Geum - planting distance

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• AnniD Posts: 12,585

  July 2022

  I think you can get away with around a foot. Mrs Bradshaw can be quite "sprawly" so they may help to support each other. (I stand to be corrected 😁)

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• ShepherdsBarn Posts: 401

  July 2022

  Brilliant! Thank you. 🙂

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• james311 Posts: 3

  July 2022

  I usually plant Mrs Bradshaw in singles between other taller plants. They look good but not good if staked. I like them next to white daisies giving the contrasting bright red and white. There are a lot of cultivars now but I still think Mrs Bradshaw is most reliable.

  who was Mrs Bradshaw. cheers organicpete
  

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• AnniD Posts: 12,585

  July 2022

  @james311 From the Ballyrobert Gardens website 
  
  " Geum 'Mrs J. Bradshaw' (d) is a semi-double, bright red flowered 1909 introduction from the old Baker’s nursery of Codsall, Staffordshire (of Russell Lupin fame). So an oldie but a goodie.... a quick google search reveals some Bradshaws lived in Codsall since the 1600s, so I presume it was named after someone local to the Baker Nursery".
  
  That's the only information l can find.
  
  The geum "Lady Stratheden" came from the same nursery in Codsall, but later, in 1921.
  "Named for the 1st Baroness Stratheden of Scotland, Mary Elizabeth Scarlett (1796-1860) "
  
  

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• james311 Posts: 3

  July 2022

  Thanks for the info. If I pass it on to my customers they'll think I'm a walking dictionary.

  Good job.
  

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• Fairygirl Posts: 55,117

  January 2023

  @h.houston55S_dxxmUe - the species [ G. chiloense] originates from Chile, hence the name. Varieties are then bred from that - there are several  of them, Mrs. B and Lady Stratheden being the most common. 
  That's standard for most plants, which is why the names are written the way they are 

  It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
  
  
  
  I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...

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