a l t e r n a t i v e s Plant List 2002
# denotes name of plant which, to the best of our knowledge, is new to cultivation in the period 2001/2002 or which has not been offered before commercially under any other valid name.
*
means that seed may be available.
+
denotes species beneficial to butterflies and/or moths.
Please note double-flowered forms are of little or no benefit as they
lack nectar.
A
large number of the plants listed are of native provenance and many are local.
G. robertianum 'Album'(?) - A large
and vigorous form with white flowers in reddish calyces.
Stems and stalks are conspicuously red. This stock, originally acquired
from Chiltern Seeds under the name ‘Album’, flowers only after overwintering
(as is typical for most forms of G. robertianum). However,
the name may be incorrect as, according to Peter Yeo’s book Geraniums,
the epithet ‘Album’ applies to plants of this colouring which do NOT need to
overwinter in order to flower. £2.50
G. robertianum ‘Celtic White’ - a
form lacking the usual anthocyanins (red pigment).
The stems, stalks and calyces are green, and the flowers are pure white
with green anthers. Low-growing. £2.50
G. robertianum ssp. celticum - a dainty, low-growing form with pale pink flowers and
scarlet anthers. The plants
generally have less red colour in their stems and stalks, although these can
redden noticeably in dry situations or in pots. £2.50
G. hederacea.
Ground Ivy.
Woodland and hedgerow
plant making long trailing shoots with kidney-shaped leaves and spikes of
bluish-violet flowers in the spring. Vigorous
groundcover which roots as it goes.
G.
hederacea 'Little
Crown' - (Correct
name for the plant wrongly circulated as
G. h. 'Julia Leslie'): the leaves
may have a white-splashed variegation. Beautiful, but very irregular.
£2.50
G. hederacea ‘Rosea’ – A luscious pink-flowered form of ground ivy.
£2.50