Thanks Nancy & Gigi, and all who left thumbs!
Sorry I wasn't here earlier, as I always like to
show more pics of the plant in the banner.
re:
Geranium maderense... What a great plant!
It never fails to put on a huge bouquet of blooms. Very easy to grow, no disease or pests, self-seeds, bees love it.
Thousands of little hairs with a drop of sap on each that sparkle when backlit by the sun.
Lush green fern-like foliage. Amazing.
Ever since I planted one (seeds?) ~10yrs ago, they've re-seeded,
e.g. have at least 10 this year.
I'm surprised we don't get a lawn of them (in the lawn), as the
bouquet has a few hundred blooms on each plant.
But they always manage to come up in just the right spot,
though did have to transplant 2 babies a month ago that came up in the lawn.
They start out very spindly, but eventually have a stalk up to
2" in diameter!
Hope you will try them if you haven't already.
Here are a few slideshows from previous years.
2021
https://cal3d.com/NGA2021/Gmad...
2020
https://cal3d.com/NGA2020/gera...
2018
https://cal3d.com/NGA2018/gera...