2018 ADS Region 5 Service Award
In 1974, the AHS Board established this award for outstanding service to AHS at the regional level. Currently serving board members are not eligible. However, Serving Regional Presidents are now eligible to be nominated for these awards.
Only one AHS Regional Service Award may be awarded per region per year. A dual award for two members of the same family counts as one award. An AHS member will only be eligible to win a Regional Service Award once. Nominations may come from any member of the nominee's region. Nominations must be sent to the AHS Awards & Honors Chairman by September 1st by mail or email, and must contain a summary of the nominee's worthiness for this award. The AHS Board votes by secret ballot at the annual fall board meeting, and the award is presented at the following AHS National Convention.
Only one AHS Regional Service Award may be awarded per region per year. A dual award for two members of the same family counts as one award. An AHS member will only be eligible to win a Regional Service Award once. Nominations may come from any member of the nominee's region. Nominations must be sent to the AHS Awards & Honors Chairman by September 1st by mail or email, and must contain a summary of the nominee's worthiness for this award. The AHS Board votes by secret ballot at the annual fall board meeting, and the award is presented at the following AHS National Convention.
The 2018 Region 5 ADS Service Award goes to Patty and Mark Franklin.
At the 2018 AHS National Convention in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Mark and Patty Franklin were the recipients of the AHS Region Service Award for Region 5. They reside in Alpharetta, Georgia and absolutely upholds the characterization of significant service to the daylily world. They have been members of the American Hemerocallis Society (AHS) since 1996 and they certainly support the activity of growing daylilies and the institution of our daylily society. They are members of the Daylily Society of Greater Atlanta (DSGA) and have been members of the Cobb County Daylily Society (CCDS). Mark has held the following positions in both clubs - President, Vice President, and Board Member. He has selected and ordered plants for the membership rewards program. Mark was in charge of organizing guest speakers for both clubs. He has picked up and returned guest speakers to the Atlanta Airport and driven to Macon, Ga. to pick up a guest speaker and then made the return drive the same day. Mark has represented his daylily club as a speaker for local, elementary, and high schools about their garden and daylilies. Patty served as President of DSGA for three years; CCDS/DSGA combined daylily Show Chair 4 times, DSGA Show Chair 2 times and has recently been voted to be the permanent DSGA Show Chair. Both have helped set up and dismantle a daylily show, dig and wash auction plants, and helped with any little detail that needed to be done for a successful club activity. They have served on numerous daylily show committees and been in charge of different committees, such as schedules, placement, education, set-up & dismantling, tabulation, clerks, awards, etc. Both have hosted guest speakers in their home and entered flowers in their club daylily shows each year for the past 20 years.
AHS Region 5 has three meetings a year; the winter meeting, the spring conference, and the fall meeting. They have attended and participated in the activities for most of these meetings over the years. They have served on two spring regional hosting committees (2011 & 2018). Mark was chairman of tour gardens, chairman of bus plants and gift plants. Patty was registrar for 2 Region 5 spring meetings. There garden , M P Flower Gardens, has been a regional tour garden twice. Also their garden hosted Enman Joiner Region 5 Seedling Bed during the 2015 National Convention. Mark most recently wrote an article for The Georgia Daylily about their club trip to the northern daylily Mecca.
They were one of eight AHS National Tour Gardens in 2015. Mark and Patty served on the AHS 2015 national organizing committee. Mark held the title of "Chief of Staff" (responsible for checking up and follow up on all committees), chairman of bus plants and gift plants, and chairman of tour gardens. Patty was the registrar for the 2015 AHS National Convention. They worked with the artist and metal worker to design and create large metal daylilies to be used as fundraisers for the national convention and then drove to Detroit to pick them up. They grew the plants that were used for the plant sale at the national convention. They both maintain an AHS Display Garden, named M P Flower Gardens, where a slightly rolling slope of daylilies greets visitors in a layout you'll never see anywhere else! Set among the daylily and iris beds are surprise sculptures, yard art and a gazebo. More private areas near the house include companion plant gardens, daylily reserve and seedling beds. A most delightfully huge metal daylily sculpture changes positions yearly. Their collection of daylilies include a very wide range of all forms and types, plus they have their own introductions. Their garden is a large place for sentiment and gives the appearance that it serves them as their private refuge for inspiration, creativity and a connection with nature. It has been an AHS Display Garden for 10 plus years. One can see the daylilies Mark has hybridized along with his several cultivars that have won the AHS Achievement Medal. They both serve as Exhibition and Garden Judges and are both Exhibition Judge Instructors. Mark and Patty Franklin have donated plants for all club plant sales, regional plant sales, club meeting door prizes and regional plant auctions. They have donated plants and helped establish daylily gardens at their local YMCA and at the Hyatt Regency Hotel (for 2015 National Convention).They have been very charitable with the value of the daylilies given. When a person gives you their time to an endeavor, they can give you no more precious gift. That statement exemplifies the efforts Mark and Patty have given to Region 5 AHS Congratulations to Mark and Patty.
AHS Region 5 has three meetings a year; the winter meeting, the spring conference, and the fall meeting. They have attended and participated in the activities for most of these meetings over the years. They have served on two spring regional hosting committees (2011 & 2018). Mark was chairman of tour gardens, chairman of bus plants and gift plants. Patty was registrar for 2 Region 5 spring meetings. There garden , M P Flower Gardens, has been a regional tour garden twice. Also their garden hosted Enman Joiner Region 5 Seedling Bed during the 2015 National Convention. Mark most recently wrote an article for The Georgia Daylily about their club trip to the northern daylily Mecca.
They were one of eight AHS National Tour Gardens in 2015. Mark and Patty served on the AHS 2015 national organizing committee. Mark held the title of "Chief of Staff" (responsible for checking up and follow up on all committees), chairman of bus plants and gift plants, and chairman of tour gardens. Patty was the registrar for the 2015 AHS National Convention. They worked with the artist and metal worker to design and create large metal daylilies to be used as fundraisers for the national convention and then drove to Detroit to pick them up. They grew the plants that were used for the plant sale at the national convention. They both maintain an AHS Display Garden, named M P Flower Gardens, where a slightly rolling slope of daylilies greets visitors in a layout you'll never see anywhere else! Set among the daylily and iris beds are surprise sculptures, yard art and a gazebo. More private areas near the house include companion plant gardens, daylily reserve and seedling beds. A most delightfully huge metal daylily sculpture changes positions yearly. Their collection of daylilies include a very wide range of all forms and types, plus they have their own introductions. Their garden is a large place for sentiment and gives the appearance that it serves them as their private refuge for inspiration, creativity and a connection with nature. It has been an AHS Display Garden for 10 plus years. One can see the daylilies Mark has hybridized along with his several cultivars that have won the AHS Achievement Medal. They both serve as Exhibition and Garden Judges and are both Exhibition Judge Instructors. Mark and Patty Franklin have donated plants for all club plant sales, regional plant sales, club meeting door prizes and regional plant auctions. They have donated plants and helped establish daylily gardens at their local YMCA and at the Hyatt Regency Hotel (for 2015 National Convention).They have been very charitable with the value of the daylilies given. When a person gives you their time to an endeavor, they can give you no more precious gift. That statement exemplifies the efforts Mark and Patty have given to Region 5 AHS Congratulations to Mark and Patty.