Weekly Photo Challenge: Off-Season (II)
11Saturday 13 June, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s second entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge shows geraniums surviving an unexpected bout of snow at the seaside.
Hope you enjoy this entry.
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The first entry for this week can be found here: WPC ‘Off-Season’ (I)
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https://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_photo_challenge/off-season/
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I have some bright-red geraniums of that variety. They’ve survived three winters so far and seem much more resilient than the shiny-leaved smaller variety.
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Hmm…. wonder if I could try them here?
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The big test for those particular geraniums will come this winter, as I’ve transferred them from a flowerpot to the ground. So far, I’ve kept them in pots, which I normally move to a sheltered walled bit just outside my kitchen door, where the frosts don’t bite so hard.
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Hmm, of course, water-based stems. We always get 7-10 days of ‘winter’, with -2 at night (but was -5 this past season). The aloe-vera mostly died off for example – perhaps not
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My aloe vera lives in a pot and I bring it indoors in the winter. It’s rather large and makes a bit of a mess with dropped petals from the flowers and oozing goo, so I’m always glad when it can go outside again after any risk of frost has passed.
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yikes that is how it has been here crazy weather. More rain today.
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That is major mondo cool, unca spikkkkkkke. Cuzzin jOsAfEEnnnn
Tell me it wasn’t from, like, yesterday…Mother of jOsaFeennnn
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Nope, a few year ago on a different continent 🙂
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[…] to this challenge, I see many bloggers are sharing winter photos such as frozen geraniums (the wonderful Uncle Spike) and deserted beaches (Reinhold […]
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SNOW!!! I’m hoping we have now passed the “you might get snow with this rain” stage and have moved into warm and stable weather!!! Good photo, though.
Linda
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