Geranium Blog

Medusa Peppers

The Medusa peppers are well ahead of the other two ornamentals I'm growing. Medusa is producing numerous little twisted whitish-green peppers. These will soon turn yellow and orange. Her competitors in the Tournament of Ornamental Peppers are further behind: Bolivian Rainbow is blooming a lot with darling purple flowers, but no peppers yet. Chilly Chili is just starting to develop buds.

Lime Scented Geranium Roundup

How do the three Limes compare? P. limoneum is the most heat tolerant of the three. P. 'Lime' and P. 'Pink Champagne' dislike those ultra high desert temperatures, however they can be grown successfully in the desert with a little extra shade and close attention to prevent excessive dryness. Tough little Limoneum will lose a few leaves if over dry, but is otherwise hardly effected. It can handle more exposure to direct sun than the other two.

The best bloomer of the Limes is Pink Champagne. In fact, it might be one of the nicest bloomers of all the Pelargoniums! Lime is a very good bloomer as well. Limoneum is cute with smaller hot pink flowers.

All three are well scented, although I think P.'Lime' is a bit stronger than the other two.

Lime Scented Geranium Extraordinaire

Limoneum is a lime scented geranium with small leaves and a charming bad-hair-day way of growing. Always fun to look at and very tolerant, P. limoneum should be more widely cultivated.

Effervescent Pink Champagne

Pink Champagne is a very pretty scented geranium. It forms a neat branched bush and will grow relatively tall. Large pink flowers and a fresh lime scent make this pelargonium a very rewarding choice.

Lanky Lime

Lime scented geranium has upright woody branches that tend to be brittle. As they bend downs, they will start to branch out.

Ornamental Peppers

These are two of the three ornamental peppers I grew from seed this year. Bolivian Rainbow will grow little oval fruit that is extremely hot. The fruit is supposed to change colors - white, green, red, purple, yellow, orange. Chilly Chili (below) will have small, narrow, elongated peppers that are sweet.