By Resi
France 
I.D please.
I got this lovely yesterday in one of the NGS open gardens, but without label and nobody seemed to know what it was apart from geum. The flowers are nearly over, today tke last petals have fallen....?
It looks to me like a Geum Triflorum maybePrairy Smoke?
Grateful for any suggestions.
Thanks
22 Jun, 2015
Answers
Looks like it to me - this is the seed head, needs to be out in the garden
22 Jun, 2015
Thank you both, it's planted and should flower for another few months. The first geum I have ever grown and dont think it will be my last.
22 Jun, 2015
This one needs moist conditions.
22 Jun, 2015
Do all geums need moist conditions? I have a couple in large pots....
23 Jun, 2015
No Geum montana doesn't need moist conditions
23 Jun, 2015
Nor does Geum pentapetalum, but most of the chiloense types prefer a bit of moisture, but not as much as the rivale forms.
I am not so sure that the one pictures is a rivale type, the flower head looks too 'flat' and upward facing to me and rivale ones are more 'closed up' and downward hanging.
Also, do keep dead heading as happy Geums will seed all over the place. The seed heads themselves do tend to cling to clothes too and are the devil to get out of a woolly jumper sleeve.
23 Jun, 2015
They were certainly growing all over the garden where I got it from and this was most definitely not a 'damp' garden. Hopefully it will produce some more flowers and I might find out for certain. Thank you owdboggy.
23 Jun, 2015
Ask again with a picture if it does flower. I grow about 30 different Geums and know a specialist grower so it would be easy to ask.
23 Jun, 2015
Will do, thank you.
23 Jun, 2015
Geum rivale - Water Avens?
22 Jun, 2015