As a previous customer of Bakker and Parkers I have ended up with some plants
that are not exactly what i ordered, but that are now growing happily in my
garden nevertheless. In the case of the Geraniums I'd like to identify what
I've got. But I'm not sure how variable these plants are supposed to be.
I've seen mention of Geranium flower colour being variable- but is the leaf
shape also variable?

One Geranium I've got here looks like it might be Berti Krug, very short with
with bluish-purplish flowers of the right shape and purplish-greeny-brown
leaves, but the SHAPE of the leaves is totally different from the pictures
I've seen. These leaves are very pointy and not rounded at the tips like the
leaves Berti Krug apears to have in pictures I've seen. They are similar in
shape to the leaves of Johnson's Blue. And I can't find any similar Geranium
described.

I need a good Geranium book....

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> As a previous customer of Bakker and Parkers I have ended up with some
> plants
> that are not exactly what i ordered, but that are now growing happily in my
> garden nevertheless. In the case of the Geraniums I'd like to identify what
> I've got. But I'm not sure how variable these plants are supposed to be.
> I've seen mention of Geranium flower colour being variable- but is the leaf
> shape also variable?

The flower colour, flower shape, leaf colour and leaf shape are all
very variable.

Janet

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"VX" <vastorex [at] whiskeyyahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> I need a good Geranium book....
>

Or this maybe?

http://www.gartendatenbank.de/genus/geranium

On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 17:50:12 +0100, Janet Baraclough wrote
(in message <313030303930323944919DD402 [at] zetnet.co.uk>):

> The flower colour, flower shape, leaf colour and leaf shape are all
> very variable.
>
> Janet

Aaaarrrggghh! That means that any of them could be, well. almost any of them!
Geraniums do seem to be a rather imprecise kind of plant. I suppose that's
part of their charm.

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On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 19:46:44 +0100, Russel Sprout wrote
(in message <4fdnvhF1ilgb1U1 [at] individual.net>):

> Or this maybe?
>
> http://www.gartendatenbank.de/genus/geranium

Thanks for that, very interesting. Shows some I've never heard of before.

I've heard of a book called "Hardy Geraniums" that sounds like it might be
relatively complete (unlike the two books I've got) - I'll try to track it
down.

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"VX" <vastorex [at] whiskeyyahoo.co.uk> wrote
> Aaaarrrggghh! That means that any of them could be, well. almost any of
> them!
> Geraniums do seem to be a rather imprecise kind of plant. I suppose that's
> part of their charm.
>----
With geranums I have the same problem, usually finishing up with giving them
the
name of the garden or gardener/s who kindly gave me the plants or cuttings.
Often
they haven't a clue what the name or variety is.

MCT

On 17/6/06 16:03, in article 4RUkg.128$1g.42 [at] newsfe1-win.ntli.net, "MikeCT"
<mikect [at] virgin.net> wrote:

>
> "VX" <vastorex [at] whiskeyyahoo.co.uk> wrote
>> Aaaarrrggghh! That means that any of them could be, well. almost any of
>> them!
>> Geraniums do seem to be a rather imprecise kind of plant. I suppose that's
>> part of their charm.
>> ----
> With geranums I have the same problem, usually finishing up with giving them
> the
> name of the garden or gardener/s who kindly gave me the plants or cuttings.
> Often
> they haven't a clue what the name or variety is.
>
It happens here, too. ;-) Someone gave Ray a lily they'd brought back from
Lesotho and nobody knew what it was. So the donor suggested Ray called it
'Lesotho Lil' which he did. Next thing we know, some other nurseryman has
obviously been here because there it is, in the Plant Finder!
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