From a compact root, flings out long flowering stems, which will scramble into adjacent shrubs, with black-eyed, magenta saucers. Golden leaves ageing to lime green. 1.5m across, 30cm high. Sun or light shade. May/June into autumn.
AGM A mound of large pale blue flowers veined crimson. 45cm. Flowering June-August onwards. Reasonable soil in open or sunny position. Unique colour for a long flowering plant.
Geranium x oxonianum x Geranium psilostemon. An excellent recent introduction with masses of light magenta flowers with black centres. Pale green foliage. 60cm. Ordinary soil in sun.
(Geranium sanguineum x Geranium procurrens) AGM This Alan Bremner hybrid has intense reddish-pink flowers with bluish-purple shading over mounds of finely cut leaves from June to November. Average soil, sun or shade, 25cm. Brilliant.
Clumps of pinkish bronze new foliage turn greyish green later before going bronze-red again in autumn. Light pink flowers veined darker in summer. 30cm. Easy in ordinary soil in sun.
The true plant, makes a mound of sky-blue flowers May to July. Some repeat later. Tolerates dry sunny position when established, or light shade. Cut down after flowering. 60cm.
A brilliant Geranium with large magenta-purple flowers from May until the frosts. The larger Geranium sanguineum-type leaves and stems grow in a mound to 40cm.
(Geranium psilostemon x G. sanguineum 'Minutum') Alan Bremner's improbable hybrid is rarely seen but makes a compact clump for the front of the border, rockery or scree. Bright green divided leaves and glowing purple-pink flowers in summer. 20cm.
A favourite of many gardeners. Evergreen rosettes overwinter become enlarged by flowering summer stems bearing masses of silvery-pink flowers till the frosts. 15cm by 1m spread. Any drained or dry soil in sun.
(Geranium clarkei ‘Kashmir Purple’ x Geranium collinum)
AGM A mound of finely cut leaves covered with large open flowers in light purple from May to November. Unsurpassed for effectiveness. For reasonable soil in sun. 50cm.
A new selection making low mounds of deep chocolate brown leaves and masses of white flowers in summer. Hardier than many similar types. Drained soil in full sun. 10cm.
The usual form of Geranium gracile, from the Caucasus, with many pretty pink funneled flowers over broad leaves. Shade or an open position where not hot and dry. Deciduous. Late spring-summer. 60cm.
A useful improvement on the usual form, this has larger flowers of a clean royal blue in early summer to 40cm. Well drained soil in full sun, summer dormant.
White flowers from deep pinkish red calyces. Evergreen leaves, 30cm. Valuable for it's controllable evergreen groundcover abilities, main flowering from April into early summer. Useful weed-excluding groundcover, even under trees and shrubs if given a good start with humusy compost.
Deep pink flowers on this form, good autumn colour. 30cm. Good evergreen groundcover. Easy to grow in ordinary soil in sun or shade. Useful in dry shady places with improved soil.
Bright, rich magenta pink flowers on this evergreen groundcover for drained soil in sun or part shade. Good autumn/winter foliage colour and green new growth in spring. 25cm.
