Viewing post #1105246 by ravenpickers

Hi Greg. Yes, I am well aware that Gary Gossett is the hybridizer of the Pacific series. If I didn't live so far from the PNW, I would have seriously considered stalking him to get the ones I couldn't get. I settled for cyberstalking. From the best I could come up with he doesn't sell, and it appears that he doesn't hybridize semps anymore. I did find a Gary Gossett that hybridizes hostas in California, so I figure that's him, but I'm not sure. I didn't want hostas. The thing that made me think they aren't as hardy, is that I had gotten Pacific Showboat from SMG and had it for two or three years. It was doing great, and I had divided it a few times and had well over 100 plants of various sizes in at least 5 different planters. That hard winter I lost every plant in every planter. I loved that plant though, and now I can't get it. We don't usually have winters that bad. I have other big reds, but I loved the way the tips curved. I have Red Tide. No problem with that one. I've had it for years. I also have no problem with Devil's Food, Knight, Shadows, Purple Shadows, Greensleeves and Red Rose. I've had all of those for years, too. I have others that struggle sometimes, but I haven't lost them. Last year I was really lucky and SMG had some hard to find Pacifics. I got lucky and got Tightwad, Drama, Red Hawk, Clydesdale and a few others. Oops. Just realized how long this post is getting.