Greater Omaha Iris Society Show Cancelled

Posted on May 2, 2013 by wrmesser

The Greater Omaha Iris Society has announced the Cancellation of their Iris Show (which was to have been May 11th) on their Facebook page. Do look for them May 17 – 19, 2013 at the Spring Into Spring Festival at Lauritzen Gardens. From their website:

May 17 – 19, 2013 / Spring Into Spring Festival at Lauritzen Gardens. Lots of treasures are available at a reasonable price. This is a great plant sale that benefits GOIS as well as the Lauritzen Gardens. This is a great opportunity to talk about your wonderful iris and maybe even find new ones!We will sell potted iris during this event. Many iris will be on exhibit that may be pre-ordered for delivery at the GOIS annual iris sale in July. (July 26 (Friday, 3:00 PM – 8:00 PM) and July 27 (Saturday, 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM), 2013)

Photos of Award Winning Irises Needed for Iris Encyclopedia

Posted on April 16, 2013 by wrmesser

The Iris Encyclopedia has compete listings of American Iris Society Medal winners. Many of these Medals have a page where you can see photos of the winning irises. For example, the Dykes Medal, the highest honor, can be seen here. And many of the winners have several photos on their individual pages. However, in updating these pages to include the 2012 winners, I realized there are several winning irises that have no photos!

While we would like to have photos, or several photos, for every iris in the Iris Encyclopedia, we definitely should have photos of the winning irises. Can you help us? What we need are photos you have taken or photos you’ve received permission to use from other sources. There are photos of some (maybe all) of these irises on the Internet. However, we need permission from the owner to use the picture. You can add the photo yourself or we will be glad to do it for you.

Here is a list of the irises needing photos arranged by Medal or Award. The Dykes Medal, the Founders of SIGNA Medal, the Randolph-Perry Medal, and the Wister Medal are the only ones having photos for all the winning irises. In fact, ‘Ginny’s Choice’, the 2012 DeBaillion Medal winner from Wayland Rudkin needs a photo! [Update: We now have a photo of ‘Ginny’s Choice’ and have included it in the DeBaillion Medal page! 5/2/13]

As a special note for Region 21 members, there are both winning irises by the Sass brothers and Sass Medal/Award winners needing photos. These are:

Caparne Award

1962 – ‘Black Baby’– H. Sass

1950 – ‘Sound Money’ – J. Sass

and these Sass Medal winners

1975 – ‘Butterscotch Frills’ – M. Hamblen

1974 – ‘Little Bit Blue’ – G. Plough

1973 – ‘Lemon Flurry’ T. Muhlestein

1970 – ‘Drummer Boy’ – Schreiner

1969 – ‘Lime Ripples’ – A. Brown

1966 – (M) ‘Kiss Me Kate’ – P. Cook

1963 – ‘Cloud Fluff’ – W. Greenlee

Can you help with these or any of the other irises on the list? Thank you!

See the Greater Omaha Iris Society on Facebook

Posted on April 16, 2013 by wrmesser

In addition to their website, the Greater Omaha Iris Society can also be found on Facebook. Another opportunity to learn what is happening and see great iris pictures! Anyone can see it and Facebook members can add their comments.

Greater Omaha Iris Society Program – April 8, 2013

Posted on March 22, 2013 by wrmesser

The Greater Omaha Iris Society has a busy schedule this year! See their front page for meetings and work days.

Their next program is Median Iris. Find out about the ‘other’ iris; the iris world includes the STBs, MDBs, MTBs, IBs, and BB. We’ll decipher all the alphabetic terms for you; hint – the letters describe the iris! The meeting is 6:30 p.m. at the Douglas/Sarpy County Extension office at 8015 West Center Road in Omaha.

Attention Central Iowa Iris Enthusiasts

Posted on March 15, 2013 by wrmesser

Interested in becoming part of new AIS affiliate in central Iowa? Contact wrmesser@gmail.com for more information.

AIS Region 21

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