Pelargonium ‘Golden Chain’

A golden variegated geranium, leaves marginated not zonate.  It has a dwarf, spreading habit, its leaves flat, yellow, with green disk.  The flowers are abundant, bright scarlet.  It was given a First Class Certificate by the Horticultural Society in 1862.  [Gard. Chron. 1862].  ‘Leaves large, with a broad rim of rich yellow, and having a lead-shaped green at the centre.  The flowers are scarlet of excellent form. It is a charming variety.’  [FC p.146/1850].

 

Horticultural & Botanical History

For more information on the botanical and horticultural history of the Florist’s Geranium see Pelargonium cultivars.  It was the Victorian habit in England to lift scarlet-flowered Pelargoniums from the garden each year ‘because they are more serviceable for future use than young plants, by bearing flowers instead of growing exuberantly’.  [Gard. Chron. 1854].

 

History at Camden Park

Listed only in an addendum to the 1857 catalogue [A.49/1857].

 

Notes

Published Jan 29, 2009 - 03:17 PM | Last updated Oct 01, 2011 - 04:34 PM


More details about Pelargonium ‘Golden Chain’
Family Geraniaceae
Category
Region of origin

Garden origin, probably England

Synonyms
Common Name

Florists’ Geranium

Name in the Camden Park Record

Geranium Golden Chain 

 

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