John is busy making me flower boxes to hang off the porch railing out front, and in fact he just came back from a trip to Lowe’s with the perfect trailing annuals – lobelia – to go with the pink geraniums I picked up last weekend. My dad always had flower boxes on our home in Floral Park. The first time I saw a hummingbird, I was sitting at the dining room table eating dinner. My chair faces the window with the flower boxes planted with red geraniums. I saw the flash of green and the telltale hum. I’ll never forget it! I now put out hummingbird feeders, but I always plant geraniums, either in pots or window boxes, near the front of my home.
To me, geraniums symbolize welcome. And no, this isn’t a picture of my home, although I sure wish it was a little cottage I owned somewhere.
