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Why when taking a few cuttings are they placed at the side of the clay
pots
as opposed to the middle of the pot?

Is there such thing as a annual geranium, or all they all perennial?

Thanks


The drainage and air supply are better at the pots edge.

There are indeed annual Geraniums and annual pelargoniums
--
Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea

Thanks for that. I asked a lady at our local garden centre and she stated
there are only perennial geraniums and there is no such thing is an annual
geranium.


There are lots of annuals including a large number that are uk native
plants Geranium rotundifolium, Geranium columbinum, Geranium dissctum, G.
molle, G. lucidium, Herb Robert is a well know plant G. robertianum,
Geranium purpureum, and I have probably missed a few!
Ones that are worth having in the garden are Granium bohemicum as much
for its black seeds as the cobalt blue flowers, the white forms of herb
robert and I am very fond of Geranium rotundifolium not for the flowers
but when the plant has flowered the whole thing goes fiery red.

If we are charitable the lady meant pelargoniums, and as far as I know
there are no annual pelargoniums (as opposed to pelargoniums treated
horticulturally as half-hardy annuals, such as the seed-raised bedding
geraniums).
--
alias Ernest Major