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All Plants on this page are in Trade Quart Pots (Qt.) which are 1.68Pints (794 ml) liquid measure. 

(Similar to a true nursery quart on top width and height, but tapered to a smaller bottom for lighter shipping.)

$8.99 Qt. 

Gaillardia x aristata 'Oranges & Lemons' PP17092   Blanketflower   Zone:  3-8   

A color breakthrough for Gaillardias!  'Oranges & Lemons' looks just like it sounds!  Huge, peachy orange blooms with yellow tips and a gold cone in the center.  The blue-green foliage sets of the unique blooms.  With a much better habit, it's more upright, less sprawling.  A must have for the sunny garden with a continuous eruption of blooms all summer from this Native Hybrid  with all the vigor of it's native ancestry.  Drought tolerant like all Gaillardias.

Soil:  Well-drained   H: 18-24"IB   W: 11-18"  B/M:  Orange and yellow/6-8

$8.99 Qt. 

Gaillardia x 'Fanfare' PP 15, 892    Blanketflower      Zone: 3-9     

Quite possibly -- no, almost surely, the most amazing Gaillardia in horticulture history and it will just leave the Perennial world with it's mouth ajar!  Discovered by Richard Reed in the UK, this well-branched plant is covered from June thru August with absolutely astounding 3" flowers.  Each flower petal is actually a miniature 'trumpet' shaped bloom attached directly to the central cone.  The florets are red at the base, gradually changing to bright yellow as the trumpet flares out at the tip. A cross, probably between G. aristata & G. pulchella

Soil:  Well-drained   H: 15"  W: 12"   B/M:  Red w/ gold/6-8

$8.99 Qt. 

Gaillardia x grandiflora Summer's Kiss' PPAF'       Blanketflower      Zone: 3-8     

'Summer's Kiss' is a gorgeous soft apricot with a deeper sunny-gold blush on strong stems. Blooms from early summer all season long if deadheaded!  And you should find seedling's that bounce around here and there in your garden to brighten up other spots.

Soil:  Well-drained   H: 18"  W: 12"   B/M:  Apricot w/ gold/7-9

Galium mollugo      Fasle Baby's Breath, Hedge Bedstraw            Zone: 3-9

A European introduction brought to this country by the colonists for it's fluffy foliage which they used for bedding both for themselves and their livestock.  In bloom, it resembles a 2-3' tall Baby's Breath but doesn't demand the precise, well-drained soil that Gypsophila does. 

Soil: Well-drained       H:2-3'  W: 2-3'     B/M: White/5-9

$7.99 Qt. 

Galium odoratum (Asperula)       Sweet Woodruff      Zone: 3-8     

A favorite ground-cover for shady locations with whorls of leaves & fragrant white flowers. Often used in 'May Wine'. Gets ragged in summer during droughts -- just mow it! Will take full sun if well-watered. Can be inter-planted with Vinca minor for longer, two-toned flowering.

Soil:  Any, but moist best   H: 12-18"  W:  Indef.    B/M:  White/5-6

Dear Lazy SS Farm, the plants arrived on Thursday and look robust and happy.   Thank you!

Karen in Allentown, PA

$7.99 Qt.  

Galtonia candicans    Summer Hyacinth    Zone:  6-8   

Pendulous, brilliant white flowers on 24"-48" stems every Summer. Native to the Cape Province of South Africa, it grows well in average garden soil and appreciates good drainage and full sun. You may find self-sown seedlings in the bed where it resides.   Stunning in mass.  Atypical Roots

Soil:  Well-drained   H: 24-48" IB  W: 8"    B/M: White/7-9

$8.99 Qt.  

Gaultheria procumbens       Wintergreen      Zone: 3-8    

Native woodland plant with simple, evergreen, serrated, dark shiny green leaves.  Produces the famed wintergreen odor when crushed.  Leaves are whorled in a cluster at the tips of the plants.  White flowers in July are followed by red berries, 1/2" in August to September.   Red tinted winter leaves.   Our cloan of this plant is ASTOUNDING!  Huge, huge, huge berries! At least 1/2" when many forms of this plant have 1/4" berries.

Soil:  Moist to dry BUT very acid!    H: 4-6"  W: SLOWLY indef.       B/M: White/July   

New 5/25

$8.99 Qt.  

Gazania rigens 'Variegata'   Variegated Treasure Flower  Zone:  8B-10   

A tough, low-growing, creeping plant with cream and green lance-shaped leaves and golden daisy-like flowers of orange, yellow, gold with brown centers.  The 'Treasure Plant' is a coastal species that grows abundantly along the east coast of Queensland, South Africa.  Drought tolerant when established.  This is Tender Perennial in most areas, often sold as an annual and worth growing in colder areas because of the Non-Stop Blooms.

Soil:  Well-drained    H: 9-12" (18" IB)  W: 9-12"      B/M: Gold/5-10

As you'll soon see, we're just nuts about Hardy Geraniums (which have nothing to do with 'Annual Geraniums' or Pelargonums.)  They're, by in large, tough dependable and beautiful.  Some make superb weed-suppressing ground covers.  With some choosing, you can have geraniums blooming almost non-stop the whole season.  If you don't have Geraniums in your garden, you're missing out on one of the best Perennials available.  We are indebted to Trevor Bath and Joy Jones who wrote the Timber Press book The Gardener's Guide to Growing Hardy Geraniums.   A lot of our information comes from this excellent book.   

$8.99 Qt. 

Geranium 'Brookside'    Brookside Cranesbill,  Zone: (3)4-9  

Rich sapphire blue flowers are produced in late spring on the 2' wide clumper, thanks to the parentage of G. pratense. The color really glows when set next to golden foliaged plants. If you have killed G. 'Johnson's Blue', try this one... much easier to please, the form is quite similar, but not floppy. The foliage is deeply serrated like lace doilies. The BEST BLUE. 

Soil: Moist but well-drained   H: 24-30" W: 24"       B/M: Blue 6-7+ 

$7.99 Qt. 

Geranium 'Dilys'    Dilys Cranesbill    Zone: 4-8  

Dilys forms mounds up to 10 inches tall and 3-4 feet wide! The flowers are a soft purple with deep veins and last from July until October. Its growth habit is such that it weaves in & around other plants or rocks. Good ground cover or for hanging baskets or over walls.  Destined for great popularity!  We are just crazy about Dilys.  It never stopped blooming on the bench the entire summer.

Soil: Well drained      H:10"  W: 36-48"      B/M: Soft purple 7-10 

The mountainous areas of southern Europe was the original home of G. macrorrhizums.  It's one of the best ground cover plants, spreading by fleshy underground rhizome making dense mate 12-18" across.  The broadly lobed, rounded leaves are aromatic, fussy and a bit sticky (but not unpleasantly so).  They take sun and yet tolerate dry shade well.  They smell like Christmas to me!  In the dead heat of summer, when it's 100 degrees, I can pluck a leaf of a G. macrorrhizum, smell it and I just feel cooler somehow!  I supposed, to be precise, it smells a bit like a Cedar tree.  Fairly evergreen in winter, at least here in zone 7 and with red tinted leaves.  One online source suggests that they will grow in Zone 9 and 10 on the West Coast (but not the East).

Now, for the confusion.  These are just totally mixed up in the trade.  If you search Google Image for Ingwersen's Variety, you will see every color from pale lilac pink (which is correct) to hot pink which is incorrect.  

If you search for G. Spessart, you will find almost white (which is correct) to pink (which is incorrect). 

Our basis for correctness on color is from the Timber Press book Hardy Geraniums by Trevor Bath & Joy Jones.

$7.99 Qt.  

Geranium macrorrhizum 'Ingwersen's Variety'   Groundcover Cranesbill    Zone: 3-8     

Blooms May-June & sporadically thereafter. Apple scented, light green, glossy leaves turn bronze & scarlet in autumn. Drought tolerant when established. Semi-evergreen. Rhizomatous, quick spreader. Great Ground Cover plant. Found by Walter Ingwersen on Mt. Kopriunik in Yugoslavia in 1929. AKA, Geranium 'Walter Ingwersen'

Soil: Any well-drained        H: 12" ( 20" IB)  W: 24" +     B/M: Soft pink 5-6 + 

$7.99 Qt.  

Geranium macrorrhizum 'Spessart'      White Groundcover Cranesbill      Zone: 3-8     

Compact, carpeting, useful as weed-suppressing ground cover. Apple scented leaves turn bronze & scarlet in autumn. Semi-evergreen. Drought tolerant when established. Rhizomatous, quick spreader. THIS IS THE TRUE PLANT w/ a *white bloom (not pink) & pink sepals from Dr. Hans Simon. 

Soil: Any well-drained        H: 12" ( 20" IB)  W: 24" +     B/M: White*/ 5-6 + 

$9.99 Qt.  

Geranium macrorrhizum 'Variegatum'    Variegated Bigroot Geranium        Zone: 3-8     

All the characteristics of the other Geranium macrorrhizums but with an additional 'delicious' attribute -- it's variegated!  So even when it's not in bloom, it has something to offer.  Creamy white edges and streaks on the mid- green leaves.   The Magenta flowers have huge rose-red calyces that give this Geranium a gorgeous distinctive look (and this is true for all the G. macrorrhizums as well.) 

Soil: Any well-drained        H: 12" (20" IB)  W: 24" +      B/M: Magenta/ 5-6 + 

$7.99 Qt.  

Geranium maculatum    American Cranesbill      Zone: 4-8     

A sweet Eastern woodland native that perks up a shady area in early spring.  Upward, saucer shaped 1 to 1 1/2" rosey-lilac flowers in spring for 6-7 weeks!  Needs adequate moisture or will yellow and/or go Summer Dormant.  Deeply cut, palmately 5-lobed, dark green leaves (to 6" across). Blooms give way to distinctive, beaked seed capsules which give rise to the common name of crane's bill.

Soil: Ave. to moist well-drained, ACID    H: 6-8"(18-24" IB)   W:12-18"     B/M: Rosy lilac/ 5-6       

$8.49 Qt.  

Geranium maculatum 'Espresso     American Cranesbill, Expresso      Zone: 4-8     

A bronze foliaged form of our Native Geranium. We originally acquired a plug tray of it at the PPA meeting this in 2002 where new perennials are introduced then auctioned as a fundraiser. So we were one of the first to introduce this beauty to the trade.

Soil: Ave. to moist well-drained, ACID      H: 6-8"(18-24" IB)    W: 12-18"      B/M: Rosy lilac/ 5-6   

$8.99 Qt. 

A Must  Have!

Geranium 'Nimbus'     Hardy Hybrid Geranium     Zone: 5-8      

A sterile hybrid between Geranium collinum and Geranium 'Kasmir Purple' which puts on a fabulous display of violet blooms with darker purple veins with spaced petals and white centers.  The fine, cut-leaf foliage is large, 'casually arranged' and the starry violet flowers just float above it.  But most of all, it blooms from MID-MAY TO MID-OCTOBER, especially in cooler areas!  

Soil:  Well-drained    H: 10-18"( 24"IB)  W: 24-36"   B/M:  Violet/5-10

$8.99 Qt. 

Geranium 'Patricia'    Giant Cranesbill       Zone: (4)5-8       cool areashot areas

Big, bold dark green foliage. Bright pink-magenta flowers with a black, star-shaped center. EVERBLOOMING -- around 7 months in our area. But more fabulous -- it's huge -- it's more like a shrub! There is nothing else like this Geranium. Really!  Clean, deep green foliage is excellent.   Hybrid by Alan Bremner of G. endressii x G. psilostemon.  Will often make it in Zone 4 if sited well but doesn't do well south of Zone 8.

Soil: Any well-drained    H: 24-36" W: 24-36"    B/M: Pink-magenta 5-6 + 

Geranium phaeum   Mourning Widow

This native of the mountains of Europe was voted the most popular Geranium in 1991 by the members of the Hardy Plant Society's Hardy Geranium Group because of its ability to grow in deep, dry shade -- as in under evergreens!  It's common name, Mourning Widow, refers to it's unusually dark, somber nodding bloom.  AKA Dusky Cranesbill.  This is a strong-growing plant reaching up to 30" and making generous clumps of shallowly divided foliage, heavily toothed with 7-9 lobes.  The rather flat flowers are a dark maroon, almost black with a tiny point at the tip of each petal and also, with a small white area in the center.  

$7.99 Qt.  

Geranium phaeum 'Samobor'  (Not Samobar)   Mourning Widow    Zone: 3-8     

Samobor has typical G. phaeum flowers, but the large leaves are arrestingly zoned with dark brown. Stunning with gold hostas. Wonderful for foliage effect. Prefers moist soil but tolerates deep, dry shade. Planted in isolation, reseeds reasonably true. Cut back after flowering for renewed, beautiful foliage. Easy to grow selections from Croatia. Self seeds true (with the dark leaf zone) if no other G. phaeums are around.

Soil: Rich, moist but well-drained      H: 25-30" W: 18-20"      B/M: Dark maroon/ 5-6 

$7.99 Qt.

Geranium pratense     Meadow Cranesbill     Zone: 5-7    

One of the larger geraniums, w/ 4-6" wide, shiny-green, serrated leaves. Because of the plant's height, it often needs support to remain upright -- plant w/ leggy azaleas, etc. Self seeds but if you don't want babies, shear when the flowers are past their best. Dense clump-forming habit. 

Soil: Moist but well-drained       H: 24-36"  W:      B/M: Dark purple-blue 4-5 

$10.99 Qt. 

Geranium pratense 'Midnight Reiter'    Burgundy Foliage Geranium    Zone: 5-7     

"In the Northwest, more jaws have dropped over this plant than any other. We are talking about a DEEP purple leaved, semi-dwarf gem of a plant with large dark lilac flowers. Holds its color well. A tissue culture breakthrough! Summer dormant in hot areas.* A slow-grower that is perfect for the trough or rock garden. Plants are sensitive and require extra care."  Terra Nova  

Soil:  Moist but well-drained    H:6" (9"IB)  W: 12"       B/M: Dark lilac/4-5

$7.99 Qt.  

Geranium renardii 'Phillippe Vapelle'     Cranesbill        Zone: 4-7(8)    

This Cranesbill has purplish blue flowers with dark veins in striking harmony with it's appealing, rough textured, gray-green foliage. The foliage is quite different than most Hardy Geraniums and quite lovely. Must have well-drained soil.

Soil: Well-drained     H: 10-12" W:  10-12"     B/M: Purplish blue/ 6-7 

$9.99 Qt. 

Geranium ruprechtii    Russian Cranesbill      Zone: 6-8    

A Perennial Cranesbill to 18 in. high with much divided basal leaves; small sprays of comparatively large, luminous dark violet-blue (like denim) flowers with dark violet (almost black) stamens.  A RARE species from Russia and the Caucasus where it grows in meadows.  Similar to G. pratense but not so tall.  Hardy to at least -10 degrees.

Soil:  Well-drained       H: 18"  W: 18"     B/M: Violet-blue/6-7

$8.99 Qt. 

Geranium 'Rozanne' PP12175  G. Rosanne (but inc.)  Hardy Cranesbill    Zone: *(3)4-8   

Possibly the most in demand Geranium in the trade and with good reason!  It's the Geranium of the Millennium according to the President of Blooms of Bressingham, Adrian Bloom! Has large single violet-blue flowers with white centers, appearing from June until the first frosts. A combination of a long flowering period and vigor makes it a winner even if the blooms weren't riveting.  Huge 2 1/2" blooms. G. wallichanum 'Buxtons Variety' and G. himalayense.  *Dr. Leonard Perry suggest Zone 3-4 on the cold end and we defer to his expert opinion.

Soil: Well-drained    H: 18-20"  W: 18-24"      B/M:   Violet-blue/ May thru Fall! 

New 2/22

$7.99 Qt. 

Geranium sanguineum   Bloody Cranesbill      Zone: 3-9   

Cultivars come and cultivars go.  The same with color.  One years white's in and the next year not but honestly, sometimes it's just hard to beat the species!    Especially this one!  Plus it's a specific size that might be just the size you need!  Not dwarf, not huge but maybe, just right!

Soil: Well-drained    H: 8-12"  W: 15"       B/M: Rose/Spring

$8.99 Qt. 

Geranium sanguineum 'Album'    Bloody Cranesbill      Zone: 3-9   

We had it for years.  It's easy, dependable, then we got caught up in all the hot new hybrids and we discontinued it for awhile.  Well, of course, in 2003, G. sang. Alba (and all of the G. sanguineum) just "showed itself" in our well-rained-on gardens and everybody wanted it!  So it's Back by Popular Demand!  

Soil: Well-drained    H: 8-12"  W: 15"       B/M: White/Spring

$7.99 Qt. 

Geranium sanguineum 'Max Frei'     Dwarf Bloody Cranesbill      Zone: 3-9   

Compact, mounding dark green foliage covered in carmine pink saucer-shaped flowers. One of the most compact of the 'Bloody Cranesbill' -- Perennials Geraniums. Makes a tidy edger, great in troughs, perfect in the Rockery. Deeply lobed, foliage turns red in Fall. Cut back after bloom for re-bloom, often several times.

Soil: Moist but well-drained        H: 6-9"  W: 9-12"       B/M:  Carmine rose/ May-June+

$7.99 Qt.

Geranium sanguineum 'Nanum'    Dwarf Bloody Cranesbill  Zone: 3-9   

A delightful, dwarf beautifully compact form of this classic Geranium.  Beautiful in trough or pot where the 2" tall but 18" wide foliage will creep down over the edge.  There very cold hardy, so even in zone 5 they can live in a pot.  The 1/2' Magenta blooms look huge compared to the dwarf form.  Also sold as G. sanguineum 'Little Bead' but our form is at the low end of the height scale where some reach 4".

Soil: Well-drained        H: 2"  W: 18"       B/M: Magenta/May-June+ 

$7.99 Qt.

Geranium sanguineum 'Striatum' (Lancastriense or Prostratum)  Bloody Cranesbill  Zone: 3-9   

A clump-forming perennial which forms a spreading mound of foliage.  Deeply-lobed, dark green leaves which often turns attractive shades of red in autumn, set off 5 petaled, light pink blooms with dark pink veins in May & June.  Shearing after flowering may encourage additional light bloom.  Makes a wonderful drought tolerant groundcover.

Soil: Well-drained        H: 10"  W: 18-24"       B/M: Light pink w/ dark veins/May-June+ 

$7.99 Qt.

Geranium sanguineum 'Vision'      Pink Bloody Cranesbill         Zone: 3-9   

Much larger than the typical G. sanguineum, generally 15" tall and 24" wide with 1" wide purplish-red blooms in spring to early summer for 6-7 weeks.  Cut plants back to about 4" after the first heavy flush of blooms and you with improve the foliage and encourage rebloom.

Soil: Well-drained       H: 12-18"   W: 12-24"     B/M: Purplish red/5-6 

$8.99 Qt.  

Geranium shikokianum      Japanese Marbled Geranium or Cranesbill           Zone: 5-

A hardy and unknown Geranium species from Japan with rounded, shallowly lobed leaves.  Flared funnel shaped flowers are rose-pink with a white center and veined with dark purple over compact clumps of attractively glossy, marbled gray on green foliage on trailing stems.  Blooms on and off from July through fall.  Occasionally a lucky recipient will get a twice cut frilly form which makes each bloom appear to have 15 petals instead of 5.  We know they were in our seed mix and will save them for parent stock if we see them bloom BUT you might get one if your order ships before bloom time!  Needs adequate moisture during the growing season but well-drained in winter.  Hardy to - 15 degrees C.

Soil:  MOIST but well-drained     H:12-16"   W:     B/M: Rose pink/July ++ thru September

$7.99 Qt.  

Geranium 'Stanhoe'    Cranesbill      Zone: 6-9  

"This splendid hybrid (G. traversii var. elegans x G. sessiliflorum var. novae-zelandiae) has gorgeous rounded, silver-dollar-sized, grey-green leaves on a compact clump to 2' wide. Stunning in the sunny rock garden with blush-pink blooms in Spring. One of the most popular Geraniums in Northern California. A great groundcover in the PNW."  Terra Nova.  Slowly stoloniferous.

Soil:  Well-drained        H: 3"(5"IB) W.30"       B/M:  Blush Pink/ 4-6

$7.99 Qt.  

Geranium 'Sue Crug'     Hardy Geranium     Zone: 6-9     

Rosy pink flowers w/ dark eyes & veins, cover this low growing geranium all summer on long stems that don't take root but 'retreat' at the end of the summer. A 'Weaver' that fills in space but ultimately remains in a clump. A complex hybridization produced this low care, insect and disease resistant. A larger bloom than the average geranium. 

Soil: Well-drained       H: 18" W: 18"       B/M: Rosy pink 5-10 

$8.99 Qt.  

Geranium 'Tiny Monster'     Hardy Cranesbill     Zone: 5-8   

A new Geranium to the trade with what we think is just a great name!  From the gardens of Germany's Countess Helen Von Stein's Nursery and grower Rolf Offenthal comes this hybrid between G. psilostemon and G. sanguineum.  With very cutleaf green foliage, up to 24" wide, it's topped all summer with lavender/magenta flowers that are over an inch wide.  Forms a vigorous sprawling mat of blooms. Widely available in Germany, it's hard to find here.

Soil:  Well-drained   H: 10"  W: 24"   B/M: Lavender-magenta/6-10  (All summer!)

$7.99 Qt.  

Geranium wlassovianum    Asian Cranesbill      Zone: 3-8      cool zones in hot areas

A 12-15" tall bushy grower with beautiful, soft greyish hairy leaves & dark purple spots. Distinctive leaves are sharply cut & turn a beautiful reddish color in Fall. Flowers in late season w/ dusky magenta-purple or sometimes pink w/ dark veins. Native from Mongolia & China. Takes sun well if soil is well-watered.  This unknown Geranium really, really should be used more.  Wonderful furry leaves.

Soil: Rich, moist but well-drained       H: 12-15" W: 24-36"        B/M: Magenta purple 8-10 

Geranium x cantabrigiense:   An intermediate hybrid cranesbill derived from crosses of the white forms of G. dalmaticum & G. macrorrhizum.  Aromatic, lemony foliage is wonderful. They don't like winter wet soil.  Tough enough to live under a maple tree AND look good!  If you need a groundcover you REALLY should look at these plants.  And even if you don't need a Groundcover per se, they're easily controlled when it gets as big as you want.  Or you can move a 'chunk' to a new place.

$7.99 Qt.  

Geranium x cantabrigiense 'Biokovo'       Biokovo Hardy Cranesbill   Zone:4-7(8)  

Similar to 'Spessart', white w/ a touch of pink at the petal base & pink stamens, appears pale pink from a distance. Leaves slightly lighter green & a bit larger & more suitable where a large mass is required. Shiny green leaves turn mahogany in winter. Hanging baskets! Makes a great, non-aggressive Evergreen Groundcover.  Beautiful, even in winter when the foliage takes on burgundy hues..

Soil: Rich, moist or Well-drained        H: 8-12" W: 5-30"        B/M: Lt. Pink 5-7 

$7.99 Qt.