Misawa77 said:
There is no good way to specify the date range.
There is, in fact, a way to search a range of dates, although it's limited to searching an entire decade at a time. For example, if you type 198 in the Year of Registration box, you'll get a list of every iris registered from 1980 through 1989. It's not as flexible as one might wish, but it does create some interesting options.
Say you are interested in buying some of Keith Keppel's irises and you want to see which recent ones have won the Award of Merit. Go to
http://garden.org/plants/group..., type Keppel in the Hybridizer field, then go down to the Awards field and check the box for Award of Merit. A write-box will appear, type in 200 and you'll get a list of all of his irises that won the AM from 2000 through 2009. Do the search again, except type 201 in the write-box an you'll get a list of his 2010 - 2014 AM winners. Takes just two searches and less than a minute to get a list of his AM winners since the turn of the century. Not as elegant as being able specify a range of dates certainly, but I'd love to know of a faster way to generate such a list. Then say you really like his plicatas and just want to see which of those won the Award of Merit. Do the same searches as above and also check the box for Plicata in the Flower Patterns field and there they are with a mere push of a button. You can dig that sort of information out of other sources, but it will take a fair bit of time and determination to get it. The search possibilities in the Iris Database are really almost endless.
