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About Bill Tyson, Owner |
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About Bill Tyson, Owner:
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Bill was raised in the California Bay Area (Fremont, CA) where he tried his hand at
showing and breeding Dahlias while in high school (many moons ago). He attended San Jose State
University where he received a degree in
Entomology and was working toward his Masters when drafted into the
Army. He spent 3 years working at the United States National Museum
on a Mosquito project in Washington, D.C. and then returned to
California and began work with the California Department of Food and
Agriculture. In 1984 a neighbor, Dr. John Weiler of Fresno State,
gave him a few named Iris varieties and the rest is history.
He has dabbled with hybridizing off and on for a number of years but jumped in big-time a few years ago and his first introduction, Jessica Susanne, is the result. It is named after his daughter who he insists is his last introduction from that line of breeding. Bills' interests are the oddball, strange and disillusioned iris. Those with horns, stripes, varigated foliage.... Typical of left coast, non mainstream philosophy. However, he never tosses a deserving self or plicata he finds in his seedling patch. If anyone has questions about his hybridizing efforts, he welcomes them....
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