Cranesbills with easygoing charm and a long season
Hardy geraniums
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Hardy geraniums
Few perennials settle into a border as naturally as hardy geraniums. Also known as cranesbills, these dependable garden plants form soft mounds of divided foliage, covered with open flowers in shades of blue, violet, pink, magenta and white. Depending on the variety, hardy Geranium plants can flower from late spring well into summer, with some continuing into autumn, making them especially useful for filling gaps and linking different areas of a planting scheme. Their relaxed habit suits cottage gardens, naturalistic borders and more contemporary perennial planting equally well.
There is a hardy Geranium for almost every part of the garden. Compact varieties make excellent edging plants and ground cover, while broader, more vigorous forms can spread beneath roses, shrubs and taller perennials, helping to suppress bare soil with attractive foliage and flowers. Many cranesbills thrive in sun or partial shade, and several are particularly useful in more difficult shaded positions. Their blooms are also popular with bees and other pollinators, while some varieties develop attractive red or bronze foliage as the season turns.
Geranium perennials for UK gardens are valued for being hardy, versatile and remarkably easy to combine with other plants. Use cranesbills to soften border edges, spill gently between neighbouring perennials or plant them in generous groups for a fuller, established look. With their long flowering season, useful ground-covering habit and wide range of garden-worthy varieties, hardy geraniums are the kind of plants that quietly make the whole border work better.
