Re: Second Request - Geum
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- Subject: Re: Second Request - Geum
- From: L*
- Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 07:33:53 +0100
>And lastly, a CALL for HELP. I have two Geum - Mrs.
Bradshaw plants
>side by side (is it pronounced GEE-UHM or GHEE-um?). One
is lovely
>foliage - the other is . . umm . . .errr . . .going to seed
without
>flowering?? I seem to remember that it's too early in my
neck of the
>woods for this plant to be blooming. But the buds don't
open - they
>produce seed! The plant with the lovely foliage doesn't
show any buds
>or stalks for buds yet - so what's happening?
Sorry Pat, I don't know either, but could it perhaps be that
the flower bud has somehow dried up from the inside out so
that it looks as though it has gone to seed, but in fact is
just an empty flower bud? This is happening to some of my
Dianthus (Pinks) this year. Don't know why.
It's a shame you live so far away. I planted a packet of
Geum Mrs Bradshaw last year and got loads germinate. I've
planted them throughout my garden. The ones I put with my
pastel plants look completely wrong, Mrs Bradshaw is much
too orange, so I've been handing those ones out to everyone
who comes to my garden. I've got one or two left that you
could have had. The others I put in my (sort of ) purple
orange border and it looks fantastic, I'm so pleased with
it. It looks like a beautiful meadow, dotted about with
Papaver Rupifragum (a softer orange), an orange Euphorbia
whose name I've temporarily forgotten, the purple leaves of
Lysimachia Ciliata Firecracker, and various other grey
purple leafed things.
Louise, Surrey, England
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