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.
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).
Hope to see you there!
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.
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.
The May 2020 issue of Better Homes & Gardens features our own Kris Jurik for her peonies. Many of you will remember that some of the peonies were in bloom along with the irises in the 2017 AIS Convention.
You can see the article on the Better Homes and Garden website.
Thank you to Carolyn Lingenfelter for calling this article to our attention.
The pandemic has caused many cancellations and changes in Region 21 and the American Iris Society:
Other AIS changes will be posted, as they occur, on the Cancellations page, the AIS website News & Events page, and in the AIS electronic newsletter, News & Notes.
Check the Region 21 website for ongoing announcements and updates.
Wayne Messer
AIS Region 21 RVP
wrmesser@gmail.com
LIS Facebook cover photo – a seedling from Indian Creek Iris.
Upcoming and past events of the Lincoln Iris Society, and other iris news, can be found on their Facebook page. Thank you David Toth for creating this.
You can also find out more about the Lincoln Iris Society in their newsletter. See the Rainbow Messenger on the Region 21 newsletters page.
The American Iris Society has begun requiring digital images with your submission of iris registrations. To help you, Neil Houghton, the Image Coordinator, has put together a process and a quick guide to make it easier for you. You .can find all the details in Submitting Digital Images with Registrations (PDF).
Neil would be glad to answer any questions, email images@irises.org .
The Region 21 website has several pages to help you find further information about Region 21 and its members. Currently these pages are:
Minutes is the newest page and is just getting started. It has the Fall 2015 minutes for your reading pleasure:) Can you help us fill in the blank spots? We would appreciate earlier minutes, especially 2010 through early 2015, and later minutes. Thank you for your help!
The American Iris Society the World of Irises blog has frequent posts covering iris topics and always including great iris photos. Jean Richter recently wrote “Space Age Iris of the Early 21st Century” which included two Nebraska hybridizers. LeRoy Meininger was represented by ‘Beneath My Wings’ (2005) HM 2007, AM 2011. Leonard and Kathy Jedlicka’s ‘Isadora Belle’ (2009) is the other Nebraska space ager shown. (Both of these cultivar links are to the Iris Encyclopedia entries.) One of the things I learned by checking the cultivars’ entries is that Jedlicka’s iris pedigree included one of Meininger’s seedlings.
Thank you to all our Region’s hybridizers for their contributions.
Bonus Note: You can see the most recent 100 titles (with links and automatically updated) from the World of Irises here.
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