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Love this one too!

Love this picture !

Probably take a while, but if you type 'rose' or something more specific like 'peach rose' in Google and click on 'images', you should find a variety which is either close to this or an exact match.

Oooh, mmmmmmmm...just breathe in that smell! We used to have a peach-coloured rose, smelt heavenly all the time...ahh.

thank you it does sound lovely.

I have always wanted to visit Audley End lovely house only seen it from a distance. What were the gardens like does it have an elizabethan one?

What we need here is one of our garden centre crew members, like Nicky or Stevebuk - they might recognise it if its a popular newish one.

You don't say if it was fragrant or not - the only one I know that looks a little like this is Helen Traubel, but it is very fragrant, and I think you'd have noticed that. Other one that's similar is Royal Highness, but again its very fragrant, and neither of these look exactly like the one in your photo though they're similar.

now that is a picture of purity
how beautiful is that!

hope someone can help
I want one now

x x x

I know there are plenty of nurseries that sell Geraniums and pelagoniums but I have recently found this one that specialises in them (among others) the website address is : ://www.norwellnurseries.co.uk/Default.aspx
You can always have a look.

i do grow them just not near the house or where i walk past them too closely.

You're certainly not alone in disliking the smell, Seaburn - doesn't bother me either way, but I've met loads of people who won't grow them for that reason.

i like the ivy leafed trailing forms to tumble over the edges of the pots. leaves arent as smelly either.
i dont like the smell of pelargoniums mch.

I particularly like one that I think is called "Schone Helena", though I'm not sure - its a peachy coloured one, freely available, not usually named, and I love it because it has a large drumstick head with all the little florets open at once - many geraniums have a drumstick, but half the florets in it will be closed, or finished, before they all open. There's a pic of the one I mean in my photos, its the first one on the first page. The other kind of trailing pelargonium I love for hanging baskets or window boxes is not the usual ivy leaf one, but a group called Cascade geraniums. They can be difficult to find though, but they're neat growers and have lots of single flowers all summer long, get about 8/9 inches long and wide in the season.

Gorgeous!!

Very neat, like it a lot.

It is a Stachys Saharan 'Pink'

It could be stachys macrantha

The Geranium looks like Wargrave's Pink, pretty sure of that. Not sure about the one next to it though.

i wish i could get valerian to take. it never survives for me. i have loads of lupins aphids but i dont care, as the blue tits feed on some of them.

Good for you! Me too. My mother in law baulks at valerian, but I love it! I'm with your Dad on lupins though; never liked them since I grew some in a previous garden and they were covered in lupin aphids, which, as I don't spray, were impossible to get rid of and I am now off them for life! Sorry!

purists what do they know pha. i love it and as definitions go 'a weed is a plant in the wrong place'. my dad said lupins were weeds coz he didnt like them. i have lots of british natives[wildflowers] that my lovely neighbours tell me are weeds. they are gorgeous.

I like it too. It is good for beneficial insects, but the purists will tell you it is a weed (I am assuming it is Galega officianalis). There are other 'smarter' galegas, G. orientalis for example. I find that if the soil is too rich, it really flops about. Best to give it a bit of a hard time!

i took a photo of mine today and i will load it later. but i do like it and it seeds freely. i have potted a few seedlings up for future cleared places.

It will seed about!

if its very tall it could be galega.

This looks like Vicia cracca, the Tufted Vetch or Cow Vetch. The seed was probably passed by a bird. If you want to keep it, make sure it doesn't grow near any vegetable crops, as the roots contain toxins.

gorgeous...

I just ripped a bunch more out today..and as it comes up through my back deck too..it is awful...

I wonder if this would work against my Morning Glory(bindweed) here...I think it would take over the world if it could get away with it!