Showing posts with label The Payne Medal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Payne Medal. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Payne Medal 2018


The American Iris Society
Announces
The Payne Medal 2018
'Kimono Silk'

'Kimono Silk'--image by Brock Heilman


'Kimono Silk' (Bob Bauer and John Coble, R. 2008). Falls white, central dusting of bright blue between the white rays, yellow signal; style arms pure white, crests same. 'Lake Effect' X 'Frosted Pyramid'.

This medal is restricted to Japanese irises (JI). It is named in honor of W. Arlie Payne (1881-1971). W. Arlie Payne was at first interested in peonies, but in the late 1920's, he "discovered" Japanese irises. He started hybridizing Japanese in irises in 1932. Over the next three and a half decades, he raised many thousands of seedlings. One of the most exceptional aspects of his breeding program was that it was developed in the early years using only six cultivars of the Edo type. Payne took line breeding to a new level of intensity. The American Iris Society awarded Arlie Payne its coveted Hybridizers Medal in 1964. When he died at the age of 90, in 1971, he was universally revered as the world's premier breeder of Japanese irises

The World of Irises blog will be posting once a day all of the medal winners. The entire list of winners can be found at http://irises.org/About_Irises/Awards_Surveys/AIS_Awards.html, the AIS Encyclopedia and later in the AIS Bulletin, IRISES. Pictures can be found at http://wiki.irises.org/Main/InfoAwards2018.


Saturday, September 9, 2017

AMERICAN IRIS SOCIETY 2017 AWARDS THE PAYNE MEDAL JAPANESE IRISES

By Susanne Holland Spicker

Join with us in congratulating Donald Demaz as the recipient of The Payne Medal, American Iris Society 2017 Awards, for "OH SO PINK' Japanese Iris.

 'OH SO PINK' (Donald Demez 2010) Photo by Cascadia Iris Garden

This voluptuous Japanese iris is described by the AIS Wiki as follows:

'Oh So Pink' (Donald Demez 2010) 30" Early bloom. Standards deep pink; style arms pink tipped deeper pink; falls deep pink, lighter around edge, yellow signal; ruffled. Donald Delmez 2010. AM 2015, The Payne Medal 2017.

Thank you, Donald, for this spectacular Japanese iris.

Interested in Japanese irises?  Please visit The Japanese Iris Society website for more information.