Pelargonium lover ''Mecca' Sweden

Hello to all!
  At last my dream come trough and last Thursday i went to Sweden. Goodness me,,my traveling didn't started very promising, flight to Oslo were canceled,holding tears i went back home,,i has to wait for next bus in Swords,,my bus come and same time got sms from SAS that my flights are re booked and this time i'm going trough London,and then Stockholm...walk across  street and waited for bus back to airport,at end after midnight i step out of plane  in Stockholm. Thanks to my friend Una and her family,who met met me,and shown me all around.
  So next day we went to see Uppsala Botanic gardens,not much to see there on this time of year,but if you know plants not to hard imagine how beautiful it looks in summer.And had nice walk around town.
 Saturday, that day come what i was waiting for-we went to biggest plant fair in Scandinavia  ''Nordics gardens''  in Stockholm.
  Oh moi...it was like in pelargonium heaven,here in Ireland all what we can find is bedding pelargoniums,there...every pelargonium lovers dream.Species and hybrids,all sizes and prices.Hybrids what you can get only there,and who come from this country from centuries ago,like Marbaca pelargoniums.
  Of course i brought home new pelargoniums,but you will see them here on blog when time come and they will be in flower.
 I have nice and big album in my facebook page here you're welcome to visit it.
  Thanks for reading !!!
Swedish Pelargonium society's stand
 Era's garden stall
Very happy me :) 

Seeds and sowing.

I ordered some seeds as i said,,one batch come in last Tuesday ,so today i got ready for sowing tomorrow.These will be more for pots and borders outside,,but who knows,maybe some ends up in show room.    Sometimes pelargoniums have difficulty to brake seed cover,so to help to germinate i found on internet one interesting tip,,before sowing soak pelargonium seeds for night,and use very hot water for it.So i did that today,and tomorrow i will sow them.  There is one more interesting method ,what you can use if you sow very rare seeds of pelargoniums,,i didn't use it yet. There it is   As promised there is my pelargonium BrunswickAnd at end,,look at this foliage,,is it not beautiful?!''Bronze Butterfly''

Budding.

  Oh,,so long winter and spring coming so slowly.Nights still cold and try to cover my plants in polytunnel every night.Last electricity bill was so big,that i thought i will have to move out until ''storm'' at home will be over :) But thanks goodness i didn't have to.
  So whats new...sowed some pelargoniums,ordered some seeds of species,ordered new pelargonium hybrids.Took some cuttings.
  But most exciting news are that some  of my pelargoniums are budding,and some of them will flower for me for first time.Like Pelargonium cotyledonis,,sowed in begging of 2013.

On other happy for me discovery was week ago on Zonartic ''Lara Marjorie'' and Unicorn zonartic ''Hot Butter'',,yeah,,they have small buds :)Both come form www.sutarve.se last year.

''Lara Marjorie''

''Hot Butter''

Right now Pelargonium ''Brunswick' looks gorgeous,plant are big and and round shape,Will show you all plant on next journal.But now there photo of flowers:

Have a good gardening year you all !

Greetings from Ireland!

Lìga.

Latest and last addition for this season...

Got them on Thursday this week,but was to busy to boast...:)  
   Went to knitting and stitching show in Dublin(my an other hobby-knitting/crocheting ) then Halloweens with all trick and treating :) Very busy holidays i say.
  So my latest addition are Pelargoniu caffrum and P.browkeri,they were on my 'must have' .I was looking for seeds of them for ages,got caffrum seeds,but didn't get any seedling,,i think was bit to hot,so at end decided that i better just order plants.And there they are :

Some seeds germinated what i sowed 2 weeks ago,Weather still warm,good for me.
 Have very good week you all!
  p.s. some photos of pelargoniums from Helen Dillon's  garden,glasshouse(my favorite place),if you plan trip to Ireland next summer,visit it,you won't be sorry at all.

Back home.

Hello to all!

   Hope you all good and well :) 

Come back today home and first things first,,went to check my 'girls'in polytunnel,,,yep,,winter is coming.Colours almost gone there,,so pity...i will miss them.Did quick check,,tomorrow will do cleanup.

  What else...sowed some seeds from my own collected (species&varieties ) in summer,,so will see what i gonna get next summer.

  Talk soon!

  Have a very good week you all !!!

  Some photos from last spring....

                                                                       

Tidy up time.

Busy in polytunnel last couple weeks,cleaning,moving plants form glasshouse,making room for tender plants who were all summer in pots outside,some were planted in ground too.They are still there,weather still is very mild for autumn in Ireland,feels like this time it is on my side.

  Some of little seedlings of species pelargoniums woke up after summer dormancy,nice,i was afraid that they won't ,because they were so small then.

There some photos of this year sowed plants.

 Pelargonium dolomiticum,,yesterdays discovery,,it growing flower stem :)

 Pelargonium crithmifolium.

 Pelargonium incrassatum

 Pelargonium campestre

 And pelargonium australe,very fragile leaves,i was re potting it and broke off couple of them.

Bridal Pelargonium / Nanny

Got this one from Sweden,original name in Swedish would be Bròllopspelargon/Nanny,,i was looking but didn't find much info about it,,so there is photos.It looks great at young age,i think next year it will be even posher :)

  Started big cleanup in polytunnel,must make room for my 'girls' from glasshouse.