Re: "Alpine Geraniums"
- Subject: Re: [IGSROBIN] "Alpine Geraniums"
- From: m* g*
- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 10:11:04 -0700
Better known as "Balcon Geraniums". They are ideal hanging or window box
flowers, trailing like ivy-leaved pellies but much bushier as they are a
genetically different species. Here are some photos:
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&imgsafe=off&q=+site:www.wheelerfarmgardens
.com+Balcon+geraniums
(You too can check out whatever you're looking for in Google's 'Images'
search page.)
Maria
>Hi Everyone :) I have recently ordered plants that here in the USA are
>called "Alpine Geraniums". I asked the catalog owner if they had the Latin
>name, and was told no, they didn't have it. The only description I can give
>(from the catalog)is that they are "still uncommon in America, trailing or
>mounding, and 10-12" in height, and hundreds of small single blooms". The
>variety name might be 'Mini Cascade'. Does anyone know the Latin name?
>These are different from ivy-leafed varieties. I know I'm not giving much
>to go on here as far as information.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Laurie A.E. O'Meara
>Artist and Horticulturist
>Cape Cod, USA Zone 7
>http://www.LAEOM.com
