Making the most of a Doorstep.
This sunny North - facing doorstep has some kitchen herbs, pots of red Geraniums, and some Rosemary. The owner has chosen a mixture of flowering plants and culinary herbs as a way of welcoming visitors to the home. The herbs look like Rocket , used in salads, and has a peppery, peanut like taste. Rosemary has intensely aromatic leaves and is commonly used in Lamb dishes. The Geraniums are well suited to containers, flower year round and the sunny position suits them perfectly. Photo taken in Sydney.
Thank you for posting @ctrl-alt-nwo.
Lovely photograph and writing. Appreciate your description of the herbs......how handy is that, to have them by the door. Herbs for the meal and flowers for the table. ^__^
All the best.
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Nothing like being practical i guess ! Happy you liked it.
A related group of plants, in the same family of Geraniaceae, has the actual Latin name Geranium, which causes some confusion. But plants in the genus Geranium are typically perennial and look quite different. Long ago they were all in the genus Geranium, until the 1700s when some were separated into the genus Pelargonium.
Scented geraniums are actually a myriad of species, cultivars, and hybrids, each with a distinctive aroma to the foliage. Especially popular with herb gardeners, scented geraniums can smell like almonds, apples, coconut, lemons, roses, nutmeg, peppermint, strawberries, chocolate, or even Old Spice cologne. The rose-scented ones have been important in the perfume industry. And many find their way into jellies and iced teas as flavorings.
Though the flowers are usually more wispy than the Zonals, Regals, and ivy-leaved types, scented geraniums have a remarkable array of foliage forms: puckered, curled, or rounded, resembling ferns, oak leaves, or grape leaves, with textures from velvety to coarse to sticky.
https://www.burpee.com/gardenadvicecenter/annuals/geraniums/geraniums/article10626.html
Fav, comment Award. Fabulous choice of Pics and good info too !
Thank you @ctrl-alt-nwo.
Excellent style for welcoming visitor ,Geraniums in red color giving beauty to entrance,every day there is some thing great for learning in your post.
Geraniums are easy to grow annuals that fit well in home gardens, container gardens, flower beds, and even as house plants. We like them for their big, bright bloom, and because they are so easy to grow almost anywhere. Geraniums make great flowers for kids.
Home gardeners use Geranium plants in a wide variety of ways. They are well suited for container gardens by themselves, or with other flowers. You can use them to make a potted gift for a friend for any occasion. They grow well in flower gardens along with your other favorites.
Geraniums are native to semi arid regions of southern Africa.
When the weather gets cold these hardy plants will withstand light frosts and patiently await transplanting into containers to move them indoors. Smaller, dwarf varieties make the best house plants. Geraniums like lots of sun. So, put them in a sunny window or room. They prefer temperatures below 70 degrees.
http://www.gardenersnet.com/flower/geranium.htm
@ctrl-alt-nwo, That's pretty beautiful flowers indeed small plants. Very deserve to home gardens. You gave most perfect description. I think temperature best enough to growing some countries. I add some info through web and pictures.
Geraniums make popular bedding plants in the garden, but they’re also commonly grown indoors or outside in hanging baskets. Growing geranium plants is easy as long as you can give them what they need.
Depending on where or how you grow geranium plants, their needs will be somewhat different. Indoors, geraniums need lots of light for blooming but will tolerate moderate light conditions. They also need indoor temps of around 65-70 degrees F. (18-21 C.) during the day and 55 degrees F. (13 C.) at night.
Source: https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/flowers/geranium/geranium-care.htm
That’s true! I personally love Lamb meat. Even though the meat is much more complex to cook correctly than other such as beef or chicken. There was one time I tried to surprise my family. I searched everything I could including You Tube videos “how to cook a perfect lamb”.
Everything was set and prepared for cooking perfect lamb I purchased at local supermarket including fresh rosemary. The only mistake I made that day, I overcooked it. “Paste” came out of it 😆. I wanted to make it really tender, so I left it for 8 hours in the oven 😱lol. Since then, I leave lamb cooking for professionals. In other word, for my mother in law.
Eye-catching geranium flowers in white, pink, salmon, red, fuchsia, lavender or bi-colors are popular additions to gardens. While geraniums have cemented their place in beautiful gardens, did you know that this flowering plant can help improve your well-being, too? Geraniums aren’t just pleasing to the eyes, but can offer positive effects to your body.
Geraniums are actually perennial plants native to South Africa and then brought to Europe in the 17th century. Out of all the geranium species, only Pelargonium graveolens, aka Sweet-scented geranium or Rose geranium can be safely consumed.
The edible Sweet geranium grows to about 1.2 meters (4 feet) by 0.8 meters (2.6 feet) and flowers from May to July. The rose-scented leaves are good brewed as a tea and the flowers can be eaten raw. They help relieving stress, treating inflammation, boosting the immune system, improving kidney health...
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Beautiful plants @ctrl-alt-nwo and geraniums are often grown in apartments. To date, there are many different varieties of this indoor flower. Some growers even grow several varieties in one pot at once in order to get a beautiful multicolored bouquet.
Geranium forms large flowers, which have a rich color. But it is necessary to understand that, in spite of its unpretentiousness, the plant needs properly organized growth conditions. At the same time, an individual approach to growing is important, because to make the geranium blossom, certain conditions must be created for it. Each variety has its own requirements for growing conditions.
http://myorchidea.ru/geran/kak-uhazhivat/
Rosemary - an evergreen perennial shrub with needle-like leaves, like needles of conifers. In open ground it can grow up to 2 m in height. It grows wild in the Mediterranean coast.
Since ancient times, Rosemary is famous for its medicinal and aromatic properties. So, for example, this plant is included in the list of famous seasonings of Provence. The aroma of rosemary is like a mixture of eucalyptus, camphor, lemon and pine.
https://7dach.ru/zdorovie/Tatyana-sadovodniza/rozmarin-ili-svezhest-morya-na-vashem-uchastke-2739.html
Geraniums are one of the most popular container and garden plants. You just can’t beat their bright colors and sturdy, well-shaped foliage. At the garden center, geraniums tend to come in larger sizes, which make them more expensive than other summer annuals.
Unlike many of their peers, geraniums can easily be stored over the winter and enjoyed again next year. So if you hate to see your lovely geraniums killed by frost this fall, here’s how to go about overwintering them indoors.
Methods of Overwintering Geraniums
There are three ways to make geraniums last through the winter:
https://www.todayshomeowner.com/how-to-grow-geraniums-over-the-winter/