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AHS Garden Judge Requirements

 

  GARDEN JUDGE ACCREDITATION

 

Any member of the American Hemerocallis Society (AHS) who meets the criteria, is interested, and is willing to maintain the etiquette and responsibilities required of Garden Judges is welcome to apply.

Each region may have fifteen percent of its members serve as Garden Judges. When this allotment is reached, applicants will be considered for future available positions. 

The Application for Appointment form, the mechanics used for evaluation, and other details connected with the program are determined by the AHS Garden Judges Chairman and the AHS Judges Education Chairman, and they are approved by the AHS Board from time to time as necessary.

INITIAL APPOINTMENT

To qualify for initial appointment as a Garden Judge, applicants must

  • Have held AHS membership for at least two consecutive years (24 months) immediately prior to applying. Training to become an accredited AHS Garden Judge may begin after one-year (12 months) membership by attending Workshop 1.

  • Be a paid-up AHS member as of January 1st annually.

  • Document on their applications that they are regularly seeing large numbers of award-eligible daylilies and they are growing a representative collection of award-eligible daylilies.

  • Have attended at least one of their own regional meetings or national convention that included garden tours within the last three years.. If the judge's own region does not hold regional meetings during the bloom season, the judge may substitute attendance in adjacent region's meetings.

  • Own and become familiar with the contents of this handbook as it relates to Garden Judges.

  • Have attended and successfully completed the requirements for Workshop 1 and Workshop 2 (in any order).

  • Obtain an Application for Appointment form from the AHS Web site, the AHS Judges Education Chairman, or the Garden Judges Workshop 2 Chairman.

  • Return the completed application to the Regional Vice-President (RVP) no later that December 1st of the year all training requirements have been met.

If the applicant completes all requirements prior to the current year voting deadline (September 1st) and wishes to vote in the current year, the application must be submitted to RVP with a copy to the Garden Judges Chairman immediately. The Garden Judges Chairman will coordinate with the Awards and Honors Chairman to issue a ballot to the applicant prior the September 1st voting deadline.

If it is determined that the qualifications are satisfactory, the RVP will review the application and forward it to the Garden Judges Chairman by December 1st for final approval and the appointment is made by the chairman unless the applicant's region has reached its allotment for Garden Judges. If this is the case, the applicant will be placed on a waiting list until an opening occurs. At that time, the applicant may be asked for an updated application.

REAPPOINTMENT

Judges are required to apply for reappointment by December 1 of the year in which their five-year term ends. All judges whose terms are ending will receive an Application for Reappointment form from the AHS Garden Judges Chairman during the month of February of the year in which their five-year term ends. They must document on their application that they meet the criteria for reappointment.

To qualify for reappointment, Garden Judges must

  • Document on their applications that they are regularly seeing large numbers of award-eligible daylilies and they are growing a representative sample of award-eligible daylilies.

  • Have attended at least one of their own regional meetings that included garden tours in the last three (3) years or a National Convention within the last five (5) years. If the judge's own region does not hold regional meeting during the bloom season, the judge may substitute attendance in an adjacent region's meeting.

  • Be paid-up AHS members as of January 1 annually.

  • Have voted their ballots on time each year.

  • Be familiar with the contents of this handbook as it relates to Garden Judges.

  • Have attended and paid the appropriate fees for or instructed in at least one accredited Garden Judges Workshop 2 within the last three years of their term.

  • Present with their application a log of garden visits made during their five- year term. This log must include at least twenty-five garden visits, with at least fifteen visits in the judges own region, and the other ten from different gardens regardless of their locations. The log must include the name of the garden or garden owner, the city/state/country, and the year of visit. A judge's own garden will not be counted. Specific numbers may be waived in regions where numbers of gardens or great distances make visitations infeasible.

Send completed renewal application and five-year log to the Regional Vice President before December 1st.

THE HONORARY GARDEN JUDGE

Garden Judges who have served for twelve consecutive years and are unable to continue in active capacity may write to their RVP for Honorary Garden Judge status. Judges may request honorary status at any time. The RVP will make recommendations on these requests and send them to the AHS Garden Judges Chairman for appropriate action.

Honorary Garden Judges will not receive a ballot and will not have voting privileges. They will not be counted in determining the quota of judges allowed in each region.

If an Honorary Garden Judge should wish to return to active status, the judge must again go through all of the Garden Judges training requirements.

GARDEN JUDGES WORKSHOP INSTRUCTORS

Garden Judges Workshop Instructors are approved by the AHS Garden Judges Chairman. Prospective instructors may be recommended to the RVP by other instructors, or interested Garden Judges may request to be considered. The prospective instructor must

  • Have been a Garden Judge for five (5) years [one (1) term].

  • Have assisted in instructing at least one each of the AHS Garden Judges Workshops 1 and 2.

  • Obtain a Garden Judges Instructor application from the Garden Judges Chairman or AHS website.

  • Complete and return this form to the Garden Judges Chairman,

  • Agree to follow the workshop curriculum when presenting AHS Garden Judges Workshops.

It is the duty of the workshop instructor to address various schools of thought about daylilies and not dictate a single view. The instructor should use the appropriate point-scoring systems for judging daylilies in the garden. The instructor should emphasize the importance of the individual Garden Judge's vote. The instructor must teach that personal prejudices or the popularity of a particular cultivar or hybridizer should not enter into the voting decisions.

 

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