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Geum 'Scarlet Tempest'

Instant colour for your cottage garden

Grown by Jack

Hereford

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Geum 'Scarlet Tempest' Perennial Bedding
Geum 'Scarlet Tempest' Perennial Bedding

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The highlights

  • Loves a spot in full sun
  • Add splashes of red to borders
  • Flowers May to June
  • RHS Plant for Pollinators

Description

  • Loose clusters of large, double scarlet flowers flushed with apricot
  • Flowers all summer from May to September
  • A compact and versatile hardy perennial plant with good drought tolerance and high disease resistance
  • Add colour to sunny borders or container displays - Geum are perfect for coastal, prairie or cottage garden planting schemes
  • Grows to a compact 40cm
  • Awarded the RHS Plants for Pollinators designation, this plant is highly beneficial to bees and butterflies

What To Expect

Supplied as:

Premium Plant in 3L Pot
3L Pot

Height on arrival:

10-30cm

Eventual height:

40cm

Eventual spread:

10-50cm
Spreads approx 10-50cm
10-50cm
Spreads approx 10-50cm

Time to first crop:

Flower colour:

Red
Scarlet red double flowers flushed with apricot
Red
Scarlet red double flowers flushed with apricot

Habit:

Clump forming
Flower stems rise from clumps of foliage
Clump forming
Flower stems rise from clumps of foliage

Hardiness:

Fully hardy
H7 - fully hardy down to -20, needs no winter protection.
Fully hardy
H7 - fully hardy down to -20, needs no winter protection.

Rootstock:

Spacing:

10cm
Plant at least 10cm apart to allow for spreading

How To Grow

Good pest and disease resistance

May be affected by Geum sawfly. The larvae of the sawfly look like tiny caterpillars and eat holes in the leaves. While it doesn't look great, this doesn't usually affect plant health. Pick off the larvae by hand or encourage predators such as birds, wasps and ground beetles.

Water regularly in summer

This plant needs nothing more than rain water throughout most of the year. During hot, prolonged dry periods in summer however, you may have to give the plant a good watering several times a week. If the plant starts to look distressed and the soil around it is very dry, then give the plant some more water and check up on it the next day.

Full sun

Geum does best in a sheltered spot with 6-8 hours of daily sunlight

Any fertile, well-drained soil

Plant in any fertile, well-drained soil. If your soil is particularly poor or clay heavy, add some garden compost with perlite to improve drainage.

Feed regularly

Feed every two to three weeks during the flowering period with a high potassium fertiliser such as tomato feed. ?v=1613300718

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Perennials born in Herefordshire, blooming in your garden

Our perennials start life in the rolling Herefordshire hills, where Jack and his team trial over 250 new varieties each year to bring you the best performing and most sustainable plants in the UK. With over forty years of excellence, it’s no surprise that they’ve won the HTA Plant Grower of the Year award two years running.

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