{"id":174,"date":"2004-07-06T23:59:14","date_gmt":"2004-07-06T21:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.tjerngren.net\/wp\/?p=174"},"modified":"2004-07-06T23:59:14","modified_gmt":"2004-07-06T21:59:14","slug":"tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

I feel like a bit of a copycat, considering the craze that’s consuming Carolyn<\/a> and Jessica<\/a> these days, but I bought two new pelargoniums today. I can’t quite wrap my mind around calling them “pelargoniums,” actually, both because I grew up calling all such plants “geraniums” (and at least one of mine is truly a geranium) and because I keep wanting to say “pelargonia” instead of “pelargoniums” (curiously, I have no similar resistance to “geraniums”). In any case, I bought two new ones today, to go along with the four I already had.<\/p>\n

When we first moved into this house a little over two years ago, my mother-in-law gave me two starts from her own plants and they turned into lovely plants in their own right, with bright red-orange flowers. A few months ago, Tage pulled off a rather large stem from one of them, so I stuck it in a glass of water and over the course of time it turned into a third plant. When geraniums were on sale cheap at my local Konsum earlier this spring, I started thinking that it would be nice to have a bit more variety in color, so I bought the nicest looking plant and figured that the odds were in my favor that it wouldn’t be the same color as the three I already had. Turns out I figured wrong, or mostly wrong at any rate, and the flowers are a red that from a distance looks identical to the red-orange flowers of my original three plants.<\/p>\n

Finally, not being able to stand the monotony any longer, I went to the flower store this afternoon and chose two new geraniums, both flowering, in distinctly non-red colors. One is a pale pink and the other looks almost yellowish (it’s barely past bud stage and the only thing I can tell for sure at this point is that it’s most assuredly not red). When I still lived in the States I had a modest variety of geraniums and my absolute favorite was one that had true orange flowers. I didn’t see any oranges at all today, but I’ll be on the lookout in the future.<\/p>\n

My problem now is that I have a total of thirteen houseplants crowded on to two smallish windowsills in my kitchen and I don’t really have room to expand elsewhere. Looks like I’ll soon be in the market for more shelving, as well as for orange geraniums.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I feel like a bit of a copycat, considering the craze that’s consuming Carolyn and Jessica these days, but I bought two new pelargoniums today. I can’t quite wrap my mind around calling them “pelargoniums,” actually, both because I grew up calling all such plants “geraniums” (and at least one of mine is truly a… Read More Tuesday<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}