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Daylily 101

Daylilies are often referred to as “America’s Favorite Perennial” because they are easy to grow and are found in many home gardens. Once established, daylilies require little maintenance and provide a great pop of color for any summer garden.

On Sunday, August 16, come learn all about daylilies. Sandy Holmes, an award-winning daylily hybridizer and member of the Metropolitan Columbus Daylily Society, along with other club members, will be here to teach you all you want to know to make good decisions about adding daylilies to your garden. The class will emphasize practical tips for purchasing, planting, dividing, and maintaining daylilies for peak garden performance. Participants will leave with a strong foundation for growing healthy, beautiful daylilies and a deeper appreciation for this versatile summer bloomer.

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Instructor: Sandy Holmes Sandy Holmes is an award-winning daylily hybridizer. Her awards include the Stout Metal, the highest award given by the American Daylily Society (ADS). Two of her daylilies have received the President Cup for the favorite daylily clump awarded by society members attending a national daylily convention. Last year she received the annual Lennington All American Award given by the ADS board to a flower proven to grow throughout the United States. Some of her other awards include the ADS Region 2 Service Award, the Moldovan Mentoring Award, and the Howard Hite Award for excellence in hybridizing.
Sandy has been hybridizing daylilies for over 30 years. She served two terms as the ADS Region 2 President, has been a daylily garden judge instructor for fifteen years and has hosted the Shirley Farmer Midwest Hybridizing Meeting, a biannual meeting for hybridizers, collectors and anyone interested in daylilies, for the past twenty years. She and her husband, Mike, operate a daylily farm just outside of Xenia, OH.