2021 Winners of "Carolina Best Clump Award
This award in one form or another has been in existence since 1966. Originally named the RVP Cup or the RVP Award, it is now referred to as The Carolina Best Clump Award. It is currently sponsored by Sandhills Daylily Club. The winner of the award is selected by registered attendees of the Region 15 summer meeting as a part of the garden tours. Garden hosts are expected to flag all daylily cultivars in their gardens that were hybridized by members of Region 15. Cultivars must be accurately labeled with the name of the cultivar and the name of the hybridizer. Attendees will be provided with ballots for this award. Ballots will be collected by the Awards Management Chair at the end of the garden tours and will be counted prior to that evening’s awards presentations. The garden owner(s) who grew the winning daylily will receive an appropriately chosen award presented by the president of the sponsoring club, or the president’s designee. The hybridizer who introduced the cultivar will receive a certificate of recognition, and his/her name, along with the name of the winning cultivar, will be added to the list of previous winners in The Carolina Best Clump Hall of Fame.
Carolina Best Clump Hall of Fame
(Previous winners of the “Best Carolina Clump Award)
A given cultivar can win the Carolina Best Clump Award only once.
2016 Three way tie
'Red Hot Wings' (Bill Gluck)
'Up Mill Creek' (Gene Tanner)
'Lizard's Lemon Twist' (Terry Baucom)
2015 'Summer Star' (Santa Lucia)
2014 -- N.A. **
2013 'Catawampus' (Jeffcoat)
2012 'Cherryville' (Santa Lucia)
2011 'Cameron's Charisma' (Santa Lucia)
2010 'Icy' (Shooter-E.)
2009 'Fancy This' (Jeffcoat, J.)
2008 'Mister Butters' (Davisson)
2007 'Shrimp and Grits' (Boatwright)
2006 'Devine Secrets' (Douglas)
2005 'Fair to Middlin' (Jeffcoat, J.)
2004 'Pick of the Litter' (Douglas)
'Circle of Friends' (Shooter, F) (Tie)
2003 -- N.A. **
2002 'Carolina Sunrise' (Douglas)
2001 'Ferol' (Jeffcoat, J.)
2000 'Strawberry Patch' (Douglas)
1999 'Rosy Scenario' (Weston)
1998 'Frozen Jade' (Sellers)
1997 'All American Chief' (Sellers)
1996 'Harley Rushing' (Rushing)
1995 'Dash Dash' (Zahler)
1994 'Flaming Frolic' (Jernigan)
1993 'John Fields' (Zahler)
1992 'Alexandriana' (Alexander)
1991 'Pink Monday' (Sellers)
1990 'Unique Style' (Carpenter)
1989 'Kay Hodge' (Lambert)
1988 'Mabel Nolen' (Nolen)
1987 'New Series' (Carpenter)
1986 'My Approval' (Sellers)
1985 'Bond of Friendship' (Elliott)
'Fiery Messenger' (Elliott) (tie)
1984 'Bob Kennedy' (Holman)
1983 'Harry Kirk' (Kirk)
1982 'Sally Jetton' (Alexander)
1981 'Cameron Quantz' (Holman)
1980 'Puddin' (Kennedy)
1979 'Boyd Horton' (Blakely)
1978 'Pat Holman' (Holman)
1977 'Butterpat' (Kennedy)
1976 -- N.A. **
1975 'Shadowmoss' (Kirk)
1974 'Iron Gate Glacier' (Sellers)
1973 'Columbia Gem' (Boulware)
1972 'Shadyside' (Lambert)
1971 'Keithie' (Garren)
1970 'Gary Bee' (Helms)
1969 'Mildred Evans' (Blakely)
1968 'Yellow Jewel' (Hodges)
1967 'William Munson Jr.' (MacMillan) *
1966 'Rozavel' (Lambert)
* non-Region 15 hybridizer
** N.A. = Not Awarded. The national convention's President's Cup was given in lieu of the RVP award.