The 2007 season has come to a close and the 2008 season is ahead of us as I write this note. The American Daffodil Society's (ADS) 2008 National Daffodil Convention is coming to Richmond, VA and will held in mid April 2008. It's worthy to plan a trip to the National Daffodil Show and it's garden tours planned are fantistic.

2007 was my eleventh year in daffodils and was the year that Fran and I founded the new Northeast North Carolina Daffodil Society centered in Currituck County, NC. Currituck is a native American word for "Place of the Wild Geese." From this location we can serve five counties in the Northeast NC area. There is an outstanding interest in gardening in this area and a County Extension Agent that if truly interested in helping new plant socieities. With the County Extension Agent and the Master Gardener Volunteers of Currituck, I feel we have a chance to get this off the ground and hopefully self sustaining in a few years.

We received a lot of support this first year and was able to establish a good membership base; support the Currituck Flower and Garden show with an exhibit of show daffodils; and hold a mini-competition for the youth group. Our fall meeting and bulb exchange was a big success with over 17 attendees. Clay was able to get a large collections of bulbs from his own digging and a couple of local garden centers so that the people that showed up at the fall meeting went away with a nice assortment of show quality daffodil bulbs.

We have our first show scheduled for March 22nd, 2008 at the New Currituck County Extension Facility on route 158 in Barco, NC. We are requesting all interested in Daffodils to bring their "cut" daffodils to the show and enter them before 9:00 am that Saturday morning. A mini seminar on showing daffodils will be held at a date yet to be determined and on Friday night at the show location. Additional help in identifing daffodils and staging for the show will be available on Saturday morning. After the judging of the show from 9:30am to 1:00pm the show will be open and free to the public for viewing. The show hall hours for public viewing will be from 1:00pm until 5:00pm Saturday, March 22, 2008.

We hope to see everyone at the 2008 ADS National Daffodil Convention and Show.

Thank you.

Clay Higgins