Archive for March 2023
RHS Awards to Members
We are pleased to report that two BIS members have received RHS awards. First we are delighted to report that Sidney Linnegar who is the longest serving member of the BIS and has had a very distinguished career both in the BIS and in the iris world at large has been recognised by the…
Read MoreJohn Salter bearded Iris and early ‘natural’ hybrids
I am collecting John Salter Iris and any information about him and his Irises. Salter had nurseries in Hammersmith London 1848-1870 and for a while in Versailles France 1838-1848. The AIS website https://wiki.irises.org/Main/Bio/HybridizerSalterJohn lists only 20 varieties and it looks like maybe only about seven are still in cultivation (I have found photographs of these…
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