Jon
Whitinger is 15 years old and lives in Jacksonville, Texas, with his parents,
Dave and Trish. He is a home-schooled high school Junior concentrating on
Computer Science. He is one of seven children ranging in age from 2 to 17.Jon
Whitinger is 15 years old and lives in Jacksonville, Texas, with his parents,
Dave and Trish. He is a home-schooled high school Junior concentrating on
Computer Science. He is one of seven children ranging in age from 2 to 17.
Jon has had an interest in gardening since he was very young. He gave up coin collecting to venture into daylilies. He was familiar with daylilies and decided to grow them after listening to a Pod cast by daylily hybridizer, Curt Hansen.
In 2014 Jon joined the American Hemerocallis Society. That same year he started planting daylilies and dabbing pollen. He has established and maintains his own flower beds where he grows 150+ cultivars. He says he likes how daylilies are so unique, how almost every one is different, and how easy they are to cross. His first attempt at hybridizing yielded about 150 seedlings and in the future he plans to increase that number. His focus is on ruffles and high bud count. Hemerocallis 'Shamrock Spring' (Trimmer, 2008) is one of his favorites because of the large bloom, large ruffles, and sturdy scape, although the bud count is only 16-20. He has been breeding heavily with H. 'Shamrock Spring' in hopes of producing similar plants with higher bud count.
Jon enjoys photographing daylilies in his garden. He was the winner of the 2015 American Hemerocallis Society Youth Photography Award, Intermediate Division, with his photo of H. 'Nacogdoches Dreamer' (Barnhart, 1992), which was published in the 2015 American Hemerocallis Society Fall/Winter Youth News.
Jon is looking forward to a career in the Computer Science field and plans to continue growing and hybridizing daylilies.
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