1973 American Iris Society Medals and Awards Return to Main Awards page. 1973 Medal and Award Winning Iris Gallery The American Iris Society hopes you enjoy scrol...
* 2014 Award Winners Gallery* * Below you will find a picture gallery with links to iris that have won 2014 AIS Medals and Awards or were runners up.* The AIS Aw...
2015 Award Winners Gallery Below you will find a picture gallery with links to iris that have won 2015 AIS Medals and Awards or were runners up. The AIS Award of ...
* 2016 Award Winners Gallery* * Below you will find a picture gallery with links to iris that have won 2016 AIS Medals and Awards or were runners up.* The AIS Awa...
* 2017 Award Winners Gallery* * Below you will find a picture gallery with links to iris that have won 2017 AIS Medals and Awards or were runners up.* The AIS Aw...
* 2018 Award Winners Gallery* * Below you will find a picture gallery with links to iris that have won 2018 AIS Medals and Awards or were runners up.* The AIS Aw...
* 2019 Award Winners Gallery* * Below you will find a picture gallery with links to iris that won 2019 American Dykes Medal and AIS Medals and runners up.* The A...
Administrative Info and Links Admin for Iris Docents and Admins * Add a New Cultivar * Docent Information * Add a new Docent For each class or group of ...
The Ben R. Hager Cup The Ben R. Hager Cup ............related links: Awards The Ben Hager Cup, first awarded in 2007, is awarded annually during the American Iris...
AWARDS with history then photo gallery The world's Iris Societies have created many types of awards. Garden Awards are recommendations to the public of the best I...
Awards for 2011; Award of Merit and Honorable Mention; Use link to see top awards. AWARD OF MERIT TALL BEARDED AWARD OF MERIT (Total votes cast = 4794) * 62 'I...
AIS Awards 2022 Printable List Previous Years Awards Image Galleries; 2013; 2014; 2015: 2016; 2017; 2018; 2019; 2021: THE DYKES MEDAL All iris classes, ori...
Coming Soon! Also 2023 Printable List AIS Awards 2023 Printable List See Also Awards Of Merit, 2023 : Honorable Mentions, 2023 More about awards Previous ...
The Ben R. Hager Cup The Ben R. Hager Cup ............related links: Awards The Ben Hager Cup, first awarded in 2007, is awarded annually during the American Iris...
Iris Encyclopedia Projects Awards The Iris Encyclopedia has been created by the American Iris Society for all irisarians and would be irisarians. Similar to the...
Iris Classes Irises are divided into a number of classes by AIS for garden judging. As such they compete for different medals and are supported by different AIS S...
Cook Douglas Medal Eligible Irises 2015 The Cook Douglas Medal is the highest special medal awarded by the American Iris Society to standard dwarf bearded (SDB) i...
Dwarf Bearded Section (DB) This classification was used in the 1939 Checklist and since then Dwarf Irises have been divided into MDBs (Miniature Dwarf Irises) and...
Glossary of Iris Terms and Abbreviations (under construction) Note The botanical and horticultural jargon used in Iris is extensive and it takes two forms; 1.Term...
Glossary by Dr. Donald Spoon, with annotations by Dr. Spoon. Go to original word document sent by Dr. Donald Spoon List of terms: Click on term for definit...
Horticultural Classification There are two classification systems; Botanical Classification and Horticultural Classification. As the world's registrar for Iris Th...
Lost Found Charlie Carver Background Charlie Carver is attempting to assemble a number of National Collections as described in Irises Bulletin, 95(2), 33 35(20...
The British Dykes Medal Several Medals in honor of William Rikatson Dykes are presented each year by the British Iris Society. These are the highest awards in the...
Cook Douglas Medal Highest award given by The American Iris Society strictly to Standard Dwarf Bearded Irises. History by Clarence Mahan ............................
New Registrations: Registrations by year are available for each class of Irises under Irises BY Year at the start of each web * Arils by Year * Arilbreds b...
New Registrations for 2016 Image galleries or: List of all registrations below that(■ designates image present) Image Gallery A; Arilbreds MDBs Image Gallery...
New Registrations For 2016 Image Gallery B Note: Refer back to Master List for complete list of registrations including those without images. Standard Dwarf Bea...
New registrations for 2018 (under construction) registration information will be added after publication of the 2018 R I presently images only. Under Construct...
New registrations for 2021 (under construction) registration information will be added after publication of the 2021 R I presently images only. Under Construct...
New registrations and Yearly image galleries Under Construction Jump to these galleries by clicking on name Bearded Irises * Aril Iris * Arilbred Iris ...
Broken Color Broken color has become such a popular color pattern that perhaps it should not be included as a novelty any more. It should not be confused with iri...
Creped Flowers Perhaps one of the rarest classes of Novelty Irises is that of creped flowers. In these Iris the slowers are crinkled all over the surface much li...
Extrapetaled Irises or Those with Double Flowers. In the bearded Irises rapidly changing weather can sometimes created flowers with extra petals but to be a true...
Flat Flowers. Return to Novelty Irises Definition Generally the standards (inner flower segments) rise and the falls (outer flower segments) fall giving the ap...
Flounced And Spooned Irises One of the "Space Age" types of Irises that has been included under Novelty Irises is those with flounces or spoons. In this case inst...
Novelty Frilled Flowers These may be the same or similar to Laced Flowers. It is sometimes difficult to distinguish between frilled, fringed and lace. The cultive...
Horned Iris The horn at the end of a beard was first considered a deformity but the promotion of Lloyd Austin soon inspired it as a category of Novelty Irises. H...
Iris With Laced Flowers. Return to Novelty Irises When the protuberances on the edge of flowers were first noticed by hybridizers they were considered deformities...
Purple Based Foliage. Iris in many classes can show a beautiful purple staining at the base of their foliage. In cool sunny Spring climates this may extend far u...
Irises with Purple Stems or Spathes. Some Iris have Purple bracts below the flowers. Others have purple flower stalks. Often these characters may be seen togethe...
Pollen Exchange ( the exchange is just beginning 3/30/2016, Help us make it work!) One of the benefits of being a part of plant societies is the connections that ...
100 favorite Standard Dwarf Bearded for 2010. Reported By the Median Iris Society Symposium (photo gallery under construction), .......... Back to list of polls ...
Popularity Poll for Standard Dwarf Bearded Irises, 2010 Related links.................. To view other polls How the poll works: You may vote for your 3 favorite S...
Popularity Polls Tall Bearded Symposium Most years the sections and cooperating societies focused on a special type of Iris conduct popularity polls among their ...
Reblooming Irises This is an example of the many exciting reblooming irises. For more information about them, go to https://rebloomingiris.comFor a complete list ...
The Reed Garden Under Construction Mary Ellen and Mike Reed had a garden full of daylilies, iris, and a variety of other annuals, perennials, and bulbs. There we...
All Registrations By Year (Image Galleries) New introductions Choose Classification AR AB BB IB JI LA MDB MTB PCN SIB SPEC SPX SPU SDB TB AR Aril Registratio...
AIS Sections and Cooperating Societies Sections and Cooperating Societies are independent Special Iris Groups focusing on specific groups of irises. These may be ...
The Souvenir de M. Lémon Trophy This is an annual award given to the most outstanding cultivar in the Award of Garden Commendation (AGC) Trial that is of a suffic...
Unregistered Iris It is expected that a new iris will be registered and than introduced. This order does not always happen. Sometimes a cultivar is introduced for...
Wiki Polls You can recommend your favorite Irises to people viewing this wiki by going to the poll pages listed/linked below for that group. It is very easy to v...
World of Irises Blog Index The American Iris Society blog, World of Irises, began in March 2011. It now contains 758 posts (as of November 13, 2020) from an inter...
Index to General Iris Information Topics Below is a conventional INDEX. It is a list of links to definitions and topic areas. Click on a word for more information...
Keith Keppel's Medal Winning Iris A number of Keith Keppel's iris have won AIS Medals including the American Dykes Medal, and the John C. Wister Medal, the Knowlt...
Paul Black's Medal Winning Iris A number of Paul Black's iris have won AIS Medals including the John C. Wister Medal, the Knowlton Medal, the Hans and Jacob Sass ...
This template can only be changed by: * Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE = Main.WikiAdminGroup (SDB) Variety Name YYYY, HYBRIDIZER(Optional description)There are NOP imag...
Virtual International Iris Show, 2014 Note: This show was completed in 2014 so entries are no longer accepted. Floral design section and Horticulture entries no...