(updated 07/2009)
A Convention To Remember
2008 National Japanese Iris
Kalamazoo, MI, July 3, 4, 5
Printable registration form is now available on line. Click HERE!
Click HERE for hotel information.
You are all invited to come to Kalamazoo for a good time. There will be 2 large gardens and 2 other very well landscaped gardens with JIs on tour for your enjoyment. There will be 2 days of tours so we promise not to wear you out.
We have planted 129 guest irises from 16 hybridizers.
Special features include a Thursday night light warm meal, another “famous fish fry” for one lunch, a Friday night outdoor grille, and of course we will have Anita doing another superb banquet.
There will be an auction of plants with proceeds going to the SJI Section.
The venue will be the Latvian Heritage Center. (For directions to the Latvian Heritage Center, click HERE) Several nearby motels will be selected for your room reservations.
Everyone is invited to bring their slides of JIs and Pseudatas to show on Thursday night. You will be allowed up to 15 minutes for your slides.
There will also be one hour of garden training on JIs and one hour of garden training on Pseudatas.
Cost will be $125 if received by May 15th and $150 if received after May 15th.
Registrations should be mailed to:
Jim Welch
9087 S 6th St.
Kalamazoo, MI 49009
Phone 269-544-2211
E-mail: joejoe500@sbcglobal.net
For more information contact:
Jim Copeland, Chairman
78118 M-40
Lawton, MI 49065
Phone 269-624-1968
E-mail jandjcope@aol.com