February 2024 Speaker
Jason Delaney is the sole proprietor of PHS Daffodils, a sprawling collection of over 3,500 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. 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. Please visit www.instagram.com/phsdaffodils and www.phsdaffodils.com for more information and visual delights.