About
Pelargonium 'Bird Dancer' is a compact Stellar-type cultivar, reaching a height of up to 25 cm. It features small leaves with dark zones and produces clusters of single, pale pink flowers that have narrow petals. The upper two petals are tinged with a deeper salmon-pink 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
- Soil type
- Loam, Sand
- Soil pH
- Acid, Alkaline, Neutral
- Soil moisture
- Well-drained
- Aspect
- West-facing, East-facing
- Exposure
- Exposed, Sheltered
- UK hardiness
- H1C
Plant details
- Plant type
- Bedding, Houseplants
- Habit
- Bushy
- Foliage
- Evergreen
- Height
- 0.1-0.5 metres
- Spread
- 0.1-0.5 metres
- Time to full height
- 2-5 years
- Suggested uses
- City and courtyard gardens, Coastal, Cottage and informal garden, Patio and container plants
Care notes
- Cultivation
- Grow in fertile well-drained soil in full sun. Remove spent flowers. To overwinter, grow small plants in late summer from cuttings. 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