Flowers and Their Friends

How flowers and insects came to need each other, explained to children by a teacher who refused to talk down — “it would be very stupid indeed to try to read a book written in Arabic,” she begins, so look up every word you don't know.

Pelargonium Stories

4 pages in this part of Flowers and Their Friends.

Pelargonium Stories (We are apt to think)

We are apt to think of the whole Pelargonium Family as being ornamental rather than useful, but in that wonderful South African country…

Pelargonium Stories (Fragrance of the pelargonium)

fragrance of the pelargonium, because plants are never wasteful. They make only what will be useful to them in some way. They love to be…

Pelargonium Stories (Goniums which you know we)

goniums, which you know we always call geraniums.

Pelargonium Stories: Geranium

Perhaps the members of the Geranium Family we really know best are the pelargoniums from the Cape of Good Hope. It is about as warm in…

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