Flower of the week: Geranium ‘Brookside’

[callmemadam]

Comments

[anonymous]

Beautiful. Only my common pink one has started to flower but the rest are coming on in leaps and bounds with all the sunshine this week.
wee sister

[callmemadam]

The geraniums don't seem to notice how cold it is :-)

This one is actually bluer than it looks in the pic. I always find blue a difficult colour to photograph.

[auntyros]

Oh, I think I have this! I have been looking at it for the last couple of days wondering what it is and where it came from. I don't think I planted it! But it is very pretty and I shall encourage it.

[callmemadam]

lucky you, if so. But if it came from nowhere it's more likely to be Geranium grandiflorum. Check the leaves; the foliage of Brookside is more finely cut.

[auntyros]

Hmm. I will go out and examine more closely.

[auntyros]

I have looked. The leaves are very finely cut but the flower is pale - almost white - with purple veining. It does look very like your photo, but if your flowers are bluer, mine are not.

[ext_2206725]

Brookside is one I've grown and loved. I would like to have seen your other varieties. I grew others, too, but without looking in my gardening notes, I can't tell you which. They have lovely flowers and lovely foliage, too.

[callmemadam]

There's a geranium for every situation in the garden. What would we do without them?

You can see a few of the ones I used to grow here. 2008.

[gwendraith]

Lovely colour! I have one hardy geranium I put in last year and it's coming on well but no flowers yet.

[callmemadam]

Something to look forward to!

[hartleyhare]

These are gorgeous. I love geraniums. I'd forgotten about cutting them right back and watching them reflower; will remember to do that in a few weeks!

[callmemadam]

They are such useful plants, as well as being pretty. Not all varieties will flower again. The common pink endressii types will.