Geranium / Cranesbill
Geranium
An award-winning cranesbill that spreads into a long-blooming groundcover, with violet-blue flowers from late spring through most of the summer, lovely at a border's front or in pots. It takes heat well, copes with dry spells once settled, and deer and rabbits leave it alone. It flowers best in sun.
- Mature size
- 1.5 × 1.5 ft
- 0.4 × 0.5 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 5a–8b
- USDA
- Sun
- Full sun to part sun
- Water
- Medium
- Blooms
- May–Sep
Geranium / Cranesbill at its mature size
A mature Geranium / Cranesbill grows 1 to 1.5 feet tall and 1 to 2 feet wide.
Drawn to scale beside a 5 ft 9 in person. With VeraScape, you see it at this size in your own yard.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: NC State Extension.
Through the year
What Geranium / Cranesbill looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
Below ground · Nov–Mar
Dies back to the ground.
In leaf · Apr–May
Low mound of deeply cut green leaves, no flowers.
In flower · Jun–Oct
Mound covered in violet-blue saucer flowers with white centres.
Growing Geranium / Cranesbill
- Grows well in
- The Northeast, the Southeast, the Midwest, the Plains and Mountain West, the Pacific Northwest, and California.
- Growth rate
- Medium
- Good for
- Groundcover and deer resistant
- Leaves
- Dies back in winter
- Native to
- Himalayas
Spacing
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Geranium / Cranesbill, that’s about 1.5 ft apart, center to center.
Place a row in your own yard and VeraScape spaces them at their mature width, so you can see whether they’ll crowd the walk.
See Geranium / Cranesbill in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other hardy geraniums
Geranium / Cranesbill
Rozanne GeraniumAll drawn to the same scale.