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Re: Novice Needs Advice

There's a full sun geranium sanguinia and although the flowers are much
smaller than the annual all it's leaves are turning a wonderful crimson for
the fall.  The shade loving cranesbills are also very nice although the leaf
color change isn't there.

At 01:36 AM 8/23/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi, Patricia, 
>
>Good luck with your new garden...you asked about geraniums...there are 
>actually two different plants referred to as geraniums.  First, there 
>are the annuals, the ones that are bright red, pink, you may see them in 
>flower boxes.  However, these are really not geraniums...they are 
>pelargriums, or something like that....can't remember the exact 
>spelling...
>
>Anyway, the true geraniums are perennials.  There are quite a few 
>different varieties, but there are some which are almost groundcovers, 
>and which have a kind of scalloped leaf, and small flowers.  These might 
>do well for a situation such as you have.  I have one of these in an 
>area that gets maybe three hours of sun a day at best, and they are 
>doing wonderfully....a good number of blooms, and they have spread a 
>great deal.  It did take them a year or so to get established, but now 
>that they have, they are wonderful, and I am hoping to be able to divide 
>them and spread them around a bit.
>
>      Marilyn
>
>
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Shelley
USDA Zone 6A 
Sunset Zone 39
Detroit

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