These are just announced this evening! Congratulations to all the winners.

Stout Silver Medal: Isabelle Rose
Lenington All American: Papa Goose

Awards of Merit ( Usually 12, 13 this year with a tie)
1.Breathing. In Snowflakes
2. Sebastian on Steroids
3. Hats Off To Sue
4. Back to Black
5. Depends on the Whether
6. Barcode
7. The One Ring
8. Wigglesworth
9.Asheville White Winged Dove
10.Little Donnie Darko
11.Stop the Car
12. Cheddar Explosion by Diana Gossard
13. Sir Francis Drake

Honorable Mention( only top 10 listed here)
1. Dietmar's Wisdom
2.Katisue Herrington
3. Darth CIDUOUS
4. Pumpkin Britches
5. Peanut Butter Frenzy
6. Perry's Harem
7. Little Peanut
8. Dolly Poly
9. Little Ricky
10. Garden Fairy

The Specialty Awards ( continued )
Donn Fischer Medal ( best miniature) Wayne and Coral's Love
Annie T.Giles ( best small) Dietmar's Wisdom
Extra Large Diameter : Work it Girl
HOSA ( Harris Olson Spider Award / best spider) Ghost Ranger
Lambert Webster ( Best UF) Pumpkin Britches
IMA ( Ida Munson Award / best double) OPA KLAUS
DCS ( Don C. Stevens - best eyed cultivar) One Eyed Willie
ESB( Early Season Bloom) Darth CIDUOUS
RWM ( Ralph W. Munson Award, best pattern) Four Beasts in One
ESF ( Eugene S. Foster, best late season bloomer) Work It Girl)

The list will be posted on the AHS site with more complete information.

First and foremost, congratulations to all the winners.

I was surprised to see I only owned two of these, but a little deeper look and I think it's because I primarily have Tets, and over 70% of the award winners are Dips.

I'm happy for the winners, but kind of sad that most of my favorite Tet hybridizers aren't represented in the awards.

Thanks for posting this Julie. Congratulations winners!

I have none of these, I'll look into that, even though I'm in the same Tet boat as Tim.

Again congratulations to all winners.
So many beautiful daylilies out there today. Seems that dips have improved so much in recent yrs. although I only hybridize with tets. I do have some dips.
Such great improvements in both, so many great hybridizers out there, from the large sellers to the backyard hybridizers.
AREN'T DAYLILIES FUN.

The only two I have are the biggies, Isabelle Rose and Papa Goose…very interesting! As a collector, I really don't care much if flowers are Dip or Tet.

I do grow:
Dietmar's Wisdom
Depends on the Whether
Stop The Car
Cheddar Explosion
Sir Francis Drake
They all grow well here.
I was surprised that I only had one single winner of the specialty awards (Dietmar's Wisdom). I suppose if the winners of any of the awards were from hybridizers in your region or near your region you were much more likely to have that plant.

Nice to see that 'Little Peanut', an oldie from 1985, got HM. It's a cutie that has done quite well here, and the only one on Julie's awards list that I grow.

'Little Peanut'

Congratulations to all the winners. Looking forward to seeing the complete list when it is posted by AHS. Only two grown here are Work It Girl and One Eyed Willie. WIG is a stunning polychrome which probably needs a better place than it has now. One Eyed Willie is doing fine, produces lots of flowers per season.

Congratulations to the winners! Some fantastic ones for sure.

Sue ~ Is it often that a daylily gains an award DECADES after being introduced?

Monty,

To answer your question about awards, YES, for a cultivar to win the AHS's ultimate cultivar award, the Stout Medal, a newly introduced cultivar cannot win it. The path to win the Stout Medal is called the pyramid of awards, as there's a long path to win it and it must have already won two previous awards to be eligible.

The "bottom level" or first step of the pyramid is the Honorable Mention. A cultivar must have been been registered at least 3 years to be eligible for the ballot. Most nominees are nominated by their hybridizers , but the awards committee can nominate up to 10 "overlooked" cultivars for the HM. This years HM winners will automatically be placed on the ballot for the next level award , the Award of Merit, in 3 years. The time lapse gives cultivars a chance to be better distributed, as the next level requires more votes and is harder to win.

The Award of Merit only is given to the top 12 cultivars ( unless a tie, like this year). Winners of the AM will then go on the Stout Medal ballot after 2 more years pass. There's more to this, all covered in judges training.

But it can be a 10-13 year process to win the Stout Medal. Ditto, the Lenington.

The NEWEST cultivars will be the Honorable Mention winners.

I have three of these: Isabelle Rose, Wigglesworth and Breathing in Snowflakes. I used to have Papa Goose, but it died in a pot one winter. It does seem like UFs are preferred by the people who vote on these things. They get a much larger percent of the awards than they used to.

Sue ~ This format is almost identical to how iris awards are given. HM come first, then Award of Merit, then you keep going up the chain where one iris every year, after acquiring three other awards, gets the Dykes medal award. The highest honor for irises.

Dykes medal = Stout medal for daylilies.

The AHS patterned its awards system (at least, the pyramid part) after the Iris Society, and yes, I was aware that the AIS also has HM and AM awards, just like AHS. I don't know when the AIS society began their awards, AHS began them in 1950.

I was surprised a little by that, too, Debra. It does seem like more than half of the winners were UF's (based on my completely untrained eye.)

And another congrats to Paul Owen. My first daylily seller I bought from when I was just starting out was Olallie, but my second, and first time I started collecting Tets, was with Paul. It's nice to see his Work It Girl listed multiple times. His influence can be seen all over my gardens and seedling bed.

The two I have from the list are Work It Girl and Katisue Herrington.

I don't grow any of these, but I am surprised at how many of the names are familiar, mostly from seeing the pictures you all have posted. I remember especially Larry's pictures of Cheddar Explosion.

I am totally charmed by Little Peanut!

I don't have any of them either, though I have sibs of two of them (Papa Goose sib, I have Silly Goose; Breathing in Snowflakes sib, I have Breathing in Lilacs). I've discovered I have a love for a lot of the Brown's Ferry intros ... there is definitely a 'look' in those lines.

I do have seeds from about six of the other award winners (thru the LA), it will be interesting to see what develops there. Just to be able to have access to the genetics of some lines is amazing... these days, even a 'collector' has an opportunity to bring wonderful new seedlings to the gardens.

Congratulations to all the winners, there are some truly spectacular daylilies listed.

Julie @floota, thanks for posting the list. To see if I wanted to add any of these to my wish list, I looked up each one in our data base. Here are the links. And yes, I added a couple to my wish list.

Stout Silver Medal: Isabelle Rose
Lenington All American: Papa Goose

Awards of Merit ( Usually 12, 13 this year with a tie)
1.Breathing. In Snowflakes
2. Sebastian on Steroids
3. Hats Off To Sue
4. Back to Black
5. Depends on the Whether
6. Barcode
7. The One Ring
8. Wigglesworth
9.Asheville White Winged Dove
10.Little Donnie Darko
11.Stop the Car
12. Cheddar Explosion by Diana Gossard
13. Sir Francis Drake

Honorable Mention( only top 10 listed here)
1. Dietmar's Wisdom
2.Katisue Herrington
3. Darth CIDUOUS
4. Pumpkin Britches
5. Peanut Butter Frenzy
6. Perry's Harem
7. Little Peanut
8. Dolly Poly
9. Little Ricky
10. Garden Fairy

Just noticed Scott Elliot has registered 7 plants with 'Darth Ciduous' as a parent.

@LoriMT thanks for posting the pics, that was great to peruse!