Iris Show – Greater Omaha Iris Society May 13, 2023

Posted on May 10, 2023 by wrmesser

Saturday, May 13th is your opportunity to see, and to participate in, this year’s Omaha Iris Show: “In My Mother’s Garden”.

Show location: St Andrews Episcopal Church
925 South 84th Street
Omaha, NE

Entries accepted from 8:30 to 10:15 a.m. and the show is open to the public at no charge from 12:30 to 4:00 p.m.

See the complete show details (pdf). Also, some tips on preparing your iris for a show.

Learn more about the Greater Omaha Iris Society at their website: https://www.greateromahairissociety.org/

Region 21 Spring 2023 Meeting – May 19-20

Posted on May 4, 2023 by wrmesser

The Lincoln Iris Society will be hosting the 2023 Region 21 Spring Meeting with 5 Garden Tours! There will also be in-garden Judges Training by Andi Rivarola, AIS President. Sunday, May 21st, there are 3 open gardens to visit on your own.

The April 2023 Region 21 Newsletter has details. And the brochure has the registration form.

Note: The deadline for making hotel reservations at the special rate is May 5th.

Region 21 Fall 2022 Meeting – Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Posted on July 20, 2022 by wrmesser

Everyone is invited to the American Iris Society Region 21 Fall Membership Meeting! We will be having presentations from iris hybridizer Hooker Nichols on Tall Bearded Irises and on Louisiana Irises, two of the many types of irises he has hybridized. Join us Friday evening August 12 and all day Saturday August 13, 2022

Details and the registration form were mailed to all Region 21 members last month. In case they did not reach you, here are copies (pdfs).

Invitation and Details

Registration Form

Hope to see you there!

Region 21 Fall Meeting – August 13, 2022 Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Posted on June 12, 2022 by wrmesser

Pleas join us for the Region 21 Fall Meeting Saturday, August 13, 2022 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Our speaker will be Hooker Nichols presenting Judges Training on Tall Bearded and Louisiana Irises. More details and invitations will be coming soon.

Please Vote in the 2021 AIS Tall Bearded Symposium – Deadline September 15

Posted on August 31, 2021 by wrmesser

A reminder that there is still time to vote in the 2021 Tall Bearded Iris Symposium. The ballot was included with the Spring 2021 Irises Bulletin and is also available online here (PDF). Everyone, member or not, is eligible to vote for up to 25 of the 447 TBs on the ballot.

Your votes should reach the Region 21 RVP (Wayne Messer – wrmesser@gmail.com) by September 15th. A list of your choices and their numbers would be great.

Complete details on how to vote are available. You can also see results from previous years voting there.

Thank you for your participation.

Region 21 Virtual Fall 2021 Meeting

Posted on August 11, 2021 by wrmesser

Reminder – This year’s Region 21 Fall Meeting is virtual! Please join us Saturday, August 14, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. Central Time (9:00 a.m. Mountain Time) on Zoom for Judges Training by Bonnie Nichols on Novelty Irises. Bonnie is the AIS Judges Chair as well as president of the Novelty Iris Society. Note: This is a new Judges Training available for credit even if you have already participated in the JT Bonnie presented as two AIS Webinars last year.

Registration (free!) is required. Please send your name and email to Wayne Messer wrmesser@gmail.com so we can get a count and send you the details for attending.

There will also be a Region 21 Board meeting at 9:00 a.m. Central Time (8:00 a.m. Mountain Time) and a Region 21 Business meeting following Bonnie’s presentation. Everyone is invited to attend and participate in both meetings. This year the business meeting includes the election of a first-year director. Please consider volunteering for this position.

Monument Valley Iris Society Sale 2021

Posted on May 28, 2021 by wrmesser

This year’s iris sale by the Monument Valley Iris Society will again be outdoors at the University of Nebraska Research and Extension Center. On June 5th and 6th they will have a “showing” and the sale at its garden area. Complete details can be found here.

Allan Ensminger Iris Photos Needed

Posted on January 5, 2021 by wrmesser

Allan Ensminger of Lincoln, Nebraska, a Region 21 hybridizer, was known for his work on variegated, broken color irises. Among these was the 1992 Knowlton Medal winner ‘Batik’ and the IB ‘Hubbub’. In 2007 he won the Bennett C. Jones Award for Outstanding Median Hybridizing from the Median Iris Society. Other awards include the AIS Distinguished Service Medal in 1983 and the AIS Hybridizer Award in 1994.

You can see photos of his irises in the Iris Encyclopedia starting with this page. That is of many of them; there are a considerable number that do not have photos. To help remedy that, this is a page listing his irises that need photos.

Can you help provide photos? You can either add them to the appropriate page in the Iris Encyclopedia or contact me and I will be glad to add them. Wayne Messer wrmesser@gmail.com .

Thank you!

Please Vote in the Tall Bearded Iris Symposium

Posted on July 31, 2020 by wrmesser

A reminder that there is still time to vote in the 2020 Tall Bearded Iris Symposium. The ballot was included with the Spring 2020 Irises Bulletin and is also available online here (PDF). Everyone, member or not, is eligible to vote for up to 25 of the 458 TBs on the ballot.

Your votes should reach the Region 21 RVP (Wayne Messer – wrmesser@gmail.com) by August 1st. A list of your choices and their numbers would be great.

Complete details on how to vote are available. You can also see results from previous years voting there.

Thank you for your participation.

Monument Valley Iris Society Sale 2020

Posted on May 28, 2020 by wrmesser

This year’s Monument Valley Iris Society sale will be different. There will not be an iris show as part of it. And it will be held outdoors to allow proper social distancing. You can read all about it, along with a video, here and more here.

AIS Region 21

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