Geranium ‘Rozanne’ (Geranium ‘Jolly Bee’)

Geranium ‘Rozanne’ (Geranium ‘Jolly Bee’)

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Geranium ‘Rozanne’ (Geranium ‘Jolly Bee’) =’Gerwat’. (Geranium himalayense x Geranium wallichianum ‘Buxton’s Variety’). A new introduction with very large, well rounded flowers, each a rich blue with a white central eye and dark red veining. Sends out sprawling, branching stems from a tight crown which mound up to at least  1m across and 45cm high, Flowers start in June and can go on right until November, at their height covering the whole mound. If needed flowering can be refreshed by chopping the stems half back mid season. Good strong constitution and a long flowering season. Good Autumn colour. Most resembles a more robust version of its parent Geranium ‘Buxton’s Variety’

Despite all its accolades, Geranium ‘Rozanne’ started life modestly as a chance find. Rozanne Waterer and her husband, Donald, spotted an unusual looking seedling in 1998 at the bottom of their garden in Kilve in Somerset. After it flowered the next year from June to November with large blue flowers they took it to Adrian Bloom who identified it as a new hybrid. It was named after Mrs Waterer and has since been named Plant of the Centenary at the Chelsea Flower Show 2013. It made it’s debut at Chelsea in 2000.

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Geranium ‘Rozanne’ (Geranium ‘Jolly Bee’) =’Gerwat’. (Geranium himalayense x Geranium wallichianum ‘Buxton’s Variety’)

Geranium ‘Rozanne’  (Geranium  ‘Jolly Bee’) is a new introduction with very large, well rounded flowers, each a rich blue with a white central eye and dark red veining. Sends out sprawling, branching stems from a tight crown which mound up to at least  1m across and 45cm high, Flowers start in June and can go on right until November, at their height covering the whole mound. If needed flowering can be refreshed by chopping the stems half back mid season. Good strong constitution and a long flowering season. Good Autumn colour. Most resembles a more robust version of its parent Geranium ‘Buxton’s Variety’

Despite all its accolades, Geranium ‘Rozanne’ started life modestly as a chance find. Rozanne Waterer and her husband, Donald, spotted an unusual looking seedling in 1998 at the bottom of their garden in Kilve in Somerset. After it flowered the next year from June to November with large blue flowers they took it to Adrian Bloom who identified it as a new hybrid. It was named after Mrs Waterer and has since been named Plant of the Centenary at the Chelsea Flower Show 2013. It made it’s debut at Chelsea in 2000.

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 suppressing 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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