An old flower favourite again in the spotlight: Gardeners are increasingly turning to them because these plants perform so well with so little attention

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After being in the doldrums for awhile, geraniums have been coming "back in the game" the past three years, says Ball Seed regional sales director Yves Cournoyer. Cournoyer was one of several seed company representatives attending the 11th annual spring trials open house at Westcan Greenhouses in Langley, B.C. One of six open trials held across the continent, the Westcan trials gave several hundred seed companies, growers and retailers a chance to compare almost 300 different varieties of geraniums from Ball, Dummen, Fischer, Oglevee/JVK, Selecta First Class, and S & G Flowers, as well as almost 400 other spring flowers, including angelonias, argyranthemums, bacopas, begonias, bracteanthas, calibrachoas, diascias, fuchsias, impatiens, lobelias, nemesias, osteospermums, penstemons, petunias, and verbenas.