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Park Seed Maverick Orange Geranium Seeds, Includes 10 Seeds in a Pack
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About Park Seed Maverick Orange Geranium Seeds, Includes
Oh, how we love the Mavericks! They are a southern gardener's salvation, thriving even in the sopping-wet humidity and searing heat of our summers. Other container plants look wilted even the same day you water them, but never Maverick. It's compact, well-branched, large-flowered, and thoroughly agreeable to weather extremes. We wouldn't want anything less for our terracotta pots and white windowboxes. Maverick is a very compact plant, reaching just 14 to 16 inches high (in full bloom) and nearly as wide. The foliage is large, softly lobed and creased, and bright green. It forms bushy rosettes beneath the flowering stems, which hold their giant spheres of blooms several inches above the rest of the plant. And such blooms they are! The shade can only be described as fluorescent (perhaps they should have called these Geraniums 'Highlighters'!), the shape is beautifully rounded, and the color is pure orange, with just a dot of white at the base to get your attention. They stand out down the street and practically around the corner, they're so bright. And they keep coming from the first whiff of hot June weather until the Halloween decorations go up. Maverick is an annual Geranium, which is to say not a true Geranium at all, but a Pelargonium, known by some gardeners as Cranesbills. If you live in a frost-free climate, though, you can probably overwinter them successfully. If you don't, bring your favorites in for winter and put them in a bright window. They'll live for years with this kind of treatment! (They're also easy to propagate. Pick up some rooting hormone at the nursery and dip the cut stems of a mature Maverick into it, then plant them in a Whopper Bio Dome or small pot. They'll root like nobody's business!) Geraniums are the essence of summer for many of us gardeners. Their very scent -- a sort of garden-y aroma, not a floral but somewhat peppery and earthy -- signals the arrival of summer. Nothing is more cheerful in pots marching up the porch s
