This is an overhead shot of my geranium plants in the garden. As you can see, one little flower is blooming and there are other ones getting ready.
For as long as I can remember, we always had geraniums in pots during the summer. My mother was not a gardener, but when summer came, there were always geraniums in pots on the porch. They were usually red, and I'm not sure if that's because my mom liked the red best, or if there wasn't really any choice where she got them.
Anyway, to me it's not right to NOT have at least one geranium for the summer. A couple of years ago, I bought one and put it in a pot with another plant whose name escapes me and placed it on our front stoop. It looked so lovely. Apparently *so* lovely that someone else just had to have it ...
Now the geraniums (well, all the plants really) stay in the garden, which is enclosed. This year, I bought a pink one and a red one, and then got home to realize I didn't have two pots. Now you need to understand that, when I am ready to do something like plant/pot/whatever, it has to happen THEN. So both plants got put into a larger pot, and at least so far, all is well.
Every year when I buy a geranium or two, The Tim says, "I don't undertand why you buy those. I mean, they're nice, but yours never last into the fall or beyond, even when you bring them inside to take care of them."
Silly boy. Apparently he had a deprived childhood.
Because everyone (well, me) knows that if it's summer, you have to have a geranium in a pot to make you smile.
Have a good weekend. 😊
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My nana loved geraniums ... and you are so right, it just can't be summer without a geranium! Have a good weekend, my friend! XO
I absolutely agree. My mom always had red geraniums out front in pots also. I just bought two pitiful specimens at a half price sale at the hardware store. A pink one and a purplish one. I trimmed them back so I hope they will take off. Yours look so healthy. With the big trees gone, I finally have enough sun to have some flowers but it's killing all my hostas and my big hydrangea.
With me, it is hanging baskets. They get purchased on April 30 and the goal is to keep them looking good until Labor Day. After that is all bonus!
Your pot looks great! I don't plant geraniums, because I really don't like their scent, but they are quintessentially summery. (I've had similar issues with plant thievery, so now all my plants live in my community garden plot, even if it's less convenient.)
I don't always have geraniums but I do always have a pot on the front porch step. Luckily, mine have never been taken! ;)
Oh, my mother bought SO many red geraniums (gerania?) every year! She was very careful that they were all the same shade of red.
It is a lovely geranium.
Isn't it amazing what someone will steal? One year in Orlando, someone took our Christmas wreath right off the front door. Now this was not a fancy store-bought thing .....it was the time of grapevines and I wove a grapevine wreath and put a burlap Santa on it with some ribbon wrapped around the vines.
Yep, someone nicked it right off the door. Thank goodness they never noticed that Santa fell off in the yard. I still have the Santa. He's around 65 years old now.
I hate garden thieves!!!!!
Since our problem last summer, the whole town knows we have eleventy billion cameras on the house, so we don't have any more problems like that any more.
I have a special fondness for red geraniums. I think they're the epitome of summer plants - especially on a porch. :-) I always have a dahlia or two in my garden, because that's the flower my mom loved best of all. Gardens are for memories! XO
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