Description
Very distinctive variegated chocolate-green chevron-marked leaves. Nodding, eggplant purple saucer-shaped flowers in late spring-early summer.
Geranium phaeum ‘Samobor’ Mourning widow Z 4-9
$12.95/barerootVery distinctive variegated chocolate-green chevron-marked leaves. Nodding, eggplant purple saucer-shaped flowers in late spring-early summer.
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Care: full sun-part shade in moist well-drained soil
Native: Northern Yugoslavia
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Native: central & southern EuropeNamed by Carl Heinrich Schultz (1805-1867)
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Native: Szechuan China
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