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    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
      Early in the year, typically January till end of March, herbaceous plants might be supplied in 9cm pots to ensure timely despatch.
      Annuals, biennials, semi evergreen and evergreen perennials.
    • Bee friendly
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    Varieties

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    • GERANIUM 'Ann Folkard'
    Magenta flowers with dark eye and veins
     
    1.5 to 2 Litre
    £13.50
    GERANIUM 'Brookside'
    Even larger blue flowers than 'Johnson's Blue'
     
    1.5 to 2 Litre
    £13.50
    GERANIUM himalayense
    (grandiflorum) - violet-blue flowers
     
    1.5 to 2 Litre
    £13.50
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    Available again from APRIL 2025
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    GERANIUM 'Johnson's Blue'
    Bright blue
     
    1.5 to 2 Litre
    £13.50
    GERANIUM macrorrhizum 'Ingwersen's Variety'
    Balkan cranesbill
    Soft lilac-pink
     
    1.5 to 2 Litre
    £13.50
    GERANIUM macrorrhizum 'White-Ness'
    White flowers. Rhubarb-scented leaves
     
    1.5 to 2 Litre
    £13.50
    GERANIUM maderense
    Biennial with cerise pink flowers borne freely on wiry stems
     
    Seeds
    £5.00
    2 to 3 Litre
    £19.00
    GERANIUM maderense 'Guernsey White'
     
    1.5 to 2 Litre
    £15.50
    GERANIUM nodosum
    Rhizomatous clump-forming perennial with purplish-pink flowers in loose clumps
     
    1.5 to 2 Litre
    £13.50
    GERANIUM nodosum 'Silverwood'
    Pure white flowers, floriferous and tough
     
    1.5 to 2 Litre
    £13.50
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    Available Early Spring 2025
    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
    £13.50
    GERANIUM palmatum
    Crimson centred purple-pink flowers on flowering stems with purple hairs
     
    2 to 3 Litre
    £19.00
    GERANIUM 'Patricia'
    Bright pink flowers with black centres
     
    1.5 to 2 Litre
    £13.50
    GERANIUM phaeum
    Dusky cranesbill, Mourning widow
    White centred purple-black, maroon or violet-blue flowers
     
    1.5 to 2 Litre
    £13.50
    GERANIUM phaeum 'Album'
    Dusky cranesbill, Mourning widow
    Pure white
     
    1.5 to 2 Litre
    £13.50
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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 - 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
    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
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    2.5 kg
    £13.00
    Unavailable
    4.5 kg
    £25.00
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