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I was attracted by the colour but didn't know what these are, quite small flowers, probably perennials. Thanks to some online pals for the ID. Shows my lack of knowledge in the perennials department.

almanac.com/plant/geraniums
Geranium or Pelargonium? A Case of Mistaken Identity

The plants that we commonly call geraniums were introduced in Europe by Dutch traders who brought them from South Africa in the early 18th century. Because these new plants resembled the hardy wild geraniums already growing in Europe, botanists mistakenly grouped them together into the same genus.

In 1753, Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus classified them under the genus Geranium. When it was later discovered that these new “geraniums” differed from European geraniums in the shape of their petals, the number of stamens, and other factors, they were reclassified under Pelargonium, meaning “stork’s bill”—a reference to the long, sharply pointed shape of their seedpod.