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24-06-2011, 04:16 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: On the southern boundary of the Lake District National Park.
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| | | Colourful roadside flowers
This patch of colourful flowers brightens up a road junction near me. Are they wild or garden throw outs?   |
24-06-2011, 04:30 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Gloucestershire
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| | | Re: Colourful roadside flowers
Gorgeous! Geranium pratense - Meadow Crane's-bill, I think. There are garden varieties with this lovely blue colour too. Johnson's Blue is one like this.
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24-06-2011, 04:30 PM
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| | | Re: Colourful roadside flowers
Looks like a lovely patch of Meadow Crane's-bill. Mind you, I've been wrong before (quite recently in fact!). |
24-06-2011, 04:45 PM
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| | | Re: Colourful roadside flowers
Some sort of crane's bill perhaps?
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24-06-2011, 04:46 PM
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| | | Re: Colourful roadside flowers
Doesn't look right to me for meadow cranesbill, the flowers are seem too robust and the leaves not 'feathery' enough. A garden geranium would be my guess but i could also be wrong.
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24-06-2011, 04:53 PM
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| | | Re: Colourful roadside flowers
What a magnificant sight!
Certainly looks like Geranium pratense. That dark centre to the flower is not typical of the wild plant though, so I suspect of garden origin.
(as Hedera has suggested, possibly 'Johnson's Blue' which of course is a hybrid with himalayense )
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24-06-2011, 04:57 PM
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| | | Re: Colourful roadside flowers
I was gonna say Geranium pratensebut looks to robust and thick as Gill said. A wild stab at Geranium 'Kashmir Purple' variety, only going by a book?
Hmm second look on another site - looks to small...
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24-06-2011, 04:58 PM
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Many thanks all. 
I saw them yesterday in bright sun and they were sight to behold but no camera. I just had to detour today with the camera, overcast or not they are still a pretty picture. |
24-06-2011, 05:08 PM
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| | | Re: Colourful roadside flowers
It Could be Geranium Kashmir Purple.
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24-06-2011, 05:22 PM
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| | | Re: Colourful roadside flowers
Just had a good old look through the reference books, and the nearest I can now get is geranium x magnificum, the hybrid between G platypetalum and G ibericum.
Fits suprisingly well. 
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