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Pencilled Cranes-bill in the GardenTags plant encyclopedia

Geranium versicolor

 

Pencilled Cranes-bill

Geraniums are hardy and mainly perennial and are used in a number of garden situations such as ground cover or rockery plants. Geraniums are easily grown and can transform problem places such as dry shade, hot sunny banks or moist shade. This species is a low semi-evergreen perennial. The leaves are lobed and pale green. The flowers are cymes of small white or pink blooms, usually with prominent purple or deep pink veins, in late spring.

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plant Features
  • Pencilled Cranes-bill likes full sun to partial shade

    Full sun to partial shade

  • Pencilled Cranes-bill likes very little water

    Very little water

  • Pencilled Cranes-bill is frost hardy: 23f (-5°c)

    Frost Hardy: 23F (-5°C)

  • Pencilled Cranes-bill likes free draining

    Free draining

 
plant information

Common name

Pencilled Cranes-bill

Latin name

Geranium versicolor

type

Herbaceous Perennial

family

Geraniaceae

ph

5.0 - 7.0 Acid - Neutral

  • Light

    Pencilled Cranes-bill likes full sun to partial shade

    Full sun to partial shade

  • Frost

    Pencilled Cranes-bill is frost hardy: 23f (-5°c)

    Frost Hardy: 23F (-5°C)

  • Soil

    Pencilled Cranes-bill likes free draining

    Free draining

  • Water

    Pencilled Cranes-bill likes very little water

    Very little water

Plant & bloom calendar

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full grown dimensions

The size of a fully grown Pencilled Cranes-bill is 0.50meters x 0.30meters 0.50 M 0.30 M

Geranium versicolor

Geraniums are hardy and mainly perennial and are used in a number of garden situations such as ground cover or rockery plants. Geraniums are easily grown and can transform problem places such as dry shade, hot sunny banks or moist shade. This species is a low semi-evergreen perennial. The leaves are lobed and pale green. The flowers are cymes of small white or pink blooms, usually with prominent purple or deep pink veins, in late spring.


Flowering Season

From Late Spring TO Mid Autumn

Varieties of geranium typically flower for about three months between late spring and autumn.

 

Planting young plants

From Mid Autumn TO Late Winter

Plant geraniums between mid autumn and late winter in any ordinary, well drained soil, in sun or partial shade.

 

Propagation by division

From Mid Autumn TO Late Winter

Divide the plants between autumn and late winter. and replant immediately.

 
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