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Meet our Spring Meeting Guest Speaker |
Janice Kennedy is a Virginia native and comes from a long line of farmers and gardeners. Daffodils, lilacs, and peonies passed down from family gardens are special treasures in Janice's garden. Her interest in daylilies began in the early 1990's when she discovered the wonderful colors and shapes of modern daylilies at a local exhibition. As they say, the rest is history, and Janice began collecting daylilies in earnest. She now grows over 700 registered daylilies and several hundred seedlings on a small city lot in Falls Church VA.
Janice became interested in creating her own daylilies with encouragement and mentoring from fellow club member and hybridizer Pat Cochenour. After Pat began battling cancer in 2008, Janice spent many hours helping Pat with her hybridizing program. Traveling to Valdosta GA in 2010 for the national convention and seeing Pat receive her first Honorable Mention award for 'Screamcicle' was a very special highlight from this time. At Pat's request, Janice took over the management and distribution of her introductions after Pat's death in 2013 and began the task of moving and evaluating over 100 of her remaining seedlings. With help from friends, Janice expanded her inventory of Cochenour daylilies to ensure that they remain in distribution. Through Janice's efforts, Cochenour daylilies continue to be recognized for awards. After selecting and registering six of the Cochenour seedlings, Janice has now shifted back towards her own hybridizing, using Pat's small unusual forms and spiders as the core of her program. Miniatures and polymerous forms are also being pursued. Since 2019, Janice has registered 11 daylilies and received an Achievement Medal in 2023 for one of her seedlings. Janice wears a lot of other hats in the daylily world in addition to trying her hand at hybridizing. She has held many offices in her local club and will be a tour garden for the 2024 Region 3 Summer Meeting. She has been a Garden Judge since 2009 and in 2016, her garden was approved as an ADS Display Garden. She serves on several ADS committees and was a proofreader and contributor for two recent publications Small and Miniature Daylilies and Double Daylilies: Twice the Possibilities. Janice also serves as the daylily liaison for Meadowlark Botanical Gardens in Vienna VA and helps curate their display beds of over 550 new and historic daylily cultivars. Life after Janice's retirement from the federal government has taken some unexpected directions. Although she did not set out to be hybridizing daylilies and maintaining a legacy garden, Janice loves all the experiences and friendships she has gained. In between all her garden chores, Janice still makes time for tennis and travel. |
The Georgia Daylily
Attached is the interactive version of the 2024 Spring Edition of The Georgia Daylily.
Printed copies will be mailed to all AHS members in Georgia. You can open it by clicking on the image to the right. When you open this document (it is in Adobe PDF format) there is an option at the top of the page titled Page view. Click on two items in the drop down. (Two page view and show cover page separately) This will enable you to navigate through the document as if you were reading it in printed form. Each feature in the index is hyperlinked to that feature in the document. The page numbers at the bottom of each page throughout the document are hyperlinked back to the index. This will allow you to easily navigate around the document. Regards, Claude Carpenter Editor, The Georgia Daylily |
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