Meadow Cranesbill Seeds | Slide Mouse
Keep soil slightly moist but not wet.
Meadow cranesbill seeds. If you intend to start plants from seed allow some pods to remain on the plant to mature in place. These easy to care perennials are best planted as a border and in containers. The common name cranes bill comes from the shape of the pointed seedpod. This species has a good show of large violet blue cup shaped flowers over a bushy mound of deeply cut green leaves.
The large purple flowers of meadow crane s bill turn into pointed bill like seed pods that give the plant its common name. Great for woodland gardens and for naturalizing in meadows. Seeds per gram origin ordering. This species tends to self seed freely and naturalizes very well.
Perennial geraniums often germinate over several months usually between 30 to 90 days at temperatures around 5 to 10 c 41 to 50 f. Sow the seeds 2 5cm 1in apart on the surface of the compost and cover seed with vermiculite sand or sieved compost after sowing. At the base of the rostrum are five fruit segments mericarps each containing one seed. Photo by lorna kring.
Perfect for underplanting roses and shrubs or as a groundcover. Collecting seed after the flowersare fertilised the petals fall and the base of the style rapidly lengthens and thickens to form a structure known as the rostrum the cranesbill. Seeds may be collected mid summer. Hardy geranium perennials crane s bill american meadows.
Appreciates a moist site. Excellent in a woodland garden. This clump forming perennial has lobed leaves that are deeply divided. Meadow crane s bill wildflower seed is found throughout most of the british isles in meadows on roadsides and banks especially in limestone areas.
Delightful large light purple flowers. Deadheading keeps the plant compact but you ll also lose seedheads this way. Performs best in full sun or part shade in well drained soils. It prefers but is not exclusive to calcareous soils.
Cut back hard after flowering to rejuvenate the foliage. Meadow cranesbill geranium pratense meadow perennial especially of damp soils. Hardy geranium are the true perennial geraniums with long blooming seasons and neat growth habit. Stem rooting allows some plants to develop roots in water and cranesbill is one of those plants.
Wild geraniums are usually called cranesbill because of the resemblance between the long ripe fruit and the beak or bill of a bird. Full shade is tolerated.