2026 ADS Region One Meeting Tour Garden—Lowe Family Gardens

 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

Lowe Family Gardens—Robin Lowe

Robin Lowe's Lowe Family Gardens is in USDA hardiness zone 5b on 50 acres southeast of Lincoln, Nebraska near the town of Bennet. Flower beds extend around the perimeter of the one-acre lawn. Robin grows over 1,700 different daylilies. Roughly 80% are tetraploids and 20% are diploids. Robin dabbles in daylily hybridizing, too. She is a long-time Nebraska Daylily Society webmaster and member.

Welcome to Lowe Family Gardens (all pics courtesy of Robin Lowe)

The lower portion of the Lowe home features a large indoor pool and is home to Country Swim School. Country Swim School offers water exercise classes and lessons for swimmers of all ages. Robin is co-owner and one of the instructors. Between 250-300 swimmers and their parents come twice a week for classes. During nice weather, many customers enjoy the gardens and make great use of the nearby play set. For more information about Country Swim School, click HERE.

Play area within the daylily bed perimeter (gorgeous during daylily bloom season!)

Robin's daylilies are beautifully interwoven among many diverse annuals and perennials. Garden beds enlarge and become more extensive in the upper portion of the lawn and home.

So many well-grown gorgeous daylilies

Daylilies interspersed among companion plants and grasses

Companion plants include coneflowers, phlox, hibiscus, butterfly bushes, butterfly weed, salvia, veronica, milkweed in selected areas, coreopsis, false sunflowers, beebalm, penstemon, yarrow, daisies, agastache, and numerous varieties of colorful annuals.

Wow!

Walk this way

Butterflies enjoying lantanas (left) and milkweed (right)

Whenever I visit Robin's beautiful garden, I admire her beautiful and distinctive daylily seedlings. Not only is Robin a talented garden design artist, she's a daylily chef who creatively combines daylily ingredients to create knockout kids. Following is a sample preview.

Each private tour garden includes a collection of Nebraska Daylily Society club plants from a hybridizer selected by the tour garden owners. Robin’s club plant collection consists of Curt Hanson's 2023 daylily collection. For a sneak peek, click HERE.

Peaceful paradise

The Nebraska Daylily Society invites you to attend the 2026 ADS Region One Meeting in Lincoln, Nebraska. Our magic tour bus will transport you and your daylily friends on Saturday, July 11 to enjoy Lowe Family Gardens, Hello Gorgeous Gardens, and Sunken Gardens—plus provide a delicious lunch. What a fun-filled escapade! Don't let the only thing missing be you.