Geranium Rozanne

The best, most garden-worthy hardy Geranium you can grow. Large 2½" saucer-shaped flowers just never quit. Violet-blue blooms with white centers flower profusely from late spring through November, or until frost. Unlike many Geraniums, 'Rozanne' has great heat tolerance, too! Vigorous, but never invasive.

Mounded, slightly marbled, deep green foliage becomes reddish brown in fall for added interest. Selected as  2008 Perennial Plant of the Year.

Garden Care
Place in front of beds or borders. A good groundcover with nice habit for patio planters, window boxes and hanging baskets. Prefers average well-drained soils. Moist organic soils will promote spread. Tolerates summer heat better when given ample moisture and partial shade. Plants can be sheared to 3" to rejuvenate. Rarely needs division.

Family and Friends
Hybrid Crane’s Bills are very popular in Europe. Members of this genus should not be confused with the common annual geranium of summer gardens. They get their common name from the resemblance of their seed-pod shape to that of a crane’s bill or beak. Many good garden plants have come about through the keen observations of attentive gardeners and Geranium ‘Rozanne’ is no exception. Donald and Rozanne Waterer collected seed from two geraniums growing as neighbors in their garden in Somerset, England. From the resultant seedlings, 'Rozanne' stood out as being exceptional, featuring stronger growth, larger flowers and leaves than their parent plants.

Associates well with: Iris siberica, Phlox paniculata (Garden Phlox) ‘Eva Cullum' or 'Franz Schubert', Heliopsis 'Loraine Sunshine', Ornamental Grasses.