#geranium
2 weeks in the city - time to miss my garden.
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Plant of the Day
Thursday 28 April 2022
Ideal for growing in a border or a container is the herbaceous perennial Geranium maculatum ‘Espresso’ (spotted cranesbill) which has distinctive bronze-coloured foliage. At this time of year the pale purplish-pink flowers contrast with the leaves.
Jill Raggett
Cuckoo Flower:
Fertility, romance, persistence, sensuality, conception, love, perseverance, lust, fecundity, tenacity, endurance, and fruitfulness. Toxic.
Daffodil:
Positivity, prosperity, fertility, love, restoration, vitality, good luck, romance, abundance, hopefulness, healing, fortune, and revitalization. Toxic.
Dandelion:
Divination, wellbeing, manifestation, spirit work, happiness, inspiration, revitalization, psychic power, healing, vitality, and delightfulness.
Echinacea:
Amplification, warding, brilliance, restoration, immunity, inspiration, revitalization, charging, protection, encouragement, and motivation. Poisonous to Animals.
Edelweiss:
Warding, bravery, eternal love, loyalty, romance, daring, allegiance, manifestation, deep devotion, courage, valor, nobility, and true love.
Eyebright:
Mental strength, wellbeing, psychic powers, understanding, clarification, restoration, dexterity, healing, soothing, insight, and warding.
Feverfew:
Protection, illumination, maternity, soothing, warding, fertility, clarification, healing, understanding, fortification, maternal love, and rebirth.
Gardenia:
Spirituality, tranquility, love, compassion, harmony, healing, peaceful, romance, soothing, restoration, harmonization, and serenity.
Geranium:
Fruitfulness, beauty, fortune, protection, love, fertility, compassion, warding, romance, healing, and beauty.
Goldenrod:
Prosperity, divination, affluence, insightfulness, prophetic visions, abundance, lushness, spiritual strength, and good fortune. Toxic to Animals.
Heather:
Shielding, great fortune, security, wealth, fortification, abundance, warding, excellent luck, protection, and weather manipulation.
Heliotrope:
Banishment, luck, affluence, divination, healing, success, warding, restoration, insightfulness, cleansing, forecasting, and prosperity. Poisonous.
Hibiscus:
Divination, glamour, desirability, sensuality, magnificence, psychic gifts, romance, lustfulness, forecasting, and attractiveness. Poisonous to Animals.
Honeysuckle:
Abundance, visions, protection, psychic power, fortitude, prosperity, divination, good fortune, spiritual prowess, connection, and luck. Only some varieties of the petals are edible, and all parts are Poisonous for Animals.
Hyacinth:
Happiness, commitment, confidence, warding, romance, protection, delightfulness, love, vitality, cheerfulness, peacefulness, and beauty. Poisonous.
Other Links:
Flower Magic: I
Flower Magic: III
Flower Magic: Poisonous
Flower Magic: Toxic
When I put her out, once, by the garbage pail,
She looked so limp and bedraggled,
So foolish and trusting, like a sick poodle,
Or a wizened aster in late September,
I brought her back in again
For a new routine—
Vitamins, water, and whatever
Sustenance seemed sensible
At the time: she’d lived
So long on gin, bobbie pins, half-smoked cigars, dead beer,
Her shriveled petals falling
On the faded carpet, the stale
Steak grease stuck to her fuzzy leaves.
(Dried-out, she creaked like a tulip.)
The things she endured!—
The dumb dames shrieking half the night
Or the two of us, alone, both seedy,Me breathing booze at her,
She leaning out of her pot toward the window.
Near the end, she seemed almost to hear me—
And that was scary—
So when that snuffling cretin of a maid
Threw her, pot and all, into the trash-can,
I said nothing.
But I sacked the presumptuous hag the next week,
I was that lonely.
Theodore Roethke
Two views from the same spot (by flora-file)
INKFLORESCENCE 02 - Geranium.
Geraniums have a lot of meanings and it’s a beautiful flower! ✨
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—Et juste là, un petit géranium!
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Awkward Botanical Sketches #5: Leaves of Yellowstone Edition
Awkward Botanical Sketches #5: Leaves of Yellowstone Edition
Earlier this month, I met up with Eric LoPresti and others at Yellowstone National Park to help take a census of Abronia ammophila, a rare plant endemic to the park and commonly referred to as Yellowstone sand verbena. Abronia (a.k.a. the sand-verbenas) is a small genus of plants in the family Nyctaginaceae that is native to western North America. Several species in the genus have fairly limited…