Summer flowers or should I say Winter flowers?

Mom was over the other day and wanted to know why my flowers were still alive. I guess I never thought about it until then. It’s one of those things when you walk by something every day and see it, well you kind of become blind to it. I’ve walked past these flowers for months and months and when the temperature got down to the 20’s the other day, I didn’t even think of covering up any outside flowers. And honestly if I did think about covering them up, well that wouldn’t have happened! But she was right, they do still look pretty darn good for mid November in Iowa. 

So I thought I better check on my flowers that I stuck inside the greenhouse. I put them there because I wasn’t sure what else I should do with them at the time and it was as good as a spot as any other. And what I found was that they also were looking good for little or no water on them. I told my Mom that I would get the geraniums transplanted from these planters and give to her to keep over the winter. She usually has good luck keeping them from year to year and my guess is that they have a much better survival rate being at her house than mine when the snow starts to fly.

As for the rest? Well I’m going to ride it out and see how long they will keep alive. My guess is that I’m thinking Christmas. Yup I know that this is pretty optimistic – but who knows right?