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Can anyone identify this pretty little geranium. It pops up every year but I don't know what it is

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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Looks like Geranium phaeum.
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  • BorderlineBorderline Posts: 4,700
    Take a look at Geranium Phaeum, the Dusky Cranesbill. Could be that one.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Just what I was thinking @punkdoc ... possibly G. phaeum ‘Samobor’ ?

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Are there purple blotches on the leaves too?  Then yes, phaeum.

    It self seeds quite freely but is easy to remove it gets to be too invasive.  If you cut it back hard once flowering finishes it will produce fresh new foliage and look better for the rest of the season.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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  • Mags2Mags2 Posts: 35
    Thanks everyone.  
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    We have phaeum selfseeded around here ... quite a few of them don’t have the blotches.  

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    The ones I had without blotches had white flowers!  Purpley ones always have purple blotches for me and have carried on since I brought a couple from the Belgian garden - passengers in hosta and rose pots.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
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