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NEDS POTLUCK PICNIC AND DAYLILY AUCTION
SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 2026
Cheryl Isaak's Garden
11:00am -3:30pm
Members should have received an email with the address and details. Cheryl's house is the last house on left before the cul de sac. Look for the ladybug streamer.
Please RSVP to: cherylisaak@comcast.net so she'll know how many people to expect
Bring a dish to share, and a chair!!
Parking is available on the street.
Cheryl will provide bottled water on ice and plates and utensils.
The plan for the day:
11:00 - 12:00 Arrival and Setup. Please send RSVP to cherylisaak@comcast.net and let her know if you can bring a pop-up tent or folding
table. We have plates and plastic forks, etc.
11:30 - 1:00 Visit and tour Cheryl's garden
12:00 - 1:00 Potluck lunch - Please bring a dish to share and a comfortable chair, and enjoy your food in the garden
1:00 - 3:00 Daylily auction: The NEDS area plants, babysitting plants and generous donations from NEDS members will be auctioned off.
3:00 - 3:30 Clean up
Included in the auction will be plants bought from Sandy & Mike Holmes by NEDS. We also have plants
donated by our members. Below are the links to view the plants that will be included in the auction. We will have printed photos at the
picnic and you can follow along on your phone. If you are bringing a plant and don't see it in the list, please email
marleneharmon@gmail.com by Friday night.
If you need a printed copy of the list, please print the list before you leave home. There may be late additions so you may want to wait until Saturday morning to print the list.
Click here for a 4-page list in .pdf format (easy for printing) - contains only
descriptions - no pictures.
Click here for a 8-page list in .pdf format that contains photos with the descriptions.
Click here to see the plants in slide format including the photos of the cultivars.
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2026 Daylily Exhibition
Held Saturday, July 11, 2026
Sponsored by the
New England Daylily Society
We had a wonderful exhibition on Saturday 7/11/2026 and a very different show from any of the two previous exhibitions. Even though we could only allow 5
entries per exhibitor to be judged due to a shortage of judges, we had more entries than the year before (14 more). The weather was great and many visitors came to the New England Botanical
Garden in Boylston, MA to see our show.
Congratulations to the winners and thank you to all who attended!
We had 14 exhibitors and 180 entries
Best Small and Best in Show - 'Texas Foundling' - exhibited by Marlene Harmon
Best Large - 'Starman' - exhibited by Gary Barsomian Dietrich
Best Unusual Form - 'King Crab' - exhibited by Susan Stowe
Best Seedling - exhibited by Gary Barsomian Dietrich
Sweepstakes Winner (most blue ribbons) - Nancy Stern (5)
Sweepstakes Winner (runner up) - 3-way tie (4) Carol Canning, Gary Barsomian Dietrich, Marlene Harmon
So many people to thank....
- NEDS Members who brought in scapes for the show
- Susan Stowe for her presentation on "Daylilies 101"
- Gary Barsomian Detrich and Lis Murphy for demonstrating how to divide a daylily. Just about everyone went home with a piece of a daylily to put in their own garden!
- Nancy Stern for your "Daylily Pests and Diseases" storyboards in the Exhibition
- Vendors Cameron Stern, Laurie and Ed Longo and Lis Murphy for digging and bringing plants for sale
- Special thank you to all of the many volunteers who helped make the show a success!
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Dates of upcoming NEDS events for 2026:
November 2026 - NEDS meeting at the Boylston Town House - details to follow
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. Available exclusively to individuals who have never previously held an AHS membership, from June 1, 2026 through April 30, 2027, you can join for only $10 and receive a one-year membership.
See https://daylilies.org/ahs-membership/ for details. 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.
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