Geraniums (Crane's-bills)

Geranium aristatum £4
A subtly beautiful Balkan relative of G. phaeum, with the same back-swept petals, but this time in pale lilac heavily marked much darker. Greyish foliage, dying away in winter. 60cm.
Geranium 'Blue Cloud' £4.50
Blue geraniums are too many and too similar. This is quite distinctive with pale blue flowers, veined crimson over a long season; height 50cm.
Geranium 'Blue Sunrise' £4
Young leaves in spring are bright yellow, and continue yellow tinged into early summer. Mid-size blue flowers.
Geranium 'Buckland Beauty' £3.75
Low growing, but not small, with bronzed leaves and aggressive deep magenta flowers of endressii type. It is a beauty, not another of those mingy, murky-leaved things.
Geranium x cantabrigiense 'Berggarten' £4
Unusually in this ground covering hybrid, the flowers are a solid pink, not a pale or veiny colour.
Geranium 'Distant Hills' £4
Alan Bremner's pratense x collinum has lilac flowers veined pink over a very long season. The overall effect is a light grey-blue. 60cm. I really don't want too many pratense hybrids, but this is a fine plant.
Geranium 'Dusky Crûg' £4
Has more go to it than the usual brown leaved ones, having oxonianum as a parent. Low, with good sized soft pink flowers. Sun, drainage.
Geranium 'Elworthy Eyecatcher' £5
Good sized shiny light magenta flowers over a very long season. 60cm ish. A good plant, still uncommon. Thanks to Jenny and Mike 'Elworthy Cottage' Spiller.
Geranium himalayense 'Derrick Cook' £4.50
A very good form of this low clumper. Large flowers are ice blue and veined, white from any distance.
Geranium ibericum 'White Zigana' £4.50
A Turkish collection of this familiar hairy-leaved species, with white rather than blue flowers.
Geranium  'Jean Armour' £4
You might not want to replace dear old 'Mavis Simpson', but if you don't have Mavis, I'd go for Jean instead.
Geranium libani x ibericum £4
In effect, an ibericum with dark, inky violet flowers. Leaves often age red.
Geranium maculatum 'Elizabeth Ann' £4
Brown tinted foliage and pale pink flowers in spring. Height 30cm or so.
Geranium maculatum 'Silver Buttons' £4.50
Essentially a white maculatum with fringed petals. Rare, and we can't trace its origin. Thanks to John Newbold.
Geranium nodosum 'Julie's Velvet' £4
A great species, quickly forming low (to 30cm) clumps with rather shiny green leaves and nice purple flowers in summer, tolerating rather dry shade. If you don't grow 'Whiteleaf', 'Svelte Lilac' or 'Swish Purple', this is probably the cultivar you want, richer in colour than any of those, but still with a paler margin to the petal. If you do, well, it's not that different...
Geranium 'Orion' AGM £4.50
Grown on the recommendation of the Wynn-Joneses of Crûg Farm, this is now our favourite of the many blue pratense-type plants. Big flowers of a clear deepish blue. 50cm or so.
Geranium phaeum 'Blue Shadow' £4.50
About as blue as phaeum gets.
Geranium phaeum 'Margaret Wilson' £4.50
Very distinctive fine, creamy white net-variegation across the leaf surface, violet flowers. It's the leaves you want, so cut the flower stems back right after flowering, or even before. Rumour had it that the variegation comes through in seedlings, but missed out the word 'sometimes'.
Geranium phaeum 'Our Pat' AGM £4.50
This large flowered, 60cm tall clone of the classic purple-black flowered geranium, selected by Robin Moss, has that indefineable something which makes a good plant superb. I hear rumours that the RHS committee judging the trials voted unanimously for the AGM.
Geranium phaeum 'Sericourt' £4.50
A French variety with leaves clear yellow in spring. The flowers are red-brown.
Geranium pratense 'Plenum Album' £4.50
The third, and by far the rarest, of the double forms of pratense, with many, new 10p sized double white flowers. More picky than the other forms of this species, thriving in a moist and fertile but well-drained soil, in sun or partial shade. Very, very slow to propagate, so seldom offered by nurseries. Just a few divisions again.
Geranium pratense 'Purple Heron' £3.50
Dark, dark purple foliage; deep violet flowers in summer on a compact plant to 45cm. A clone of the highly prized 'Midnight Reiter' which is variable from seed and painfully slow to propagate by division - but we divide it anyway. Small, and slow growing.
Geranium 'Prelude' £4
It looks like a short sylvaticum with unusually small but plentiful lilac flowers. Different.
Geranium psilostemon hybrid £4
Essentially a 50cm, branchy plant with smaller but more abundant psilostemon flowers over a longer summer season. The Hunts of Ivybridge who kindly gave it to us can't remember where it came from, so there's a chance it might be 'Devon Pride', itself a scarce thing we haven't been able to track down. Nice, anyway.
Geranium pyrenaicum 'Bill Wallis' £4
Loveable self seeding sprawly job which drapes itself pleasantly through other vegetation. The deeper purply blue form  with red stems.
Geranium soboliferum Cally strain £4
Flowers a solid, rich pink from later in summer than most, through to September. 30cm tall with narrowly lobed leaves. From Michael 'Cally' Wickenden's Russian collection.
Geranium 'Solitaire' £4
Like its parents, a summer dormant plant with attractive leaves low to the ground in winter, and large clear blue flowers on 40cm stems in spring, but more vigorous and quicker growing than either. Goes on flowering for longer, too. Previously (and correctly) listed as libani x peloponnesiacum, but Alan Bremner who raised it has now named it. Why 'Solitaire'? 'First thing that came into my head' he claims.
Geranium 'Stephanie' £4
A recent hybrid, pelopponesiacum x renardii. Summer dormant-ish, with flowers like the former parent and leaves midway between the two. Very floriferous and desirable.
Geranium 'Tiny Monster' £4
Hot hybrid, with large rich red-purple flowers and the dark green leaves of G. sanguineum on a plant which, while almost mat forming in its first year or two, rears its fearsome head once a solid clump has built up. Long flowering season. There's not much tiny about it…