Geranium maderense - Madeira Geranium Blooming in Balboa Park, San Diego, CA.

OMG...they are stunning.....i took mine into the tunnel this winter and am now ready to plant back outside...i just love the leaf...the flower...the structure...one of my favorites....;-)

A beauty !!

Lovely show

Sandra:

Glad you like this photo! : > ) These plants grow wild in shady areas of Balboa Park. Actually, I saw the park workers pulling many of the wild ones out in some areas of the park, this day.

Amblealice, Drc726:

Thanks! : > )

Lovely to see this in flower, have just bought another, as we lost one last year.......

DD2:

Sorry to hear you lost one last year! :>(

This plant grows wild in Balboa Park.

I often find seedlings in my garden but most years they dont survive the winter.

Yes it was annoying Delonix, Sandra do you pot them up......

yes i do Dd. but you need to keep potting them on if you are in with a chance of flowers. its usually 3 before they get the wow factor. but well worth it.

DD2:

Yes, I can imagine how it can be annoying. Especially, if you put a lot of time and effort into keeping the plant healthy.

I've had this problem this year with all the heat. The severe heat waves have really burned my plants. A major branch on my Singapore Plumeria may be lost...as it was cooked when we had two very dry, hot days of 106ºF (41.1ºC)...it wasn't only the heat, it was the 9 hours (from 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.) of above 100ºF (38º) that really stressed it!

extreme weather be it hot or cold causes us gardeners such problems....

Sandra:

Very true. I see a lot of burned plants and trees around from the horrible heat wave a couple weeks back. It's been hot all summer; however, it was humid. The heat wave mentioned about was extremely dry, with the humidity only around 5 or 10 percent. It fried the plants and trees.