SALE IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

This is the final rhizome sale for 2016

Pictures of many of the varieties for sale are posted in "September 17th sale pictures" on the menu to your left.

This is a fantastic opportunity to purchase and grow irises that are adapted to the Texas climate. Many of the beauties you saw at our show will be at this sale.

Doors open at 9:00 a.m. Planting instructions will be available as well as demonstrations of how to plant and care for the plants.

Rhizomes are sold bare root. Pricing is per rhizome.

Some irises are limited in quantity (as few as 1 rhizome) and sell out quickly, so for best selection and to avoid disappointment, please come early. Sell out sometimes occurs as early as 10:00 AM. If you plan to come late, call (972) 816-3418 before you come to see if we are Sold Out.

Club members will be available to answer any questions you have on iris culture.

For further information, call (214) 352-2191 or 972-816-3418

Visitors and Guests are welcome.
This is our member appreciation time when members who have attended 7 meetings or events get a new introduction iris. There will also be an iris auction open to anyone in attendance.

Visitors and Guests welcome.
BINGO for prizes brought by the participants.
Prizes can be plants, garden related things, home grown produce, crafts, odds and ends: i,e, almost anything.

If you bring a few prizes, there is no charge; if not, there is a $5 charge to play. Players get multiple cards. Only 1 win per card allowed. Multiple winners per round.

Come join us for a fun time.

Visitors and Guests are welcome.
Steve Schreiner, co-owner of the famous Schreiner's Iris Gardens in Oregon will be our gueat speaker.

Steve Schreiner is one of the co-owners of Schreiner’s Gardens, along with his brother Ray and sister Liz. Working in the family business is practically all Steve has done in his 71 years. Siblings and cousins were all made to work full summers starting at about age 11.
Steve’s Dad, Gus, was in charge of the outside crew. There was definitely no favoritism bestowed on his kids. We all had to do the lowest jobs, until we didn’t mind it. We learned to work. Hustle and accuracy were the watchwords. You weren’t worth a damn if you only had one.
Steve was fired twice. The first time when he was 11 or 12. He wasn’t old enough to dig retail orders. He was just carrying the dug plants to the end of the row, and stacking them in piles. Well, he daydreamed in that job and mixed up Cahokia, a nice blue, with Moonlight Sonata, a popular yellow.
He was fired loudly in the morning, and was serenaded with his failing all throughout lunch. After supper he was re-hired and told to hoe tall grass for an hour and a half.
The second time he was fired was for talking too much. At the gardens excessive talk interferes with concentration.

Now Steve’s duties include photography, writing catalog descriptions, PR, HR, supervising the Retail Pulling and setting up the Flower Show, shipping, etc.
Steve was married when he was 48. Not because he was careful, but because he was slow, and shy. Since then he lives in Portland with his wife Sarah. He has a stepson Finian, who lives in Portland.
A question he gets is ‘how long is he going to work?’ ‘Are you going to retire?’
“I’ll work,” he says, “probably as long as I’m able because I like it, I think I contribute and I can’t afford to retire.”

Sarah sometimes asks why, at work, we do such and such. “We’ve always done it that way,” I reply. She gets a big kick out of that.
One day I couldn’t wait to tell her I overheard 2 women chatting in the garden and didn’t quite hear the first woman but her friend answered, “I don’t know. I guess they’ve always done it that way.”

I’ve learned from experience to not be presumptuous. I asked a bloom season visitor, who was from out of state, if they came all that way just to see our place. With a look of astonishment he said, “Of course not! We’re here for a graduation.”

Pete Tragitt a retired Soil Conservation man from Roundup, MT, and ex-Harvard, worked for us for 25 years. He was a curmudgeon. After Dad died, Pete seamlessly replaced him in telling me how full of ____ I was. For example”

Flower Show. Customer Service window. Man approaches Pete and asks “are you the owner?”
Pete: “Hell no! See that long-armed ape (pointing at me) down at the end of the building? I’d stay away from him if I were you.”
Man: “Thanks for the advice.”

There will be no regular meeting of The Iris Society of Dallas in December.

This is the club's Holiday Party month.

The SLI Convention will be in Dallas in April and ISD is the host. This will be an organizational meeting to plan the Convention.

Visitors and Guests are welcome.
Bobbie Mason will present a program on succulents.

Visitors and Guests are welcome.
This is a show preparation class with the how-to's of entering an iris in the show: selection, cutting, grooming, filling in the tag. There are many easy to do things that can improve your chances of winning an award.

Visitors and Guests are welcome.

Our annual iris show is open to anyone growing irises to enter. Entries will be accepted from 8:00 am until 10:00 am. Help for first time showers will be available. The show floor will be closed from 10:00 am until 1:00 pm for judging. The show will then be open to the public from 1:00 pm until 4:00 pm.

Many people think purple, yellow and white when they think of irises. An iris show is a great way to see new and different irises. You will be amazed at the colors, forms and types of irises you will see at the show.
Meet our club members who can answer your iris questions.
Make a list of the irises you'd like for your garden, then come to our Fall sale.
We will have a variety of potted irises for sale. Pictures will be posted closer to the event.

The Iris Society of Dallas is hosting the 2017 Society For Louisiana Iris's annual convention and garden tour. Attendance is open to everyone, but you must register.

For more information, click "2017 SLI Convention" on the menu to your left.

Meeting was cancelled because of time conflicts with the AIS National Convention in Des Moines. The regularly scheduled installation of new officers has been moved to the June meeting.

This is the annual Club picnic and the time our new officers are inducted. This is usually in May, but with conflicts with the AIS National Convention, it was moved to June.