Duck River Garden Club hosts Ruth Bennett, “The Iris Lady,” Monday, May 11, at 7 p.m. at Lymes’ Senior Center, Town Woods Rd., Old Lyme.

Bennett will present a program titled, ‘In the Garden – Dividing Iris.’  She is the Treasurer of the Connecticut Iris Society and a Master Judge for the American Iris Society.

Bennett will share her knowledge of irises grown in Connecticut with a focus on those irises bred by hybridizers here in New England.  Learn when and how to divide iris plants.

Bennett grows more than 150 iris varieties at her East Haddam home.