Pelargonium 'Tornado' (R) | geranium 'Tornado'

Conservatory Greenhouse Houseplants

Forms a bushy plant to 40cm tall with broad, green leaves and large flowers with pale pink lower petals and purple-black upper petals

Position

Partial shade

Loam, Sand

0.1-0.5 metres

0.1-0.5 metres

Loam Sand

Partial shade

Family: Geraniaceae
Native to GB/Ireland: No
Foliage: Evergreen
Habit: Bushy
Genus: Pelargonium can be perennials, sub-shrubs or shrubs, sometimes succulent and mostly evergreen, with palmately lobed or pinnately divided leaves and clusters of slightly irregular, 5-petalled flowers
Name Status: Accepted
Horticultural Group

Horticultural Classification Codes

Horticultural Classification Codes are often given to genera which have a large number of species or cultivars. They are used to categorise cultivated plants based on specific, shared characteristics such as shape, colour, size or flowering time, and can be displayed as letters or numbers

For example:
Dahlia ‘Sunset Kate (Sin) = Single flower
Rosa ‘Marigold’ (HT) = Hybrid Tea: Regal pelargoniums are evergreen perennials or subshrubs, bushy in habit, with rounded, often lobed leaves and usually single flowers to 4cm across, borne in clusters in late spring and into summer, in shades of pink, red, orange and purple or white

Grow in fertile well-drained soil in partial shade. Remove spent flowers. To overwinter, grow small plants in late summer from cuttings

Take softwood cuttings in summer and overwinter plants in frost free conditions or take softwood cuttings in spring

Deadhead regularly

Leafhoppers, vine weevils, caterpillars, thrips, fungus gnats, aphids and glasshouse whitefly can be troublesome

May be susceptible to foot and root rots, grey moulds and a virus