I found a white flowered Geranium versicolor today. How exciting a find I'm not sure.
They are supposed to look like this
A new Geranium cultivar - I hope
but the one I found looks like this
and from slightly different angle
and finally the leaf for verification.
I dont grow any Geranium x oxonianum so it could be one of them.
How do you check Mark if it is a new one? I love the markings on the leaf. Will we be seeing a new variety named 'Iris eyes' or some other such romantic nanme?
names can be checked here http://www.hardygeraniums.com/register_of_cultivar_names.htm
So I assume that you would have to trawl through all the pics of similar plants to see if that one is already there?
Is it one that you crossed, and know both parents, or is it a chance seedling?
It seems to be a white seedlings as the white variety 'Snow White' was never bought. There are official guidelines to follow before a plant can be named
I have Versicolor Snow White Mark and it is a prolific seeder. Is there any chance it came in on one of the plants that I gave you?
It was in a garden in southern Ireland.
Unfortunately only one plant is still alive from the batch that we swapped.But thats the gamble we take
only one!! I gave you quite a few what on earth did you do to them?? which one survived btw?
I dont know what happened, honest. The sole survivor is a sylvaticum that was labelled 'Pastel _ _ _ _?'
Pastel clouds. (G Sylvaticum X G Clarkei Kashmir White)I bet it was because it wasnt labelled Pratense ;) all the others dont get such devoted attention!! LOL
The mount stewert that you gave me didnt survive the winter but the dounble form pratense you gave me has looked really good this year.
you never know.
I'll be repotting all my plants during the coming months -I've planned anyway- to give them a better mix. It will be mainly bought heat treated top soil and grit and top dressed with an inch or two of grit/river sand. This should make them happier
Mark, just out of curiosity......why don't you grow Ger. x Oxianums??? Elaine
way too many with most looking very alike ie you need a RHS colouyr chart to decide on the colour of the petals.
I do have a few that are different - a brown mottled leaved variety 'Katerine Adele' or variegated the leaved 'Spring Fling' and a new variety with white flowers being trialled by me and a few others.
I grow many Oxonianums but I will be considerably wittling them down over the next few months. I will still probably keep a small amount of each but I grow far too much of each. Mark is right there are too many that are similar. I will concentrate on growing those that are more striking. I too am trialling 2 new varieties both based on the walters gift strain but with very different flowers.
did ot know this...thanks