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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

  • Saturday, July 14, 11:00 am – 1:30 pm – Daylilies and Their Friends, and Saturday, July 14, 1:30 pm – 4:00 pm – Daylily Show

    On Saturday, July 14, from 11 – 1:30, Debbie Carpenter will give a free with admission presentation entitled Daylilies and their Friends, showing perennials that make good companions in a daylily landscape. The beginning of the presentation will discuss general daylily information. Following the presentation Debbie will give the ever-popular demonstration on dividing a daylily clump. Immediately following the demonstration there will be a FREE raffle of the divisions from the demonstration to those in attendance. The event takes place at Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Drive in Boylston, Massachusetts, and more information may be found at www.towerhillbg.org.

    Debbie Carpenter is a retired high school biology and horticulture teacher, NH master gardener, and life-long home gardener. Her undergraduate degree is from UNH, where she also took post graduate work in horticulture. Since retiring, she has discovered the nearly perfect perennial, the modern hybrid daylily.

    The class will be followed immediately by the Daylily Show presented by the New England Daylily Society from 1:30 – 4. The New England Daylily Society presents an exhibition of the most extraordinary, best-groomed daylilies grown by daylily enthusiasts from all over the region. Image from www.growingwithplants.com.

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  • Sunday, July 8, Tuesday, July 10, Thursday, July 12, and Saturday, July 14, 9:00 am -12:00 pm – Howe’s Garden Benefit Tour

    The Howes’ Garden in Centerville holds numerous flower gardens with many different perennials and bulbs. Their specialty is hybridizing day lilies. They have seedlings from plants cross-pollinated in 2017, yearlings planted in the spring of 2017, and close to 100 plants saved from crops as far back as 2004. The best hybrids get a Cape Cod name (such as Cape Cod Lemonade), and are registered with the American Hemerocallis Society. If you are curious about hybridization, or simply want to see an array of beautiful blooms, this is the garden to visit! The proceeds from this July 14 garden tour will benefit Whelden Memorial Library. Rain or Shine. Admission: $5 Pay cash at the door. OPEN: July 8, 10, 12, 14 9am-12pm

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  • Saturday, September 10, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm – Gardeners’ Emporium

    Saturday, September 10, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm – Gardeners’ Emporium

    Tower Hill Botanic Garden presents its annual Gardeners’ Emporium on Saturday, September 10 from 10 – 2. The Emporium will feature nonprofit, regional plant societies, specialty nurseries, and purveyors of distinctive garden ornaments. Societies represented include the Begonia, Cactus & Succulent, Daylily, Gesneriad, Hosta, and Rock Garden. This is the ONLY place this fall where you can find all these Societies, with the diversity of their respective offerings, gathered in one sale. Each of these groups offer expertise on their plant specialties, as well as hard-to-find specimen plants for sale. In addition, niche nurseries and garden accessory companies will offer their unique products for sale. Participating nurseries, as of the time of this posting, include Broken Arrow, DeRosa Orchids, Greystone Gardens, Pope’s Pots, Stonegate Farm, and more. Finally, Tower Hill’s Gift Shop will provide all kinds of unique gardening supplies and books, and Twigs Cafe will offer delightful meals.
    Fall is an excellent time for planting, and the Gardeners’ Emporium is a perfect opportunity to find just the right plant, or garden statue, to fill in an empty spot in the garden. The cooler days of September and October give new plants a chance to establish themselves before the onset of winter. September is also a great time to visit Tower Hill, as many of the annuals and perennials are still putting on a fantastic show. A portion of the proceeds from the sale support the ongoing development and maintenance of the Garden.  Photo from www.theodorepayne.org.  For directions and more information, log on to www.towerhillbg.org.

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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, May 7, 10:00 am – 12:00 noon – Daylily and Perennial Transplanting

    Carl Harmon, of New Hampshire’s Harmon Hill Farm (pictured below), will lead a presentation on the diverse world of daylily culture on Saturday, May 7 at 10 am at The Gardens at Elm Bank, 900 Washington Street in Wellesley.

    Following a brief, indoor introduction, join him in the Daylily Display Garden to get your hands dirty as you learn how to divide these and other perennials. You’ll also get a chance to pot a plant to take home! Cost is $5 for Mass Hort members, $8 for nonmembers. Call 617-933-4973 to register.

  • Saturday, July 26, 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm – New England Daylily Society Exhibition

    The New England Daylily Society will present a Daylily Exhibition at Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Drive, Boylston, Massachusetts, on Saturday, July 26, where 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 limited selection of choice daylily plants will also be for sale. The exhibition is included with regular admission to the Garden. Entries accepted from 7:30 am – 10:45 am, and the show is open to the public from 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm. For information on exhibiting, email Show Chair Dan Pessoni at danthelilyman@aol.com.

  • Saturday, August 27, 11:00 am – 3:00 pm – N.E. Daylily Society Public Plant Sale and Auction

    New England Daylily Society is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to the promotion of the daylily flower and to further the public education thereof. They will sponsor a public plant sale and auction on Saturday, August 27, from 11 – 3 at the Wakefield-Lynnfield Masonic Lodge, 372 Salem Street in Wakefield. The event is fee. Bargain tables with $5.00 daylilies will be open at 11:00 AM. Other perennial plants, including hosta and herbaceous peonies, will also be available during the sale. The live auction will commence at 12:00 P.M. (noon). There will be many hard-to-find hybrids and many helpful people to assist with information about the characteristics of particular hybrids. Many bargains to be had! For more information, call 508-291-1835, or log on to www.nedaylily.org.  Below is daylily ‘Alva Reese’ from Blue Ridge Daylilies.

  • 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.

  • Saturday, June 4, 11:00 am – 2:00 pm – Sprouts

    Tower Hill Botanic Garden’s Annual Specialty Plant Sale – Repotted! – will take place Saturday, June 4.  Members only hours are 9 – 11, and the general public is invited from 11 until 2.  Free to members, $5 per car for non-members.  This year for the first time Sprouts includes specialty nurseries of the highest caliber and purveyors of fine and unusual garden-related items.  Tower Hill is branching out to offer new resources for the finest quality plants and unique garden ornaments all in one location.  Knowledgeable volunteers and staff will help you with your plant selection and questions on cultural information.  Bid at two silent auctions featuring choice, specimen plants and garden ornaments.  Harvey’s Farm of Westboro will give away 100 plants during the 9 – 11 Members Only sale with any plant purchase of $50 or more, first come first serve, while supplies last.  Plant society participants will include Cactus & Succulent, Conifer, Daylily, Heather, Hosta, Lilac, Miniature Plants, and Rose.  Bring cash or check – many groups are unable to accept credit card purchases.  Please consider a donation to the Wagon Fund, so Tower Hill may purchase more carrying wagons for the Plant Sale customers – look for the donation boxes.  For more information, log on to www.towerhillbg.org.