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2007 Plant List
Annual Flower Research at Bluegrass Lane - 2007
Geranium Peppermint Twist

Source: Ball FloraPlant

Comments:

June 15: some burnt foliage, scarce flowers, few blooms; July 1: mottled petals look diseased, not many flowers; July 15: not my style, interesting bloom color, needs more flowers; Aug 1: Japanese beetles, needs dead heading, looks awful, being crowded ; Aug 15: needs dead heading, Japanese beetles; Sept 1: needs dead heading, didn't grow much, Japanese beetles, few flowers.
  Score Rank
Overall 1.8 200
Plot uniformity 1.8
 199
Flowering 1.7 187
Foliage 1.8 199
Landscape value 1.7 200
Score: 5=highest; 1=lowest
Rank: Out of 214
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