Maverick Violet Picotee Geranium Seeds

Heat Tolerance and Nonstop Bloom Power!
Unusual colors on huge flowerheads!
Genus: Pelargonium
Species: x hortorum
Variety: ‘Maverick Violet Picotee’
Item Form: (P) Pkt of 10 seeds
Bloom Start to End: Early Summer – Mid Fall
Habit: Upright
Seeds Per Pack: 10
Plant Height: 14 in – 16 in
Plant Width: 12 in – 14 in
Additional Characteristics: Bloom First Year, Butterfly Lovers, Easy Care Plants, Flower, Free Bloomer, Long Bloomers
Bloom Color: Light Pink, Magenta, Multi-Color, Purple
Foliage Color: Medium Green
Light Requirements: Full Sun
Moisture Requirements: Dry, Moist,  well-drained
Resistance: Disease Resistant, Drought Tolerant, Heat Tolerant, Humidity Tolerant, Pest Resistant
Soil Tolerance: Clay, Normal,  loamy
Uses: Beds, Containers, Outdoor

Selected for its love of heat, humidity, and even drought, Maverick Violet Picotee greets summer with extra-large blooms in two bold colors! An exciting bicolor in the popular Maverick series, Violet Picotee is a southern gardener’s salvation, thriving even in the sopping-wet humidity and searing heat of our summers. Other container plants look wilted even the same day you water them, but never Maverick. It’s compact, well-branched, large-flowered, and thoroughly agreeable to weather extremes. We wouldn’t want anything less for our terracotta pots and white windowboxes.

Maverick is a very compact plant, reaching just 14 to 16 inches high (in full bloom) and nearly as wide. The foliage is large, softly lobed and creased, and bright green. It forms bushy rosettes beneath the flowering stems, which hold their giant spheres of blooms several inches above the rest of the plant.

And such blooms they are! Rich magenta-purple with a pale pink reverse edged in magenta, Violet Picotee is infused with rich color that stands out perfectly in the garden. The flowerheads are beautifully rounded and quite large, attracting attention whereever they appear. And they keep coming from the first whiff of hot June weather until the Halloween decorations go up.

Maverick is an annual Geranium, which is to say not a true Geranium at all, but a Pelargonium, known by some gardeners as Cranesbills. If you live in a frost-free climate, though, you can probably overwinter them successfully. If you don’t, bring your favorites in for winter and put them in a bright window. They’ll live for years with this kind of treatment! (They’re also easy to propagate. Pick up some rooting hormone at the nursery and dip the cut stems of a mature Maverick into it, then plant them in a Whopper Bio Dome or small pot. They’ll root like nobody’s business!)

Geraniums are the essence of summer for many of us gardeners. Their very scent — a sort of garden-y aroma, not a floral but somewhat peppery and earthy — signals the arrival of summer. Nothing is more cheerful in pots marching up the porch steps or in windowboxes leaning out over the garden. And they are a terrific bedding plant for full sun or light shade!

If you like Maverick Violet Picotee (and how could you not?), try more Mavericks, choose your favorites, and enjoy the bliss of growing annuals that love the hot summer weather as much as you do! Packet is 10 seeds.