This is a group of hybrids between two geranium species endemic to mild-climate New Zealand and the nearby Chatham Islands, which have co...Read Moreol summers and mild winters. They aren't hardy north of Z7, and can be damaged even by a Z8 winter. They also hate hot humid summers. They make better candidates for the west coast than for eastern North America.
They bloom in summer, with intermittent rebloom into fall where summers are cool. In hot summer regions, performance is better with afternoon shade.
(The hybrid [grex] name is Geranium x antipodeum, and if you think that's a mouthful, it's botanical shorthand for "G. traversii var. elegans x G. sessiliflorum var. novae-zelandiae".)
This is a group of hybrids between two geranium species endemic to mild-climate New Zealand and the nearby Chatham Islands, which have co...Read More