Schedule of Events
Please click on each DATE below to expand activities for that day
*All Chicago Botanic Garden events are held at the Regenstein Center
- 12pm – 7:00pm --- Registration (Lobby) at Embassy Suites
- 1pm – 5:00pm --- NALS Executive Committee Meeting (Ravinia Board Room) 1st floor at Embassy Suites
- 5pm - 7:30pm --- Welcome Reception in (Lobby Bar & Lake Forest Room) at Embassy Suites
- 8am – 1:30pm --- NALS Directors Meeting (Pullman Room) at Chicago Botanic Garden
- 9am - 5:00pm --- Registration/Information (Outside of Auditorium & Pullman rooms) at Chicago Botanic Garden
- 8am - 10:00pm --- Workroom open (Burnstein Hall) at Chicago Botanic Garden
- 11am - 12:00pm --- Kathleen Hoxie and Bill Hessel, Designing with Lilies (Auditorium) at Chicago Botanic Garden
- 12pm - 10:00pm --- Show Room Open to "Exhibitors Only" (Burnstein Hall) at Chicago Botanic Garden
- 1:30pm - 2:30pm --- Frans Officer, Shoot that Lily, Part1 (Auditorium) at Chicago Botanic Garden
- 2:45pm - 3:45pm --- Jim Ault, Meet and Greet, tour the Breeding and Evaluation Programs in the New Lab Center. We will be meeting at the (Bernice E. Lavin Plant Evaluation Garden) which is about a half mile walk from the visitor’s center 'Open to conference registrants only', at Chicago Botanic Garden
- 5pm -6:00pm --- NALS Membership Mtg #1 (Lake Forest Room) at Embassy Suites
- 8am - 12:00pm --- Registration/Information (Outside of Auditorium & Pullman rooms) at Chicago Botanic Garden
- 8am - 9:30am --- Workroom & Showroom open to "Exhibitors Only" (Burnstein Hall) at Chicago Botanic Garden
- 9:30am --- Show Room CLOSED for Judging
- 9:30am - 10:00am --- Horticulture Judges Meeting (Pullman Room) at Chicago Botanic Garden
- 9:30am - 10:00am --- Design Judges Meeting (Burnstein Hall) at Chicago Botanic Garden
- 9:30am - 10:00am --- Clerks & Runner Meeting (Auditorium) at Chicago Botanic Garden
- 10am - 12:30pm --- Show Judging at (Burnstein Hall) Chicago Botanic Garden
- 12:30pm - 1:30pm --- Judges & Clerks Luncheon at Chicago Botanic Garden
- 1pm - 1:45pm --- Library Tour A, a rare book viewing of Liliaceae volumes and tour (Conference registrants only, limit 20 people, sign up at conference registration desk), at Chicago Botanic Garden
- 2pm - 2:45pm --- Library Tour B, repeat of tour A (Conference registrants only, limit 20 people, sign up at conference registration desk), at Chicago Botanic Garden
- 2pm - 4:30pm --- Show Open to the Public at Chicago Botanic Garden
- 2pm - 3:00pm --- Johnny Randall, Rare Plants- Preservation (Auditorium) at Chicago Botanic Garden
- 3:15pm - 4:00pm --- Johnny Randall, Sandhills Lily (Lilium pyrophilum): Runs, hits and errors in rare plant recovery (Auditorium) at Chicago Botanic Garden
- 6:30pm - 11:00pm --- NALS Research Trust Fund Auction (Lincolnshire-Deerbrook Room) at Embassy Suites
- 10am - 4:30pm --- Workroom & Showroom open (Burnstein Hall) at Chicago Botanic Garden
- 10am - 11:00am --- Warren Summers, Lily Hybridizing in America (Auditorium) at Chicago Botanic Garden
- 10am - 11:00am --- Ieuan Evans, Magical Lilies from Test Tube Beginnings (Pullman Room) at Chicago Botanic Garden
- 11:15am - 12:15pm --- Brent Heath, Lovely Long-Lasting Lilies and Awesome Alliums (Auditorium) at Chicago Botanic Garden
- 1pm - 2:00pm --- Frans Officer, Shoot that Lily, Part 2 (Auditorium) at Chicago Botanic Garden
- 2pm - 3:00pm --- NALS Membership Mtg #2 (Auditorium) at Chicago Botanic Garden
- 3:00pm --- Species Lily Preservation Meeting (Open to all NALS members who are interested), (Location to be decided at the membership meeting) at Chicago Botanic Garden
- 4:00pm -- Photography Voting Closes (Burnstein Hall) at Chicago Botanic Garden
- 6:30pm - 10:00pm --- Awards Dinner (Lincolnshire-Deerbrook Room) at Embassy Suites
- 10pm - 10:30pm --- NALS Directors Meeting at Embassy Suites
- 10am - 3:00pm --- Showroom open (Burnstein Hall) at Chicago Botanic Garden
- 10am - 11:00am --- Brent Heath, Bulbs As Companion Plants (Auditorium) at Chicago Botanic Garden
- 10am - 11:00am --- Brian Bergman, My Pursuit of Lilies for the Garden (Pullman Room) at Chicago Botanic Garden
- 11:30am - 12:30pm --- David Maltby, Eastern North American Lilies (Auditorium) at Chicago Botanic Garden
- 1pm - 2:00pm --- Art Evans, Rhizoctonia Kills Lilies! (Auditorium) at Chicago Botanic Garden
- 2pm - 3:00pm --- Pollen Swap (Burnstein Hall) at Chicago Botanic Garden
- 3:00pm --- Show Closes (Burnstein Hall) at Chicago Botanic Garden
- 3pm - 3:20pm --- Exhibitors remove their entries from the Showroom (Burnstein Hall) at Chicago Botanic Garden
- 3:30pm - 5:00pm --- Dismantle Show (Burnstein Hall) at Chicago Botanic Garden
For a complete list of Scheduled Events,
please click on this Schedule of Events (PDF) link.
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The mission of the North American Lily Society, is to promote interest in the genus Lilium, scientific research in its breeding and culture; standardization of its varietal names; the dissemination of information concerning the above and promotion of such other purposes as may advance the culture of lilies.
