Geranium Species, Cranesbill, Silver Geranium

I have just one plant of this, which I grew from seed. It is now flowering for the first time. The flowers are not very big, but are a mu...Read Morech better colour than shown in the photographs here - quite a dark reddish-purple (I would not describe them as magenta, which is a colour that I dislike).

It seems to do very well in my Mediterranean climate (Catalunya, Spain), with very little care - just a bit of watering during the long, hot, dry summers.

This is a mounding perennial to 1 foot tall by 4 feet wide with fine textured foliage that is silky-green above and silver below. The sma...Read Morell magenta flowers are pretty but it is the foliage that is the real attraction.