Giant geranium appreciates routine

A geranium plant owned by Ioan Childers has been growing in the same pot while basking in sunlight by its favorite window for 12 years.

All that she has done to the geranium is water and fertilize it. She has never repotted the flower. Every morning, Childers said that she shifts the flower one-quarter turn

Childers said that she trims the stalks down before she puts it outside on the deck once the weather warms enough but brings the flower in when it is too cool outside and it stays inside all winter.

She added that the geranium seems to like the spot by the window where the afternoon sunlight shines in brightly and she said that the “sun takes care of it (the geranium).”

The flower was a gift from tenants of her rental house while they were moving away. Childers said that the flower was young when she received it and that was in 2001.