2006 Spring TrekSAN FERNANDO VALLEY IRIS SOCIETYHOSTS THE REGION 15 TREK 2006 APRIL 21 - 23, 2006
Our hotel, the Burbank Media Center Holiday Inn, is a two- tower fully loaded hotel within walking distance of many restaurants and shops in the Burbank Media Center. It has a free shuttle from nearby Burbank Airport (also known as Bob Hope Airport). Hotel parking is free for hotel guests and will be comped for those members living nearby who come and go from the hotel. Our meeting rooms including registration, boutique and raffle rooms will all be centrally located near the elevators below the first floor. Friday, April 21, registration begins at 3 PM. The Raffle and Boutique Room will also be open from 3 PM until 9 PM. Raffle items will include irises, gifts certificates from hybridizers and many many unique iris items that you will want for your home. We even have a couple of Brazilian needlepoint pictures handcrafted by SFVIS= Teddy Cunningham. In addition we have a special raffle prize of a handcrafted clock by SFVIS= Roy Bossier. It mimics those made around the late 1890's, and Keith Keppel has graciously given permission for the use of his iris logo which is carved in the front. It is made of solid walnut and is an eight-day spring wound brass movement that strikes the 2 hour. Our Boutique will have many new and different iris items that you have not seen before. Most have been handcrafted by SFVIS. These will include glass iris pendants, denim purses with iris motifs, notepaper and note cards, and lots more. It is never too early to look for holiday or birthday gifts. Friday evening from 7 PM until 9 PM includes a two hour Judges Training by Eileen Fiumara on Artistic Design. Eileen has won many artistic design awards at SFVIS Shows, as well as other garden club shows in the southern California area. She is an AIS Garden Judge and this JT is not available very often. Saturday morning, April 22, the busses will leave the hotel between 7:15 AM and 7:30 AM. We have six SFVIS gardens on tour spread throughout the San Fernando Valley, and the gardens as a whole include over 300 Guest Irises. In the West Valley, you will visit the large ranch garden of Jan and Mike Lauritzen in Chatsworth, CA. Jan is current SFVIS President and has been a member since 1982. Her husband actually got her started into irising. Nearby will be Randy Squires garden in West Hills. Randy has been hybridizing, growing and selling iris for many years and you will see his seedlings in all of the guest gardens. Both the Squires and Lauritzen gardens have a large selection of Guest Iris. In Canyon Country, you will visit the smaller but eclectic garden of Cheryl and Gary Deaton. Pay close attention to the signs and birdhouses in this gardenBall made by Gary. Cheryl is AIS Youth Chair and will be introducing her first seedling this year. And in nearby Santa Clarita we will visit the garden showpiece of Brian and Leigh Moon. They have been expanding their garden to open it for commercial sale and this will be its debut showing. Much time and effort has gone into redesigning their beds and garden property for this trek. You must see this! The Moon garden also has a large collection of Guest Iris. Moving to the East Valley, you will visit the personal residence garden of Judith and Allen Gasser in Sylmar. Their garden is dominated by a large fish pond that includes water iris, and their garden shows an excellent example of how to interplant roses and other plants with iris. The sixth garden is that of Jill and Joe Bonino in Glendale. While the Guest Iris count in this garden is not large, there are many different iris varieties that hopefully will be in bloom, such as a Louisiana garden, several spuria and two Pacific Coast Native collections, one in the front yard and one in the back. The busses will be back at the hotel by 5 PM on Saturday. This gives everyone an hour and a half to rest and get ready for the Banquet Saturday night. Marky Smith, award winning hybridizer of median iris, from Yakima, Washington will give the after dinner program. It will be the AHistory of Chubby Cheeks@. This will be one of the highlights of the trek as Marky will not be doing programs in the future. Before you check out of the hotel on Sunday morning, April 23, from 9 AM to 11 AM, AIS President (and long time member of SFVIS) Jeanne Plank will give a two hour Garden Judges Training in the Bonino Garden. So there is a total of four hours of Judges Training available throughout the weekend. We know that the AIS Portland Convention is a big draw this year both for
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