Geranium Hybrid, Hardy Geranium, Showy Cranesbill

A sterile hybrid that's often misidentified in commerce.

The Royal Horticultural Society has granted this hybrid its covet...Read Moreed Award of Garden Merit (AGM).

It's 2011 but I planted my 6 plants back in 2008 from Van Dycks and they have been going strong ever since... they have a few buds on the...Read Morem now and it's only May 28th but expecting tons more here soon..A cloud of purple floating everywhere. The best I can described them is the flowers come out on runners and seem to float..Mine grow over everything but by the time they are done blooming I can trim those flower runners down to the base of the fern like leaves and the other plants take over. I have gotten second blooms on this plant but can't remember when that occurs.. I have come across small ones in the garden and have given them away and moved them to other parts of my yard last year.. I am curious to see how they turn out, true to parent because it was an offshoot or was it a seed and not gonna look anything like the original.. Check my photos to see how tall mine get..

This is one of the finest geraniums in our climate. Attractive in or out of bloom, but truly magnificent when the flowers put on their s...Read Morehow. It is, however, sterile, so perhaps the people who commented about it seeding are thinking of a different plant. In any case, it's worth seeking this one out, because it's a beauty and very low-maintenance.

This geranium grows wild here. In the ditches, meadows and yards. This one does self seed here and comes true. I live on the Kenai Penins...Read Moreula in Alaska.