AIS Region 7
It's a bit rustic. Everyone will have to bring their own sheets, towels, and soap. Their's a women's dorm and a few queen double bed rooms for men and married couples. Arrival starts at 4:00pm on Saturday. Potluck dinner begins at 5:30pm. Sunday breakfast starte at 7:30am and judges training begins at 9:00am and lasts until 12:00noon. Our trainer will be Jody Nolin. She will instruct us on exhibition judging of species and pseudata irises. Jim Vernon will take your cash or Region 7 check at the potluck. Please call Lorene Crone at 731-499-3887 to reserve your space.Winter Potluck
Friday evening informal get-together. Saturday Iris Show and board meeting. Sunday Judges training.
Booking details TBD.
Friday evening informal get-together. Satuday Board Meeting, Iris Auction, Silent Auction, Banquet, and Award Presentations. Sunday Judges Training.
American Iris Society - Region 7 spans Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, and Tennessee with USDA climate zones that range from 5 to 9, from mountains to valleys, plateaus, and the Mississippi floodplain. Soil types range from clay to gravel with wonderful loess in the western part of Tennessee. Weather is everything and anything; the only thing we know for sure is that it can change abruptly from drought to deluge and back again in summer, and from subfreezing to balmy in midwinter.
Before the big commercial iris gardens on the west coast dominated the iris scene, the region was a center of top notch hybridizing, producing several Dykes medal winners in the 1930s and 1940s - Dauntless, Copper Lustre, Mary Geddes, and Chivalry - and, in 1978, Bride's Halo. The iris is the state flower of Tennessee, although we aren't exactly in agreement as to which iris!
