Pelargonium Galaxy Violet

The Galaxy 'Violet' inter-specific Geranium, as its name doesn't quite indicate, offers beautiful fuchsia pink flowers, slightly bluish and intense. It is a cultivar derived from a series with particularly vigorous growth, with large semi-double flowers on dark green foliage marbled with brown. It performs excellently in the garden and on the terrace or balcony. With an upright habit, the plant is robust and shows good resistance. This Pelargonium flowers from April until the first frost.

This interspecific or hybrid geranium is a recent variety, resulting from the cross-breeding of a Pelargonium peltatum, the ivy-leaf geranium, and a P. zonale, both of which are plants from the geranium family native to South Africa. It combines the qualities of both parents. Always more floriferous and with rapid growth, Galaxy 'Violet' 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 remarkably long and abundant flowering occurs from March-April until the first frost. The semi-double flowers are rounded and well open, a vibrant and dark fuchsia pink tinged with blue.

Always more vigorous and floriferous, florist geraniums outdo themselves from series to series. The Galaxy range offers the most powerful varieties on the market. Generous and undemanding, it is a perfect plant for decorating pots for most 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 beautiful season. These plants tolerate water shortage quite well, combining them with resistant annuals such as garden verbenas, cosmos, and zinnias and adding dark foliage plants like those of morning glories to enhance them. In pots or hanging baskets, mix different varieties of geraniums for their varied colors, or add periwinkles, violets, Carex, or silver-leaved plants like artemisias or senecios.

Note: Please note that our plug plant young plants are professional products reserved for experienced gardeners: upon receipt, transplant 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 has definitively passed