Wild Geranium

Take a walk on the wild side! Forests and gardens alike look stunning with a Wild Geranium (Geranium maculatum) or two growing throughout. The color, easy-to-grow nature, and overall low maintenance of this plant will absolutely charm you!

Wild Geranium helps welcome spring each year with a host of pink to lilac-colored blooms blooming across the plant. You'd be hard-pressed to find a perennial bush that'll beat this one to bloom! Oh, and how beautiful they are. Each petal has dark veins running throughout that offer a lovely unique texture.

Your neighbors will be awestruck by the first hints of spring unfolding in your garden in the form of delightful pink blossoms. They won't be alone either! Pollinators such as butterflies will flutter to this early-season source of nectar!

A tough native plant with a wide hardiness range of USDA planting zones 3 to 8, native Geranium can spread politely by way of fleshy underground rhizome-like roots and from the seeds. Sometimes referred to as Cranesbill due to its interesting crane's head-shaped seed pods that can fill in the deciduous understory quickly.

Landscape Application:

Are there areas in your garden that could use a little ground cover? Wild Geranium creates a beautiful carpet along the forest floor and could do the same for parts of your garden without spreading very far. This specimen also looks lovely as accents in your native garden or as border additions!

Add to backyard meadows, mix among short grass prairie plantings, beneficial insects, and pollinator gardens, plant among other dappled understory settings, and woodland gardens. Wild Cranesbill Geraniums can still be found rambling through out-of-the-way areas and along roadsides and ditches.

Closer to home, these darling spring flowers can be tucked into Cottage gardens and Rock gardens alike! Container gardens, and mixed perennial borders to add a lacy ephemeral quality to your informal landscaping beds!

Their ability to spread politely makes Wild Geranium a great groundcover, en masse garden filler, and perfect for securing soil on steep slopes and slowing erosion. Wild Geranium is the perfect low-maintenance beauty to place in your naturalized garden!

• Delicately Veined Pink Flowers With Lighter Centers
• Early Season Blooming
• Attracts Pollinators
• Deeply Incised Fine-Textured Foliage
• Great Red Fall Color
• Woodlands, Meadows, Informal Gardens, Groupings, Understory & En Masse

#ProPlantTips for Care:

One of the best characteristics of this perennial is its easy-going nature! Wild Cranesbill will thrive in full sun or partial shade and grow in many different types of soils as long as it's well-drained. Wild Geranium appreciates regular watering as long as it doesn't stay wet for too long. Provide regular moisture access during their first year, but once established, should be self-sufficient unless you are experiencing a prolonged drought. 3-4 inches of arborist mulch helps support plant roots significantly!

While many flowering perennials need to be deadheaded regularly in order to keep a pristine look, Wild Geranium is just as happy to be left alone as they do not normally repeat bloom. That leaves more time for you to sit back, relax, and admire them.

• Full Sun & Part Sun/Part Shade
• Moderately Moist Soil
• Any Well-Drained Soil Type
• Prune Back Leaves Late Autumn/Early Spring
• Deer & Rabbits Seldom Bother Geraniums

Darling native, the Wild Cranesbill Geranium's brilliant pink flowers will welcome spring's warming weather and bring in the bees and butterflies! Hurry and buy one or more as the finishing touches of your informal garden today from NatureHills.com!