Pelargonium Galaxy Violet
Pelargonium Galaxy Violet
Pelargonium peltatum x zonale Galaxy® Violet
Horseshoe geranium, Zonal pelargonium
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Description
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
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Botanical data
Pelargonium
peltatum x zonale
Galaxy® Violet
Geraniaceae
Horseshoe geranium, Zonal pelargonium
Cultivar or hybrid
Planting and care
You can plant your Galaxy geraniums in the ground or a pot. If you want to plant them in the ground, wait until the last heavy frosts have passed. In the meantime, you can pre-cultivate them in a pot in a warm and bright place to accelerate their growth.
The geraniums will flower for an extended period. Plant them in a sunny location or partial shade, protected from strong winds. They need light and humus-bearing soil, but above all, it needs to be well-draining, as they tolerate a lack of water but not stagnant humidity. Do not overwater them at the beginning of the growing season, as they are sensitive to excess moisture. They tolerate drought well but need regular watering during hot summer periods. Geraniums are frost-sensitive (minimum -2°C (28.4°F)).
Very floriferous and fast-growing, they are hungry plants. We recommend feeding them with a liquid geranium fertiliser once or twice a week during growth. Remove faded flowers and dry leaves as they appear to keep them looking nice and to prolong the flowering.
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Hardiness is the lowest winter temperature a plant can endure without suffering serious damage or even dying. However, hardiness is affected by location (a sheltered area, such as a patio), protection (winter cover) and soil type (hardiness is improved by well-drained soil).
The flowering period indicated on our website applies to countries and regions located in USDA zone 8 (France, the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Netherlands, etc.)
It will vary according to where you live:- In zones 9 to 10 (Italy, Spain, Greece, etc.), flowering will occur about 2 to 4 weeks earlier.
- In zones 6 to 7 (Germany, Poland, Slovenia, and lower mountainous regions), flowering will be delayed by 2 to 3 weeks.
- In zone 5 (Central Europe, Scandinavia), blooming will be delayed by 3 to 5 weeks.
In temperate climates, pruning of spring-flowering shrubs (forsythia, spireas, etc.) should be done just after flowering.
Pruning of summer-flowering shrubs (Indian Lilac, Perovskia, etc.) can be done in winter or spring.
In cold regions as well as with frost-sensitive plants, avoid pruning too early when severe frosts may still occur.
The planting period indicated on our website applies to countries and regions located in USDA zone 8 (France, United Kingdom, Ireland, Netherlands).
It will vary according to where you live:
- In Mediterranean zones (Marseille, Madrid, Milan, etc.), autumn and winter are the best planting periods.
- In continental zones (Strasbourg, Munich, Vienna, etc.), delay planting by 2 to 3 weeks in spring and bring it forward by 2 to 4 weeks in autumn.
- In mountainous regions (the Alps, Pyrenees, Carpathians, etc.), it is best to plant in late spring (May-June) or late summer (August-September).
The harvesting period indicated on our website applies to countries and regions in USDA zone 8 (France, England, Ireland, the Netherlands).
In colder areas (Scandinavia, Poland, Austria...) fruit and vegetable harvests are likely to be delayed by 3-4 weeks.
In warmer areas (Italy, Spain, Greece, etc.), harvesting will probably take place earlier, depending on weather conditions.
The sowing periods indicated on our website apply to countries and regions within USDA Zone 8 (France, UK, Ireland, Netherlands).
In colder areas (Scandinavia, Poland, Austria...), delay any outdoor sowing by 3-4 weeks, or sow under glass.
In warmer climes (Italy, Spain, Greece, etc.), bring outdoor sowing forward by a few weeks.