Synonym: G. biokovo 'Karmina'
This Hardy Geranium offers exceptional multi-season appeal, from its fragrant foliage to its fall color changes and late rebloom. Low-growing and mounded, it is a free-flowering Cambridge variety with great vigor and bold color.
The foliage is very large, lobed, and bright green, boasting that characteristic woodsy/spicy Geranium scent. Densely layered, it reaches just 6 to 10 inches high, but spreads up to 2 feet wide, making it a great choice for groundcover in the sunny to partly shaded garden. Before spring is out, the ¾-inch blooms of carmine-red begin opening on wiry stems held a few inches above the foliage. Attractive to butterflies, these flowers are very, very abundant on 'Karmina,' much more so than on older varieties. They continue through early summer, and if you cut them back as they begin to fade, chances are good that they will reappear for you in early fall.
Autumn brings the most exciting season of color, with the large, handsome leaves turning bright shades of orange and red and the flowers reopening. 'Karmina' is resistant to leaf spot, so the foliage always looks fresh and clean, and it eagerly naturalizes, making next year's show even better than this season's. Quickly filling in around neighboring plants without choking them out, it is a godsend to the garden, helping hide the leggy canes of hybrid tea Roses, facing down Hardy Garden Phlox, and showing off in front of its many cousins.
'Karmina' is a Cambridge Geranium, bred from many crosses of G. macrorrhizum x G. dalmaticum. It is renowned for its floriferous nature as well as its dense, compact habit and excellent disease resistance. You will find it irresistibly charming in border and container! Zones 5-8.
