New England Daylily Society (NEDS) Meeting
Saturday, March 14, 2026
Boylston Town House, 599 Main Street, Boylston, MA.  
Click here for a link to Google Maps location.

left: Zettek Garden; right: Cobbs Hill Sherbet

left: Cobbs Hill Sparkler; right: Cobbs Hill Jester

Please join us for our next meeting on March 14, 2026. Our speaker in the morning will be Charlie Zettek. Charlie and his wife Judy are members of the Finger Lakes Daylily Society (FieLDS) and own Cobbs Hill Daylily Garden in Rochester, NY. Charlie has registered 29 daylily intros, with many of the names starting with "Cobbs Hill". Their garden was one of the gardens open during the Region 4 event held in the summer of 2022. Cobbs Hill Daylily Garden is an oasis of color in a small one-quarter acre yard nestled in a park-like setting that looks up Cobbs Hill into Washington Grove, a 25 acre old-growth forest in the middle of Rochester. Daylily beds dominate the west and south gardens, while other perennials and annuals offer a different splash of color on the east bank. The best of Charlie's hybridizing program for little earlies and big lates can be found throughout the gardens, along with about 200 registered favorites, especially including those from other FieLDS hybridizers. Artists love the garden's dynamic interplay of colors and textures as the day progresses.

Our afternoon speaker will be NEDS member Bob Sobek. Bob hybridizes irises as well as daylilies and will give a presentation about his IRIS breeding program

We are lucky Charlie and Bob will join us at our next meeting.  We hope you will be there, too!

Meeting Agenda
10:00 - 10:30 – Arrival and Setup and Member Social Time
10:30 - 12:00 -  Speaker: Charlie Zettek
12:00 - 1:00 -  Potluck luncheon - bring a dish to share
1:00 -  Drawing for door prize plants and short Business Meeting
1:15 - 3:00 -  Speaker: Bob Sobek
3:00 - 3:30 - Clean up

Dates of upcoming meetings and events:

April 11, 2026 - NEDS Meeting - Morning Speaker Bobby Scott from central Oklahoma, owner of Young Gun Daylilies (www.younggundaylilies.com). Afternoon: NEDS Member Denise Pavlovich will do a presentation on preparing for a Daylily Exhibition

May 9, 2026 - Daylily Sale at "The Farm Stand" at Essex North Shore Agricultural & Technical School, 565 Maple Street (Route 62) Danvers, MA - 10am - 1pm (or until sold out - get there early!)

May 20 - 23, 2026 - ADS National Convention in Valdosta, GA, Rainwater Convention Center. Click here for more details and registration information. Early registration ends 3/20/2026, No Registration after 4/15/2026

July 11, 2026 - NEDS Exhibition @ New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill - details will be posted on this page in June

July 24 - 26, 2026 - 2026 AHS Region 4 Summer Regional - "A Bridge to the Future". Click here for more details. Registration deadline June 10, 2026

August 2026 - NEDS Annual Picnic and Auction - Date and location 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/ahs-membership/ for more details.

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