{"id":4284,"date":"2009-07-22T01:00:39","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T08:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4284"},"modified":"2011-10-17T05:11:08","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T12:11:08","slug":"build-a-regal-geranium-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/build-a-regal-geranium-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Build Your Regal Geranium Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3419\/3720198511_92e68df6dc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you want to be a collector and build a Geranium or Regal Pelargonium collection to be proud off then start now for next year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>First Thoughts<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Join the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pelargoniums.org.uk\/\">Pelargonium and Geranium Society<\/a> formed by the merging of the British Pelargonium and Geranium Society and the British and European Geranium Society on 1st January 2009.<\/li>\n<li>Bone up on the best British suppliers of Geraniums like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firtreespelargoniums.co.uk\/Regal%20Pelargoniums.htm\">Fir Trees<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gosbrookpelargoniums.com\/\">Gosbrook<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fibrex.co.uk\/pela2.asp?CategoryID=1&amp;SubCategoryID=11\">and Fibrex<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Scrounge cuttings from friends, neighbors and local gardening clubs.<\/li>\n<li>Now is a good time to watch garden centres selling off old stock (cheaply) that can provide lots of material for cuttings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Top Types to Try<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aztec naturally branching with attractive pale green leaves.<\/li>\n<li>Grand Slam with rosy red florets to varying lavender shades<\/li>\n<li>Sunrise needing stopping to get abush orange flowers with white throat<\/li>\n<li>Fringed Aztec Askam or Arnside<\/li>\n<li>Hazel &#8230;.. Cherry or Harmony, Stardust, Herald or Heather<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to be a collector and build a Geranium or Regal Pelargonium collection to be proud off then start now for next year. First Thoughts Join the new Pelargonium and Geranium Society formed by the merging of the British Pelargonium and Geranium Society and the British and European Geranium Society on 1st January 2009. Bone up on the best British suppliers of Geraniums like Fir Trees,\u00c2\u00a0 Gosbrook,\u00c2\u00a0 and Fibrex. Scrounge cuttings from friends, neighbors and local gardening clubs&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/build-a-regal-geranium-collection\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}