Geranium Calliope Rose Splash (Pelargonium) – Semi-Trailing Summer Bedding (Set of 3 or 6)

Geranium Calliope Rose Splash is a Calliope geranium, a cross between the zonal and ivy leaved types, grown for large semi double flowers that keep coming all summer.

Calliope plants are vigorous and free flowering, with a semi trailing to mounding habit that spills gently over the edge of a pot, a window box or a hanging basket. The blooms are rose pink with white splashes, so each flower head reads as two tones rather than one. Flowering runs from late spring until the first frost, so a single plant will carry a container through the whole season.

Each plant arrives as a large, well established root ball in a 1 litre pot, grown peat free, and most arrive in bud or already opening. Plant it in full sun or light shade in fertile, free draining soil or compost, water regularly but let the surface dry a little between waterings, and take off spent flowers to keep new ones forming. Geraniums are not hardy, so plant out after the frosts and lift the plant into a frost free place over winter if you want to keep it for another year.

Cultural Information

• Common Name: Geranium, interspecific pelargonium
• Fully Grown Height and Spread: Up to 60cm tall and 45cm wide where the growth is upright, or up to 30cm tall and 90cm wide where it trails
• Growth Habit: Semi trailing to mounding, vigorous
• Perfect For: Pots, containers, hanging baskets and window boxes
• Foliage: Rounded and green, with zonal markings
• Flowering Time: Late spring until the first frost
• Planting Position: Full sun or light shade. It copes with dry spells, with coastal wind and salt, and it is happy in a container.
• Soil Type: Fertile, free draining soil or compost
• Hardiness: Not hardy. Frost kills it outright, so lift it and keep it frost free over winter or buy again in spring.
• Maintenance: Low. Deadhead regularly and feed through the growing season
• Seasonal Interest: Spring, summer and autumn
• Type: Summer bedding, tender perennial