Durable and good-natured, geraniums can take root anywhere and bear "fruit", that is, their colorful bouquets. You just have to love them and take care of them properly.
Tasos Livaditis bursts a bouquet of geraniums in "Drapetsona", to the music of Mikis Theodorakis, in the early 1960s: "Take our wreath, take our geranium / in Drapetsona we no longer have life". Around the same time, Sylvia Plath wrote in her Birthday Poem: "My heart, a cut geranium".
What do geraniums have that poets love them for? Their humble beauty, which sprouts even in the most difficult conditions, and their subtle fragrance, ideal bait to sting every romantic heart. All of us geranium admirers bow to them.
"If you have geraniums, you have nine months of flowers in the pot ," said my grandmother, who loved all members of the geranium family: both pelargoniums and mastic.
Indeed, the geranium – pelargonium is its official name – blooms in early spring and keeps its flowers until late autumn. That's not saying much. In the meantime, it withstands the cold and the winds of winter , keeping the strength to "break" them as soon as the spring heat sets in, when it becomes the best seller in nurseries.
"Get me a geranium"
The "rose of the poor" that brought color to the poor neighborhoods of Athens, Piraeus and the surrounding areas sits in flowerpots in the northern suburbs of Attica or breaks the monotony of the lawns in luxury hotels on the Aegean islands. And there are many reasons for its popularity:
is durable,
does not require intensive care,
It grows easily and quickly, so it will "blossom" even in the hands of a novice gardener and
You can choose the geranium color you want from a huge variety of colors.
Furthermore, in nurseries you can find bicolor and rare varieties: aromatic, upright, cream-colored, self-cleaning plants – they shed their dead flowers on their own – or varieties with impressively large flowers and foliage with different leaf shapes.
For a promising geranium
We choose our plant based on two criteria:The lush foliage: The bushier a geranium is, the stronger its shoots are, proof of its healthy growth.
The many buds: If you buy a geranium with few buds, you will have to wait several weeks to enjoy the colors in your garden or terrace. If you are impatient and the weather has already warmed up, choose plants that have already budded, which will immediately reward you with their flowers.
Tasos Livaditis bursts a bouquet of geraniums in "Drapetsona", to the music of Mikis Theodorakis, in the early 1960s: "Take our wreath, take our geranium / in Drapetsona we no longer have life". Around the same time, Sylvia Plath wrote in her Birthday Poem: "My heart, a cut geranium".
What do geraniums have that poets love them for? Their humble beauty, which sprouts even in the most difficult conditions, and their subtle fragrance, ideal bait to sting every romantic heart. All of us geranium admirers bow to them.
"If you have geraniums, you have nine months of flowers in the pot ," said my grandmother, who loved all members of the geranium family: both pelargoniums and mastic.
Indeed, the geranium – pelargonium is its official name – blooms in early spring and keeps its flowers until late autumn. That's not saying much. In the meantime, it withstands the cold and the winds of winter , keeping the strength to "break" them as soon as the spring heat sets in, when it becomes the best seller in nurseries.
"Get me a geranium"
The "rose of the poor" that brought color to the poor neighborhoods of Athens, Piraeus and the surrounding areas sits in flowerpots in the northern suburbs of Attica or breaks the monotony of the lawns in luxury hotels on the Aegean islands. And there are many reasons for its popularity:
is durable,
does not require intensive care,
It grows easily and quickly, so it will "blossom" even in the hands of a novice gardener and
You can choose the geranium color you want from a huge variety of colors.
Furthermore, in nurseries you can find bicolor and rare varieties: aromatic, upright, cream-colored, self-cleaning plants – they shed their dead flowers on their own – or varieties with impressively large flowers and foliage with different leaf shapes.
For a promising geranium
We choose our plant based on two criteria:The lush foliage: The bushier a geranium is, the stronger its shoots are, proof of its healthy growth.
The many buds: If you buy a geranium with few buds, you will have to wait several weeks to enjoy the colors in your garden or terrace. If you are impatient and the weather has already warmed up, choose plants that have already budded, which will immediately reward you with their flowers.
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