Celebrate spring on this Memorial Day, May 30 from 1 – 4, with more than 200 beautiful irises on display at the Harvey Wheeler Community Center, 1276 Main Street in Concord.
The gorgeous show is open to everyone after the judging and awarding of ribbons. For details. visit http://massirises.org/
Check out the companion plants and vote for your favorite. Admire the floral arrangements. Buy some iris plants for your garden.
The show is free, parking is easy, and the building is accessible.
Now is the time to plant irises!
Select from many gorgeous irises — bearded and Siberian — at great low prices, all grown in New England by members of the Iris Society of Massachusetts . There will be information on planting and care. Come early for the best selection. Cash or checks only. The event takes place July 31 from 11 – 3 at Verrill Farm, 11 Wheeler Road in Concord. For more information call 781-643-5945, or email sbcummer@msn.com
Spend your Memorial Day afternoon by admiring and smelling the numerous beautiful irises and seeing which ones have won an award. The theme of The Name Game refers to the unique, creative name that each iris is given when it is introduced for sale. You will be able to vote on your favorite iris and companion plant. There will be a limited number of irises for sale. Floral arrangements inspired by the creative names of the irises will also be judged. The event takes place May 28 from 1 – 4 at the Harvey Wheeler Community Center, 1276 Main Street in Concord, and is free.
For more information about the show and/or how to enter your iris or floral arrangement in the event, visit http://massirises.org.
On Memorial Day, come admire the many beautiful irises on display at the Iris Society of Massachusetts’ Get Out the Vote themed iris show, to be held at the Harvey Wheeler Community Center, 1276 Main Street in West Concord, from 1 – 4. Free and open to the public.
For the show, iris growers prepare their irises for judging and for the final honor of being judged “best in show.” Flower arrangements, using the theme, are also judged. Attendees can vote for their favorite irises as well as for their favorite companion plant. For more information visit http://massirises.org.
The Iris Society of Massachusetts (ISM) is having its biennial iris show on Memorial Day, Monday, May 26, with over 200 individual iris blooms on display. After the irises are judged and ribbons awarded, the display is open to the public. In addition to the array of irises, companion plants will be on view as well as arrangements that use irises and that reflect the theme of Memories of Massachusetts. Potted iris plants and rhizomes will be sold.
Everyone is welcome to enter identified irises in the show. Everyone is also welcome to enter an iris arrangement that reflects the Massachusetts memory theme. Both irises entries and arrangements must be received at the show between 8 and 10 am. The free show will be open to the public from 1 – 4 at the Harvey Wheeler Community Center, 1276 Main Street in West Concord, Massachusetts. All attendees to the show are encouraged to vote on their favorite iris and favorite companion plant. Members of ISM will be on hand to answer questions about irises. For more information visit www.massirises.org.
The Iris Society of Massachusetts (ISM) is holding its biennial plant sale which will take place rain or shine from 11 am to 4 pm on Saturday, July 27 under the large open tent behind the farm store at Verrill Farm, 11 Wheeler Road in Concord.
The large selection of reasonably priced irises are all from ISM members’ gardens and grow well in our area. There will be bearded irises, from tiny miniature dwarfs to tall beardeds, as well as beardless siberian irises, woodland iris cristata, and many other types. Prices for the irises generally range from $1 for the dwarf irises to $6 for the potted siberians.
If you attended ISM’s iris show on Memorial Day last year and enjoyed the profusion of beautiful irises, you will find many of those same irises at the sale. ISM members will be there to answer questions. There will a demonstration on dividing old iris clumps along with planting tips. Free. For more information visit www.massirises.org.
An exceptionally rare, and almost certainly a once-in-a-lifetime, opportunity to have your name, or that of a loved one, immortalized by giving a name of your choosing to a newly discovered species of beautiful South African iris.
In November 2011 Odette Curtis of the Renosterveld Management Project (which now falls under the newly established Overberg Lowlands Conservation Trust) in South Africa, discovered a new species of Hesperantha – a beautiful and rare iris.
In an unusual move, Odette and her colleagues are offering the opportunity for members of the public to bid on the right to name this new species – immortalizing their name or another name of their choosing.
All proceeds from this Auction will go to Fauna & Flora International (http://www.fauna-flora.org/) and the Overberg Lowlands Conservation Trust (http://www.overbergrenosterveld.org.za/) to protect the Critically Endangered habitat where this iris was discovered. For complete terms and conditions, log on to www.irisauction.com.
On Monday, May 28 (Memorial Day) the Iris Society of Massachusetts would like to invite you to an iris show, Hats Off to Irises. Featured will be cut stalks and floral arrangements of irises. Everyone is welcome to enter irises or iris arrangements, or just come to see the wide variety of lovely irises. Iris plants will also be available for purchase. The event will take place at the Harvey Wheeler Community Center, 1276 Main Street, in West Concord, Massachusetts, it’s free, and you may find more information at www.massirises.org, or by calling 978-256-0720.
Come to the 4H Fairgrounds, 51 South Chelmsford Road, Westford, September 24 and 25, for the Middlesex Conservation District Fall Bulb and Perennial Sale – tulips, daffodils, alliums (below), unusual bulbs, iris, perennials and garden supplies (compost bins, bulb fertilizer, kitchen scrap buckets, etc). All items may be ordered in advance through September 4 to ensure best selection. To place an order, visit the MCD website at www.middlesexconservation.org and download an order form, or call 978 692 9395 and obtain a brochure by mail. All proceeds will benefit the District�s’ conservation programs. You may also email frances.gillespie@ma.usda.gov for brochures and directions. Friday hours 3 – 6, Saturday 8 – noon.
A large selection of iris rhizomes grown in the gardens of members of the Iris Society of Massachusetts will be offered for sale on Saturday, July 31, from 10 – 4, at Verrill Farm, located at the corner of Sudbury and Wheeler Roads in Concord, Massachusetts. The irises are hardy in New England, and some of the member hybridizers are nationally recognized. Some of their prize irises will be for sale, and there will be demonstrations during the day on dividing and planting irises, plus information sheets on their cultivation. Contact Barbara Schmieder at 978-369-3383 for additional information, or email dotmac@verizon.net.
