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Developments in what we all call geraniums – zonal pelargoniums – are fast and furious around the world with new colours and colour combinations, and continual refinements and improvements in habit and reliability. Ivy-leaved geraniums, too, are steadily being improved and in recent years we’ve also...
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Geraniums, or pelargoniums as we should call them, come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. Creating varieties that are more bushy and more prolific, or which trail more effectively, and in new colours and colour combinations, seems to have been a high priority in recent years. But this variety climbs...
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It was back in 1913 that the first Angel Pelargonium was created. It was developed from the scented-leaved Pelargonium crispum and an old Regal Pelargonium called 'The Shah' by Arthur Langley-Smith, a headmaster by profession, as revealed in the fascinating display by Derek Lloyd Dean at the...
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Derek Lloyd Dean is the holder of the National Collection of Angel Pelargoniums . His collection consists of about 140 varieties, some of which date back to the 1930s and two of which are completely new and seen here at the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show for the first time. Angel Pelargoniums make...
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Fibrex Nurseries near Stratford-upon-Avon hold an unlikely pairing of National Collections – ivies and pelargoniums . And with over 2,500 different varieties in the Pelargonium collection , Ursula Key-Davis has a great opportunity to be sure that when she’s considering introducing a new variety it really...
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