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    GERANIUM
    GERANIUM
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    GERANIUM

    Commonly known as Cranesbill

    Genus of about 300 species of annuals, perennials and herbaceous, semi-evergreen, and evergreen, sometimes tuberous perennials widely distributed throughout temperate regions.

    Pelargoniums, including those with the scented leaves, mainly evergreen, and hailing in the main from South Africa are commonly, and always will be incorrectly known as geraniums. The blazing-red geraniums in clay pots outside a thousand cottages throughout England are pelargoniums but will remain as geraniums and will remain as red.

    Long-lived, undemanding geraniums, or cranesbills, can be the mainstay of any garden providing forms for rockeries, ground cover, wild gardens and borders.

    Of the dozen or so native species G. pratense, meadow cranesbill with its large, blue flowers is the most well-known. It is found on chalk and in limestone areas of the UK.

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    • Good to know
      Wildlife plant - pratense - nectar and pollen for insects. Margery Fish, creator of the Grade 1 listed garden at East Lambrook Manor, Somerset -
    • Place of origin
      Throughout temperate regions.
    • Herbaceous
      Annuals, biennials, semi evergreen and evergreen perennials.
    • Bee friendly
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    varieties
    GERANIUM 'Ann Folkard'
    Magenta flowers with dark eye and veins
     
    1.5 to 2 Litre
    £14.00
    GERANIUM 'Brookside'
    Even larger blue flowers than 'Johnson's Blue'
     
    1.5 to 2 Litre
    £14.00
    GERANIUM clarkei 'Kashmir White
    White flowers with pale lilac-pink veins
     
    1.5 to 2 Litre
    £14.00
    GERANIUM 'Coombland White'
    Pale pink with purple eye and darker veining.
     
    1.5 to 2 Litre
    £14.00
    GERANIUM himalayense
    (grandiflorum) - violet-blue flowers
     
    1.5 to 2 Litre
    £14.00
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    Available from January to February
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    GERANIUM 'Johnson's Blue'
    Bright blue
     
    1.5 to 2 Litre
    £14.00
    GERANIUM 'Joy'
    Cranesbill
    Pale pink, with deeper pink veins.
     
    1 to 1.5 Litre
    £14.00
    GERANIUM macrorrhizum 'White-Ness'
    White flowers. Rhubarb-scented leaves
     
    1.5 to 2 Litre
    £14.00
    GERANIUM maderense
    Biennial with cerise pink flowers borne freely on wiry stems
     
    Seeds
    £5.00
    2 to 3 Litre
    £19.00
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    Available late spring to early summer 2026
    Spring according to the Met Office is defined as March 1st - May 31st. Therefore late spring is mid-April onwards. This is not a guaranteed date but an estimate and subject to availability.
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    GERANIUM maderense 'Guernsey White'
     
    1.5 to 2 Litre
    £15.50
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    Unavailable
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    GERANIUM nodosum
    Rhizomatous clump-forming perennial with purplish-pink flowers in loose clumps
     
    1.5 to 2 Litre
    £14.00
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    Available from January to February
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    GERANIUM nodosum 'Silverwood'
    Pure white flowers, floriferous and tough
     
    1.5 to 2 Litre
    £14.00
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    Available Early Spring 2026
    Spring according to the Met office is defined as March 1st - May 31st. Therefore early spring is early March to mid-April. This is not a guaranteed date but an estimate and subject to availability.
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    GERANIUM x oxonianum 'Wargrave Pink'
    Clear salmon-pink
     
    1.5 to 2 Litre
    £14.00
    GERANIUM palmatum
    Crimson centred purple-pink flowers on flowering stems with purple hairs
     
    2 to 3 Litre
    £19.00
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    Available late spring to early summer 2026
    Spring according to the Met Office is defined as March 1st - May 31st. Therefore late spring is mid-April onwards. This is not a guaranteed date but an estimate and subject to availability.
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    GERANIUM 'Patricia'
    Bright pink flowers with black centres
     
    1.5 to 2 Litre
    £14.00
    GERANIUM phaeum 'Album'
    Dusky cranesbill, Mourning widow
    Pure white
     
    1.5 to 2 Litre
    £14.00
    GERANIUM pratense 'Black Beauty'
    Meadow cranesbill
    Dark purple foliage which holds its colour well right through the summer especially if grown in full sun. Fully hardy and easy to grow. Masses of lavender flowers
     
    1.5 to 2 Litre
    £14.00
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    Available Early Spring 2026
    Spring according to the Met office is defined as March 1st - May 31st. Therefore early spring is early March to mid-April. This is not a guaranteed date but an estimate and subject to availability.
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    GERANIUM pratense 'Cloud Nine'
    Meadow cranesbill
    Semi-double mauve-lavender flower with darker veining
     
    1.5 to 2 Litre
    £14.00
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    Available from February 2026
    Awaiting new stock
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    GERANIUM pratense 'Mrs Kendall Clark'
    Meadow cranesbill
    Pastel lilac
     
    1.5 to 2 Litre
    £14.00
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    Available from January to February
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    GERANIUM sanguineum
    Bloody cranesbill
    Magenta red
     
    1.5 to 2 Litre
    £14.00
    GERANIUM sanguineum 'Album'
    Bloody cranesbill
    White flowers over many weeks
     
    1.5 to 2 Litre
    £14.00
    GERANIUM wallichianum 'Buxton's Variety'
    Compact habit. Sky blue flowers have white centres
     
    1.5 to 2 Litre
    £14.00
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    Available from January to February
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    Useful extras...

    Fertilisers & Feeds - Empathy
    Rootgrow mycorrhizal fungi
    Recommended by the RHS. Contains Rootgrow™ mycorrhizal fungi. Suitable for all trees and shrubs (except rhododendrons, azaleas, heathers, cranberries and blueberries)
    Small - 60g sachet
    £3.00
    Medium - 150gm sachet
    £6.00
    Large - 360gram sachet
    £12.00
    Unavailable
    Fertilisers & Feeds - Vitax
    Q4 Pelleted Fertiliser
    A useful fertiliser suitable for use on a wide variety of plants. Q4 provides all the nutrients and trace elements essential for vigorous growth, abundant flowering and ripening of fruit.
    0.9 kg
    £6.00
    Unavailable
    2.5 kg
    £13.00
    Unavailable
    4.5 kg
    £25.00
    Fertilisers & Feeds - Empathy
    All-purpose Seaweed Stimulant
    All-purpose organic concentrated seaweed feed that is a ready to use, derived from sustainable harvested kelp, that can be used on all outdoor and indoor plants, except acid loving plants. Perfect used in conjunction with Rootgrow™.
    1 ltr
    £8.50
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