Geranium, Geum cultivars

[tozi]

Hello, I am looking for plants of the genus Geum, Geranium, Epimedium (only cultivars). It will be a gift for my wife on her name day. Please offer your some plants.

thank you 

[Alan_b]

Are you sure this is worthwhile, Tozi?  Geraniums and Geums aren't usually expensive to buy and I would have thought the cost of shipping some to Slovakia would exceed the cost of buying the plants locally. 

[tozi]

Alan I found a few cultivars in our country. But they are not very nice. 

[David Nicholson]

Are you offering to refund postage (not insubstantial from the UK) and packaging charges?

[Alan_b]

I grow a few geraniums in my garden.  I'm not sure if they are all named cultivars and I have lost track of the names.  They flower well at this time of year but summers here are too dry to get a repeat flowering if I chop them down when the first flowers have finished.  Last weekend I visited an open garden with a good collection of geraniums.  I was particularly impressed with one called 'Orion'.  I gather this is sterile so it flowers particularly well/long.  If I was starting with a clean slate I might try to concentrate on sterile cultivars like that one.  I'm sorry the selection is poor where you are, Tozi.   

[John85]

Alan,
Strange that you say that Orion is sterile.Not in my garden.
May be self sterile ,if the plant is growing alone

[Alan_b]

My information was derived from this article http://www.saga.co.uk/lifestyle/gardening/q-and-a/hardy-geraniums.aspx, specifically the last line of the second paragraph of the response.  Val Bourne knows her stuff, I would think.

Edit by maggi to correct the link.

[Maggi Young]

It is possible for anyone to be mistaken from time to time.
The late, great Alf Evans, for instance, wrote in his book "The Peat Garden" that Scoliopus bigelowii never sets seed - and it  may not have done so for him - but it does do so - regularly in our garden and others.

Usually safer to write that one is unaware of a plant setting seed, and it is thought to be sterile - amazing how often a supposedly sterile clone will produce seed and viable seed  at that. 

[tozi]

Hi folks, at the end I found some cultivars in our country  . So I bought a few plants.