Yesterday, I was able to text my son a photo of this beautiful puff of salmon. I told him it was a cutting grown from a Geranium he gave me on Mother’s Day two years ago. Plants given as gifts are especially dear to me.
Before frost arrived last year, I dipped a cutting of the geranium in honey and placed it in loose soil with a Ziplock bag over the plant to keep it humid. Not every cutting works, so I usually grow three for every plant I want to save.
I also tried bagging/boxing up a few bare-root geraniums, and the photo shows what I found just an hour ago when I opened the bag. I will continue to grow cuttings and, in the future, leave bare root storage to the experts.
The geranium is part of Cee’s Flower of the Day.
Many keep dried flowers as mementoes. Pity your flowers didn’t survive though.
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The cutting of the geranium I most wanted to save did survive. The others weren’t as important to me.
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Oh I’m pleased to hear that.
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That is a great tip about using honey too 🙂 I love propagating plants on.. 🙂 Beautiful bloom xx
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Thanks Sue.
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I didn’t know you could make geraniums regrow from a cutting, and with honey! I might try that this fall when I do my winter prep. Thanks for the tip.
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Honey has anti-fungal qualities, giving the cutting a better chance of surviving long enough to root.
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Cool photos for the day 😀
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Thanks Cee.
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We win some and lose some. but we keep trying.
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Very true.
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Well that’s a bumma
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Yes, the dried ones for sure. The blossom…sublime.
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That’s too bad about your geranium!
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The ones started from cuttings are doing okay.
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