A product of Marco's hybridising garden, Geranium 'Jolly Bee' is the result of growing some wallichianum hybrids together and letting the resident honey bees do their thing.
The plant selected from the various seedlings to become G. 'Jolly Bee', was chosen for its huge, distinctive flowers, long blooming period and large, mounding habit.

Geranium 'Jolly Bee' is a large plant with a mounding habit
The wallichianum species of Geranium is typified by it's prostrate habit, so the fact that 'Jolly Bee' forms a large mounding plant means that another species has also been crossed in somewhere. But the bees aren't telling, so we'll have to classify G. 'Jolly Bee' simply as a hybrid.

Buckfast bees at the van Noort nursery take a lot of the credit for Geranium 'Jolly Bee'
In this case, the bees not only created the new plant but were also crazy for the product of their activity, and were observed in large numbers happily congregating around it. It was one of the easiest plant naming decisions ever made.
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