Several Medals in honor of William Rikatson Dykes are presented each year by the British Iris Society. These are the highest awards in their respective nations and continents. The American Dykes is for the best Iris bred by an American Hybridizer. And in the same way the Australian and New Zealand medals are for their respective hybridizers. The British Dykes Medal honors the best Iris from a hybridizer in Great Britain.
The following is a list of the British Dykes medal winners;
Year | Cultivar | Class | Hybridizer | |
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2021 | Spirit 'Spirit Of Kent Kent' | Tall-Bearded | Olga Wells | |
2020 | ||||
2019 | Hever Castle 'Hever Castle' | Tall-Bearded | Olga Wells | |
2018 | ||||
2017 | 'Cloud Over Clee' | Siberian | Jennifer Hewitt | |
2016 | ||||
2015 | ||||
2014 | 'Iceni Sunset' | Tall-Bearded | B. Emmerson | |
2013 | No Award | |||
2012 | No Award | |||
2011 | 'Stephen Wilcox' | Siberian | Jennifer Hewitt | |
2010 | No Award | |||
2009 | No Award | |||
2008 | 'Peter Hewitt' | Siberian | Jennifer Hewitt | |
2007 | No Award | |||
2006 | 'Alexia' | Tall-Bearded | C. Bartlett | |
2004 | No Award | |||
2003 | No Award | |||
2002 | No Award | |||
2001 | 'Darley Dale' | Tall-Bearded | B. Dodsworth | |
2000 | 'Perfect Vision' | Siberian | C.E.C. Bartlett | |
1999 | 'Berlin Ruffles' | Siberian | Tomas Tamberg | |
1998 | No Award | |||
1997 | 'Whooper Swan' | Tall-Bearded | B. Dodsworth | |
1996 | No Award | |||
1995 | No Award | |||
1994 | 'Orinoco Flow' | Border Bearded | C.E.C. Bartlett | |
1993 | No Award | |||
1992 | No Award | |||
1991 | 'Wharfedale' | Tall-Bearded | B. Dodsworth | |
1990 | 'High Peak' | Tall-Bearded | B. Dodsworth | |
1989 | 'Early Light' | Tall-Bearded | N. Scopes | |
1988 | 'Wensleydale' | Tall-Bearded | B. Dodsworth | |
1987 | 'Buckden Pike' | Tall-Bearded | B. Dodsworth | |
1986 | No Award | |||
1985 | 'Roman Emperor' | Tall-Bearded | B. Dodsworth | |
1984 | 'Bewick Swan' | Tall-Bearded | B. Dodsworth | |
1983 | 'Dovedale' | Tall-Bearded | B. Dodsworth | |
1982 | 'Bibury' | Standard Dwarf Bearded | J.D.Taylor | |
1981 | 'Jill Rosalind' | Tall-Bearded | B. Dodsworth | |
1980 | 'Kildonan' | Tall-Bearded | B. Dodsworth | |
1979 | 'Anniversary' | Siberian | M. Brummitt | |
1978 | 'Cotsgold' | Intermediate-Bearded | J.D.Taylor | |
1977 | 'Annabel Jane' | Tall-Bearded | B. Dodsworth | |
1976 | 'No Name' | Pacific Native | M. Brummitt | |
1975 | 'Tyrian Robe' | Tall-Bearded | C. Hall | |
1974 | No Award | |||
1973 | 'Muriel Neville' | Tall-Bearded | H. Fothergill | |
1972 | 'Shepherd's Delight' | Tall-Bearded | H. Fothergill | |
1971 | 'Cambridge' | Siberian | M. Brummitt | |
1970 | 'Constance West' | Tall-Bearded | A. Howe | |
1969 | 'Golden Forest' | Tall-Bearded | P. Hutchinson | |
1968 | No Award | |||
1967 | 'Blueeyed Brunette' | Tall-Bearded | C. Hall | |
1966 | 'Ancient Egypt' | Tall-Bearded | H. Fothergill | |
1965 | 'Mary Todd' | Tall-Bearded | H. Randall | |
1964 | 'Primrose Drift' | Tall-Bearded | L. Brummitt | |
1963 | 'Dancer's Veil' | Tall-Bearded | P. Hutchinson | |
1962 | 'Arcady' | Tall-Bearded | H. Fothergill | |
1961 | 'Patterdale' | Tall-Bearded | H. Randall | |
1960 | 'Kangchenjunga' | Tall-Bearded | H. Miller | |
1959 | 'Headlines' | Tall-Bearded | L. Brummitt | |
1958 | 'Tarn Hows' | Tall-Bearded | H. Randall | |
1957 | 'Golden Alps' | Tall-Bearded | L. Brummitt | |
1956 | No Award | |||
1955 | 'Benton Cordelia' | Tall-Bearded | C. Morris | |
1954 | No Award | |||
1953 | 'Arabi Pasha' | Tall-Bearded | G. Anley | |
1952 | 'Seathwaite' | Tall-Bearded | H. Randall | |
1951 | No Award | |||
1950 | No Award | |||
1949 | 'Blue Ensign' | Tall-Bearded | H. R. Meyer | |
1948 | 'Maisie Lowe' | Tall-Bearded | J. L. Gibson | |
1947 | No Award | |||
1946 | No Award | |||
1945 | No Award | |||
1944 | No Award | |||
1943 | No Award | |||
1942 | No Award | |||
1941 | 'Mabel Chadburn' | Tall-Bearded | H. Chadburn | |
1940 | 'White City' | Tall-Bearded | O. Murrell | |
1939 | No Award | |||
1938 | No Award | |||
1937 | No Award | |||
1936 | No Award | |||
1935 | 'Sahara' | Tall-Bearded | G. Pilkington | |
1934 | 'Golden Hind' | Tall-Bearded | H. Chadburn | |
1933 | No Award | |||
1932 | No Award | |||
1931 | 'Gudrun' | Tall-Bearded | K. Dykes | |
1930 | 'G. P. Baker' | Tall-Bearded | A. Perry | |
1929 | 'Joyance' | Tall-Bearded | K. Dykes | |
1928 | No Award | |||
1927 | 'Margot Holmes' | Species | A. Perry |
Source: British Dykes Medal Winners listed on the British Iris Society website.
-- Main.RPries - 2010-07-25