Hi guys. Gary is about my age. We met just once about 20 years ago out here at a hosta meeting. Robin Duback organized that hosta meeting and Robin and he were good friends. Gary was in the round robin that was the predecessor to the SFAN group; the robin included Patty Drown, Bill Nixon, Ed Scrocki, Mina Colvin, Helen Payne, Gary and myself. He went to U Chicago for a business degree but did end up working at Terra Nova for a while in the plant breeding program. Cynda just saw him this spring and gave me his email but no response.
His Pacifics are a wonderful series and this year I self-pollinated several of the unusual ones to see what might be behind them. The cross of Frost and Flame X Pacific Blue Ice looks very promising in the one year seedlings. Both are towards blue but they approach blue from two different ways and I wanted to see if the combination could be bluer yet. So far they are. I wish I had 400 instead of 40 to really test out the possibilities of that cross so I may repeat it next season too.
Kevin
