@Wilderbeast, I was interested to see your post, as my Rozanne plants are doing just the same. Planted on a banking, they usually form a nice dome, then collapse forward, but this year they are very tall! I keep expecting to find them flat but they're still upright at the moment, no flowers yet though.
@Wilderbeast Looking at your photo the flowers do seem on the small side for Rozanne? But I wonder why yours and mine (which I am sure are Rozanne) have grown so tall this year? It can hardly be lack of light given the sunny weather we've had for so long.
I’ll go and look at mine later, last time I looked they hadn’t even started! Always later here. They are always very untidy I’m forever cutting them back.
I asked for one as a present from my daughter as it was the most talked about plant of the year, RHS favourite but it’s never been a favourite of mine.
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Mine are doing it, and they do usually do something similar but then the rain flattens them. It's not rained yet since they started into growth when the weather warmed up.
I wonder if you're all seeing this year what I usually do because it's normally cooler here than in your gardens, but this year we've all had much more similar weather.
Rozanne is always the last geranium to flower for me - the other ones like Buxton's Blue and Johnson's Blue are normally out, even going over, before Rozanne starts to flop and flower
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My Rozanne is taller this year too, come to think of it. It's in front of a large blue pot and normally the pot is visible above it, but not this year. I do find it likes quite a lot of water, so maybe the May rain suited it.
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Planted on a banking, they usually form a nice dome, then collapse forward, but this year they are very tall! I keep expecting to find them flat but they're still upright at the moment, no flowers yet though.
But I wonder why yours and mine (which I am sure are Rozanne) have grown so tall this year? It can hardly be lack of light given the sunny weather we've had for so long.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Always later here. They are always very untidy I’m forever cutting them back.
I asked for one as a present from my daughter as it was the most talked about plant of the year, RHS favourite but it’s never been a favourite of mine.
“Going up ...”
I wonder if you're all seeing this year what I usually do because it's normally cooler here than in your gardens, but this year we've all had much more similar weather.
Rozanne is always the last geranium to flower for me - the other ones like Buxton's Blue and Johnson's Blue are normally out, even going over, before Rozanne starts to flop and flower
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”