Geranium Picotee Hybrid Mix

Shhh -- this fantastic new Geranium isn't really a picotee, but your admiring friends don't have to know that! The large, bright blooms in 5 colors have such a huge white eye that the color is "edged" around the tips of the petals, looking for all the world like a picotee! You'll have plenty of time to study these beautiful blooms, too, because they are among the earliest- and longest-blooming Geraniums in the world!

Picotee Hybrid Mix is a totally new look for Pelargoniums, and it's got the vigor and flower power to back up its pretty face! In our trial gardens here in South Carolina, it sprang up a week or two sooner than others, then outlasted them all through extreme heat, drought, and rain as the summer progressed. This is an excellent Geranium for the garden -- it's tough enough to take whatever Nature chooses to dish out! But its blooms are so drop-dead gorgeous, you'll want to pot it up for up-close enjoyment, too! What a nice problem to have -- a Geranium that looks great everywhere!

The flowers are just 1 to 1½ inches across, but they are borne by the dozen in 4- to 4½-inch heads. Colors include cherry, red, rose, salmon, and violet, all pushed to the edges of the petals by the large, crisp white "eye"! Banked by large, soft-textured foliage with great zonal (dark) markings, this Geranium is stylish, yet equally at home in the chaotic annual bed or the formal patio! And now there are 3 more varieties from this series to enjoy -- Ice Orange, Ice Rose, and Ice Red, with big 5-inch blooms on slightly more compact plants!

Sow the seed indoors in late winter, and pinch the young plants as they grow to encourage more side-shoots and better branching. Pkt is 10 seeds.