Description | Blushing Turtle Geranium (Geranium) A mounding hardy Geranium sanguineum with pink flowers and darker veins. |
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Pronunciation | (jer-AY-nee-um)(san-GWIN-ee-um) |
Plant Type | Perennials Hardy |
Hardiness Zone | 5-8 |
Sunlight | best in full sun, mostly sunny, some shade |
Moisture | average |
Soil & Site | average |
Flowers | pink, orchid pink with dark veins, 1.5 inch flowers, start blooming end of May-early June and last through out June, few blossoms sporadically throughout the season |
Fruit | distinctive beaked seed capsules, hence the common name of crane’s bill (geranium in Greek means crane) |
Leaves | deeply cut leaves, usually three lobed, may have red fall color |
Dimensions | 1.5-2 by 2 plus feet (HS), mounding growth habit |
Maintenance | I have found with most G. sanguineum cultivars in good growing conditions, some dead heading (can be tedious) and some cutting back is all that is needed. In conditions where the plants are stressed the foliage will become tattered and hard cutting back may be needed to shape the plant promote new foliage growth. Some reseeding may occur |
Propagation | division |
Cultivar Origin | "Blushing Turtle' is the result of a cross-pollination between an unnamed seedling selection of Geranium sanguineum (female parent) with either Geranium x oxonianum 'Julie Brennan' or an unnamed selection of Geranium asphodeloides (male parent). This cross-pollination took place in the summer of 1999 at Nannose Bay, British Columbia, Canada" (#144) |
Notes & Reference | #144-Missouri Botanical Gardens web site (www.missouribotanicalgarden.org) |