Re: Re: AIS: AIS/TBIS:preview of gardens

Arnold Koekkoek wrote:


The first time I attended a regional convention was in Omaha in May, 1989, the
year before the national convention was to be held there.  The meeting of the
regional was deliberately there and then in order to see how the gardens were
shaping up for the national.  I doubt if a single person who attended the
regional and toured the gardens that year skipped the national the following
year because they'd seen it all already.
Good point, Arnold.

But people from farther away, who have to pay hundreds of dollars to fly, and hundreds of dollars for the hotel, and hundreds of dollars for registration and other meals, can be limited to one convention per year.

Others are limited by available time off work.

In an ideal world, we all would spend at least two months a year going to iris conventions in the northern hemisphere, and almost that much in the southern hemisphere.

But few can attend more than their own regional and the national, if that.

I wish that "having seen the iris" were the only issue.

Gerry

PS Another item, which may or not be valid: People in your region had done all the work in setting things up, most importantly the guest irises. Giving them a preview is fine. TBIS coming in and previewing could be seen by some as poaching. Others would see it as expanding the value of work already done. I am not smart enough to tell which is valid.

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