SERENITY GARDENS is the home of David and Frieda Jerrell. Their garden has been featured on tour for several
Region 3 regional meetings and they have hosted many of the summer RADS picnics over the years.
DAVID SELLS BIG PLANTS!!!!
MANY RADS PICNICS HAVE BEEN HELD AT SERENITY GARDENS
SERENITY GARDENS HOSTS ANOTHER RADS PICNIC
ONE OF SEVERAL WATER FEATURES AT SERENITY GARDENS
DAVID, FRIEDA'S DAUGHTER SAMANTHA , AND FRIEDA RELAXING IN THE GARDEN
DAVID AT A RADS CHRISTMAS PARTY AT THE MASONS HOME
DAVID AT THE HERRINGTON LECTURE
DAVID ARRANGING FLOWERS AT THE FIRST RADS FLOWER SHOW
FABULOUS FRIEDA - DAYLILY NAMED IN HONOR OF FRIEDA
JOHN EUCHLER, FRIEDA, SCOTT AND SARAH CLARK
FRIED GETS HER ENTRIES READY FOR THE 2009 RADS SHOW
FRIEDA RELAXING AT LOUIS WALTON'S GARDEN
KEVIN WALEK (President of the American Hemerocallis
Society) REMEMBERS DAVID
February 23, 2009
A dear friend of all of us in Region 3 passed away last night, David Jerrell. I am privileged
to have been able to call David a friend for over 20 years. Whenever things got a bit too serious at a regional
daylily event, I could always count on David to come to the rescue and make me laugh.
David was an avid
hunter in addition to his passion for daylilies and Ed Brown's son Collier would come up from Florida to hunt with David.
David loved dogs and one of his and my favorites was his dog named "Me too". If you were paying attention
to any other animal in the house Me Too would come up and give you that look that said Me Too!
About ten
years ago two daylily lovers from opposite sides of the Virginia/North Carolina border joined forces and David and Frieda
became one at their Serenity Gardens, where David added a gigantic pond for Frieda's Koi, in addition to adding
her daylily collection to his.
I am glad that at this past year's regional David and Frieda's Serenity
Gardens were on the Region 3 Summer Regional Tour hosted by the Richmond Area Daylily Club. David met us at the
bottom of the long uphill dirt road that led to the beautiful gardens, and although stricken with Lou Gehrig's disease
he was joking and commenting on things like always, even if he had to do it through a hand held typing "interpreter."
I
am thankful that I got to spend a part of that tour "talking" to David, as he raised my spirits as only he could.
In
the time I knew David he only missed one Regional event attending 21 consecutive regionals and 12 consecutive Lilyhemmers.
Many of you may also remember David coming to some of the Nationals on the back of a motorcycle.
I will
be looking for him next regional and will be saddened by the fact that he won't be there!
