Nebraska Daylily Society (NDS)

Each year there are generally two or three gardens selected at the host area for garden tours.  This gives the membership a chance to see how other members grow and show their daylilies.  The 2017 tours were held in Omaha at the gradens of Nancy Lee Anderson, Doug Bremers and Tim Morriseey. Thank you to our hosts for all their hard work in getting their gardens ready for company.

Shown below are some flowers from the garden tours.

Plastic Pink Flamingos (Wilkerson, 2008) in the Anderson Garden.

College Colors (Webster, 1989) in the Anderson Garden.

Violet Impression (Bernt, 2004) in the Anderson Garden.

Primal Scream (Hanson-C., 1994) in the Anderson Garden.

Ring The Bells of Heaven  (Carpenter-J., 2006) in the Anderson Garden.

Wind Chimes in the big beautiful Birch Trees in Nancy Lee's front yard.

Garden Tour Host, Nancy Lee Anderson

Morning Comes Electric (Petit, 2009) in the Bremers garden.

NDS Members enjoying the beautiful blooms in the Bremers Garden.

Midnight Castle (Pierce-G., 2013) in the Bremers garden.

Bed of dayliles in the Bremers garden that includes         Rose F. Kennedy (Doorakian, 2007).

 Springfield Clan (Trimmer-J., 2001) in the Bremers Garden.

Flower bed in the Bremers garden.

Garden Tour Host, Doug Bremers (on left) with friends and felllow NDS Members Dave and Val Jean Hansen.

Bloom Where You're Planted (Emmerich, 2012) in the Morrissey garden.

Only Believe (Grace-L., 1998) in the Morrissey Gardem

Hillside flower bed in the Morrissey garden.

Lucky You (Pierce-G., 2016) in the Morrissey garden.

Dave Hansen admires Tim Morrissey's seedlings.

Upgrade (Gossard, 2007) in the the Morrissey garden.

Garden Tour Host, Tim Morrissey 

Photos by R. Lowe  

Each year as part of the July meeting, a judged bloom show is held, with members being able to bring as many blooms as they want to enter in the bloom show.  With NDS meetings held at various Nebraska/Iowa locations, this sometimes means picking flowers in the dark in order to travel the distance needed to complete the entry process by 9:30 in the morning. 

The results of our Flower Show were determined by a Popularity Vote.  

The 2018 Daylily Show and Garden Tour will be in Omaha.

Some of the 2017 Flower Show boards

Winners in the Large Flower Category.

Entries in the Small Flower Category

NDS Members looking at the flowers on display.

Winners in the Double Flower Category.

Deciding which flower entry to vote for.

One of the most exciting things about the Flower Show were the number of Seedlings entered.   Daylily hybridizing is definitely alive and well in the Midwest.

And the Best in Show for 2017 was........

Butch Ahlers's bloom of   Red Wine Romance (Kinnebrew-J., 2008) 

Congratulations Butch!

Photos by R. Lowe