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Lori, that's so cute! I love the colors of your home. So happy! -
How unique & original!! Love it Lori!! -
Very cute! -
OH MY GOSH! How cute and easy is this????? -
Love it! So fun and colorful ... and I'm all over the polka dots these days! -
I am thrifting and hoarding materials to make another set in Christmas colors. I figure once I pull the geraniums to overwinter in the cellar, I can dress the dirt for autumn and then for Christmas. -
So much fun!! Love the playful colors. -
So, so, so cute! -
Lori please tell us how you "overwinter" your geraniums.
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I trim them back. Those in pots that are reasonable to move get moved in pots (along with potted hosta, by the way) into a corner in our unheated cellar. Others, like these, get cut back and rather unceremoniously tossed into paper bags, also bound for the cellar. Then once the hard frosts seem unlikely, my husband and I bring them all up and I repot what needs to be repotted in temporary homes. Everything gets lined up on the south side of our house and my husband pronounces, as he has ...»
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I am gernium red with envy (instead of green) because I have trouble having pretty geraniums even in spring and summer. Mine just sit there and look awful. They are one of my fvorite flowers but I never have any luck with them! -
Wow Lori, that's great to know. I think I'll start doing that with some of our annuals. I've often wondered if bringing them in would work, but never took the time to try. And at that I would have just brought in the whole plant pot and all to treat them as house plants.
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I guess northern California has really geranium friendly climate as I don't do much to them, even year round. If they look dead I just cut them, sometimes down to the dirt, and they grow and bloom the next season.
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Roanna, mine would not winter over outside. It just freezes too hard and too long. We can always expect a stretch or two of below zero temps. My unheated cellar will force dormancy, but not freeze.
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I want to do this...I love the colors. Did you make the numbers? I guess I could find some at Hobby Lobby. I love the idea of changing them out for the seasons. I have geraniums all over my yard also. I just moved them into the greenhouse for the winter and then bring them back out in the spring. I put some clippings in an old roaster (drilled holes in it with no guilt also) and they are growing and spreading....Now I am going to work on this for my driveway. THANKS. -
I got the numbers at Menard's (Big Box Home Improvement). They were much cheaper there and since they are hardwood, more likely to withstand the elements.
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Thank you...
