Tom and Kathy have been gardening and growing daylilies since 1959. Both were master gardeners with Yates County Cornell Cooperative Extension. Tom was American Daylily Society Region 4 Regional Publicity Director and Newsletter Editor for over six years and Regional  President for two years. ADS Region 4 covers all of New York, New England, Ontario, Quebec and the Canadian Maritime Provinces. In 2003 Tom was awarded the ADS Region 4 Service Medal at the National Convention held in Charlotte, NC.  Both Tom and Kathy were ADS garden judges and Tom was a garden judge instructor for 20 years. Tom and Kathy have written many articles for the Master Gardener weekly column in the Penn Yan Chronicle Express newspaper. They have given programs from Tennessee, Kentucky, New England, Long Island to Ontario and Nova Scotia as well as several NY garden and daylily clubs.