NEWS & EVENTS

Newcomers and guests are always welcome at ISM events. Also posted here are events around the region and national events. If you have questions, please feel free to contact us.

2025

• Saturday, February 15, starting at 10:30 AM - 4:00 PM - Winter ISM Hybridizers' Meeting
  Meeting at a NEW location, First Religious Society, 27 School St. Carlisle, MA 01741.
  


• Saturday, March 22, 10:30 AM -4:00 PM - ISM Spring Meeting and Photo Contest
  Meeting at our new location: First Religious Society, 27 School St. Carlisle, MA 01741.


• Saturday, May 31 - ISM and Region 1 Spring Garden Tours and Judges' Training
  Bev Steiner's gardens at 18 Patterson Road in Shirley, MA and Jan Sacks' and Marty Schafer's Joe Pye Weed's gardens at 337 Acton St. in Carlisle, MA.


• Saturday, July 26 - ISM Rhizome Sale 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM (or until we sell out)
  At Verrill Farm, 11 Wheeler Rd, Concord, MA 01742. Opens to the public at 11:00 AM until 3:00 PM or whenever we sell out of plants, whichever comes first. If you would like to help with pre-sale preparation (trimming and marking rhizomes), contact Sarah Cummer (greater Boston and metro-west) or Stephanie Markham (metro-south/southwest). They will be arranging for collection, trimming, and labeling crews before the sale.
  
  The FLYER for the sale, is available in JPG format here and PDF format here. Please feel free to print/post wherever you think folks will see it!


• Sunday, August 3 - Noon-4:00 PM - ISM Auction
  Members auction of newer irises (and other things), outdoors, under a canopy at Toadland Gardens (home of Stephanie Markham & Larry Wilson), 22 Lawrence Street, Norfolk, MA 02056. Lunch and socializing at noon, auction starts at 1:00 PM. BYO chair and lunch, drinks and snacks will be available.


• Saturday, October 4 - AIS Region 1 Annual Fall Meeting
  At the First Religious Society, 27 School St. Carlisle, MA 01741.. Our speaker will be Lynda Miller, renowned hybridizer from Canby, Oregon. Lynda hybridizes bearded irises in a wide range of classes, including MDBs, SDBs, MTBs (tetraploid and diploid), IBs, BBs, and TBs. While she currently sells her irises through Mid-America Gardens, she and her husband Roger also run Miller’s Manor Gardens, a small retail and wholesale nursery with extensive display gardens, showcasing rare and unusual miniature and dwarf conifers, hardy fuchsias, rock garden and alpine plants, irises, and various other perennials for sun and shade. A portion of Lynda's presentation will be offered as judges' training.