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14.12.2023 - 14:57 / gardenerspath.com / Joe Butler
Tips for Growing Strawberry Geraniums Outdoors
If you’re familiar with strawberry geraniums, then you probably know them best as lovely houseplants. But do you also know that they can be just as dazzling when grown outdoors?
In a small indoor pot, Saxifraga stolonifera produces lil’ plantlets that dangle over the sides via pretty red stolons. Cute and classy, yet compact and contained.
Out in the garden, however, these runners allow an individual strawberry geranium to blanket an area with a gorgeous mat of foliage and flowers, making it an ornamentally significant landscape planting.
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Put one in an outdoor planter, and your placement options increase all the more.
The “hows” of indoor and outdoor cultivation are pretty similar, but the latter requires tips and tricks that a strictly indoor grower may not know.
In this guide, we’ll break down everything you need to know for growing these perennials in the great outdoors. Propagation, cultivation, maintenance… all of it and more will be revealed.
Here’s what we’ll cover:
Shall we begin?
Strawberry Geraniums 101Also known as strawberry begonias, strawberry saxifrage, and creeping saxifrage, strawberry geraniums are herbaceous evergreen perennials from the Saxifragaceae family, which includes species such as jade plants, astilbe, and coral bells.
So in spite of the name, they aren’t actually related to strawberries, geraniums, or begonias.
Hardy in USDA Zones 6 to 9, S. stolonifera hails from temperate regions of China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, and is often found growing in rocky cliffs, like many other species in the Saxifraga genus.
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