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Pelargonium

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Pelargonium

The pelargonium is often mistaken for, and sometimes even mislabeled in home centers as a geranium.

It’s related but it most definitely is not a geranium. I grow these flowers in the summer – putting them in my hanging baskets, pots, and window boxes.

The flowers come in many different colours and they bloom on stiff stalks. As the blooms on the stalk fade the stalk dies off and dries up. I regularly cut out the dead and dying stocks in order to make the Pelargoniums bloom a little bit faster.

A number of people have contacted me in the last two weeks wanting to join Green Thumb Sunday but they have failed to let me know whether they’ve successfully put the blogroll on their sites. If you are new and you’re playing, but you don’t see your site listed on the blogroll – your likely one of the people that I’m talking about. Just let me know that you are playing and that you have the blogroll up and I’ll get you listed. Ok?

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Maltese Cross

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When I purchase my first Maltese cross for the garden back in 2002 I really didn’t know if I was going to like the plant or not. It was an orangey red though and I thought that would go nice to with the other plants I had planned to grow in the garden.

I was surprised to find that I enjoyed the Maltese cross very much.

It’s tiny delicate little flowers clustered together on at the top of long 4 foot or so high stalks. I have a few of these plants now and they are so easy! They are perennials and they pretty much take care of themselves.

The Maltese cross goes through it’s first bloom in early to mid July, and then often has another set of blooms in late August to Early September. The flowers last at least two weeks each time they bloom.

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Lovely Aster

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I love asters. I only wish that they bloomed throughout the whole summer rather than the end of summer and into fall. I spend the summer waiting for them to bloom and then I’m sad when I see them finally blooming because that means our season of nice weather will soon be over.

My mother also loved her asters. I think they were one of her favorite flowers, and I believe that that is why I grow them each year in my own garden.

I didn’t even plant any this past year, but I was lucky because several of them must have generously reseeded so I got to have my asters this year.

Amazingly, it’s been going below zero quite often most nights the past three weeks, but somehow my petunias, snap dragons, New York Asters and a number of my roses are still blooming away as if the weather was much warmer. I don’t understand. I guess my raise beds are keeping a number of my plants warm and happy, but it doesn’t explain the hanging baskets and strawberry planters full of still blooming flowers.

There are a lot of new Green Thumber’s or people who want to join the meme. I have sent anyone who contacted me instructions on how to put the blogroll on your site. If you have it on your site but you haven’t told me- well you still aren’t on the blogroll. I’ve spent a lot of time tracking people down and I just don’t have time to keep doing this.

I also just completely Re created the *new* Green Thumb Sunday page. Please visit it at it’s new link. Complete instructions on how to add the blogroll to your site for the most popular blog software types is listed on that page.

Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information.

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