Geranium macrorrhizum ‘White Ness’ (‘Mount Olympus’)

Geranium macrorrhizum ‘White Ness’ (‘Mount Olympus’)

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Geranium macrorrhizum ‘White-Ness’ (Geranium macrorrhizum ‘Mount Olympus’). An exciting new colour form from Greece with pure white flowers with a pale green calyx set over fresh apple green foliage. Beautiful to enliven a dry shady spot but also easy and reliable elsewhere. 30cm spreading. Overall this plant is more compact and neater than some of the other Geranium macrorrhizum cultivars. This, combined with the lack of any pink shading makes ‘White-Ness’ very distinctive and charmingly refined. Collected on Mount Olympus by members of Ness Botanic Gardens.

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Geranium macrorrhizum ‘White Ness’ (‘Mount Olympus’)

Geranium macrorrhizum ‘White Ness’ (‘Mount Olympus’). An exciting new colour form from Greece with pure white flowers with a pale green calyx set over fresh apple green foliage. Beautiful to enliven a dry shady spot but also easy and reliable elsewhere. 30cm spreading. Overall this plant is more compact and neater than some of the other Geranium macrorrhizum cultivars. This, combined with the lack of any pink shading makes ‘White-Ness’ very distinctive and charmingly refined.

The genus Geranium is very large, containing at least 420 separate species so it’s no wonder there are so many garden worthy plants to choose from. If we were to generalise, they are on the whole tough, long lived and largely die down to the ground in winter. They fall largely in the range 20-60cm tall and are generally spreading clump formers producing a mound of basal leaves. However, some species, such as Geranium tuberosum produce a forest of stems with no basal leaves and others such as Geranium ‘Ann Folkard’ produce fewer long trailing stems. They are stalwarts of the summer garden, making low mounds at the front of the border, creating carpeting weed supressing mats or scrambling up through roses or low shrubs. Their long flowering and subtle colours are valuable in so many ways.

Geraniums are suitable for a wide range of different growing conditions, tolerating all but the wettest of soils. Whilst there are Geraniums that are best suited specifically to sun and shade, most will tolerate sun or part shade. Geranium sylvaticum, Geranium nodosum, Geranium phaeum and Geranium macrorrhizum are particularly suited to growing in shady spots.

There is often confusion about which plants the name Geranium refers to, whether it is the cranesbills (Genus Geranium) or the Geraniums (Genus Pelargonium). The confusion arose in the 18th century when they were first being introduced to this country, when both Genera were included in the Genus Geranium. It was soon realised that they needed splitting and the Genus Pelargonium was created. However, as Pelargoniums were at the time the more popular plant, it is to these that the common name ‘geranium ‘ stuck. The confusion has persisted ever since.  The Genus ‘geranium’ is now refered to as ‘the cranesbills’, a reference to the long explosive dispersal mechanism (rostrum) attached to the seeds, or the ‘hardy geraniums’.

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