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Cobb County Daylily Society

Bill Waldrop, President
(770) 429-0204
310 McDaniel Road
Marietta, Georgia 30064
Wwlawyer@aol.com

Cobb County Daylily Society
By Diana and Bill Waldrop

The dates for our general meetings for 2009 are as follows: April 19, September 13 and November 15. Our meetings are held on Sunday at 2:00 p.m. in Room 252 at the First Methodist Church, 56 Whitlock Avenue, Marietta, Georgia. All visitors are welcome.

President: Bill Waldrop
Vice President: Camilla Arthur
Secretary: Diana Waldrop
Treasurer: Jack Rigsby
Publicity: Anne Murray
Show Chairperson: Patty Franklin
Hospitality: Cynthia Rigsby
Parliamentarian: Glenn McKenney

Our first speaker for 2009 was Mr. John Kinnebrew from Kinnebrew Daylily Gardens in Scottsmoor, Florida. We had over 50 people in attendance. We were very fortunate to have Mr. Kinnebrew to come to speak to our Club. Bill thanked Camilla and David Arthur for arranging Mr. Kinnebrew’s visit, and for picking him up at the Airport. We found out that Mr. Kinnebrew worked for 28 years at the Air Force Space Station at Cape Canaveral, Florida. After Mr. Kinnebrew’s retirement he began to grow daylilies at his home, and very soon thereafter he was hybridizing great flowers. Mr. Kinnebrew is married and has one son. Mr. Kinnebrew’s wife and his son both help him in his hybridizing work in his garden. Mr. Kinnebrew’s son, John, is also a Hybridizer. Mr. Kinnebrew grows over 10,000 seedlings in 6 x 12 raised boxes on about one-half acre. From his 10,000 seedlings he keeps approximately 200 plants. He ships his introductions to many countries including Russia, Japan, Germany and Australia. Mr. Kinnebrew’s Garden will be featured on the tour of gardens at the National Convention this coming May. People are very interested in Mr. Kinnebrew’s daylilies because he grows such beautiful daylilies on a relatively small parcel of property. Mr. Kinnebrew then presented his power point presentation. We were all treated to a very entertaining presentation. We then auctioned the 20 plants that Mr. Kinnebrew brought with him. These daylilies were very large and beautiful, and the plants auctioned included double and sometimes three or more fans. Many people in our Club purchased Mr. Kinnebrew’s daylilies, and it was a fun time for everyone. We then took the photograph shown below. You can see John sitting in the middle of the front row.

Dianna Johnson, our web designer, has added a film clip of our 2008 Daylily Show to our web site. You can view the Show by going to our web site, www.cobbdaylily.org. This presentation was accomplished by Rita Buehner, one of our newest members. Rita has done an excellent job in capturing the excitement of our 2008 Daylily Show at the Galleria Mall in Marietta, Georgia.

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