‘Dragon Heart’ is such a mellow, softly mounded plant that it’s difficult to describe just how big and powerful it really is. Compared to other hardy Geraniums, it’s a monster of a creation, with dozens upon dozens of sizzling magenta blooms and profuse gray-green foliage. To us, of course, it’s simply a thing of beauty.

Named a Top Perennial of 2014 in England, Dragon Heart has roared its way across gardens over several continents. It’s a particularly good choice for our longer, hotter American summers, outblooming all others and indifferent to a bit of extra humidity or even to coastal salt spray. When other hardy Geraniums are gently winding down, Dragon Heart is just revving its engine for another wave of color!

And such color it is — fully 2 inches wide, these blooms are suffused with bright magenta-violet and scored with a small black eye and spidery black veining along each petal. The flowers are held at the end of the s