Geraniums?I have had a lovely Geranium day today
By Misscupcake
Cheshire,
United Kingdom 
Geraniums?
I have had a lovely Geranium day today. Firstly I recieved a lovely package of macrorrhizum geraniums from the very kind inverglen :O) Then when I went into my front garden to do some overdue tidying and I noticed the flowers below, are they hardy geraniums? The lady across the road has the most beautiful garden and she has these too. I am wondering if they have blown across from her garden.
17 Jun, 2011
Answers
Agree it looks like Wargrave Pink. I have this dotted around my back garden and, most successfully, several rooted in a pot that goes on another upsidedown pot to brighten up dull corners of the garden that have some sun and shade.(see my latest blog) Geraniums are liable to pop up here there and everywhere. It varies from garden to garden and some geraniums are worse than others. The clumps can get large. When they stop main flowering. Cut back and feed and you may get another show of flower.
17 Jun, 2011
It'll be Geranium endressii. Wargrave Pink is a selection of endressii with distinct veining which the species doesn't have.
17 Jun, 2011
Thanks guys its nice to know what i have. It's a gorgeous colour with a really striking veining up close. I hope it spreads!
17 Jun, 2011
Hope you don't mind me jumping into your question misscupcake.....
Dorjac, when you say cut back after main flowering, do you mean the whole plant or just the stems with flowers? Also does this work with all geraniums eg early flowering?
Thanks
17 Jun, 2011
Hi scottish, yes agree with dorjac, most of the hardy geraniums can be cut back, once flowering is nearly over and they are looking a little scruffy, then i get the shears out and trim them hard back, and you may get a second flush of flowers, but if not you get a lovely cushion of foliage.
17 Jun, 2011
Thanks Julien...wish I had known that earlier. Never mind there"s always next year. Cheers Angie
18 Jun, 2011
Hi Scottish, I only have Wargrave and a blue/purple geranium. The blue one is self sown and pulled up got and chivvied but still does its thing here and there, rather prettily. I treasure Wargrave. It gets leggy and 'goes over', a haircut about 3-4 inches up the sprawling stems, tidies it up. Feed it water it, with luck it will then repeat flower for me, if it is not too dry, as we can be in Essex. Same goes for the potted one.
18 Jun, 2011
Thanks for the tip Dorjac x
And thanks for letting me jump in misscupcake x
18 Jun, 2011
No worries Scottish it's a helpful question for me also :O)
19 Jun, 2011
Definitely is. Probably one called Wargrave Pink
17 Jun, 2011