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Totally Tangerine
crazyflower
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Ive no room in my garden for any more plants but I'm still buying them, you just can't resist, can u? I partly blame members on this forum for showing all the lovely pics, tho I've always bought too many plants. Bought Totally Tangerine yesterday from Beethams in south Lakes along with few other plants. Just read that Totally Tangerine is sterile, so sum geums r sterile and sum not? Does anyone know if Mai Tai is sterile, I bought that one as well, I have had 2 others a few years but don't know name of them. Think i'll buy a packet of geum seeds, r they easy to grow from seed does anyone know?
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Very easy from seed, too easy from seed, far far far too easy from seed. BUT, the named ones do not always come true to name so what you get may be better or worse.
Was thrilled to see a plant which arose in my garden on sale at a Plant Fair on Sunday.
It is possible that the ones you mention are sterile. Never checked on mine to see if there are any 'wildings' around them.
I have over thirty of the things and would have more, but I have been ordered to stop buying them.
Totally Tangerine divides very easily. I was given a big one in the autumn and I potted up bits I pulled off it, even without much root. They grew very well in the cold greenhouse over winter and now I have more plants, gave one to my daughter.
Great, thanks, I may be feeling generous enough to pull 3 small pieces off Totally Tangerine after summer, for 2 sisters, seeing as I only need a small amount. I'll look for more info on geums. Don't think I'll be stopping at 4, just a few more, but my back garden is being taken over by fruit and veg, it was hard to decide which to chose, there were 10 r more to chose from, got the Tangerine cos of what I'd read on here
Love geums, even the orange ones. They grow without fuss or bother and are pest and disease free and self seed or spread very happily and are not wussy about bad winters.
Brilliant plants.
PEST free????????
Vine weevils love the roots.
Oh. I don't seem to have vine weevils but I do have some provado stashed, just in case.
Will look out for vine weevils as I've put Mai Tai in a pot, wud get a bit lost in garden at present, only low growing. I've seen the odd vine weevil in sum of my pots. I read yesterday that geums r a good container plant.
Mai tai & totally tangerine
Nice one Rhod! I've put my Tangerine near a purple plant, mauves bowles, may take Mai Tai out of pot and put in front of Totally Tangerine, ive got plenty plants in pots, will prob grow better in ground, i was rushing planting them yesterday as it started hailstoning on me. I've just taken a photo of them on my hudl to post but can't do it, never posted a pic before but clicked on tree icon etc. Maybe can't post them off a hudl.
This is Geum Firecracker, a lot more orange in it than the pictures shows. Flower is a good 2 inches across.
And Geum Cosmopolitan Cocktail