Multiple violet-purple flowers open in June-July over a base of soft leaves. Developing a long-lived stout rhizome, it is easy to establish in most conditions, whether in sun or shade. This lovely plant is one of the UK native hardy geraniums, and in the wild it ranges as far north as the Arctic. ... Learn More

A most unusual seedling appeared one day. Tight upright habit, compact trusses of upward-facing pale pink flowers. We concluded that as it appeared between the two, its parents were most probably G. clarkei 'Kashmir White' and G. sylvaticum. The seedlings displayed astonishing diversity, all having the same massed flower heads, but in colours from palest pinks to deepest blues. ... Learn More

From a central rosette of attractively marbled spring foliage, prostrate spreading stems with large numbers of smallish, violet-veined white flowers with purple-pollened anthers. The stems of this vigorous Japanese low crawler root as they spread, making it a worthwhile ground coverer or weed stifler. ... Learn More

Large numbers of blood red veined pink funnel-shaped flowers, from spring and throughout summer, adorn this low spreader, which stifles weeds whilst hybridising busily with other geraniums producing fascinating offspring. ... Learn More

On a compact slowly spreading carpet appears a non-stop display from June onwards of upward-facing white-eyed sky blue flowers. "A pearl beyond price" (Graham Stuart Thomas), but alas a reluctant seed producer - the elusive seeds are collected individually. ... Learn More

A low species from Japan with a tight, creeping habit resembling aubretia. Slowly spreading prostrate stolons, occasionally rooting, make a diminutive leafed clinging carpet peppered with a steady succession of bright pink flowers until late autumn. ... Learn More