Growing Hardy Perennial Geraniums

Growing Hardy Perennial Geraniums

Great plants for the herbaceous border, these hardy Geraniums are top notch plants that are easy to grow and cultivate.

Growing Characteristics

  • Low growing plants seldom higher than 12″. Geraniums make good plants for the front of borders.
  • Varieties exist to have flowering all through summer. Some varieties are continuous bloomers others once per season.
  • They will thrive in all types of soil and be rampant in good soil.
  • Flowering in shade, sun or partial shade makes them very acceptable additions in difficult parts of the garden.

Selected Varieties

  • Sanguineum Max Frie has a shocking pink flower.
  • Johnsons Blue, shown above, is a deep blue verging on lavender in the light used for this photo.
  • Sanguineum alba is, as you would guess, a clear white with yellow stamen.
  • Sanguineum Striatum is white with pink veins giving a stripped appearance.
  • Geranium pratense  is purple whilst Cinereum Ballerina is pink with deep pink stripped veins.
  • Geranium pratense ‘Laura’ double white with long lasting flowers
  • Hardy Geranium ‘Foundlings Friend’

Thompson Morgan supply a range of hardy geraniums in addition to their Zonal and indoor Pelargoniums which are some times called geraniums just to confuse.

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