Year: 2022

December Journal

Sorry the December Journal is so late. Our printer has run into some delays. I still haven’t had a note from them but hope they print the first week of January. I know many of you rely on the December…

clarification on ADS Convention 2023 arrival date:

Friends, I am grateful to all for your rapid responses concerning any WED arrivals.   It was pointed out to me that you can arrive on THURS MAR 9th – and for many, this would work fine. So I want…

asking for feedback for ADS 2023 Convention attendance

Friends, we have filled our rooms that were allotted for WED evening MAR 8th @ The Ravinia Hotel.  We need to negotiate a contract addendum to add more rooms to our room block for MAR 8th.  This is a wonderful…

Planting Daffodils

I have said in the past that when I start digging daffodils I can only work a couple of hours and I’m tired, body hurting all over, and I swear I’m not going back to the daffodil digging.  But I…

Last daffodil of the season

It is hard to tell if this late bulbocodium will reliably produce secondary flowers. Some years the daffodils get fried at the beginning of October. This year has been one long cool wet spring. It’s a Gold Step grandchild that…

ADS Fall Board Meeting in Newport RI

I was asked to share the photos I took at the Fall Board Meeting just over in Newport, Rhode Island. Thanks to the organizers, Dianne Mrak, Mary Malavase and Dianne Bowditch (I hope I didn’t miss anyone) and to those…