WELCOME TO THE IRIS HAVEN WEBSITE
IRIS HAVEN
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
PEACHES IN WINE, the second Australian-bred (and only the third non-US-bred, Louisiana iris) to win the coveted Mary Swords Debaillon Award from the American Iris Society. Hybridiser: Heather Pryor of IRIS HAVEN
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Welcome to the 2009 version of our website. We apologise for the outmoded information that our website has been exhibiting over the last little while. This was due purely to 'other priorities'. All 2009 pages, once updated, will be pale pink in colouration.
Heather's beautiful cultivar, PEACHES IN WINE, has been awarded the Mary Swords Debaillon Award by the American Iris Society for 2006. We are particularly excited at this recent news, as PEACHES IN WINE has been a favourite with our customers for many years. With two MSD Awards heading Down Under to Iris Haven in three years, it would appear that we must be doing something right with our hybridising...
We are pleased to advise that PEACHES IN WINE is once again available for sale during 2009. The 2004 MSD Award winner, HOT AND SPICY, can still be purchased from the "Louisiana iris General listing page A-L". Just scroll down to HOT AND SPICY.
HOT AND SPICY - the first Australian-bred (and only the second non-US bred) Louisiana iris cultivar to win the coveted Mary Swords Debaillon Medal from the American Iris Society. Hybridiser: Heather Pryor of IRIS HAVEN
IRIS HAVEN is a specialist, mail-order, Louisiana iris nursery, located in Sydney, Australia.
Proprietors, Heather & Bernard Pryor, are hybridisers of world-class Louisiana irises. IRIS HAVEN was created to enable them to share their gardening passion with others.
Heather Pryor of IRIS HAVEN and Stephanie Boot of RIVENDELL IRIS GARDENS, NEW ZEALAND comparing their 2007/08 catalogues, which feature the first 'trans-tasman' release of a Louisiana iris cultivar, SUSANNAH FULLERTON (left), SUSANNAH FULLERTON, the iris (centre) and SUSANNAH, the person (right)
Welcome! Well, we are back again for our thirteenth cyber version of our website. We hope that you like the improvements; the clearer photos and the additional information we have recently incorporated into the pages.
The 2007/08 season will celebrate two exciting new additions to our 'family'. Firstly, 2007 will be the first "Trans-Tasman" co-release between IRIS HAVEN here in Australia and RIVENDELL IRIS GARDENS in New Zealand. This is a first for Louisiana iris releases in the southern hemisphere! The cultivar to be given this honour is our own SUSANNAH FULLERTON - which is our premier release for 2007/08. Susannah grew up in New Zealand, but now happily resides in Sydney, Australia with her own young family. We wanted to do something special for her to recognise her true "Trans Tasman" heritage. RIVENDELL IRIS GARDENS is part of the Iris Haven family - and we are thrilled to give this beautiful cultivar such a special welcome to our southern hemisphere customers. For our northern hemisphere customers, please note that SUSANNAH FULLERTON has been available from IRIS CITY GARDENS in the USA since 2005.
The second piece of interesting 'family' news is that renowned and award-winning Louisiana iris hybridiser from Adelaide, SA, Mr. Peter Jackson, has joined our family of Australian hybridisers. Welcome Peter! You will find several of Peter's latest hybridising efforts available for your consideration on our 2007/08 NEW RELEASES page. Peter now joins Don Grieves of Perth, WA and Janet Hutchinson of Sydney, NSW in our 'family'.
Our little family, which started out in 1990 with just Heather & Bernard as hybridisers and IRIS HAVEN as our only sales outlet in 1996 has now grown to encompass Greg and Macey McCullough of IRIS CITY GARDENS in Nashville, Tennessee, USA - plus RIVENDELL IRIS GARDENS in New Zealand. We also have avid supporters in South Africa, Taiwan and Japan. The number of hybridisers that we promote has also grown - as noted above. Who would have thought that something that was initially so small could grow to span the Pacific and Indian Oceans, plus incorporate hybridisers from around Australia in our national and international efforts? We have a happy family indeed - and are proud of it!
Our northern hemisphere shipping period will re-open from about mid March, 2009 onwards and will close at the end of July, 2009. Southern hemisphere shipping will re-commence from approx. 10th December, 2009 onwards until approx. 31st July, 2009.
The 2008/09 pages are all now being loaded - and are pale pink in colouration. The pale lemon-coloured pages have not yet been updated, so if you are interested in something noted on the pale lemon pages - please ask us about availability first!
What is loaded to the pale pink website pages will be valid until approx 31st July, 2009.
Please contact our US agents, Iris City Gardens, if you wish to obtain any of our cultivars - and if you live in the USA. If you live elsewhere in the northern hemisphere - please contact us to ascertain current stock listings. Similarly, please contact our NZ agents, Rivendell Iris gardens, if you wish to obtain any of our cultivars - and you live in New Zealand.
As in the past, we have split our General Louisiana Iris Catalogue listing into two sections. Page 6 is the listing of cultivars available from A-L inclusive and Page 3 is the listing of Louisiana iris cultivars from M-Z inclusive. By splitting the pages we've been able to load more photos.
However, both our regular-height Louisiana iris cultivars AND our shorter-growing Water Sprite cultivars are grouped in straight alphabetical order on the two pages noted above. All of the shorter-growing Water Sprite cultivars are clearly denoted as such.
We have done our best to load as many photos as possible onto these pages, but we have reduced the photo size to allow ease of loading for our non-broadband customers. Should you wish to receive a larger photo of any cultivar, just email us at irishaven@pip.com.au - and we will be happy to send it to you via email.
We've also expanded our Water & Bog Iris/Water & Bog Plant page (page 7) to include an expanded ragne of iris Virginica cultivars - some of which are from our own breeding programmes.
Customers in Australia need to note that all prices on this website are listed WITHOUT GST. When ordering, you need to add the GST payable. Our overseas customers can just work with the prices as listed, as there is no GST payable on export shipments.
AUSTRALIAN CUSTOMERS WILL NEED TO ADD 10% GST TO THE PRICES NOTED ON THIS WEBSITE.
IRIS HAVEN cultivars have been awarded many certificates and awards, both in trial gardens and on the show benches over the last bloom season. Details of these achievements will be listed later.
Welcome to the Iris Haven family of hybiridsers to Peter Jackson (left) and Don Grieves (right) !
Our nursery will remain closed to the public during 2009. We will, however, continue to provide our efficient mail order service to every customer. By keeping our premises closed, we are able to keep our running costs down to a minimum - and this translates to better prices for our customers. Just a very friendly reminder that we are not open to the public, as our premises is not set-up for public visitations. Please don't ask us to open for you to inspect our premises, as we are a mail order nursery ONLY.
Heather will continue with her programme of garden club visits during 2009 (albiet in a smaller, less exhausting way!). If you are intending to visit any of the events listed, please drop by to say hi. Details of Heather's outings - and IRIS HAVEN exhibition details can be found on our "What's Happening At Iris Haven" page (page 8).
NEW ADDITION! We now have a very limited range of potted Tall Bearded irises available. While we have no intention of getting into selling bare-rooted TB irises, we have been asked to fill a hole in the domestic market here in Sydney - so we have risen to the challenge! We may increase our range of potted TB's in the future - but this depends on how popular this small venture becomes....... See Page 15 for further details.
NEW INFORMATION! The folk from STAR WARS have recently asked Heather to provide them with an article about the Iris Haven Louisiana iris cultivar PRINCESS LEIA. If you are a STAR WARS fan (and who isn't?) then you may like to check our Links page, click on the link to the STAR WARS website - and read the article. We are thrilled at this most recent event and hope that you enjoy reading the article. We have plenty of stock of PRINCESS LEIA - see page 3 for the listing.
If we can assist you further in any way - please don't hesitate to contact us via email, telephone or fax. Until then - happy gardening to one and all.
Heather & Bernard PRYOR
IRIS HAVEN
HEATHER PRYOR (left), her namesake Louisiana iris (centre) HEATHER & BERNARD PRYOR (right).
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LINKS PAGE for other iris-related information here
RENEE FLEMING - our southern hemisphere premier release for 2005.
QUEEN JEANNE - our premier release for 2003
IRIS HAVEN
P.O. BOX 6070
BAULKHAM HILLS BUSINESS CENTRE
NSW 2153
AUSTRALIA
TEL (02) 8883 5953 FAX (02) 8883 5954
(International callers need to add their own countries international access code, then add "61" for Australia - and then delete the "0" in the "02" code before calling. ie. 612 8883 5953 is preceeded by your own international access code to call us.)
EMAIL: irishaven@pip.com.au
WEB: www.irishaven.com.au
This page was updated on 15th May, 2009
