4B • The Record • Week of Wednesday, May 15, 2019
Daylilies: Summer’s Resilient Beauty
Sheri Bethard Orange County Master Gardeners How many of you remember your grandma’s yard being full of bright yellow daylilies? Well, your grandma’s daylilies have come a long way from then. ere are more than 90,000, yes 90,000 registered cultivars of daylilies with the American Hemerocallis Society. ese flowers can be unique by: Flower form; Hardiness Zone; Fragrance; Bloom Time; Blooms per plant; Brighter colored flower (in any shade but blue); and/or Subtle change in markings on petals. Daylilies can be bought locally from daylily farms or you can purchase them online or mail order catalogue. Once you receive your daylilies, regardless where you purchased them, you should first inspect the roots for dehydration. It is best to soak the roots for at least one hour or longer with a bit of liquid plant food before planting especially if you received them in the mail. e best time to mail order or order online is in late winter so you can plant in the spring and give them a season to grow developing a good root system before blooming. After you have inspected the roots and soaked them, you are ready for planting. Daylilies are grown best in full sun and when planted in small mounds slightly above the ground. Dig a hole as deep as the crown of your daylily (the part where the leaves meet the roots). With the loose soil, add compost to help with aeration and mix well. Add some of the soil/compost mix in the hole and then the daylily with the roots first. Build the mound up to the crown loosely packing the soil. Water enough to keep moist until new growth appears. Growing daylilies are easy. First you need well-drained soil to keep them from rotting. But they still need to have consistently moist soil to help them bloom profusely. Watering them weekly to make sure they receive a couple of inches will help in times when rainfall is scarce. Live-heading your daylilies each evening is another way of helping keep your garden pretty. Since they only bloom for 24 hours, you are clearing
Kiwanis Club makes donation to WOS Elementary
out the way for tomorrow’s flowers and enjoying the fragrance of today’s blooms. Fertilizing daylilies is done twice a year – at” CANDY TIME!” otherwise known as Halloween and Valentines Day. Feed your daylilies a good nitrogen based food such as Milogranite® with a cup full sprinkled on each clump like adding seasonings to food.
Daylily terms FLOWER FORMS Single – ree petals and three sepals Polumerous – More than the normal number of segments in each floral whorl Double – More than one whorl of petals and sepals or peony-like outgrowth Unusual form – Distinctive petal or sepal shapes, affecting the form of the flower in a unique way Spider – Petals much longer than they are wide COLOR MARKINGS Band – A coloring that does not show on the sepals Eye – A coloring that is on both the petals and the sepals, and is darker than the rest of the segments Bicolor – Petals are different and darker color than the sepals Eyezone – Zone of color above the throat Bitone – Petals are a different and darker color than the sepals Halo – An eye that is very narrow or indistinct and shows on both the petals and sepals Blend – Petals and sepals are two or more colors Midrib – e center vein that runs through each petal and sepal, it can be a different color Diamond Dusting – e flower reflects light as if it is sparkling Polychrome – Petals and sepals have intermingling of three or more colors Dotted Dusted – e surface color is unevenly distributed over the background color Self – Petals and sepals are all the same color Edge/picoted – e edges or the flower segments are a different color Tipped – e tips of the flower are a different color Watermark – An eye that is lighter color than everything else on the segment
The Kiwanis Club of Orange recently presented a $500 donation to West Orange – Stark Elementary School. Donated funds purchased books for 71 students in grades kindergarten through five at the WOS Elementary Book Fair. “It is truly an honor to be able to have the means to support a program like this that can provide a little spark to inspire or motivate children. Every fundraising event we sponsor goes to projects like this, making this community better one child at a time,” Kiwanis President Shane Johns said. As a local, non-profit, 501(c)4 organization, the Kiwanis Club of Orange hosts the Annual Orange Christmas Parade and an annual Glow Golf Tournament. Proceeds from the events provide college scholarships to local high school seniors, as well as other youth related projects. The organization welcomes new members. For more information about the Kiwanis Club of Orange, visit @orangetxkiwanis on Facebook. Pictured are Kiwanis Club members Lorraine Shannon, Harry Vine, Shane Johns, and Kristi Charrier, with WOS Elementary Principal Dr. Troy Bethley (center).
LCM Foundation holds 5K Color Fun Run e Little Cypress-Mauriceville Education Foundation, Inc. produced its first 5K Color Fun Run on Saturday, May 11. With the abundance of rain in southeast Texas during the past weeks, Foundation Board members spent a lot of time watching weather forecasts, as well as putting the finishing touches on the run. e official title of the 5K is the Legacy 5K Fun Run/Walk. Legacy comes from the name of the area surrounding the huge bear next to the LCM Administration Building. Legacy park is paved with engraved bricks in honor or memory of those who have a history with Mauriceville CISD, Little Cypress CISD or the Little Cypress-Mauriceville CISD schools.
ough this is the first year for the Foundation’s fun run, there were over 200 runners who registered to attend. e two first across the finish line were separated by 1 second. Caden Shaw turned in a time of 19:12.0 and Hunter Fuselier was on his heels at 19:13.0. Trevor Turner followed with 20:23.3. A very fast fifth grader from Little Cypress Intermediate, Bryson Lucas, posted a run of 21:06.7 and the first female across the line was thirteen year-old Annabelle Fisher of Little Cypress Junior High with a time of 23:29.1. Many local businesses, organizations and individuals sponsored or provided assistance to the Foundation. Gold
sponsors were Golden Triangle Emergency Center and Dow. Platinum sponsors included Sabine Federal Credit Union, Horizon Dental, Whataburger, Little Cypress Lions Club, and Liz Hogan: Allstate Insurance. e LCM Education Foundation Board is comprised of alumni, parents, business and community representatives and others who have an interest in helping provide the best educational opportunities possible for the children in LCM schools. Since 2004, the Foundation has provided over $225,000 through its competitive “Grants to Educators” program.
e Foundation is most grateful for all of the volunteers, students and adults who invested their time into making this event a success. Board members include: Julie Barton – President, Sylvia Bland, Dale Carlton, Brad Childs, Amberly Craft, Paul Dickerson, Mallorie Frey-Henning, Kathy Hodge, Chad Kemp, Denisha Keszeg, Melissa Loupe, Amy McIlwain, Stacey Nichols – Vice-President, Tiffany Richards – Treasurer and Phillip Saperstein. Ex officio members are Stacey Brister, Sherry Combs, and EF Coordinator Jamia Harris.
Fifth-grader Grace Wimberly and sixth-grader Dalton Hogan, students at St. Mary Catholic School in Orange recently received congratulatory certificates from Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush and Texas Senator Robert L. Nichols in recognition of their winning entries in the state wide 2019 Treasures of the Texas Coast Children’s Art Contest. Though this is the first year for the Foundation’s fun run, there were over 200 runners who registered to attend. The two first across the finish line were separated by 1 second. Caden Shaw turned in a time of 19:12.0 and Hunter Fuselier was on his heels at 19:13.0.
Annabelle Fisher, fastest female
Bryson Lucas youngest frontrunner
St. Mary students win in Treasures of Texas Coast Children's Art Awards Fifth-grader Grace Wimberly and sixth-grader Dalton Hogan, students at St. Mary Catholic School in Orange recently received congratulatory certificates from Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush and Texas Senator Robert L. Nichols in recognition of their winning entries in the state wide 2019 Treasures of the Texas Coast Children’s Art Contest. Grand prize winner Wimberley will receive two round-trip coach-class tickets from United Airlines to any United destination in the 48 contiguous United States, Alaska, Canada, Mexico, and Central America, one 7-night Caribbean cruise from Royal Caribbean International departing out of Galve-
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ston, Miami, Tampa, Ft. Lauderdale, Port Canaveral or Puerto Rico, and a class party at Schlitterbahn Waterpark in New Braunfels. Dalton Hogan was one of the 39 runner’s up and will receive a ticket to the USS Lexington in Corpus Christi, a ticket to the Texas State Aquarium, two tickets to the Houston Zoo, two all day passes to Schlitterbahn Waterpark in New Braunfels, prizes and a certificate of recognition from the Texas General Land Office and a calendar displaying the winning artwork. eir teacher, Cindy Claybar will also receive two round-trip coach-class tickets from United Airlines, and one 7-night Caribbean cruise courtesy of Royal Caribbean International