2025 BIS Virtual Show
Welcome to our 2025 Virtual Show. Members have submitted their images under the above classes. Please
use the navigation buttons above to see the entries. Judging has now taken place and the results are below. Congratulations to all our winners, but also our sincere thanks to all our exhibitors, because without you all we wouldn't have such a fantastic range of irises and other iridaceae to enjoy. But a special thank you to those exhibitors who entered for the first time this year, we hope you will enter again next year and of course that goes without saying for all of you.
| Class 1 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 52 | Rachael Hunter | ‘Subtilité' | |
| 2nd | 49 | Rachael Hunter | ’Bel Avenir’ | |
| 3rd | 70 | Karen Saunders | ’Ravissant’ | |
| Class 2 | ||||
| 1st | 54 | Fern Harden | 'Jitsugetsu' | |
| 2nd | 51 | John Mullen | 'Currier's Choice' | |
| 3rd | 56 | Chris Jarvis | ‘Banish Misfortune’ | |
| Class 3 | ||||
| 1st | 50 | Karen Saunders | 'High Ho Silver’ | |
| 2nd | 58 | Jane Stephenson Ingram | ‘Ma Mie’ | |
| Joint 3rd | 53 | Karen Saunders | 'Benton Olive’ | |
| Joint 3rd | 51 | Rachael Hunter | ‘Mrs Horace Darwin’ | |
| Class 4 | ||||
| 1st | 67 | Carol Poulton | ||
| Joint 2nd | 55 | Jane Priors | ||
| Joint 2nd | 58 | Jill Whitehead | ||
| Class 5 | ||||
| 1st | 58 | Anne Milner | ||
| Joint 2nd | 49 | Jane Priors | ||
| Joint 2nd | 59 | Rachael Hunter | ||
| Class 6 | ||||
| 1st | 67 | Jane Stephenson Ingram | I. paradoxa | |
| 2nd | 63 | Chris Jarvis | I. pumila x babadagica | |
| 3rd | 54 | Alun Whitehead | Gladiolus 'Galaxian' | |
| 3rd | 58 | Jackie Bostock | Trimezia martincensis | |
| 3rd | 69 | Jane Stephenson Ingram | Iris pseudopumila | |
| Class 7 | ||||
| 1st | 58 | Jane Stephenson Ingram | ‘Pixie’ | |
| 2nd | 57 | Jane Stephenson Ingram | ‘J S Dijt’ | |
| 3rd | 53 | Anne Milner | ‘Lady Beatrix Stanley’ | |
| Class 8 | ||||
| 1st | 58 | Chris Jarvis | C. sieberi 'Ronald Ginns' | |
| 2nd | 62 | Jane Stephenson Ingram | ‘Cream Beauty’ | |
| 3rd | 51 | Brian Mathew | C. heuffelianus 'Harry Hay' | |
| Best in Show | ||||
| Class 3 | 50 | Karen Saunders | 'High Ho Silver’ | |
The original schedule is given below.
Open to all BIS members and also to members of the BIS groups
Class 1. Any bearded iris, other than species.
Class 2. Any beardless iris, other than species.
Class 3. Any type of historic iris (at least 30 years old). Please give the date of registration.
Class 4. A garden scene which must include some type of iris/Iridaceae.
Class 5. An abstract/creative photo of an iris or Iridaceae.
Class 6. Any species iris or Iridaceae.
Class 7. A Reticulate iris.
Class 8. A Crocus.
We would welcome other iris related photos which can be displayed alongside the competition, these would not be judged.
To enter:
Choose a photo of an iris that you have grown that fits one of the classes above.
Three different irises can be entered for each class.
For classes 1 to 3, please send a photo of the whole stem and a closer one showing one of the blooms on the stem, unless these features can be clearly seen in one photo.
Please do not use Photoshop or manipulate the original photo, but cropping of an image is allowed.
Photos must be taken during the 2025 flowering season, up to 14th October 2025. Also, photos of entries to ‘live’ BIS shows are not permitted.
Give the name of the varieties you are entering, unless they are seedlings.
Send your entries to info@britishirissociety.org.uk by the 14th October 2025. Entries will be numbered so that they are anonymous when they are judged. After that date, we will ask our BIS judges to make their choices.
We would like to use any photos submitted for publicity purposes, e.g. Newsletter, Yearbook or Facebook. Please let us know if you are not happy with that.