Geranium
Cranesbill
We’re talking about hardy Geraniums, not the better-known, anything-but-subtle Pelargoniums. True Geraniums are sturdy yet refined, with 5-petaled flowers borne on dainty stems close to the palmately divided leaves. Their spectrum of colors, from cool to electric, is rivaled only by their ability to create soft mounds and flowing carpets of lush foliage in ordinary garden soil. We plant a succession of varieties to always have some in bloom from spring to fall. Our selections are easily grown: many will rebloom after flowering if lightly trimmed and most die back in winter.
With the same parentage and flowers as ‘Ann Folkard’, this 2005 AGM winner was introduced by esteemed Geranium breeder, Alan Bremner. The low-spreading vigorous mound boasts a tidier more compact and heat tolerant habit than its golden-leafed garden rival, while dazzling us with fulgent yellow foliage and a succession of 1 in. wide, black-eyed dark magenta blooms. Appreciative of bright shade, regular water during extended dry spells and a hard annual pruning, ‘Anne Thomson’ is a well-behaved weaver and a choice contender for flashy front-of-the border medleys.
Blooms May–September
Size: 18" high x 3' 0" wide.
Hardy to zone 5.
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Other selections in this genus:
- Geranium ‘Ann Folkard’
- Geranium ‘Blogold’
- Geranium ‘Brookside’
- Geranium x cantabrigiense ‘Biokovo’
- Geranium x cantabrigiense ‘Cambridge Blue’
- Geranium x cantabrigiense ‘Rosalina’
- Geranium x cantabrigiense ‘St. Ola’
- Geranium x cantabrigiense ‘Westray’
- Geranium clarkei ‘Kashmir White’
- Geranium ‘Coombland White’
- Geranium ‘Dilys’
- Geranium harveyi
- Geranium ‘Havana Blues’
- Geranium himalayense ‘Baby Blue’
- Geranium himalayense ‘Derrick Cook’
- Geranium himalayense ‘Irish Blue’
- Geranium ‘Johnson’s Blue’
- Geranium macrorrhizum ‘Album’
- Geranium macrorrhizum ‘Bevans Variety’
- Geranium macrorrhizum ‘Ingwersen’s Variety’
- Geranium macrorrhizum ‘Spessart’
- Geranium macrorrhizum ‘White Ness’
- Geranium maculatum ‘Espresso’
- Geranium maderense ‘Guernsey White’
- Geranium x magnificum
- Geranium x magnificum ‘Blue Blood’
- Geranium x magnificum ‘Rosemoor’
- Geranium ‘Melinda’
- Geranium x monacense ‘Breckland Fever’
- Geranium x monacense ‘Claudine Dupont’
- Geranium x monacense ‘Muldoon’
- Geranium ‘Nimbus’
- Geranium nodosum
- Geranium nodosum ‘Clos du Coudray’
- Geranium nodosum ‘Svelte Lilac’
- Geranium ‘Orion’
- Geranium x oxianianum ‘Tess’
- Geranium x oxonianum ‘Laura Skelton’
- Geranium x oxonianum ‘Walter's Gift’
- Geranium ‘Patricia’
- Geranium phaeum ‘Album’
- Geranium phaeum ‘Alec’s Pink’
- Geranium phaeum ‘Langthorn’s Blue’
- Geranium phaeum ‘Lavender Pinwheel’
- Geranium phaeum ‘Lily Lovell’
- Geranium phaeum ‘Raven’
- Geranium phaeum ‘Samobor’
- Geranium phaeum ‘Springtime’
- Geranium phaeum ‘Walküre’
- Geranium ‘Phillipe Vapelle’
- Geranium platypetalum ‘Turco’
- Geranium pratense ‘Dark Reiter’
- Geranium pratense ‘Kaya’
- Geranium pratense ‘Laura’
- Geranium pratense ‘Plenum Violaceum’
- Geranium renardii
- Geranium renardii ‘Tcschelda’
- Geranium x riversleaianum ‘Mavis Simpson’
- Geranium ‘Rozanne’
- Geranium ‘Sabani Blue’
- Geranium sanguineum var. lancastriense
- Geranium sanguineum ‘Album’
- Geranium sanguineum ‘Apfelblute’
- Geranium ‘Sirak’
- Geranium ‘Sue Crug’
- Geranium sylvaticum ‘Birch Lilac’
- Geranium wallichianum ‘Buxtons Variety’
- Geranium wallichianum ‘Crystal Lake’
- Geranium wlassovianum ‘Lakwijk Star’
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