I find gladioli so majestic with glorious colours. A tall vase of gladioli always look magnificent.
My mum and I have both grown gerberas over the years and as they have developed them, they have become much larger. I particularly love the yellow ones.
Gardenias I love for their perfume and their whiteness, although the creamy ones are also beautiful. (I remember as a teenager going to a tennis club dance with a friend. During intermission we sat with our boyfriends in a car just outside. June and I both had gardenias in our hair and with the windows closed the scent of the gardenias was overpowering. It was a wet night so we went back into the hall as we couldn't, of course, wind the car windows down.)
As for geraniums, I love them and have always had some growing either in my garden or in pots over the years. They are so easy to grow as pieces that drop off will take root very quickly. I currently have a beautiful dark pink one in flower as well as a paler pink and some reds. The dark pink bush is about 3 feet high and has grown from a slip I stole from a bush at the local school several years again when we went to vote in one election or another. I am sure it was never missed as it was only a tiny slip. (Is my guilt showing there perhaps?)
Which is your favourite "G" flower? I didn't mention gloxinia which are also beautiful. My dad used to grow them in his glass house but I don't regard them so much as a 'garden' flower.
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ReplyDeleteMy fav or the colorful ones ;O]
Thank you and the colours win every time in my world.
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ReplyDeleteI have gerberas and geraniums in my top ten!!! Glads are lovely to look at but somehow never could think to grow them. I had a gardenia too... but it never did too well in my yard. The perfume is yumm.... YAM xx
Glads are perhaps a little daunting to grow, Gerberas can be temperamental but geraniums just repay us with colour even when neglected. Gardenias, like azaleas and camellias are very choosy regarding pH and don't like lime. We have used epsom salts to help our azaleas and the large camellia bush which thrives. The perfume of gardenias is amazing but can cause hay fever as do so many plants. xxx
DeleteI do love gardenias, but have given up attempting to grow them. They are something I have a decided brown thumb for. Love gerberas and geraniums, but am less fond of glads.
ReplyDeleteWe have tried to grow gardenias with little success. Had two healthy looking plants in the front gardenia and both flowered beautifully before one died almost overnight. The other hung on for a couple of years without flowering and then it too was gone.
DeleteMy mum grew geraniums in every yard she lived in, not because they were her favourites, but because they would grow easily, quickly and anywhere. I like gardenias, but from a distance as the perfume can be too much during pollen season.
ReplyDeleteI like to see picture of foreign towns where they use geraniums so much. They are so colourful.
DeleteI too find the perfume of gardenias rather overpowering.
During the pollen season I am never sure what it is causes the most problems. Definitely wattle and dandelions and the flower of weeping peppermints too. All out now.
Favourite G garden flower = Grevilleas. I love them and have mass planted them in my front and back garden. There are so many varieties, especially since Kings Park Botanical Gardens started cross-pollinating them a good few years ago, everything from ground covers to trees. The birds love them too.
ReplyDeleteI too love grevilleas but I am only including exotic garden flowers here and not natives.
DeleteI had a friend who was allergic to one species of grevilleas. Not sure but think it was perhaps Robyn Gordon. Just a touch of the leaves and she would come up in a rash.