July 29, 2023, 6:00 – 8:30 PM Eastern
Hosted by The American Daffodil Society
Conference Registration | Schedule of Activities
The ADS Virtual Summer Break is open to ANYONE interested in learning about daffodils! Please consider yourself cordially invited.
Prior registration and payment is required for participation. July 26, 2023 is the cut-off date for all registrations! The access code for presentations will be sent to registrants the evening prior to the conference.
Schedule of Activities!
All times for sessions are using USA Eastern Time Zone
Saturday, July 29, 2023
- 6:00 pm — “In the Pipeline: A Glimpse at Tomorrow’s New Garden Daffodils” – presented by Jason Delaney.
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. In his ADS Summer Break program, Jason will highlight promising selections for future garden daffodil cultivars from Oakwood Daffodils and PHS Daffodils, along with a few teasers from various Dutch collections. For those who like ruffles and novelty, plan to tune in! In the meantime, please visit www.instagram.com/phsdaffodils and www.phsdaffodils.com for more information and visual delights.
- Stay on your Zoom session as we prepare for our Speaker presentation coming up @ 7:15 pm.
- 7:15 pm — “Daffodils, Platypodes and Other Wild Creatures!” – presented by Owen Davies.
Owen Davies from South Hobart, Tasmania is the next generation of Tasmanian daffodil breeders. He follows in his father’s footsteps in breeding daffodils. Owen has registered 15 daffodils to date and has many more waiting in the wings. A man of many talents and interests. Owen also composes music, has played in the local orchestra, and is a part time violin teacher.In his ADS Summer Break program, Owen will talk about getting “decorative” colors into exhibition flowers – how we can increase the petal color range and enhance shape, stance and frill in the next twenty years!
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: 
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.
Your successful interactive participation via ZOOM at the ADS Virtual Summer Break will require the following:
- Registration for the ADS Virtual Summer Break with a valid email address.
- If you plan to view the ZOOM session without participating, all you need is a web browser pointed to the Zoom site https://zoom.us/join and the meeting ID. By joining our meeting, you would see and hear everything.
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- Please review this video guide for Joining a ZOOM meeting
- It might be beneficial to review this short video on ZOOM etiquette.
The American Daffodil Society recommends all participants become familiar and comfortable with ZOOM resources well before the start of our Virtual Summer Break conference. You will need to have ZOOM ready to go on your device of choice. You are strongly encouraged to “join” a presentation in plenty of time (15 minutes ahead of time is advisable). Enhance your virtual experience by being prepared. ZOOM offers many tutorials on line to help you get started! See: ZOOM Guides and Tutorials.
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