Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 29 JuneA zonal geranium on 2 July, not one flower open yet: four tight umbels of hairy green buds stand over the velvety scalloped leaves, and on the head at the right a few have split just far enough to show the scarlet inside.Week of 6 JulyA zonal geranium on 9 July, four heads open as tight domes of hot scarlet each with a tiny paler eye, one standing well clear of the leaves and a fifth still a knot of red-tipped buds — the foliage soft and velvety, the dark horseshoe zone nowhere in it.Week of 6 JulyA zonal geranium on 10 July in hard midday sun, four domes of semi-double scarlet-orange florets held well clear of the leaves on long hairy stalks — the buds behind them still sheathed in green sepals striped red, the dark horseshoe zone only faintly there.Week of 13 JulyA zonal geranium on 16 July in full flower, seven or eight tight domes of pure scarlet held clear above hairy scalloped leaves, the unopened heads striped crimson down their sepals, and a small coiled snail shell resting on a lower leaf.
