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This sunny North - facing doorstep has some kitchen herbs, pots of red Geraniums, and some Rosemary. The owner has chosen a mixture of flowering plants and culinary herbs as a way of welcoming visitors to the home. The herbs look like Rocket , used in salads, and has a peppery, peanut like taste. Rosemary has intensely aromatic leaves and is commonly used in Lamb dishes. The Geraniums are well suited to containers, flower year round and the sunny position suits them perfectly. Photo taken in Sydney.
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Thank you for posting @ctrl-alt-nwo.

Lovely photograph and writing. Appreciate your description of the herbs......how handy is that, to have them by the door. Herbs for the meal and flowers for the table. ^__^

All the best.

Cheers from bleujay/bentleycapital

Nothing like being practical i guess ! Happy you liked it.

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A related group of plants, in the same family of Geraniaceae, has the actual Latin name Geranium, which causes some confusion. But plants in the genus Geranium are typically perennial and look quite different. Long ago they were all in the genus Geranium, until the 1700s when some were separated into the genus Pelargonium.

Scented geraniums are actually a myriad of species, cultivars, and hybrids, each with a distinctive aroma to the foliage. Especially popular with herb gardeners, scented geraniums can smell like almonds, apples, coconut, lemons, roses, nutmeg, peppermint, strawberries, chocolate, or even Old Spice cologne. The rose-scented ones have been important in the perfume industry. And many find their way into jellies and iced teas as flavorings.

Though the flowers are usually more wispy than the Zonals, Regals, and ivy-leaved types, scented geraniums have a remarkable array of foliage forms: puckered, curled, or rounded, resembling ferns, oak leaves, or grape leaves, with textures from velvety to coarse to sticky.

https://www.burpee.com/gardenadvicecenter/annuals/geraniums/geraniums/article10626.html

Fav, comment Award. Fabulous choice of Pics and good info too !

Thank you @ctrl-alt-nwo.

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Excellent style for welcoming visitor ,Geraniums in red color giving beauty to entrance,every day there is some thing great for learning in your post.

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Geraniums are easy to grow annuals that fit well in home gardens, container gardens, flower beds, and even as house plants. We like them for their big, bright bloom, and because they are so easy to grow almost anywhere. Geraniums make great flowers for kids.

Home gardeners use Geranium plants in a wide variety of ways. They are well suited for container gardens by themselves, or with other flowers. You can use them to make a potted gift for a friend for any occasion. They grow well in flower gardens along with your other favorites.

Geraniums are native to semi arid regions of southern Africa.

When the weather gets cold these hardy plants will withstand light frosts and patiently await transplanting into containers to move them indoors. Smaller, dwarf varieties make the best house plants. Geraniums like lots of sun. So, put them in a sunny window or room. They prefer temperatures below 70 degrees.

http://www.gardenersnet.com/flower/geranium.htm

@ctrl-alt-nwo, That's pretty beautiful flowers indeed small plants. Very deserve to home gardens. You gave most perfect description. I think temperature best enough to growing some countries. I add some info through web and pictures.

Geraniums make popular bedding plants in the garden, but they’re also commonly grown indoors or outside in hanging baskets. Growing geranium plants is easy as long as you can give them what they need.

Depending on where or how you grow geranium plants, their needs will be somewhat different. Indoors, geraniums need lots of light for blooming but will tolerate moderate light conditions. They also need indoor temps of around 65-70 degrees F. (18-21 C.) during the day and 55 degrees F. (13 C.) at night.

Source: https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/flowers/geranium/geranium-care.htm

Rosemary has intensely aromatic leaves and is commonly used in Lamb dishes.

That’s true! I personally love Lamb meat. Even though the meat is much more complex to cook correctly than other such as beef or chicken. There was one time I tried to surprise my family. I searched everything I could including You Tube videos “how to cook a perfect lamb”.

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Everything was set and prepared for cooking perfect lamb I purchased at local supermarket including fresh rosemary. The only mistake I made that day, I overcooked it. “Paste” came out of it 😆. I wanted to make it really tender, so I left it for 8 hours in the oven 😱lol. Since then, I leave lamb cooking for professionals. In other word, for my mother in law.

Geraniums

Eye-catching geranium flowers in white, pink, salmon, red, fuchsia, lavender or bi-colors are popular additions to gardens. While geraniums have cemented their place in beautiful gardens, did you know that this flowering plant can help improve your well-being, too? Geraniums aren’t just pleasing to the eyes, but can offer positive effects to your body.

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Geraniums are actually perennial plants native to South Africa and then brought to Europe in the 17th century. Out of all the geranium species, only Pelargonium graveolens, aka Sweet-scented geranium or Rose geranium can be safely consumed.
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The edible Sweet geranium grows to about 1.2 meters (4 feet) by 0.8 meters (2.6 feet) and flowers from May to July. The rose-scented leaves are good brewed as a tea and the flowers can be eaten raw. They help relieving stress, treating inflammation, boosting the immune system, improving kidney health...

Other Geranium Varieties

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Beautiful plants @ctrl-alt-nwo and geraniums are often grown in apartments. To date, there are many different varieties of this indoor flower. Some growers even grow several varieties in one pot at once in order to get a beautiful multicolored bouquet.

Geranium forms large flowers, which have a rich color. But it is necessary to understand that, in spite of its unpretentiousness, the plant needs properly organized growth conditions. At the same time, an individual approach to growing is important, because to make the geranium blossom, certain conditions must be created for it. Each variety has its own requirements for growing conditions.

http://myorchidea.ru/geran/kak-uhazhivat/

Rosemary - an evergreen perennial shrub with needle-like leaves, like needles of conifers. In open ground it can grow up to 2 m in height. It grows wild in the Mediterranean coast.

Since ancient times, Rosemary is famous for its medicinal and aromatic properties. So, for example, this plant is included in the list of famous seasonings of Provence. The aroma of rosemary is like a mixture of eucalyptus, camphor, lemon and pine.

https://7dach.ru/zdorovie/Tatyana-sadovodniza/rozmarin-ili-svezhest-morya-na-vashem-uchastke-2739.html

Geraniums are one of the most popular container and garden plants. You just can’t beat their bright colors and sturdy, well-shaped foliage. At the garden center, geraniums tend to come in larger sizes, which make them more expensive than other summer annuals.

Unlike many of their peers, geraniums can easily be stored over the winter and enjoyed again next year. So if you hate to see your lovely geraniums killed by frost this fall, here’s how to go about overwintering them indoors.

Methods of Overwintering Geraniums
There are three ways to make geraniums last through the winter:

  1. Overwinter inside as potted plants.
  2. Store the dormant, bare roots.
  3. Propagate cuttings to make new plants.

https://www.todayshomeowner.com/how-to-grow-geraniums-over-the-winter/

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According to the biological classification, this plant belongs to perennial grasses and semishrubs. The official name - pelargonium, is not so often used even in books. Depending on the growing conditions, more than 300 species of geraniums are distinguished, but only its room varieties literally conquered the world and became a kind of symbol of the family hearth. In addition to purely aesthetic pleasure, the geranium flower is a very useful acquisition.

The high content of essential oils in the leaves promotes the saturation of air with useful substances, which can not but affect the health of the household. This medical properties of geraniums do not end, because even in official medicine, a pharmacy version of this utility is used: essential oils and extracts.

http://uplady.ru/dom/komnatnye-rasteniya/uhod-za-geranyu-v-domashnih-usloviyah-vidy-posadka-obrezka-razmnozhenie.html

Rosmarinus is an evergreen perennial bush of the family Lamiaceae with narrow fragrant leaves, on top - green, and from below - white, like coniferous needles, blooms in small blue-violet flowers.

Rosemary is a very valuable plant. It is used in medicine, cooking, cosmetology. In the leaves of rosemary contains essential oil, which possesses bactericidal, wound-healing properties.

Rosemary has the ability to excrete toxic substances from the liver. It is also used as a diuretic, normalizes the functioning of the cardiovascular system. Tea and infusion of green rosemary are used for headaches, for rinsing the throat.

Dishes of Mediterranean cuisine are hard to imagine without rosemary. It has a pleasant spicy-pungent taste with pleasant bitterness. Fresh greens are added to soups, hot meat dishes. Dried shoots and leaves can be added to various spicy compositions. Thank you @ctrl-alt-nwo

http://domiksad.net/catalog-plant/99-catalog-r/431-rosmarinus.html

Home flowers are beautiful, they are pleasant to look at, they are useful for mental and physical health. When, on a par with geraniums, various condiments grow in the house, it's very good! Rosemary - this spice is as useful as it is beautiful. In addition to the fact that rosemary has a pleasant spicy aroma, it also has many therapeutic and prophylactic properties. Even the simple inhalation of the aroma of this plant is already useful, and to admire its beauty (especially during the flowering period) gives great joy.

https://flowertimes.ru/rozmarin/

Geranium or Pelargonium has long and firmly occupied many window sills as an unpretentious and beautiful plant. It can be grown at home and in flower beds: the flower looks great anywhere.

https://klumba.guru/komnatnye-rasteniya/geran/uhod-za-geranyu-v-domashnih-usloviyah-dlya-nachinayuschih.html

@ctrl-alt-nwo,
By using few different type of flowers and plants they made a wonderful door step! Nice photography and a description of it!

Cheers~

Hello sir how are you??
This picture is amazing these red Geraniums increase the beauty of door step...
Red Geraniums:
shaded white, pink, purple or blue, frequently with unmistakable veining. Geraniums will develop in any dirt as long as it isn't waterlogged. Proliferation is by semiripe cuttings in summer, by seed, or by division in fall or spring.
Geraniums are eaten by the hatchlings of some Lepidoptera species including dark colored tail, phantom moth, and mouse moth. No less than a few types of Geranium are gynodioecious.
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Geraniums are a longtime favorite of Almanac gardeners. They are easy to grow, colorful, and emit a lovely scent. Here’s how to grow geraniums in your home and garden!

Although they are also an outdoor plant, geraniums are typically kept indoors to overwinter. Alternatively, they can bloom indoors all year long with enough light.

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This is very beautiful garden and wonderful flowers . .it is great article & for sharing.
Thanks @ctrl-alt-nwo
Have a great day

Nice Delphinium there, mate. !!

Home flowers are beautiful, they are pleasant to look at, they are useful for mental and physical health. When, on a par with geraniums, various condiments grow in the house, it's very good! Rosemary - this spice is as useful as it is beautiful. In addition to the fact that rosemary has a pleasant spicy aroma, it also has many therapeutic and prophylactic properties. Even the simple inhalation of the aroma of this plant is already useful, and to admire its beauty (especially during the flowering period) gives great joy.
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Rosmarinus is an evergreen perennial bush of the family Lamiaceae with narrow fragrant leaves, on top - green, and from below - white, like coniferous needles, blooms in small blue-violet flowers.

Rosemary is a very valuable plant. It is used in medicine, cooking, cosmetology. In the leaves of rosemary contains essential oil, which possesses bactericidal, wound-healing properties.

Rosemary has the ability to excrete toxic substances from the liver. It is also used as a diuretic, normalizes the functioning of the cardiovascular system. Tea and infusion of green rosemary are used for headaches, for rinsing the throat.

Dishes of Mediterranean cuisine are hard to imagine without rosemary. It has a pleasant spicy-pungent taste with pleasant bitterness. Fresh greens are added to soups, hot meat dishes.
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The long, palmately cleft leaves are broadly circular in form. The flowers have five petals and are coloured white, pink, purple or blue, often with distinctive veining. Geraniums will grow in any soil as long as it is not waterlogged. Propagation is by semiripe cuttings in summer, by seed, or by division in autumn or spring.

Geraniums are eaten by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including brown-tail, ghost moth, and mouse moth. At least several species of Geranium are gynodioecious.[1][2][3] The species Geranium viscosissimum (sticky geranium) is considered to be protocarnivorous.
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your describing style really very impressible.i like your every work.because your work anytime perfect and real.everyday i am got alots of new idea of various kinds of flower.flower always main symbol of nature beauty. this red geraniums very attractive flower and we can decorate our house any door and window etc.your showing door stage you decorate doing this red geraniums and rosemary flower.thanks to sharing for your awesome creativity.i am always attracted them.i want you stayed anytime live long happily in your whole life.i wish that you success being your future and your all dreams comes true.may god bless you.my best wishes anytime with you.all the best.keep it up..take care yourself and best of luck of your great work.. my good friend.. @ctrl-alt-nwo

biological classification, this plant belongs to perennial grasses and semishrubs. The official name - pelargonium, is not so often used even in books. Depending on the growing conditions, more than 300 species of geraniums are distinguished, but only its room varieties literally conquered the world and became a kind of symbol of the family hearth. In addition to purely aesthetic pleasure, the geranium flower is a very useful acquisition.

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The high content of essential oils in the leaves promotes the saturation of air with useful substances, which can not but affect the health of the household. This medical properties of geraniums do not end, because even in official medicine, a pharmacy version of this utility is used: essential oils and extracts.

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Rosemary - an evergreen perennial shrub with needle-like leaves, like needles of conifers. In open ground it can grow up to 2 m in height. It grows wild in the Mediterranean coast.

Since ancient times, Rosemary is famous for its medicinal and aromatic properties. So, for example, this plant is included in the list of famous seasonings of Provence. The aroma of rosemary is like a mixture of eucalyptus, camphor, lemon and pine.

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Wow you have chosen my two photographs, really glad.

Thank you @ctrl-alt-nwo ! It is very wise to grow spicy plants in your house. Fresh spices give a unique taste to meat. ))) I like to cook meat. I can not find a laurel tree seedlings from us, they are completely lost.

Wow! Lovely colours to give me needed energy!
The world and my life would have been a flob without these flowers!

flob - i like it !!

@ctrl-alt-nwo
Fantastic Doorstep Flowers . the amazing look. resteem

That is a amazing garden & really looks for flowers. the great for the
information.

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100% like and resteem

great way to plant herbs and flowers if you do not have a garden!!

ll nice way to make it of use :)

Looks really nice by the way !

Wow that will really looks cool on the doorstep adding the charm and glow to the house

multiple functions, as decor to add colours, welcome guest, food usage, greens to cycle air, good for the eyes. how do you tell it's north facing

@ctrl-alt-nwo hello 👋 sir Wow, so beautiful red flowers, in stob, that means it must be at the gate of your house ???. To get to the couch at the gate of the house, Wow looks very beautiful red flowers on this time, it is bright like this, some say to us, flowers help us to maintain our natural beauty, flowers are used in many of our work, but flowers are always used Do not go, more than flowers, flowers are available in the season. Do you think, when we see more flowers than ever

Actually, it's not my house, i just took the photo when i was out walking.

@ctrl-alt-nwo Oh That means when you were going somewhere on the road. Then you saw these beautiful red flowers in your eyes. And then you picked up these pictures. You have a very nice choice. Thank you, you gave us such beautiful flower pictures

red geraniums are very beautiful,i really like flowers,work that are extraordinary,i have to learn a lot from you,success is always,@ctrl-alt-nwo

@ctrl-alt-nwo - Sir that red color flowers with other herb plants gives a stunning view to the doorstep... Beautiful photography Sir... Nice you decided to share these details...

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This has made your house so beautiful.Great example for how to use your space to get 100% better results.

i love how you can make beautiful nature anywhere!!xoxo

Your house is so beautiful.Thanks for sharing @ctrl-alt-nwo

Flowers help to brighten a day...i dont think i have ever seen these flowers..they look amazing though :)
Have a great day...

Most plants need sunny atmosphere and homes owner already knew it that's why he planted good flowers and herbs as well .

A nice living welcome to visitors and practical for handy herbs.

Red flowers are located almost on all stairs and this is a red flower that we rarely find wildly. maybe this expensive scented flower that is specially planted to decorate the yard. resteem so everyone sees it. Good job @ctrl-alt-nwo.

It's fantastic that you have rosemary that is to deter mosquitoes ;) Great for summer evenings, when sometimes invasion of insects does not allow us to enjoy the evening outside. I like your flowered stairs :)

Beautiful walk to the house and out. I believe rosemary gives also a nice smell.

Such steps look very friendly. Good luck to you and Love.

Такие ступени выглядят очень дружелюбно. Удачи Вам и Любви.

excellent way to welcome ppl.nice idea ✌️

Owner has good sense of gardening and it's showing in your photo .

Bright red and very suitable for sunny weather today. some people choose to enjoy a variety of natural beauty that exists, and flowers become one of the most colorful natural beauty. I am sure you are one of the true nature lovers. Regards @ctrl-alt-nwo

Very nice flower. thanks for sharing this post.i appreciate your valuable post..

amazingly I like beautiful flowers

What a wonderful plants sir you always brings fresh energy in steemit.

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Amazing door step plants 😊

O woww beautifull out door plant 🌱

Beautiful flowers and this my favorite colors. I like it this your garden. thanks for sharing your beautiful garden..

Brilliant exhibition of these little flowers.

Cant get anything better any where else sir you are having a great collection of flowers.

photo of rosemary with a beautiful arrangement, the flower is so bright red like fire.

What a wonderful flowers sir i love these flowers thank you so much for this amazing blog post.

Beautiful garden flowers
I like it this beautiful plants. I appreciate your valuable content. thanks for sharing Australia...

Wow beautiful door step ❤️

@ctrl-alt-nwo
Wonderful home front flowers port . its really and this is valuable article.
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Great, you got a nice doorstep and good herbs for cooking👍

wow the flower is very beautiful, this flower fits in the gate to welcome guests to look beautiful.

I really like this concept from you,thanks for your thoughts.

Wonderful flowers sir you always brings something new to us.

Your blog is the place where i gets a lot of fresh energy from you,thank you.

I love flower. thanks for sharing this post.very nice flower.most welcome..

That'sa a nice concept for a house. Grow your own things so you can use them whenever you cook. The place looks very welcoming to see. I think when I make my own house I would love to adapt to this concept. Thank you so much for sharing this photo with us! Hope you have a great day ahead!

These flowers will make to be pleasure for our home.

A Flower is beautiful anywhere in the world , now I am looking much beauty in that post.

Yeaps this can make our home beautiful.If we decorated our home with flower plant it looks amazing.I wanna love it.Thanks for sharing.

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My favourite flower photography 💞 thanks for sharing this flower.i love flower...

Beautiful plants and very nice flowers. I appreciate your valuable content. thanks for sharing this sir..

Thanks for sharing such a great post @ctrl-alt-nwo. you describe the herb very well I like it. you have the good style to engaged people. Every day you share something great for learning Thanks.

@ctrl-alt-nwo
wow nice post. wonderful garden .this isgreat article & nice photography
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Your blog is the place where i gets a lot of fresh energy from you,thank you.

Wonderful flowers sir you always brings something new to us.

I am making another comment just to thank You :)

Thanks for the Support of yours, it means a lot brother :)

No problem, mate. We are all here to help each other.