Nights are still "blissfully cool" here but the days sunny, and temperatures are predicted to keep increasing until and through next weekend. Still, from the latest prognosis it seems likely they may drop a bit again after that, so that we won't have to face the really extreme long-lasting heat that has been reigning further south in Europe. (I for one am keeping my fingers crossed...!)
Today I was up early to open the balcony door and windows to let some cooler air in before it got too warm. I also did my online order from the super/mega market (delivery on Thursday) while my study was still in shadow. Around 10:30 I went for a walk to the same supermarket, though. (About an hour there and back.) One thing they don't include in the online deliveries is flowers; and I wanted to buy two more pelargoniums (geraniums), for my balcony. (And that was my only purchase today - so just "in and out again"...)
I think the two I got a few weeks ago will stay indoors, and these two new ones will be my only live balcony decoration this summer. I just don't feel I have the energy to "potter about" a lot now. But I have put these two in pots that can easily be moved around to either hang on the railing or just sit on the bench next to the wall. (Or taken indoors in a rainstorm, or if I go away for a few days.)
Pelargoniums are such generous plants, flowering for such a long time. We brought some in last winter and they lived and flowered happily in the conservatory.
ReplyDeleteJanice, yes, they usually keep on blooming for some time indoors after I take them in from the balcony in the autumn (when we start having frosty nights). They tend not to appreciate the indoors climate in my flat throughout the whole winter, though, so I usually end up buying new ones in the spring.
DeleteBeautiful geraniums, I have red and white coloured ones in my garden, have a nice week.
ReplyDeleteAmy, I find them the easiest plants to have on my balcony in summer, and after that they usually also continue to bloom for a while indoors in autumn.
DeleteI over-wintered some one year, and they kept blooming all winter...but such sad spindly little blooms! I don't any more, and do love seeing that others have some to show.
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