
Happy Gardening, Friends Lynn Hopkins

Garden touring sure whets ones appetite so

our much needed lunch break was next, held at
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New Members
Valerie Boyer has a lovely collection of full-formed daylilies. She favors
contrasting eyed tetraploids and is hoping to start hybridizing soon.
Mary Burgents is the owner of Morning Star Daylilies in Woodstown,
NJ. She is a board member of DVDS and has several introductions. She
is looking for newer daylilies to add to her collection.
Renee Perst is a Master Gardener with a very large garden (lots of room
for daylilies). She has been collecting daylilies for quite some time and is
a fan of full, rounded forms.
Ruth Yetter has recently registered her first daylily, Marie Reynolds,
(pictured at left) and is working on the elusive blue color.
Congratulations, Ruth!

Welcome!
Photo Credits
Photos on pages 2 and 4 provided by Lynn Hopkins.
Photo of Marie Reynolds in New Members section
provided by Ruth Yetter.
Pg 3. Small World Bo Peep, Miller-M., 2007

GSDG Board Members

President: Jane Guillard - 609-330-2933 - falconturndaylilies@comcast.net
Vice-President: John Monschauer 973-764-6048 monsch63@gmail.com
Treasurer: Patricia Scarano 732-257-6246 psacarano2@aol.com
Secretary: Mary Pabst 732-270-5878 Ctulip@verizon.net
Event Coordinator: Mary Lovasz 732-787-2794 Melovasz1@verizon.net
Additional Board Members: Mike Oliver
Rosemary Staba
Webmaster: Terry McGarty
GSDG Website www.gsdaylily.net
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