Balcony this summer

They enjoyed the sun! I was amazed than mine didn't do very well at all - never got big enough to take any cuttings, but are flowering away briliantly now they have come into the back porch. So that's why you never got the promised ones but I will try to remember next year. The Black Knight you sent me are doing OK.

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Tastes must change over the years. When my father grew Geraniums I used to hate the smell. Now I like it! I reckon Geraniums love your balcony, Balcony!!

Good old fashioned favourite.

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Our summers in the future may well be similar to the summer this year as climate change swings into gear! I'm already thinking of what I could put on the balcony in future years & to that end I've sown some Lavender seeds - though I really must learn not to water them so much! I've yet to keep a Lavender plant alive for more than a few months! It's one of those plants that resists my TLC!

Stera, I remember you commenting on that some months ago - seems strange when this summer's weather is just the sort of weather Geraniums like best of all! I'm growing lots of cutting on the windowsills of almost all the windows in our flat for the first time ever as I expect to plant up a lot of Geraniums next year.

Thanks, TT!

Thanks, Eirlys. Geraniums do usually do quite well for me but this year they excelled themselves! Other than the variegated trio, I also have some cutting of another 3 from my son, they are semi-doubles. I took them last year but they have been quite slow to make new growth so I've very few cuttings of them.

I also took lots more cuttings from his Geraniums, one is a very old variegated form that council & park gardeners, not to mention quite a few normal gardeners, used to plant out in great numbers in the '60s, Mrs Henry Cox. They have become "Good old fashioned favourite" for a very good reason & that's their ease of growing, their "flower power" & their being inexpensive.

Wonderful photos of just about my favorite plant...
Never knew there were so many colors. Particularly like
the small ones in the pot. Mine did well this year too. Since we have had one day of sun for almost six weeks, I am wondering if mine will flower inside! Merry Christmas to you,

Glad you like my blog, Posey! Geraniums are wonderful plants for flowering during many months & they will often flower on a sunny or bright windowsill during the winter. In fact if there is sufficient light & warmth they will flower all winter as well! It's difficult to stop them flowering!

Several of the cutting in the kitchen window have tried to flower but as soon as I notice a bud I nip it out! Even though I like to see them flowering being cuttings it's better they grow roots & save their energy for the spring when I shall have to repot them. At the moment there are 3 or 4 in small pots. I didn't have the space to put one in one pot so I put 4 cuttings to a 3" pot. If any don't root I pull them out & let the others get on with forming roots.

There are more pots of Geranium cuttings in the mini-greenhouse on the balcony as well! I think I've gone "overboard" with the number of Geranium cuttings I've taken this year! But I threw away all the Geraniums that flowered during this summer as they were plants several years old & I wanted new stock for 2019.

Hope you had a good Christmas & that the New Year, 2019, will bring you lots of happiness.