Geranium sanguineum 'Album' - Stork Beak - pot 9x9 cm
Dutch name: Stork flower
€2.14 per unit (incl. vat)
Product information "Geranium sanguineum 'Album' - Stork Beak - pot 9x9 cm"
- Pot size: 9x9 cm
- Height adult: 0.2-0.3 m
- Flowering color: (silver)white
- Flowering time: May-July
- Winter hardy
Geranium sanguineum 'Album' serves ideally as a ground cover or vegetation under your shrubs. During the summer, this plant bears large, single (silver) white flowers.
Moreover, the storkbill is also heavily visited by the pollinators - such as butterflies & bees - in your garden. The leaves are a green color that turn a beautiful orange-red hue in the fall and color along with the fall palette in your garden. It is not a difficult garden guest as it does well in a variety of places, even coastal or rock garden.
Plant characteristics:
- Flower color: (silver) white
- Flowering period: May-July
- Hardy: yes, very hardy
- Evergreen: no
- Leaf color: light green to medium green, in autumn the leaves turn orange-red (young leaves remain green)
- Leaf shape: aromatic and lobed leaves
- Evergreen: no
- Height: 0.2 to 0.3 m (mature plant after 2 to 5 years)
- Diseases: sometimes suffer from powdery mildew & downy mildew
- Family: Geraniaceae
- Dutch name: stork beak
Soil & location:
- Position: sun, semi-shade, shade (in shade they bear fewer flowers)
- Soil: all soils are suitable (acidic, neutral, calcareous, any permeable moderately fertile soil
- Application: in borders, as ground cover, under shrubs or roses, also suitable for the rock garden
Planting density:
- Number per m²: 5 pieces
Maintenance:
- Pruning: cut off spent flower stems during flowering or after flowering. You can also deadhead these plants = cut away wilted flowers from the plant
More info on the geranium? Be sure to read our blog "Geranium, a real top plant!"
Product specifications
| Application / use plant: | Tree level/tree wreath |
|---|---|
| Average number per m²: | 10 |
| Bloom Month: | June, July, August |
| Bloom color: | White |
| Branches / bark: | Unknown - n/a |
| Flower color - details: | White |
| Frost hardiness - details: | Excellent (-34 till -29°c), usda zone 4 |
| Frost resistance: | Extrême winter hardiness |
| Fruit: | Unknown - n/a |
| Full grown plant height: | 30-40 cm |
| German plant name: | Garten-Schnee-Storchschnabel, Schnee-Storchenschnabel, Schnee-Storchschnabel, Storchenschnabel, Storchschnabel |
| Growth habit : | Ground cover |
| Growth habit - details: | Broadly spreading, creeping |
| Humidity/Soil: | Dry soil |
| Humidity/Soil - details: | Dry to normal |
| Latin plant family: | Geraniaceae |
| Leaf / Foliage: | Fine-leaved, Green, Incised |
| Leaf / foliage - details: | Deciduous, cleargreen, incised |
| Location: | Halfshadow, Full sun |
| Location - details: | Half-shade to sun |
| Minimum growing height (in cm): | 30 |
| Plant characteristic: | Ground cover, Rabbit-proof, Sea wind proof |
| Plant family: | Cranesbill family |
| Planting distance: | 8-11 pieces per m² (30-35 cm apart) |
| Pruning period: | March |
| Width mature plant: | 40 cm |
| Winter foliage: | Losing leaf |
| maximal growth height (in cm): | 40 |
| type of crop: | Perennial plant |
| type of soil: | Clay soil (calcareous), Normal soil |
| type of soil / ground - details: | Any type of soil |
| Package dimensions: | 10L x 11W x 24.25H cm |
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