24 January 2011

geranium shape

I'm rather pleased with the appearance my Geranium bonsai has right now.
The little geraniums are never very happy in winter, with such low light, but I recently pinched off all the fading/overly-large leaves from this plant, and then wedged a few pieces of cut wooden chopstick between the branches to spread them out more nicely. When the windowsill light fails at end of day I move it to the desk under a lamp where I can look at it while I'm typing, and perhaps it enjoys the light a bit more.
It's kind of interesting to look at this plant I've been training next to the one I let grow freely. The second plant there? It was a smaller branch I took off the first one, and left alone it's already grown twice as big with much larger leaves.

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