This is a gentle reminder that Tuesday, October 17 is the deadline
for registration to the 2023 ADS Virtual Fall Forum & Fall Board Meeting
on October 20 – 21, 2023.
This conference is hosted by The American Daffodil Society and is open to ANYONE interested in learning about daffodils! Please consider yourself cordially invited.
Prior registration and payment is required for participation. **We will send you Zoom credentials for Friday’s events the morning of October 20 and new credentials for Saturday’s events during the morning of October 21, 2023. Check your inbox and SPAM folders for this important information.
Conference Registration!
REGISTRATION IS CLOSED for this event. Thanks for your Support!
For questions or concerns with Registration, experiencing issues attending Zoom sessions, missing event email reminders or Zoom links for our events, please contact Frank Nyikos at email: 
Schedule of Activities!
All times for sessions are using USA Eastern Time Zone
Friday, October 20, 2023
- 4:30 – 6:00 PM — Executive Committee meeting
- 7:00 PM — “Backyard Science with Daffodils” – presented by Ross Hornsby.
Ross Hornsby’s interest in daffodils began as a boy by observing the historic daffodils growing on his great-grandmother’s farm. As a teenager, he collected daffodils suited to the Deep South and crossed them hoping to create new cultivars for his climate, a passion he continues today. His love for gardening led him to pursue a degree in horticulture at Auburn University. In his spare time he enjoys reading about daffodils and thinking of novel ways he can grow them and hybridize with them.
- Stay on Zoom as we prepare for our ‘ADS Virtual Auction, Part-One’ coming up @ 8:00 PM.
- 8:00 PM — ADS Virtual Auction, Part-One presented by Steve Hampson from California. Grab your favorite libation and join us for a lively and fun auction of some very desirable daffodil bulbs!
Saturday, October 21, 2023
- 12:00 PM — “Judging Youth Entries” – presented by Mary Malavase. This is an approved Judges Refresher presentation. Judges requesting credit please register for the conference and pay additional $5 fee.
Mary Malavase is currently a Real Estate Broker on Nantucket and has resided on the island year-round for the past 50 years. This is her second career after three decades in Hotel Management. Mary has had a love of daffodils since she attended her first show in 1975 on Nantucket. Over the years she has exhibited and as her work schedules allowed – has been able to attend ADS events. She is former co-chair of the Wister-Pannill Awards Committee, served a term as Regional Vice President for the New England region, and is currently serving as ADS Youth Chairman. Mary has helped educate many local Nantucket residents on planting and exhibiting their flowers in Nantucket’s local show. She most enjoys mentoring individuals to create a love of daffodils. There is nothing more rewarding than seeing a first-time exhibitor receive their first blue ribbon. Mary is a lifetime member of the ADS. - 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM — ADS Board Meeting (All are invited, only members can vote.)
- 3:00 PM — The Symposium on Public Planting of Daffodils will feature speakers with experience in a range of projects from one woman with a shovel, to small groups of volunteers, community landscaping, and massive machine-plantings. The panel members will relate their experience including using a variety of planting methods.
Janet Hickman, MD, is an ADS Accredited Judge and Judge Instructor as well as the ADS current ADS President. She has served as the Daffodil Chair of the Garden Club of Virginia and is the Horticulture Vice Chair for the Board of the Old City Cemetery and Arboretum in Lynchburg, VA. She grows about 1000 daffodil varieties and likes them all, from miniature to massive, Historic to brand new. She has enjoyed exhibiting in local, regional, and National shows across the country.
Carla and William Stanley are a mother son duo that have been growing and showing daffodils together since 2000. Together they practice the no-till farming method on all of their daffodil cultivation in Gloucester, Virginia. Carla is a 30 yr. veteran school teacher, President of the Gloucester Daffodil Club, Historian of the Virginia Daffodil Society, member of the Washington Daffodil Society, certified ADS judge and ADS Regional Director of the Mid-Atlantic Region. Besides many public and private plantings one of her most recent projects was the installation of an ADS Display Garden, using the No-till method, at the Birthplace of Dr. Walter Reed, which contains historic cultivars available in American gardens during Dr. Reed’s lifetime. William is a wine maker and sustainable flower farmer in Mallorca, Spain. Originally from Gloucester, Virginia William has been growing and showing daffodils for two decades. William is a member of the ADS and will complete his ADS judging certification soon. With his degree in business administration William is growing his cut flower business using the no-till farming method exclusively. William advocates for sustainable, regenerative farming methods that improve, instead of deteriorate the land.
Dave Champoux has been in the landscape business since 1966. He is a graduate of The Stockbridge School of Agriculture with an Associates Degree in Landscape Operations in 1969 and UMASS / Amherst- BS Environmental Design in 1973. He and his family moved to Nantucket in 1978 and founded Champoux Landscape. He and his crews have been planting daffodils pretty much ever since.
Jay Hutchins, general manager of Brent and Becky’s, is located in Gloucester, Virginia. His family still lives and works on the 28-acre farm and gardens and in addition to selling nature’s bounty, they also write, photograph, lecture, consult, educate and welcome visitors from all over to the eight acres they’ve developed into an educational, Chesapeake Bay friendly garden. The gardens, owners Brent and Becky Heath as well as Jay and Denise Hutchins show people how they utilize flower bulbs with annuals, perennials, trees and shrubs, without spraying chemicals, and treating the Bay that they live on with the utmost respect. They hope to create an educational foundation to help educate school groups, Master Gardener groups or the general public about how to incorporate these gardening practices in their own gardens.
Jason Delaney is the sole proprietor of PHS Daffodils, a sprawling collection of nearly 3,000 unique varieties grown on family land in Southeastern Illinois, specializing in classic, historic, and novel daffodils for garden and exhibition. Jason began hybridizing daffodils–and daylilies, lilies, and crinum–in the late 1990s, and the best of his first-generation daffodil seedlings and daylily registrations are now in production. Additional to PHS Daffodils, Jason operates Professional Horticultural Services, a small-scale residential garden design and maintenance business with clients in the St. Louis metropolitan region. Prior, for nearly 21 years, Jason worked at Missouri Botanical Garden as North Gardens Supervisor and Bulb Collections Specialist, where he maintained and specialized in the bulb, daylily, and iris collections, among others. During his time at the Garden, Jason participated in plant collecting expeditions to the Altai mountains of southern Siberia, the Caucasus mountains of the Republic of Georgia, the High Atlas mountains of Morocco, and the Changbaishan mountains in northeastern China. He also traveled to Taiwan, New Zealand, the Netherlands, and extensively throughout the U.S. for his work with daffodils, always his greatest passion, and still very fondly remembers his first of many American Daffodil Society (ADS) conventions, the 2000 World Convention in Portland, Oregon where his obsession with daffodils became fully realized.
- Stay on Zoom as we prepare for our ‘ADS Virtual Auction, Part-Two’ coming up @ 5:00 PM.
- 5:00PM — ADS Virtual Auction, Part-Two presented by Steve Hampson from California. Grab your favorite libation and join us for a lively and fun finale auction of some more desirable daffodil bulbs!
Registration Policies
- Partial Event Registration: Your registration fee includes all programming and there is no option for partial event registration.
- Cancellations and refunds: No refund requests will be accepted for this online event.
- Recording permissions: To enable registered participants to view the educational sessions for an additional ten days after each presentation, those sessions will be recorded. By participating as a presenter or audience member in this digital environment, you agree to be recorded. (If you do not wish to be recorded, please do not participate in the live sessions.)
- Meeting/Event credentials: Zoom credentials (Meeting Access Links) for events are for designated registrants, and should not to be shared. We do recommend that multiple registrants within a household use the same device when attending the same events.
