Comments on: The midcentury flower of choice: red geraniums

By: Deb

Deb — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:59:45 +0000

Did you know that this very picture is featured in the musical movie version of Little Shop of Horrors? As Audrey begings to fantasize about how her life would be if she were married to Seymour she sits at her vanity table and opens up a Better Homes and Gardens to this ad. This leads into a film sequence of her perfect life, complete with plastic furniture covers, a knotty pine den with TV trays and TV dinners, , their two children playing with a Howdy Doody puppet and an incredible Tupperware party. It’s worth watching the movie just for that sequence, but there’s so much more too.

By: Propagatrix

Propagatrix — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:04:24 +0000

Ah, the ubiquitous geranium-phormium-bacopa outdoor urn! Sometimes vinca was substituted for the bacopa, but only a philistine would omit the geranium.

By: sumac sue

sumac sue — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:15:40 +0000

My memories of mid-century flowers include irises and lily-of-the-valley in spring, marigolds and four-o’clocks in summer, and chrysanthemums in fall.