Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Aroid collector and Hybridzer New to the group, 0 by bwilliams

bwilliams wrote:
Well I figured I should introduce myself. My name is Brian Williams. I am a avid plant collector, hybridizer and nurseryman. I am 28 years old I have been collecting for 15 years. My father and I own and operate a nursery in Louisville KY. I started collecting carnivorous plants and aquatics at a very young age. I still enjoy them but after a run in with a plant called Cyrtosperma Johnstonii I started collecting aroids. I have bought and traded with friends and collectors around the word. After years of collecting it became hard if not impossible to find new plants that interested me. Some plants took years to track down. So I started getting interested in the possibilities of hybridizing new plants. After one year of breeding and talking to some very interesting famous breeders. I found myself making hundreds to thousands of hybrids a year. Currently I am working on the following groups Cannas, Bananas, Colocasia, Alocasia, Amorphophallus and Anthuriums. But I am a person of opportunity and if something is odd and blooming at the same time I will try to cross it with another similar species. Over the past few years my interest in Canna breeding has really spiked. I have been breeding around 500 cannas or more a year for the past 3 years. Some new interesting things have popped up and I hope to share them with you on the forum. I enjoy talking to other collectors so feel free to contact me or ask questions. THANKS