Welcome to our website and to our beautiful Region 15—North Carolina and South Carolina. Made up of thirteen clubs, Region 15 is honored to host twenty-three ADS designated Display Gardens as well as quite a few commercial daylily sales gardens. ( /who-we-are-old.html )
Our Region is home to more than sixty-five hybridizers who span the spectrum from developers well known nationally and internationally to those backyard gardeners excitedly experimenting with ways to enhance and advance the daylily. ( /regional-hybridizers.html )
The Carolinas have a wide variety of terrains, climates, and soils ranging from the mountains to the sea, from zones 6 to 9, and from rich loam, to red clay, to loose sand – all of them daylily friendly.
Although Region 15 was the last Region added to the ADS listing (1960), one should not be misled into thinking we were not a part of ADS before that time. Far from it. According to “ADS Regions—An Organizational History,” an article by ADS Archivist/Historian, Ken Cobb, both states were included in the first ADS Regional Organization map published in 1949. Initially, they were assigned to different regions—North Carolina to Region 3 and South Carolina to Region 5. At that time, the entire Southeast, with the exception of North Carolina, was encompassed in Region 5. Regional lines shifted rapidly over the next few years. In 1951 North Carolina was reassigned to Region 5. Over time as other Southern states spun off to form new regions or to be absorbed by existing ones, Region 5 was reduced to just Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. It was still a very large region geographically with a lot of growth and activity, so in 1959-‘60, by mutual agreement with Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina requested and were granted ADS approval to form Region 15. ( http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/daylilies.site-ym.com/resource/resmgr/Website_Reprints/AHS_Regions_-_Organizational.pdf
Over the years, Region 15 has gone through growing pains and natural transitions to become a strong organization of close-knit clubs able to overcome long distances and unusual geographies. From the perspective of our interest in the daylily and our affiliation with ADS, we no longer think of ourselves as North Carolina and South Carolina. We are the Carolinas. We are ADS Region 15.
Our Region is home to more than sixty-five hybridizers who span the spectrum from developers well known nationally and internationally to those backyard gardeners excitedly experimenting with ways to enhance and advance the daylily. ( /regional-hybridizers.html )
The Carolinas have a wide variety of terrains, climates, and soils ranging from the mountains to the sea, from zones 6 to 9, and from rich loam, to red clay, to loose sand – all of them daylily friendly.
Although Region 15 was the last Region added to the ADS listing (1960), one should not be misled into thinking we were not a part of ADS before that time. Far from it. According to “ADS Regions—An Organizational History,” an article by ADS Archivist/Historian, Ken Cobb, both states were included in the first ADS Regional Organization map published in 1949. Initially, they were assigned to different regions—North Carolina to Region 3 and South Carolina to Region 5. At that time, the entire Southeast, with the exception of North Carolina, was encompassed in Region 5. Regional lines shifted rapidly over the next few years. In 1951 North Carolina was reassigned to Region 5. Over time as other Southern states spun off to form new regions or to be absorbed by existing ones, Region 5 was reduced to just Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. It was still a very large region geographically with a lot of growth and activity, so in 1959-‘60, by mutual agreement with Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina requested and were granted ADS approval to form Region 15. ( http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/daylilies.site-ym.com/resource/resmgr/Website_Reprints/AHS_Regions_-_Organizational.pdf
Over the years, Region 15 has gone through growing pains and natural transitions to become a strong organization of close-knit clubs able to overcome long distances and unusual geographies. From the perspective of our interest in the daylily and our affiliation with ADS, we no longer think of ourselves as North Carolina and South Carolina. We are the Carolinas. We are ADS Region 15.
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Our Mission
The mission of ADS is ”to promote, encourage, and foster the development and improvement of the genus Hemerocallis, and public interest therein by both education to the membership and the public and scientific development with member hybridizers.” As with other regions, the mission of Region 15 is to carry out the mission of ADS within our area. Through our club meetings, interactions among clubs, regional meetings in the summer and fall, our electronic and print publications, our flower shows, our service within our communities, and through our involvement at the national level of ADS, everything we do is to promote this mission. (/ )
We are passionate about the daylily, and we are passionate about our people. We recognize excellence and service within our membership; we recognize and promote our hybridizers through our awards system, and we honor them in our publications when they receive awards or honors at either the regional or national level. We also recognize and encourage new hybridizers with articles in our newsletter, and our seasoned hybridizers are always willing to mentor those who are just getting started. Region 15: it’s a good place to be.
The mission of ADS is ”to promote, encourage, and foster the development and improvement of the genus Hemerocallis, and public interest therein by both education to the membership and the public and scientific development with member hybridizers.” As with other regions, the mission of Region 15 is to carry out the mission of ADS within our area. Through our club meetings, interactions among clubs, regional meetings in the summer and fall, our electronic and print publications, our flower shows, our service within our communities, and through our involvement at the national level of ADS, everything we do is to promote this mission. (/ )
We are passionate about the daylily, and we are passionate about our people. We recognize excellence and service within our membership; we recognize and promote our hybridizers through our awards system, and we honor them in our publications when they receive awards or honors at either the regional or national level. We also recognize and encourage new hybridizers with articles in our newsletter, and our seasoned hybridizers are always willing to mentor those who are just getting started. Region 15: it’s a good place to be.