I got curious about Cayeux today too, after seeing one of his beauties, checking the database and being struck dumb that it had never been awarded anything. So then I queried the database for all TBs hybridized by Cayeux. Plenty of them registered, but then filtered that for their Awards of Merit. Amazingly there have been none for Cayeux since 1938. Apparently though the Cayeux family has continued to hybridize beautiful irises, which you can see by their web site and these gorgeous photos, they have not been promoting them in the US, beyond registering them. What a shame! In order to win awards and come to peoples' attention here in the states, they must be grown in U.S. test gardens. Apparently the Cayeux family has not been coming over here to do that. I know that finally there is to be an international competition at the convention in 2020 or 2021 and I certainly plan to make a trip there to see it, despite my age. (I'll crawl if I have to.) I hope that the Cayeux family will finally have a presence there, because I'd really like to see some of these beauties in person!
