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Convention Schedule
Friday, May 1, 2009
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1:00 - 7:00 pm | Registration
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2:00 4:00 pm | Board of Directors Meeting
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2:00 6:30 pm | Flower Show Entries Accepted
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4:00 - 6:30 pm |
Plant Sale Open
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5:00 6:45 pm | Dinner on your own: Nearby Restaurants
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7:00 9:30 pm | Welcoming Announcements and Friday Evening Presentations
- Tony Dove "Celebrating 200 Seasons: One Man, One Garden"
- Pete Vines "The Holly Springs Azalea Hybrids"
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9:30 11:00 pm | Plant Sale Reopens (Following speaker presentations)
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
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7:00 8:15 am | Breakfast on Your Own: Nearby Restaurants
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7:30 - 8:00 | Registration Open
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8:15 am | Buses Load for 8:30 am Departure
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8:30 am 4:30 pm | Saturday Garden Tours
Tour 1
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4:30 6:30 pm | Plant Sale Open
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5:00 6:45 pm | Dinner on your own: Nearby Restaurants
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7:00 9:30 pm | Announcements and Saturday Evening Presentations
- John Brown and Bob Stelloh "Rhododendron vaseyi and the Southern Appalachians" *
- George McLellan "Celebrating our Native Flora, Coast to Coast"
* Amended on February 23, 2009
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9:30 11:00 pm | Plant Sale Reopens (Following speaker presentations)
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Sunday, May 3, 2009
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7:00 8:15 am | Breakfast on Your Own: Nearby Restaurants
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8:15 am | Buses Load for 8:30 am Departure
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8:30 am 4:00 pm | Sunday Garden Tours
Tour 2
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4:00 6:00 pm | Plant Sale Open
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6:00 7:00 pm | Social Hour (Cash Bar)
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6:30 7:00 pm | Auction of Special Plants in Banquet Room
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7:00 10:00 pm | Banquet and Sunday Evening Presentations
- Rosalie Nachmann "Advice to the Lovelorn Azalea Nut"
- Don Hyatt "Celebrating the Evergreen Azalea"
Annual Meeting and Flower Show Awards
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Monday, May 4, 2004
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6:00 8:15 am | Breakfast on Your Own: Nearby Restaurants
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7:00 8:30 am | ASA Board of Directors Meeting
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8:30 10:00 am | Last Chance Plant Sale
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8:30 10:00 am | Hybridizers Roundtable
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12:00 noon | Hotel Check Out Time. See You in 2010!
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| Post Convention - Optional Tours on Your Own
- Pentagon Tour with Dave Nanney (Must make arrangements in
advance)
- U. S. National Arboretum
- Other Open Local Gardens: Public and Private (List provided at the registration desk)
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