The flowers of Geranium Bevans Variety create a striking display, while the scented leaves provide additional interest throughout the growing season and often develop attractive red and bronze tints in autumn. As an excellent ground cover plant, it quickly forms a dense mat of foliage that helps suppress weeds and brings year-round structure to the garden.
Geranium ‘Bevan’s Variety’ is particularly useful for planting beneath trees and shrubs, where its vigorous growth and tolerance of dry shade allow it to thrive in challenging conditions. It is equally at home in woodland gardens, cottage garden borders and informal planting schemes, where its vivid flowers combine beautifully with ferns, Hostas, Pulmonarias and other shade-tolerant perennials. The nectar-rich blooms are also attractive to bees and other pollinating insects, adding wildlife value to the garden.
Exceptionally easy to grow and low maintenance, Geranium macrorrhizum ‘Bevan’s Variety’ performs well in a wide range of soils, provided they are reasonably well drained. It thrives in partial shade but will also tolerate full shade and sunnier positions if the soil remains moist. Once established, it is notably drought tolerant and requires very little attention beyond occasional tidying and division when required.
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As a rough guide when planting Geranium macrorrhizum ‘Bevan’s Variety’ as ground cover or in borders, allow 5-7 plants per square metre for effective coverage, or plant in drifts to create a colourful and weed-suppressing carpet of foliage and flowers.
How to grow Geranium macrorrhizum ‘Bevan’s Variety’
Position: Full Sun, Partial Shade or Full Shade
Foliage: Semi-evergreen to Evergreen
Soil and site: Moist but well-drained soil; tolerant of a wide range of soil conditions
Flowering time: May to July
Growth rate: Moderate to fast
Ultimate height and spread: Height to 40cm, spread to approximately 60cm
Hardiness: Fully hardy once established
Cut back old flower stems after flowering to keep plants tidy and encourage fresh foliage. Remove any damaged or tired leaves in late winter or early spring. Divide established clumps every 4-5 years if required to maintain vigour or increase stock.
Potted orders are usually despatched within 3-5 working days and delivery is 1-2 days after we despatch. Pleached tree and tall plant deliveries are booked in for delivery at the earliest possible convenient date.
Delivery is free for most orders above our free delivery thresholds, these are displayed above our prices in the product listings and summarized below. If you don’t need that many plants it’s not a problem, you can choose to pay our subsidised delivery charge and only order what you need.
Delivery is convenient – no signature is required so you don’t need to wait in, we will leave your parcel in the safe place that you nominate.
Delivery is fast – because we pick orders daily from our own growing beds your plants only travel the small hop to our packing shed before being sent to you, they are usually delivered within 5-7 working days.
Delivery is reliable – we have been selling and delivering Hedging Plants to our customers nationwide since 1992. We have a lot of experience in packing them safely and only use tried and tested delivery partners.
Smaller Plants (Parcel Delivery)
| Location | Order Value | Price |
| UK Mainland excluding Highlands | Up to £300 | £9 |
| UK Mainland excluding Highlands | Over £300 | Free |
| Scottish Highlands and Isle of Wight | All orders | £24 |
Heavy Plants (Pallet Delivery)
| Location | Order Value | Price |
| UK Mainland excluding Highlands | Up to £500 | £50 |
| UK Mainland excluding Highlands | Over £500 | Free |
| Scottish Highlands and Isle of Wight | All orders | £90 |
Tall Plants 2.5m+ (Specialist Delivery)
| Location | Order Value | Price |
| Mainland England and Wales only | Under £1800 | Please call us |
| Mainland England and Wales only | Over £1800 | Free |
| All other areas | All orders | Not available |
Exceptions to our delivery charges are Scottish Highland and Isle of Wight delivery areas where we need to charge a little extra to cover the cost of deliveries to these outlying areas. We don’t currently delivery to other offshore addresses including Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland.
Tall plants over 2.5 metres have to be delivered by our own specialised transport, our delivery area is limited to mainland England and Wales only.
For pleached tree orders we can often deliver smaller orders of £600 or more (£500 plus VAT) with a contribution towards delivery, so please do call our sales team on 01580 765 600 or take a look at our Delivery Information page.
Please note there is a minimum order value of £50 for orders containing smaller plants and £250 for orders containing heavier plants.
Complete delivery information can be viewed on our Delivery Information page.
