Name: Geranium 'Biokovo' - Hardy Cranesbill Ground Cover
Brand: Geranium
SKU: pda308
Price: 5.9 EUR
Availability: InStock

Geranium x cantabrigiense 'Biokovo'

€5,90

Geranium x cantabrigiense 'Biokovo'

€5,90

Organic

Sustainable

Locally grown

🪴Standard: 9x9 cm pot

🚂 Ships across EU

🌱 Grown without pesticides or UV lamps

Flowering Ground Cover
Drought Tolerant

Flower Color: White, Soft Pink

Preferred Soil Type: Well-drained, Poor

Hardiness Zone: Zone 3: -40°C

Growth Habit: Spreading, Mat-Forming

Origine: Europe

Geranium x cantabrigiense 'Biokovo' is a perennial creeping geranium, slowly forming an evergreen carpet composed of rounded, aromatic leaves that take on a beautiful red hue in autumn.

Small white flowers with bright pink stamens appear over the course of the summer, dazzling against the dark foliage.

The aromatic, rounded, palmate, and dissected foliage remains evergreen, with a bright green hue in season, turning reddish in autumn and winter.

Its sprawling habit allows it to form semi-bushy mats.

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This variety is Ideal for natural gardens or city balconies as 'Biokovo' is not afraid of harsh winter cold and tolerates the summer heat.

A Note on the Difference between Geraniums and Pelargoniums

These are confused all the time. What you know to be Geraniums are probably Pelargoniums. And it has been a fascinating journey out of the darkness for me!

The physical distinction can be hard to spot as the details are in the number of petals.

Geraniums

Flowers have five similar petals
Considered perennials that come back year after year.
Bloom, Dormancy, Bloom, Dormancy > and Repeat.
To ease confusion, they are sometimes called 'Hardy Geraniums'.

Pelargonium

Flowers have two upper petals which are different from the three lower petals
Annuals (can be semi hardy in some climates but in general are sold for one seasons use)
Bloom, The End.
To ease confusion, they are sometimes called 'Tender Geraniums'.

This variety is a spontaneous cultivar of the natural hybrid Geranium x cantabrigiense, derived from

Geranium dalmaticum from the Balkan coast
Geranium macrorrhizum from the southern coast

This makes this cultivar ... very hardy and very drought tolerant.

Other Names:
Cranesbill