My Geranium Is As Impatient As I Am
By Marlina
@marlina (154166)
Canada
January 31, 2016 7:05am CST
Here is a picture of one of my geranium that I kept from the summer. Right now, it is just waiting and waiting to blossom. But it won't because if have to constantly prune the leaves.
I am pruning the plant as if I don't, it will get too leggy. And I want to keep that plant alive so I can put it back outside as soon as possible.
This will be its third year and I am keeping my fingers crossed for it to survive and thrive as usual.
Did you keep some of your plants from your last year garden and put them back out in the Spring?
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@ElizabethWallace (12074)
• United States
31 Jan 16
We don't have to do that where I live. Everything does just fine during the winter. I even have flowers on my geraniums. They love our winter weather.
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@ElizabethWallace (12074)
• United States
31 Jan 16
@marlina I thought so. Sorry. The three laws of real estate (location, location, location) effect more than just housing prices.
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@Juliaacv (48373)
• Canada
31 Jan 16
I have done this too and find that geraniums do well when you keep them if you do like you said and keep them pruned back.
I was in the garden yesterday and thought of you. There is growth in the ground and some of the plants have started their spring rebirth. This plant is coming back up, along with some green that I found in some of the others.
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@Missmwngi (12927)
• Nairobi, Kenya
31 Jan 16
Third year? It seems it has seen it all and survived
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@silvermist (19702)
• India
31 Jan 16
@marlina I do not have a garden now and I am not keeping any plant.It is really wonderful that you are keeping that Geranium with so much care.
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@silvermist (19702)
• India
31 Jan 16
@LadyDuck This is a very beautiful photograph.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
31 Jan 16
This house doesn't have windows conducive to growing plants inside. The front windows don't get a lot of light because of the deep porch, The best windows that get sufficient light are in the bedroom and if I had plants in there Ruby would probably knock them over, since they would be in her space. So, no, I don't keep from year to year.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
31 Jan 16
@marlina I have violets that did manage to bloom a few months ago.
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@fishtiger58 (29823)
• Momence, Illinois
31 Jan 16
We don't bring any in for the winter. We have way to many and the house would be full of them. So we just hope they come back, the ones that are supposed to anyway.
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@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
31 Jan 16
I have a lilac bush cutting in a pot inside, it needed to go outside but was too late, so it's going to have to make do in my kitchen window until this spring.
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@andriaperry (116860)
• Anniston, Alabama
31 Jan 16
Put those stems you prune into water and they will root and make more plants. I am opening anew business up and that is how I get many of my plants, from cuttings.
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@MarymargII (12422)
• Toronto, Ontario
1 Feb 16
Well at least it's ready to go! It would have been funny if it was an Impatience plant and that would have made some title! ha!
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