Geranium phaeum 'Braunvoit'

A lovely dainty flower !

It was a pressy from my friend, as well! :-)

Lovely photo and I can even see evidence of the rain you have been suffering.

I got my feet wet...again, as my husband can't get the 'lawns' cut! They are starting to resemble fields...maybe I should borrow our farmer-next-door's sheep for a while!

Just make sure that they can differentiate between grass and flowers. I suppose Henry could supervise as he seems to know.

Very arty with the rain on though...........

LOL - I didn't mean it to be, Dd! But thanks!

does this come true from seed or does it 'mix' with the other G.phaeum's you have?
pretty flower non the less.

No idea yet - it was another pressy from my friend up the lane! She knows I like geraniums. She is running the plant stall on the open days.

oh Spritz this is beautiful! if you ever get any seed...... xxxxxx :D

This looks lovely - I'm learning so much too. I feel a bit silly - I always through geraniums were pink bedding plants that everyone used (avoided them because of it). I'm a reformed character and away to look these up on the internet.

Don't feel silly, Evy, I am quite sure that a lot of people think of geraniums as the bedding type... those are really called 'pelargoniums'.

Hardy geraniums are wonderful to have in the garden - there are so many types!

Mmm...like this one...gone to faves.

Ha - you said you weren't going to look at my geraniums! lol.

lol...very boring evening yesterday B....football game again!! Today I sowed my seed of mixed HGers. 24 seeds....it will be interesting to see what comes out of it! If I get lots, I'll send you a nice one!

Thank you, Karen! That's something to look forward to. :-)

I've just realised this is a phaeum I already have isn't it...just a different spelling or translation of 'blauwvoet' which is what mine is called! I thought it was a very similar colour! lol.....

Oh well - that's one less to buy. lol.

Yay....five pounds saved, just like that!

'Braun' means brown, and 'Blau' means blue, though - so I'm a bit puzzled. I'll have a browse in my Geranium books and see if they are the same.

Thanks Barbara! If not, I will have to have it! Phaeums are so valuable in my shady places!

I'm none the wiser, Karen. Sorry - None of my three books mentioned either name. I tried a bit of googling - no luck there. My friend is so good with labelling all her plants, I can't imagine that she'd get the name wrong.

Not to worry....we will get to the bottom of it eventually I bet!

I'll try to see my friend and take the two names.

Well, it's a pretty tricky name sin't it...I wouldn't be surprised if someone gave HER the wrong name perhaps.

That is possible - but she ran a Nursery for many years, so she's normally correct. She IDs plants for people!

Gosh, unlikely then!

The name was very clear on the label. My books only list a very few cultivars. I suspect there are lots.

I have the same books as you so no point me looking. I've googled and like you got nowhere, even tried translating...thought it might be finnish from one of my google results! I think we need to accept that there are two different vars. and that the names are just quite similar..until we can find out otherwise!

Well, here's my one....http://apps.rhs.org.uk/rhsplantfinder/pfregions.asp?ID=178558
They have 75 different phaeum on there, but yours doesn't seem to be listed..:( weird!

Don't blame me! ;-) I didn't write the label - and to be honest, what's in a name? I like it whatever it's called. :-)))

Yes, so do I! I still think it's the same plant and that yours is in a different language...but we'll probably never find it! I sowed some more seeds yesterday B. I'm so fed up of this winter now. Not too bad here though, cloudy and cold but the ground is workable.

The ground was frozen here - again - so nothing possible outside. Far too cold, anyway. :-(

Well, I got one island border tidied, and I put some algae killer on the sleepers as they were getting really green and slippery. That's almost half the autumn clear up done now! lol ....hopefully get it finished before spring!

Too cold to stay out here and the ground's frozen again! I just switched on the old propagator and pui two pots of dahlias in for some bottom heat.

Frost this morning, so it won't be any better today. :-(

Is it time to plant my new dahlia tubers then B?

Sorry, by 'plant' I mean put them in compost and start them off in the conservatory!

A bit early where you live, I'd have thought. I'd leave it for a few more weeks.

OK, thanks! x

do you still have this one B? have just uploaded a photo of something similar.