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Cranesbill

Multitudes of two-inch pink, blue, purple, or white cup-shaped flowers provide a long season of full color. The cranesbill, also known as hardy geranium, opens in early summer and blooms for more than two months. When grown two or three feet apart and given a taste of fertilizer, the plants become so full of blossoms that one plant cannot be easily distinguished from another. The effect is a large mass of beautiful, exhilarating color.

Being full of blossoms may remind us of the term "fullness of Christ" (Ephesians 4:13) ...
This teaching continues in the book, entitled "Love Deeply."

Excerpt from A Garden of Love, copyright © 2009 by Thomas B. Clarke, 82 colorful pages, $19.95. By interweaving a depiction of flowers and the Scriptures, this book attempts to illustrate how flowers such as the cranesbill can inspire a Scriptural application of love. Thirty flowering plants are presented – each photograph was taken in the Gethsemane Prayer Garden.