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Lol, times flies when your gardening - that's why I never seem to catch up!

Our local council has flower-boxes on many Welcome signs around our town as well as those of other towns around here.

I think yours is very pretty!

Thanks for clarifying the pruning methods - 6 yrs on since you wrote it & as useful as ever.
Popped it into my favs too.

Very helpful info - so glad I came across it. Thanks.

FIRST I ASKED CAN YOU GRAFT A PELARGONIUM.IT SEEMS IN 1872 IN CALIFORNIA A FARMER GRAFTED THE FIRST PELARGONIUM,NOW THREE YEARS AGO THEY THOUGHT A UNIVERSITY SHOULD TRY GRAFTING GERANIUMS AND THEY DID FOUND IT EASY NOW ON INTERNET.GERANIUM GRAFTING EXPERIMENT HAS TAKEN PLACE,THE ETHNOBOTANICAL GARDENS,AT SHROOMERY MESSGE BOARD PUT THREE DIFFERENT COLOURS ON ONE ROOT IN A EXPERIMENT ,ALL TOOK ,NOW THEY ARE GOINGTO TRY GRAFTING ONTO A CITRONELLA GERANIUM A HARDY GERANIUM,THEY CUT THE GERANIUM STRAIGHT ACCROSS THE TOP PUT A KNIFE DOWN THE BARK CUT THE SCION BOTH SIDE AND PUSH IT DOWN ALLOWING THE GRAFT TO TOUCH THE SIDES OF THE BARK .PICTURS ON INTERNET,THEY NOW ARE SAYING ALL NURSERYS WILLBE DOING THIS NOW,

You obviously have the bit between your teeth now, will look forward to seeing it!!

It is a difficult one to capture...

Good luck......

Might have to try this one then!!

I appreciate your help Barbara. Thats good then, they are on sale at Crocus, I'm going to order one. I really like these early flowering roses.

Wow, I like this alot.
Drat, it appears to be frost hardy and needs winter protection.

Oh my! That is an absolute gem Spritz!

That is so pretty.

50-60 square feet, that's some going!

shoe-horn-itis Spritz, no cure though :o)

Mine are growing again this year, I've even got a new one my daughter gave me a week ago, on the balcony but, apart from aphids, I've not seen any Lily Beetles yet. Hope they stay away this year as well!

Now you mention it, I had Mrs Bradshaw, but no more. I wonder if she produced the rogue seeds before she disappeared.

I didn't realise it until this year, I had quite a few different varieties, now they are all the same? it never happened to Mrs Bradshaw or Lady Stratheden which I no longer have in the garden...

Do they revert then Dd. My G 'Queen of Orange' is still ok, but I have some rogues in the garden that I don't know where they came from.

Goodness me how on earth did you get so many plants in there? It is obviously a great deal larger than it looks!! Going to look fabulous!

I do enjoy these, but they tend to spread, do they with you B?

Lovely.....

Pretty blue B....

I agree...refuse to buy any more Geums all of ours have reverted except an alpine one!!:O

Should be called Tutu!

Just added this to my garden, lovely, particularly against a darker back ground.

Spritz - you could always try cultivating the snails for the pan????

oh, that's lovely. I'm always wary of overcrowding bulbs, so I tend to spread them out too much. You seem to have got it exactly right!

wow, that must have taken some work! hopeyou gave your back and your knees some TLC afterwards.

How long and wide is the bed?

I seem to have far fewer this year - or rather I don't seem to have much slug damage as yet (but my hostas are only just coming up) and I (sort of) want slugs this year so that my plague of frogs will have food.