Re: REB: cycle rebloom (was experiments..)

Thanks, Loic. I will look into ANGEL HEART. LOW HO SILVER continues to rot here, I'm sure, but since I only remember to look at it when it is blooming, I don't notice. ;-)
I suspect you don't get quite the extremes of freeze damage there as here, but I am "happy" (?) to hear you are going to be selecting seedlings in a wet foliage environment. 

I haven't tried many of Aitken's introductions.
I'm curious, do Innerst introductions do well for you? The ones I've tried tend to make healthy foliage here (no small accomplishment with constant wet foliage), but severity of late freezes here often knocks out blooms (or worse).
My biological monitor for how severe the winter/spring damaging freezes have been to early and mid-season bloom is how tall Lamium purpureum grows. If it's mostly 4 inches tall in bloom, the rollercoaster weather has been severe.
This year, it's well over a foot tall - a good sign! It's smothering the irises, which isn't good, but unless hail or a record late frost or a herd of elephants shows up to destroy bloom, this could be another great bloom season. 
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