2ND GARDEN COLUMN- IVY LEAF GERANIUMS

3/21/2010



Ivy Leaf Geraniums
Trailing Pelargonium
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This is my 2nd garden column and today I will discuss one
of my favorite garden plants, " Ivy Leaf Geraniums." This is
one plant that keeps on giving all Summer long. In early Spring
I go to the nursery and I pick out all kinds with flowers that are
solid red, solid white, lavendar, tri-color ( usually has white with
specks of red or purple,) salmon. I usually wind up buying 20 to
30 plants. I buy empty hanging baskets and put them in-between
the Hummingbird feeders hanging from the portal. I also put single
plants in single pots and I have special wrought iron hangers and
I add these to the beam of the portal. Ivy geraniums love sun and
will flower all Summer long, water them when semi-dry to the
touch , feed once every two weeks with 20-20-20 and as a special
feeding I use BR 60 it's a fertilizer that promotes heavy flowering,I
use this every three weeks and I also use it in the garden on all
flowering plants. Today we had # 14 snow storm !, I can't wait
for Spring....Until my next garden column, happy gardening......

Cheers...Joe..

Beautiful, Joe! I can't wait to plant outside! Our temps are in the 70's today, so it feels very close. Boo to snow! Hope spring is coming your way soon.

3/21/2010

Helen...

Your mouth to God's ears, "SPRING !"
Even the birds are getting upset. Dusty is very
depressed , she hates the cold and snow and loves
to go out on the patio and sit on the fence in the
garden , checking her domain...


Cheers..Joe

This must be unusual weather you're having. I picture New Mexico as being warm by now. What's up with that much snow? Poor Dusty.

3/21/2010

Helen...

I've been here 10 years and I've never
seen that many snow storms. Here they have all four
seasons, the sun is too strong for me, so I wear dark
sunglasses, the altitude is 7,500 feet. I'm thinking of
moving back east, maybe upstate New York near my
sister-in-law , she lives an hour away from Albany.
They only had so far one bad snowstorm 3 feet....


Cheers...Joe

3/21/2010

Hi.......


My next garden column will be
a big surprise....


Cheers..Joe...

I love geraniums, all kinds

It is too early for them in Washington. In the meantime I make do with primroses. the winter cabbage is over now.

I also have a pot of daffodils, tulips, etc.

What a neat column, Joe.

I love geraniums, they're so hardy. I put large pots of them on my front porch each spring. They're about all I ever plant anymore, due to how long-lasting they are.

I like to intersperse them with petunias.

Hot pink geraniums with purple petunias are really showy.

I Found the column at last.

Joe this should explain why I am not a gardener:

3/25/2010


David...

Love the poem...You must have a green
thumb.. Check out my 3rd garden column..


Cheers..Joe

David, you are such a hoot. I love your poem.

Lovely poem, David and beautiful photo, Joe!