Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => Plants Wanted Or For Exchange => Topic started by: tozi on June 25, 2014, 06:05:03 AM
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Hello, I am looking for plants of the genus Geum, Geranium, Epimedium (only cultivars). It will be a gift for my wife on her name day. Please offer your some plants.
thank you :)
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Are you sure this is worthwhile, Tozi? Geraniums and Geums aren't usually expensive to buy and I would have thought the cost of shipping some to Slovakia would exceed the cost of buying the plants locally.
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Alan I found a few cultivars in our country. But they are not very nice. :-\
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Are you offering to refund postage (not insubstantial from the UK) and packaging charges?
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I grow a few geraniums in my garden. I'm not sure if they are all named cultivars and I have lost track of the names. They flower well at this time of year but summers here are too dry to get a repeat flowering if I chop them down when the first flowers have finished. Last weekend I visited an open garden with a good collection of geraniums. I was particularly impressed with one called 'Orion'. I gather this is sterile so it flowers particularly well/long. If I was starting with a clean slate I might try to concentrate on sterile cultivars like that one. I'm sorry the selection is poor where you are, Tozi.
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Alan,
Strange that you say that Orion is sterile.Not in my garden.
May be self sterile ,if the plant is growing alone
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My information was derived from this article http://www.saga.co.uk/lifestyle/gardening/q-and-a/hardy-geraniums.aspx (http://www.saga.co.uk/lifestyle/gardening/q-and-a/hardy-geraniums.aspx), specifically the last line of the second paragraph of the response. Val Bourne knows her stuff, I would think.
Edit by maggi to correct the link. :)
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It is possible for anyone to be mistaken from time to time.
The late, great Alf Evans, for instance, wrote in his book "The Peat Garden" that Scoliopus bigelowii never sets seed - and it may not have done so for him - but it does do so - regularly in our garden and others.
Usually safer to write that one is unaware of a plant setting seed, and it is thought to be sterile - amazing how often a supposedly sterile clone will produce seed and viable seed at that. :)
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Hi folks, at the end I found some cultivars in our country :) . So I bought a few plants.