Geraniaceae 2011

[maggiepie]

Zephirine, not nodosum.

Mark, GA=geraniums anonymous 

Here's a pic of a leaf, not a very good pic though.

[mark smyth]

I havent quite quit GA.

[John85]

Helen
Have a look at G.koreanum and see if the description match your plant.

[maggiepie]

John, the flower is similar but the leaves on this plant aren't marbled.

[mark smyth]

Here's the flower of G. koreanum

It is possible Helen flower is a hybrid with G. nodosum

[maggiepie]

Mark, anything is possible, the seeds came from the Geranium Society as G. refractum.

[Maggi Young]

Saw a very nice geranium today.... very dark purple foliage  almost blackish with lovely good sized lilac purple flowers. About 30 cms high, neat plants.  No name 

[maggiepie]

Here's a better pic of the leaf of the not refractum geranium.

[maggiepie]

Saw a very nice geranium today.... very dark purple foliage  almost blackish with lovely good sized lilac purple flowers. About 30 cms high, neat plants.  No name 

Maggi, there is a series of very dark leafed geraniums with Reiter in the name.
There's also one named Hocus Pocus.

[Maggi Young]

Thanks Helen... I'll have a poke around the catalogues!

[mark smyth]

pratense Victor Reiter/Puple Heron/Victor Reiter jnr ..... There is a now a white flowered form

[mark smyth]

Thanks Helen... I'll have a poke around the catalogues!

I'll send you one

[Maggi Young]

Hey, Mark... you have that one? I've just checked and it is surely Hocus Pocus.... looks just like this photo
http://timoilves.planet.ee/haljastus/photos/Geranium%20Hocus%20Pocus.jpg
 with big full flowers.... some of the other s listed in a google search under that name have more thin, starry flowers... I like fat and round.......

[mark smyth]

Maggi I think the purple leaved Geranium pratense are too much the same except of the white flowered plant

I have a 'black' leaved pratense for you

[mark smyth]

Helen I think your Geranium might have G. psilostemon in it's genes. Actually that's a stupid idea because I would have expected psilostemon influenced flowers