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Brand: The Plantsman's PreferenceFamily: GeraniaceaeMain Season: SpringFlower Colour: PinkLeaf Colour: GreenFoliage: EvergreenPosition: Light/Part ShadeSoil Type: Ordinary, medium loamHeight: 15cm to 30cm (6" to 12")RHS Award of Garden Merit: RHS Award of Garden MeritPeat Free? YesHardiness Guide: RHS H7 minimum at least -20CPot Size: 9cm
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Useful, usually evergreen, groundcover with light rose-pink flowers from April. Will even work in dry shade with good soil preparation. 30cm.
Good, weed excluding groundcover among shrubs and larger herbaceous perennials in sun or shade. Vigorous but easy to contain as it is very shallow rooting.
The species is found in southern Europe and this cultivar was collected by Walter Ingwersen on Mt Koprivnak in Montenegro in 1929 and introduced by his nursery Birch Farm in the 1930-31 catalogue as Geranium macrorrhizum 'Ingwersen's Var'.
Geranium macrorrhizum 'Cham-Ce'£5.00
Light pink flowers, very floriferous. Good evergreen groundcover. 30cm. syn. 'Camce'
Geranium macrorrhizum 'Velebit'£5.00
A floriferous form with showy clear, bright pink flowers on this evergreen groundcover for sun or shade. 20cm. Collected by Hans Simon in Croatia.
Geranium macrorrhizum AL&JS 90179 YU£5.50
A lovely example of the wild species collected in 1990 in what was Yugoslavia. Evergreen patches with rich pink, light veined flowers in spring. 25cm.
