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Geranium - Sweet Heidi
The Hardy Geranium Sweet Heidi, 'Geranium sanguineum', has large, pink saucer-shaped flowers with bright eyes that make it an excellent symbol for Switzerland's good-natured storybook character, Heidi. Not only does it produce lovely flowers, but its low maintenance requirements and spreading mounds of attractive lobed foliage are prized as well. Easy to grow as single specimens in the border or massed in large beds. Useful to fill in where spring bulbs have bloomed and disappeared. Can take some shade but best with sun most of the day. Hardy Geraniums bloom profusely in spring, sporadically throughout the summer, and again in fall. ... more
Geranium - Southcombe Double The Geranium Southcombe Double, 'Geranium oxonianum', displays fully double, pure pink blooms that sit atop bright green stems. There are only a few double-geraniums in cultivation and don't look like a Geranium at first glance. Southcombe Double blooms almost non-stop throughout the summer, into fall. Geraniums are grown in almost any soil as long as it is not wet. They do best in sun, but will tolerate some degree of shade. For the most part, cranesbill are long-lived and do not require a lot of care. They are perfect in the perennial border and work well as a ground cover too. This plant would look wonderful in a pot on a sun-drenched porch and is also deer resistant. |
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