Ive grown it for several years, it only gets about 30cm tall and a few foot wide and it can flower in to december in a mild year where it...Read Mores still about 10c at that time of year. It has a long flowering period from may onwards but it does need cutting back mid-season when the growth has got scruffy. The big downside of this plant is that i have found orkney cherry can often die over winter and isnt very reliable. This can happen even in mild winters so i have assumed it doent like winter wetness and is a geranium that needs a well drained, dry position. Unfortunately this means you cant rely on it coming back in your border every year but i have continued with it as it flowers for a long time, often quite profusely, and the combination of the magenta pink flowers against the dark brown foliage looks good.
Beaver Falls, PA (Zone 6a) | December 2014 | neutral
Orkney Cherry is a wonderful plant but unfortunately I lost mine during the winter of 2014. It was colder and snowier than it had been he...Read Morere for years, maybe even a decade or two.
This hardy geranium has beautiful colored leaves amd a nice petite size just perfect for the front of the border. My plant bloomed from May til frost. What's not to love? I just wish it had been a bit hardier.
I hope to find another one to replace it. I looked last year but it was not available at all locally, and also seems hard to find on line.
I was very surprised when mine did not come back last spring because the plant was 3 years old and well established. But, I'm planning on trying Orkney Cherry again.
Said to bloom from May till September, with bloom increasing throughout the season.
This is a complex hybrid that combine...Read Mores the small bronze foliage and compact habit of G. x antipodeum (G. sessiliflorum x G. traversii) with the greater hardiness and heat tolerance of G. x oxonianum (G. endressii x G.
versicolor).
Forms a clump 10" tall and to 24" wide.
Prefers well-drained soil with neutral to alkaline pH. Excellent/sharp drainage will help with winter survival.
A few gardeners have claimed success with this plant in Z4 (Ontario, Iowa).
Produces mostly nonviable seed.
Bred in the Orkney Islands off Scotland by that prolific breeder of hardy geraniums, Alan Bremner.
Planted this last summer. Blooms periodically all summer in East Hampton, NY. Not a lot of blooms, but mine is in partial shade. Needs...Read More cutting back when it gets leggy. Will report back after this spring on its development.
-Jeff
(hamptonsgarden.com)
Just planted this summer, so haven't been thru winter yet....
BUT - this is the prettiest little thing. Leaves are quite ...Read Moresmaller than my other geraniums - each is only an inch across. They are a deep bronze, making flowers pop.
Three plants have only been in the ground a couple of weeks and it looks as if each is 1 1/2 times as wide as when planted.
Ive grown it for several years, it only gets about 30cm tall and a few foot wide and it can flower in to december in a mild year where it...Read More
Orkney Cherry is a wonderful plant but unfortunately I lost mine during the winter of 2014. It was colder and snowier than it had been he...Read More
Said to bloom from May till September, with bloom increasing throughout the season.
This is a complex hybrid that combine...Read More
Planted 2012 in Fargo, ND. Did not survive the winter.
Planted this last summer. Blooms periodically all summer in East Hampton, NY. Not a lot of blooms, but mine is in partial shade. Needs...Read More
Just planted this summer, so haven't been thru winter yet....
BUT - this is the prettiest little thing. Leaves are quite ...Read More
A new bronze foliage geranium wiht bright pink flowers. Blooms continuously from June-September.