I’ve finally settled in back home after some extended traveling following the Williamsburg Convention. A huge THANK YOU to Michael Berrigan, Brent and Becky Heath, Mitch and Kate Carney, the garden hosts and all the others who contributed to the Convention experience! The show, the speakers (Carlos Van de Veek and Brent, Jaydee’s Bill Pannill tribute, and Felder Rushing), the festival and garden tours, the daffodil boutique–all were wonderful opportunities to enjoy our favorite flowers with our good friends! If you weren’t there, plan now for next year–the 2016 WORLD Daffodil Convention in St. Louis!
Here are a few photos of fun times at the Convention!
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- On the way to the Gloucester Festival–We stop for daffodils!
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- The Gloucester Daffodil Festival–what a street planting of daffs!
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- Truck bed full of daffs from the parade
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- Lunch on the playground–Greg Freeman, Jan Pennings, Nial Watson
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- Lunch on the playground–Mike Brook, Jan Pennings
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- Brent Heath leading a tour of their gardens
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- Lisa Kuduk and Jason Delaney looking at daffs in the Heath gardens
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- Larry Force and Jan Pennings on the daffodil hillside at the Herbert’s garden
And a very specific compliment to Mike Berrigan for a masterful handling of the bus schedules,so that all of us got to see as much as possible, without overwhelming any one host garden. This was the most
varied and extensive set of tour destinations I can remember, and we all had to make some tough choices, but it was a week to remember.
Loyce McKenzie