For those interested, the above is a link to the 2025 award winners.

The link doesn't work for me. There is a sign-in required.

Thanks mantis. It worked for me. Interesting list but none that I have are on the list. I noticed most but not all are intros from 10 years ago?

Julia

A sign-in to AHS? I mainly wanted to show the lists of AM and HM--just scroll down. It is typical for cultivars to be older, as it takes a while for distribution to take place. There are a few more recent Selmans. Again, cultivars are skewed to the South. I imagine that a lot of people buy Selmans, with his mass marketing.

In the Heart of It All is a nice older cultivar. I wonder why it is only now that it receives an Award of Merit. More smaller-flowered cultivars are getting awards, it seems to me. I didn't pay close attention, as increasingly I don't put much stock in AHS awards.

Gossard, I see, is not well represented (only one HM). Emmerich's Sea of Glass won an HM, as did Every Knee Shall Bow. Every Knee is a good grower. Davisson seldom gets an award.

When I click on the link, it gives me a sign-on to Google Docs. I looked on the AHS site, but the most recent winners I could find were from 2024.

Debra

Thanks Mantis!

Debra: Do you have a google account (gmail for instance). If you don't, then possibly that is why you can't see the link info come up and it is asking you to sign in. Just a thought.

Julia

Debra, if you go to Facebook, the American Daylily Society has a post that shows all the winners.

Nancy

The only daylily on the list I have is Luscious Kiss, I know Nancy also grows it. A small daylily with great color but has been slow to establish here. Nancy…..how about yours?

Sherry

Lots of UF's. Nuff said on that subject...........I don't know about Selman's daylilies. His prices are usually too high for my pocketbook. From research and personal experience many are not reliably colorfast in my climate.

Thanks for the information though.........Maryl

Nancy - I can't see it on FB either. When I click on it, it asks me to sign in with Google Docs again, and I don't have Google Docs.

Debra

God Save the Queen got the early bloom season award, but it is not early here. Correction: Gossard also got Don Stevens award (Stop the Car).

Honorable Mention

Award of Merit

Continuation of Honorable Mention (bottom of the list)

Mantis - Thanks for posting the winners! God Save the Queen was always mid in my Nashville garden too. It was surprising to see so many Blueridge and Browns Ferry cultivars on the lists, along with a fair number of Elliots. I've grown a few of the winners, but they were left in Nashville - not because they weren't good plants. They just weren't the ones I liked the best. I did add Becky Adams and Denim Sky last year and look forward to seeing them bloom next season.

Debra