Geranium

Another geranium that goes on and on flowering. This one has large magenta flowers with a dark eye and although it gets to 75cm tall, doesn't flop about.

Spreading plant with aromatic leaves and white flowers. 20cm

Low-growing mats of silky silver-green covered with soft pink flowers.

Similar to Mavis Simpson with darker, magenta-pink flowers.

Sprawling plant with beautiful clear blue flowers that have a white eye. The flowering starts late summer and carries on to the frosts.

Magenta flowers - much larger than other G. sanguineums.

Soft-leaved geranium that prefers sun and poor soils, the flowers are palest mauve, almost white, with purple veins.

Mauve flowers with purple veins; compact, evergreen foliage.

Another scrambler, the new foliage is golden, the flowers pale violet with dark veins.

Violet-blue flowers with a tiny white eye. A woodland plant that is needs shade to grow well. 60cm

Good geranium for dry shady spots. Small pink flowers with purplish veins and glossy foliage.

Some people shy away from this spectacular geranium because of its height and its dark-eyed bright magenta flowers. If you are feeling fearless, this is a plant for you.

By now most people know this straggling geranium whose long stems romp around, sending up dusky-purple flowers wherever it pleases. We grow it with Artemisia 'Powis Castle'.

You see it everywhere and we've grown it for years but its double soft-lilac flowers still captivate us each season.

From Coombland Gardens, a hybrid between G. lambertii and G. traversii elegans. Soft foliage and upward-facing lightly-veined pale pink flowers. Very delicate. 20cm

Another sprawling beauty, this time with pink, white-eyed, flowers.

Large, upright deep-blue flowers. Flowers until the first frosts. 90cm.

Large, handsome leaves, vivid pink flowers at the end of spring.

A geranium for shade with violet flowers. The foliage is blotched with chocolate.

Modest geranium. Low growing with large lilac flowers, heavily veined purple. Flowers from late spring until the end of the summer. 10cm.

Early-flowering form of the meadow cranesbill. Pale blue flowers with pale grey stripes.

Meadow cranesbills with dark bronze foliage and large blue flowers on tall stems. Has to be grown in shade to keep its colour. There are several Geranium pratense with dark foliage but in our experience this is the most floriferous and does not become mildewed to the same extent as other forms. Height 40cm

This was brought to the nursery by a customer who had named it in memory of his partner. We planted it in the stock beds, worried that it was going to be another boring pink jobby, but it has won us over. Much more upright and much less sprawling than other G. x oxonianums, the strong pink flowers have a magenta veining. 70cm

From the local gardenof Juliet Robertson, a very floriferous, low-growing plant with sugar-pink flowers.

The bright, creamy-yellow variegated foliage lights up dark, shady coreners in spring. The deep-violet flowers are much brighter than most Geranium phaeum cultivars. 25cm

Deep-blue flowers with a purple vain from May to August, followed by ornage and red foliage during the autumn. Height 50cm.

A straggly plant for shade with small, almost-black, flowers. 60cm

A more compact plant than G. psilostemon with rounded , magenta-red flowers with a dark centre. 50cm

A low-growing carpeting plant, about 20cm tall, with masses of purplish-red flowers throughout the summer.

One of the most floriferous geranium with large strong-coloured deep blue flowers on a well-behaved plant about 60cm tall