hardy geraniums

Heron’s Bill

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The Victorians and Edwardians had a passion for rock or alpine gardens, creating extensive pseudo-alpine landscapes from actual rocks, artificial rocks and various forms of debris, up to and including broken dishes.  Fashionable gardeners filled the cracks and crevices of these layouts with alpine plants newly discovered by plant hunters in various mountainous regions of … Read more

Scottish Dragons

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I don’t know how I have missed ‘Dragon Heart’, an eye-catching hardy geranium that has been on the market for the last several years at least.  It grabbed me–almost literally–at a garden center, as it sprawled from a quart pot in the half -off aisle.  The blossoms are bright magenta-purple, with dramatic dark centers and … Read more