Balcony
Zonal geranium
Pelargonium × hortorum
- Cat: mildly toxic
- Dog: mildly toxic
- Light: full sun
About the plant
The zonal geranium is a hybrid of South African species and one of the most popular balcony plants. It flowers from spring to autumn if the spent flowers are removed; it does not survive frost, but it can be kept over winter somewhere cool and bright.
Zonal geranium and pets
- Cat
- mildly toxic
- Dog
- mildly toxic
- Signs
- geraniol, linalool: vomiting, no appetite, depression, skin irritation
If a cat or a dog ate this plant and shows signs, contact a vet straight away.
Instead: safe for cats and dogs
Care
- Watering
- about every 4 days in summer (April to September), every 14 in winter
- Light
- full sun
- Air humidity
- low
- Temperature
- 5–30 °C
- On a balcony in winter
- does not stand frost (likes at least 5 °C): take it indoors before the first frosts
- Feeding
- April to August, every 2 weeks
- Repotting
- every 1 years, in spring
- Grown
- in a pot
Pick off faded flowers and it blooms again. It winters in a bright, cool place (5–10 °C), watered rarely.
This is a rough guide for a flat in Poland. In flowers every plant also has its own watering interval, which learns from how the soil was.