What's New in the Iris Encyclopedia

August 2024

• Winners - 2024 Garden Award Wnners' Image Gallery
• Red Irises - Interested in history of Red Irises and Breeding, check out recently added articles from 1960s AIS Bulletins in the References section of the Cook-Lapham Award page.
• France : IRIS ET BULBEUSES - ISSN 0980-7594.
  French-speaking botanical and horticultural journal published by the SFIB .

November 2023

• 2023 Registrations - pages for the 1255 registrations for 2023 have been added to the wiki with links on the appropriate hybridizer's page.
  - photos, where available, have been downloaded from the AIS register and added to these pages with one being selected as the highlight.
  - all 1255 registrations have been added to the 2023 galleries. The number of pictures in each gallery has been verified against the register to ensure all the irises are listed.

March 2023 SEE new Image Galleries

• Image Galleries of Irises By year Allow comparison of scores of cultivars at once. See New registrations and Yearly image galleries

January 2023

• A page with thumbnail sketches of the Sections and Cooperating Societies was created for the 2023 AIS Membership Drive.
• Beginner's Corner is not new. However, several new items have been added to it. And its counterpart in the Irises Bulletin has additional resources.
• Image Galleries for the 2022 registrations are being created. There are individual image galleries for each type of iris.

December 2022

• Creation of pages for 2023 cultivars has begun. These are created with names and pictures from iris hybridizers/growers websites or catalogs. You can search for these pages. There are 20 pages as of 12/24/22. Registration information for these cultivars is added as it becomes available from the registrar.
• A page for Iris Jigsaw Puzzles was created. This is in addition to the Daily Iris Puzzle Archive that was created during the Covid-19 pandemic.
• The AIS Webinars page was created. AIS has presented 30 webinars and links to their YouTube recordings can be found in this page.

November 2022

• The Iris Calendar 2023 was created. This collects upcoming iris happenings by month.
• Affiliate Pages for all the 2022 AIS Clubs were created. These all can be found using the Local Clubs by State page.