International Iris Societies - Reference Material

This list comes the the British Iris Society website

The BIS as part of a global community

Across the world people love irises and grow them, breed them and preserve them. Here are some of the other groups and individuals we work with:

• www.arilsociety.org The Aril Society International devoted to promoting Aril and Arilbred Irises.
• www.beardlessiris.org The Group for Beardless Irises specialising in Japanese, Siberian, Spuria & Pacific Coast along with the other beardless irises and iridaceae
• www.cdn-iris.ca The Canadian Iris Society - site not found
• www.euroiris.net Middle-European Iris Society - there is an English page as well. Make need Google Translate for many of the pages
• www.historiciris.org The Historic Iris Preservation Society
• www.iris-bulbeuses.org The Iris and Bulbous Plant Society for the promoton of iris, other irides and bulbous plants.
• www.irises.org The American Iris Society
• www.irises.org.au Iris Society of Australia - the covering organisation for all the regional societies of Australia
• www.irisfirenze.it Sociera Italiana dell'Iris - the website of the Italian Iris Society
• www.louisianas.org The Society for Louisana Irises is an American based society for the promotion of Louisiana irises.
• www.medianiris.com The American based society for median bearded irises (Border Bearded, Intermediate Bearded, Standard Dwarf Bearded and Miniature Tall Bearded.
• www.nziris.org.nz The New Zealand Iris Society
• www.pacificbulbsociety.org Started in 2002 for bulb lovers around the world. Includes iris and other iridaceae.
• www.pacificcoastiris.org The Society for the Pacific Coast Native Iris
• www.rebloomingiris.com The Reblooming Iris Society Website, both bearded and beardless.
• www.ruiris.narod.ru The Russian Iris Society website.
• www.signa.org The Species Iris Group of North America
• www.socji.org The Society for Japanese Irises
• https://www.irises.org/ppal/OnlineDISJoin.htmlwww.historiciris.blogspot.com The Dwarf Iris Society of America
• www.historiciris.blogspot.com The historic iris blog of New Zealand based Terry Johnson.
• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MIS-Robin/ Yahoo group dedicated to Median irises.
• http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ARILROBIN/ A Yahoo communications forum for pure Arils and also hybrids between Arils and other bearded irises.
• http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/BeardlessIrisPhotos/ A Yahoo group for the exchange of photos of Siberian, Japanese and beardless species.
• http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Louisiana-Iris/ Yahoo group dedicated to Louisiana Irises
• http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SpaceAgeRobin/ Yahoo group for those interested in growing and hybridising 'Space Age' irises.

-- WayneMesser - 26 Jan 2020