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In her honor, the Ethel Anson S. Peckham Award for Historic Iris was established in 2000 by the AIS. [8] Some of Peckham's paintings and copper engravings of irises are held by the American Iris Society. [1] Her iris paintings are included in the 2006 book Classic Irises and the Men and Women Who Created Them. [9]
The main house at Allgates was designed by Philadelphia architect Wilson Eyre, and the estate is now on the National Register of Historic Places. The centerpiece of Lloyd's landscaping was a bowl-shaped iris garden roughly 100 feet in diameter, consisting of four concentric terraces descending to a sunken grassy area with a tiled pool in the ...
Iris histrio, the Syrian iris, is a species in the genus Iris, it is classified in the subgenus Hermodactyloides and section Reticulatae. It is a bulbous perennial from Central Asia: Kyrgyzstan, Israel, Lebanon, Syria and southern Turkey. It was first collected by Charles Gaillardot in Lebanon in 1854.
A deep red-purple cultivar that was one of the first modern irises bred out of Iris trojana, [5] Morning Splendor went on to win both the Gold and Silver Medals of the Garden Club of America in 1926 and to become the ancestor of other successful varieties. Shull also served an accredited judge for the AIS and won the society's Distinguished ...
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Birmingham, Alabama. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts ...
575 Glen Iris Dr., NE. ... Knox Apartments, Cauthorn House and Peachtree Road Apartments Historic District: March 19, 1998 : 2214–2230 Peachtree Rd.
Presby Memorial Iris Gardens is a nonprofit, living museum specializing in iris flowers, located at 474 Upper Mountain Avenue, Montclair in Essex County, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States. The gardens are situated on 6.5 acres. Adjacent to the gardens is a Victorian house, the Walther House.
Iris is a flowering plant genus of 310 accepted species [1] with showy flowers.As well as being the scientific name, iris is also widely used as a common name for all Iris species, as well as some belonging to other closely related genera.