An Index of Articles on This Site

• 'Edna Claunch' wins the Charles W. Arny Jr Award
• 2017 Distinguished Service Award: Ron Killingsworth
• 2019 Convention in Lafayette a great success!
• 2019 Distinguished Merit Award - Bobbie Hutchins and Stan Schikowitz
• 2019 Society for Louisiana Irises Conventiion Info
• A Brief History of the Society for Louisiana Iris
• A Collection of Comments on Growing LA Irises in Various Locations
• A Master Hybridizer of the Past -- Sidney Conger
• A Profile of an Iris Hybridizer by Wayland Rudkin*
• Adell Rowell Tingle Remembered....by Bobbie Ann Hutchins
• Advertising Rates for the Fleur de Lis
• Aitken’s Salmon Creek Garden
• Albert C. "Bert" Detwiler -- In Memoriam
• Aline Arceneaux Awarded SLI Distinguished Merit Award by Marie Caillet
• American Iris Society Official Ballot Results 2018
• American Iris Society Official Ballot Results for 2017
• American Iris Society Official Ballot Results for 2021
• American Iris Society Official Ballots Result in Awards 2016
• Article by Charles Perilloux on the SLI Louisiana Iris Species Preservation Project
• Awards of the American Iris Society for Seedlings, Registered and Introduced Irises
• Barbara (Mrs. Ira S.) Nelson Awarded Distinguished Merit Award
• Barbara Furnas Nelson - Memoriam
• Ben Hager -- In Memoriam by Marie Caillet
• Bettye Qualls Shaver -- In Memoriam by Celia Storey
• blue monday louisiana iris
• Bog and Water Culture of Louisiana Irises by Gordon Rabalais*
• Bois d’Arc Gardens
• Breeding Louisiana Irises by George Arceneaux*
• Briarwood - The Home of Caroline Dormon
• Briarwood Reflections
• Calvin Blue -- In Memorial by Marie Caillet
• Charles "Chuck" Begnaud -- In Memoriam
• Charles "Chuck" Walkowiak - In Memoriam
• Charles W. Arny Jr -- In Memoriam
• Charles W. Arny Jr Award for 2017
• Charles W. Arny Jr Award Info and Winners 1993-2021
• Clara Goula -- In Memoriam
• Colchicine-induced Polyploidy by Samuel N. Norris
• Collier’s Garden
• Culture of Louisiana Irises by Claude W. Davis
• Dean Lee and Laurel Bridgman receive the SLI Distinguished Merit Award
• Dennis Vercher - In Memoriam
• Diploid - Triploid - Tetraploid -- What do they Mean?
• Diploids from Tetraploids by Sam Norris*
• Diversity Acres
• Donald Copenhaver - In Memoriam
• Dr. George Arceneaux -- In Memoriam
• Dr. John K Small
• Dr. Robert L. Bledsoe Awarded the SLI Service Award by M. Caillet
• Ed Ostheimer (1940-2002) -- In Memoriam by Patrick O'Connor
• Efforts to Breed a True Red Louisiana Iris by Kevin Vaughn*
• Ellene "Rokki" Rockwell -- in Memoriam by Marie Caillet
• Expanding the Tetraploid Gene Pool by J. Farron Campbell
• Faenelia Hicks -- In Memoriam by Marie Caillet
• Fleur de Lis
• From New Orleans to New Zealand
• Garden Culture of Louisiana Irises by J. Farron Campbell
• Gertrude "Gertie" Remmel Butler - In Memoriam
• Growing Louisiana Irises - General Information
• Growing Louisiana Irises in Mixed Border
• Growing Louisiana Irises in Plastic Lined Beds by Robert Treadway*
• Growing Louisiana Irises in Pots by Tom W. Dillard*
• Helene Mertzweiller -- In Memoriam by Marie Caillet
• Henry Rowlan -- In Memoriam
• Hillcrest Iris Gardens
• Historical Notes on the Species of Louisiana Iris
• History in the Making by Marie Caillet (1985)
• History of the Louisiana Iris by Caroline Dormon
• History of the Mary Swords DeBaillon Medal by Marie Caillet*
• How I Got "Hooked" on Louisiana Irises by Marjorie Starkey
• Hunting for Irises in the Swamps is not for Wimps by Benny Trahan Sr.
• Hybridizing Variegated Tetraploid Louisiana Irises by William R. Bruner*
• Ila Nunn -- In Memoriam
• In Memoriam - Joseph K. Mertzweiller
• In Memorium - Dorothy C. Howard
• In Memorium - Dr. Bernard Hugh ("Bud") McSparrin Sr
• In Memorium - Frank E. Chowning
• In Memorium - Josephine Muller Shanks
• In Memorium - Jules Patin
• In Memorium - Mary Dunn
• In Memorium - Perry Dyer
• In Memorium - Richard Anthony Goula
• In Memory of Velera Chenoweth
• Interploidy Hybridizing: A Route to Tetraploids
• Ira S. Nelson Remembered by Dr. Joel L. Fletcher
• James A. Foret -- In Memoriam
• James Geddes Douglas -- In Memoriam
• Jean Collins of New Zealand -- In Memoriam by Marie Caillet
• John Taylor Awarded AIS Hybridizer Medal by Marie Caillet
• Join the Society for Louisiana Iris
• Joseph K. Mertzweiller Awarded the AIS Hybridizer's Medal by Marie Caillet
• Joseph K. Mertzweiller Awarded the Distinguished Merit Award*
• Joseph Musacchia Awarded The Distinguished Merit Award
• Joyce B. Arny - Memoriam
• Kay Nelson-Keppel -- In Memoriam
• Larry Harder -- In Memoriam by Marie Caillet
• Laurel Bridgman -- in Memoriam by Marie Caillet
• Leon C. Wolford -- In Memoriam
• Louisiana Iris Award of Merit Winners - 1985 to 2021
• Louisiana Iris Farms
• Louisiana Iris Winners are Made, Not Born! - By Marie Caillet
• Louisiana Irises go to China by Dr. James W. Waddick*
• Louisiana Irises win American Iris Society Awards for 2015
• Lynn Finkel - In Memorial - by her husband, Barry Finkel
• Lynn Finkel -- In Memoriam
• Maggie Roberta Rowell Killingsworth - In Memoriam
• Marie Caillet - In Memoriam
• Marie's Scrapbooks
• Marvin Granger - In His Own Words
• Marvin Granger -- In Memoriam by Marie Caillet
• Marvin Granger Honored by AIS by Marie Caillet
• Marvin Granger Remembered by Nita Copenhaver
• Mary Emily Eaton
• Mary G. Sullivan -- In Memoriam by Robert Treadway
• Mary Swords DeBaillion Award and Medal - Detailed Results with runnersup
• Mary Swords DeBaillon -- As We Knew Her
• Melody Wilhoit Remembered by Robert Treadway
• Minnie Colquitt -- In Memoriam
• Monte Stahl - In Memoriam
• Mrs. Barbara Deremiah -- In Memoriam
• Mrs. Chester C. (Hattie) Clark -- In Memoriam by Marie Caillet
• Mrs. V. B. Evans -- In Memoriam
• Neil Bertinot -- In Memoriam by Ken Durio
• Oren E. Campbell -- In Memoriam by Tom Dillard
• Patrick O'Connor Receives Highest SLI Award
• Plantation Point Nursery by Marie Caillet
• Pondering Cultivar Names by Patrick O'Connor*
• Propagation and Cultivation of Louisiana Irises by Claude W. Davis
• Rebecca Wong presented the Service Award
• Redbud Lane Iris Garden
• Remembering M. D. Faith by Robert Treadway
• Remembering Richard Morgan by Robert Treadway
• Results of Iris Show at 2019 Convention in Lafayette
• Richard C. "Dick" Butler Sr -- In Memoriam by Tom W. Dillard
• Robert Treadway Jr Awarded the Distinguished Merit Award
• Rudolph "Rudi" Fuchs -- In Memoriam by Marie Caillet
• Russell Bourque - In Memoriam
• Samuel Newton Norris (1921-2002) -- In Memoriam by RIck Bruner
• Samuel Yongue Caldwell -- In Memoriam by Tom Dillard
• Searching for Louisiana Iris Species in Florida by Benny Trahan Sr.
• Shirley Caillet Welch -- In Memoriam by Tom Dillard
• Show Report -- 2016 Convention in Bossier City, LA
• Sidney Conger - In Memoriam
• SLI Archives at UL at Lafayette by Bruce Turner*
• SLI Becomes a Cooperating Society of the American Iris Society
• SLI Louisiana Iris Checklist
• Society for Louisiana Irises Archives by Marie Caillet
• Society for Louisiana Irises Honorary Awards
• Society for Louisiana Irises Officers, Board Members, Regional Reps and Committee Chairs
• Special Publications of the Society for Louisiana Irises
• Standards and Falls
• Starting a Louisiana Iris Garden in New Zealand by Stephanie Boot and Darlene Cook
• Tetraploid Hybridizing - Problems Encountered
• Tetraploid Louisiana Iris Hybridizing -- Helpful Hints by William R. Bruner*
• The "Closed Loop" in Iris Nelsonii by Steve Shepard*
• The American Iris Society 2019 Awards
• The Caroline Dormon Collection of Louisiana Irises at Briarwood
• The Louisiana Iris
• The Louisiana Iris -- A Poem by Pearl Mary Segura
• The Marie Caillet Cup Award
• The Purpose of the Society for Louisiana Iris
• The SLI Website
• Three Louisiana Irises Selected for Mary Swords DeBaillon Medals
• Three Shovels Farm
• To Advertise Here
• Uses for Louisiana Irises by Inez (Mrs. Ed) Conger
• Using Herbicide Treatments to Induce Tetraploidy in LA Irises
• Variagated Louisiana Iris by Terry Aitken
• Varietal Forms of Louisiana Irises by Caroline Dormon
• William Dean Lee -- In Memoriam
• Winners of the Mary Swords DeBaillion Award and Medal
• Yankee Louisianas
• Zelma Patchin -- In Memoriam by Marie Caillet