Sixteen Good Reasons You Should Join the ADS!

We came up with a list reasons why people should join the ADS. These are ways that individuals personally gain by joining the society.
Can you think of any other reasons to add to the list.

1. Get the all-color Daffodil Journal four times a year.
2. ADS membership dues help to keep our web resources, which are the envy of other plant societies, free to all. This includes the ADS website, daffseek, dafflibrary, dafftube and daffnet.
3. Learn what kinds of daffodils are well suited for your climate and garden – and methods of growing them successfully.
4. Stay up-to-date with all the exciting new developments in daffodils – new colors like all-green flowers or pink perianths, autumn-blooming daffodils, and colorful miniatures for growing in containers – to name just a few.
5. Get alerted to locations of ADS Display Gardens
6. Get alerted dates for daffodil shows around the country where you can see our amazing flowers.
7. Make lifelong friendships within the Society. Meet and mix with daffodil enthusiasts from around the world. Daffodil people are fun people.
8. Attend our informative, entertaining National Conventions and Fall Meetings which are great social experiences. These are held in different parts of the country each year and make a great excuse to travel.
9. Learn about different aspects of daffodil history and also daffodil advances at the annual symposia, presentations at the national meetings, and forums online.
10. Attendance at the annual meetings opens opportunities to tour private gardens and botanical institutes.
11. Enjoy friendly competition in daffodil shows in horticulture, photography, and artistic designs.
12. Join with enthusiasts of historic (aka, heirloom) daffodils in seeking and identifying forgotten plantings of lost varieties.
13. Become a daffodil judge. Learning and exercising these skills satisfactorily opens doors to judging in daffodil shows in the USA and worldwide. It is easy to fulfill the requirements to become a judge.
14. Learn sources of rare daffodil cultivars and species from daffodil nurseries and enthusiasts around the world.
15. Get bulbs of the newest and future daffodil varieties through bulb auctions held at the Conventions and Fall Meetings, varieties that will not be available in the trade for many years.
16. Learn how to hybridize and create your own new flowers. This is a satisfying and simple exercise to extend your hobby.

Come for the flowers, but stay for the fun!

Remember you can join on line at  daffodilusa.org or contact our Executive Director Phyllis Hess at  title=

1 comment for “Sixteen Good Reasons You Should Join the ADS!

  1. Best reason No. 17   You get to meet wonderful people like Harold  K. and Mike B.

    and that is just the start of a very long list of fabulous people !!!!!

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