There were bright geraniums in coffee cans.

And on my street, I look with fondness at two picture windows that all winter long featured pots of bright pink geraniums balanced on little white shelves.

He was referring to displays like Floral Graphics, sponsored by the Ohio Flower Growers Association, which features swirls of yellow marigolds, bright red geraniums and pink snapdragons in huge paisley shapes.

The villa looked welcoming, with its wooden seats and bright red geraniums, the lawns beyond streaked with the long shadows of the cypresses and casuarinas as the sun went down.

Hanging baskets with bright geraniums decorated the higher balconies and the courtyard had been turned into a spectacular garden, tubs of potted plants adorning the old paving.

There were Moorish arches everywhere and huge earthenware pots filled with whispery green ferns and bright geraniums and spiky yuccas.

A painted sign, much like a pub sign, in Gothic script hung above the entrance, and pots of bright red geraniums ranged along the top of the frontage above the mullioned windows with their white-painted frames.

It was enclosed by an ornate wrought-iron fence and there were bright geraniums overflowing from the window boxes on the second floor.

Still smiling, still watching her, Guido reached unhurriedly behind him and detached a stem of bright red geranium.

He was standing beneath a house with a painted balcony, bright red geraniums trailing from a terracotta pot on the ledge.