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Perennial geraniums are one of the most useful plants in a UK garden. They are evergreen,weed supressing and flower for about 6 - 8 weeks. After flowering give them a hard prune and in 4 weeks or so they'll flower a second time. They are available in pink,red,blue , blue and white and white and vary in height from 20-50 centimetres.
They can be underplanted with the taller spring bulbs such as daffodils or tulips.
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Delicate beauty.
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I think I need to try a different setting as they come out paler than they are - this, in real life, is a strong colour!
Geranium robertianum ssp. robertianum L.
Herb-Robert, DE: Stinkender Storchschnabel, Ruprechtskraut
Slo.: smrdljička
Dat.: June 3. 2016
Lat.: 46.36029 Long.: 13.70259
Code: Bot_969/2016_DSC2856
Picture file names: from Geranium-robertianum-ssp-robertianum_raw_10 to Geranium-robertianum-ssp-robertianum_raw_15.
Habitat: grassland near a compost heap and farmhouse, semiruderal place, locally flat terrain, shallow, colluvial, calcareous ground, elevation 600 m (2.000 feet); average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 7-9 deg C, alpine phytogeographical region.
Substratum: relatively nutrients rich soil
Place: Lower Trenta valley, between villages Soča and Trenta, Na Melu place, near cottage Trenta 2b, East Julian Alps, Posočje, Slovenia EC
Comment: Geranium robertianum ssp. robertianum is a very common plant growing in the whole Mediterranean, all European plains and mountains from Pyrenees to Carpathians (except Dinaric mountains), in North America and Asia, on all kind of ground, preferably semiruderal, wasteland and other not really respected places. It flowers from April to the end of November. Its flowers are small and inconspicuous and, in addition, it has an unpleasant smell. No wonder - it is considered a weed! But it belongs to a very beautiful genus Crane's Bills (Geranium). Hundreds of cultivars have been made by gardeners. And in did, when looked from close even Geranium robertianum looks convincingly beautiful.
Ref.:
(1) D. Aeschimann, K. Lauber, D.M. Moser, J.P. Theurillat, Flora Alpina, Vol. 1., Haupt (2004), p 1062.
(2) A. Martinči et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnična Založba Slovenije (2007), p 347.
(3) K. Lauber and G. Wagner, Flora Helvetica, 5. Auflage, Haupt (2012), p 580.
(4) M.A. Fischer, W. Adler, K. Oswald, Exkursionsflora für Österreich, Liechtenstein und Südtirol, LO Landesmuseen, Linz, Austria (2005).