'KATRINA RISING'
The DeBaillon Medal is restricted to Louisiana (LA) irises. It is named in honor of Mary Swords DeBaillon (1888-1940). Mary DeBaillon realized how varied Louisiana irises were and what lovely garden plants they were. Mary DeBaillon amassed the largest collection of Louisiana irises in the world. She was tireless in promoting these irises as good garden plants and in encouraging any who would listen to grow them. She gained considerable fame as a naturalist and native plant collector.
Previous awards winners can be found at https://wiki.irises.org/Main/InfoAwards.
photo by Patrick O'Comnor
'Katrina Rising' ( Patrick O’Connor, R. 2015) Seedling 12-09. LA, 28-32" (71-81 cm), Midseason bloom. Standards deep red-orange; style arms ivory with light red-orange wash; falls deep red-orange on upper half, lower half a mix of red-orange veins over yellow ground, yellow thumbprint signal with darker yellow center line; all petal edges outlined yellow. Seedling 06-31: (seedling 00-17: ('Hurricane Colin' x 'Tchoupitoulas') x 'Mister Joe') X 'Andouille'. Louisiana Iris Gardens 2016.
The World of Irises blog will be posting classification medal winners as soon as the hybridizers are notified. The entire list of winners, including Award of Merit and Honorable Mention, will be published on the AIS website, the AIS Encyclopedia, and later in the AIS Bulletin, IRISES.
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