Geranium Blog

Small Is Beautiful

Chocolate Mint is a large scented geranium with tiny little pink flowers. Even though they are so small, the detail is fascinating.

Heat Brings Explosive Growth

Pruned on 3/5/06

Temperatures here in Las Vegas, NV have been in the high 80s to mid 90s. Scented geraniums LOVE this weather! The picture above shows a 16" pot with two Rose Geraniums (P. lucaeflora) and one Chocolate Mint Geranium (P. 'Chocolate Mint'). Most of the growth you see below has happened in the last 2-3 weeks! Combined container plantings like this are a great way to get maximum impact from your scented geraniums.

Rose Geranium and Chocolate Mint Geranium

Chocolate Mint Geranium in Bloom

Pelargonium 'Chocolate Mint'

Chocolate Mint is one big honking scented geranium, but its flowers are small and dainty pink with a bit of purplish decoration on the top two petals.

Nursery Report

Fuzzy babies of Pelargonium 'Chocolate Mint' celebrate
spring with new growth and even some buds.

It has been 2 months since I started rooting some cuttings from my scented geranium plants. I started out with 12 starts each of Lime, Citrosa, Chocolate Mint, Dr. Livingstone, Brilliant, Ginger, and Nutmeg. I also had 4 volunteer seedlings of Coconut and took 8 cuttings from a Coconut runner.

So how are they doing?

Mostly - very well! I still have 12 babies each of Lime, Citrosa, Chocolate Mint, Dr. Livingstone, and Ginger. Also 11 Brilliant, 6 Coconut, and 3 Nutmeg.

Of the Coconut, the four seedlings are healthy and strong, but the cuttings from the runner never really seemed to get going. Only 2 remain. Nutmeg also was difficult. These cuttings took cold spells harder than the others. I expect that when I try to root some new cuttings in warmer temperatures, they will do fine.