New England Daylily Society (NEDS) Meeting
Saturday, April 12, 2025
Boylston Town House, 599 Main Street, Boylston, MA.  
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What a great line-up we have for our meeting on Saturday, April 12, 2025! 

Our morning speaker will be author Neal Sanders from Medfield, Massachusetts.  Neal made us laugh at a NEDS meeting a few years ago when we heard his talk called "Gardening is Murder".  Saturday, we'll hear "part 2" of his talk called "Gardening Is Painless (and other lies we tell ourselves)".   He will tell us stories drawn from his gardening escapades and cover revelations such as "rock walls grow to consume all available building material", provide reasons why you should never hesitate to pay a delivery charge for trees or "enable" a gardener, why Slinkys won't stop squirrels from raiding your feeder, and why giving a flower show ticket to a gardener can injure your back.  

Neal is the author of 16 mysteries, most of which use garden club settings or horticultural plots. He writes the popular ‘The Principal Undergardener' blog, which addresses gardening as a    non-gardener who loves gardens. Since 2014, he has spoken to more than 750 organizations, mostly in New England but to increasingly more groups across the country.  Visit Neal's website www.TheHardingtonPress.com to learn more about him.  Neal will have some of his books for sale at the meeting.  We hope you'll join us in welcoming Neal to our meeting! 

Bring a dish to share for our Potluck Luncheon.

Our afternoon speaker will be Rich Howard of Wallingford, CT, www.ctdaylily.com.
Here are some of Rich's intros (photos from his website):

             
Rich has been hybridizing for over 20 years and has registered over 150 daylily cultivars, including some very unique broken color patterns, applique eyes, and daylilies with toothy edges.  He grows over 1100 named daylilies, including many newer varieties from the top hybridizers in the country.  Rich will offer about 10 of his intros to be auctioned off at the meeting.  You will be amazed at the daylilies Rich has created! 

Meeting Agenda
10:00 - 10:30 - Arrival and Setup and Member Social Time
10:30 - 12:00 - Speaker: Author Neal Sanders
12:00 - 1:00 - Potluck luncheon
1:00 - Drawing for door prize plants and short Business Meeting
1:15 - Speaker: Hybridizer and Daylily Grower Rich Howard
3:00 - 3:30 - Clean up

Dates of upcoming events for 2025:

May 17, 2025 (Saturday) - Plant Sale at “The Farm Stand” at Essex North Shore Agricultural & Technical School, 562 Maple Street (Route 62), Danvers, MA 10am – 1pm (or until sold out)
July 26, 2025 (Saturday) - Daylily Exhibition @ New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill
August 3, 2025 (Sunday) - NEDS Picnic in Sharon George's garden.  Details to follow
October 2025 - Tentative NEDS event - Date and program TBD
November 2025 - NEDS Meeting Date and program TBD

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.

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