Photo by Joshua McCoy/Daily News Warren Central High School seniors and coach Bill Cox lead camp participants in a speed and fundamentals drill Tuesday afternoon at Warren Central High School. The camp was open to boys in the third to eighth grades.

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The public can enjoy Breakfast at Tiffany's and three other themes of categories of iris arrangements Saturday during the Southern Kentucky Iris Society Show and Sale at William H. Natcher Elementary School.

“Each class has a name and you have to work the theme into your design,” said Estle Hughes, a society member.

In addition to Breakfast at Tiffany's, in which irises have to be part of a table setting, the

categories in which iris growers will enter their flowers include Pearls of the Orient, for simple line designs in the Oriental manner with water showing; Diamonds in the Rough, for designs incorporating weathered wood; and The Crown Jewels, which will feature line mass designs, which are shaped arrangements with many flowers.

The arrangements will be judged for ribbons by certified judges from the American Garden Society.

They can be seen from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at Natcher, where the Iris Society planted and cares for a garden featuring several hundred irises of different names and colors.

Hughes thinks the public will enjoy seeing the irises.

“I think they are just about as delicate as an orchid,” he said. “Each bloom has a different look, color and contrast and they're nice to work with.”

At his home, Hughes has about 200 irises of different names.

At Saturday's show and sale, the public can order irises from Iris Society members who have arrangements in the competition or from the iris garden at Natcher.

“They'll be dug in July,” said Shirley Leath, publicity chairwoman for the show and sale.

Money made from the sale will benefit the Iris Society, which has 30 members from all across southern Kentucky and Tennessee.

Those interested in joining the society can talk to members about it Saturday.

“It's open to anybody,” Leath said. “The dues are $5 a year.”

At monthly meetings, society members learn how to grow and care for irises, many of which bloomed early in southcentral Kentucky this year.

“We have people who have been in it for years and are quite experienced” and willing to share their expertise, Leath said.

For more information about the Southern Kentucky Iris Society Show and Sale or the Iris Society, call Leath at 843-4832, or Hughes' wife, Irene Hughes, who is treasurer of the society, at 781-2012.