Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 136) Geranium Pratense

I purchased seeds for Geranium pratense “Purple Haze.” I think the packet was 5 seeds and I ended up with three plants, two purplish ones and one green one. This was in 2018. I planted them together in the memory garden. The plain green plant is thriving. The purple ones lag seriously behind but their foliage is really quite striking. I may just have to move the green one so it doesn’t crowd them out and embarrass Purple Haze’s weak growth.

For 2020, I will rearrange these plants to give them more room to spread out, feed them well, and harvest some seeds if there are any. So far, this variety has not proven to be weedy or seedy at all, so that is another excellent trait.