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Geranium or what?

PegletbeePegletbee Posts: 41
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Bought this the other day from a roadside stall - as you do - after it caught my eye as I was driving past. Labelled only as 'cerice geranium - rare' (I think they meant cerise but I would call it magenta) I have been unable to find it anywhere. I'd like to identify it before I put it in the garden, because although bought locally I need to know how much ferocious Norfolk sun it will tolerate in my sandy soil. The flowers remind me a little of a semi-hardy geranium a friend has - I think it is geranium maderensis or something like that - as they are borne on clusters of stems like a candelabra in the same way, but that is quite fleshy. This one is covered in soft hairs, and has leaves unlike any geranium I've ever come across. Pretty though, and I'd like to give it a home it likes, so I hope somebody will be able to identify it for me.

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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I’ve got one with leaves like that called Geranium Palmatum, it grows very big, one for the back of the border.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • PegletbeePegletbee Posts: 41
    Thanks Lyn, but the leaves don't look like those of palmatum, which although finely divided are indeed palmate. These have a single midrib. It does look as if it might be big, but it also looks like a bit of a flopper to me! The search continues. Pretty though isn't it.
  • DimWitDimWit Posts: 553
    Perhaps Erodium manescavi...
    Is that blue corydalis nearby?
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    agree with DW, Erodium manescavii


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • PegletbeePegletbee Posts: 41
    Thanks DimWit and nutcutlet - that definitely looks like it. I didn't think of looking for an stadium - i thought they were all tiddly! Looks like it might even like my gravel garden, but I'll start it in the border and try other places once I can divide it. And yes DimWit, that is a blue corydalis, blooming in the shadiest spot in a very sunny garden. Lovely scent.
  • PegletbeePegletbee Posts: 41
    Doh! Erodium not stadium. Bloody predictive text!
  • nultyphilip224nultyphilip224 Posts: 923
    Beautiful flower added by its feather like foliage,..related to Cranesbill but called Heronsbill,..@DimWit and @nutcutlet tagged it correctly,..Erodium manescavi,..and a Perrenial,..just treat it like you would with Cranesbills.
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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Oh! Lovely, perhaps that’s what mine is. Thanks for ID 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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