The Daylily Show was held on Saturday, May 29, at Tallahassee Mall. Angela Smith was the show chairman. Committee chairs were:

Judges: Donna Warlick
Publicity: Denise Horne
Staging and Properties: Harry and Cecilia Thomas
Classification: David Elkins and Denise Horne
Placement: Susan Coker
Clerks: Sylvia Owens
Awards: Marguerite Snell
Tabulation: Ken Johnson
Education: Pam Brown
Cleanup: Jim and Linda Earnest

There were 568 on-scape entries in the show, which made it the third largest daylily show in the United States. Only Albany, Georgia and Atlanta, Georgia, had more entries than our club. The award winners were:

Large Flower - Spring Willow Song, exhibited by Keith Lunsford
Small Flower - Silver Run, exhibited by Barbara Massey
Miniature Flower - After The Fall, exhibited by Keith Lunsford
Double Flower - Flower Pavilion, exhibited by Barbara Massey
Spider/Sp. Variant - Marse Connell, exhibited by Barbara Massey
Popularity Poll - Betty Woods, exhibited by Kenneth Johnson
Youth - Jason Salter, exhibited by Brent Collinsworth
Best In Show - After The Fall, exhibited by Keith Lunsford
Sweepstakes - Barbara Massey
There were no winners in the Achievement Medal or Seedling category.

On Friday evening before the show, the club treated its members and judges to a Pioneer Supper and Hayride near the Ochlockonee River north of Tallahassee. A caravan of cars traveled to the community of Concord, Florida, in Gadsden County, where guests climbed into a hay wagon and were transported two miles down a sand road to the culmination point on the river at Cotton’s Ferry, once a ferry crossing from the Gadsden County side of the Ochlockonee River to the Leon County side. At the site of Angela Smith’s family’s log cabin, guests helped themselves to a covered dish supper provided by the club members. Southern dishes such as ham, chicken pileau, turnip greens, cornbread, peas, and blackberry pie were greatly enjoyed. Club member Barbara Boynton, dressed in typical pioneer garb complete with sunbonnet, perched on the cabin’s front porch and told stories about the history of the area. Her great grandparents had lived on the road to Cotton’s Ferry and had raised sheep, cows, pigs, many children, and crops such as corn, cotton, and indigo. Following storytelling time, then came music. Two friends of the Smith family played their fiddles and sang some old and popular songs. A few guests couldn’t resist the toe tapping music and jumped up to dance. Finally, at dark, the judges piled back into the hay wagon and were transported once again to civilization. Our visitors, many of who had not enjoyed a hayride since their teens, made lots of wonderful comments.