[Vwoolf] Geraniums at Monk's House

[Sarah M. Hall]

 Elisa, you may have taken this into account, but there is a lot of confusion about geraniums and pelargoniums. I'm no expert but this is what Wikipedia says about them:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geranium (this page has a section entitled 'Confusion with Pelargonium')
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelargonium
The red-flowered plants, strictly speaking, are pelargoniums, while geraniums tend to be pink or purple. I only know this because my father was a keen gardener and I grew up with (red) pelargoniums on my window-sill because my room got a lot of sun. 

But I think that VW referred to the red ones as geraniums. I wonder what LW, who may have had more botannical knowledge, called them?




Sarah M. HallVWSGB








    On Monday, 20 April 2020, 18:01:47 BST, Regina Marler via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:  
 
 Dear Elisa,
What a wonderful project! I have a geranium grown from a second-generation cutting of what was probably a geranium bought by Leonard for Monks House. A friend clipped it from the mother plant in the early 70s. It’s red.
All best,
Regina 

Sent from a small, hand-held device. Please excuse typos.

On Apr 20, 2020, at 9:44 AM, Elisa Sparks via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:




Dear all--Does anyone have a picture of  geraniums sitting in  the deep windows in the Monk's House living room that I could use to illustrate my essay on geraniums?  I would credit you for the photograph. They have been there every time I have visited; Cecil and Jean have them growing in their windows as well. I can't believe that neither I nor my students captured them.
FYI, Woolf mentions geraniums 31 times in her prose; about a third of these are red geraniums.  The official pictures of MH in the present show light pink flowers, but I suspect Leonard preferred red.
I have completed essays on the first 40 of the 99 or so flowers Woolf refers to in her fiction, essays, letters, and diaries.  I've decided to make them available on-line.  See my Virginia Woolf Herbarium:https://woolfherbarium.blogspot.com/
Thanks in advance,Elisa




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