This is a hybrid between two geranium species endemic to mild-climate New Zealand and the nearby Chatham Islands, which have cool summers...Read More and mild winters. It isn't hardy north of Z7, and it hates hot humid summers. This is a better candidate for the west coast than for eastern North America.
Blooms in summer, with intermittent rebloom where summers are cool.
(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".)
Bred in the Horticulture Department at Merritt College in Oakland, CA.
This gem of a plant grew successfully for three years in my garden and died this past winter. It will definitely be replaced. Each year i...Read Moret was more beautiful than the last. I think it may have bloomed itself to death. I grow a lot of plants in my garden and this one is in my top 10.
This is a hybrid between two geranium species endemic to mild-climate New Zealand and the nearby Chatham Islands, which have cool summers...Read More
This gem of a plant grew successfully for three years in my garden and died this past winter. It will definitely be replaced. Each year i...Read More