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When my roses were shredded last year by Japanese beetles, I read that the beetles hate the smell of geraniums and will avoid them. I should know soon if that's true or not.
Pelargonium × hortorum, is a nothospecies of Pelargonium most commonly used as an ornamental plant. It is a hybrid between Pelargonium zonale and Pelargonium inquinans.
This latest blast of winter weather in the northeast has me dreaming of April showers and May flowers....
Geranium platypetalum
Geraniaceae
home garden, Wasington Co., NY
native to Caucasus region
photo by Kerry Woods
This is my best guess as to identity; might also be something like G. x magnificum, which is a hybrid involving platypetalum.
This photo with shows stamens that have already senesced (anthers are gone, filaments reflexed), while the five stigmatic branches are fully mature and receptive. Geraniums are 'protandrous sequential hermaphrodites' -- flowers include both male and female function, but one at a time with the male function/pollen production first (as shown in other photos here).