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- Cranesbill "Apple Blossom" enchants with delicate pink flowers
- Low-growing subspecies of the blood red cranebill
- Cranesbill needs a lot of sun
- Tips
The flower color of the cranesbill "apple blossom" varies from pale pink to pink
Cranesbill "Apple Blossom" enchants with delicate pink flowers
If you are looking for a low-growing geranium species for borders or pots, Geranium sanguineum "Apple Blossom" is the perfect choice. The soft pink flowering plant with the dark green foliage that turns bright red in the fall becomes only 15 centimeters high and just as wide.
Low-growing subspecies of the blood red cranebill
Geranium sanguineum (Blood Red Cranesbill) is a dense, grouped perennial with rhizomes that creep creeping out. From May to September appear - with interruptions - again and again to four centimeters wide cup flowers, which are in the variety "apple blossom" soft pink with darker veins. The graceful, petite perennial fits well in the foreground of borders, is a charming rose companion and also thrives in pots and pots
Cranesbill needs a lot of sun
The cranesbill "Apple Blossom" loves a sunny location with loamy-humus and moderately nutrient-rich soil. The perennial is very easy to care, only withered foliage should be cut back in the fall. Propagation is by seeding or division in spring or by cuttings of non-flowering shoots in summer. Like many cranesbill varieties, "apple blossom" is the most vegetatively propagated.
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Very pretty, especially in combination with "apple blossom", is the Geranium sanguineum variety "Dilys". This variety has rich purplish pink flowers, which are small but more numerous.The up to 40 centimeters high-awake variety "Tiny Monster" with its large, bright crimson flowers blooms on the other hand enduringly into the autumn.