Pelargonium Mosquitaway Lizzy

This Geranium or Pelargonium 'Mosquitaway Lizzy' is an irresistible new variety, combining abundant and brightly coloured flowering with aromatic foliage. The plant is as attractive for its numerous small bicoloured single flowers, with a pinkish-white base maculated with purple-violet, as it is for its astonishingly crisp green tender foliage, which has a lemony scent that is said to repel mosquitoes. In any case, it's bright and long flowering period is a permanent decoration outdoors or in the veranda. Another delicious and easy-to-grow Pelargonium that one needs to protect from frost to find it intact in the spring.

Florist's Pelargoniums are perennial hybrids of the Geraniaceae family, in a large group called Pelargonium x domesticum. They are mostly derived from Pelargonium cucullatum, native to the southwest of the Cape Province in South Africa, with the contribution of various wild species. The 'Angel' type geranium group, which originated in the 1930s, brings together plants resulting from various crosses between Pelargonium crispum (with aromatic foliage) and florist's Pelargoniums, which are very floriferous. The Mosquitaway geranium, which is part of this group of hybrids, is a very recent variety that combines many qualities. It comes in two varieties, 'Eva' and 'Lizzy'. The plant forms a bushy and dense clump with a compact habit, medium-sized, about 35 cm (14in) tall and 30 cm (12in) wide. It produces a mass of single flowers from June to October. In 'Lizzy', each flower consists of two upper petals maculated with velvety violet, and three lower petals of a very pale pink. Its succulent stems bear small round leaves, quite thick, deeply veined, light green in colour. Their scent is reminiscent of lemon.

Florist's geraniums create lasting and cheerful displays throughout the summer. They prefer semi-shaded positions and coolness. These plants tolerate lack of light quite well, which allows them to be associated with hostas, ferns, impatiens, lobelias in incredible blues, or begonias. Create magnificent pots and hanging baskets by combining colours and foliage, either solid or variegated. The 'Mosquitaway Lizzy' variety can be a magnificent specimen in a veranda or in the house, throughout the year, especially when flowering is scarce, in winter.

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