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Latest Guardian Gardens Iris List (2022)

We’ve compiled a master list of irises growing in our Guardian Gardens Program, and you can access it here. It [...]

Please Participate in the 2023 PBF Survey

The 2023 HIPS PBF Survey Does your iris have Purple Basal Foliage? No? Yes? We need to know either way! [...]

Gallery Submissions: Send Us Your Photos!

Help us make our Gallery bigger and better! Send us your high-quality historic iris photos. Submissions can be made to [...]

Please Participate in the 2022 PBF Survey

Does your iris have Purple Base Foliage? No? Yes? We need to know either way! PBF Example The 2022 spring [...]

Purple Coloration Types Project Announcement – Feb. 2022

Purple Coloration Types? Purple Base Foliage? We need data! Did you record data about purple coloration of your historic irises [...]

HIPS Definition of a Historic Iris – An Explanation

Press Release (January 18, 2022) The leadership of the Historic Iris Preservation Society (HIPS) is aware that many of you [...]

Historic Iris Marketplace: Thousands of irises in bloom in El Dorado County (Bluebird Haven Iris Garden)

Classic Irises book going fast!

If you haven’t ordered your copy of the excellent Classic Irises and the Men and Women Who Created Them, don’t [...]

Black Magic and Eleanor Roosevelt

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