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AHS Region 5 Winter Meeting
AHS Region 5 Winter Meeting
About our Winter Meeting Speaker
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Location: Haynesville First Baptist Church
2953 US-341, Hawkinsville, GA 31036. Date: February 20, 2021 Time: 8:45 am Our Speaker: Jamie Gossard See below link for a downloadable PDF copy of the meeting agenda and Registration Form:
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James Gossard is one of the top daylily breeders in the world. Heavenly Gardens grows over 50,000 seedlings per year and introduces around 70 daylilies per year. Currently James has introduced over 850 registered daylilies. Many have received national awards. H. ‘Heavenly Angel Ice’ won the Stout Medal in 2015 and the Lambert Webster Award in 2009. H. ‘Heavenly United We Stand’ won the Stout Medal in 2015. In addition, 42 of his other daylilies have won major cultivar awards. His hybridizing program is located in Galloway, Ohio where both Heavenly Gardens and Superior Laboratories is located on the same property. James has a second hybridizing program (Spacecoast Daylilies) located in Florida where he partners with John Kinnebrew. James also is well known for breeding Red Standard Poodles and Irish Doodles known as ‘Heavenly Poodles’ and ‘Heavenly Doodles’. James graduated from Ohio State University with a degree in Microbiology and is a Registered Sanitarian in the state of Ohio. He is the laboratory director/owner of Superior Laboratories Inc. which is a food, plant, water and environmental testing laboratory. In fall of 2015, James added onto Superior Laboratories a plant ploidy testing program. Initially it was to test daylilies used in his hybridizing program, however, he now offers this service to anyone.
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