Geranium Macrorrhizm White – Hardy Cranesbill – 2 litre pot

Cranesbill are a hardy clump forming semi-evergreen geranium: with over 350 varieties, this is a firm favourite which is always popular.  Suitable for sun or shade, they can provide colourful ground cover as well as tall types, truly a cottage garden must have plant.  If cut back after flowering it will flower twice in the same season.  Colours range from all shades of pink to purple, blue and white, and flowers ranging from spring until late summer.

They prefer a moist soil to get established, once established they will tolerate a dry patch.

Once finished flowering, they will start to look really untidy, cut hardback to the new growth, they may flower again after this.

The Macrorrhizm type is a mat-forming, semi-evergreen perennial growing to 45cm tall. Its rounded, divided, lobed and toothed leaves are sticky and aromatic and can turn attractive shades in the autumn. In summer, white flowers, up to 3cm across, are held above the foliage on more or less upright stems.