Pelargonium species

[mark smyth]

Yes I know I was stoopid tagging the images here. Maybe the Hand of Maggi will come in?

Here are 'your' leaf photos.
P. zonale leaf
P. 'The Boar'
the hybrid
P. scandens

[Maggi Young]

There you go.... a "pellie" page in Flowering Now! No need to thank me, just keep sending the chocolate

[Paul T]

Sorru Maggi.... too tight to spend money on sending chocolates to you.... you'll just have to be happy with my Thanks instead.  THANKS MAGGI!!

Thanks for the leaf pics Mark.  I love 'The Boar' in particular.

[mark smyth]

sorry Maggi I didnt thanks you for moving all the images to here. Thanks! 

I have added some of my Pelarginiums to youtube
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=sandersii&p=r

[Anthony Darby]

Nice flower on that one too.  Could you possibly photograph a leaf as well, to show what you mean by the difference?

Thise stuff should really all be in a Pelargonium thread rather than here in the ID section.  Too interesting to be hidden away here in the bowels of the SRGC.

edit by Maggi.... and so it has been moved to Flowering Now!!

Does this constitute a bowel movement?

[ChrisB]

 

[Gail]

We were at Stourhead on Sunday.  Richard Colt Hoare, who owned Stourhead in the early 1800's, had a collection of some 600 Pelargonium varieties and the National Trust are trying to recreate a collection of historic varieties.  The original conservatory is long gone but they have bought a Victorian glasshouse from a garden in Sussex to house the collection.

First six pictures general views then;
Pelargonium abrotanifolium
P. burtoniae
P. 'Copthorne'
P. cotyledonis

[Gail]

'Crimson Unique'
P. felicifolium (I'm not sure if that name is correct??  Could be P. denticulatum 'Filicifolium')
P. lanceolatum
Scarlet Pet
P. sidoides
A Happy Thought
Blanfordianum
cucullatum
Distinction
grandiflorum

[Gail]

Miss Burdett Coutts
Red Black Vesuvius
Renate Parsley
P. reniforme
Shrubland Pet
White Unique
x apiifolium
x ardens
a more spreading plant of x apiifolium

[mark smyth]

that that was a lovely day out!

[maggiepie]

Gail, how many are in the collection now?
I love Renate Parsley, the leaves look very similar to one of my erodiums.

[Gail]

I didn't do a head count but according to their website, about 60 taxa.

http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-stourhead/w-stourhead-garden/w-stourhead-garden-plant_collection.htm

The gardener has an interesting blog here;
http://trustgardening.wordpress.com/

[fermi de Sousa]

Gail,
that's a great number of Pellies! Thanks for taking the time to post them for us to see.
"Renate Parsley" looks similar to "Splendide", which is a P. tricolor hybrid, I think.
cheers
fermi

[maggiepie]

Gail, thanks for the links.

[Gail]

On Tuesday I went to Fibrex nurseries at Pebworth near Stratford-on-Avon which has the National Collection of Pelargoniums, including a large number of the species.  Fascinating place and they were having an 'end-of-season' sale of Pelargoniums at £1 each so I came away with rather more than were on my shopping list, although sadly they were out of some of the ones I wanted like P. caffrum and schizopetalum.  Richard Key the co-owner has recently married Heather Angrave who runs the Old Walled Garden nursery in Kent and she has moved her stock to Fibrex so they have also got a wonderful range of interesting shrubs and conservatory plants such as hibiscus, correas and callistemons.  I didn't realise till reading her list when I got home that she also has that most alien of plants Strongylodon macrobotrys, the Jade Vine - probably as well as I may have done something rash (plants are listed at £40!).

First 7 pics, general views
P. Schotti
Diana Hull
Monstrum