'Tree Of Songs' - 2014 Morgan-Wood Medal Winner

Another request I should have included previously.  Siberian and Species guest irises for the 2018 Siberian/Species Convention being hosted by the Francis Scott Key Iris Society May 25-26, 2018.  The guest irises should be shipped from August 24th to September 15th, 2015 to Carol Warner, 16815 Falls Road, Upperco, MD 21155-9445.  You can reach Carol by email at draycott@qis.net with questions.

Complete details can be found here by going to the bottom of the page.

'Gentle Reminder'

 

It is the season for guest irises to be planted for 2017 and 2018 conventions.  If you missed the calls for guest irises in the Spring 2015 Irises Bulletin (pages 44-48), here is a quick summary:

2017 AIS Convention:  Guest bearded irises should be received July 27 - August 17.  Details here.

2017 Median Mini-Convention:  Guest medians, including arilbred medians, should be received July 15 - August 15.  Details are here.  (Go down the page to the February 6 posting and be sure to click on Read more.)

2017 Region 15 Trek:  Guest bearded will be accepted until November 30.  See page 46 of Spring Irises Bulletin.

2017 SLI Convention:  Guest Louisiana irises should be received August 15 - September 30. See page 48 of Spring Irises Bulletin.

2018 AIS/SLI Conventions:  Guest Louisiana and inter-species irises involving Louisianas should be received September 1 - October 15.  Details here (PDF).

Also be sure to check out the 2018 Siberian/Species Convention request in the item above.

'Dusky Challenger'

 

One of those opportunities that sneaks up on you.  A chance to vote for your favorite tall bearded irises.  Up to 25 from the list of those eligible.  But you must submit your votes by September 1st!  See the complete details here and download the ballot (PDF) listing all the TBs you can vote for.  You can go directly to the ballot.

One of the entries

With the AIS Centennial coming soon (2020), now is time for preparing to celebrate.  One of the first details is selecting a logo.  You may have seen the call for logos in the Irises Bulletin earlier this year.  You can now see the request here.  And note that the deadline has been extended to October 15, 2015. 

On the AIS Facebook page you can see some of the entries.  That album is here.

Send questions and entries to AIS2020@gmail.com. 

'Be Little'

 

Terry Laurin is one of the "Wiki Heroes" responsible for the incredible progress of the Iris Encyclopedia.  To make it even more useful, he needs photos of more irises.  Currently he and the Dwarf Iris Society are making an appeal for photos of MDBs.  You can learn more about their request (and see some great photos of MDBs) here.  As part of this, a list of the MDB cultivars needing pictures has been created and can be found on the Ontario Iris Society Miniature Dwarf Iris Society Project page.  The list is the PDF labeled Miniature Dwarf Iris Picture Project.pdf.

'Alpine Region'

 

Many of the Regions have a Fall Meeting for Judges Training, business meetings, and iris sales and auctions.  The first ones are in August - actually this next weekend.  You can see all the 2015 Fall Regional Meetings we've located in this table.  If you know of others, please let me know (wrmesser@gmail.com) and I will add them.  (While you can add them yourself, keeping the links in the table working when I edit has been a challenge, to say the least.  So I'll be glad to struggle with it so you don't have to.)

One other meeting in the Fall is the Board of Directors meeting.  This year it is November 6-7 in Omaha, Nebraska.  All members are welcome and encouraged to attend.  You can find more information about the Fall Board Meetings on the AIS Conventions page.

'Football Hero'

 

The Summer 2015 Irises Bulletin has been printed and is on its way to your mailbox.  For those of you who are also Emembers, you can see it now.  Just go to the usual Emember website here and use your username and password.  While you are waiting for your printed copy, you can learn more about the contents in this World of Irises blog posting.

 

A great clump of irises that I saw at the Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden this year.  I understand it is the Spuria Fontanelle (not sure about the spelling and I have not been able to locate it in the Iris Encyclopedia).  If you know more about it, I would be glad to hear from you.  You can email me at wrmesser@gmail.com.  Thank you in advance.

Here it is as a jigsaw both in the standard difficulty and the harder difficulty.