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GERANIUM
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.
Buy Varieties of GERANIUM
GERANIUM 'Ann Folkard'
magenta flowers with dark eye and veins
GERANIUM 'Brookside'
even larger blue flowers than 'Johnson's Blue'
GERANIUM himalayense
(grandiflorum) - violet-blue flowers
GERANIUM 'Johnson's Blue'
bright blue
GERANIUM macrorrhizum 'Ingwersen's Variety'
soft lilac-pink
GERANIUM macrorrhizum 'White-Ness'
white flowers. Rhubarb-scented leaves
GERANIUM maderense
biennial with cerise pink flowers borne freely on wiry stems
GERANIUM maderense 'Guernsey White'
GERANIUM nodosum
rhizomatous clump-forming perennial with purplish-pink flowers in loose clumps
GERANIUM nodosum 'Silverwood'
pure white flowers, floriferous and tough
GERANIUM x oxonianum 'Wargrave Pink'
clear salmon-pink
GERANIUM palmatum
crimson centred purple-pink flowers on flowering stems with purple hairs
GERANIUM 'Patricia'
bright pink flowers with black centres
GERANIUM phaeum
white centred purple-black, maroon or violet-blue flowers
GERANIUM phaeum 'Album'
pure white