2012 American Hemerocallis Society
Regional Service Award Winners
Art & Nina Imperial
(Reprinted from Daylilies of the Southwest, Vol. 12, No. 2 - Summer 2012)

BREAKING NEWS FROM NATIONAL:
Art and Nina Imperial
American Hemerocallis Society
2012 Region 6 Service Award Recipients
by Donna Peck

A Regional Director has many duties to perform. My very favorite job is to announce the Regional Service Award. I’m always happy to present this award to a very deserving member. This time I’m twice as happy, because I’m not only presenting one but two American Hemerocallis Society Region 6 Service Awards.

These two American Hemerocallis Society Region 6 members have been big contributors to our Region in many ways. They have held many offices over the years. Here are a few examples:

• Both have been Program Chairs for the Brazosport Daylily Society.
• Both are American Hemerocallis Society Garden and Exhibition Judges.
• Art has been Flower Show Chair and always enters the flower shows.
• Art was Chair of the fall plant auction and ordered, divided, potted, and kept plants alive for several months.
• When hurricane Ike came through, their property suffered wind damage, electricity was lost, and the plants were affected. But with their dedication the plants were nursed back to health before the auction in October.
• They have donated over 400 plants for the Brazosport Daylily Society spring flower show.
• Art served as 2002-05 Region 6 Awards & Honors Chair.
• Both are dedicated to bringing new members into their club - especially youth members. They have personally sponsored one youth member with an American Hemerocallis Society membership. They have taken this youth member to the National Conventions. They also encourage the club to sponsor a scholarship when she graduates from high school. The youth remains an active member in the club.

Everett Crainer, a Region 6 hybridizer, gives the Imperials appreciation and gratitude for being generous with their time and knowledge to help him begin his hybridizing program.

Many of us visited the Imperial's superb garden at the 2008 American Hemerocallis Society National Convention. We all saw how perfectly they grow their daylilies. Because Art is a scientist, a general surgeon to be exact, that might account for how beautifully manicured and organized the daylilies were.

After the Imperials visited my garden in 2011, which was on tour at our Regional, I received in the mail a well grown daylily hybridized by David Kirchhoff and named for this Art Imperial.

Congratulations, Art and Nina Imperial!

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