- Hello New Members-
Welcome to the Missoula Iris Society (MIS). We hope you will join us
in our activities this year.
The iris society has been around Missoula since the mid 1950’s and
we think we’ve aged well. Our public iris display garden at Fort
Missoula is our main year round project. The garden was created in
1981 by a handful of members; we celebrated it’s 25th anniversary in
2006 with a rededication , renovation plan and a published history
booklet..
Our group meets on the first Saturday of each month, unless a
holiday falls on that weekend. We do not meet in August. We’re a
sociable group, so we enjoy meeting at members’ homes, starting at
6:30 p.m. with a potluck supper. Our business meeting follows,
lasting about 30 minutes, and is often followed by a gardening
program of some type. It’s a relaxed atmosphere and you are welcome
to come for a “trial” visit the first time to see if you would like
to join us.
We do have a web site: it is www.missoulairis.com. As a paid member,
you will receive our newsletter each month, about a week or so prior
to the next meeting. If you have an e mail, we will send you a
notice that the newsletter is now available on our website so you
can download and print it. Otherwise we’ll mail the newsletter by
“snail mail”.
Our dues are only $10.00 per year and run from January to December
31. When you join, you will also receive a printed membership list
with phone numbers, a packet of iris information and a free copy of
our historical booklet, “Fifty years of iris growing, 25 years of
iris showing”, which we published in 2006.
We do hope you will attend our once a month meeting get-togethers,
because we have a lot of fun and the food is great. We think you
will enjoy making new gardening friends. We also hope you will enjoy
participation in our major events during the summer, mainly the
garden tour which is every other June, a median iris show in late
May, the standard iris show at the mall in June, and our major fund
raising event, which is the rhizome sale on the last Saturday of
July. We support the public iris display garden at Fort Missoula
with our fund raising, and we have several fun work parties during
the season to maintain our public gardens.
Our officers are:
President Ed Verplancke, 728-9376,
acervenak@hotmail.com
Vice-President Betty Ann Gustafson, 251-3526
Secretary Jim Sadler 728-4743,
sadlerjim@msn.com
Treasurer, Swede Gustafson, 251-3526,
swedeandba@onlinemt.com
Membership, Carol Addeo, 251-5833,
carolyn@montana.com
MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION
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