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| My 10-year-old geranium |
When we moved to our present home in Elba in Nov. 2003, I brought a geranium with me that I had at the farm for 6 years. It bloomed all summer and I would move the geranium inside a storage building in Jan and Feb when we would have freezing weather. When we moved to Elba it occupied a place on the front porch and got afternoon sun from the southwest. Last summer during our drought, the high temperatures and dry weather conditions caused the plant to deteriorate before the end of the summer and it died. I had to throw it away in November 2007.
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| Red-orange blossom on my new plant |
Today I stopped by a local nursery for their plant sale and guess what! I found another geranium just like my old one and I only had to pay $10 for it. I'm going to repot it in a bigger pot and keep it in partial shade on the back patio. One thing about geraniums, they are almost drought resistant and not like petunias and impatients that have to have a lot of water. The plant I bought today has 7 big blooms and about 20 buds ready to open up soon. I am so proud of my new plant. It is sitting on the outdoor table, right outside our breakfast room table where i can see it at any time.
Getting such a big plant home was no easy task since we were in the family car and not the van. I suggested James hold it in his lap for the short ride home, and he refused to have a flower pot in his lap! So... I put groceries in the floor of the back seat and put cereal boxes on top and used the "shelf" to place the pot in the back seat. We made it home without any problems. It was too tall to put in the trunk of the car, and besides I already had 2 big bags of potting soil in the trunk.
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| My new plant |
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