Red, red, vermilion red,
With buds and blooms in a glorious head!
There isn't a flower, the wide world through,
That glows with a bright scarlet hue.
Geraniums growing on a windowsill
Image courtesy/Pinterest
Her name-Geranium- ev'ryone knows;
She's just as happy wherever she goes,
In an earth pot or a garden bed-
Red, red, vermilion red!
Courtesy/flowerfairies.com
"The Geranium Fairy"
Poem and illustration by
Cecily Mary Barker
(1895-1973)
English illustrator and poetess.
Official portrait-painter of
the Croydon garden fairies.
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