{"id":8088,"date":"2016-06-12T23:44:51","date_gmt":"2016-06-12T22:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8088"},"modified":"2016-06-03T08:52:46","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T07:52:46","slug":"growing-hardy-perennial-geraniums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/growing-hardy-perennial-geraniums\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Hardy Perennial Geraniums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3600\/3792340635_2f90a58900.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Great plants for the herbaceous border, these hardy Geraniums are top notch plants that are easy to grow and cultivate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Growing Characteristics<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Low growing plants seldom higher than 12&#8243;. Geraniums make good plants for the front of borders.<\/li>\n<li>Varieties exist to have flowering all through summer. Some varieties are continuous bloomers others once per season.<\/li>\n<li>They will thrive in all types of soil and be rampant in good soil.<\/li>\n<li>Flowering in shade, sun or partial shade makes them very acceptable additions in difficult parts of the garden.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Selected Varieties<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sanguineum Max Frie has a shocking pink flower.<\/li>\n<li>Johnsons Blue, shown above, is a deep blue verging on lavender in the light used for this photo.<\/li>\n<li>Sanguineum alba is, as you would guess, a clear white with yellow stamen.<\/li>\n<li>Sanguineum Striatum is white with pink veins giving a stripped appearance.<\/li>\n<li>Geranium pratense\u00c2\u00a0 is purple whilst Cinereum Ballerina is pink with deep pink stripped veins.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"productClass\">Geranium pratense &#8216;Laura&#8217; double white with long lasting flowers<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"productClass\">Hardy Geranium &#8216;Foundlings Friend&#8217;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=2283&amp;awinaffid=81944&amp;clickref=&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thompson-morgan.com\/plants1\/search.html?section=all&amp;search=&lt;b&gt;hardy geranium&lt;\/b&gt;\"> Thompson Morgan <\/a>supply a range of hardy geraniums in addition to their Zonal and indoor Pelargoniums which are some times called geraniums just to confuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8243;. 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&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/growing-hardy-perennial-geraniums\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}