Sherry Chandler » Some Thoughts on Annuals
Some Thoughts on Annuals
Y’all remember a while back I shared some thoughts on irises, including a comment from an anonymous friend who prefers hard-working annuals.
Said friend has now revealed herself to be Georgia Green Stamper, who has expanded her thoughts into an entire Georgia: On My Mind column in the Owenton News-Herald.
I have a love affair with annual flowers — geraniums, impatiens, begonias, petunias and their kin. They only last one season, but they work hard while they’re here, sort of like that old country song — they live fast, love hard, die young, and leave a happy memory.
With just a little planting effort on my part in the spring and a splash of Miracle Grow every week or so, my annuals prance and make sweet music for me until the Ice Man cometh. I’m especially fond of geraniums (although my daughter and son-in-law dismiss them as too 1970s. Who knew geraniums hit their peak of popularity in the 70s, I respond, without giving them a lecture on the history of horticulture.) Out of style or not, I think geraniums strut — especially the red ones. They’re the drum majors of my parade. I put them in large pots, and they do all the rest.
Wave petunias are my rank and file flirting from window boxes and planters
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