What is the AHS Popularity Poll?
Each year the AHS (American Hemerocallis Society) asks its members (10,000 or so) to fill out their Popularity Poll ballots. This poll is quite independent from the kind of voting that is done by its official Garden Judges and Exhibition Judges. You don’t need any special training, no particular number of years with AHS, and you don’t even need to grow very many daylilies in order to participate. All you need to do is become a member of AHS at a cost of $18 per year. You might wonder of what use this sort of uneducated poll might be. Most people grow daylilies around their houses, in their perennial borders and their gardens. They don’t fuss too much with fertilizers, watering, or soil amendments, at least not any more than they would for a normal garden. When you look at a list of the twenty-five most popular daylilies for your region, you’ll find a lot of “golden oldies” like STELLA DE ORO, MARY TODD, JANICE BROWN, BARBARA MITCHELL and FAIRY TALE PINK. These plants are tried and true
