Description horticole :

D. Evrard 2014: Un beau geranium ‘lumineux et aérien’ de 50cm de haut sur 1,50m de diamètre !!!! Les feuilles sont vert plus ou moins jaune. Les fleurs de 3,5cm de diamètre sont pourpre, finement veinées de rouge en juin et juillet. Il a été nommé d’après le nom du fils de son obtenteur.

Description botanique :

RHS trial 2008:
A stunning plant with a light and airy habit that carries flowers of a most intense purple. A recent introduction and a valuable garden perennial of the future. Spreading perennial to 50  160cm in trial. Basal leaf blades to 90  120mm, borne on long petioles to 300mm, with short, adpressed, rough hairs on both surfaces and at the margins, rectangular in outline, divided to two thirds into 7; divisions widely spaced, little overlapping, broadest just above the middle, lobed to almost half way, sometimes with teeth lower down; lobes coarse with jagged, irregular teeth culminating in a minute tip. Stem leaves paired, decreasing in size towards the apex. Stems green, paler at the nodes. Inflorescence of paired flowers on pedicels to 30mm. Sepals narrowovate, 9  4mm with scarious margins and a mucro to 1.5mm. Flowers to 35mm across, vivid purple (78A), finely veined red (60A); petals 17  12mm, truncate at the apex, overlapping only at the base. becoming patent and gland-tipped on pedicels, upper stipules red (181B), lower stipules green. Flowers borne singly, in pairs or small groups towards the tips of the branches. Sepals ovate 10  4mm, mucro to 2mm. Flowers to 40mm across, bluish violet (82B) with a pinkish purple blush, white at the base with red (60B)

Notes :

Il a été étudié au RHS Wisley Geranium Stage 3 Trials entre 2004 et 2006 ou il a obtenu un AGM.

2019 D. Evrard & R. Moss:Il semble qu'il sagit rééllement d'un cultivar de palustre et non un hybride.