Part 1: Examples

Part 2 (upcoming): AHS Exhibition Rules & Basic Arranging Techniques

Arranging Daylilies

Recent Tricolor Winners

From AHS website

2013 Tri-Color Winner:

Frances Thrash,

Virginia Beach, VA

Tidewater Daylily Society

Theme: Dazzling Daylilies

Title: Angles and Stars

The 2012 Tri-Color Award

Winner is Myrna Clark,

of Appomattox, VA.

Theme: Hello Daylilies

Title: Splash Of Colors

2011 Tricolor Winner

Jess Danner

Kansas

Miscellanous Examples

Examples from

the Tidewater Daylily Society

Courtesy of Dianna Driver

Local

Tricolor

Winner

Examples from Local

Tricolor Winners compiled by Nell Shimik for the AHS Slide Library

4. This is a dramatic

example of a mass design.

Note that the colors are

blended throughout the

design.

20. A design titled

“Clear Waters”

incorporates water.

25. ‘Vegas Lights” is the

title. Cultivar is

SCARAMOUCHE and the

exhibitor explains with a

card noting

“Spinning wheels keep

spinning at Las Vegas”.

28. A creative design full

of rhythm and movement.

33. A traditional line design

titled “Til the End of

Time”.

40. A mass design titled

“Mary had a Little Lamb”

with the cultivars HUSH

LITTLE BABY and JOAN

SENIOR carrying out the

color imagery in the title.

42. A creative Tricolor design

titled “Jazz”. The mechanics

are invisible to the eye.

44. A creative design reecting

movement that illuminates the

arrangement. Note the

presence of ribbons, which

eliminated this photo of the

entry from competition. The

title “I 792-A New Capital for

North Carolina”. Cultivar is

PERSIAN PEACH.

46. A line design “Crosses the

Ocean Heading West—Seeking

the Far East’. The cultivar is

ARACHNE.

54. A line design titled “Gone

with the Wind”. Cultivar is

SIDEWALK BEAUTY. The

container helps carry out the

theme, however this

photograph of the entry was

disqualified because an award

is included.

59. A mass design entitled

“Enchanted Daylilies-Sandia”. The

perfect blend of colors and the

containers

relationship to the design was the

reason this was selected as the

show’s Tricolor winner.

62. A mass design, but the

ribbons in the photograph

disqualied this entry in the

national competition.

63. A line mass design, but

the title and class signs

disqualified the entry.

67. A line design tled

“Stringed instruments of

India”, using PALO DURO

CANYON.

68.

A parallel design using a

most unusual container.

72 A line mass design—note

the dominance of daylilies

in this and all the designs.

74. A line design titled “Hearts

Are”. The cultivar is a red

seedling with iris and

philodendron leaves.

Arrangements from the

2008 Patriot Daylily Show:

Patriot’s Pride

Tricolor Winner

for the Show

Patsy

“Let Freedom Ring”

Patsy Cunningham

Lee Macneill