Ruby Red Jubilee
2026 ADS Region One Meeting • Lincoln, Nebraska • July 10-12, 2026
Hosted by the Nebraska Daylily Society
Carole Hunter of Prairie's Edge Gardens, Guest Speaker
The Nebraska Daylily Society (NDS) invites you to join us on Friday, July 10 through Sunday, July 12, in Lincoln, Nebraska, for the 2026 ADS Region One Meeting. Click HERE for the registration form with fillable fields—you can use your computer’s keyboard to type your information—no handwriting is necessary!
Your registration includes the bus tour and four meals: Friday evening dinner, Saturday breakfast, Saturday lunch, and Saturday dinner. Guest meals for Friday dinner and/or Saturday dinner and/or Saturday breakfast are also available.
Meet Carole Hunter, Prairie's Edge Gardens, Rockford, Illinois
After a career in the education field, Carole Hunter wanted a change. She went back to school to obtain a degree in landscape design and then designed and installed landscapes. Carole Hunter started growing daylilies in the 1980s after a friend shared some of her daylilies.
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| Carole Hunter in her garden, pic courtesy of Samantha Behling |
About Carole
Carole started hybridizing daylilies in 2010 and registered her first daylilies in 2019.
Carole's primary hybridizing goal is daylilies that rebloom during the short summer seasons in her northern Illinois garden. This often occurs as instant rebloom, when a fan produces a second scape before first scape from that same fan finishes blooming.
Carole does not fertilize her daylilies and does not use pesticides in her garden. She waters her daylily seedlings when she first plants them, and mulches them with shredded oak leaves for weed control. Because she doesn't pamper her daylily seedlings, only the hardiest and most vigorous survive.
Carole's primary hybridizing goal is daylilies that rebloom during the short summer seasons in her northern Illinois garden. This often occurs as instant rebloom, when a fan produces a second scape before first scape from that same fan finishes blooming.
Carole does not fertilize her daylilies and does not use pesticides in her garden. She waters her daylily seedlings when she first plants them, and mulches them with shredded oak leaves for weed control. Because she doesn't pamper her daylily seedlings, only the hardiest and most vigorous survive.
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| One of Carole's seedling fields, all landscape pics courtesy of Carole Hunter |
Carole's first daylily registration is JUST THE BEGINNING (2019, tet).
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| 'Just the Beginning' (Hunter, 2019), all daylily pics courtesy of Carole Hunter |
More registrations followed. STAND THE WORLD ON ITS EAR (2020, dip) is Carole's first unusual form registration.
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| 'Stand the World on Its Ear' (Hunter, 2020) |
The stippled TAKE A BOW, PRAIRIE'S EDGE (2021, tet) combines three qualities Carole loves to see in her creations: instant rebloom, good branching, and a beautiful face.
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| 'Take a Bow, Prairie's Edge' (Hunter, 2021) |
PETIT FOUR A LA PRAIRIE'S EDGE (2024, tet) melds cristation with instant rebloom.
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| 'Petit Four a la Prairie's Edge' (Hunter, 2024) |
The lovely EVEREADY BUNNISOO (2025, tet) is named for Carole's good friend Sue Hill.
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| 'Eveready Bunnisoo' (Hunter, 2025) |
About the Daylilies at Prairie's Edge Gardens
To see all of Carole's beautiful daylily introductions, get a sneak peak of some of her seedlings under evaluation, and learn more about her beautiful garden, visit her website prairiesedgegardens.com and also click HERE.
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| Carole's outdoor office--what a gorgeous view! |
A Golden Opportunity
Join Carole Hunter and all of your daylily friends at the 2026 ADS Region One Tour on July 10-12 in Lincoln, Nebraska. For information about this fun-filled, exciting event, click HERE for the schedule and list of tour and open gardens.
Don't let the only thing missing be you!
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