Calling all NEDS photographers!

Our annual photo contest will be held at the next NEDS meeting in January 2025.  Now is the time to submit your photos taken in 2024 (up to 5 in each category) in on one or all of the following categories:

   - Single Flower
   - Landscapes and Garden Art
   - Clump and Cluster
   - Seedling
   - Daylily People, Pets & Wildlife

Deadline for entry is midnight, January 4, 2025.  Rules can be found at this link:
NEDS 2025 Photo Contest Rules.pdf.  Please email your entries to nedsphotocontest@gmail.com so they will arrive in time to be included in the contest.

Click here to see the winners from last year's contest in January 2024.

Next meeting - Saturday, January 11, 2025

Our next meeting (in-person) will be Saturday, January 11, 2025, at The Boylston Town House in Boylston, MA.  Click here for a link to Google Maps location.

Meeting Agenda
10:00 - 10:30 – Arrival, Setup and Member Social Time
10:30 - 12:00 -  NEDS Annual Photo Contest Presentation and voting.
12:00 - 1:00 - Bring a dish to share at our Potluck Luncheon
1:00 -  Drawing for door prize plants
1:15 -  Annual Business Meeting, Program TBD
           Photo Contest winners revealed
3:00 - 3:30 - Clean up

Dates of upcoming meetings:

March 8, 2025 - NEDS Meeting - Speaker TBD
April 12, 2025 - NEDS Meeting - Speaker TBD
May 2025 - May Sale - Date and location TBD
July 26, 2025 - NEDS Exhibition @ New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill

NEDS Membership:
There is no fee to join NEDS and attend meetings, however if you'd like get the "full daylily experience", join The American Daylily Society for $30.  Included with your membership, you will receive four beautiful issues of The Daylily Journal, our official newsletter magazine, each year. This magazine contains articles on award winning daylilies, the most popular daylilies by geography, trends in daylily hybridizing, scientific studies, and highlights of gardens and conventions.

New members joining the American Daylily Society also receive a $25 voucher, which can be redeemed towards purchases of daylilies with select growers across the United States. Visit https://daylilies.org/membership/ for more details.