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Geranium renardii

Marge:
	I have grown Geranium renardii in zone 5b, where the summers can
be very humid, in a raised bed:  four landscape layers high with leaf
mold at the bottom, sharp sand in the next layer, and pea gravel in the
top layer.
	I placed the plant between two rocks (hard to find in IL) as
David Victor suggests, and even though the scree soil I described gets
mixed a little just by the trowel action, mostly the plant roots are in
sand (with leaf mold reachable below by root growth) and the crown of
the plant is in pure gravel.  The rocks help keep the roots cooler, I
guess.
	Also, I would water quite a bit and maybe provide some temporary
shade (an overturned pot?) until the plant is well established.
	The alpine geraniums are not easy to grow in the muggy Midwest,
but they are truly lovely and worth the trouble.  Good luck!

Susan Campanini
in east central Illinois
zone 5b, min temp -15F?
e-mail:  campanin@uiuc.edu
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