About 2024/25 AIS Tall-bearded Symposium

Tall Bearded Iris Symposium ( not to be confused with the New 2025 Popularity Poll for all types of Iris starting November 1st, 2025}

100 Most Popular Tall Bearded Iris

The symposium is an annual popularity poll of Tall Bearded (TB) iris conducted by the AIS. All AIS members and non-members may vote in this symposium. The top 100 Tall Bearded iris are then ranked and the results of the symposium each year are published in the official publication of the AIS, the AIS Bulletin, usually within the January issue. All AIS members receive this quarterly publication as part of their AIS membership. For detailed information on AIS membership please go to the AIS Membership area of the website. The full Symposia results are also published here on the AIS website.

In March the Board decided to halt the efforts of the q2025 Symposium in favor of a new popularity poll. The past directions are below.

2025 Tall Bearded Iris Symposium Ballot - Deadline August 1, 2025 The 2025 ballot is not yet available. Voting, once begun can be submitted up to August 1, 2025, details on submitting your ballot can be found in the instructions below.

The eligible TB list is available as a downloadable PDF file which you may review and print if required, ballots will be included in the Spring 2025 issue of IRISES mailed to Print and Full AIS members .

This will be the 2025 edition of the Tall Bearded Iris Symposium of the American Iris Society.

The list of candidates was completed by combining the following lists of outstanding varieties: The 100 top varieties in last year’s Symposium The tall bearded irises eligible for last year’s Dykes Medal The tall bearded irises eligible for last year’s Wister Medal The tall bearded irises eligible for last year’s Awards of Merit The tall bearded irises that won the year before last year’s Awards of Merit The tall bearded irises that won the year before last year’s Honorable Mentions

Every member of The American Iris Society may participate in this balloting of the irises listed on the ballot. Non-members are also invited to participate in this popularity poll of Tall Bearded iris. Each person is allowed twenty-five (25) votes. Please follow the instructions below:

1. Voting may be accomplished in a variety of ways: a. You may mail your RVP a list of the iris you are voting for, either names and numbers, or just numbers. b. You can download the list from button above, print it, mark it up, and mail it. c. Most RVP’s have email, and those who do will accept any of the above formats that way, too. 2. No member may vote for more than twenty-five varieties. You may vote for fewer than twenty-five if you wish. Write-in votes are not allowed and will not be tabulated. 3. Your ballot must be mailed to and received by your Regional Vice President by August 1, 2025 in order to be counted. The name of your RVP is listed inside each AIS Bulletin and can be found here. Sign your ballot and mail it first class. 4. Overseas Members may vote by mailing their ballot to the Symposium Committee Chairman whose name, email, and address appear inside each AIS Bulletin. It is advisable to send by Air Mail to assure receipt of your Ballot by August 1, 2024. Ballots received later will be counted if at all possible, so please vote even if you can not meet that date. Email is an acceptable alternative (either numbers-only, or numbers and names), and a representative in each foreign country can tally that country’s votes and send the totals and voters to the Symposium Chair by email or mail.

The above file is provided as a downloadable Adobe Acrobat PDF type file. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view this file. *What is Adobe Acrobat Reader? It is free software for viewing and printing Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files on all major hardware and operating system platforms. If you need or want to get the Adobe Acrobat Reader program use this link. It is a very useful add on program that many people already have installed on their computer. Click here to get Adobe Acrobat.

Results of the AIS Tall Bearded Symposia 2007 on:

The results provided here are for your reference use and enjoyment.

Follow the links below to the detail results of recent AIS Tall Bearded Symposiums: Most, if not all, of these irises are available to purchase through the commercial vendors listed in the Commercial Directory Listing area of the AIS website. They are not likely to be available from your local garden center.

*Please note: The naming convention(s) used for the Symposia ballots and reports have changed several times in the history of the Symposia. In the recent past the Symposia reports have been named for the year in which they were issued (the year after the voting). This caused some confusion. Starting in 2010 the results will be named for the year in which the voting occurs, thus the results of the AIS Awards and the results of the Symposia will carry the same year designation. This will result in there being two reports that are designated as 2010. The first, the results of the 2009 voting, and the second, the results of the 2010 voting.