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What variety of plant do the French have in all their window boxes?

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flashingnose · 28/09/2006 09:35

Usually pink or red - looked like mini geraniums but I've never seen them here. And how do they get them to look so gorgeous all the time??

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Bozza · 28/09/2006 09:40

Aren't they geraniums then? Or maybe they are the ivy leaved kind of geraniums.

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flashingnose · 28/09/2006 09:41

They probably are geraniums but they looked a very specific type (and not a type I've seen here but I am certainly no expert). Will have a look at ivy leaved types, thanks.

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DCIMaloryTowers · 28/09/2006 09:42

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Enid · 28/09/2006 09:43

bougainvillia (sp?)

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flashingnose · 28/09/2006 09:50

No, not bouganvillia (sp too?) although we saw plenty of that too.

does this look like them

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CheesyFeet · 28/09/2006 10:16

I always thought they were just geraniums tbh. They have them in Switzerland too, they look fantastic in window boxes on the wooden clad houses.

Geraniums and pelagoniums are often confused though aren't they?

Or should it be gerania/pelagonia

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CheesyFeet · 28/09/2006 10:16

pelargoniums

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aDAdOnMumsnet · 28/09/2006 10:18

My granny was French, and I think she always had geraniums, pink and red.

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