I'm on holiday phd dissertation writing and editing His brother was married to Susan Bliss, immortalised by a pink iris named in 1922. There is also a 'Duke of Bedford’ (1922) and somewhere a pretty lavender called 'Phyllis Bliss’ (1919) which is on Anne’s most-wanted list. “Generally, Bliss didn’t name irises after people,” Anne says. “He always said he didn’t want to discard a friend.” So it is especially intriguing to know who 'Mrs Valerie West’ was.