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2015 GNOIS Calendar

The next GNOIS General Membership meeting will be held on Saturday morning, Saturday, March 14 from 10 AM till noon in the Playhouse at Longue Vue. The program and other details will be posted soon and email will be sent out. Mark your calendars for this and other upcoming events!

Saturday, January 24, 10:00 AM - Noon	GNOIS Meeting	Longue Vue in the Playhouse
Saturday, March 14, 10:00 AM - Noon	GNOIS Meeting	Longue Vue in the Playhouse
Sunday, April 5 (hours TBA)	Louisiana Iris Rainbow Festival	Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden
Tuesday, April 7, 4PM - 7PM	Caroline Dormon Day Iris Celebration	Wild Garden at Longue Vue
Thursday, April 9 - Sunday April 13	Society for Louisiana Irises Annual Convention	Lafayette (details here)
Saturday, May 23, 10:00 AM - Noon	GNOIS Meeting	Longue Vue in the Playhouse
Saturday, September 26, 10:00 AM - Noon	GNOIS Meeting	Longue Vue in the Playhouse
Saturday, October 17, 10:00 AM - Noon	Louisiana Iris Sale	Longue Vue

Third Tuesdays in the Sculpture Garden

Next date:March 17, 9:00 AM - Noon in the Master Gardeners Super Plant Garden and in the Louisiana Iris Display Garden in the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden. (There will be no session on March 17 due to Mardi Gras).

At each of the Third Tuesday Sessions, there will be some cultural demonstration and a few take-homes irises for those who help. There are always experienced Louisiana iris growers present if you want to ask questions of just chat about the irises.

GNOIS Members Working at Third Tuesday

GNOIS Members Benny Trahan, Roland Guidry and Linda Trahan working in the Guest Iris beds in the Sculpture Garden on the workday in May.

If you have good pictures of your spring iris bloom and want to submit them for the website, send them to: webmaster@louisianairisgnois.com

The SLI Annual Convention a great success in N.O.

GNOIS hosted the Society For Louisiana Irises Annual Convention from April 3-5, 2014. The combin-ation of convention activities and the Louisiana Iris Rainbow Festival in the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden on April 6 made for a great iris weekend.

Information on the weekend, including the Iris Show in the Museum of Art is coming soon.

Click on the convention link to see what was planned. And come back here or the GNOIS Facebook page for more coverage soon.

Above: Mardi Gras Mambo, winner of Best Seedling in Show.

GNOIS and St. Paul's in Covington Partner for Campus Beautification and More

The Greater New Orleans Iris Society is a Service Partner to the Beautification Committee of St. Paul's School in Coving-ton. GNOIS Member Linda Trahan, the Beautification Committee chair, presented the opportunity to GNOIS to help enhance the campus with a wide variety of Louisiana irises that will be prominent among the many varieties of plants added to embellish the already beautiful school grounds.

For information, go to the St. Paul's page.

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