PELARGONIUM ANGEL GROUP - VARIEGATED

Albert - some cream margins, flowers light lilac-pink with darker veins

Annsbrook Beauty - irregular white to cream margin to 15% or so, flowers light pink with purple markings on all petals, just a dot or blotch on lovers, a very large and complex blotch on uppers, covering 30-40-% of the upper petal surfaface. Faint lemon scent but not truly a scented geranium.

Fir Trees Ele - thin golden margin, flowers to 95% reddish-purple mark. Sport of 'Spanish Angel'.

Golden Angel - yellow to greenish-yellow (if shaded) margin to 20%, very colorful, flowers mauve with dark blotch on uppers. US Patent #13813. It was not widely seen in the US until 2005. Sport of 'Darmsden'.

Madame Layal Variegated (Variegated Madam Layal) - thin white margins, flowers "pansy type" much as 'Madame Layal' with purple uppers, lower ones light lavender with dark purple feathering and radiating veins. Its reverts to the old green sort with ease.

Oldbury Duet - yellow to cream margins to 15% or so, margins whitish in shade, flowers with violet-red upper petals, mauve-pink and white lowers (duet=bicolor effect), sport of 'Tip Top Duet'.

Rita Scheen - thin white margin, leaves sometimes deformed and cupped, flowers mostly light lilac to blush with reddish-purple blotch (to 70%) on upper petals. Faint lemon scent.

Rita Scheen Improved - as above but variegation said to be more regular on flat leaves and with less deformed surface. The original may have virus. This is a Faye Brawner sport and since sports are seldom virus free it is apparently just a more stable chimeral manifestation. This is not a valid cultivar name and it surely deserves a new one.

Sarah Don - dark green center on light green, flowers mauve with reddish-purple blotch

PELARGONIUM CASCADE GROUP (P. x hortorum x P. peltatum) x ? also called "Balcon", "Ivy-Zonal Cross" and "Hybrid Ivy" Geraniums

This group combines the relaxed, spreading habit of ivy Geraniums (P. peltatum) with the heat tolerance of zonal bedding types (P. x hortorum), borrowing double flowers, dense heads, and leaf colors from the later. They often cascade and as such as useful in baskets, balcony planters, and over walls. Other groups are likely in the mix and some are clearly hybrids to species sorts with narrow, brightly veined petals and leaves different from the main parent groups.

Some authors such as Faye Brawner use the name "Cascade geraniums" for hybrids of P. frutetorum, a group of hyper-zonal types with very large dark margins of 20-80% of the surface. I discuss these below under the Dark Leaf and Hyper-Zonal Types section below. Historically speaking, the name "cascade" was first applied to truly cascading, trailing, balcony types from P. peltatum crossed to P. x hortorium.

The following are popular clones and strains to date:

'Acapulco Compact Cascade' - bicolored single flowers in magenta-pink with whitish to blush centers. 'Alliance' - light orchid pink with darker pink markings on the upper petals, semi-double 'Apricot' - salmon-pink to peachy pink, dark blotched leafhttp://www.elj.com/geranium/ 'Baton Rouge'- flowers single, salmon, leaves shwoy with cream margins. Hard to root. 'Blue Spring' ('Blaur Fruhling')- lilac to odd bluish-lavender shade 'Bright Cascade' - very bright, nearly true red single. 'Bright Lass' - dark coral, semi-double 'Canary Island' - dark salmon-pink, singles. 'Deacon Fireball' - very bright scarlet flowers 'Decora Imperial' - - rich salmon red, single 'Decora Lavender' - rich lavender-pink, narrow, spaced petals 'Eastborne Beauty' - rose-red, double 'Elsi' - double, bright red flowers. Leaves lobed and with a nice white border. 'Elsner's Red and White' - bicolor single in red with white eye, cascades due to long internodes 'Elsner's Rose and White' - bicolor single in dark pink with white centers, cascades due to long internodes 'Forest Maid' - scarlet to rose-red flowers in large heads. Leaves are golden-green, subtle 'Grenchen' - bright crimson to coral-red flowers, strong plants. Probably 'Schone von Grenchen'? 'Harlequin Pretty Girl' - semi-double flowers in a bicolor of white and orange, orange with white stripes in most cases 'Indianapolis Pink' - bright pink, white throat, double 'Jack of Hearts' - double, salmon-pink, darker markings Jackpot Series 'Jackpot Liliac Mist' - light lavender tones 'Jackpot Rose' - dark pink, double 'The Joker' - flowers double, pink markings and spots in upper petals 'King of Hearts - light pink, red veins for contrast, double 'Lady Gertrude' - rich mauve-pink, purple markings, upper petals with whitish bases 'Lara Delight' - dark cerise pink, very huge floral width 'Lara Gem' - light pink, double pink 'Lila Compact Cascade' - abundant lavender-pink flowers, single 'Lila Mini Cascade' - much as above but smaller, mounded, smaller in most parts\ 'Madeline Crozy' - reddish-coral, double flowers 'Millfield Gem' - flowers double, rich amaranth-pink, showy red markings 'Millfield Rosebud' - light pink, full double with rosebud shape 'Mini Pink Cascade' - single pink, small plant, very floriferous. Same as 'Pink Mini Cascade'? 'Oldbury Cascade' - flowers single, red. Leaves margined cream to yellow. 'Pink Cascade' - single pink flowers in a bright magenta tone, whitish center. 'Queen of Hearts' - blush to light pink, double, large red marking on petals 'Red Mini Cacasde' - true red singles, very floriferous 'Remsquelle Variegated' - flowers blush to light pink, single, upper petals marked red, green and white leaf. 'Rococo' - pink, red veined, full double rose-bud like shape 'Schone von Grenchen' - double, rose-red to coral red flowers in large clusters. 'Sofie Cascade' - medium pink singles, very floriferous. Top Performer at Penn State trials in 2003. 'Souvenir of Villemaroy' - flowers cherry- red to true red, double, white reverse, showy contrast. 'Ten of Hearts' - light salmon, red veins, double 'Ville de Dresden' - white single flowers veins in dark violet-red, narrow petals, floriferous. 'White Compact Cascade' - floriferous white single, a hint of pink in each center. replaces PAC White Cascade for better branching and more flowers.

PELARGONIUM X HORTORUM - ZONALE AND NON-ZONALE BEDDING

This section is devoted to the classic pot plant and bedding hybrids with a green leaf or a slightly marked, zonale type of marking. As the number of known cultivars is staggering (well into 1200), this section will be devoted to photos of the best cultivars I have seen in my travels to trial gardens, garden centers, breeders, and Geranium specialtists. Your choice of cultivars and those available locally will definately vary.

Look under "Pelargonium - Scented" below for general references on the genus in gardens.

A superb website known as the Pelargonium Palette has a huge database with good photos and sources: http://www.elj.com/geranium/

Some of the top specialist and wholesale Pelargonium websites are reference books in themselves. I like the following for extra reading, expert opinions, and many, many images: http://www.geraniumsuk.com/ http://www.geraniumcottage.com.au/ http://www.gosbrookpelargoniums.com/ http://www.firtreespelargoniums.co.uk/ http://www.goldsmithseeds.com/ http://www.fibrex.co.uk/ http://www.ozgeraniums.com.au http://www.dereklloyddean.com/ http://www.pelargoniums.org.uk/ http://www.holtgeraniums.com/ http://www.fischerusa.com A Chronology of Pelargonium x hortorum cultivar introductions and their ornamental evolution: This is a original history based on my study of more than 80 original documents, first submitted October 2008, and is more complete I believe than histories included in the major Pelargonium reference works. As ever, your comments as NOS members and subscribers are most welcome. 1710 - P. zonale, the horseshoe or zonate stork's bill comes from Cape of Good Hope to England 1714 - P. inquinans, the "staining stork's bill" or "scarlet stork's bill" reaches England 1734 - Sir Thomas More in Flower Garden Displayed records a "silver-leaved geranium", having cream margins. 1768 - Miller reportedly mentions a variegated sport of P. zonale, perhaps the one known to More in 1734. The name 'Miller's Variegated' appeared in subsequant years, likely for the same plant. 1780 - Dr. Fothergill raises 'Fothergillii' which Burbridge in 1877 Cultivated Plants calls "one of the earliest improvements on P. zonale and is figured by Andrews in his 'Geraniaceae'. It is much larger in floral dimensions and is thought to be important in Beaton's later work in the Nosegay Group. In fact, the 1828 issue of The Gardener's Magazine gives the common name "scarlet nosegay geranium" for P. fothergillii, clearly suggesting this connection. 1799 - Henry Andrews of England writes the first Geranium guide, mentioning a dwarf zonale called minimum. It is probably the same variety (or basic theme) offered in the mid 1850's in Europe as 'Scarlet Minima' or 'Scarlet Minimum'. 1817 - a double-flowered variant of P. inquinans is mentioned, said to be grown in Ghent 1823 - 'Golden Chain' becomes a popular gold marginate, having a wider, brighter edge than the older 'Golden Circle' 1837 - Herbert mentions sports and early cross-breeding of Pelargonium species, some of it accidental 1839 - Sweet's Hortus Brittanicus of this year mentions Geranium zonale minima but using his name of Ciconium pumilum, surely the same or similar to minimum. He covers four variations of Ciconium zonale (an early alternative name for Pelargonium zonale) includng 1) lilacinum (lilac-colored), 2) coccineum (scarlet), 3) crystallinum (coral-stalked), and 4) margined (white-edged). He also covers C. fothergillii which today would be called P. zonale 'Fothergillii', likely an early parent of modern Zonals. The Fothergill Geranium came in two forms: 1) coccineum (scarlet) and 2) purpureum (purple) so it was never a single clone. c. 1840 - Nosegay Group varieties begin to come from England courtesy of Donald Beaton, these have very narrow petals and very large heads of flowers. 'Fothergillii' is one sort known then and thought to be a parent of them; scarlet red of course. They may date many decades before this date. It is likely that these narrow-petalled types were among the earliest hybrids, the modern, wide-petalled type coming later. The Nosegay are more highly clustered or bouquet-like in flower, narrow-petaled, and larger in floral dimensions than older kinds. 1840's - popular bedding varieties in the UK included 'Cottage Maid', a rich scarlet with good bloom traits, rich dark zones, compact for bedding. The New York Botanical Garden mentioned using it for bedding as late as 1916. c. 1840 - 'Mangle's Variegated' is offered with a white margin, a sport of the old 'Fothergillii'. Most of the early Silver Bicolors prior to 'Flower of the Day' (1848) had thin, weak, irregular margins. c. 1844 - 'Golden Chain', a gold-margined sort is offered. It may be much older than this date since it's said to be a sport of the wild P. inquinans type. One unconfirmed report dates it to about 1822-23. 1847 - 'Lucia Rosea' comes from Paris to the UK, a sport of the basic scarlet bedding type in clean, nice light pink tones. Not only was the color different but it flowered freely on "open ground", had compact form, and was durable. Other good traits included heads held above the foliage, "good-sized leaves, of a soft and velvety character", and subtle whitish eye on the lower petals. 1848 - Mr. Kinghorn offers 'Flower of the Day', a cream to white-margined form, wider in margin than anything yet. It is thought to be a cross of white-margined P. zonale and P. inquinans. c. 1850 - 'Cerise Unique' is considered a top bedder in a bright cerise-red to what some called "cherry red". It was one of the first accepted cultivars in other than classic orange-red and scarlet tones. I see reports of it being recommended in US trials as late as 1875. 1850 - 'Tom Thumb' dwarf bedding variety is mentioned in The Cottage Gardener by D. Beaton. Some experts consider that P. inquinans was the main genetic influence on the Tom or Tom Thumb series of dwarf bedding types. In fact, P. inquinans had a cultivar called 'Giant Tom Thumb' to distinquish it from the newer, shorter versions. 1850 - Mr. Kinghorn offers 'Attraction', the first known Silver Tricolor, having both white margins and a big bold zonal ring. 1850 - Loudon in Hort. Brit. used the epithet 'Marginatum' for a marginate Pelargonium sport. 1850 - 'Tom Thumb's Bride', a pink-flowered dwarf is first offered, others consider it more rose-red. 1850 - The Annals of Horticulture mentions a dwarf bedder called 'Compactum' grown in the US. It dates from at least the 1840's in Europe. 1850 - 'Smith's Emperor' and 'Smith's Superb' are popular bedding varieties in scarlet. 1851 - The Floricultural Cabinet reports 'White Unique' which actually had a tinge of pink to be available. So too was 'Purple Unique' from Messrs. Henderson in a lilac color offered in 1850.'Hendersonii' (as P. hendersonii) was "new white-flowered horse-show geranium" from Messrs. Henderson: "medium height, blooms freely, and contrast very prettily with the scarlets". The petals were of "middle breath" and not as wide as the good scarlets known then. The name 'Hendersonii' was also applied (by Beaton) for a scarlet-flowered plant with white margins. They also mention the 'Liliputian', rising just 9-12 inches tall but blooming freely. It remains unclear if 'Lilliput' is the same as 'Liliputian' or not. Some authors such as Sophia Orne Johnson (1874) grouped cultivars under the single title "Liliputian Zonales or Tom Thumb Geraniums", keeping these as one entity with various named clones. 1855 - Peter Grieve offers 'Mrs. Pollock', a bright golden tricolor, one still popular today. It may be a sport of older variety 'Cerise Unique'. Some consider 'Mrs. Pollock' to have originated about this time but not sold until 1857. 1855 - Grieve crossed 'Cottage Maid' with 'Golden Chain' pollen, making 'Golden Tom Thumb', a compact gold-margined sort. 1856 - a silver-margined sport of 'Lucia Rosea', a light pink, is offered as 'Silver Queen', give this shade of flower over a silver leaf. 1857 - National Magazine mentions dwarf cultivars including 'Lilliput' and 'Tom Thumb', these better in bedding than older large varieties. c. 1858 - white-flowered varieties are known in the UK, including P. zonale album and 'Ingram's White'; they were narrow-petaled or Nosegay types. 1858 - an article in The Florist, Fruitist, and Garden Miscellany praises 'Lady Plymouth' as "the best variegated Geranium for edging, owning to it's free growth and beautiful cut foliage". They also praised 'Diadematum' as the finest in rosy-purple shades. 'Ingram's Princess Royal' is a highly rated pink. 'Cerise Unique', an much older variety than this year is still a favorite. 'Collin's Dwarf' (also called 'Frogmore Improved' and 'Trentham Scarlet') is a fine dwarf bedding type with more erect flowers than 'Tom Thumb'. 'Richmond Gem' is the best of orange-scarlets known that year. This document also mentions that the old Nosegay varieties had recently been crossed to the dwarf 'Tom Thumb' types by Mr. Beaton, giving the advantages of each type. 1859 - Breck in The Flower Garden praised 'Tom Thumb' as they are "dwarfs, some of them very small in their growth, and vary in intensity of color, mode of growth, foliage, etc.", suggesting it was a strain/group and not a single clone.He also praised the "superlatively beautiful" 'Lucia Rosea', a sport of the common "Scarlet geranium" which is floriferous, compact, and flowers of light pink with whiter eye. c. 1860 - Mr. Wills creates the Bronze Zonal Group with his 'Beauty of Oulton'. 1860 - 'Madame Vaucher' from France is a sensation, flowers in pure white, petals very wide, and floriferous very good. 1862 - a 'Quadricolor' is reported by M. Lebois de Toulouse. 1863 - Henry Lecoq finds a double-flowered (7-10 vs. 5 petals) in his garden. Years later the famous nursery of Lemoine in France perfected these doubles. 1863 - 'Crimson Minimum' is a popular bedding variety in England, said to be new this year. 1863 - a report on New Bedding Geraniums and J. Horticulture and Cottange Garden mentions that Messrs. Lee Nursery had a white- margined cultivar that also had white flowers - the first such combinations we believe. It was not named. 1864 - Hibberd mentions other dwarves in 1864 and these include 'Scarlet Perfection', 'Smith's Superb', and 'Baron Hugel' - in a group he terms "Horseshoe-leaved Dwarf Bedding Scarlets". c. 1864 - Lemoine's 'Gloire de Nancy', a bright carmine-scarlet double becomes very popular throughout Europe. Hibberd has noted that people sold 'Gloire de Nancy' as rosy-pink, probably mixing it up with 'Madame Lemoine'. 1866 - M. Sisley crossed P. zonale and P. inquinans varieties existing then, looking for new combinations, habits, and colors. 1867-1875 - Mr. Hardy sowed Sisley's crosses, some from 10 year old seed! 1868 - William Paul advertises a "Double Tom Thumb" known as 'Cottington', "quite full", dwarf, scarlet-flowered, and weather tolerant. This is one of the first record dwarf doubles. 1869 - Grieve in his study of geranium history, reports a wide variety of tricolor and variegated sorts. 1871 - Lemoine offers 'Gloire de Doubles', rich cerise in color, white center, a breakthrough in bicolor doubles. 1872 - M. Sisley offers 'Aline Sisley', the first known white double. Lemoine had not managed to get one in years before this. 1873 - The Butterfly Zonals also came about this time with 'A Happy Thought' having a cream center. It was said to revert to old variegated (reticulate, cream-veined) 'Reticulatum' from which it sported. 1874 - Beaton's Gardening Book from this Pelargonium expert calls attention to French or Spotted Geraniums which today are called Paint Box Zonals. The assortment was large and included the curious 'Black Diamond' as "dark crimson, margined with rosy-scarlet". 1874 - William Bull of England lists 100 double varieties for sale late 1800's - a wider range tricolor or "fancy" zonals offered. Hundreds of fancy types were grown in the coming decades, all but a few dozen lost today. 1870 - Paint Box Zonals reported, these have small flecks of red or pink on a paler base color. 1875 - 'Mrs. Quilter', first of the chartreuse to yellow-leaved types with a big zone is offered. This may be much older. 1877 - Burbridge mentions crossed between some forms of "P. inquinans-zonale" and "P. peltatum-hederaefolium", resulting in the first Hybrid Ivy or Cascade types 1880 - "pom pom" types were reported, these probably the same as full double Rosebud Zonals offered today. They may have been around as early as 1850 but the early doubles were not this full according to illustrations. 1880 - in Poiters, France a tetraploid sport of the diploid zonals is found, having larger parts, strong and thick stems. 1890 - the popular dwarf 'Black Vesuvius' is offered 1890's - Cactus Flowered Zonals came about with 'Fire Dragon' around this time. These have irregular, very narrow, twisted, and sometimes ragged petals. c. 1945 - 'Skies of Italy', a bold multicolored zonal originated in the US. It is not from England or Italy as often stated. 1960's - Holmes Miller in the US induces tetraploids with colchicine, producing the first bicolor-flowered tets. He further work on the larger tets to become more compact while keeping the higher level of vigor. c. 1965 - F1 hybrid seed strains introduced, making more widespread sales of plants possihle. Until this time, plants had to be rooted from large stock plants, limiting production to hundreds. Now there could be tens of thousands of plants grown from one strain. Seedlings also had fewer virus problems. Pan American was one of the first pioneers in stable seed strains. 1966 - Andrea Nursery offers 'Patricia Andrea', the first of the so-called Tulip Flowered Group. These are doubles with a generally ovoid flower shape because the apex is constricted or incurving like a tulip flower/ 1970's - Rev. Stringer in England begins work on the Deacon and Occold Series of hybrids, the former being crosses of ivy types with dwarf zonals 1980's - major florists firms get into the action, including Fischer and PAC Elsner, both of Germany. They wholesaled to large growers around the US and Europe, offering stunning new vegetative clones in new colors and forms. Wilhelm Elsner was also the first to breed zonals with huge violet-red centers and subtle picotees, a style still popular today.

'Allure Violet' is not so much a violet as a dark red with some purplish tones. Badly named but a very pretty dark flower. 'American Rose Megasplash' is one of the newer series of bicolored flowers which give alternative looks to the traditional scarlet or pink bedding and patio types. 'American Rose Splash' is much like the "megasplash" version but the background color is a darker pink. 'American Trailing Dark Red' has a lower habit and rich dark scarlet flowers. The petals have a slight incision for extra interest. 'Caliente Coral' gives narrow petals with glowing coral-red color, a very bold and pretty plant. 'Caliente Deep Red' is one of the most impressive red cultivars I've seen in years. The color is so dark I cannot photograph it very well, even with an array of filters. The foliage suggests some ivy Geranium in the background. As with all in the Caliente Series, the petals are narrow and widely spaced for a specific look. 'Dot' is a really nice, effective bicolor with huge coral-red zones and spotted, thinnish pink margin. This is a great plant indoors or out. 'American Splash II' is basically a white and coral-red bicolor, a very showy combination. The Geranium experts would call these markings "brushstrokes" 'Rocky Mountain Dark Red' is a glowing scarlet like so many others but this singlw flower has nicely obovate petals that look nicer than most I see.

PELARGONIUM X HORTORUM - DARK LEAF OR HYPER-ZONAL TYPES

This group has leaves moe than 60% purple or black-marked, some brownish and others nearly all dark shades. The influence of the large-zoned P. frutetorum is evident in many of these crosses and the rest of the genetics comes from P. x hortorium to secure a large, sophisticated, colorful bloom. The Black Velvet series has this rich purplish-brown zone about 98% of the surface. Flowers come in scarlet, coral, medium pink, and a pink/white bicolor.

'Bullseye Cherry' - very appealing cherry-red to violet-red color over dark brownish leaves.

'Medallion' - a real favorite of mine because of it's yellow to chartreuse blade (variable with light and culture) and are huge lobed red zone to about 45-55% of the center. It's so cool flowers almost ruin it.

'Occold Shield' - is marked about 85% dark brownish-purple in the center with a wider lime green margin than the Black Velvet photo above. Flowers are glowing scarlet.

PELARGONIUM X HORTORUM - VARIEGATED AND GOLDEN BEDDING ("Fancy Geraniums") 'Wilhelm Langguth' (two "g's" is correct) is a classic in this category, pristine white margins and double flowers for months. It is one of the prettiest of all variegated bedding plants and not a bad house plant either.

There are many variegated types and classifications vary a bit among the specialists and societies around the world. Generally they are grouped as follows with dwarf and true miniature variants occuring in most groups. I have put the dark leaf or hyper-zonal types in the section above.

Golden Zonal - entire blade chartreuse to gold, dark purple to brownish zone. These are golden leaves not having a marginal gold chimera. Some growers lump these with Golden Bicolor Zonals but one is a chimera and the other golden pigments throughout. Bicolor Zonals - these have a simple chimera with a green central color, little or no dark zone Butterfly Bicolor Zonals - central variegation in green, gold, cream, or white. 'A Happy Thought', a gold- centered leaf with bright single scarlet flowers is very common in nurseries. These are medio-picta type chimeras and often have a butterfly-like shape due to the palmate venation and folded leaves. Reticulates - these have showy, contrasting white, cream, or yellowish veins. Reticulata type variegation is actually more popular among the P. peltatum hybrids. Golden Bicolor Zonals - gold to greenish-yellow leaf margins with green central color - see gallery at http://www.holtgeraniums.com/goldleaf.htm Silver Bicolor Zonals - silvery to white leaf margins with green central color, little or no dark zone. 'Wilhelm Langguth' shown above belongs here since it lacks the tricoloring or dark ring. Tricolor Zonals - these have it all, chimeral margin, dark central zone or band, and a center of green or another color. Usually the overlap of the bands creates a plethora of colors including oranges, pinks, reds, subtle greens, silvers, and many others. see gallery at http://www.holtgeraniums.com/tricol.htm Silver Tricolor Zonals - silver margin, large purple to dark zone, green center Golden Tricolor Zonals - gold to greenish margin, large purple to dark zone, green center Butterfly Tricolor Zonals - these have a typical green margin, white to yellow center, and a dark brown to purple zone. These are the reverse (outside to in) of the Silver Tricolor and Golden Tricolors which have the yellow on the outside and the green in the center.

'Crystal Palace Bright Red' provides a lime-yellow margin in additional to bright scarlet flowers of the single type. Not all variegates in this hybrid species are good bedders in hot climates and this one is taking the Raleigh, NC climate (NC State AAS Trial Gardens) like a trooper. This cultivar is correctly classed as a Golden Bicolor Zonal although some authors put it with the Butterfly Group because of the wide margin and small green center; a conclusion I cannot endorse. The marginal chimera is simply wider than normal and it is not a medio-picta (central chimera) as the true Butterfly types always will be.

PELARGONIUM PELTATUM

These are the so-called "Ivy Geraniums", having a cascading or more spreading habit that traditional bedding types. The leaf is more ivy-like to some eyes and usually one more folded (3-dimensional) and glossy. They generally lack a central zone except in hybrids between the groups. 'Atlantic Burgundy' is a useful rich color, perfect in every way, a good shade against that light olive-colored leaf.

Some of my favorites are the following, all of them solid, proven, timeless clones:

'Apricot Queen' - ruffled medium pink double with a tint of salmon. 'Arctic Frost' - noted for complex bicolored flowers, striped and margined pink on white, white marked foliage is a plus. 'Bonito' - very dark violet-red, nice white picotee, a very stunning plant, timeless beauty. 'The Crocodile' - usual reticulate-type white veins, very showy for foliage along, single cerise blooms. 'Francis Parmenter' - nice white leaf margins. The flowers remind me of a species Pelargonium, softish magenta-rose with dark veins, very narrow petals. 'Golden Baby' - margins a subtle chartreuse, a thick waxy blade that's unique. Very narrow-petalled, species-like flowers in white with long violet-red brushstrokes. Very different and pretty. 'Jackie Gould' - full double in white with blush centers, these are perfect clusters of rosebuds, stunning. 'Jips Twink' - frilled light pink flowers in open heads, very showy light yellow to cream-margined leaf. 'L'Elegante' - classic clone with white-margined leaves, flowers white to blush, tending to dark lilac shades if dry. 'PAC Tomcat' - shimmering, satiny dark maroon red with some pink undertones, informal double shape. 'Pelfi Barrock' - a Fischer cross with full dark red, double heads, the leaf darker and glossy. 'Pelfi Black Magic' - another Fischer production in dark plum-red, semi-dopuble centers, a very pretty dark plum tone. 'Pink Carnation' - double in bright, medium pink, petals cut like a Dianthus, very showy! 'Queen of Hearts' - informal white flowers with margins and tips flecked and slightly striped red, almost Dianthus-like. 'Summer Showers' - a multicolored seed strain in 5 colors, heads of 4.5-5.0 in. wide, very floriferous for months. 'Zebra Lee' - white to blush semi-double, very subtle and showy margins in medium pink. Luc

PELARGONIUM - SCENTED

The first edition (October 2002) of this cultivar chart contained 193 pleasantly scented cultivars. This Spring 2005 revision is adding many more and clarifying the nomenclature from new research, additional reading, and personal observations.

That number is many more than found in most reference books and catalogs. Very few herb nurseries bother with more than 20 or 30 of the very best. There are hundreds more cultivars with odd, unpleasant, muddled, curiously mixed, and strange pungent scents. Indeed any of the legion Pelargonium x hortorum cultivars have something of a distinct odor. We have omitted those with dubious credentials for being both ornamental and easy on the nose.

Fortunately most of the scented cultivars are visually pleasing even without a flower. They often have grayish, softly tomentose leaves with or without numerous, finely cut lobes. You can find every shade of silver to dark green and they combine well for this reason. Some are variegated in spots or delicate margins. Most have a rich texture from the hairs, veins, or rough surface elements. The surfaces can please you like velvet or rasp your fingers like sandpaper or bristly weeds. Some have red tints or dark brownish-purple markings for even more interest. The number of interesting waves, twists, crinkles, crisps, and cresting of the lobes and margins is almost endless. If you want to find a group to breed for diversity of leaf shapes and colors, this is one good choice. Some are intricately cut with lacy, fern-like lobes while others are nearly round or kidney-shaped. Again, contrasts possibilities are endless and wonderful.

A large number of scented Pelargonium cultivars have been named (and confused) over the last two or three centuries. Sporting, inadvertant breeding, imposter seedlings, mixed up labels, lost records, and faulty noses have contributed to many mixups in the group. Some cultivars are polyclonal, meaning that more than one identifiable clone is sold under that name. Just in other experience buying plants in garden centers and mailorder, we have found many instances of labels misplaced as well as sitting at the bottom of shipping boxes! More than once we have been careful to either key out plants or simply disgard them when label confusions cannot be resolved. As ever, one must vigilant to check flower colors as they appear, since two clones of similar leaf morphology and scent may have very different flower colors and markings.

The advent of chemotaxonomy has had a very positive and immediate effect on improving our understanding of these garden plants. They are of complex parentage at times and even more complex and curious chemistry. For a very modern and detailed assessment of their parentage, taxonomy, identification, and chemical components the following book is highly recommended. Indeed, if you have an interest in any herb cultivars this is a must-have book. In nearly all cases we have adopted the nomenclature and species assignments recommended by these authors.

Amongst the very finest references are the following:

Abbott, P. 1994. A guide to scented Geraniaeceae. Hill Publicity, England.

Becker, J. and F. Brawner. 1996. Scented geraniums: knowing, growing, and enjoyed scented Pelargoniums. Interweave Press.

Brawner, F. 2003. Geraniums: the complete encyclopedia. Schiffer Publishing.

Key, H. 2000. 1001 Pelargoniums. B.T. Batsford, London.

Krauss, H.K. 1955. Geraniums for home and garden. Macmillan

Miller, D. 1996. Pelargoniums. B.T Batsford, London.

Moore, H.E. 1995. Pelargoniums in cultivation. Bailey 3: 5-25, 41-46, 70-97 (two parts) Swain, R. 1974. Aromatic Pelargoniums. Arnoldia 34: 97-124.

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SPECIES CULTIVAR AFFINITY/ LEAF SHAPE/ (except if proceeded by FOLIAGE SCENT MISC. P. = Pelargonium) PARENTAGE/ COLOR GROUP P. abrotanifolium (Southernwood)

Low, trailing plant outdoors. The pale foliage color together w-th long blooming make it useful for baskets or window boxes. Long, wiry greyish-green, branches may very cut or in 3-5 need trimming to segments, ferny keep it from being leaf, blades sparse and weed- abrotanifolium pungent usually under like. 2cm long. Has very long leaf Small white or stalk lavender flower appendages too. (varies in the wild and with garden clone) and with various markings. May flower all summer so is popular for this reason.

a listed with Abundance Barnfield UK 2005.

This is the Algerian and Tunisian strain for commercial oil Algerian (Tunisian) x asperum very rich rose production, different we believe from the 'Egypt' type.

This may be an All Spice x fragrans spicy scent error for 'Old Spice'.

Almond or Almond-scented some=Pretty Polly

American Prince of Orange = Orange

Rich purpish-pink shallowly lobed, with orante very generally of oak dark and white Andersonii quercifolium x ? pungent type, possible markings. A nicer small purple flower than most center oak sorts.

Roots faster than 'Mabel Grey' and thus is more popular with some. Showy pink flowers.

The true 'Angeline' (from P. dumosum) as P. x is said to be extinct citronellum lemon, ranging from and has nothing to Angel (Angeline misapplied, Angel Scented?, Citronella misapplied) x citronellum 'Mabel Gray' but moderate to harsh do with this one. smaller and The name is still in more toothy use today.

'Bitter Lemon' is identical or a very similar clone.

Origin: seedling of 'Mabel Grey' known since 1820's

A "Near Scented" mild lemon, extremely beloved for the weak or unscented in great leaf (similar Wide, flat some plants at some to 'Galway Star') crispum-like Annsbrook Beauty (Arnsbrooke Beauty?) Angel Group times. If you're looking and pink flowers leaf, margined for a variegated true loaded with 5 cream lemon clone, look heaavily marked elsewhere. petals in reddish- violet tints.

Apple or Apple-scented = P. odoratissimum and clones

"Fresh apple", rounded overall, odoratissimum x Mostly white Apple Betty supposedly a better shallowly 3- ? flowers. scent lobed

Apple Cider = Cody

Similar to the common 'Apple' clone of the mint perhaps with species P. some fruit overtones, rounded, very odoratissimum but Apple Mint odoratissimum perhaps a camphor- shallow lobed perhaps a bit mint at times larger, stronger. Large racemes of white flowers can be very showy.

Apricot = Patons Unique or M. Ninon, both the small and frilled ("double") clones are sold under this name

Ardwick Cinnamon

Spreads but matures outdoors more silvery to large, upright cinnamon and clove than Nutmeg- entities blend, it not to scented, x fragrans everyone's taste but rounded, very Most white flower adds diversity to any serrate blade, with a touch of red collection greyish-green Origin: R. Clifton 1988

Small white flowers in heads. Popular in baskets. Red marks in upper grey-green, petals. mixed spicy scent, undulate Aroma x fragrans fairly strong, weaker margins, small It is similar to 'Old than 'Old Spice' size. New leaves Spice' but the are very curled margins are more undulate and the scent a notch or two weaker.

Seems to be a scent variant Artemisia abrotanifolium (chemotype) of this species

usually deeply incised (more so This garden hybrid than P. is best known in x asperum (P. graveolens), it's cultivars such x asperum capitatum x P. some plants with as 'Citrosa', Rosé radens) sharp rough Group, and 'Lady hairs of P. Plymouth' radens

40cm tall. Floriferous with rich reddish- lavender to light green oak- purple flowers, reportedly rose but Ashby Regal Group shaped leaf, each with very dark more generally pungent dark red midrib markings.

Origin: 1999 introduction of Mrs. Popewell.

Atomic Rose = Atomic Snowflake

Atomic Snowflake (Atomic Rose)

cream to light yellow- Lavender flower. margined, shallow lobes, Origin: Mary Ellen lemon/rose mix very large Ross, Merry blades, soft Gardens CA USA tomentose, as sport of slightly rugose 'Snowflake' or puckered

Useful in perfume- making. Lavender flower is small. Plants usually get rampant so good pinching and purning is essential.

This is not the rose scent, very commercial source pungent, one of the large, 3-lobed of rose geranium Attar of Roses (Otto of Roses) capitatum x ? most highly rosy blades oil. Refer to clones known 'Bourbon', 'Egypt', 'Reunion Rose' and 'Hemanti' among others.

Polyclonal according to Tucker.

Origin: England 1817.

Vigorous, spreading. large, dentate leaves with Source: Aurucana gardenia/floral pinnate lobing, Geraniaceae.com very different Origin: J. Kapan of Val Verde, CA USA.

Three hybrids from India that comes BSP-1, BSP-2, and BSP-3 x asperum very strong rose from crosses of the top clones 'Bipuli' and 'Kunti'.

Indian hybrid with 8% rhodinol and BSP-4 x asperum very strong rose most importantly a good 1:1 ratio of geraniol:citronellol.

This scent is based on the stock sold by Papagenos in the US. Balm spice/citrus/nutty Any connection to 'Lemon Balm' or P. x melissinum is unclear to date.

Balsam denticulatum x ? balsam-like

Beauty

It is confused with the minty 'Beauty Oak' since both are rich pungent, not minty lobed lobed and oak-like as the true 'Beauty Oak' in general.

Lavender flower.

quercifolium oak-like, nicely Beauty Oak (Beauty) 'Giganteum' x mint, richly so marked Logees CT USA tomentosum brownish-purple

Listed with Big Apple Barnfield UK 2005

Very cut, quite Big Lemon Mint mint/lemon/rose blend large leaf

One of the top clones used in Bipuli x asperum very strong rose Indian for rose geranium oil production.

Listed with Birdbush Andy Pandy Barnfield UK 2005

Listed with Birdbush Blush Barnfield UK 2005

Listed with Birdbush Bold and Beautiful Barnfield UK 2005

Listed with Birdbush Bramley Barnfield UK 2005

Listed with Birdbush Lemon and Lime Barnfield UK 2005

Listed with Birdbush Lemonside Barnfield UK 2005

Listed with Birdbush Nutty Barnfield UK 2005

Listed with Birdbush Sweetness Barnfield UK 2005

Listed with Birdbush Too Too O Barnfield UK 2005

Listed with Birdbush Velvet Barnfield UK 2005

This may be the x citronellum same as 'Angel' or (possibly just a very similar crossed to P. Pointed, lobed lemon of a stronger, clone. Bitter Lemon crispum from blades, more bitter sort the looks of the crisped Upright growth. habit and Light lavender crispier leaf) flower.

Blandes Musk = Blandfordianum

Plants large, often unkempt outdoors unless pruned. Tiny white flower with a little red mark on the upper petals. silvery-grey, x blanfordianum If for no other nicely incised (P. graveolens x reason, I'd include blade with P. echinatum, mild pungent, faintly one with any Blandfordianum (Blandes Musk) numerous lobes some experts musky perhaps scented geranium and secondary discount the garden just for lobes pointing later parent) foliage color forward. contrast.

The correct name of the typical garden clone is P. x blandfordianum (Andr.) Sweet 'Blandfordianum'

Thought to be a sport of 'Blandfordinaum' but it could just as well be the other nicely incised way 'round. blade, slightly Flowers are dark Blandfordinaum Roseum mild pungent less silver than rose-red. 'Blandfordianum' The spelling 'Blandfordianum Rosea' has the wrong gender ending.

Bodes Peppermint = Pungent Peppermint

Tiny light lavender flower. Stems can be whitish or very pale.

'Peacock Rose' mottled cream resembles it as on gray-green, young plants but it deeply lobed. has no lemon lemon/rose mix, fairly Boths Snowflake (Booth's Snowflake) capitatum x ? usually the scents as this strong chimera is not clone. more than 15% and often is less. The spelling 'Booth's Snowflake' is an common error.

Origin: Ted Both, Australia

This name is for the strain used to make Bourbon Rose Oil. Production from the Reunion Isle is x asperum, most famous. commonly listed pinnatisect Bourbon (Reunion Rose) as gravoelens in very strong rose much as Rose Tucker states that chmeical Group Bourbon type literature plants have 4-7% guaia-6,9-diene which is not found in African or 'Egypt' rose geraniums.

Good strong plant in containers or pungent. Reports about bedding. Very Brilliant (California Brilliant) pineapple odor seem rounded lobes bright magenta quite unjustified. flowers are the chief appeal.

Very bright magenta flowers with light pink eau de cologne-like Brilliantine center. Flowers on scent long pedicals for a species-type look. It is not 'Brilliant'

Dark rose-pink to large, deeply cerise flowers with lobed, usually darker red dark green, nice Brunswick rich pungent blend markings on all combination of petals. Flower serrations and heafs can be large undulations and full.

California Brilliant = Brilliant

mottled white, similar to Camray Flumes 'Logees Snowflake'

Rose-pink flowers rose with hints of with at least half larger than 'Rosé Camphor Rose (Camphorum) camphor and mint, very the surface in Group' as typical strong markings. Known since 1900.

This name has been in use and we Camphoratum x asperum rose/champhor mix cannot clearly link it to 'Camphor Rose' at this time.

Camphorum = Camphor Rose, possibly also 'Camphoratum'

Canadian Silver Seedling = Robers Lemon Rose

Candy Dancer (Lara Candy Dancer?)

Good compact form. Lavender bloom are tiny but very pretty.

It is neater and denser than 'Dr. Livingston'. This is one of the very likely from P. finest cutleaf radens or the highly incised, lemon/rose blend geraniums yet clone 'Dr. ferny blade. named. Livingston' Origin: originator unknown but early US plants trace to Australia. The Lara prefix is used by the RHS so is it from Cliff Blackman?

Plants usually low, variable with seedling, sprawling, not very from rich rose to barely suborbicular appearling unless scented. This is why (rounded), P. capitatum capitatum trimmed. Named the hybrids like 'Attar slightly clones are best for of Roses' are more undulated reliable strength of reliable for scent. the rose oils.

Bright cerise flowers with blackish mark domesticum x above and paler querfiolium x whitish center. crispum? Some lemon to some, more of deepoly lobed, Capri think P. a slight pungent. 3-5 lobes It is a "Near cucullatum or a Scented" to me but Regal Group people claim all entity is likely kinds of things when a flower is this good.

curled margins, serrate, frilly, Strong habit, Carl Gaffney mild pungent blend some white needs space. margins can Lavender flowr. appear

Similar to P. Highly incised, radens overall. Carlton Corsage x asperum overlapping Arndt NJ USA lobes, ruffled 1949.

denticulatum highly incised, Arndt NJ USA Carlton Fern 'Filicifolium x fern-like 1950's a hybrid quercifolium

denticulatum Arndt NJ USA Carlton Oak 'Filicifolium x pungent blend oak-like, incised 1950's a hybrid quercifolium Carola = Grey Lady Plymouth

pungent, very harsh conifer resin odor, not nearly as charming as a cedar closet (Juniperus virginiana), not a This cannot be pleasant scent by any placed precisely moderately means, easily the scent yet as our stock x asperum? deeply lobed, of a worthless weed. has not flowered. Cedar (foliage is generally in 5 There is no merit in It belongs in the similar) lobes, bright cultivating this among "Badly Scented light green the distinguished Geranium" section clones above and of an herb garden. below this row unless one actualy has to grown every known scented geranium.

Celery = P. ionidiflorum

Charity

Stronger than many variegated scented clones and thus popular. wide gold Lavender flower. margin on green or gold veined An all gold sport is x asperum lemon/rose blend green, deep now sold as lobing, often 'Golden Charity' more lime and darker green. Origin: sport of Rosé Group by Dr. Durrell Nelson IL USA.

lemon (assumed from Charmay Lemon name)

Charmay Snowflake = Charmay Snow Flurry?

lemon/rose blend, highly mottled Charmay Snow Flurry mostly lemon balm Spreading form. white, 3-lobed overall

Chicago Rose

Chicago Bot. Gard. 1970's. Dr. Tucker says it may prove a synonyn of very large to 'Giganteum'. 15cm wide, well- x asperum lobed, midrib not An imposter clone darker with a dark midrib and much shallower lobing is in the trade.

pungent with mint Fuzzy lobed leaf overtones, not as with lots of cut, Chocolate Joy Lavender flower. clearly peppermint as dark brown 'Chocolate Peppermint' central region

marked brown, lobed but less Chocolate Mint Logees CT USA so than 'Beauty Oak'

Large, triagular, densely NOTE: the name tomentose leaf refers to the in light (as P. chocolate-colored tomentosum) yet leaf blotch blotched inherited from the chocolate-purple pungent blend, hinting oak-type parent. in center in cool of mint (no chocolate!). There is NO weather. Indoors The clone of P. chocolate-mint it looks like a tomentosum I grow is odor though slightly deeper decidely weaker in people will swear it Chocolate Peppermint tomentosum x lobed version of peppermint scent than has a York (Chocolate Tomentosum, Chocolate Mint at least in part) 'Giant Oak' P. tomentosum this one. Others report Peppermint Patty with no this clone is weaker appeal. It's all in markings. Even compared to their P. their mind! the best tomentosum stock. Go taxonomist on figure. It has no relation to earth may find it Cocomint Rose. hard to separate from P. Bred by Viva tomentosum in Ireland, Santa some shded, Barbara, CA USA unmarked examples.

Chocolate Tomentosum = Chocolate Peppermint

Compact version fine incised and Christchurch Beauty lemon/rose blend of 'Doctor lobed Livingston'

This name is also used for a synonym of 'Limoneum' but that true clone should be a bit more citrus/spice. It is very likely a product of Rose rose with cinnamon Group. Polyclonal Cinnamon Group (Cinnamon Rose) x asperum notes, more clove to so we are using a most of us group name here.

Fred Bode named one in the 1950's. One plant sold in the 40's was also known as P. gratum, an invalid name.

Citriodorum (x citriodorum) some may=P. x citrosum, others 'Queen of Lemon'

Citronella some= Angeline, Citronelle, or P. x citronellum, or true Citronella below

Citronella

Lavender flower.

France. It is not shallow lobed, vitifolium x 'Citronella' of the mild to moderate rough to touch. radens or UK which is lemon/citronella 'Citrosa' is very graveolens perhaps 'Angel'. It deeply lobed is not the true species P. x citronellum.

'Mabel Grey' is a named clone but less deeply lobed than "species typical" in the wild. 4-8 lobed, At least one clone irregulary lobed sold as P. x and incised, citronellum has a usually with very bold oval red sharp apices spot on the upper and stiff rough petals which is hairs, often reduced to fine P. scabrum x P. smalish at 4- lemon scent to various bruststrokes in the x citronellum hispidum 10cm long x 1.5- degrees true 'Mabel Grey'. (proposed) 7cm wide. Most in this group The best of the have light modern hybrids is yellowish-green 'Frensham'. blades, rough to touch, with The hybrid species deeply sunken occurs in the wild veins. in S. Africa and it should not be confused with hybrid cultivar 'Citronella'.

Dr. Tucker states that alledged insect-repelling properties are doubtful give the very low citronellel content of just very large 4-7 0.09%. That said, a inches wide and plant in the long) bright strong to moderate bathroom (avoid Citrosa x asperum green leaves, lemon shade and highly incised, overwatering) is as very ornately good as any lemon pinnatisct deodorizer in my experience.

See also 'Van Leenii' for another "mosquito shoo" plant.

It is not the giant- leaved P. x asperum 'Citrosa'. It is usually sold in the form 'Prince of Orange' (UK true oval, smallish clone NOT US (2.5cm), P. crispum x P. imposter 'Orange') shallowly lobed, limoneum x citrosum (x citriodorum in part) lemon to citrus sharply serrate (suggested by Flowers light pink and incised at floral anatomy) with red markins times, base on upper petals. rotund Origin: garden hybrid and a valid hybrid species published by Breiter in 1817.

odorattissimum Clare's Cascade peppermint light green x ?

Reddish-pink Claret Rock Unique cedar flowers.

Clorinda

Large plants need large containers or eucalyptus, cedar, or lobed lots of space in just a pungent blend ground. Very large bright pink flowers.

Numerous light lavender flowers. mint hinting with rose Cocoa-mint Rose solid green Sandy Musch Herb notes at times Nursery NC USA as 'Mint Rose' sport.

Spreading mound, often vigorous generally pleasant and outdoors. Long strong - only a few small, dark raceme of bright Coconut (Coconut Scented, NOT Upright Coconut (see below)) grossularioides people can really detect green blade. magenta flowers. true coconut aroma. Seed production is high in some climates.

We are going with Tucker and odoratissmum, DeBaggio in the possibly x apple-like, more cidar- greyish-green, preference for this Cody (Apple Cider, Cook's Apple Cider?) fragrans but is like than regular P. rounded, barely name. very close to the odoratissimum lobed pure species Origin: Dorcas Brigham MA USA c. 1955

Bright rose- red flowers of considerable deeply lobed, beauty in heads light green, something like finely toothed, x concolor Verbena x hybrida. some say it Concolor Lace (Filbert in part, Shottesham Pet, Concolour Lace) (capitatum x filbert-like, not strong Not always strong reminds them of ignescens) outdoors, it does a carrot leaf. I'm well in small pots inclinded to inside. think Geum. Origin: England c. 1820.

Tall, open form. Large and quite appealing lavender to mauve flowers pungent blend with with purple hints of cedar. Others large, 3-lobed markings on upper Copthorne Unique Group describe it as pungent blade petals. It is very and sweet high quality for floral display but the scent is of questionable appeal.

Countess of Scarborough = Lady Scarborough

Cream Peach = Peach Cream?

Cream Nutmeg x fragrans pine/nutmeg blend Peter Abbott 1979.

Stiff, erect habit in pots, older plants with trail outdoors, usually under 1.5m tall.

Flowers white to rich pink, variable with the clone, tiny 2.0-10.0mm, moderate lemon is some approaching suborbicular usually sold, some of purple have been (rounded) to P. crispum crispum its clones have reported. One reniform cinnamon or conifer- larger-flowered (kidney-shaped), like aromas clone is kown as crisped leaf 'Large Flowered Crisp'

The species and it's cultivars are often grafted on standards as globose container plants.

Crispum Latifolium = Latifolium crispum

Crispum Major = Major crispum

Crispum Variegatum = Variegatum crispum

Crowfoot = P. radens, Radula or Crowfoot Rose

deeply incised, very narrow lobes of 3-7 millimters wide, soft tomentose blades, more grey, paler, and hairy than 'Dr Numerous Livingston', lavender flowers neither has 1- are often quite Crowfoot Rose (Crowfoot in part) radens lemon/rose blend 2mm wide lobes showy and can as 'Filicifolium'. I even weaken the find this clone plant. has more regularly sized and spaced tertiary lobes/teeth compared to 'Dr Livingston'

White flowers. more dentate Same backcross as than P. 'Logee' ('Old odoratissimum, Spice'). a nice, very highly ruffled This is essentially nutmeg/spice, just a leaf in grey- a super-wavy, fragrans x tad rougher than green. It reminds Curly crispy, and ruffled odoratissimum 'Logee' ('Old Spice') but me of a tiny- version of 'Logee' generally as pleasant. leaved, scented and thus a more ornamental kale. showy plant for It surely has the some purposes. It best leaf of is fairly rare but anything from P. Geraniacae.com x fragrans offers generous, strong plants.

Large pink flower with white throat and red brushstrokes on large, sharply 3- Dainty Maid strong citrus or lemon upper petals. The lobed quality of the bloom is as good as some Regal Group clones.

thick, dark green How it differs from blades with other variegated Dappled Oak quercifolium x ? irregularly cream oaks is not markings reported.

Light mauve and pink flowers. peppermint say some, large, dark gray- Markings are heavy Dark Lady others just find strong green, central to 40%. pungency brown zone Origin:Mrs. Batey of Australia.

Light lavender dark green, flower, sometimes pungent blend, some Dean's Delight deeply incised with nice split pine notes possile blade petals. Low- spreading form.

Despite the name it is not a true species. Lavender flowr.

Tucker and Shallowly lobed x asperum or Debaggio listed P. Decipiens moderate rose with a possible capitatum x decipiens as a brownish midrib synonym of both 'Lavender Lace' and 'Shotesham Pet' , which are in fact two different clnes.

Deerwood Lavender Lad F. Brawner hybrid.

Narrow leaf. Light lavender flowers. Deerwood Lavender Lass x fragrans x ? Compact and useful in baskets

P. denticulatum

This true species is usually represented in the clones 'Filicifolium' and 'Pine', the later a more strong chemotype.

Tucker says that cultivated material Very highly denticulatum pine to pungent in the US is usually incised a hybrid to P. radens.

The true species is different from P. radens in having 1) notched petals, 2) hairless leaf above, 3) sticky leaf surface

P. dichondrifolium (Lavender in part) dichondrifolium lavender light

Cultivar names should not have abbreviated titles such as Dr. but are to be written out in deeply incised, full. similar to parent P. radens, This clone is much blades darker closer to parent P. green and less radens than most ahiry than rose with hints of mint, of the other P. x Doctor Livingstone (Dr. Livingstone, Dr. Livingston, Skeleton Rose) x asperum 'Crowfoot Rose', a very pleasant blend asperum. lobes mostly 3- 7mm wide, Lots of blush- secondary and lavender flowers tertiary lobes of with conspicuous irregular sizes violet-red and spacing brushmarks

Origin: England c. 1876 and popular ever since.

very deeply pinnatisect leaf, Doctor Westerlund rose a photo reminds me of 'Citrosa'

Dorcas Brigham x concolor half species size

40cm tall. Light lilac flowers with very large purple feathering marks. sweet lime, truer scent round greyish- Dorcas Brigham Lime ? than 'Lime' green leaves Good flowers and great scent make this one worth seeking out.

Double Apricot = Madame Nonin

This name has been used for the African or Egyptian much as Rose strain that differs Egypt (Egyptian) x asperum very strong rose Group chemicaly from the Bourbon type commercial strains.

capitatum x ornate, horn-like, Elkhorn England c. 1860 quercifolium invised blandes Endsleigh (Endsleigh Oak)

Prostrate form for some, eventually incised, ruffled, large and strong brown marking quercifolium x outdoors. Medium pungent blend in center, more capitatum lavender flowers. undulation than most oaks. Origin: Cross, England 1951.

A listed name from Fabienne Europe.

Neat, compact, ferny mounds make it a bedding favorite worldwide. Lavender flowers have small markings. Not marked purplish- everyone loves the pungent blend, fairly Fair Ellen (Fair Helen) quercifolium brown, slightly sticky, rough leaf. strong lobed Dr. Tucker says 'Fair Helen' may prove to the the orignal name. England 1840's. Bright magenta flowers

A lised name in the Fern Mint UK

Fernaefolium = Filicifolium

Fernleaf some= Filicifolium, others are a P. glutinosum hybrid denticulatum

dark green, Tiny lavender deeply and finely flowers. Can be incised, fern- used in floral pungent blend, some like, quite arrangement just Filicifolium (Fernleaf in part, Fernaefolium) denticulatum pine or balsam notes skeltonized with for the foliage reported. lobes just 1- alone. 2mm wide like a Dissectum Intro: Henderson, maple. England 1879.

Filbert-scented = Concolor Lace

Fingerbowl or Fingerbowl Lemon = Minus (P. crispum) Whether you prefer the cultivar group of botanical hybrid combination, these plants are much the same. Good clones such as grayish-green, 'Old Spice' deserve shallowly lobed, names. P. pungent blend, notes of often slightly Fragrans Group or x fragrans odoratissimum x pine, turpentine, and undulate leaf, Tucker and P. exstipulatum? balsam are noted overall DeBaggio say it suborbicular to differs from parent cordiform. P. odoratissmimum in being 1) more woody, 2) larger flowers, and 3) flowers more heavily spotted and veined in red

Frenchaise = Frensham

This was regarded as a strong form of rose, apparently the Rose Group. Fragrantissimum x asperum strongly so We do not find it in collections of the trade today (2005).

Francais = Frensham

French Lace (Variegated Prince Rupert, crispum 'Variegatum' in part)

More compact, yet vigorous.

There is much lemon, reports varyng margined white, debate on which on intensity. Some say very ornately of name is correct. it is weak to non- curled and So far I know of no scented but one of my crisped. A well presented vigorous plants was grown plant has evidence to simply overpowering one of the most suggest which has like Lemon Pledge. My crispum beautiful leaves first valid slower, weaker plant is in the Plant publication. P. still faint lemon or Kingdom and it crispum almost nothing on proves 'Variegatum' older leaves. Like some irresistible to should be mottled taxa this one seems to any and not margined. vary for no clear photographer. reason. Origin: Arndt NJ USA 1948 as 'Prince Rupert' sport

Frensham (Frenchaise, Francais, Frensham Lemon) Smaller plant than Smaller and parent 'Mabel lessly deeply Grey'. Flowers light lemon, bitter and fairly lobed than pink with dark strong. Tucker says the 'Bitter Lemon', violet-red spot on 'Prince of punch comes from "51 the lobes are upper petals. Orange x percent citral (geranial more rounded citronellum plus neral), 26 percent (obtuse) than Origin: Morden 'Mabel Grey' citronellol, and 12 most of the Nursery, UK c. percent geranyl other x 1969. formate." citronellum hybrids in SOME Citral is as high as examples. 51%.

Tiny lavender fewer sharp flower which Faye strong lemon, not a lobes compared Brawner says Fruit Angel x citronellum? general fruit blend as to similar 'Mabel "looks out of place you might think Grey' on such a large, robust plant".

margins fringed and undulate, pungent/fruity apple, greyish-green, stronger than species Tiny white flowers much as P. Fringed Apple x fragrans typical by some add interest in odoratissimum accounts. It is not as baskets. but improved by apple as other clones the wave and cutting

highly incised, Logees CT USA c. Fringed Oak spice/rose blend fringed 1955

Pelargonium Place Fruit Jingles "fruit sherbet" Catalog 1995.

Fruit Salad x fragrans fruit blend Arndt NJ USA

Fruity (Fruiti?)

I have one plant sold as 'Fruiti' with a large lobed 5-leaf with a strange and not impressive fruit/mint odor; something like 'Mint Beauty' in leaf shape. It is surely not a P. x fragrans hybrid.

x fragrans fruit scent undulate A name like this is sure to have arisen independently and might just as well have had independently selected clones affixed to it.

See also 'Tutti Frutti' which is an apple/nutmeg blend.

Listed with Galway Girl Barnfield UK 2005

Light lilac to whitish flower. It is very pretty plant and one some cream margin on prefer over P. crinkled, x citronellum crispum 'Prince suborbicular Galway Star 'Mabel Grey' x lemon, very strong Rupert Variegated' blade, blade crispum flater than A bigger plant than 'French Lace' 'French Lace' when of the same age and more durable to my thinking.

Gemstone

Dark mauve, Angel pointed lobes, Group-like flower. rough, well cut. Angel Group x fruit/lemon blend, Upper petals It reminds me of citronellum? sweet overall reddish with white 'Lemon Kiss' in base. Lower petals my collection. mauve-pink. well-lobed, sticky to rough blade, oak- shaped overall, Big plant with age. often dark green Lavender flower. with dark brown central zone. It may well prove to Has a nearly Giant Oak quercifolium x ? strong pungent P. quercifolium weed-like look 'Giganteum' but I for leaf texture have yet to and scent. compare them side Blades indoor by side. for me reach a good 3 inches long and 2 inches wide.

Giant Rose = Giganteum

large, Giganteum (Giant Rose) x asperum rose tomenbtose, light green

oak-like, lobed, up to twice Giganteum quercifolium pungent blend England c. 1850 species dimensions

Ginger or Ginger -scented some=Torento

Compact habit. cream to white Medium pink sectors and mild citrus and like flower with wide stripes, rounded Ginger Frost 'Torento' some people petals that remind blade with lots find ginger notes me of miniature of fine azaleas, some serrations. markings

Spreading, mint with hints of pine large, shallowly sizeable in time, quercifolium x Godfrey's Pride and rose, fairly mild lobed, light can be of control capitatum overall green unless pruned. Mauve flower.

mottled and tinged gold by catalog descriptions, Large, sprawling more light green Gold Dust pungent mix, fairly mild habit. Lavender tinged yellow in flower. real life. It's no where near as contrasty as gold zonals.

all yellow to sport of marginate Golden Charity x asperum rose chartreuse clone 'Charity'

Pink flower. gold margins in Golden Clorinda cedar/eucalyptus blend theory, more Sport of 'Clorinda' cream for me. from Gary Scheidt, CA USA

Origin: Well-Sweep small, crinkled, Herb Farm. suborbicular (rounded), nice The Latin versions Golden Lemon Crisp (Golden Lemon Crispum invalid, Well-sweep Golden Lemon Crispum, Golden Well-Sweep) crispum strong lemon regular golden- of the name are all yellow to invalid. Let's grow creamy-yellow up folks and read margin the code!

Tiny white flowers. Good habit for baskets. golden to cream spicy blend including margined on Golden Nutmeg x fragrans 'Variegatum' and nutmet hints small, gray- 'Snowy Nutmeg' green blade differ in have mottlings over the entire surface.

Golden Snowflake = Variegated Giant Rose

Golden Well-sweep = Golden Lemon Crisp

Gooseberry Leaf = Peach

Light pink flowers with very oversized upper petals and very thin lowers shallow sharp (suggesting P. palmate lobes, hispidum as a mild lemon to sweet Grace Thomas hispidum x ? roughlyof a possible parent) , citrus grape or maple dark red stripes on shape uppers also. Very nice, narrow- petalled flower with lots of red lines throughout.

cuneated lobes, Graneolus x asperum obtuse apices, A listed name. deeply lobed

citrus/rose blend, the whole grapefruit thing is believeable with a bit of suggestion. However, I doubt one would consume a Our stock came typical x Grapefruit x asperum grapefruit dish with this from Papagenos asperum strong floral character. 2005. That said, a rich citrus/rose blend has made many people in the perfume business mighty wealthy.

Graveolens Group = Rosé Group or Lemon-Rose Group

wide lobed leaf, lobes nogt Graves Staghorn Peppermint x asperum? strong mint sharp, hence the staghorn name

wider and less sharply lobed Graves Staghorn Rose x asperum rose than most others in this group

Seed;ling of 'Mabel Grey' from Mrs. D. much as 'Mabel Grayson x citronellum lemon Joyce Ritchie. Grey' Flowers are notable purplish.

Lavender flower. From the name one might think this is a green-leaved sport of 'Lady large, rounded Plymouth', as do Green Lady peppermint lobes occur occasionally. It clearly has another aroma and does not have as narrow or pointed lobes as those sports.

said to have less variegtion than This needs a new 'Grey Lady Grey Lady rose name if it proves Plymouth' but distinct. more than 'Silver Rose'

very very thin white margined, Grey Lady Plymouth (Carola) rose more gray tomentose than 'Lady Plymouth'

dentate, gray- Pink and red- spice/sweet citrus green, oblong, marked flowers. Hansen's Wild Spice blend slight Trailing habit is undulations nice in baskets.

Harlequin = Variegatum quercifolium

marked brownish-purple, Arndt NJ USA Haviland quercifolium very large 1947. (bigger than 'Giganteum')

Very high-yielding Hemanti (Hemanthi) x asperum very strong rose rose geranium clone from India.

Noted for its large lavender flower large oak-type Hemley quercifolium x ? pungent wtih nice red leaf markings on upper petals.

Vigorous, From South Africa.

Flowers blush with Hermanus Show (Hermanus Snow) peppermint incised small dark reddish- violet markings

'Hermanus Snow' is a common error.

very large, Lavender flowers sharply lobed with very wide P. hispidum hispidum pungent leaf, somewhat upper petals, very grape-like narrow lower ones

Ice Crystal Rose capitatum lemon/rose blend

Upright habit. Blush flowers. Derived from Imperial Butterfly Angel Group citrus 'Prince of Orange'. Origin: Dodge 1986.

P. ionidiflorum (Celery) Nice trailing habit with masses of tiny vague pungent and violet-pink flowers vegetable scent some elongated, and showy reddish interpret as celery. It is shallow rounded pedicels. It has ionidiflorum neither impressive or lobes, very small ornamental merit really plant. It is a "Near for a fine texture for habit and flower Scented" to me. above the very questionable scent.

Small, compact, even dwarf habit. Useful size for indoors. Diana Hull introduction.

The joy of this one is the bright purplsih-red upper fuzzy, shallowly 'Splendide' x petals contrasting Islington Peppermint peppermint rounded and tomentosum with the lobed leaf white/blush lower ones - a very distinct bicolor look like some of the "Species Hybrids" on the market - including it's parent 'Splendide'

small, greyish- green, rounded Low, spreader, leaf, deep light pungent, fainter good in baskets serrations and Isobel Eden x fragrans than the similar like most of this fringing, a bit 'Fringed Apple' this group. Small fancier blade white flower. than 'Fringed Apple'

denticulatum x Very tall, lanky quercifolium (or Large, dark plant that is not so an oak-like green, rough leaf charming and a bit Jatrophaefolium pungent hybrid), with deep weedy in probably with incisions. appearance. glutinosum too Lavender flower.

Tiny mauve-pink flowers. Narrow cut Cannot find it in lobes, usually 3 the 2005 trade Jello strawberry jelly scent obes and often (internet or they are T- catalogs). It is shaped. mentioned in Hazel Key's 1001 Pelargoniums.

tiny, crinkled, nutmeg to light Joanne's Spring Clover x fragrans gray-green, very White flowers. fruit/spice crinkled.

Tall, large plants, graveolens Rose best with lots of Group x space or large tomentosum, deeply lobed, containers. Flowrs possibly peppermint, faintly for soft gray very light lilac, Joy Lucille including P. most tomentose, becoming near radens, 'Dr. mostly 3-lobed white in shade. Livingston', or vitifolium too. Logees CT USA 1940's.

Joy Lucille Variegated = Variegated Joy Lucille

Can be weak and small, crinkled, thin much as cedar, that is, juniper suborbicular 'Minor'. Juniper crispum like, lacking the lemon (rounded), very notes of the species much as P. Origin: Shady Hill crispum Gardens IL USA as seedling

Mauve to blush flower with violet- shalowly red markings. medicine/pungent, very Karooense incised,rounded strong lobes Shown in Hazel Key's 1001 Pelargoniums.

Listed with Korcicum Barnfield UK 2005

Indian variety of the Rose Group type with 8% Kunti x asperum very strong rose isomethone, 13% citronellol, and 40% geraniol.

30cm tall. Pink and white bicolor flowers in very good quantity. They are b lush with dark magenta markings that reach 40% coverage in the upper petals - this is for our modern clone seenin the US today.

It has been lumped with P. x limoneum which I do not think has merit as a true hybrid species but should be a cultivar in moderately deep today's terms. It is citronella, faint lime, or lobed, bright polyclonal in the lemon-rose mix, Lady Mary green leaf, trade and no doubt depending on one's shalow true 'Limoneum' is nose serrations mixed up with it. 'Strawberry' is also confused with some nurseries.

Some think our modern weak lemon thing is not the strong lemon of the original nursery. The theory that 'Limoneum' is the old original clone is doubtful since the flower color does not the match the original descriptions.

Origin: England early 1800's

Origin: England c. 1852. margined and Some plants under mottled white, this name are 'Mint typically with a Lady Plymouth x asperum rose Rose' which is irregular white minty while the margin of 1-5mm true 'Lady wide Plymouth' is decidely in the rose group.

Two-tone pink flowers. lemon/citrus/strawberry resembles P. blend, it might be more 3-lobed, I have decided to englerianum accurate to say fruity- Lady Scarborough (Strawberry Scented, Strawberry, Countess of Scarbourough, x scarboroviae) smallish, reject use of the according to citrus as the red fruit in crispum-like name P. x Tucker question is very hard to scarboroviae since detect. the parentage is not published.

Listed with Lady Scott Barnfield UK 2005

Very nice white flowers with purple probably marks on the flat, crispum- crispum or uppers. Lara Alladin lemon type leaf with Regal Group in more lobing the mix Origin: Cliff Blackman, Australia

Semi-double, salmon pink flowers. similar to P. Lara Bounty rose radens Origin: Cliff Blackman, Australia

Pink flowers with cerise tints and marks on all petals. Nice white eye. One of the lemon/rose blend, deeply incised, showiest flowers in Lara Jester overall weak pungent very showy a citrus/rose with rose notes blade hybrid.

Origin: Cliff Blackman, Australia

Lara Nomad

Mauve-purple flower with darker markings. One maple-like, catalog says citronellum-type, "white flowers". lemon, citrus, strongly medium deep citronellum x ? What we've seen is so incisions, light nearly white. green to lime green Origin: Cliff Blackman, Australia

Mauve to bright vermillion-pink flower with ornate red markings on upper petals. If you decide to think it has a nice mild citrus to some, light green, enough scent, it Lara Starshine others report strong, serrate, highly would rank sharp odor cut leaf amongst the best scented clones for flowers

Origin: Cliff Blackman, Australia

Larger upper petals than typical P. crispum. Large Flowered Crisp (Large Flowers Crispum invalid) crispum lemon crispum-type It is listed by Goodwin Creek since 2002 or so.

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Large-leaved Rose = Major capitatum

This name has been misapplied to up to 2x species 'Citriodorum' size with wide, which usually is Latifolium (Crispum Latifolium) crispum lemon lime blend dentate lobes, refered to P. x smoother citrosum, a hybrid surface species that has P. crispum as one parent.

Lavender some= P. dichondrifolium, others are clearly 'Spanish Lavender'

England c. 1820. Tucker says in the Lavender Lace x concolor filbert-scented US it is confused with 'Shotesham Pet'

Lavender Lad = Deerwood Lavender Lad Lemon or Lemon-scented = P. crispum, clones, and hybrids crispum

Listed with Lemon Air = Lemonaire? Barnfield UK 2005

Lemon Balm

Large plant. well-incised, Lavender flowers. probably x much more oak- Two clones are lemon, very pungent, melissinum like then the sold under this reminding many of which is P. lemon name. The hybrid Melissa officinalis, also graveolens x citronellum species P. x hints of rose quercifolium hybrids, light melissinum is the green hyrbid species and botanically valid.

Lavender to mauve flowers with small dark markings on upper petals. strong lemon to citrus, a thoroughly pleasant For my money it is scent very close to the best lemon lemon verbena. I have a rough, serrate, scented clone in bar of very expensive moderately deep the whole genus Lemon Fancy x citronellum x ? lemon verbena soap lobes, light taken together with that is green the beauty of the indistinguishable from flower and foliage. a rubbing of these leaves. Source: Geraniaceae.com

Origin: H. Bowie 1979.

more incised Lavender flowers. than 'Mabel Gray' and much This one of the lemon, very strong. It is more so than best lemons with a good scent but not so 'Lemon Fancy', Lemon Kiss very sharp, highly satisfying as 'Lemon very sharp and incised blades. Fancy'. incised, blades often t-shaped Source: with sinus 80- Geraniaceae.com 90% deep.

Lemon Meringue medium deep incision among the lemon, citronellum- probably derived x citronellum lemon types, bright from 'Mabel Grey' lime green, margins paler and yellow

This name is coined here and is useful for various lemon-rose plants under the name P. graveolens but clearly not the true species. They are almost certainly seedlings of P. x deeply lobed to asperum. various degrees, Lemon-Rose Group (P. graveolens hort in part) x asperum lemon/rose blend not a single There are named clone clones of this group that are reliable. My favorites include 'Little Gem' and 'Both's Snowflake'

Those with a pure rose scent are refered to Rosé Group.

Listed with Lemon Toby Barnfield UK 2005

large, toothed, Mauve flower with rough surface, wide upper petals, lobes often Lemonaire (Lemonair) lemon, strong those marked in pointed forward, dark shades to some sharp, 40% of the surface. others rounded

Listed with Lilac Domaine de Courson Barnfield UK 2005

Lilian Pottinger (Lillian Pottinger) gray-green, Good compact, margins fringed, smaller plant for similar to indoor use. Very camphor, pungent 'Fringed Apple', small white blend, much stronger far more flowers. It would be x fragrans than the similar 'Isobel ornately a very superior Eden' margined and plant if the scent incised than was more on fruit most fragrans side and less on clones. the medicinal side.

Lime or Lime-scented = Nervosum or Limoneum

Dark but fairly bold rose-purple flowers. It will trail in baskets and makes a catchy lemon/lime/citrus plant due to the blend, some cinnamon flower color. notes are noted by a small, rounded, Limoneum (Cinnamon, x limoneum, odoratum Hort., crispum 'Limoneum') crspum x ? few people. Others dentate blades Origin: England as detect little hints of hybrid before 1825. rose too. Does not fit a good hybrid species (x limoneum) without parentage reported.

Very compact, a true dwarf clone, more suitable for small pots indoors. I've found it very floriferous indoors under lights and that cannot be said ot the bigger rose x asperum rose, fairly faint but clones. (perhaps P. nice, some palnts are Little Gem (Little Gleam?) quercifolium pungent and not clearly Origin: England c. also) in the rose group 1860's. It is possible our modern plant with a weaker, less rosy scent is not the true one - or did the early catalogs just exagerate the sweet rosy aroma?

Origin: Ernst Logee CT USA c. 1948 as backcross to P. odoratissimum.

A wonderful plant. Your editor has a big one growing underneath a 24 inch Tiffany-style lamp retrofitted with flourescent lights. After a hard day at work, I turn on the glowing lamp, rub a leaf or two and it's instasnt spicy blend in theory aromatherapy. but to me more of a Great plant to have fruit/spice blend, some in the home where x fragrans leaves being more Greyish-green, everyone can grab Logee (Old Spice, Logeei) backcrossed to harsh and spicy than rounded, small onto it. odoratissimum others. A young or blade vigorous plant is apt to Usually sold as have more lighter notes 'Old Spice', we are among the leaves. going with Tucker and DeBaggio in using the oldest name.

In any event, 'Old Spice' is a commercially trademarked product and the nomenlatural code forbids use of such protected names as a cultivar. Naming plants for soft drinks, Disney® characters, or popular candies is also taboo.

mottled white, Logees Snowflake (Snowflake) rose Logees CT USA rounded blade

Not a true species. rose, often strong. It It may be a green has been compared to sport of 'Lady Luciflora (Lucaeflora) highly incised Attar of Roses by Plymouth' as those some. shoots can look very similar.

Bright white and reddish-rose bicolor of immense sport of 'Paton's beauty. Flowers Unique', not moderately are not truly Madame Ninon (M. Ninon, Double Apricot) related to P. apricot lobed, nicely double but having scabrum as undulate blade large, more frilled often seen petals for a fuller look.

large, sharply lemon, very strong, too Large, tall plants Mabel Gray x citronellum lobed and harsh for some tastes. need space. toothed

Stronger, taller larger than plant. Veitch 1879. Major (Large-leaved Rose) capitatum lemon/rose blend species typical Also sold as P. quinquevulnerum.

larger than It may be a species typical, tetraploid form but Major (Crispum Major) crispum lemon that is, over 1cm this is unconfirmed wide to date.

In June 2005 I cannot identify Majus denticulatum pungent blend anything in the US trade of this name or type.

maple-shaped with 3 lobes, each of them Maple Leaf x citronellum x ? pungent light pink flowers. with secondary lobes, blade rough.

Marie Thomas Could be synonym apparently of 'Lady Plymouth' Marginata x asperum rose margined or a similar mutation.

Seedling of 'Mabel Gray' with larger flowers than it. Matt's Mabel x citronellum lemon, richly so sharply lobed Flowers lavender with dark markings.

mauve sport of the richer pink Mauve Clorinda pungent lobed 'Clorinda'.

Origin: UK

crispum x graveolens by Flowers white some reports. deeply lobed, tinged pink, very Tucker thinks it lemon balm scent, that very little dark spotting x melissinum (Melissinum) is probably P. is, a similarity to the crisping, larger graveolens x genus Melissa. than P. crispum Origin: gardens quercifolium as before 1825 with the clone 'Lemon Balm'

Listed with Merlin Barnfield UK 2005

Mexican Sage = Rose Paton's Unique

Neat, smaller habit. Minor x asperum rose Smaller and darker flower.

Minor = Minus crispum

Dwarf at 30cm or Minor graveolens rose/lemon blend cut lobes less. Pink flowers.

moderately deep tomentosum x pungent and if minty lobing, dark Mint Beauty an oak-type not a very refined sort. central brown clone blotch.

In the wild, P. graveolens yields both rose-scented and mint-scented clones. This group is the more heavily mint, some clones minted sorts as having faint rose notes, well as hybrids to Mint Group graveolens x ? others more camphor- mint-scented mint clones of other parentages.

Flowers lavender to white, depending on the clone.

This clone is said mottled white to to have a mint cream, scent and not the Mint Peacock x asperum mint moderately lemon-rose odor of lobed just as the original 'Peacock' 'Peacock'.

Light pink flower. It margined cream is confused in the on light green, trade with 'Lady Mint Rose (Mint-scented Rose) graveolens rose/mint, subtle varying with the Plymouth' which is quality of the rose-scented and cuttings. not mind as here.

The name "fingerbowl geranium" traces to the Victorian practice of floating the lemony leaves very tiny leaves in finger bowls at clustered on their tables. stems, very short or no Lighter pink petiole to peak flowers than most of (subsessile), Minus (Minor, Fingerbowl, Fingerbowl Lemon) crispum lemon of the species' lighter green, garden clones. often highly curled and The closely spaced rolled, blades foliage make it often just 3-8mm vulnerable fungal long invasions. I have the same trouble with 'French Lace' just going from splendid to dead in a week.

faint pineapple. Pelargonium expert Faye Brawner reports oblong, Low, spreading the plant can P. mollicomum (Pineapple) shallowly lobed plants. Tiny cream temporarily lose it's to rounded teeth flowers. scent only to regain it later for no apparent environmental reason.

Mopsy = Pungent Peppermint

Mrs. KIngsley (Mrs. Kingsbury)

Bright violet-cerise deeply lobed, flower with whitish very undulate center. These mild pungent leaf that is flowers simply curled upon it's glow and just one curls. plant is enough for most gardens.

Mrs. Taylor

Tall plants. Notable for very bright Unique Group or Dark, deeply cut reddish-magenta at P. fulgidum x moderately pungent leaf flowers with dark ? red brushstrokes on uppers.

We are unsure if this differs from Musk musk-like Blandes Musk = Blandfordianum

Mauve flowers. Said to be My Mabel x citronellum lemon, strong as 'Mabel Gray' improved over 'Mabel Gray'.

Indian hybrid for commercial oil production. US Pat #12425 on 2/26/2002.

1.35 ratio of citronellol to inicsed, green geraniol. Less than Narmada x asperum very rich rose (RHS 137B) 2% isomethone (less mint). Total valuable oils or rhodinol is up to 76.9% in some crops. One crop produced 26.7% citronellol and 26.9% geraniol.

Light lavender curled, crispum- flowers with Neil Clemenson Angel Group like leaf similar magenta markings to most Angels on upper petals.

rounded, Nervous Mabel lemon Lavender flowers. crimped

Tall, loose plant with age, young plant often strictly erect. Light lavender flower with dark purple markings. This name is for the typical clone fo the hybrid species. I'm not convinced that P. x nervosum is a good hybrid species but doubtless it is small, best, old name for suborbicular choice as a (rounded) to cultivar. 'Lime', a reniform confused name for (kidney-like), more than one Nervosum (Lime, Lime-scented in part, x nervosum, Sweet Lime) crispum x ? lime finely serrate, entity is not about 2.5-3.0 cm suitable for long, it has less consideration. sharp serrations Some experts do than the related not think our 'Torento' modern 'Lime' is the original British 'Nervosum'. Some have therefore called our US clone 'Sweet Lime'.

In any case, 'Dorcas Brigham Lime' has a superior aroma and should surely replace this old, tired thing.

Origin: Dennis, England c. 1820

Listed with Nervous Mabel x citronellum? Barnfield UK 2005

Listed with Newton Rigg Barnfield UK 2005

spicy with nutmeg being strong for some, Small, round, Tiny white flowers Nutmeg (Nutmeg-scented) x fragrans just imagination to gray-green in heads. others

Logees (online catalog 2004) claims this is a ivy-type as Nutmeg Lavender peltatum x ? nutmeg scented ivy pelatum geranium with larke double lavender flowers.

Light lavender flower.

One of the best highly undulate, looking leaves in curled, shallowly the entire P. x lobed, a very asperum set of faint rose to generally Ocean Wave x asperum showy blade cultivars. pungent flawed only but a lack of rich Origin: Logees CT scent USA as seedling. Reports of it being from 'Round Leaf Rose' do not have evidence.

There is little taxonomic merit to distinguish 'Apple' as a true cultivar of the species. Named clones like light apple, some greyish-green, 'Apple Cider' or P. odoratissimum (Apple, Apple-scented) odoratissiumum clones with faint mint rounded, barely 'Fringed Apple' fill or camphor notes lobed the bill on that account.

Very abundant small white flowers give a refined look. Good in baskets.

Old Fashioned Rose = Rosé Group

Old Rose = Rosé Group

Old Spice = Logee rounded, like P. Cushion-shaped odorattisumum odorattisimum, plants are great for Olga Shipstone apple x ? shallowly lobed baskets. Tiny white or notched flowers.

Light lilac and purple flowers. In the true clones, this American "orange" has large, discrete, oval zones of reddish- violet on the upper petals while UK 'Prince of Orange' has thread-like venations. However in shade or poor light this one gets much paler with not as distinct a blotch. Grow them both in full light and the flowers are so very different.

Large, coarsely Under the modern dentate, light nomenclature Orange (Prince of Orange misapplied, Prineanum misapplied, American Prince of Orange, Orange Princeanum?) orange citrus green, fan- codes a simple shaped leaf color word as 'Orange' is not valid so the name 'American Prince of Orange' has been used. Use of this short name long predates those restrictive nomenclatural covenants and must be "grandfathered in" as an established and valid name.

This is usually sold in the US under 'Prince of Orange', another clone. Nor it is the old 'Princeanum' as sometimes listed.

Lavender-orchid flowers.

Orchid Clorinda cedar Origin: sport of 'Clorinda' which has a much redder flower.

strong citrus/orange Light purplish-pink lobed, rugose but some say it is very flowers with heavy Orange Fizz x citronellum? surface, rough much like the 'Mabel purple markings on to touch Grey' upper petals

Pink and purple lobed, dark tricolored flowers rose to some, just Orsett green leaf, oak- of very large size. pungent if you ask me like Mrs. Popewell about 1994.

Otto of Roses = Attar of Roses

oak-like, well- blush flower with textured surface, defined dark blotch pungent/oily,some fruit may be purple Palomar Oak (Paloma Oak) on each upper too along central petal. Petals can be veins, good notched. complex teeth

Large lavender- pink flower with ornate reddish- violet stripes on Large, oak-lobed upper petals. very rich pungent, P. panduriforme panduriforme with dark brown notes of balm midrib This and P. quercifolium are likely parent of most modern Oak Leaf Hybrids

Parsley Leaf = Village Hill Oak

reddish-rose and white bicolored flowers of great beauty. pungent mix including Dark green, Patons Unique (Apricot) apricot hints deeply lobed A more full, frilly flowered clone of it is 'Madame Nonin'. A variegated sport is named 'Phyllis'

It's very important to get cuttings and maintain highly variegated stock plants with lots of chimera. I have a plant that is 99% green with only the occasional white faint citrus with hints of very irregularly splash. It has no peach, rather subtle. It mottled cream, charm of the Peach (Gooseberry Leaf) crispum x ? has no gooseberry rounded, small, lemon-crispum scent - just a crisped as in P. types and is really gooseberry-like leaf crispum useless.

Confuson with P. grossularioides is unfortunate. It has nothing to do with it except that that name translates to "gooseberry like".

Lavender flowers. smallish, Verry little beauty rounded, in flowers. variegated in cream at times, Peach Cream lemon Some suggest it is often mostly ordinary Peach. green, not a Our reports are showy variegate that this one is a in general bit lemony.

mottled white to cream narrow lobing, deeply to moderately Light lavender incised, leaves flower are various lemon/rose blend, more colors and Very similar to a Peacock x asperum rose than lemon for me amounts of 'Both's Snowflake' chimera. Under but a larger, more lights indoors it erect plants, and remains a fairly less lemon too dull plant with only about 10% chimera.

Forms mounding or cascading masses of fuzzy foliage outdoors. Small white flower. Best with part soft tomentose, shade and space very shallowly peppermint, rather for the roots to Peppermint (Peppermint Scented) tomentosum lobed, no blotch, pungent develop long runs. light green, Hates strong silvery hairs. summer sun. It is not a clone and the strength of the scent (methone and isomethone) varies somewhat.

large, deeply Tall, robust plants incised, lacy, to 60cm or more. notable for a Flowers blush to very silvery- white with tiny green to greyish- Peppermint Lace very strong mint markings green appearance. It's Origin as a chance one of the best seedling of Robin scented clones Parer, CA USA. for silvery leaf.

deeply incised, Peppermint Rose (Peppermint Scented Rose?) x asperum rose/mint blend gray-green

peppermint, very deeply incised, Peppermint Spice strong skelton-like

Vigorous. Large mauve flowers with moderately maroon markings lobed, textured on upper petals. Peter's Luck x citronellum rich citrus veins, not as Godwin intro. deeply cut as most citronellum One of the nicer lemons for flowering quality.

Pheasant Foot some=Jatrophafolium (see above), others appear to be variants from P. glutinosum

Pretty and unique but unfortunately as 'Paton's harder to root. Unique' but There are very few Phyllis apricot as parent margined white white-margined to cream clones with such bright near red flowers.

small, rounded grossulariodes x pineapple/coconut leaf in dark Pina Colada Prostrate habit ? blend green and red markings

Pineapple = P. millicomum

dark green, Pine (Pine Scented) denticulatum pine Pink flowers. highly incised

Pink Capitatum = Pink Capricorn

Mounded to spreading plant outdoors. Pink 3-lobed, flowers with white shallowly so, eye, can be very very mild lemon/rose toothed, slightly floriferous. Pink Capricorn (Pink Capitatum) blend, not so undulate, much impressive like a Geum It does not leave. resembel P. capitatum so we no longer list it as a probably parent

very mild blend of Plants get large citrus and ginger, not outdoors. Large nearly as impressie as pink flowers 'Josephine' dark green, the flowers. Thus we'd something like a Pink Champagne (Regal Group) x serrate, rounded call it a "Near Scented". Regal. 'Ginger' overall It combines a scented parent with a Regal Origin: Frances Group clone. Hartsook

Listed with PInk Domaine de Courson Barnfield UK 2005

Pink flowers. nutmeg and other Pink Nutmeg x fragrans? 'Nutmeg-scented' spices is white-flowered

overall a fragrans leaf, Very narrow, even rounded, dropping petals in Pink Paradox x fragrans x ? sweet blend shalowly crenate blush with small to lobed, slightly markings undulate

deeply incised, Pinnatifidum querifolium pungent blend sharply toothed

Poquito Low, neat form, possibly a dwarf foot tall clone of P. rough, sticky, panduriforme but panduriforme x pungent blend, very dark green, may be a hybrid. ? strong rough, deeply divided. Origin: Michael Vassar from seed coll. in S. Africa

Showy bright pink flowers with darker blothces on the upper petals. deeply lobed Flowering can be blades, very sparser than other showy dark scented. almond scent, mild to purplish-brown Pretty Polly (Almond) quercifolium x ? moderate, perhaps just center. The leaf Faye Brawner pungent for most of us. undulations are reports an nice and it imposter plant reminds me of a under this name. It Geum leaf. has a flower more like 'Sweet Miriam'

Origin: England c. 1850

England before 1850. Gets a rough flat, rounded trunk and is used blade, not with for bonsai. orange with other Prince of Orange (Round Leaf Orange) x citrosum sharp teeth as citrus notes 'Orange' sold In the US the under this name. plants under this name are usually 'Orange'.

Light lavender larger than flower. species typical, lemon, mild but Prince Rupert crispum petiole shorter, pleasant 'French Lace' is a deeper cut than very popular sport most P. crispum of it.

Princeanum misapplied = Orange

Medium pink flowers with red Prosperity mild pungent lobed markings on upper petals

Leaf is very small, violet- 12 in. tall and Prostrate Rose different from x rose shaped leaf with spreading. asperum serrations

Lower, spreading than species typical.

I cannot find this name in the cut, lobed as modern trade as of Prostratum quercifolium species June 205. I will note than 'Staghorn' (aka 'True Oak') is very prostrate outdoors and must be similar.

Pungent Peppermint (Bode's Peppermint, Mopsy)

Light lavender-pink to blush flower with nice dark red feathering.

I have obtained a plant under the name 'Bode's Peppermint' that is not so finely Deeply incised, dissected as the gray-green, lobe crowfoot clone and peppermint, a bit tips nicely has lobed of a tomentosum x muddled and musty for rounded for a good 5-9mm wide denticulatum some neat look, yet wit a pungent generally 5- mint odor. One lobed would never class it as a crowfoot type where the lobes are but 2- 5mm wide.

Confusable with 'Crowfoot Rose' n foliage form but without the lemon/rose scent.

Listed with Purple Radula Rosea Barnfield UK 2005

Unique Group, Purplish-pink Purple Unique possibly of pungent blend purple center flower with darker quercifolium x ? center

Violet flowers. Before 1800. This name has been Queen of Lemons lemon, strong crenate equated to 'Citriodorum' in the oldest sense.

Said to be a good Queen of Roses x asperum? rose/mint blend strong aroma

5-7 major lobes, deeply incised with numerous crisped, tiny teeth, these often undulating in three pungent blend, tones of dimensions. We obtained stock possibly camphor and conifer There are easily from something like are apparent, very weak 70-100 teeth in Rachael Marie Papagenos.com in 'Sharp Tooth fruit notes possible so any developed 2005. We've not Oak' x asperum it's more pleasant than leaf. Surface seen it elsewhere. most of the oak sorts olive green and very rough (much like 'Sharp Tooth Oak'), the numerous teeth adding to the bristly effect.

Erect, dense shrub in wild to 1m tall. Flowers 2-6 per clsuter, light purple ro rose-purple with dark reddish- purple stripes on upper petals. deeply incised, 3-5cm long x 3.0- peppermint with some From P. 6.5cm wide, very rose notes possible. denticulatum it nafrow Tucker says it has 44- differs in being 1) P. radens radens segments, some 85% isomethone, which hairy above on the lobes rolled is more than many P. leaf, 2) petals under, many tomentosum plants! unnotched., and 3) minor lobes are leaf not sitkcy to sharp touch. Hybrids of the two are sold as in the US P. denticulatum to confuse the matter.

Intro: S, ASfrica to Kew in 1744

I'm inclined to think this name is a corruption from P. radens known in England since 1774.

highly incised Several flowers list into narrow P. radula (Cav.) lobes, it L'Herit. as a resembles a synonym of P. greyer, more radens. One regularly French reference toothed and says 'Radula' is radens or lobed 'Dr. associated with P. Radula (P. radula hort.) denticulatum or Livingston'. My graveolens. In the both? plants are sense here, the clearly hairy cultivar 'Radula' above on the has a wider lobe leaf, placing than what we know them closer to P. as P. radens in radens than P. gardens. It is more denticulatum. apt to have larger upper petal markings in my experience. I would advise a rename since it is not co- extensive with the botanical P. radula.

This clone is said Radula Rosea to have a brighter rose pink flower.

Listed with Rebeccca Barnfield UK 2005

Darker red flower that sported from 'Capri'. Not very Red Capri see under Capri mild pungent at best shallowly lobed scented leaf but folks often sell it with the whole scented lines.

Bright cerise-red flower with darker markings on upper pungent but not as dark green, deep petals Red Flowered Rose (Vandesia) x asperum clearly rose-like as to moderate others. lobed It is possible that 'Vandesia' is the correct name.

Origin: Reunion Isle where commercial fields thrive

The scientific Reunion Rosé, Reunion Isle = Bourbon literature overwhelmingly uses the cultivar name 'Bourbon' for the Reunion Isle strain

Faye Brawner states it can produce shoots probably either similar to Rosé 1) capitatum x Group. We do melissinum Tomato-shaped, know the P. x 'Lemon Balm' or incised, greyish- asperum does 2) sport of P. x green, a rther have lemon and asperum Rosé lemon/rose blend, Robers Lemon Rose (Canadian Silver Seedling) different leaf that lemon/rose Group rather strong stands out in chemotypes. any scented (reports of collection. Lavender flower graveolens x with smallish dark tomentosum are stripes. doubful) Origin: Ernst Rober CA USA 1940's.

Red and white Robin lobed flowers. Origin: D. Hull

Pink lower petals Regal Group x with very dark lemon hybrid, sharp, large purplish-red upper Rogers Delight possibly a P. x mild lemon leaves petals which also citronellum have a darker clone center.

boldly mottled and striped Rollers Sigma Variegated Rose x asperum rose white, texture blade

dark green, large 3-4 in. size, highly undulate, pungent blend, strong, shallowly lobed. Bright scarlet to Rollison's Unique it is classed as mild You wonder why magenta flower. mint by some. more scented clones don't have such a neat undulation.

Pink and red flowers, some a nice lavender.

Polyclonal and x asperum variable in 5-7-lobed, (capitatum x chemistry. One is incised, variable radens) perhaps rose but varies with the apt to find good Rosé Group (Old Fashioned Rose, Rose in part) with garden or with P. clone and weak plants commercial graveolens inthe under the "Rose" clone mix name in garden centers.

Origin: Known since 1800 and likely before.

crispum x Rose Bengal fruit blend grossularioides

Rose Harvest x asperum? rose

Sport of 'Paton's Unique' with very light pink flowers (not rose-red). It will revert occasionally to the as 'Paton's Rose Paton's Unique (Mexican Sage) citrus/sage mix parent phenotype. Unique' Origin: similar sport has appeared in the UK and US, quite independently.

Does everything gray-green, from making Rose-scented some= Rosé x asperum rose deeply lobed perfume to spicing up culinary dishes.

Round Leaf Orange = Prince of Orange

large, slightly Trailing form is x asperum. P. lobed, rounded good in baskets. vitifolium x ? overall, not as Lavender flowers. Round Leaf Rose lemon/rose blend has been sharoly (acute) suggested too. lobed as Rosé Origin: Logees CT Group USA

Flowers blush oak-like, dark below, upper with a Royal Oak quercifolium x ? pungent/turpentine green, darker large violet-reed central blotch blotch and strong venation. oak-like, medium Ruby Edged Oak green with dark Mauve flowers. red margins

undulate, light Ruffled Leaf Rose capitatum green

82cm tall x 144cm wide, vigorous. Commercial Indian hybrid from Sushil Kumar eta. al. US Pat. #14400 on Bipuili x incised, light 12/23/2003. Dark Safal Hemanti, both x very rich rose yelow green pink flowers (RHS asperum (RHS 144A) 78D).

30.6% citronellol 28.7% geraniol 8.4% isomethone (less than 'Narmada')

Sandbach denticulatum labdanum

round, rough, Undersized much like the lavender flower. It Sarah Jane x citronellum? citrus, often strong citronellum has a look much as hybrids, very 'Fruit Angel' shallow lobing x scarboroviae = Lady Scarborough

very strong rose, on Incised about Small lavender average richer than Secret Love x asperum half deep, lobes flower with few or most Rosé Group rounded. no markings. plants.

large, sharply toothed (not rounded as Staghorn or many others), very flat, rough Pink and maroon Sharp Tooth Oak quercifolium blade. It almost flowers. feels as if molded out of highly textured olive-green plastic.

Some US plants of Shottesham Pet = Concolor Lace (probably most) or Lavender Lace (some) this name are 'Lavender Lace'

Rose-red flower. capitatum x large, glossy, Beaton, Shrubland Shrubland Pet quercifolium x lobed, purple Park Nursery, fulgidum central mark England 1849.

dark glossy Bright red, showy Shrubland Rose pungent blend green flower

thin white margin (narrower than even 'Grey Lady Plymouth', Origin: sport og Silver Leaf Rose x asperum rose silvery sheen 'Grey Lady overall. It is vital Plymouth' to select the best chimeras when cuttings are taken

Skelton Rose or Skeleton Leaf Rose = Doctor Livingston

undulate, light capitatum x Skeletons Unique rose, very strongly so green, darker Light pink flower. quercifolium green zone

irregularly Origin: sport of Snowflake = Logees Snowflake? x asperum rose mottled white, 'Round Leaf Rose' slightly lobed

Snowflurry A listed name.

mottled white, not so creamyor yellowish as spicy with nutmeg Snowy Nutmeg x fragrans 'Variegatum',

being strong occasional leaves with a white margin too

Soft Leaf Peppermint

The only place we have seen this name is at the US National Arboretum's National Herb silvery-green, Garden. It has the very densely sheen of P. tomentose tomentosum but compared mints with a very cut like 'Beauty blade. Oak', medium to deep incisions. The foliage reminds me of 'Crowfoot Rose' in color and shape. Did not think to smell it!

bright lavender Sonoma Lavender mild pungent rounded lobes sport of 'Brilliant' from California.

Southernwood = P. abrotanifolium

Lavender-pink incised, flecked South Australian Snowflake = Both's Snowflake? rose flowers. From Ted cream Both.

Sowoma Lavender = Sonoma Lavender

Spanish Lavender

large, fan- shaped or shovel-like, 2-3 in. long, Outdoor plants can shallowly lobed reach 5 feet! Bright to finely toothed, lavender to light often cupped, purple flower that fialry thick is double. Nice blade, frequently darker markings. curcullatum lemon with silvery tomentose and It is essentially a red pigmented double-flowered margins. When clone of the the margin color species having is bright and good pigmentation. regular this is one of the prettiest leaves inte genus.

Bicolored pink flowers. It has the scent of some dark green, Angel Group Spring Park Angel Group mld lemon/raspberry glossy, small, cultivars but with a curled beter than average flower. It fits my "Near Scented" pile.

Habit tends to be prostrate outdoors. Beighr pink flowers with darker red spots on upper petals.

Staghorn (True Oak) quercifolium pungent blend See under the prefix Graves for two other clones with the Starhorn name.

Origin: England c. 1860

Staghorn Mint graveolens x ? mint

Strawberry-scented = Lady Scarborough

Very upright habit. Narrowly petals pink flowers with smallish, small markings. Super Rupert crispum x ? strong lemon crispum-type Obtained as a lost- leaf chimera of the variegated 'Galway Star'

Swarlsberg Spice (Swarlsberg in part, Swarlberg) A named clone of Greyish-green, the species with a finely incised distinct scent. The rich spicy scent, and feathery name may be an pungent overall. The overall. As with error for Swartberg aroma is very unique the species where the species abrotanifolium? and quite on the side of there are is quite plentiful. a culinary herb blend. suggestions of it There is flowery or resembling Richters Catalog fruity about this one! Artemisia says it is an species. unidentified species.

Heavy red markings and x citronellum x lemon, very sweet shallowly 3- veins (to 85% Sweet Lady Mary ?, perhaps an aroma, richer than lobed surface)on upper Angel Group 'Lady Mary' petals, lower ones blush.

Sweet Lime = Nervosum

Sweet Mimosa = Sweet Miriam. Some list them apart

pungent blend with wide, lobed, Dark pink flower. Sweet Miriam (Sweet Mimosa) quercifolium rose undulate Popular in baskets.

45cm tall. Tiny graveolens-like white flowers with Sweet Rosina graveolens lemon/rose blend leaf, moderately no obvious deep cut markings.

Listed with Thomas Barnfield UK 2005

tomentosum x Topsy mint Kew Gardens denticulatum?

Tall, strong plants

citrus with other notes Lavender flowers fine serrations, than some think is with markings in Torento (Ginger, Ginger-scented in part, Torrento) suborbicular ginger, others find lime upper petals. Can (rounded) notes appear like a bright pink from some distance.

True Oak = Staghorn

Lavender,pink. Might be 'Old graveolens or x True Rose rose Fashioned Rose' asperum? which is to be called Rosé Group

White flowers. Tutti Frutti (Tuttti Fruiti) x fragrans apple/nutmeg blend greyish-green Pelargonium Place Catalog 1995.

medicinal scent, very Turpentha x fragrans full

Thin-stemmed, almost weed-like plant. Creamy- yellow flower is very tiny (1cm) and hardly like this genus in the popular mind. It is apt to seed in warm climates and some grow it as an annual. suborbicular elongatum mild citrus with (rounded), (reports of it The other Upright Coconut coconut hints, fairly serrate, central being P. patulum 'Coconut' on the subtle brow to red ring- are wrong) market is P. like zone grossularioides which has a bright magenta flower and no red leaf ring.

Perhaps just a synonym of the species but as they vary in the wild, this is treated as a garden clone here.

This "mosquito shoo" plant is probably not published before 1959 and therefore would be invalid in Latin form. If so, 'Van Leen' is an obvious change. x citrosum?, deeply It is normally sold looks more like medium to strong pinnatifid, much as P. citrosum 'Van Van Leenii (Van Leeni) P. x asperum lemon like the cultivar Leeni' (two i's are and it's clone 'Citrosa' correct). It does 'Citrosa' not have the short, small lobed leaf of true P. x citrosum and in fact resembles P. x asperum 'Citrosa' which is also claimed to have similar bug- chasing powers.

Vandesia = Red Flowered Rose

shallow lobed as [Variegated clone] - unnamed vitifolium lemon-rose blend speices, lightly mottled white

as 'Attar of Origin: Faye Roses' but Brawner as sport very rich rose scent, weakly mottled of 'Attar of Rises'. stronger than most of white to cream, Variegated Attar of Roses capitatum It is very rare and the other variegated perhaps even we find no internet rose types with some light source of it in June yellow, reverts 2005. often.

Rounded, Tiny lavender moderately flower lobed leaf like a much larger 'Snowflake' has a Variegated Giant Rose (Golden Snowflake) lemon/rose blend 'Round Leaf smaller leaf and Rose', irregularly white markings mottled cream to (not so yellow as light yellow. here)

sport of 'Joy Lucille' which is deeply lobed, graveolens Rose soft gray Group x sport 'Joy Lucille' tomentose, tomentosum, with the same light Variegated Joy Lucille mild mint mostly 3-lobed possibly lavender showy but mottled including P. flowers. white to cream radens, 'Dr. at 20% or so. Livingston', or vitifolium too.

Variegated Nutmeg = Variegatum (x fragrans) or 'Snowy Nutmeg'

irregularly margined cream, oak-like, lobed blade, some Large lavender Variegated Oak = Variegatum (quercifolium)? dark purple flower. veins or midrib can appear in sun. Variegated Prince Rupbert = French Lace

margined white, Variegatum x asperum rose gray-green, very large blades

The name has been confused with 'French Lace', the variegated and marginated sport of 'Prince Rupert'. The true entity is lemon-scented and mottled. If you have something mottled white, mottled but very lemon but weaker than Variegatum (Crispum Variegatum) crispum not margined as weak in fruit scent some species clones 'French Lace' it may be 'Peach' instead.

I notice that most of the catalogs who provide a margined form do not list 'French Lace' or 'Varieated Prince Rupert' as a separate thing.

irregularly streaked AND MARGINED white and cream, good plants up The name 'Snowy 45-70% chimera. Nutmeg' is used for If the leaves are a mottled clone only striped with that tends to be Variegatum (Variegated) x fragrans no defined whiter though both marginal can revert and bad chimera you cutting selection probably have will ruin either of 'Snow Nutmeg'. them. Both clones are sold under this name or as 'Variegated'

Variegatum odoratissimum apple/rose blend mottled white

mottled white on Flowers are a dark green lavender with dark Variegatum (Harlequin, Variegated Oak) quercifolium pungent oak-shaped leaf. markings on the The leaf is upper set. rough, sticky.

Variegatum tomentosum

Light lavende rflower. more velvety tomentose than Origin: Robert Velvet Rose x asperum rose typical of the Skirvin, Purdue hybrid species, Univ. 1975 isolated deeply incised from tissue cultures of 'Robers Lemon Rose'

Village Hill Oak (Parsley Leaf, Village Hall Oak)

curled and deeply incised, more finely cut than 'Carl Gaffney'. This is a lovely complex and symmetrical leaf that appears as if a sophisticated computer fractal program Flowers lavender- designed it. pink pungent mix, rather quercifolium x ? Lobes are wider Origin: Dorcus strong than 'Dr. Brigham, Village Livingston' and Hill Nursery, MA have far more USA numerous tiny sharp teeth. One can easily find 50 little teeth in just the terminal lobe. You barely find 10-15 teeth/sublobes in the terminal lobe of 'Dr. Livingston'

Flowers lilac or near white, upper petals striped red more incised It is not a good than species pungent, just 12% species but a typical, lobes Viscossimum (P. visocssimum) glutinosum citronellol in the mix garden variant of narrower and gtoo P. glutinosum more hgihly raised from wild toothed collected seed. It is essentuially a "pretty" selection for leaf traits.

It should not be mild lemon/rose blend, confused with P. some notes of balsam Pubescent, hispidum with has P. vitifolium vitifolium and lemon balm are shallow lobed more of the grape- reported like shape to the leaf.

Cerise-red to bright pink flowers with very large dark red blotch in 25-45% of upper petals. It has a rounded lobes, flower almost as large blade, good as any Regal serrate teeth but Group clone. Regal Group x "odd" or generally rarely any real Welling oak hybrid? pungent perhaps lobes, purple One rarely sees the centrasl oak-type purple markings markings on round possible foliage let alone with a bright Regal flower.

Origin: Mrs. Popewell 1994.

Listed with White Prince of Orange Barnfield UK 2005

Listed with Wildmalva Barnfield UK 2005

Wildwood

Very colorful even if small flower: light pink lower petals with uppers Tiny oak-type much darker pink leaf, usually with large (50% under 1.5 inches surface) reddish- long, very violet markings. rugose and textured, leaves Frequently a very often tufted at woody, tufted the end of plant. It makes a shoots. Blades pungent, about medium nice bonsai subject can be very strength. It never due to the asymmetrical. offends. woodiness and small leaf Older leaves dimensions. Old may be very fullsized plants thick, olive need green and tinged repropagation or red. There are cutting back to central purple maintain density. markings in My plants tend to enough sun. sprout from the base below the soil - so it can be renewed with ease.

red and lavender Wychwood Angel Group bicolor.

PELARGONIUM STELLAR GROUP

These have been grown by specialists for decades and only recently found their way into mainstream garden centers in the US. The amazing plant 'Vancouver Centennial' (shown below) accounts for this new popularity for it's an amazing, colorful, floriferous, and stunning plant of the highest quality: