Geraniums braving winter chill
By Arwadoo
- 4 Feb, 2010
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Testing the adoptibility of plants.An experiment with geraniums braving the winter chill was initiated in2008 march. Geraniums were planted under the conopy of a Cedrus deodara tree 50% survived in 2009.The growth of the surviors was very good .the photograph of the geraniums was taken in Jan2010 and they continue to live till todate. Let us hope they learn to live in low temperatures. Normally geraniums are protected from the cold and stored in protected places from November till March.
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lovely leaf colour. welcome to GOY
4 Feb, 2010
Gorgeous leaf colour........
4 Feb, 2010
well at least we all agree on the colour,
4 Feb, 2010
Geraniums are one of our favourites ....Welcome to GOY , you will find everybody very friendly and helpful here ...
4 Feb, 2010
Welcome from me...
4 Feb, 2010
This is a perenial geranium, does it have blue flowers? some of ours have pink flowers as well and we have geraniums that we grow in pots and they need warmth to survive in the winter. I take cuttings from these sort of geraniums that also have a wide variety of colours in the flowers. There are pelargoniums as well that have really strikingly beautiful coloured flowers on. Good luck with your experiments, It must have been an interesting job working in the forrest.
5 Feb, 2010
My sincere thanks to all.
The trial has raised some questions. I will find the answers from my archives,I have the photographs of geraniums in flowers, will posted these soon.
ARWadoo
5 Feb, 2010
Lovely colours. What do you have growing in behind Arwadoo? Is it an Iris?
9 Feb, 2010
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Fascinating experiment... and the leaf colour in the pic is very attractive.
4 Feb, 2010