Habitat: sun or partial shade
Soil: fertile, moist
Height: 70 cm
Flowering: late spring to early summer
Width: 60 cm
This is a most valuable genus, providing colour over a long period from early summer. Many varieties are suitable for the herbaceous border, but there are also many that are of a size appropriate for rock garden use.
Geranium sylvaticum 'Mayflower' comes from damp meadows, in Europe and beyond. This particular form has very fine violet-blue, white-eyed flowers.
2 litre pot £7.00
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| Geranium 'Ballerina' (Cinereum Group) has purplish pink flowers with red veining and dark eyes; greyish foliage. Extremely pretty rock plant. | |
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| Geranium 'Bertie Crûg' produces a succession of pale violet flowers throughout the summer. Dark bronze-green leaves. | |
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| Geranium macrorhizum 'Ingwersen's variety' is a selected form of this excellent ground-cover species with lighter green, aromatic leaves and soft lilac-pink flowers in summer. | |
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| Geranium macrorhizum 'White Ness' is a white-flowered variant of what is probably the best ground-cover plant we have. It grows on our sunniest banks and under trees, quickly spread to cover ground, virtually completely excluding weeds. It is easy to get extra plants by tucking stems under the soil, and it is equally easy to get rid of surplus simply by pulling stems. | |
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| Geranium magniflorum is a lovely small plant, suitable for a rock garden, originating in the Drakensberg Mountains of South Africa. It has the finest delicate, lacy foliage, grey-green, and quite large purplish blue flowers, with several darker streaks on each petal. | |
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| Geranium orientalitibeticum is a very compact alpine variety with creamy-spotted leaves. In summer pinkish-purple flowers, with a white eye, appear over a long period. | |
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| Geranium phaeum is the Dusky cranesbill which produces flowers in a variety of colours - deep-purple, maroon, violet, lavender or white. Flourishes in damp, shady conditions. | |
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| Geranium phaeum 'Album' is the pure white-flowered form. | |
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| Geranium pratense Victor Reiter Junior strain has purple foliage, which later turns dark green with a purple edge and then has large, deep blue-purple flowers. The plants are neat and compact. | |
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| Geranium psilostemon has brilliant pink flowers. | |
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| Geranium renardii has white through to lavender blue flowers with purple veining to the petals. The leaves are very attractive, sage green and forming a rounded clump. | |
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| Geranium 'Rozanne' has large, saucer-shaped flowers, lavender blue, with a white eye and purple veining. It makes spreading mats, so is good for ground cover, particularly in natural planting schemes. | |
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| Geranium shikokianum is a clump-forming perennial with marbled, lobed and toothed foliage. It produces white-centred pinky purple, funnel-shaped flowers with purple veins. Great autumn colour. | |
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| Geranium 'Summer Skies' is a good introduction for the herbaceous border. It has a relatively compact habit, and unusual tight double flowers, which are a very pale lilac blue. It can be lightly trimmed after flowering, in which case a second or even a third flush of flowers can be produced. | |
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| Geranium wallichianum 'Buxton's Variety' is a fine Geranium, coming true from seed. Its flowers are a light purplish blue, with large white centres and red stamens. |