Pelargonium Galaxy Dark Red

The inter-specific Geranium Galaxy 'Dark Red' cultivar resulting from a series showing particularly vigorous growth with large semi-double flowers. It offers excellent performance in the garden and on the terrace or balcony. 'Dark Red' produces bright and vibrant dark red colours on dark green foliage marbled with brown. With an upright habit, the plant is robust and shows good resistance. This Pelargonium is in bloom from April until the first frost.

This inter-specific geranium, or hybrid, is a recent variety resulting from the cross-breeding between a Pelargonium peltatum, the ivy geranium, and a P. zonale, both plants from the geranium family native to South Africa. It combines the qualities of both parents. Always more floriferous and with rapid growth, Galaxy 'Dark Red' offers vigorous vegetation and forms a clump of 40 to 50 cm (16 to 20in) in all directions, with peltate, circular, dark green leaves marbled with brown, slightly fleshy and aromatic. The flowering, remarkably long and abundant, takes place from March to April until the first frost. The semi-double flowers are rounded and well open, in a dark red colour that is still quite vibrant.

Always more vigorous and floriferous, the florist geraniums surpass themselves from series to series. The Galaxy range offers the most robust varieties on the market. Generous and undemanding, it is a perfect plant for decorating pots for a large part of the year. But beyond balconies and terraces, plant them in sunny flower beds and borders. Plant them in mass to create a lasting and cheerful decoration throughout the summer. These plants tolerate water shortage quite well, which allows them to be associated with resistant annuals such as garden verbenas, cosmos, and zinnias, and to add dark foliage plants like those of morning glories to enhance them. In pots or hanging baskets, mix different varieties of geraniums for their various colours, or add periwinkles, violets, Carex or plants with silver foliage like artemisias or senecios.

Note: Please be aware that our young plug plants are professional products reserved for experienced gardeners: upon receipt, repot and store them under cover (veranda, greenhouse, cold frame...) at a temperature above 14°C (57.2°F) for a few weeks before being installed outdoors once the risk of frost is definitively avoided.