Have you ever visited a botanical garden on a warm spring day and marveled at tulips in a rainbow of colors, with shapes ranging from cups to stars, contrasting striations, and ruffled edges?Now’s your chance to bring a taste of that awes
12.06.2023 - 00:56 / gardenerspath.com / Nan Schiller
How to Grow and Care for Garden Geraniums Pelargonium x hortorumThe garden, or zonal geranium, Pelargonium x hortorum, aka annual, common, horseshoe, horticultural, or storksbill geranium, is an herbaceous evergreen in the Geraniaceae family.
A perennial in USDA Hardiness Zones 10-11, Pelargonium x hortorum may be grown as an annual elsewhere. It’s suited to beds, borders, and containers, and can be wintered over indoors as a houseplant.
Today’s color palette includes shades of orange, pink, purple, red, white, as well as bicolored and double-petalled varieties.
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When I was growing up, with every spring came the annual geranium sale.
In this event, all of the students in the band, chorus, and orchestra were challenged to walk from door to door in our neighborhood taking orders for the colors available then: pink, red, and white.
The one who sold the most plants won a prize. Since I never won, I can’t remember what it was!
After racing around trying to outsell our classmates, we soon retraced our steps with pots of blooms tucked into our wagons, bicycle baskets, and the family station wagon, if we were lucky.
As if by magic, flowers appeared in front yards for six square miles.
In this article, you’ll learn all you need to cultivate and care for the classic garden geranium in your yard.
Read on to meet a dependable bloomer you’re sure to love.
What Are Garden Geraniums?Pelargonium x hortorum (Pelargonium x hybrida) is an umbrella term for cultivated interspecific hybrid crosses of different Pelargonium species – most notably the zonal geranium, P. zonale and the scarlet geranium, P. inquinans.
The “zone” of zonale refers
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