About
This bushy cultivar reaches heights of up to 45 cm and features rounded, dark green foliage. Its blooms consist of semi-double flowers in a rich red hue.
About the genus
Pelargonium includes perennials, sub-shrubs, and shrubs, which can occasionally be succulent and are primarily evergreen. The leaves are typically palmately lobed or pinnately divided, and the plants produce clusters of slightly irregular flowers with five petals.
Growing conditions
- Sunlight
- Full sun, Partial shade
- Soil type
- Loam, Sand
- Soil pH
- Acid, Alkaline, Neutral
- Soil moisture
- Well-drained
- Aspect
- South-facing, West-facing, East-facing
- Exposure
- Sheltered
- UK hardiness
- H1C
Plant details
- Plant type
- Houseplants, Conservatory Greenhouse
- Habit
- Bushy
- Foliage
- Evergreen
- Height
- 0.1-0.5 metres
- Spread
- 0.1-0.5 metres
- Time to full height
- 1-2 years
- Suggested uses
- Patio and container plants
Care notes
- Cultivation
- Grow in fertile well-drained soil in full sun or partial shade. Remove spent flowers. To overwinter, grow small plants in late summer from cuttings or cut back old plants by one third and lift for storage in frost-free place to repot in spring when growth resumes. See Pelargonium cultivation for further advice.
- Pruning
- Deadhead regularly
- Propagation
- Take softwood cuttings in summer and overwinter plants in frost free conditions or take softwood cuttings in spring
- Pest resistance
- May be susceptible to vine weevil, leafhoppers, caterpillars, thrips, fungus gnats and aphids
- Disease resistance
- May be susceptible to foot and root rots in wet soils, grey moulds, pelargonium rust and and a virus