Will the "Real" Impatiens Please Stand Up!

On Monday, June 13, there was a post on this blog about impatiens.

Here's the post for anyone who's interested:  http://writingstraightfromtheheart.blogspot.com/2011/06/impatiens-sweet-and-generous-flower.html

A total of 12  sweet people made comments, which, of course, are cherished.  One,  simply signed "Beth,"  made me bite my lip and move the computer mouse to the accompanying photo.

The comment read:

       "I love impatiens. Unfortunately where I live now they don't flourish as there is not enough

        shade for them.

      Your picture above looks like geraniums. Am I mistaken? I love those too. They do well for

        me and I plant them every year."

                                                                                                                                 Beth

            GERANIUMS----GERANIUMS----GERANIUMS---GERANIUMS---GERANIUMS

I took my dear hub's hand, the REAL gardener, and led him outside to the peppermint candy-looking plant.

     'Honey?" I said, in a rather weak voice. "Are these impatiens or geraniums?"

     "Geraniums," he said. "Why?"

     "Oh no," I cried. "My credibility among gardeners is shot. I used them in a picture on a post about impatiens."  Truthfully, I felt terrible. Like most humans, I hate to make mistakes.

      So the picture of the flowers in today's post are the REAL impatiens that will be planted in the back of the backyard fountain.

     All I kept thinking of was some tv show where the announcer used to say:

     "Will the real (whoever) please stand up!"

   

 

 

      Thanks, Beth. You were absolutely correct.  I appreciated your astute observation.

      As my husband often tells me,
    

             "Honey, it's good to be humble."  This misidentification of geraniums for impatiens was just like eating a nice big piece of humble pie.

 "Culpa, culpa, mea culpa."

WHICH FLOWERS DO YOU PREFER---GERANIUMS OR IMPATIENS?