Treadway Garden
Robert Treadway’s garden in Carlisle. Robert lives on sixty seven acres, He has over 175 daylilies and 600 iris. Robert is past president of The Society of Louisiana Iris.
Antonet's Garden
Second stop will be John Antoneƫ’s garden in Benton. John provides a variety of designs and themes in a backyard garden. He has designedand constructed screens to provide a background to plants with different sun requirements, but daylilies will be the stars in June. Note the pictureon the lower left, with clematis and daylilies in bloom. You’ll get great ideas for backyard privacy, as well as overall garden design in Arkansas.
White Rock Garden
White Rock Garden of Phyllis and OdieKirtley is on a 3.5 acre lot near Benton,and Japanese irises could be in bloomwhen we arrive. This garden has raiseddaylily beds, constructed by filling in lowrock edges with a combination of mulch-es, saving Ɵme needed for weeding.Phyllis is a master in geƫng differentplants into the right amount of sunlight,as there are at least five different iristypes planted with daylilies and peonies.
Sandy Holmes
Sandy started as a back yard hybridizer in 1995. In 2003 she got serious about her daylily obsession when she and her husband, Mike moved Riverbend Daylily Gardens to its current location just outside of Xenia, OH (dalilytrader.com/riverbend). Theyhave 289 introductions in the American Daylily Society registry of cultivars; Sandy had her first introducƟons in 2005. She credits Steve Moldovan as a significant influence on her hybridizing. Her focus is on large tetraploid unusual forms but doesn’t let that prevent her working on other looks. Currently she is focusing on large unusual forms with interesting eyes. Mike’s current interest is striped daylilies, but he was very active in early teeth daylilies. Sandy became a Garden Judge in 2007 and a Garden Judge Instructor in 2011. She has coordinated the Shirley Farmer Midwest Hybridizer’s meeting since 2004 and has served in several volunteer positions with the ADS. Sandy was Region 2 President from 2016 thru 2020 and received the Region 2 Service Award in 2021.
Sandy was honored when her daylily Walt Lowry (named for her father) won the Ned Roberts Spider/Unusual Form award in 2016 and even more excited when it won an Award of Merit. In 2017, Tidewater Elf won the Presidents Cub followed by the Award of Merit in 2020. Little did she dream that she would have the thrill of a lifetime when her I Lava You won the Stout Silver Metal in 2020.
Sandy was honored when her daylily Walt Lowry (named for her father) won the Ned Roberts Spider/Unusual Form award in 2016 and even more excited when it won an Award of Merit. In 2017, Tidewater Elf won the Presidents Cub followed by the Award of Merit in 2020. Little did she dream that she would have the thrill of a lifetime when her I Lava You won the Stout Silver Metal in 2020.