Schedule of Events
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- 8:00am – 4:00pm --- Judges School I (Alpine 2)
- 9:00am – 4:00pm --- Registration Desk Open (Hallway of Lobby Level)
- 9:00am – 2:00pm --- Daffodil Show Setup (Versailles 1 & 2)
- 12:00pm – 7:00pm --- Setup Commercial Display, Vendors, Daffodil Society Display, Youth Pot Display (Versailles Foyer)
- 2:00pm – 9:00am Thursday --- Daffodil Show Staging (Versailles 2)
- 2:00pm – 4:00pm --- Executive & Finance Committees Meeting (Zermatt)
- 5:00pm – 6:00pm --- Meet & Greet for “Newbies” (Versailles Foyer)
- 5:30pm – into the evening --- Beverage/Snack Buffet (Versailles 2)
- 8:30am --- Board Buses for Tour of Missouri Botanical Garden Library
- 9:00am --- Buses Depart for Missouri Botanical Garden(thirty-minute drive)
- 9:30am – 11:45am --- Optional Tour of Library at the Missouri Botanical Garden (Buses leave at 9:00; thirty-minute drive)
- 9:00am --- Board Buses for Bellefontaine Cemetery
- 9:00am --- Buses leave for Bellefontaine Cemetery(thirty-minute drive)
- 10:00am – 12:00pm --- Optional Tour of Bellefontaine Cemetery
- 9:00am – 3:00pm --- Registration Desk Open (Hallway of Lobby Level)
- 9:30am – 10:00am --- Judges Instructions (Alpine 2)
- 9:30am – 10:00am --- Clerk Instructions (Davos)
- 10:00am – 1:00pm --- Daffodil Show Judging (Horticulture, Design & Photography)
- 12:00pm – 1:40pm --- Judges/Clerks Buffet Lunch (Alpine 1 & 2
---Everyone else…lunch is on your own--- - 1:00pm – 5:00pm --- Daffodil Show OPEN to the Public (Versailles 1)
- 1:30pm – 4:00pm --- Create Table Decorations (Versailles 2)
- 3:00pm – 4:00pm --- ADS Board Meeting-First Session (St.Moritz)
- 5:30pm – 7:00pm --- Cash Bar before Dinner (Zurich Ballroom)
- 7:00pm – 9:30pm --- Awards Banquet (Zurich Ballroom)
- 7:30am --- Board Buses for Day Tour in Hermann, MO
- 8:00am --- Leave Hotel to drive to Hermann, MO One and a half-hour drive)
- 10:00am – 3:00pm --- Daffodil Show OPEN to the Public (Versailles 1)
- 10:00am – 11:30am --- Haeffner Farm and garden tour
- 12:00pm – 2:15pm --- Lunch at Haeffner Farm; Continue Touring Haeffner Farm
- 2:30pm --- Depart for Historic District of Hermann
- 4:00pm – 6:00pm --- Bulb Auction & Cocktails at the Inn at Hermannhof
- 6:30pm --- Dinner at the Inn at Hermannhof
- 7:30pm --- Entertainment from Loehnig German Band & the Wurstjaegers
- 8:20pm --- ADS Annual Meeting
- 8:45pm --- Board Buses for return to St Louis
- 9:00pm --- Depart for St Louis
- 8:00am – 11:15am --- Educational Symposium Session 1 (Alpine2/Davos) Species
- 8:00am - 8:25am Dr. John David - Evolution of Narcissus Species
- 8:35am - 9:00am Dr. Harold Koopowitz - The Autumn Flowering Daffodils
- 9:10am - 9:35am Juan Andrés Varas - Narcissus in the Wild
- 9:45am - 10:10am Wilfred Hall - New Zealand’s Miniature and Intermediate Daffodils
- 10:20am - 10:45am Terry Braithwaite - Miniature Daffodils in the United Kingdom
- 10:50am - 11:15am Larry Force - New American Miniature Daffodils
- 8:00am – 11:15am --- Educational Symposium Session 2 (St Moritz/Bern) Historics and Classics
- 8:00am - 8:25am Sara L. van Beck - From Broadside to Photogravure: Daffodils in Catalogs
- 8:35am - 9:00am Mitch Carney - Consider the Classics
Note: This session is the ADS Judges Refresher at the 2016 World Daffodil Convention. - 9:10am - 9:35am Caroline and Andrew Thomson - The Backhouse Heritage Daffodil Collection at Rofsie-Estate Fife Scotland
- 9:45am - 10:10am Brent Heath - American Hybridizing
- 10:20am - 10:45am Nial Watson - Ringhaddy's Daffodils
- 10:50am - 11:15am Graeme Miller - Daffodils from New Zealand
- 10:00am – 5:00pm --- Daffodil Show OPEN to the Public (Versailles 1)
- 11:30am – 12:30pm --- Lunch at Hotel (Versailles 2)
- 12:45pm --- Board Buses for Missouri Botanical Garden
- 1:00pm --- Leave for Tour of Missouri Botanical Garden (Thirty-minute drive)
- 4:00pm --- Board Buses for Return to Hotel
- 4:30pm --- Depart for Return to Hotel
- 5:30pm – 7:00pm --- Cash Bar before Dinner (Zurich Ballroom)
- 7:00pm – 9:00pm --- Evening Banquet (Zurich Ballroom)
---Keynote Address: Eric Breed from Lisse, the Netherlands--- - 9:30pm --- Daffodil Show Tear Down
- 7:30am --- Board Buses for Flora, IL Day Trip n
- 8:00am --- Leave Hotel to Drive to Flora, IL (Two and a half-hour drive)
---ADS Board Meeting (second session) during drive to Flora--- - 10:45am --- Tour PHS Daffodils, Including Tractor & Implement Collection
- 12:30pm --- Lunch with “Downstream” bluegrass band entertainment; Continue Touring PHS Daffodils
- 2:00pm --- Board Buses for Return to St Louis
- 2:30pm --- Depart for Return to St Louis
- 5:30pm – 7:00pm --- Cash Bar before Dinner (Versailles Foyer)
- 7:00pm – 9:30pm --- Evening Banquet (Versailles 2)
---Keynote Address: Jaydee Atkins Ager from Hawkinsville, Georgia---
--- Invitation for ADS 2017 Convention and World Convention 2020---
- 9:00am --- Board Buses for Shaw Nature Reserve
- 9:30am --- Leave Hotel for Shaw Nature Reserve (Forty-minute drive)
- 10:15am – 1:00pm --- Optional Tour of Shaw Nature Reserve
--- Additional private gardens available for ‘Do it yourself’ tours ---
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