Current Thoughts re: Rozanne Geranium, and bi-color Coreopsis

My first two Rozeanne's died their first winters, the one I have now has wintered well, so far. I'm still vexed about the Roseanne/Jolly Bee mess, IMO they ARE two separate varieties, grown side by side the foliage is defiantly different, one sprawls more and the leaves are lighter in color. Mind you I'm wondering which one is which now, my surviving Rozeanne is more compact than my Jolly Bee and the one I bought as Rozeanne last year looks exactly the same as my Jolly Bee. Flowers look pretty much the same on both varieties, haven't bothered to exam closely tho.

Annette

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Posted by SunnyBorders 5A (My Page) on
Sun, Sep 21, 14 at 12:45

Have planted a number of 'Rozanne' geraniums in various locations.

It's definitely long-lived and long-blooming here.

The only problem is that it is a flopper which I find quite a challenge to stake.

It provides great on-going colour, however, sprawled on the remains of tall summer perennials which have been partially cut down.

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Posted by sandyslopes z5 UT (My Page) on
Mon, Sep 22, 14 at 2:33

Geranium Rozanne, I planted my first one in '07 and it's still going strong. I've added more since then and they all come back and get bigger every year until they reach what must be their mature size. I plant them where I want them to sprawl through other plants.

I haven't tried every Coreopsis but did try a few over the years. The only one that's come back for me is Zagreb.

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Posted by laceyvail 6A, WV (My Page) on
Mon, Sep 22, 14 at 5:30

Don't thing of it as a flopper (negative term) but as a twiner (positive term). It looks gorgeous twining into surrounding plants, and also twining over a carpet of very flat groundcover thymes. I find Rozeanne a unique perennial that serves a purpose no other perennial can serve.

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Posted by arbo_retum z5 ,WinchstrMA (My Page) on
Mon, Sep 22, 14 at 14:54

I'm so glad to hear this about rozanne's returnability. I'm planning on a flat of her next spring to fill in all around. there is a lot of yellow foliage in these gardens( even moreso since returning from Broken Arrow nursery w/ 33 new woodies, many of which are yellow!) and I love pairing it w/ blue.

I'm so surprised no one is growing bi-color coreopsis?

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Posted by SunnyBorders 5A (My Page) on
Mon, Sep 22, 14 at 14:58

An example (as per above) of how useful 'Rozanne' is in providing perennial plant flower colour later in the growing season.

Today:

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Posted by nhbabs z4b-5a NH (My Page) on
Mon, Sep 22, 14 at 22:00

'Rozanne' hasn't survived a winter here though I tried twice; 'Jolly Bee' has done fine.

I have an eyed Coreposis which I couldn't find a tag for (I'll look again) that is on its third season I think. It seems to be fine in its well-drained spot.

From late August - September, 2014

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Posted by campanula UK Cambridge (My Page) on
Tue, Sep 23, 14 at 9:09

I spent far too much money and invested hopes on coreopsis until even myself, a deluded optimist, was forced to conclude that these wispy nonentities are better in other people's gardens. Somewhere, in the album of shame (an attempt at aversion therapy) there are pics of coreopsis, every one of which is a sad and shrivelled mess.
Rozanne, on the other hand.....it's only fault is its complete ubiquity....so much so that I have temporarily gone over to the pinks with G.wallichianum Syabru, the wonderful (for me) Patricia and a couple of the glorious Orkney bred psilostemon hybrids such as Red Admiral and Dragon Heart.....but Rozanne, in the words of a famous Austrian meathead, 'I'll be back.'

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Posted by arbo_retum z5 ,WinchstrMA (My Page) on
Tue, Sep 23, 14 at 13:25

What about A.T.Johnson(my fav, TRUE pink) and Mrs.Kendall Clarke? Very hard to find the latter in the u.s. but I am so enamored by the translucence of the color.

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Posted by SunnyBorders 5A (My Page) on
Tue, Sep 23, 14 at 16:10

I've used perennial geraniums in the past but grew wary of their self-seeding. Some of them literally moved around a garden from year to year.

Rozanne (actually it seems 'Gerwat') is a sterile interspecific hybrid (also Plant Breeders Rights Protected).

The previous likely best blue, 'Johnson's Blue' is also an interspecific hybrid, as is 'A.T. Johnson', etc., above and I'm guessing they're also sterile.

It's very clear from GW that there's lots of perennial gardening styles within the same hardiness zone.

Personally, I don't want perennials to pick their own location within a garden (unless perhaps to tell me where they'll grow best).

The fact that Rozanne definitely stays put is another plus for such an excellent Geranium cultivar.

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