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  • Friday & Saturday, July 19 & 20 – Fun in the Sun

    The American Daylily Society’s Region 4 Summer Meeting, Fun in the Sun, takes place July 19 and 20 in Melville, New York, hosted by the Long Island Daylily Society. Massachusetts is part of Region 4, in case you are wondering.

    The Long Island Daylily Society (LIDS) invites you to join them Friday, July 19 through Saturday, July 20, in Long Island, New York, for the 2019 AHS Region Four Meeting. Guest speaker is hybridizer Gil Stelter, owner of Gryphon Gardens in Guelph, Ontario. Gryphon Gardens was an AHS Region Four tour garden in 2011. Gil will present his program on Saturday evening following the banquet and business meeting.

    Your registration includes the Saturday bus tour and four meals: Friday buffet dinner followed by an auction, Saturday grab and go breakfast on your way to three garden tours, Saturday lunch and tour at Planting Fields Arboretum in Oyster Bay, NY, and Saturday evening sit down banquet, business meeting and program by Gil Stelter.

    Check our website for details about each tour garden, open gardens, our speaker, fun things to do while you’re on Long Island, and more! http://www.longislanddaylily.weebly.com

    For additional information contact: Chris Petersen at chrispn@optonline.net

  • Wednesday, June 21 – Saturday, June 24 – 2017 AHS National Convention

    The Tidewater Daylily Society would like to invite you to the 2017 American Hemerocallis Society National Convention at the Norfolk Waterside Marriott Hotel. The 2017 Garden Tours are divided between East Side and West Side Tidewater. Visitors will visit either the East or the West on the first day and the other on the second day. Some of the gardens were established more than 30 years ago and others established as recently as 5 years ago. They all have stunning plants. At the Clinics and Workshops you learn everything you need to know about daylilies. AHS offers two types of daylily judges. Those that judge plants as they grow in the garden are called Garden Judges. Those that judge daylilies at accredited daylily shows are called Exhibition Judges. There will be an opportunity to take one or more of five clinics or workshops. Of course there will be boutiques, raffles, and plentiful retail opportunities. To register, and for complete information, visit http://www.ahs2017convention.org/index.html

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  • Friday, July 24 – Sunday, July 24 – New England Daylily Society Meeting

    The Region 4 American Hemerocallis Society Meeting, sponsored by the New England Daylily Society, will take place July 22 – 24 at the Courtyard Marriott, 2200 Southwood Drive in Nashua, New Hampshire.  The featured speakers will be Heidi and Charles Douglas of Browns Ferry Gardens located in South Carolina. $119 registration fee.  Please make check payable to New England Daylily Society and mail to Kim Walters, Registrar, 2016 Region 4 Regional Convention, 154 Main Street, Sandown, NH 03873-2612. Pre-Registration is required. Registration received with incorrect payment will be returned. Registration Fee includes motor coach bus tours of Convention gardens, lunch and banquet dinner on Saturday, and convention plant. You are responsible for your hotel reservations – call The Courtyard Marriott, (603-880-9100). More information can be found at the following link: http://www.nedaylily.org/2016AHSReg4.html. 

  • Saturday, July 16, 11:30 am – 4:30 pm – Daylily Show: Patriot Nation

    On Saturday, July 16 beginning at 11:30 am at Tower Hill Botanic Garden, The New England Daylily Society presents an exhibition where daylily enthusiasts from all over New England show their extraordinary, best grown, best groomed daylily flowers. Enjoy the educational programs offered in the theater. Also on hand will be several people selling daylilies, and a membership table to join the American Hemerocallis Society.

    EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS:
    11:30am, Theater:  Daylilies: You’re Gonna Love ’em with Patsy Cunningham
    12 to 3:30pm, Theater: Educational movie about Daylilies
    2:00 and 2:30pm: Workshop for Children – Planting Daylily Seeds in Homemade Pots with Kate Reed

    Free with admission to the gardens.  For more information visit www.towerhillbg.org.

  • Saturday, July 20, 11:00 am – 5:00 pm – N.E. Daylily Society’s Daylily Exhibition

    The New England Daylily Society will present a Daylily Show & Exhibition when daylily enthusiasts of New England show their best grown, best groomed daylily flowers. The show will feature hundreds of cut flowers of daylilies in their breathtaking variety of form and color. A wide variety of choice daylily plants will also be for sale from 11am-2pm, plus visitors will enjoy a “Cooking with Daylilies” demonstration with Chef John Lawrence of Pepper’s Fine Catering of Northborough, Mass.

    Show Schedule:

    11:15 – 12:15 pm: “Growing and Caring for the World’s Favorite Perennial: The Daylily,” presented by members of the New England Daylily Society

    12:15 – 1:15 pm: “Ask the Experts,” Daylily experts will answer questions about growing, hybridizing, dividing, or general cultivation of daylilies.

    1:15 – 1:30 pm: FREE Raffle, Enter a drawing to win a one-year membership to American Hemerocallis Society. Many daylily plants will also be raffled.

    1:30 – 4:30 pm: The Daylily Exhibition opens to the public. See more than 300 cultivars of the finest daylilies grown in New England. Divisions include Extra Large 7+, Large, Small, Miniature, Double, Polymerous, Spider, and Unusual Form. The Exhibition presents a wonderful opportunity to view the incredible diversity of daylilies.

    2 pm: Cooking Demonstration with Pepper’s Fine Foods Chef John Lawrence – “Cooking with Daylilies,” Classroom C.

    All this will take place Saturday, July 20 at Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Drive, Boylston, Massachusetts.  Free with admission.  for more information, visit www.towerhillbg.org.

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  • Saturday, July 23, 12:00 noon – 4:00 pm – Daylily Exhibition

    Tower Hill Botanic Garden in Boylston, Massachusetts will host a Daylily Exhibition on Saturday, July 23 from 12 – 4.  This American Hemerocallis Society Accredited Show is sponsored by the New England Daylily Society.  From noon to one o’clock, enjoy a powerpoint presentation entitled Extending the Northern Daylily Bloom Season.  Learn how to extend the bloom season using Early, Late, Northern Rebloomers, and Bud Builder daylilies.  With careful selection, daylilies will be in bloom June to frost.  The presenter will distribute an article More is Beautiful, Extending the Northern Bloom Season, Parts I and II, to the audience.  There will be free raffles from 1 – 1:30, an American Hemerocallis Society Membership table with discounts and bonus gifts for joining, an exhibition, and of course, a sale.  Free with admission to Tower Hill.  For more information log on to www.towerhillbg.org.