2025 Honorable Mention Award: Mike Huban – ‘O Positive’

Registration Year: 1941
Scape Height (in): 42
Bloom Size (in): 4
Bloom Season: Mid-Late
Ploidy: Diploid
Foliage Type: Dormant
Fragrance: Very Fragrant
Bloom Habit: Extended
Flower Form: Single
Bud Count: Branches:
Color: YL1: Yellow light self
Parentage: (H. altissima x H. Thunbergii)
Hybridizer(s): Stout
Notes: “Clear light yellow self of medium-small size.” A.B. Stout, Journal of the NY Botanical Garden, January 1941.

About the Honorable Mention Award

Established in 1950, this award is the first official “stamp of approval” by the AHS, where good performance goes beyond the regional level.

To win, a cultivar must receive a minimum of fifteen votes achieve the HM. These votes must come from no fewer than four different AHS regions. In voting for this award, Garden Judges must cast their votes only for cultivars observed in their own region. Cultivars are nominated for the Honorable Mention by their hybridizers. To be eligible it must have been registered for at least three calendar years. The Awards & Honors Committee may also nominate a maximum of ten cultivars each year that have been previously overlooked. Hybridizers may nominate a cultivar a maximum of three times, though not necessarily in consecutive years. After its third nomination, a cultivar cannot be nominated by the hybridizer