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Geranium

Pelargonium selections
Geranium

Geraniums have been a gardener's favorite for well over a century. The old-fashioned standard for beds, borders, and containers, geranium is still one of the most popular plants today. Traditional bedding types love hot weather and hold up well to dry conditions; many offer colorful foliage. Regal, also called Martha Washington, geraniums are more delicate-looking and do better in the cool conditions of spring and fall.

Though most geraniums are grown as annuals, they are perennials in Zones 10-11. Bring them indoors to overwinter, if you like, then replant outdoors in spring. Or they can bloom indoors all year long if they get enough light.

Light:
Sun
Zones:
10-11
Plant Type:
Annual,Perennial,Indoor Plant
Plant Height:
To 2 feet tall
Plant Width:
To 2 feet wide
Landscape Uses:
Containers,Beds & Borders
Special Features:
Flowers,Attractive Foliage,Drought Tolerant,Deer Resistant,Easy to Grow
Top Varieties
Pelargonium 'Americana Bright Red' is a heat-loving geranium with large, rich-red flower heads. It grows 18 inches tall.
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Pelargonium 'Allure Light Pink' bears pink flowers with a brighter pink blotch on vigorous plants that grow 18 inches tall.
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Pelargonium 'Allure Pink Picotee' produces huge, hydrangea-like clusters of pale pink blooms edged in darker pink. It grows 18 inches tall.
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Pelargonium 'Aurora' is a heat-loving variety with large heads of bright magenta-pink flowers on 12-inch-tall plants.
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Pelargonium 'Caliente Hot Coral' produces bold coral-pink blooms and exceptional heat tolerance. It has an upright, mounding habit, and you don't need to deadhead the flowers. It grows 12 inches tall.
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Pelargonium 'Calliope Dark Red' is a hybrid between ivy-leaved and zonal geraniums. It bears rich, dark red flowers and has a mounding/trailing habit. It grows 12 inches tall.
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Pelargonium 'Candy Cherry' offers lots of bright cherry-pink flowers over rich, dark-green foliage. It grows 14 inches tall.
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Pelargonium 'Candy Fantasy Kiss' shows off rich pink flowers with a lovely soft pink edge. It has dark green foliage and grows 14 inches tall.
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Pelargonium 'Daredevil Claret' is a vigorous selection with dark red flowers all summer. It grows 24 inches tall and 14 inches wide.
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Pelargonium 'Daredevil Orchid' shows off brilliantly colored clusters of lavender flowers all summer long. It grows 24 inches tall and 14 inches wide.
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Pelargonium 'Designer Red' is a heat-loving geranium that offers rich red flowers on compact, 14-inch-tall plants.
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Pelargonium 'Easter Greeting' is a cool-season regal type with cerise-pink flowers that have dark purple blotches. The plants grow 12 inches tall.
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Pelargonium 'Elegance Burgundy' is a cool-season variety that blooms in spring with rich burgundy flowers that look like they're made from crepe paper. It grows 12 inches tall.
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Pelargonium 'Elegance Imperial' is a spring bloomer offering rich burgundy-purple flowers boldly edged in white. It grows 12 inches tall.
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Pelargonium 'Elegance Royalty White' is a cool-season variety displaying white flowers brushed with bright pink. It grows 12 inches tall.
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Pelargonium 'Fantasia White' offers pure white blooms on a heat-loving plant that grows 14 inches tall.
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Pelargonium 'Global Merlot' bears rich wine-red flowers on a heat-loving plant that trails to 14 inches.
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Pelargonium 'Graffiti Salmon' is a heat-loving selection with spidery salmon-pink flowers on a plant that grows 14 inches tall.
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Pelargonium 'Graffiti White' is a heat-loving selection with spidery white flowers on a plant that grows 14 inches tall.
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Pelargonium 'Indian Dunes' offers attractive chartreuse foliage with a large bronze-purple blotch in the center of each leaf. It produces orange-red flowers and grows 10 inches tall.
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Pelargonium 'Maestro Rose Pink' offers large soft pink blooms touched with rose on a medium-size plant with good heat tolerance. It grows 12 inches tall.
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Pelargonium 'Maiden Iced Wine' is a cool-season variety with a compact habit and dark red flowers delicately edged in white. It grows 10 inches tall.
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Pelargonium 'Mini Cascade Pink' is a heat-loving variety with soft pink flowers that can trail to 14 inches.
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Pelargonium 'Mini Cascade Red' is a heat-loving geranium with red flowers that can trail to 14 inches.
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Pelargonium 'Mini Karmine' looks its best in hanging baskets or window boxes where you can enjoy it as the plant trails over the edges. It features bright magenta flowers and finely cut foliage.
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Pelargonium 'Mr. Henry Cox' is a heat-loving type with variegated foliage and single pink flowers on plants that grow 12 inches tall.
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Pelargonium 'Moonlight Cranberry Blush' features intensely pink flowers with a compact habit and lots of blooms throughout the summer. It grows 12 inches tall.
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Pelargonium 'Patriot Berry Parfait' is a vigorous variety with large, cherry-red flowers. It grows 16 inches tall.
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Pelargonium 'Patriot Lavender Blue' is a quick-growing variety with large lavender-pink flowers. It grows 16 inches tall.
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Pelargonium 'Pink Spirit' is a heat-loving geranium with double pink flowers that can trail to 16 inches.
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Pelargonium 'Royal Candy Pink' is a trailing, heat-tolerant geranium with an abundance of rich pink flowers. It trails to 14 inches.
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Pelargonium 'Royal Lavender' is a trailing, heat-tolerant geranium with soft, lavender-pink flowers all summer. It trails to 14 inches.
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Pelargonium 'Vancouver Centennial' is a heat-loving geranium with golden foliage that bears a purple-brown blotch. It grows to 18 inches tall.
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Pelargonium 'Wilhelm Langguth' shows off attractive white-edged foliage and bright red flowers. It grows 2 feet tall.
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Garden Plans
Classic Container Garden Plan
Large Summer Sunny Border
Dramatic Entrance Garden Plan
Lush Foliage Garden Plan
Cotswold Charm Cottage Garden Plan
Flowery Deck Garden Plan
Colorful Mailbox Garden Plan
Tropical-Look Garden Plan
Plant It With
Flowering tobacco

Use _Nicotiana_ to add sweet fragrance to your planting of geraniums.

Pentas

With its large heads of colorful flowers, _Pentas_ looks great with geranium -- and appreciates the same growing conditions.

Fountaingrass

Enhance geranium's form with the texture and rich color of purple fountaingrass.

Propagation
Stem Cuttings

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