"Wendy7" wrote ...
"Wendy7" wrote ...
Thanks for the tips Bob, now I shall have to research on the differance
between a
Geranium & a Pelagonium?

All you need to know here...

http://www.rhs.org.uk/advicesearch/profile.aspx?PID=338

Thanks for the info Bob.
It is going to be difficult to call my plants Pelargonium as I have always
known them to be Geraniums. I have to rename all my photos!

They were known as Geraniums by Botanists but the S.African frost tender
types were renamed Pelargonium in, I believe, the 1930s but in this instance
the trade always resisted changing the name, strange when they were quick to
change some Datura to Brugmansia quite recently.
Whilst the true geraniums are small hardy perennials there are three that
are quite large and spectacular and well worth growing if you can provide
the required conditions.
G. maderense for example is amazing in flower and has a strange way of
growing with the older leaves pushed hard down to the ground to buttress the
short trunk, but it isn't hardy in the UK and it's monocarpic.
G. palmatum is hardy and seeds itself around my garden (in a rather
civilised way).
G. canariensis I haven't grown yet.

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Regards
Bob Hobden
just W. of London