{"id":8392,"date":"2016-03-24T04:41:25","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T11:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8392"},"modified":"2016-03-20T01:20:52","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T08:20:52","slug":"pelargonium-grandiflorum-and-other-geraniums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/pelargonium-grandiflorum-and-other-geraniums\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelargonium Grandiflorum and other &#8216;Geraniums&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Pelargonium Grandifolium Chelsea\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4114\/4849525095_bfac699507.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have tried to grow several Pelargonium varieties this year and been pleasantly surprised at the various forms and colours I have succeeded in producing.<\/p>\n<p>The Grandiflorum is an upright, shrubby perennial with soft smooth stems bearing lobed leaves and large, pinkish-white flowers with dark-purple markings. The plant above I spotted in Chelsea Physic garden this summer.<\/p>\n<h3>Dwarf Pelargoniums<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>I have long had a plant that resembles &#8216;Don&#8217;s Helen Bainbridge&#8217; that I got from Fir Trees nursery. It has tricoloured leaves and grows only 3&#8243; above the pot.<\/li>\n<li>After some success with this variety and liking the small habit I bought a collection of Dwarfs and they have done well in the first year. I will see how my many cuttings now perform.<\/li>\n<li>I try feed main plants with high potash feed from spring and indoor flowering has generally been good.<\/li>\n<li>Alice and Kerensa have been amongst my favourites with pale flowers tinged with pink.<\/li>\n<li>The 3&#8243; pots, I have used, dry out quite quickly and better watering would have produced better plants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Miniature Pelargoniums<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>I didn&#8217;t realise that miniature geraniums were so varied and interesting . Without a formal description I have taken miniature to mean 4&#8243;- 7&#8243; high with smaller than normal geranium leaves.<!--more--><\/li>\n<li>After careful selection I have 6 varieties with neat habits and interesting colour combinations.<\/li>\n<li>Angelique has tight double flower heads of deep cerise. They make attractive ball shapes.<\/li>\n<li>I also grew an unnamed &#8216;Regal&#8217; that grew like a miniature but flowered like a massive bedding plant.\u00c2\u00a0 The fringed, single petals were pink with a white eye. I am now searching catalogues to try identify it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Coloured and Scented Pelargoniums<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The variegated plants have showy leaves that exacerbate the effect of the zonal qualities of many Geraniums.<\/li>\n<li>I found that the more variegation on the leaves the fewer flower buds and the less showy were the flowers.<\/li>\n<li>Scented leaved Geraniums were easy to propagate from cuttings. Unfortunately I have not found a use for the scented leaves other than crushing them as I walk past.<\/li>\n<li>Here are more pictures of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/images?q=Pelargonium&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;rlz=1R1GGGL_en___GB345&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;source=og&amp;sa=N&amp;hl=en&amp;tab=wi&amp;biw=1584&amp;bih=733\">coloured flowers<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/images?hl=en&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;hs=oc0&amp;rlz=1R1GGGL_en___GB345&amp;q=variegated%20pelargoniums&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;source=og&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=wi&amp;biw=1584&amp;bih=733\">variegated leaves<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I recommend developing a taste for growing Geraniums. There is something to keep the gardener interested all year and they are useful indoors, in containers or as <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/geraniums-dwarf-miniature-and-bedding\/\">bedding<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Other links and information on Pelargoniums<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/scented-pelargonium-geraniums\/\">Top 10 Scented leaved Pelargoniums<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/stellar-pelargonium-bird-dancer-geranium\/\">Stellar Pelargonium \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Bird Dancer Geranium<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13542\">Photogenic Pelargonium<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/tips\/the-secret-of-geranium-cuttings\/\">The Secret of Geranium (Pelargonium) Cuttings<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/regal-geranium-pelargonium\/\">Growing Regal Geranium Pelargonium<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/minianture-pelargonium\/\">Miniature Pelargonium<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/dwarf-pelargonium-aka-geranium\/\">Dwarf Pelargonium aka Geranium<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/tips-for-growing-geraniums-pelargonium\/\">Tips for Growing Geraniums (Pelargonium)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=2283&amp;awinaffid=81944&amp;clickref=&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thompson-morgan.com\/plants1\/search.html?section=all&amp;search=pelargonium\">Thompson &amp; Morgan<\/a> supply Pelargonium seeds and plants in season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have tried to grow several Pelargonium varieties this year and been pleasantly surprised at the various forms and colours I have succeeded in producing. The Grandiflorum is an upright, shrubby perennial with soft smooth stems bearing lobed leaves and large, pinkish-white flowers with dark-purple markings. The plant above I spotted in Chelsea Physic garden this summer. Dwarf Pelargoniums I have long had a plant that resembles &#8216;Don&#8217;s Helen Bainbridge&#8217; that I got from Fir Trees nursery. It has tricoloured&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/pelargonium-grandiflorum-and-other-geraniums\/\"> 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":[10,262],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-pelargonium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8392","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=8392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}