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How to Care for Geraniums

If you want a beautiful, hardy, and easy to grow, geraniums are a great choice. They are incredibly versatile; geraniums are great flowers for containers, window boxes, or in an outside garden. Geraniums are generally easy to care for, making them the perfect plant for any gardener, from beginner to pro. Shared Characteristics of Geraniums ...

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Flowers that Attract Butterflies

Butterflies are fascinating creatures that many people enjoy observing, and butterflies are beneficial insect people want to attract to their gardens and yards. If you enjoy watching butterflies flutter and glide, and if you are captivated by their brilliant colors and graceful flight, consider planting flowers that will attract butterflies to your yard and garden. ...

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Growing Geraniums and Geranium Varieties

Tom Miller, ornamental horticulturist from Austin, brings a lot of talent to Texas. He is one of the country’s outstanding authorities on new varieties of blooming annuals and perennials. Some of his research work involved improved gladiola varieties. An examine of the information he has for us is the following account of geraniums: If growing ...

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Best Flowers for Hanging Baskets and Budgets

Picture the yellow stately mansion accented in white trim with its huge porch covering the length of the home with a matching balcony upstairs. One side of the downstairs porch has a long, white wooden swing hanging in the middle. The other side of the porch has a conversation area designed around a white wicker ...

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Growing Geranium Tips

Growing Geranium Tips: Geranium Plants have been traced back to the seventeenth-century, traders carried the geraniums (pelargoniums) from South Africa, Holland, and England. Geraniums have been rediscovered in the twentieth-century. They appear everywhere magazines, bonsai arrangements, corsages, home décor, flowering beds. Hybridizers seek to develop better plants with a wider range of colors, form and ...

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How to Save Your Geraniums Over Winter

Geraniums are one of my favorite garden plants, but unfortunately, they die at the first sign of frost. Fortunately for me, geraniums winter over quite nicely by bringing them indoors when the weather becomes inhospitable. There are several ways on wintering geraniums; the most common is by digging them up before the first frost and ...

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Geraniums Diseases and Pest

Purchase your geraniums from reputable dealers. Isolate all new geraniums for at least two weeks before placing them among your other plants. Keep remedies on hand to check simple diseases and destroy pest if they appear. Remove spent flowers faded leaves. If a pest or disease attacks one of your geraniums, isolate the plant and ...

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How to Propagate Geraniums from Cuttings

Geraniums aren’t boring plants. Far from it. They come in a wide variety of flower colors and scents. These old-fashioned flowers have graced gardens and kitchen windowsills for generations. Did you know that geraniums are easily grown from cuttings? By taking cuttings and growing your own geraniums, you can save a lot of money. Fill ...

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Common Problems with Geraniums

The garden plant commonly known as geranium (correctly called pelargonium) is relatively easy to grow. But easy to grow doesn’t mean problem-free. The good news is that most problems with geraniums are easily remedied. Common problems with geraniums can be divided by symptoms into four categories – foliage, flowers, buds, and growth. Probably the most ...

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Beautiful Purple Flowers

When people think of purple flowers, the flowers that come to mind first are usually petunias, pansies, and violets. There are many other purple flowers that are wonderful choices for a purple flower garden. Purple is the favorite color of many people, and a purple flower garden with pretty blooms in varying shades of purple ...