Re: Geranium 'Brookside'

Should you manage to get the real plant and not a seedling that some
unscrupulous nursery is putting around, it is a wonderful plant that is
covered with beautiful blue flowers for long periods.  Its "brother",
'Nimbus' is similarly beautiful.

Both of these plants were accidental seedlings found in the research beds
at Cambridge University (in the UK).  This is the place where Dr Peter Yeo,
the Authority on hardy geraniums, worked as taxonomist, developing his
books and papers on the subject.  We are not quite certain of their
parentage, but the best guess is G. clarkei 'Kashmir Purple' with G.
pratense (for 'Brookside') and G. collinum (for 'Nimbus'). 

Neither of these plants is an "improved" G. 'Johnson's Blue'; both were
accidental crosses and the term improved implies some deliberation, I
believe.  'Johnson's Blue' is also ofter grown from seed but, like both of
the others, it does not come true from seed.  It must be vegetatively
propagated to remain true.  It is a another lovely plant, a cross of G.
pratense and G. himalayense.  It was raised by a guy called Ruys, in
Holland, from seed sent him by A. T. Johnson, a well known gardener in Wales.




David Victor,
International Registrar for Geranium & Erodium

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