Geranium x cantabrigiense

A lovely lovely variety. Foliage stunning flowers.

A vigorous, semi-evergreen, mat-forming perennial with masses of 5-petaled, very pale pink flowers, 2.5 cm, adorned with contrasting deep pink anthers. These are all about in spring to early summer. A lovely mat of foliage is a bonus in summer after flowering, often geraniums can look a bit sparse at this point. Then in winter the leaves take on a red tint. Fabulous in a rock garden or the front of a border.

A sterile hybrid geranium developed in 1974 by Dr. Helen Kiefer of the Cambridge University Botanic Garden in Cambridge, by crossing G. macrorrhizum (female parent) and G. dalmaticum (male parent). The hybrid name of cantabrigiense thus comes from the Latin word Cantabrigia referring to Cambridge.

Agnieszka Kwiecień, Nova, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons