We held our annual Utah Iris Society Show yesterday at Sugar House Park in Salt Lake City. Here are some pictures...wish they were better quality.... The show room......





Brouhaha....runner-up to Best Specimen
Ink Patterns....special award winner
Merry Amigo...BEST SPECIMEN
Acoma
Drama Queen.....special award winner
Dazzling Gold

Dialect
Ink Patterns

Brussels
Secret Rites
Best seedling....worthy in my opinion.of introduction....a real beauty

Thanks for sharing the show -- I loved seeing it! You're right that that seedling should be introduced -- it's beautiful.

Paul -- how many of the winners were yours?

I so enjoy the shows each year....I worked hard and was successful. and the season was right for my garden bloom....the Best specimen and runner-up were mine. Also won the Sweepstakes.. My friends in the UIS are putting a big target on me for next year. Two years ago a friend won best specimen at her first show and has been disappointed since. Maybe the only way is down now

Reaslly nice ! And congrats!!...Arlyn

Thanks.......

Congratulations! How do you keep them looking so fresh? Do you pick them the morning of the show?

I pick freshly opened stalks and ones just opening the evening before the show. The ones that are open go into an unheated bath room and the ones that need to open stay in the kitchen in warm water. Then before I leave for the show, 6 A.M. yesterday, I give the garden one more look. Then when you get home after the show you always find something fabulous that you missed. I've groomed the stalks that I brought home and am just taking them to the cemetery. Thanks for the congrats.

That's just wonderful, Paul. I had a sneaking suspicion....

Congratulations! You do work very hard -- the results prove that.

Thanks Mary Ann...there were 16 exhibitors and about 150 specimens....

I wish we had something like that here near me............... I'd participate!!

Congratulations Paul. People don't realize how much work shows are, both the exhibitors & the people who run it.

Thanks everyone. Lucy-we are lucky to have a good group of willing people. Our show closed at 5 and by 5:35 we have the iris off the tables, the vases put away, the tables down and the floor swept......

Big congrats, Paul, and well deserved!

Congrats Paul, I could not go to our show

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Salt Lake Tribune 1984....wish I was still thinner with thicker dark hair

Oh Paul -- how neat!! You've been winning at Iris shows for a long time!!

Don't we all wish we were still thinner with thicker, darker hair????

Congratulations, Paul! Well deserved, thank you for sharing with us.

You look like one of those Movie star guys! Hair, much like lawn, is over rated!

Remember "bald is beautiful !", and" fat is fun!"....or ,at least, that's what I keep telling myself ...Arlyn