Geranium incanum - Carpet Geranium
Geranium incanum can produce a wealth of color on an easy to grow plant. I space Geranium incanum about 18" on center. The Carpet Geranium will readily replace their lost brethren by seed if the area gets disturbed. Geranium incanum can get by with no additional water in coastal areas and will persist with very modest irrigation requirements for inland locations. Our Geranium incanum plants out in the garden have survived quite nicely in temperatures that dip into the low 20°s and shown a little reddening of the leaves in the high teens. Geranium incanum will survive some foot traffic if you need to periodically get out to rescue some slower growing plants from the grip of the Carpet Geranium, sounds like a bad movie. If Geranium incanum has a flaw it is how well it covers, often clambering into taller plants. Geranium incanum is a prolific seed producer and the Carpet Geranium will show up in the darndest places, driveway cracks etc. Geranium incanum to be truthful is a weed, but a pretty one with plenty of pink flowers most of the year. Some concern about weedy plants escaping, so if your garden is near wildlands maybe this isn't the best choice.
Pink flowers and foliage of Geranium incanum - Carpet Geranium. High resolution photos are part of our garden image collection.
Pink flowers and foliage of Geranium incanum - Carpet Geranium. High resolution photos are part of our garden image collection.
Plants from the Geranium Genus featured on this site:
Geranium Ballerina
Geranium Biokovo
Geranium harveyi
Geranium incanum
Geranium Johnson's Blue
Geranium Lawrence Flatman
Geramium macrorrhizum album
Geranium maderense
Geranium Mavis Simpson
Geranium Orion
Geranium renardii
Geranium richardsonii
Geranium Rozanne
Geranium sanguinium striatum
Geranium sessiliforum nigricans
Geranium Stanhoe
Geranium wallichianum Buxton's Blue
Geranium plants from the Genus Pelargonium featured on this site:
Pelargonium capitatum Attar of Roses * Rose Scented Geranium
Pelargonium cordifolium * Heartleaf Geranium
Pelargonium fragrans * Nutmeg Geranium
Pelargonium graveolens * Rose Geranium
Pelargonium ionidiflorum Celery Scented Geranium
Pelargonium quercifolium * Oak Leaf Geranium
Pelargonium reneforme * Silverleaf Geranium
Pelargonium sidoides * Silverleaf Geranium
Pelargonium tomentosum * Peppermint Scented Geranium