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
Exciting news has just come to hand in mid July, 2006 that 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...
To purchase your own piece of history, just click on our "Louisiana iris General listing page M-Z" and scroll down to PEACHES IN WINE. The 2004 MSD Award winner, HOT AND SPICY, can 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.
SUSANNAH FULLERTON - our premier release for 2007
EXTRA DAZZLE - our premier release for 2004.
Welcome! Well, we are back again for our twelfth 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.
A whole new range of interesting cultivars from hybridisers in the "Iris Haven family" await your inspection on the 2007/08 NEW RELEASE page.
2007 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. 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, 2008 onwards and will close at the end of July, 2008. Southern hemisphere shipping will re-commence from approx. 10th December, 2007 onwards until approx. 31st July, 2008.
The 2007 pages are all now loaded - and are pale lemon in colouration.
There were no New Release cultivars listed for 2006. Similarly, there were no new 2006/07 "Iris Haven only" Northern Hemisphere cultivars listed in early 2007. What is loaded to the website will be valid until approx 31st July, 2008. We will load early 2008 pages (pale blue) later in 2007.
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.
By far the most exciting event in 2004 has been the awarding of the Mary Swords Debaillon Medal, by judges of the American Iris Society, to our HOT AND SPICY. What a thrill this has been for us! This is the first time that an Australian-bred Louisiana iris cultivar has been awarded the medal. The competition has been running since just before World War II and during that time the medal has only been awarded one other time to a non-US bred Louisiana iris cultivar.
Our HOT AND SPICY remains available from IRIS HAVEN at a competitive price - see it listed on page 6.
RENEE FLEMING - our southern hemisphere premier release for 2005.
Our nursery will remain closed to the public during 2007. 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 2007. 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
QUEEN JEANNE - our premier release for 2003
OUR DOROTHY - our premier release for 2002.
IRIS HAVEN
P.O. BOX 83, PENNANT HILLS NSW 1715
AUSTRALIA
TEL (02) 9144 3805 FAX (02) 9440 0663
(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 9144 3805 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 1st August, 2007
