INDIANA DAYLILY-IRIS SOCIETY (IDIS)

Non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of daylilies and iris


Our society meets once a month from March to September at the Nature Center at Holliday Park in Indianapolis, Indiana. Monthly meetings at the Nature Center are open to the public and guests are welcome.

On our site you will find our calendar of events for this year, links to our national and regional societies, links to local growers. We will be adding more links and information as they develop. So please check out our site from time to time to see what's new.

LATEST NEWS

Annual Daylily and Iris sale - Saturday, August 16th

GREAT SELECTION AND VALUE FOR LOCALLY GROWN IRIS AND DAYLILIES
The sale will be at Sullivan's Hardward partking lot.
The address is 6955 N. Keystone Ave., Indianapolis. Click here to see a map of the location.

The sale is open to the public from 10am to 4pm If you have any questions you can contact Debbie Hale (debbie.hale at benchmarkfs.org)

2014 Daylily Show - Saturday, July 12th

See some of the best blooms this area has to offer at a show that is free to public.
Show is from 1:30pm to 4pm.
The theme this year is Daylily Safari and you can click here to see the full show schedule/rules/display categories.
Any questions, contact Jaclyn Schroeder (lapwing75 at att.net)

IDIS Meeting open to the public - Tuesday, August 5th

Start time is 6:30pm
Speaker will be Iris grower - Jim Wilson
Jim Wilson is an iris grower in LaGrange, Kentucky, about 15 miles NE of Louisville. He and his wife Janet grow a wide variety of irises on 2.5 acres of varied terrain safely in USDA zone 6. Jim started growing irises in Delaware in 1982, and was aided by the Diamond State Iris Society. There he became a member of AIS, president of DSIS and an AIS accredited judge. He moved to Oxford, Ohio in 1994, and to LaGrange in 2002. He has also served on the board of directors of the Society for Siberian Irises. His wife, Janet, has served as newsletter editor for the Dwarf Iris Society. She is also an AIS garden/exhibition judge and now the RVP of AIS Region 7. They are both members of the Louisville Area Iris Society and the Blue Grass Iris Society. Jim has a webpage here if you'd like more information about and from him.





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