geranium
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While his fellow students spark to the winds of political change and sexual freedom, he becomes fixated on what a lone geranium, imaginatively monitored on its windowsill, might have to convey if given the chance.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026
These microbes are known to contaminate white wine, causing spoilage and unpleasant odors, including nail polish remover, geranium and "mousy" odors.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 17, 2024
Try skirting the rose with Geranium Rozanne®, a hardy geranium that blooms from June until frost with waves of saturated purple-blue flowers.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 15, 2023
Ms. Wong claimed that essential oils containing lemon and geranium prevented the binding of the COVID-19 virus to human cells, and that “a lot of studies” showed oregano also worked against coronavirus.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 3, 2023
He had found Kingshaw in the conservatory, poking into the geranium pots with a cane.
From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill
In my Connecticut backyard, I’ve been reclaiming the turf under my maples and birches by planting native ferns, geraniums and woodland asters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
Speaking surrounded by geraniums, he said he was happy to take any form of payment, although card was slightly easier albeit slower to process.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2025
And the plant orders that include geraniums and eucalyptus—once considered to be closely related—are in fact quite distant from each other.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 23, 2024
Plants will be nonirrigated and drought resistant: Adirondack crabapple for shade canopy, hardy geraniums for color, Point Reyes shrubs for evergreen ground cover.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 4, 2023
Where spiders now spun their webs, geraniums had bloomed red and pink on the windowsills.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
