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What is this please? Blue geranium?

FireFire Posts: 19,096
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Any ideas?

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  • Blue OnionBlue Onion Posts: 2,995
    It looks like someone played around with the color filters in Photoshop.  The indigo colors look 'flat' and unnatural.  Aged petals the exact same shade as new ones, etc.  Where did you find it?  (BBC, obviously.. but iPlayer or a still image?)
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  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    Hard to be sure without seeing the leaves, but it looks like one of the sterile hardy geraniums - perhaps 'Orion'?
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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    It's just a screenshot I took from GW's show on Friday. I don't think there were any filters or pimping. It's a deeper and bluer hardy geranium than any I have seen. Maybe it's something else.
  • edhelkaedhelka Posts: 2,351
    No idea but I guess the photo (camera, light, whatever) makes it look bluer than the reality. It doesn't need to be manipulation, every device is different and light can change the colours too a lot.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
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  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    Looking at the photo, my initial reaction was "Orion" as well.
  • K67K67 Posts: 2,506
    This is Orion. Hard to tell if there is veining on yours

  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited July 2020
    Thanks. Is Orien long flowering, as it is sterile?
  • K67K67 Posts: 2,506
    According to reviews on Crocus website it flowers for months  and gets up to 3ft tall. Don't have one myself only Rozanne which is shorter 
  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    Looks like Brookside, a good intense blue. I used to have it and now it's a massive clump in my mum's garden. 
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