The Daylilies Week Not-A-Raffle-Raffle!

I love these ATP Raffles. Great companies who are friends of ATP get almost free exposure, members get a chance at great prizes, and we get to post a fun video with the Raffle Boy. I especially like the raffles like this one, where we have a lot of prizes because it means more people win!

As always, the ticket buying window is open now and will close on Monday at 6:00pm Central time. The drawing will be done and posted on Tuesday. The first place winner gets first pick of all the prizes, and then the second winner picks, and so forth until all prizes are claimed. Important note for winners: If you are contacted as a winner and asked to choose a prize you have 3 days to respond with your choice. If you do not respond within 3 days, the next placed winner will be contacted and allowed to pick.

Tickets cost 5 acorns each. Don't know what acorns are? Click here to learn about acorns, and how to get them. Good luck to all participants, and now let's talk about the prizes:

Prize #1: The member @sunday will send, in the spring of 2014, triple fans of the following two cultivars:

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Prize #3: A $50 gift certificate to Oakes Daylilies, a very well known and highly recommended seller of daylilies. They grow over 50 acres of daylilies, and ship plants around the country as well as internationally. Their annual Daylily Festival attracts folks from around the nation.

Prize #4: A $50 gift certificate to Shaw's Sunshine Gardens. They were designated as an American Hemerocallis Society (AHS) Display Garden in 2004 and this year had over 200,000 plants of more than 1,200 cultivars.

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Prize #5: @tink3472 is providing a winner with a double fan of Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Buddy's Pretty Laura') which is one of James Hall's 2012 introductions, that has NOT been released to the general public! You will receive this beauty in the spring, when your weather permits.

Prize #6: As if the previous prize wasn't enough, @tink3472 is also providing a quality work apron embroidered with a daylily! Ideal for working in the garden with style, one size fits all. This versatile apron is made from 7-ounce 100% cotton twill, has three pouch pockets, a pen pocket, and a 1 inch wide neck and waist ties. This apron is be embroidered by Bobbin Along Embroidery and once she gets it delivered, she'll ship it to you!

Prize #7: Hybridizer Extraordinaire, Melanie Mason of North Country Daylilies, is offering a box loaded up with her own past daylily introductions, a value of at least $100. The box will be mailed after April, 2014. Melanie is a talented farmer and gardener, raising Cows, Labradors and Daylilies. She will be our featured guest in our upcoming podcast, and you will love hearing her talk about daylilies.