Schedule at a Glance | For a detailed schedule, please click here.
Thursday, April 17
| 8:00 am - 9:00 am | Registration and continental breakfast | |
| 9:00 am - 9:15 am | Welcome and opening remarks | |
| 9:15 am - 10:15 am | Introduction to North American Trilliums | |
Frederick W. Case, Jr. |
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| 10:45 am - 11:30 am | Systematics, Evolution, and Relationships of Trillium | |
Alan S. Weakley, Ph.D. |
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| 11:30 am - 1:30 pm | Lunch at Winterthur Museum and Country Estate | |
| Afternoon Session: Select Track A or B | ||
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| Track A: Ecology and Conservation of Trilliums | ||
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Ecology and Biogeography of Trillium in Eastern North America: Where Are the Trilliums and Why Are They There? | |
Alan S. Weakley, Ph.D. |
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| 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm | The Conservation of Trilliums: A Georgia Sampling | |
Tom Patrick |
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| 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Buses to Mt. Cuba Center | |
| Track B: Tour of Mt. Cuba Center Trillium Collection | ||
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Buses to Mt. Cuba Center | |
| 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Tour of Mt. Cuba Center Trillium Collection and Gardens | |
| Evening: Both Tracks | ||
| 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm | Reception at Mt. Cuba Center | |
Friday, April 18
| 8:30 am - 9:15 am | “What Do You Mean, 7 Years!?!” | |
William Cullina |
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| 9:15 am - 10:00 am | Commercial Trillium Propagation | |
Tony Avent |
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| 10:30 am - 11:15 am | Trial and Error with Trillium Micropropagation at the Atlanta Botanical Garden | |
Ron Gagliardo |
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| 11:15 am - 11:45 am | International Perspective on Gardening with Trilliums | |
Carl Denton |
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| 11:45 am - 1:00 pm | Lunch at Winterthur Museum and Country Estate | |
| 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm | A Different Approach to Woodland Gardening | |
James McClements, M.D. |
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| 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Trilliums – Cultivation and Companion Plants in a Pennsylvania Garden | |
John Lonsdale, Ph.D. |
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| 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Keen Field Observation – 99% of Successful Trillium Culture | |
R. Mark Rose |
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| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Trilliums are Skotomorphogenic | |
John Gyer |
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| 3:30 pm - 4:15 pm | Obsession and Exploitation: The Cultural History of Trilliums | |
C. Cole Burrell |
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| 4:15 pm - 4:45 pm | Open forum | |
| 4:45 pm - 5:00 pm | Closing remarks |
Saturday, April 19
| 9:00 am - 3:00 pm | Field Trip to Shenk’s Ferry Wildflower Preserve | |
