The OSCIE WHATLEY SEEDLING AWARD is awarded at the end of each year’s summer annual meeting (during the business meeting) for the best seedling grown in a special seedling bed for such purpose in one of the host gardens. The award is sponsored by and will be endowed in perpetuity by the Greater St. Louis Daylily Society. The award was first awarded at the 2008 Regional Meeting.
Rules for the Award are as follows:
Oscie Whatley RULES - Revised Sept. 2021
1. For each summer Regional Meeting, the host club will
establish an “Oscie Whatley Memorial Seedling Bed” in one
of the host gardens in spring two years before the event.
(The Greater St, Louis Daylily Society will provide an
appropriate sign to be displayed in the garden to identify the
bed during the Meeting.} The host club will be responsible
for making sure that Region 11 notifies prospective entrants
well in advance where to send their entries {i.e. the name
and shipping address of the host garden.} Notification to
Region 11 membership will be included in the first MoKanOk
that is published after the host club provides the needed
details. During the years preceding the meeting, the host
garden will accept eligible entries and plant them in a fair
and suitable manner such that each entry can be easily
viewed during the day(s) his/her garden is on tour.
2. Each registered attendee of the regional meeting, AHS
member or not, will have one vote to choose the seedling
they believe to be best. Ballots to be collected at the end of
the bus ride on the day each bus visits the host garden that
maintains the Region 11 Seedling Bed.
3. Each plant entry will be identified in the Oscie Whatley
Memorial Seedling Bed by only a number that is randomly
assigned by the garden host and known only by the garden
host until the voting is over.
4. To be eligible at the time of the regional meeting, a seedling
must be unregistered, have been hybridized by a living
member in good standing of at least one Region 11 daylily
club and a member of the American Hemerocallis Society
aka American Daylily Society. In addition, to restrict the
contest to legitimate hybridizers, in order to be eligible, the
submitting party must have registered at least one cultivar
with the AHS prior to the year of any regional meeting in
which he/she wishes to enter a seedling for this award.
5. Only one seedling can be entered by any hybridizer per
annual Meeting. Up to five fans can be submitted.
6. A plant entry will be disqualified if the hybridizer or any
member of the hybridizer’s household reveals the identity of
the hybridizer’s entry to anyone outside the household. Of
course the host garden owner(s) will know which hybridizer
enters which seedling.
7. It will be preferred and become the ethical standard that any
hybridizer who enters a seedling will not even reveal the fact
to anyone, even if asked.
8. The vote of anyone revealing the hybridizer’s name of any
entry to anyone will be disqualified.
9. The vote of anyone who has been told the hybridizer’s name
of any entry by anyone will be disqualified.
10. Upon entry, each hybridizer contestant will prescribe
whether or not his/her seedling can be used for pollen
purposes while it is being guested and will designate the
plant’s final disposition. If the hybridizer wants any portion
of the clump returned after the event, he or she must pay
shipping fees to the garden host. Under no circumstances
may guest seedling plants be used as pod parents, even
with its hybridizer’s permission.
11. The winning entry must be registered with the AHS
within one year and the winning hybridizer must notify the
Greater St Louis Daylily Society of the registration.
12. The Greater St. Louis Daylily Society will provide a
suitable trophy to the host club for their presentation to the
winner.
13. The Greater St. Louis Daylily Society will pay the
garden host $150 as a stipend to reimburse him/her for the
trouble and expense of maintaining the Region 11 seedling
bed. The stipend is intended to cover the host garden’s cost
of bed preparation, plant labeling, plant care, etc. The value
of the stipend will be reassessed every five years beginning
in 2010 for a possible increase necessitated by the effects of
inflation.
14. The person or persons hosting the Oscie Whatley
seedling bed will not be allowed to participate in the
competition.
WINNERS
OSCIE WHATLEY SEEDLING AWARD WINNERS
2008 Jerry Mix WICHITA WHIRLWIND
2009 Dan White PRAIRIE WIN
2010 AL Apsher LADY BROWN EYE
2011 Jesse Emmons MO RIVER EYES
2012 Kathy Kratli GRANDMA’S SWEETPEA
2013 Don Marshall THE ANTHER TO ALL YOUR PROBLEMS
2014 Craig Plahn CATSPAW DANCING GIRL
2015 Dave Niswonger MANHATTAN DELIGHT
2016 Bob Riggs ABRAM LOVES DADDY
2017 Ashton Lopp STAY TUNED
2018 Jim Frey CLOUDHUNTER
2019 Ann Redmon SPRINGFIELD STAR
2020 Covid –Regional Cancelled
2021 TIE: Jim Fry and Eric Mack, named to be released at a later date.
2022: Jim Fry
2023: No regional
Rules for the Award are as follows:
Oscie Whatley RULES - Revised Sept. 2021
1. For each summer Regional Meeting, the host club will
establish an “Oscie Whatley Memorial Seedling Bed” in one
of the host gardens in spring two years before the event.
(The Greater St, Louis Daylily Society will provide an
appropriate sign to be displayed in the garden to identify the
bed during the Meeting.} The host club will be responsible
for making sure that Region 11 notifies prospective entrants
well in advance where to send their entries {i.e. the name
and shipping address of the host garden.} Notification to
Region 11 membership will be included in the first MoKanOk
that is published after the host club provides the needed
details. During the years preceding the meeting, the host
garden will accept eligible entries and plant them in a fair
and suitable manner such that each entry can be easily
viewed during the day(s) his/her garden is on tour.
2. Each registered attendee of the regional meeting, AHS
member or not, will have one vote to choose the seedling
they believe to be best. Ballots to be collected at the end of
the bus ride on the day each bus visits the host garden that
maintains the Region 11 Seedling Bed.
3. Each plant entry will be identified in the Oscie Whatley
Memorial Seedling Bed by only a number that is randomly
assigned by the garden host and known only by the garden
host until the voting is over.
4. To be eligible at the time of the regional meeting, a seedling
must be unregistered, have been hybridized by a living
member in good standing of at least one Region 11 daylily
club and a member of the American Hemerocallis Society
aka American Daylily Society. In addition, to restrict the
contest to legitimate hybridizers, in order to be eligible, the
submitting party must have registered at least one cultivar
with the AHS prior to the year of any regional meeting in
which he/she wishes to enter a seedling for this award.
5. Only one seedling can be entered by any hybridizer per
annual Meeting. Up to five fans can be submitted.
6. A plant entry will be disqualified if the hybridizer or any
member of the hybridizer’s household reveals the identity of
the hybridizer’s entry to anyone outside the household. Of
course the host garden owner(s) will know which hybridizer
enters which seedling.
7. It will be preferred and become the ethical standard that any
hybridizer who enters a seedling will not even reveal the fact
to anyone, even if asked.
8. The vote of anyone revealing the hybridizer’s name of any
entry to anyone will be disqualified.
9. The vote of anyone who has been told the hybridizer’s name
of any entry by anyone will be disqualified.
10. Upon entry, each hybridizer contestant will prescribe
whether or not his/her seedling can be used for pollen
purposes while it is being guested and will designate the
plant’s final disposition. If the hybridizer wants any portion
of the clump returned after the event, he or she must pay
shipping fees to the garden host. Under no circumstances
may guest seedling plants be used as pod parents, even
with its hybridizer’s permission.
11. The winning entry must be registered with the AHS
within one year and the winning hybridizer must notify the
Greater St Louis Daylily Society of the registration.
12. The Greater St. Louis Daylily Society will provide a
suitable trophy to the host club for their presentation to the
winner.
13. The Greater St. Louis Daylily Society will pay the
garden host $150 as a stipend to reimburse him/her for the
trouble and expense of maintaining the Region 11 seedling
bed. The stipend is intended to cover the host garden’s cost
of bed preparation, plant labeling, plant care, etc. The value
of the stipend will be reassessed every five years beginning
in 2010 for a possible increase necessitated by the effects of
inflation.
14. The person or persons hosting the Oscie Whatley
seedling bed will not be allowed to participate in the
competition.
WINNERS
OSCIE WHATLEY SEEDLING AWARD WINNERS
2008 Jerry Mix WICHITA WHIRLWIND
2009 Dan White PRAIRIE WIN
2010 AL Apsher LADY BROWN EYE
2011 Jesse Emmons MO RIVER EYES
2012 Kathy Kratli GRANDMA’S SWEETPEA
2013 Don Marshall THE ANTHER TO ALL YOUR PROBLEMS
2014 Craig Plahn CATSPAW DANCING GIRL
2015 Dave Niswonger MANHATTAN DELIGHT
2016 Bob Riggs ABRAM LOVES DADDY
2017 Ashton Lopp STAY TUNED
2018 Jim Frey CLOUDHUNTER
2019 Ann Redmon SPRINGFIELD STAR
2020 Covid –Regional Cancelled
2021 TIE: Jim Fry and Eric Mack, named to be released at a later date.
2022: Jim Fry
2023: No regional
