Geraniaceae 2011

[Maggi Young]

Thanks Mark.... I was very taken by the black foliage.

[daveyp1970]

This is one of my Favs Geranium Patricia(i have posted this pic on another thread as well)

[maggiepie]

Davey, this is one of my Patricias.
Leaves on yours look much lighter than mine, I wonder if mine is mislabelled.
Both of mine look the same and were bought from different sources.

[daveyp1970]

Helen    I think you are correct mine might be wrong i could have got my labels mixed up when i moved or one of my seedlings flowering ,it could be geranium ann folkard,i will say the sun was bouncing off the foliage at the time,ill have another look tommorow.

[maggiepie]

Davey, I think I'd rather have AF than Patricia after seeing those leaves.

Of course you can always have both 

[mark smyth]

I have an interesting Geranium pratense seedling in the garden. It looks like striatum but has two tone blue flowers

[maggiepie]

Mark, that is a very nice flower.
I like it much better than striatum.
I have yet to see a decent striatum outside a book, I have bought several and they are very wishy washy, no bright blues and white.

[daveyp1970]

I agree with Helen nice flower,i wonder if you pollen dab with that onto another species would it turn up in the babies.

[maggiepie]

This was grown from seed labelled G. yunnanense.
I don't have a clue what it is, have never seen anything like it.
Ideas anyone?

The flowers don't seem to be able to open more than half, very strange.

[Paul T]

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

Mark,

We've also had a Midnight Reiter here as well, with almost black leaves.  None of the Reiters have survived for me.

[mark smyth]

Helen it would be good to see an open flower of your ?yunnanense

Paul I forgot about Midnight Reiter.

[maggiepie]

Mark, I don't think the flowers are going to open more than you see.
The first one has been like it for a week and now appears to be fading.
I have another plant from the same batch of seeds, looks identical and has buds.
Will be interesting to see if flowers do the same thing.

[David Nicholson]

Bit of a long shot I know but I wonder if anyone could have a stab at a name for this. It's been in my garden for years, it's a deeper magenta than it looks on the picture, and forms a neat(ish) 18" mound.

[mark smyth]

Geranium sanguineum or one of it's cultivars

[David Nicholson]

Many thanks Mark.