Beechgrove Garden

[mark smyth]

If only Magnificum flowered all summer rather than a week or two at the end of May and early June

[mark smyth]

They made a Geranium mistake again - tut tut

Their Geranium psilostemon is, I think, Patricia.

[FrazerHenderson]

Mark

I didn't see that section of the show but G. Patricia is, I think, a smaller hybrid of G. psilostemon but similar in most other respects.

Frazer

[daveyp1970]

Here's my Patricia, i am modifing this post it seems my flower might not be Patricia.

[mark smyth]

misleading info again from the programme

while showing the garden centre type Cyclamen which is everywhere right now the presenter said

"These aren't the house plant Cyclamen. These are little hardy autumn flowering ones. They will run out of steam for winter but they will flower in the autumn"

I feel like emailing them but they the last time I did I got a very nasty email from the programme makers.

[Anthony Darby]

Yes, but you have to remember that these presenters don't have specialised knowledge, so instead of knowing a lot about something they know very little about everything. They see small cyclamen and say "hederifolium", when in fact they are small versions of Cyclamen persicum and won't survive the first serious frost!

[mark smyth]

At a talk on Tuesday I was asked why does C. hederifolium die in the winter. Their local garden centre had labelled their cyclemen as hardy and C. hederifolium.

I went for a look the next day and spoke to the manager who said he bought them as that and that's how they will stay.

[Anthony Darby]

It's so they can sell the 'same' plants to the same infortunate people in a year's time.

[TheOnionMan]

One way to get true plants (for at least the species) to to subscribe to collector's seed shares, such as Chris Chadwell's 2011 Himalayan seed prospectus.  Earlier this summer he sent me seed of Geranium himalayense with a collector number, I sowed the seed outdoors in the garden straight away, and I was suprised to seed one seedling plant came up early. Can't wait to see it mature, the photos of it look yummy.
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