Can anyone please help with an ID
By Garden_fool
Argyll, United Kingdom
Very prolific. Seems to be running riot in a friends garden. Have some cuttings here but hoping to find out more about it before 'releasing it back into the wild!'
Looks to me like a Clamatis but not sure beyond that.
Thanks
- 25 Sep, 2009
Answers
I agree, it's a Geranium.
25 Sep, 2009
It looks like the British wild flower, Cranesbill, a member of the geranium family.
25 Sep, 2009
Looks like Geranium endressii. Seeds itself all over the place and is also a root runner. Thug of the first water. Dug it all out last year as far as possible, it is back this as big and aggressive as ever.
25 Sep, 2009
Yes, it's a thug but it will carry on flowering all summer.
25 Sep, 2009
Thanks all, I'm getting my names mixed up here Lol ( I have 'geranium?' written down here but typed clamatis) but thats me all over!
The point is you have kindly answered my question for me and comfirmed that it is a geranium and that is also very invasive. I will have to think about planting it out or not.
Thank you.
Bulbaholic..... just googled 'Cranesbill' and thats the one, thanks for that.
Owdboggy...'Thug of the first water', never heard that expression before!
Wagger.... to true, it does flower well, that was the main appeal to me but upon reading of Owdboggy's efforts to clear it make me wonder if I should be planting it out.
25 Sep, 2009
I've never found it a problem, perhaps it depends on soil type? :-)
25 Sep, 2009
Lucky you Bornagain, it has moved out of the garden and into the roadside verge here.
We find almost all the bigger Geraniums are thugs in this garden, the only ones not to spread by root and seed are the G. sanguineum types.
Do not even mention G. macrorhizum, (the one called roseroot) that makes ground elder look benign! (or beten even!)
25 Sep, 2009
I haven't found it thuggish either.
25 Sep, 2009
I love it as it flowers for so long and then you can cut it to the ground and it gives you another lot. It is a generous little geranium. Easy to dig it out if it gets too much.
25 Sep, 2009
I banished geranium endressii as I found i was overrun with seedlings from it
25 Sep, 2009
Sylvaticum album is the one that seeds everywhere here.
25 Sep, 2009
Thanks all. Sounds like its a wee bit unpredictable. Certainly a few names here that are definatley 'not to be planted here'.
I think I'll probably give the Cranesbill a chance in an area away from all else.
25 Sep, 2009
Hiya, I have a plant which looks a lot like this, only bright red tiny flowers, which have only come this past 2weeks, and deeper green foliage, was told its a 'dascia' think thats how its spelled, looks like a tiny geranium to me tho! and looks smashing in a pot with purple lobelia,I have put a piece in a pot indoors to see if it will last over the winter :)
25 Sep, 2009
Ange - if it is a Diascia, it's not one of the hardy geranium family. I kept my last year's white ones over the winter, and they are flowering their socks off still, now!
They are lovely plants, I agree. :-) There are completely hardy species, too!
25 Sep, 2009
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It looks like a type of hardy geranium.
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