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GERANIUMS WILL GROW ANYWHERE – Marilyn Armstrong

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FLOWERS OF THE DAY – HANGING GERANIUMS

I was wondering how well the geraniums would do on our deck since we don’t have a lot of sunshine. Answer? Fine, thank you. I grew geraniums like this in Israel in full and incredibly hot sun … and they will also grow here, in dappled shade.

I guess you can grow these pretty much anywhere. I haven’t tried growing them inside and I suspect that probably wouldn’t work out. But you never know.

The whole plant on one of our sunny days

Macro time!

Not the favorite flower for bees. They prefer the begonia and the wildflowers in the front garden.

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17 replies

  1. evelyneholingue
    06/29/2018 • 18:03

    My favorite of all times. One of my daughters calls me the Queen of Potted Geraniums. But in the recent years I’ve lost some. They are quite resilient but favor milder climates. Not too much rain, not too much heat and definitely no freeze. But I still love them above many potted plants. And they are gorgeous when hung in baskets. Yours are very pretty.

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    • Marilyn Armstrong
      06/29/2018 • 18:06

      Mine are healthy in a leafy way, but they aren’t making flowers. I suspect not enough sun. But the chilly nights may have damaged them too. We’ve had warm days, but it has been dropping into the low 50s at night … a bit low for these particular geraniums.

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  2. Embeecee
    06/21/2018 • 13:03

    They don’t do so hot inside, ALTHOUGH my parents always had some. I have two, bought last summer, and when it got cold, I brought ’em inside. I’m not sure why they didn’t thrive, but by this spring, they were gangly, no blooms, and sort of sad looking. Since you have as vicious, if not more so, winters than we do, what do you do with them when it gets cold? Cut ’em back and leave them out there? Put them in a shed or garage? I’m interested in knowing..

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    • Marilyn Armstrong
      06/29/2018 • 18:10

      I trash them. I don’t have anywhere to keep them inside. What little light we have is taken by the plants I’ve got. I leave them out as long as they can stay alive and then I let them die.

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  3. Cee Neuner
    06/21/2018 • 12:55

    I really like the red and white colors. 😀

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  4. swo8
    06/21/2018 • 10:30

    So pretty with the variegated petals….I tried something new this year. It a Osteospermum and has a blue and white flower much like a chrysanthemum. In some warmer climates it’s a perennial – probably an annual here.
    Leslie

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  5. loisajay
    06/21/2018 • 07:52

    Growing up in Jersey, my mother used to dig up the geraniums from her garden, repot them and winter them over in our basement. Whew. Way too much work.

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  6. Lwbut
    06/21/2018 • 03:48

    Beautiful Shots Marilyn! 🙂

    My white and pink highlighted ones are not in flower now (were last month) but my bright red ones with a white centre are blooming like crazy – it is Mid-Winter’s day here today. We have our gas heater on now and it is early afternoon. 🙂

    They certainly love our heat – but seem pretty happy with our ‘cold’ too! ( Not that thta matches yours of course) 🙂

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    • Marilyn Armstrong
      06/21/2018 • 10:16

      It gets too cold here to grow outside all year, but I’ve never tried saving shoots and regrowing. I’m probably going to turn out to be too lazy too. It just isn’t that expensive to buy a geranium.

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  7. angloswiss
    06/21/2018 • 00:58

    Geraniums are a big thing here in Switzerland in summer. You can keep cuttings through the Winter and they grow again the next year. I am too lazy to bother

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  8. slmret
    06/21/2018 • 00:18

    In So Cal, these are perennials. You can imagine my surprise when a friend showed up in Seattle with a van-load of 2″ pots of geraniums for people who thought they were annuals! They sold them for $1 each (in 1960 or so), and made quite a haul!

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