Two IDs please
Dear all,
Two completely different IDs.
The first is a hardy geranium in my garden - any ideas which one it might be? It's fairly low growing and spreads readily. I've split it and have several to go on a plant stall at the school summer fete, so I'd like to be able to label them.
The other was spotted growing along shady verges in Devon recently.
Thanks in advance 
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Last edited: 23 June 2017 12:57:23
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G. macrorrhizum and navelwort, Umbilicus rupestris.
The geranium has a rather unpleasant smell but is almost unkillable and will take over any space available. It has beautiful red colouring to the leaves in autumn.
Flowering now, low growing, I'd say Geranium x cantabrigiense, the hybrid of G. macrorrhizum with G dalmaticum. Probably the cultivar 'Cambridge'
In the sticks near Peterborough
If the geranium leaves are soft and felty I would say the geranium is macrorrhizum (as above). If they are slightly more leathery and a bit glossier I would opt for cantabrigiense - again, as above
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I should have said - it is not flowering now, though it's not long finished. I took the photo a while ago and then forgot to ask about it.
The leaves are soft and felty, I think (dashes out to cop a feel) - yes, very soft.
So do you think I'd be safe labelling them as macrorrhizum? (no one is going to care, but I do).
Oh and thank you re: the navelwort. Gorgeous and quite strange.