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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.

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You were first last time

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Have you ever had the opportunity to watch a squirrel run around your yard or the neighborhood?

They’re rarely alone. If one’s digging a whole in your garden bed another one is sure to show up and try to scare the first squirrel away so that it can have the goody that was being buried. The ones I see are always chasing each other along any of the fences that enclose my yard, up the electric pole and across the electrical wires that are high above over our yards.

I think someone snapped this photo during a rather ambitious chase. The lower squirrel is not going to let the other get up that skinny tree before it does. LOL

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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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