| Description | Showy Geranium (Geranium x magnificum) is a medium tall, medium spreading plant for the full sun area of the garden. It produces a large amount of rich violet-blue flowers. |
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| Pronunciation | (jer-AY-nee-um) |
| Plant Type | Perennials Hardy, Site author's observations |
| Hardiness Zone | cold hardy to zone 3 |
| Sunlight | full sun, mostly sunny |
| Moisture | average, can wilt in the hot sun, in mid summer |
| Soil & Site | average |
| Flowers | violet-blue with dark veins, 5 petals, notched and starts blooming end of May early June lasting for 2-3 weeks |
| Leaves | a mid-green, sometimes has over lapping lobes, the basal leaves are largest, forms thin wiry petioles |
| Stems | spreading rhizomes |
| Dimensions | 20-24" tall by a spread of up to 30 inches |
| Maintenance | After the blooming period the plant it will need some pruning. This can be handled in two ways. The easiest being is cutting the plant back and it will quickly fill in with new growth. The preferred method, although more time consuming is cutting off some of the outside leaves (these leaves will be flopping) and some of the larger inner leaves. With the second method a large space isn't left from removing all the foliage. |
| Propagation | easy by division |
| Cultivar Origin | A sterile hybrid cross between G. ibericum and G. platypetalum in circa 1970 |
| Author's Notes | Even though this plant has a short period of bloom, it tends to be one of my favorite Geraniums. I love the intense violet-purple color. In a garden that I have maintained since the mid 1980's I have a planting of this Geranium that is over 25 years old. (2016) |
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