1stop Organic Gardening

This doesn’t have anything to do with organic gardening, but I just had to show you the tenacity of some plants. Take a look at this photo below of a really old geranium plant “growing” (more like hanging on by a thread) in a very decrepit half wine barrel.

This is how we found it when we moved into the property. After turning a blind eye to it for a long time, having many more urgent tasks to tend to, hubby yanked the poor plant from it’s crumbling home and threw it by my potting table.

Now I swear I haven’t touched it for at least 6 months (yes, I know….. but I have such a hard time getting rid of any plant that shows even a remote will to live), and it’s still living… not just living, but it even flowered lying there, bare roots exposed to our extreme summer conditions, and now through winter too.

What an amazing plant. I must say, I’m a bit perplexed at what I should do with it. It has survived this long without so much as a lick of water or a grain of soil nurishing it’s roots. Really I should chop it into little cuttings and plant them in our sandy soil and see exactly how tenacious it is! What do you think????

Happy Organic Gardening, Healthy Living…

Julie

Filed under: Uncategorized on July 27th, 2008