A plant I didn't love.

As I said before, I like plants with functionality. I'm not particularly into flowers. The plant below is a common garden geranium (Pelargonium zonale) that I had for several years. It is not a true geranium, which are cranesbills in the genus Geranium, but they are in the geranium family. The genus name is from the Greek pelargos, stork, referring to the fact that the plant's flowers resemble stork beaks.

I didn't ever really care for this plant and to make matters worse it absolutely refused to die despite lack of water, poor light, and my constant emotional neglect. I even took its pot away and put it in a very small recycled sour cream container. Eventually I decided to get rid of it, but alas, I hate tossing out live plants so kicked it out and made it live on the street.

It took about 20 minutes until someone picked it up and took it home. I can only assume it was taken by someone lame.