lovemyhouse said:Vendors need to give Brad commissions.

I have a feeling that Brad loves photography & irises so much that money isn't the objective.

No, Brad wouldn't do it for money--that would be a job and he already has his hands full with his two businesses and building a house. But maybe they could let him have his pick of Iris every year? All band together and give him a big Chihuly Iris sculpture? A traveling monument for their fields, sort of like the Stanley Cup? He certainly deserves some recognition from vendors and/or hybridizers given how much sales traffic his photographs generate for them.

I Know I've supported the Iris industry because of the gorgeous photographs Brad posts and not to forget ATP for giving us the threads to post them on.

Love the Chihuly suggestion, Debra! Brad had been most generous...and enabling!

@cbunny41 - I think these guys have the iris you're looking for

http://williamsonfarmflowers.c...

Definitely Brad should be a recipient of the Enablers Cup 2015-2016.

I'm trying to get 3 or 4 Keppel 2016 intros due to his friendly volunteer marketing of photography.

Gabriel

Darcy,

Thanks for the reference.

Sherry reminded me of a hybridizer that was with us and then gone too soon.
Monty Byers had a true passion for iris.
I had the good fortune to see his seedling bed the year he had 15,000 seedlings blooming.
Some of his iris people love (like Conjuration) and some not so much (like Thornbird, you love it or hate it.)
Either way, he was good for iris.

Conjuration

How can anyone hate Thornbird? It is such a cool Iris!!!

I got 2 Byers last year. Thornbird and Starship. Can't wait for blooms this spring!

What fun, Celia!! And we'll be waiting for pictures!

His catalogue was really fun to read. I have the last one somewhere just for the fun.

I had forgotten that about his catalogues.

Douglas Kanarowski is new too me, but I have ordered some of his this this year. I may now want this one too

Douglas Kanarowski is new too me, but I have ordered some of his this this year. I may now want this one too

http://www.mariposairis.com/ma...

Sorry for the duplicate. Cellphone error

Jus had to stun us twice to make sure, eh Gabe?

Maybe he works for the Department of Redundancy Department???

I'd like that one for the name alone, and it is an attractive flower, too.

We liked Lucy's MTB (My Rust) in Oregon thought it looked great in the convention Beds at Mid America