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 2016 garden tours were held at Leslie Rule's Garden in Hallam.  Leslie recently moved to Nebraska and her young garden is taking off.  NDS Members also had the pleasure of visiting Rita and Lyle Kahnk's beautiful lakeside cabin in Cedar Creek. 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.

Rolling Raven (Stamile, 2007) at Leslie Rule's garden.            

Forsyth Pink Flying Dragon (Lefever, 2001) at the Rule garden.     

Matthew Brannon Thompson (Meuir-R., 2006)

Leslie Rule's Garden

A beautiful morning.  A chance to see lovely flowers and visit with new and old friends.

Leslie's very unique rain gauge!

Garden Tour Host, Leslie Rule

Rita and Lyle Kahnk's Lake Cabin - what a view!

Watson Park Tempest (Jerabek, 2004) at the Kahnk Garden

 Faith That Moves Mountains (Emmerich, 2012) at the Kahnk garden

Crimson Pink (Daugherty, 1989) at the Kahnk garden

Daylily Bed at the Kahnk Garden



Flower bed with the pavers laid out in the shape of a flower.

Garden Tour Hosts, Rita and Lyle Kahnk.

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. 

This year, for the first time, the results of our Flower Show were determined by a Popularity Vote.  

The 2017 Daylily Show and Garden Tour will be in Omaha.

Some of the 2016 Flower Show boards.

Winners in the Spider category

Entries in the Extra Large Flower Category

Display table of the Large Flower entries.

Entries in the small flower category.

On Scape display.

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 2016 was........

Linda Ferguson's bloom of  Megatron (Gosard, 2006) 

Photos by R. Lowe