Erodium x variabile 'Bishops Form'
Variable stork's bill
Also known as Erodium 'Bishops Form'
- Height × spread
- 0.2m × 25m
- Position
- Full sun
- Hardiness
- Cold to -15C (RHS H5)
- Flowers
- Summer, Autumn
Availability
Generally available in Spring
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About this plant
A dainty combination of foliage and flower. The flowers are showy, in the 'geranium' formation and held on pink-brown stalks. They are coloured a fresh clear pink with white tints and near-magenta veins that ray to the white leaf base. They are carried freely and charm the viewer. They stand above rather rounded lobed leaves, coloured soft green and with impressed veins and sometimes maroon tints on the central rib of the leaf. This should flower all summer, often going into autumn. Good in sunny well-drained positions such as rockeries and gravel. It can readily succumb to cold and wet, so may need the protection of a cold greenhouse during winter.
- Flower colour
- Pink
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Variegated
- No
- Scent
- No
- Shape
- Dome
- Height
- 0.2m
- Spread
- 25m
- Spread in 10 years
- 0.25m
- Season of interest
- Summer, Autumn
- Flowers in
- Summer, Autumn
- Evergreen
- Evergreen
- Garden style
- Small scale garden, Gravel garden
- Sun or shade
- Likes full sun
- Soil type
- Loam (normal)
- Soil pH
- Alkaline, Neutral
- Drainage
- Well drained soil
- Hardiness
- Cold to -15C (RHS H5)
- Borders & containers
- Borders and containers
- Hazards
- No
Spring
Spring-Autumn · Outdoors
Water during dry periods
For plants in the ground, when there has been little or no rain for a period of 7-10 days and the soil is dry, give it a deep watering and repeat weekly until there is a downpour of rain. Check plants in pots more frequently, especially in hot weather.
Spring - early-mid · Planting
Divide when too large
The plant can be divided if it becomes too large or another plant is required. This may involve physically dividing the clump in two, removing offsets or small bulbs or dividing rhizomes. The new plants can be grown in pots or planted in the ground.
Summer
Summer - early · Outdoors
Feed a general fertiliser
Where plants have moderate needs for nutrients, they can simply be given a general feed, fairly early in the growth season so that the growth has plenty of time to harden off before the cold weather.
Give plants a general boost with the application of a general purpose fertiliser which is spread around the root area of the plant, with amounts as directed on the feed label.
Found in
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