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• 78th Annual Meeting 2025

  • Start
    October 28, 2025
  •  
    11:00 AM
  • End
    October 31, 2025
  •  
    11:00 AM
  • Location
    HUNT VALLEY, MARYLAND & SOUTH CENTRAL YORK COUNTY, PA
  • Spaces left
    50

  78th Annual Meeting
  Holly Society of America

  October 28 – 31, 2025
  Hunt Valley, Maryland & South Central York County, PA

  Embassy Suites, Hunt Valley, Maryland

  Hotel - Book by:September 29, 2025 

  Reserve Your Room Here

  
  

  Meeting pricing information coming soon.

  Schedule:
  

  Tuesday, October 28

  11:00 am – 3:00 pm
  
  Pre meeting tour:  Hampton National Historic Site – NPS Park Ranger James Hogan (still working on details for this) (carpool – 15 minutes from Hotel)
  

  6:30 pm

  Welcome Dinner - plated Dinner – Embassy Suites Hotel
  Opening Remarks – Sue Hunter, President and Carole Cossaboon, Executive Secretary
  
  Keynote Speaker – Stephen Pryce Lea, Deputy Exec. Director – Delaware Botanic Gardens at Pepper Creek
  

  Sprig and Auction Room open beginning at 11:00am

  Wednesday,  October 29

  6:00 am
  Breakfast in Hotel (not included)
  
  8:30 am
  Bus departs for Heartwood Nursery, Felton, PA
  
  9:15 - 11:15 am
  Educational Stations and tour at Heartwood
  
  11:30 am
  depart Heartwood for Lunch
  
  12 noon – 1:45 pm  
  Lunch at Madonna Seafood Restaurant (on our own)
  http://www.madonnaseafood.com/menu/
  

  1:45 pm
  Depart Restaurant for Manor View Farms

  2:00 pm
  Arrive at Manor View Farms, Monkton, Maryland
  

  4:00 pm
  Depart Manor View Farms for Hotel – Dinner on your own; many restaurants close by to choose from

  Sprig and Auction Room open for judging

  Thursday, October 30

  6:00 am
  Breakfast in Hotel (not included)
  
  9:00 am
  Opening remarks and Welcome – Sue Hunter, President
  
  9:15-10:15 am
  Speaker #1 Carrie Engel, Greenhouse Manager – Vally View Farms, Hunt Valley, Maryland
  
  10:15 am
  Break
  

  10:30 - 11:30 am
  Speaker #2 Professor Donglin Zhang, College of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences, University of Georgia

  11:30 am - 12:30 pm
  Speaker #3 Harlan Svoboda, Ph.D. Curator, Herbarium Collections, US National Arboretum, US Dept. Agriculture (still working on details for this)
  
  12:30 pm
  Lunch (Sandwich platters) in Hotel
  
  1:15 – 4:30 pm
  Plant Auction and Sale
  
  6:30 pm
  Awards Banquet, plated Dinner

  Friday,  October 24

  Breakfast in Hotel (not included)
  
  Depart

  

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