Englerth Award
The 2025 winner of the Englerth Award is Genni Kleckner for her Seedling # 2023-5.
Since 1987 Region 2 hybridizers, amateur and professionals alike, have competed for the Englerth Award for Hybridizing Excellence. This award is to encourage and promote Region 2 hybridizers. The award is in memory of Lawrence and Winifred Englerth, of Hopkins, Michigan. The Englerths were longtime members of the American Daylily Society, and Winifred was a charter member. Both Lawrence and Winifred were hybridizers, growers and active promoters of daylilies for many years. The Englerths registered their first cultivar in 1960 ‘Patty Patten’, over the next twenty years they registered a total of 26 cultivars, with the last know registered as ‘Cinnamon Cherries’ in 1980. Winnie was known for introducing daylilies with high bud count and she delighted in using names in which the first letter was repeated. Many of her creations, ‘Mini Minx’, ‘Skippy Skeezix’, and ‘Pinky Pinkerton’, are still found in Region 2 gardens.
Criteria For Entering The Englerth Competition
- Competition is open to all Region 2 AHS members. An award recipient may enter in successive years.
- All unregistered seedling cultivars are eligible. Region 2 members may enter up to five cultivars. Entries should be at the minimum of 3 fans each. To enter your seedling, ship fans which have a good chance of bloom on the day of the tour. Remember you must ship plants that are clean and free of all soil.
- Seedlings will be displayed at the Annual Region 2 Summer Meeting and will be clearly marked as Englerth Award Candidates and numbered. The name of the hybridizer will not be indicated. Candidates for the award will be planted in a selected bed in a selected garden for the Region 2 Summer Meeting. The location of the Englerth Competition Bed, must be owned by a region 2 member.
- All attendees of the Annual Region 2 Summer Meeting are eligible to vote by ballots provided by the chair of the Region 2 Awards Honors Committee or by the meeting chairperson.
- In the event that the AHS National Convention is held in Region 2, all attendees of the national event will be allowed to vote. In the case of a tie, duplicate medals will be awarded.
- All questions of eligibility will be decided by a majority vote of the
- Awards and Honors Committee.
- Plants will be returned to you at your expense. Please make arrangements with the Englerth Garden Host for returns.
- Should one of your cultivars fail to survive; you will be notified by the garden host.
Carole Hunter of Prairies Edge Gardens will be hosting the 2027 Englerth Competition. She is accepting plants for 2027, thru September of 2026. Please contact Carole Before Shipping Any Plants.
Carole Hunter
4735 Black Oak Trail
Rockford, Illinois 61101
851-289-3231
Prairies.edge.gardens@gmail.com
