Geranium cantabrigiense collection

This Collection of perennial Geranium x cantabrigiense features the best varieties to create a flowering and colourful ground cover at the base of deciduous trees, along borders or in a not too dry rockery. These small creeping plants generously bloom from May-June to July, with palmate, fragrant foliage that changes colour in autumn and can persist in winter. They are hardy, robust and undemanding.

The collection consists of:

1 x Geranium cantabrigiense 'Cambridge': this cultivar forms a cushion 25 cm tall and spreads through its stolons to a width of 35 to 45 cm, with flowers in a light magenta pink. Its foliage is a beautiful bright light green during the season, turning reddish in autumn and winter.

1 x Geranium x cantabrigiense 'St Ola': it produces numerous pinkish buds opening into pure white flowers, of a good size, which stand out well against its rich olive green foliage. The vegetation turns light red in autumn.

1 x Geranium cantabrigiense 'Crystal Rose': a more compact variety (15-20 cm tall by 30 cm wide), interesting for its almost fluorescent pink flowering, and fragrant foliage that turns orange in autumn.

The perennial Geranium x cantabrigiense are charming ground cover plants, comfortable in both full sun and partial shade and easy to grow in any garden soil which is not too heavy. This collection of 3 different varieties will flower at the base of trees, the edges of a border or elegantly highlight the curve of a pathway. The 'Crystal Rose' variety is more compact and less exuberant than the other two and should be placed in the foreground. Easily create a small English-style flowerbed by planting dwarf columbines, bellflowers for rockeries and walls, and foxgloves amidst these geraniums. Also, consider planting them at the base of your English shrub roses. For a beautiful effect within 3 years, plan for 7 to 9 plants per square metre.