Geranium
Pelargonium selections
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 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. They can bloom indoors all year long if they get enough light. Then replant outdoors in spring.
- 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
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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-leafed 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 'Designer Red') is a heat-loving geranium that offers rich red flowers on compact, 14-inch-tall flowers.
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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 1 foot 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 '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 'Mr. Henry Cox') is a heat-loving type with variegated foliage and single pink flowers on plants that grow 1 foot 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 'Vancouver Centennial') is a heat-loving geranium with golden foliage that bears a purple-brown blotch. This variety grows to 18 inches tall.
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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.
