Our local daylily club – Bay Area Daylily Buds (BAD Buds) is hosting the Region 2 regional meeting in 2014. I volunteered (again) to be chairman of the meeting. Our club did this in 2004 and enjoyed it so we are doing it again.Â
Luel and I considered introducing a flower that would have the same name as our theme for the regional meeting. We hope to be able to grow enough to have every family attending get a fan as a gift plant. We identified a seedling last year that was excellent quality.  It had 8 fans. We hope to double it every year as follows:
2010 – 8 fans
2011 – 16 fans
2012 – 32 fans
2013 – 64 fans
2014 – 128 fans
This will be just about enough for most people to get a plant at our regional meeting. If it grows faster, great. Duane and Barbara Nickel from our Milwaukee connection are growing it for me and hopefully it will multiply faster way down south. I kept one fan in garden and the scape looks great although it will not bloom for another 10 days or so. The parentage is (August Wedding x JT Davis) x Heir to the Throne. We counted 30 inches high, 24 buds, 5.5 inches in diameter. Foliage is hard dormant. Picture is below:
