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What are these flowers?

17 replies

Nik2879 · 27/04/2025 22:22

Can anyone help me please and tell
me what these flowers are, thanks.

What are these flowers?
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Allseeingallknowing · 27/04/2025 22:22

Geraniums

OllyBJolly · 27/04/2025 22:23

Geraniums? Hard to see petal formation clearly.

QueenOfThorns · 27/04/2025 22:23

They’re geraniums!

Polecat07 · 27/04/2025 22:23

Geraniums

3luckystars · 27/04/2025 22:23

They are lovely and bright.

2BRN2B · 27/04/2025 22:23

Pelargoniums aka geraniums.

GertrudeJekyllAndHyde · 27/04/2025 22:26

Pelargoniums, often called geraniums. Garden centres and supermarkets have lots in stock now.

Rookie93 · 27/04/2025 22:30

Look like pelargoniums to me, normally known as geraniums. Half hardy annuals, and bloom from about late May to first frosts ie Oct/Nov if you keep dead heading them. Several colours red/pink/salmon/white. Try the RHS website for more info, they also have a plant ID app which is helpful

OhWhistle · 27/04/2025 22:32

Pelargoniums. You can bring them inside when it starts turning cold. Some have scented leaves. They live a good few years if you bring them into a warmer place over the winter.

Salmon pink ones are especially pretty.

Nik2879 · 27/04/2025 22:33

Thanks so much. Im clueless at gardening and these are the only flowers that have looked nice the whole way threw a summer. Only bought from a lidil one year and every year since Ive spent at least £60 buying plants trying to find the same ones and them being totally different and not lasting.

thanks so much everyone least I know what to buy this year, should of asked here sooner.

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OhWhistle · 27/04/2025 22:38

You can also try;
Chamomile
Ornamental thymes
Viola tricolor (heartsease)
Hemerocallis (day lilies) (if you don't have pets)
Sweet woodruff
Wild strawberries
Bugle
Himalayan poppies
Wallflowers
Lobelia
Heuchera
Asters
Choisya (Mexican orange blossom)
Sage
for a mixed summer to early autumn display that is relatively low maintenance

Leafy3 · 27/04/2025 22:39

Geraniums are excellent. Pansies and violas are also pretty unbeatable for reliability and colour.

OhWhistle · 27/04/2025 22:42

That's a mix of tiny to medium plants for interplanting and building a corner or bed, and also a shrub for height and interest. Lavandula angustifolia is hardy and fragrant English lavender, but you would need to prune it to stop it getting scant and woody in the cold seasons.

Aubrieta and gentians can be very pretty edging. Ferns are nice if you have dappled shade.

OhWhistle · 27/04/2025 22:43

Zinnias and nasturtiums grow reliably from seed. They're annuals but you'll get a lot from a seed packet.

2BRN2B · 27/04/2025 22:54

Loving your plant selection @OhWhistle.

caringcarer · 27/04/2025 22:57

Marigolds grow anywhere and need no care. Just sow the seeds I to soil and they will grow.

longtompot · 28/04/2025 20:58

caringcarer · 27/04/2025 22:57

Marigolds grow anywhere and need no care. Just sow the seeds I to soil and they will grow.

Mine don't seem to have got that message as I have sown two lots, TWO, and neither have germinated :(

I love the really scented leaved geraniums. I know a lot of people don't but the lemony scent takes me back to my grandparents house

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