Geranium ‘Karmina’

Description

Cover bare soil with a carpet of Geranium ‘Karmina’—a super tough and resilient summer ground cover which not only looks gorgeous, but is incredibly unfussy, low maintenance and helps to supress weeds! This is a gradually spreading cranesbill variety, but is not thuggish about it and tends to keep within its given space. If you have a tricky area to plant, dainty-looking Geranium ‘Karmina’ will put every effort into thriving there. Be it in sun, shade, clay or sandy soil. It’ll even conquer a space which is in direct competition with small trees and shrubs!

Flowering from early to mid summer, the show of blooms doesn’t last the season, but the cushion of foliage which does last the season is just as effective and takes on a toasty reddish hue for autumn and winter. Once it’s settled in, Geranium × cantabrigiense ‘Karmina’ is fairly drought tolerant. It’s also very hardy, handling winter temperatures down to around -20°C. Each year it grows back and spread as little, eventually forming a dense mat of ground cover.