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Monday, June 12, 2006
Taking the Bait
Pink Zonal Geranium - Geranium - Geranium
Usually I ignore blog postings I consider "wacked". If somebody dislikes pink flowers, they are welcome to their opinion. If somebody hates geraniums and their smell, then perhaps that's one of the little known differences between Canadians and Americans. Live and let live. But today I feel like deviating from my rule.
Jungle Jim of Scenic Nursery explains to us that a pelargonium is not a geranium. YAWN. He says, "Everyone knows what a geranium is. Right? Wrong! A saying I repeat often is 'It isn't what you don't know that causes problems. It's what you do know that isn't true that causes problems.'"
Who was it that said it is difficult to garden with a stick up your butt?
And what problem does it cause to call a pelargonium a geranium? It makes it hard for Jim to explain to his design clients what he wants to put in their garden! Horrors. Show them a picture and call it a blue flower bush.
Okay, so maybe I've become a bit dehydrated from outdoor gardening activity. Maybe I'm still suffering the effects of finding out I'm an Echinacea. Maybe I'm still holding a grudge against Geranium sanguineum. It remains a fact that Geranium is the customary nickname of the plant correctly known as Pelargonium.
Deal with it.
