• Post Reply Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic
permaculture forums growies critters building homesteading energy monies kitchen purity ungarbage community wilderness fiber arts art permaculture artisans regional education skip experiences global resources cider press projects digital market permies.com pie forums private forums all forums
this forum made possible by our volunteer staff, including ...
master stewards:
  • r ranson
  • Nancy Reading
  • Carla Burke
  • John F Dean
  • Jay Angler
  • paul wheaton
stewards:
  • Nicole Alderman
  • Pearl Sutton
  • Anne Miller
master gardeners:
  • Christopher Weeks
  • Timothy Norton
gardeners:
  • Nina Surya
  • Matt McSpadden
  • thomas rubino

Geraniums as easy blooming houseplants

 
pollinator
Posts: 121
Location: Minnesota
132
homeschooling kids purity trees books cooking
  • Likes 2
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Just thought I'd share this here as some people don't realize geraniums are such easy houseplants.  I bring ours inside every fall to overwinter in our zone 4 Minnesota home and they bloom all year long inside, at all different times.  I purposely buy all different colors so I have hot pink, red, white, peach,  variegated, etc.  They don't require any additional fertilizer, grow lights or anything fiddly.  I have them on window sills, tables, everywhere.  They're inexpensive and they get pretty big when you are keeping them multiple years.  You can also easily take cuttings and make even more.  :)

Pictured are a couple of them I happen to have in a photo of my daughter.  These ones aren't in bloom at the time the photo was taken but each of them blooms at least once a month for me.  Once we're sufficiently warm I'll bring them outside again for the summer.
fiona-geraniums.jpg
[Thumbnail for fiona-geraniums.jpg]
 
gardener
Posts: 1876
Location: Zone 6b
1174
forest garden fungi books chicken fiber arts ungarbage
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
I did the same too. Also new shoots are easy to root and propagate. So come spring time there will be multiple plants ready for the flower garden. They are sold for maybe $5-10 per pot, so overwintering geraniums indoor saves a lot of money.
 
And then the flying monkeys attacked. My only defense was this tiny ad:
Free Seed Starting ebook!
https://permies.com/t/274152/Orta-Guide-Seed-Starting-Free
reply
    Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic