2022 Fall Forum & Fall Board Meeting

November 4 – 6, 2022

Hosted in Newport, Rhode Island

Hotel Reservations | Transportation Options |
Fall Forum Registration | Schedule of Activities

 
The American Daffodil Society will host the 2022 Fall Forum and Fall Board Meeting (FBM) in Newport, Rhode Island at the The Newport Harbor Island Resort (formerly known as Gurney’s Newport Resort & Marina). The Fall Forum is an annual event that all ADS members and their guests are invited to attend with advance reservations. The event includes the ADS Fall Board Meeting, but it is intended to maximize the education and enjoyment of all members, at an affordable registration fee.

The Newport Harbor Island Resort
(formerly known as Gurney’s Newport Resort & Marina)
1 Goat Island,
Newport, RI 02840
Located in Goat Island Marina

Make your hotel reservation today!

Call: (401) 849-2600
Select the prompt for reservations
Use Group Code: 221104DAFF

The special rate of $199.00 for 2 Doubles or 1 King room, plus taxes and fees, will be available on a first come first serve basis until October 12, 2022 and will also be available for you to book 3 days prior and 3 days after the Forum. Reservations received after October 12th will be received on a space available basis.

 

Transportation Options!

The Newport Harbor Island Resort, (formerly known as Gurney’s Newport Resort & Marina), is located in the heart of historic Newport and surrounded on all sides by Narragansett Bay. Newport, Rhode Island is located in the heart of New England and is easily reached by car, train, bus or plane. It is 70 miles from Boston and 175 miles from New York City.

Download this Infographic of Transportation Options from Discover Newport.

By rail:
AMTRAK KINGSTON STATION West Kingston, RI (18 miles / 30 minutes)
AMTRAK PROVIDENCE STATION Providence, RI (34 miles / 45 minutes)

By air:
TF GREEN AIRPORT (PVD) Warwick, RI (26miles/30 minutes) Serviced by major domestic and international airlines and car rental agencies. Allegiant, American Airlines, Delta, Frontier, Jet Blue, Southwest, United and Air Canada.

UBER is recommended by the Greater Newport Chamber of Commerce as a means of getting you from the train and airport to your hotel in Newport. Estimated cost $30.

Overnight self-parking is complimentary.

 

Fall Forum Registration!

Please fill-out the ADS 2022 Fall Forum & Board Meeting Registration Form. Then select your Registration options from the ADS WebStore and render online payment for your selected options.

  • Early Bird Registration – Paid (or mailed check postmarked) on or before September 15.
  • Regular Registration – Paid (or mailed check postmarked) by cut-off on October 12.

Registration Policies

  • Partial Event Registration: Your registration fee includes all programming and all offered meals. There is an option for individual meals. The amount charged for these meals equals our food cost plus meals tax, gratuity and the hotel service fee. (32 %)
  • Cancellations and refunds: There will be a 10% cancellation fee between September 15, 2022 and October 4, 2022. After October 4th the cost of the meals selected on the person’s Registration Form will be subtracted and the remainder of the Registration fee may be refunded.
  • Meeting/Event credentials: Please wear your nametag at all times when participating at the physical Newport, Rhode Island events.

 

Schedule of Activities

Registration Dates have been extended to October 12, 2022

Friday, November 4

  • 10:00 am – 4:30 pm — Registration open in the Lobby of Newport Harbor Island Resort
  • 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm — Finance and Executive Committee meetings – Bellevue Room
  • 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm — Cash Bar Open – Ballroom C
  • 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm — Flower Exhibit Open for viewing
  • 6:30 pm — Dinner Buffet – Ballroom C
  • 7:30 pm — NEWPORT. A FABLED GARDEN DESTINATION with Bettie Bearden Pardee – Ballroom C
     
    Bettie Bearden Pardee is an author, founder and editor of the luxury lifestyle website PrivateNewport.com, designer of the Parterre Bench and a national lecturer. As a Bon Appetit editor for eleven years, Bettie featured everyday sophisticates in “Entertaining in Style.” She was a host and creative producer of the PBS series, “The Presidential Palate: Entertaining in the White House.” She has also been featured for garden design in Flower Magazine and now for entertaining, for the third year in a row she is listed on “The Salonniere 100: America’s Best Party Hosts.”

    Bettie’s design talents and love of landscape were put to use in the creation of her Newport retreat on Bellevue Avenue, as well as her new Parterre Bench. Her often toured gardens are documented in the Archive of American Gardens at the Smithsonian Institution and are featured in the Garden Club of America’s Gardens, Private and Personal. Her home in Newport is the inspiration for her most recent coffee table books on lifestyle and design, Private Newport: At Home and in the Garden and Living Newport: Houses, People, Style, which will be available for purchase.

    Her lecture includes the newly restored “Blue Garden” whose unveiling in 1913 at the celebrated Bal Masque still resonates in the annals of Newport social and cultural history. Bettie’s lush images, played across the spectrum of stunning landscapes, captures the social pastimes, rituals and well-earned traditions of a fabled town, now celebrating its 375th anniversary.

Saturday, November 5

  • 7:00 am – 8:00 am — Breakfast on your own. The hotel has a “grab and go,” as well as a restaurant.
  • 7:30 am – 11:00 am — Registration open – in the Lobby of Gurney’s Newport
  • 8:00 am – 9:00 am — Hybridizers Meeting & Judges Refresher with Harold Koopowitz – Ballroom C (All are welcome to attend: judges requesting credit register and pay $5 fee; free for all others.)
     
    Harold Koopowitz “Judging the Bulbocodium Daffodils”. The hoop-petticoat daffodils are normally miniature daffodils although some of the modern hybrids can now approach over 50 millimeters in diameter. Those would be considered standard daffodils but will not be discussed here. The group can be divided into three main sub-divisions, 1). Species in section Bulbocodium; 2). Hybrids between species in section Bulbocodium and 3). Intersectional hybrids between Bulbocodium species and members of other sections. Bulbocodium daffodils are ideally suited to be grown in containers.

    Features that set bulbocodiums apart from other daffodils are their expanded corona, narrow petals and thread-like leaves.

    The International Register (1998) lists some 52 botanical names for daffodils in section Bulbocodium but some names belong in other sections. Since then, additional names have been added but there is little agreement about the validity of most of the names. There are autumn, winter and spring flowering bulbocodium species. There is considerable variation within any of the species for both shape and size, a prime example is N. obesus. I will discuss and illustrate some of the newest species as well as those most commonly grown.

    Daffseek (July, 2022) lists 201 names for Division 10 hybrids, some of which are also intersectional hybrids. Some of these will be illustrated and new
    directions in breeding discussed.

    Judging criteria will be listed, and common faults, such as excessive numbers of petals and unusual numbers of stamens will be illustrated and discussed.

  • 9:15 am – 11:00 am — ADS Board Meeting, Non-Board members welcome to attend or visit local attractions in Newport. – Vanderbilt Room
  • 12 Noon — Lunch Buffet – Ballroom C
  • 12:45 pm – 1:45 pm — GREEN ANIMALS TOPIARY GARDEN with Dan Christina – Ballroom C
     
    Dan Christina is the chief horticulturalist at Green Animals Topiary Garden in Portsmouth, RI. Dan, a native of Bristol RI, began his botanical journey as a child pulling weeds in neighbors yards, then followed that with a degree in urban horticulture and turf management from the University of Rhode Island. He went on to serve as the assistant groundskeeper at Blithewold in Bristol, RI for 10 years before settling in at Green Animals 7 years ago.
     
     

    Green Animals is part of the Preservation Society of Newport County, which also owns and operates many of Newport’s most famous mansions. The 7-acre garden is the oldest topiary garden in North America.

    But Green Animals has Daffodils too, and Dan has been so happy with the response the Daffodil planting at Green Animals has received. With a little help from Tom Stettner, Dan has developed a designated ADS Display Garden. His goal each year is to expand and improve the collection on display. In his lecture today he will share with us the origins of the Green Animals Topiary Garden as well as his triumphs and challenges in the ADS Display Garden.

  • 1:45 pm – 5:00 pm — Free- time to explore Newport, Short walk to Thames Street (or hotel shuttle available)
  • 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm — Cash Bar open – Vanderbilt Room
  • 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm — Bulb Auction – Vanderbilt Room
  • 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm — Cash Bar open – Newport Room
  • 7:00 pm — Dinner: A New England Clambake – Newport Room
  • 7:45 pm — THE HISTORY OF DAFFODIL DAYS IN NEWPORT with John Hirschboeck – Newport Room
     
    John Hirschboeck is the head of Cloverly Consulting, a not for profit marketing consulting firm in Newport, RI. He works pro-bono with other non-profit organizations to improve their marketing and communication efforts. In addition he is the Vice President of the Arts & Cultural Alliance of Newport County, A Member of Newport’s Cliff Walk Commission, the Co-President of The Alliance for a Livable Newport and the Founder and current Project Director of Newport’s Daffodil project – “Daffodillian,” that has planted over 1.2 million yellow daffodils throughout the “City by the Sea.” John joins us to share his daffodil journey and the story of how each April, Newport celebrates the blooming of daffodils with a month long Daffodil Days Festival which includes A Tour de Jonquilles bike ride, garden tours, and much much more.

Sunday, November 6

  • 7:00 am – 11:00 am — Breakfast on your own. The hotel has a “grab and go,” as well as a restaurant.
  • 10:00 am – 11:00 am — ADS Membership Drive & Coffee Hour – Newport Room – hosting Newport Garden Clubs and local Daffodillians
  • 11:30 am — Optional Lunch and Tour
     
    LUNCH: Join us for lunch at La Forge which is situated within an acclaimed Stanford White building. The La Forge Casino Restaurant has served the community as a famous local establishment for years. Located on the grounds of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, La Forge has long been a local staple providing a menu, style, and friendly atmosphere that reflects our commitment to an exceptional dining experience.

    TOUR: After lunch we have scheduled an optional three hour guided tour which includes The Breakers, a Newport Mansion of the gilded age, on Newport’s famous Cliff Walk.

The 2022 ADS Fall Forum Meeting is open to all ADS members and their guests with advance reservations. You will have opportunities to participate in educational Symposia, the ADS Board Meeting, a lively ADS Bulb Auction, and an Accredited ADS Judges Refresher Course.

We hope you will join us in Newport, Rhode Island at the ADS Fall Forum 2022!