AIS: HIPS: CULT: specific Symposium suggestion & TBIS?

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I am a bit hesitant to suggest this, because I haven't mailed my votes
yet (well, I forgot...)

One thing I would really like to see is TB symposium results posted on
the web somewhere by REGIONS.   

And I would also really like to see a separate write-in popularity poll
by regions.  What everybody has said about not doing write-ins makes
excellent sense to me at the national level, but I think the opposite is
true at the regional, or better yet, state level.  In other words, the
problem of having some cultivars only being popular in a few regions
because they grow well there, but not in others, is very useful
information for selecting "new" cultivars to try.  

The HIPS popularity poll, by decade, has some of the same limitations as
the AIS symposium (very few voters and a big regional skew) but it's
like a reverse image in some ways - my impression is that quite a few
'HIPSters' are attracted to older irises because they are trying to grow
irises in less than ideal growing conditions, so hunt for the 'cream of
the crop' as far as growth and durability goes.  Sort of a popularity
poll by survival <g>.  When I look over the HIPS list of most popular by
decade, I see irises that won't grow that well here but do grow well
farther north (colder zone 7 than me or less) or in drier climates.

So I would like to see some organization with wider membership than
HIPS, maybe HIPS in conjunction with TBIS or AIS or both? do a
popularity poll, by regions, for older TBs.

Maybe this could be an opportunity for TBIS & AIS to collaborate?  Have
a mailer in both magazines? Might even draw new members to HIPS?

And because this would be for older irises, it wouldn't have to be
conducted every year.

Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8, with WAYYY too many irises
already, so why do I want to hear about MORE potential good ones????
This is a serious disease!!!
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