I have lost the Affine, Ali and maybe Cobweb Joy(?). I was in Santa Fe for 13 yrs and yes winter was freezing at 7000 ft altitude and Spokane was also freezing and wet (really wet). But the entire 15 years my semp collection was in flats and under shade cloth during the snow and hot summers.
It is only now that I planted them into a raised bed in cactus mix mixed in with the ground soil that was already in the bed. Did not add sand but could that be such a factor in growing semps? Anyway the arachs were pretty much gone by the time I got back to CA and the few new ones planted are not doing as well as expected (am asking too much?). My planted semp bed is sandwiched between house and fence so summer sun was only getting to it between 10 and 3 or 4. This year we had the 80+ temps and a few weeks of 90+ but I started to shade the bed this last month for the last 2 hours of sun because things were looking brown and crispy.
And Sherri, I do remember the impressive Fuzzy Wuzzy from Seattle! I bought a pot and hope that maybe it survived in my semp bed or is planted in one of my strawberry pots.
