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Geum Lady Stratheden
Emily Gordon
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Hi all, last month I brought a a Geum Lady Stratheden can anyone explain to me why it may be producing both red and yellow flowers?
any answers or theories would be brilliant, I am new to gardening and this has puzzled me a little, It could be a really simple explanation, like some sort of gene change.
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Lady Stratheden is a cultivar derived from a wild geum. The wild one probably looked more like your yellow one. I wouldn't let the yellow bit seed or it will come even more like the wild one and be called a weed.
Have you checked it's all on one plant?, not two roots in there?
In the sticks near Peterborough
Lady Stratheden is supposed to be yellow Nut not red.
Is it?. What's the red one called?
But the yellow bit looks really insignificant for a cultivar.
Maybe the red one is a new cultivar
In the sticks near Peterborough
No idea what the red one is (it's a colour I don't go for). It is odd isn't it the way the red is the stronger. I bought a Stratheden this year, that's how I know its yellow. Ooh just a thought isn't Mrs Bradshaw a red. I think you could be right that somehow there are two plants in one pot.
Mrs Bradshaw is red - and looks a bit like that photo
Snap chicky
And the Yellow bit does not look like Lady Stratheden either.