Last November, while in MI with family, my sister decided to get rid of her 3 year old geraniums. Now, mind you these things have been trying to hang on to life for the past 2 years. (She is not much of a gardener and readily admits it). This is what they looked like when I got them home. There were three pots of them and they allllll looked like this.
After a good long shower, a little fertilizer and a couple of weeks in the upstairs, here they are putting on new leaves. It wasn't long after that that some blossoms came out.
By January we were honored with several blooms.
Come Spring we took them outside, I separated them and put them in different pots, giving them fresh dirt and more fertilizer... they love those worm castings... This is what they looked like a couple of weeks before I left for MI. Knowing I would be gone for a few weeks, I went ahead and dead headed them (the blossoms were spent by then) They still looked so healthy. Well, we had several weeks of drought and by the time I got home... they looked terrible. Once again, a good watering and off they are going again. They are blooming and putting on new leaves. This fall before we bring them in I will cut them back, then next year they should come out a lot fuller. These poor things struggled a long time to be healthy and are still struggling. Hopefully, life for them, is getting easier!!
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