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\"Geranium<\/a><\/p>\n

This week’s Fantastic Friday post comes from way back in March of 2011. Four years later, my geranium slips are rooting in mason jars, and I’m as crazy about them as ever.. The Man of Steel, now four years older after celebrating another birthday on March 8, is as kind and quiet as this post made him out to be.<\/em><\/p>\n

My husband is a wise man. He has yet to say a word about the four, count \u2018em, four mason jars sitting in front of the east windows, hogging daylight.<\/p>\n

He hasn\u2019t commented about how the jars are crammed with geranium slips or how the wintered over geraniums, from whence the slips came, now look like skinned rats in their flower pots.<\/p>\n

He never complained about the dozens of gallon milk jugs in the basement full of last summer\u2019s rain water, some used to water the potted geraniums through the winter and much it now slowly evaporating from the mason jars chuck full of geranium slips.<\/p>\n

Yes, Hiram is a wise man. He knows better than to editorialize when I go on one of my heritage horticultural tears. This month\u2019s tear is all about Grandma Josie Hess\u2019s heritage geranium, the sainted family flower given to Grandma Josie by her mother, Cora Newell. Grandma Josie gave slips to her children (including my mother), who gave them to her three children, one of whom (that would be me) has become slightly obsessed with propagating the sainted plant.<\/p>\n

To tell you the truth, I\u2019m pretty pleased with myself for remembering to cut down the wintered-over geraniums this early and setting the slips in water. Usually I think of it in late April when it\u2019s too late for either the old plants to recover from pruning or for the new slips to root before it\u2019s time to plant them outdoors. But this year I thought of it in March. A minor miracle considering how forgetful I\u2019ve been this winter.<\/p>\n

Come to think of it, Hiram hasn\u2019t said a word about my minor memory miracle or my more normal forgetfulness. At least I can\u2019t remember if he\u2019s made any comments about either one.<\/p>\n

In any case, my husband is a wise man. Almost a saint. Right up there with the sainted family flower.<\/p>\n

Quiet.
\nLovely.
\nHardy.
\nEnduring.
\nPatient.
\nFaithful.<\/p>\n

No wonder I love them both so much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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