In this week’s hybridizer introduction we travel to Savannah, Georgia where the hybridizing programs of the Joiner family began with Enman R. Joiner Sr. This is part one of a two part hybridizer series on the daylilies of the Joiner family.
After starting an early career working for Savannah Linen supply and then serving in the U.S. Army, Enman Joiner Sr. married Frances Windham and returned to Savannah, Georgia. Joiner Daylily Garden was established on land purchased in 1962 and in 1966 Enman registered his first daylilies, ‘Rio Vista’, Savannah Moon’, ‘Tomachichi’ and ‘Vernonburg’. Enmans hybridizing interests soon included the double forms with ‘Tibbles’ (1971) becoming the first double form to be registered by the Joiners. The AHS database shows in 1971 when ‘Tibbles’ was registered there were only 128 double form registrations. The current definition of a double form from the AHS Dictionary of Daylily Terms is “ DOUBLE: Single flowers consist of two whorls (layers) of perianth segments: the sepals and the petals. A double flower has more than one petal whorl (hose-in-hose double), or a stamen whorl that contains petaloid (petal-like) stamens (peony type double). In the peony type, carpels may also be petaloid. Individual flowers may be a combination of both double types. Outgrowths of extra tissue from the midrib or elsewhere on a petal are not considered to constitute a double. Extra segments in the normal two perianth whorls classify a flower as polymerous rather than double.”
Enman continued hybridizing for double forms and over his hybridizing career registered 107 double form daylilies.
Frances Joiner (Joiner, 1988)
‘Frances Joiner’, registered in 1988, was introduced at the 1989 AHS National Convention where it was awarded the 1989 Presidents Cup for most outstanding clump seen in an AHS National Convention tour garden. This was the second Presidents Cup for a Joiner bred daylily, ‘Savannah Moon’ received the first in 1970. Daylilies hybridized by Enman Joiner have received many AHS awards including five Ida Munson Awards, a specialty award given annually for the best double flower. The Ida Munson Award winners are ‘Francis Joiner’ in 1993,
‘Vanilla Fluff’ (Joiner, 1988) in 1996,
‘Peach Magnolia’ (Joiner, 1986) in 2002,
‘Moses’ Fire (Joiner, 1998) in 2008
and ‘Scatterbrain’ (Joiner, 1988) in 2010.
‘Orange Velvet’, a 6 ½ inch orange single form, received the Lennington All-American Award for a daylily showing outstanding performance in many different growing areas. In total 11 AHS Awards of Merit have been received by daylilies registered by Enman, ‘Wispy Rays’ in 2010 and ‘Dublin Elaine’ in 2011 being the most recent cultivars to receive this award.
Orange Velvet (Joiner, 1988)
Wispy Rays (Joiner, 1998 )
Dublin Elaine (Joiner, 1987 )
Personal awards received by Enman Joiner include the 1993 Bertrand Farr Silver Medal recognizing outstanding work in the area of hybridizing and the 2001 Region 5 Regional Service Award for AHS service at the regional level. In 2007 a new personal award, the Steve Moldovan Mentoring Award, was established in memory of Steve Moldovan and was awarded for the first time at the AHS National Convention in 2009 to Enman R. Joiner, Sr.
After 46 years of hybridizing award winning daylilies, Enman R. Joiner, Sr. passed away on February 25, 2008.
For more information on the Joiner Daylily Garden visit their website at
http://www.joinerdaylilygarden...
You can see more daylily cultivars hybridized by the Joiners in the ATP Daylily Database, just enter “Joiner” in the Hybridizer box and click search.
http://garden.org/plants/group...
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