GERANIUM
Bright Cascade Geranium
A variety of plants of the genus Geranium, having leaves shaped like palms with pink or purplish flowers. Someplaces they are called cranesbill.
A variety of plants of the genus Pelargonium, from southern Africa and widely grown for their rounded, often variegated foliage and showy clusters of red, pink, or white flowers. They are also called storksbill.
A common name for some members of the family Geraniaceae, a group of herbs and small shrubs of moderate and subtropical regions. Their fruits are long and beak-shaped which gives them the popular names crane's-bill, the true geranium; heron's-bill, and stork's-bill. The American wild geranium, or wild crane's-bill, has five-petaled flowers that are rose-to-purple color and deeply forked leaves.
Geraniums are grown not only as ornamentals but for the extracted aromatic oils from their leaves and flowers that are used in flavorings and perfumes. Geranium oil is refreshing and cleansing and has a floral, sweet and fresh fragrance. It may be used in the treatment of oily skin, acne, cellulites, dull skin and lice.
Geraniums are classified in the division Magnoliophyta, class Magnoliopsida, order Geraniales, family Geraniaceae.
Propagation is by semi-ripe cuttings in summer, by seed or by division in autumn or spring.
Some kinds of geranium:
cranesbill, crane's bill — Cranesbills make up the genus Geranium of 422 species of annual, biennial, and perennial plants
rose geranium, sweet-scented geranium, Pelargonium graveolens — several southern African geraniums having fragrant 3- to 5-lobed leaves with pink flowers. A woody plant used for flavoring and in perfumery.
fish geranium, bedding geranium, zonal pelargonium, Pelargonium hortorum — an upright geranium having edged leaves with a broad color zone inside the border and white, pink or red flowers
ivy geranium, ivy-leaved geranium, hanging geranium, Cascade Geranium, Pelargonium peltatum — a commonly grown trailing South American plant with peltate leaves and rosy flowers. This semi-viney species is just right for cascading over walls, window boxes, raised planters, and any sloped area.
apple geranium, nutmet geranium, Pelargonium odoratissimum — geranium with round sweet smelling foliage and small white flowers
lemon geranium, Pelargonium limoneum — a geranium with lemon-scented leaves.
storksbill, heron's bill — Any plant of the genus Erodium, having fruit with a narrow beaklike tip.
 | Montevideo Geranium -
The Geranium Montevideo, ‘Pelargonium x hortorum,’ is a unique plant and produces beautiful salmon pink flowers. Providing a mass of season long color, these plants are commonly used as a bedding or container plant that is grown in almost every region of the country. The plants feature succulent leaves and stems. Geraniums should be planted in ordinary well-drained soil. Too much fertilization will result in excessive foliage with fewer flowers. To promote extra bushiness, the shoots should be pinched off. Deadheading of spend flowers will promote enhanced flowering.
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