species Pelargoniums - OP

[mark smyth]

glad you liked them.

I've just gone outside to have a look at my Pelargonium seedlings. I got up early today to plant my P. carnosum sprouted seeds in modules with everything else. They are up already and by tomorrow morning their seed leaves will be open. Stunning!!

[mark smyth]

I always tell people I dont grow enough from seed which is true but when I was outside taking photos I thought I do grow from seeds but only easy plants that need no or little care

Here are some of my seedling Pelargoniums. What a stoopid time of year to start them! I should have sown them 4 months ago.

P. barklyi - named after Sir Henry Barkly Gov of Cape of Good Hope 1870
P. myrrhifolium - similar to the leaves of Myrrh
P. myrrhifolium var corandrifolium - more finely divided leaves than above
P. papilionaceum (one L) - flowers like a butterfly
P. ranunculophyllum - Ranunculus leaved and a form of P. alchemilloides
P. 'Scandens' zonale x inquinans same cross as P. x kewense found at Kew in 1932. 'Climber'
P. zonale - needs no intro does it?

[Maggi Young]

Lovely healthy babies, Mark. How will you treat them overwinter?

[mark smyth]

with crossed fingers and toes! Some of these, like P. barklyi, growth from bulbs so I'll dry them off. The parents of bedding plants will come into the sun room and be kept on the dry side

[mark smyth]

here's two general shot of my seedlings including the P. carnosum that are already getting their fattened stems

[Maggi Young]

These close-up shots of P. carnosum are most interesting... almost succulent and so hairy...I would never have  recognised it as a pelargonium, such is my ignorance

[mark smyth]

Here is what the seddling P. carnosums will grow in to and at the bottom Fermi's Pelargonium denticulatum

[mark smyth]

here are some of the seedlings now

[pel1]

I've just been directed to this thread by Maggi, how did those seedlings turn out, Mark?

[mark smyth]

Unfortunately all I kept are in the bin because they died in the December/January frosts

[pel1]

What a shame, looked like they were going really well. I think a lot of plants that normally struggle through a winter will have died this year.

[fermi de Sousa]

Mark,
I got P. alchemilloides to germinate and it is now flowering and seeding in the shade-house! How much frost do you think it will take? - we get down to -7^oC usually.
One seedling of P scabrum came up last year and may flower soon.
Having the tray of seedpots knocked over did not help much when it came to germinating these! I wasn't sure it was the true seedling when the P. scabrum came up as it was in an area where P. iocastrum has gone a little wild and I thought it might've sown itself into the pot!
cheers
fermi

[Ezeiza]

Fermi, yes to -7 C and below. Here it has naturalized and look quite different depending on the amount of light. It is a very attractive species, long lived and sets good seed.

[mark smyth]

It has survived with me outside for many years until this winter. All alchemilloides dies during the cold period during December and January

[pel1]

P. alchemilloides has naturalised in a gravelled area in a sun-trap in my garden, it renews itself by seed each year, but I wonder how it will have survived the very cold and wet winter we have had this year? I wouldn't say it is a spectacular plant, but I find it attractive as it scrambles accross the rockery, my plant in the greenhouse is a few years old now and gets cut back hard when it becomes untidy.