Dear Mary Sue: Spectacular work. I've forwarded your email to our plant breeder, Dr. Jim Ault, and the horticulture staff at Chicago Botanic Garden. Hope we can get some of these beauties into our displays! Currently we only breed perennials hardy to the Chicago climate, but these images of Gladiolus certainly are sufficient to whet the appetite of any plant breeder. Many thanks, Boyce Tankersley btankers@chicagobotanic.org