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Connecticut Daylily Society 2025 – 2026

9/2025-

Hello Daylily Lovers and Garden Friends…

We hope you have survived the heat and drought and are enjoying the current cooler temperatures! Daylily folks have reported an incredible summer for blooms due to the rainy spring. But now we are spending most of our garden energies watering to keep our gardens alive. Our climate and thus our weather have been changing at an unprecedented rate. On a local level, what does this mean for gardeners and the green spaces we have created and maintain? Different patterns may mean new plant choices and different pests and problems. Even though we don’t know exactly what the future holds, what steps we can take to protectively manage our gardens for an uncertain future??

Saturday September 20, 2025 – in-person Speaker: Sarah Bailey She is a Connecticut Certified Horticulturalist and UConn Advanced Master Gardener who will discuss climate change and its effects on our gardens. Sarah is an instructor for the Connecticut Certified Horticulturalist program and the UConn Master Gardener program. A graduate of the University of Vermont and the UMass Green School, she has worked in the horticultural industry for the last three decades. She recently retired from both the state coordinator and the Hartford County coordinator positions for the UConn Extension Master Gardener program and serves on the Board of Directors of the CT Horticultural Society as well as the education committees of both the CT Horticultural Society and the CT Nursery and Landscape Association. Sarah gardens in north central Connecticut under the watchful eye of her current border collie, who digs up mole tunnels for amusement.

Saturday, November 1, 2025 – in-person Speaker: Gary Jones, our hard-working program chair and past president and stalwart doer of many things, has prepared a program on his wonderful garden in Woodstock, CT. He will share pictures of his daylily collection, including his 13 introductions plus a few seedlings. The presentation will also include a bit of CDS lore, a spattering of Gary’s companion plants, and his garden art. 

Saturday, January 17, 2026 Zoom Meeting Program by daylily hybridizers and cutting-edge legends, Patrick and Grace Stamile. They now live in California but had breeding and sales gardens in Long Island and Florida. They have registered more than 1000 varieties and have won numerous awards. Easy armchair fun on a Saturday afternoon. Can you say blue daylilies?