With so many cultivars with much nicer colours Rozanne is one of those mysteries for me...really don't get why it's so popular. To my eyes it's too blue and the flower is too large...just compare it to the gorgeous deep colour of Ann Folkard for instance.
Give me something even bluer (truly blue, not violet-bluish-lavender mix) with flowers even larger and I'll buy it right now I bought four blue geraniums recently and neither of them is blue. In the quest for summer flowering, long flowering and easy blue (bluish), Rozanne (or 'Azure Rush' which is anything but azure) is a relatively good plant, nowhere near the dream but good enough to look different from purples and pinks and offer a nice contrast to yellows and apricots.
I find "Brookside" and "Orion" (which is a sport from it) flower well, also "Sirak" and "Red Admiral". "Mayflower" gives a good second flush after being cut back. A friend of mine reckons "Patricia" is a "good doer"
Love G. Patricia and G. Anne Thomson. Both better behaved (in my garden anyway) than their better known relatives G Psilostomen and G. Anne Folkard.
I love the limey green foliage of Anne Folkard against the deep magenta flowers but the leaves seem to get very scruffy and the whole plant just gets a little too untidy for me. Anne Thompson doesn't have the nice foliage but she flowers her socks off all summer long and clambers gently through neighbouring plants. I like to grow it alongside Alcoholic Mollies 😉 for a similar colour contrast.
I have a love / hate relationship with Rozanne. The flowers are exactly the right shade for the position and it looks lovely climbing up through a pale pink rose but it gets very untidy in mid summer so I cut it quite hard back at the end of July (not quite to the ground but to a tidy mound) and it usually starts flowering again about 4 weeks later and goes through till autumn.
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
I have a couple of rozannes in my garden, planted in semi shade. They have been in for three years and to date they are underwhelming. The best performing geranium I have oxonianum Wargrave Pink, it's a real workhorse
Love that Rozanne is so vigorous and can spread through the borders filling spaces where the lupins and poppies have been cut back, and covering the scruffy leaves on the aquilegia... and colour is surely subjective...? I much prefer it to Anne Folkard!
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"Mayflower" gives a good second flush after being cut back.
A friend of mine reckons "Patricia" is a "good doer"
I love the limey green foliage of Anne Folkard against the deep magenta flowers but the leaves seem to get very scruffy and the whole plant just gets a little too untidy for me. Anne Thompson doesn't have the nice foliage but she flowers her socks off all summer long and clambers gently through neighbouring plants. I like to grow it alongside Alcoholic Mollies 😉 for a similar colour contrast.
I have a love / hate relationship with Rozanne. The flowers are exactly the right shade for the position and it looks lovely climbing up through a pale pink rose but it gets very untidy in mid summer so I cut it quite hard back at the end of July (not quite to the ground but to a tidy mound) and it usually starts flowering again about 4 weeks later and goes through till autumn.