Geraniaceae 2011

[mark smyth]

Mark,
Rosie's garden plants also has a pink wallichianum.Do you know it?
Is there a difference with the one at the garden centre?
I grow two pink forms but none is pale pink.
Has anyone rooted cuttings or layers of G.wallichianum?

John I have lots of pink wallichianums that are self sown. They range from small to normal large flowers, dark pink, light pink and white eyes. I have one that is almost as good as Rozanne and a Rozanne lookalike.

The garden centre plant is palest pink almost white with a hint of pink.

I've heard that G. wallichianum can be propogated from stem cuttings but I've never tried it.

I found a white seedling in the garden yesterday.

[Tim Ingram]

Mark, I used to have that superb Geranium 'Salome' that came from Washfield Nursery. We used to propagate this from stem cuttings taken early on as the plant came into growth (a bit like you would asters and other late flowering perennials). This worked well but there was never much material!

[mark smyth]

I would expect G. Salome to work because one of it's parents is G. procurrens. It roots at it's nodes as it creeps over the ground

[Tim Ingram]

You might think so but I never found that with Salome in the garden and I don't think taking nodal sections of stem works, though i wait to be proved wrong!

[mark smyth]

Tim I read wrong and now see you did stem cutting

[mark smyth]

I have a Geranium that needs a name. I didnt buy it and I dont know where it came from. 

It produces creeping or upward scrambling stems. The leaves are paired along the stems. The flowers come in pairs from the leaf axils giving 4 flowers per pair of leaves.

What is it?

[zephirine]

'Kashmir Pink' maybe? Just a thought....

[John85]

No Zephirine it isn't.The petals of Kashmir Pink are much wider,they overlap even.
Mark, when does it flower?

[mark smyth]

it flowers now

Kashmir White

[mark smyth]

Today while sunning myself I decided to gather a posy of all the Geranium wallichianum seedlings in the garden. It's the same flowers from different angles to show the variety. Blues dominate with pink seedlings very few. Pinks, in my garden, are always dirty pink or dirty pink with a white eye mich like a pink Rozanne

[maggiepie]

Beautiful, Mark.
I have some seedlings that need to be planted out.
You've just given me the push I needed.

[David Nicholson]

Throughout the Cotswolds hedge bottoms and verges were mass of lovely blue Geraniums and of course I didn't have my camera with me. The blue is difficult to describe, more of a lilac/blue than a Man City/Coventry City type blue (that'll baffle the non football fans!) almost fluorescent. Can anyone hazzard a guess at what it might be from my non-botanical description please?

[daveyp1970]

Throughout the Cotswolds hedge bottoms and verges were mass of lovely blue Geraniums and of course I didn't have my camera with me. The blue is difficult to describe, more of a lilac/blue than a Man City/Coventry City type blue (that'll baffle the non football fans!) almost fluorescent. Can anyone hazzard a guess at what it might be from my non-botanical description please?

meadow cranesbill(Geranium pratense)David,its bar far one of the best sights at the sides of roads etc up here as well.

[David Nicholson]

Many thanks Dave.

[Roma]

Geranium argenteum
I need to clear some space around it.  I had two grown from seed a few years ago and moved one which died so I should really be looking after this one better.