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Geranium robustum

by Johan Wentzel

Plant Type
Shrub
Geranium robustum is a small robust shrub that can grow up to 1m tall.
This is a lovely small shrub for a mixed shrubbery or to be planted in containers. The lovely flowers attract butterflies to the garden.
Plant Description

Geranium robustum is a small robust shrub that can grow up to 1m tall. It has several stems from the base, silky and leafy above and bare, woody at the base. The leaves are 50-100mm large in diameter, 3/5/7 lobed, the lobed are deeply divided and the leaves are silky silvery hairy above and thickly hairy beneath borne on long stalks about 100mm long.  Geranium robustum's flowers are borne in terminal clusters of light purple flowers that are sometimes white in the centre on stalks about 60mm long covered in hairs, the flowers are borne between November to March.

Geranium robustum is a lovely small shrub for a mixed shrubbery or to be planted in containers. The lovely flowers attract butterflies to the garden.

Hardiness
Semi hardy
Position
Sun
Water Requirements
Moderate
Growth Rate
Fast
Flowering Time
Summer
Flower Colour
Purple
Soil
Loam
Plant Size
1m
Region
Free State, Lesotho
Habitat
On moist, shrubby mountain slopes near streams.
Grown by Wildflower Nursery
No

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