Photo Gallery
Photos of Award Winning
Irises:
Please enjoy our small photo gallery of
irises. A few of each iris category type are represented here for your
viewing enjoyment. These will give you an idea of the shapes and sizes
of the various irises that exist in the wonderful world of irises.
Photo: Beverly Sills, a TB iris,
introduced by Hager 1979, bloom season: early to mid-season, height 35
inches.
A coral pink overall with excellent form, very lacy and very wide, this
is a popular variety. It is a vigorous grower with a high bud count and
perfect branching. AIS Awards: HC 1978; HM 1981; AM 1983, Dykes Medal
1985. The highest award an iris can receive is the Dykes Medal. Awarded
no more than once a year, accredited AIS judges select from the best
iris in all categories. (digital photo by Rick Tasco)
Photo: SPLASHACATA (Tasco 1998) Dykes Medal 2005 winner
Wister Medal winner 2004,
AM winner
2002,
HM winner 2000.
Also voted the 2003 Franklin Cook Cup winner by the attendees at
the 2003 AIS Convention, Falls Church, Virginia.
The Cook Cup is presented each year at the AIS Convention to the best
out of region convention iris.
(photographed by Sandy Ives)
Photo:
The AIS 2005 Convention took place May 9-14 in St. Louis,
Missouri. We hope that you were able to attend the event and
that you had
a wonderful time with friends and flowers.
Riley Probst along
with his 1st place seedling at the AIS 2005 Convention iris
show. Riley is also the chairman of the 2005 convention.
Riley's EC is on a 'first spike' of this seedling. He had never
seen a bloom of this seedling before this morning... it could perhaps
have been on the Queen's Bench if it were registered.
Good work, Riley, both on the convention and the seedling! (digital photo by Sandy Ives)
Photo: CROWNED HEADS (Keppel 1997) TB
iris, 38 inches height, Dykes Memorial Medal winner 2004. Wister Medal
winner 2003, AM 2001, HM
1999. A wonderful and spectacular reverse blue amoena with broad
ruffled flower form and excellent color contrast. Crowned Heads combines
vigorous growth, strong stems and incredibly large flowers. (photo by
Patrick Orr, Arizona)
Photo: PAUL BLACK a
2003 tall bearded iris introduction by hybridizer Johnson. At the recent
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.
Photo: SEA POWER (Keppel 1999) TB
iris, 38 inches height, Dykes Medal winner 2006, Wister Medal
2005, AM 2003, HM 2001. Second place for the Cook Cup
at the AIS 2004 Convention held in Fresno, California, April 2004. Sea
Power has incredible surging bubble ruffling and its deep cornflower
blue color evoke images of an angry sea responding to Neptune's command
(Yaquina Blue X Jazz Me Blue). Extremely lavish ruffled flower form and
an added plus is its pronounced sweet fragrance.
(photo by Rick Tasco)
Photo: GOLDEN PANTHER (Tasco
2000) TB iris 34 inches, M, Heavily ruffled gold, overlaid bronze,
highlighted with darker bronze at the edge, bright golden orange beard.
Guadalajara X 90-02-03: (Marsh Light x Dazzling Gold).....AIS HM
2002.....#1 Favorite Guest Iris at Memphis 2002 American Iris Society
National Convention. Winner of the Presidents Cup award at the 2004 AIS
Convention, Fresno, California. (photo by Rick Tasco)
Photo: CELEBRATION SONG (Schreiner 1993)
Dykes Memorial Medal winner for 2003. Description; Celebration Song is a vigorous pink bitone. Zesty apricot-pink standards
nicely complement the ruffled blue-lavender falls, strong stems with
three to four branches and 9-12 buds. Previously winner of; HM 1995, AM
1997, Wister Medal 2000. (digital photograph by Chris Hollinshead)
1997 Dykes Medal Winner (Top award of AIS): THORNBIRD (M. Byers)
1997 Mary Swords Debaillon Medal (best
Louisiana iris):
VOO DOO MAGIC
(H. Rowlan)
1997 Williamson White Medal (best
Miniature Tall Bearded iris):
ZULA
(K. Fisher)
1997 Hans & Jacob Sass Medal (best
Intermediate Bearded iris):
HOT SPICE
(T. Aitken)
1997 Eric Nies Medal (best Spuria
iris):
COUNTESS ZEPPELIN
(B. Hager)
1997 Morgan-Wood Medal (best Siberian
iris):
CORONATION ANTHEM
(Hollingworth)
1996 Sydney B. Mitchell Medal (best CA
iris):
IDYLWILD
(J. Ghio)
1995 J. A. Payne Medal (best Japanese
iris):
CASCADE CREST
(Aitken)
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