A Master Hybridizer of the Past — Sidney Conger
by Ron Killingsworth ca Fall 2007 Sidney Conger was born in July 1924, in his grandparent’s home at Arcadia, La. He died in August 1993, in Houston, Texas, and is buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Ruston, La. Sidney’s wife of almost 40 years, Bette Lee Davis Conger, now resides near her daughter in Maryland. Sidney […]
A Profile of an Iris Hybridizer by Wayland Rudkin*
When I graduated from Tracy Hi in 1942 I had no idea I would be hybridizing irises when I was 80. However, there should have been some clues. The Busch and Lomb Science Award was given to me for taking four years of science classes. My father, wanting to teach me about the birds and […]
Marvin Granger Honored by AIS by Marie Caillet
Congratulations to Marvin Granger of Lake Charles, Louisiana, who was selected at the fall board meeting of the American Iris Society to receive the Distinguished Hybridizer Medal at their annual convention in Memphis, Tennessee, this April. This is quite an honor and especially so for a hybridizer of one of the ‘other irises’ like Louisianas. In round […]
Marvin Granger – In His Own Words
It would take a book-length article to write about and describe all the things and people that influence hybridizing of the Louisiana iris. It all began after World War II, around 1946 or a little later, when I got into the field of serious hybridizing. My sister and I had been collecting the blue GC’s […]
John Taylor Awarded AIS Hybridizer Medal by Marie Caillet
Congratulations to John Taylor, our Louisiana Iris hybridizer from Rainbow Ridge Nursery in Dural, NSW, Australia. Taylor has been voted the Hybridizer Medal of the American Iris Society at their Fall Board Meeting. He is only the third all-Louisiana iris hybridizer to be given such an award by the American Iris Society since it was started in 1941. The other two were Charles W. […]
