Geranium x cantabrigiense

This is not your Mother’s big red geranium. This plant has more delicate foliage and makes a terrific groundcover. It prefers shade with lots of organic matter, and so works well under trees. It grows 8-12” high and has loads of light pink flowers from May to June. The foliage turns red and gold in the fall. Other geraniums to consider are Geranium macrorrhizum, (Bigroot Geranium) which grows to 15” high and has white to magenta flowers, is a big spreader, and Geranium sanguineum, (Bloody Cranesbill)6-8”, which is the most drought tolerant, because of it’s deep root system. The Rutgers Fact
Sheet lists G.macrorrhizum as the more deer tolerant, but Bowman’s Hill lists G. maculatum as the most deer resistant. So I guess it depends on the deer.