Welcome to the official American Iris Society (AIS) website

Welcome to the American Iris Society (AIS) website. We hope that you will find this website an informative and helpful resource to all kinds of iris information.

The American Iris Society is a nonprofit institution incorporated February 2, 1927, in the County of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania. By the terms of the Charter, the Corporation has no stockholders and exists for the sole purpose of promoting the culture and improvement of the Iris.

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Join or renew your membership with with our on-line AIS membership payment selections. For full details on AIS membership visit the Membership Information area.

Photo: PAUL BLACK a 2003 tall bearded iris introduction by hybridizer Thomas Johnson.
Dykes Medal winner 2010, Wister Medal 2009, AM 2007, HM 2005. At the 2004 AIS Convention in Fresno, California, this iris was voted most the popular iris seen in convention gardens from a hybridizer outside of the host region (AIS Region 14). For this it received the Cook Cup, an annual award of the AIS Convention. Height= 42inches Season= Mid-Late. This dark purple self demonstrates all around excellence. Show-bench stems bear 11-12 triple-socketed buds. Large flowers have excellent ruffled form and are smoothly saturated in dark purple color. The dark orange beards create a fascinating color combination and a pronounced spicy fragrance enhances its appeal.
(photo courtesy of Rick Tasco)

News-Announcements

2011 Tall Bearded Iris Symposium Ballot: (August 2010)
Seventieth Official Tall Bearded Iris Symposium of the American Iris Society. This year the list of iris eligible for the Tall Bearded Symposium is again being made available here on the AIS website. For this item and further information please go to Iris Information > AIS Tall Bearded Symposium

Iris Encyclopedia: (August 2010)
An exciting new AIS initiative is the Iris Encyclopedia which is now available at the the following web location: Iris Encyclopedia For more information on this very interesting and useful venture please go to this special area of the AIS website: What is the Iris Encyclopedia?

Dykes Medal AIS 2010 Awards announced: (July 2010) The full listing of 2010 AIS award winners is available now in the AIS Awards section of the AIS website. Congratulations to all the award winners and indeed to all those hybridizers involved in producing awesome new iris varieties each year.

Note: As usual the Japanese Iris (JI) awards will come later in August after the voting on this specific category is completed.

Bloomin' Bucks 2010 fundraising program: (January 2010) The AIS is a now a registered non-profit organization with the Bloomin' Bucks 2010 fundraising program by Brent and Becky's Bulbs!
This is how it works: It's simple...supporters of the registered organization, the (AIS) American Iris Society, can go to www.bloominbucks.com and from a pull down menu of all of the organizations registered, select to support the AIS! One click takes you into the Brent and Becky's Bulbs website where you can order whatever you want, in whatever quantity you want...books, bulbs, tools, supplements, gift certificates... anything...and a percentage of each order goes to your organization! Every little bit helps and it all adds up to support the AIS!
Please note: This is the only way to earn credit; go to the www.bloominbucks.com website, then selecting to support your organization and placing an on-line order ...so no phone orders, faxed orders, etc..

Contemporary Views by Perry Dyer (March 2009)
The AIS website now has available a collection of Contemporary Views by Perry Dyer of Oklahoma from 1988 to 2008. These are annual articles involving personal observations and commentary on current varieties of irises.
Please go to the Iris Information > Cultural and Classification Information section of the AIS website.

Check your AIS membership status: Need to know your membership expiration date? Need to lookup the expiration date for club members or your Region's members for AIS Affiliation? Easy and quick. Please go to: www.aislookup.org

For further details on news items please follow the link provided or go to the Member Services > News-Announcements area of the website to read these items of interest to the membership.

The answers to many questions on iris and the American Iris Society (AIS) are found within the AIS website. Please direct any iris questions you may have to your local area AIS RVP or a local iris club. These people will be pleased to help you. A full listing of these contacts for your area is provided under the AIS Regions listing page on this website ...or follow the link in the sidebar.

Please send all information for website updates to:
John I. Jones, AIS Electronic Services and Website
e-mail: aiselectronicsvcs@irises.org

Website creative design, production and maintenance provided by:
Christopher Hollinshead, Wolf Marketing Communications
e-mail: aiswebsite@hotmail.com

Website updated: August 18, 2010

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