By Cammomile
west sussex, United Kingdom
Hardy geranium, Hardy Blues.
I've seen this picture today of a hardy geranium grown in Adelaide. I can't make out if it's a true plant and if it is can it be bought in the UK as I can't find it?
- 5 Mar, 2016
Answers
Probably photoshopped a little to make them more of an azure blue. Natural colors of blue Geraniums usually hover around periwinkle blue.
5 Mar, 2016
Lovely. I'd buy that if I could.
5 Mar, 2016
The photos are it a bit too "blue" but the striped one I believe is Geranium 'Splish Splash'. I have it but the blue is nowhere near as vivid as this.
5 Mar, 2016
The blue one does look like it's been photoshopped, but they do look lovely. Back to the drawing board!
5 Mar, 2016
If you look on the last page of my photos Cammomile you can see one of mine in 2014 with mixed colours.
5 Mar, 2016
Yes that's pretty Thorneyside, more like the blue I expect from a geranium. I would have loved one in the photoshop colours but I'd be just as happy with the natural one.
5 Mar, 2016
If you'd like seed let me know.
5 Mar, 2016
Hmm, well after a bit of research, and a lot of frustration with Pinterest (about as useful as a chocolate fireguard, never gives the names of the plants it pictures), the 'plant' pictured appears to be generally known as Geranium Hardy Blues, link below to a supplier with a pic. I bet its not as blue as it seems though, probably more purple, and not only that, it appears to be three different varieties, sold together - quite what each individual variety is, I don't know
http://www.vanmeuwen.com/flowers/flower-plants/herbaceous-border-plants/geranium-hardy-blues/69652VM
Seems like the photo is a disappointing con to me, its just three different varieties of Geranium...
5 Mar, 2016
These geraniums are beautiful and fairly common to find at reputable garden centers. This is merely a suggestion; you can mix & match colors as you like. I like the dark inky purple ones combined with bright pink.
5 Mar, 2016
I was conned by a similar beautiful grouping last summer I can't recall what they were, possibly miniature petunias. Anyway they looked as though a single plant had red, yellow and purple flowers. Sadly they were not equally robust and the effect didn't last very long. Fingers not green enough possibly.
The website definitely says the geranium is all one plant though. Splish Splash must have been one of the parents if that's true.
5 Mar, 2016
Erm, Stera, if you mean the website to which I provided a link, it doesn't say they're one plant, it says they're 'a mix' of plants, and the cost is for 3 plants - presumably one of each colour.
5 Mar, 2016
Well, just a personal take, but I think the blue&white one is horrible and the mix is a traverstie!!!!!!!
5 Mar, 2016
Thank you Thorneyside, I shall PM you, I'd love some seed. Yes I saw the photo on Pinterest, where I was looking to get some ideas for my new tiny garden and patio pots. I also saw some pictures of Begonia Escargot - what striking plants.
5 Mar, 2016
What's odd is this - the photo on Pinterest, which is supposed to be of this/these plants in someone's garden, is exactly the same as the photo used by the supplier in the link I've posted....which hardly seems possible, really. I was rather hoping you'd order them and then post photos, Cammomile;-))
5 Mar, 2016
There's a plethora of photos online. I can't believe every last one of them is photoshopped.
5 Mar, 2016
The same picture is used if you google the geranium name.
5 Mar, 2016
I must have been half asleep Bamboo - three plants it is. They might look good in a container but in all but the most formal gardens I think they'd look rather artificial in the ground.
Its not surprising everyone is using the same stock photo - it must have been quite difficult to merge them so well that they look like one plant.
5 Mar, 2016
A few staples between the leaves, perhaps!
8 Mar, 2016
What a horrible thought!
8 Mar, 2016
Knowing how marketing photos are made, symathetically painful, but still plausible! :/
9 Mar, 2016
:(
9 Mar, 2016
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