HYB: ?Summer Pink?

Betty has mentioned that all? of her rebloom lines trace back to ...uh
oh, memory lapse..GIBSON GIRL?  via Smith rebloomers.

I've noticed that most/all of the everbloomers that do well here have
both Smith and G. P. Brown rebloomers in their pedigrees.  And G.P. B's
rebloomers did not come from Gibson breeding, or if they did, they sure
lost all the good bloom characteristics. <g>

My impression is that, without the G.P.B. genes, rebloomers aren't
everbloomers.  But maybe that's just here at my place.

Shift gears a bit to pinks.  All the "cold climate" pinks that rebloom
seem to be short, as are most of the Smith rebloomers, regardless of
color.

I wondered if pink (orginally from variegata?) and rebloom (also thought
to be originally from ...dwarf something?) might be travelling together.

But then LAURA JEAN, registered as a 32" rebloomer (Virginia) put up a
tall stalk here.

So I went rummaging thru pedigrees and found that LAURA JEAN'S daddy is
JEAN GUYMER, a pink everbloomer, registered at 36".  JG's daddy is
SUMMER PINK, also tall, and presumably everbloomer with that name.

SUMMER PINK is from El Dorado Gardens, in Kansas.  From a search of the
online database, it looks like there might have been some connection
with the Sass breeding lines.

I've been saving this question for you Neil, hoping you'd be back
talking with us.

Do you have any guesses whether or not SUMMER PINK might or might not
have been related to the Gibson plicata rebloomer genes?  Or from the
same sources as the G.P.B. rebloomers?  Or something else all together?

The pedigree gives no clue - it just says "from two pink seedlings".

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