Red Geranium Canvas Print

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Red geranium captured in Burano, Italy peeking out from weathered window shutters.

Red geraniums are among the most familiar flowering plants, flourishing on porches, in window boxes and garden beds all over the United States and elsewhere. Known to horticulturists by the Latin species name, Pelargonium x hortorum, the big, bright, red flowers are the result of many decades of hybridization. Both Pelargoniums and their hardy relatives, the "true" geraniums or cranesbills, are members of the larger Geraniaceae family. They have many meanings--cultural, literary and linguistic.

The most popular red geraniums are the so-called "zonals," which feature round flowerheads and leaves with faint or distinct "zones" or bands of contrasting color. The zonals are descended from two South African species, Pelargonium inquinans and Pelargoinum zonale, which arrived in England early in the eighteenth century, probably from the Netherlands. They have gone in and out of fashion ever s...

Cheri Randolph was awarded a degree in Fine Arts from the University of New Orleans with a concentration in the study of Art History. She credits printmaker, Calvin Harlan , a UNO professor, as being quite influential in her composition techniques as well as painter, Ida Kohlmeyer with a better understanding of color. Pictorialism would best describe her current work, stylistically. Cheri has expressed her artistic talents in a variety of ways including; wheel-thrown pottery, quilting, vintage clothing restoration, interior decorative painting and photography. She is a resident of both the Houston Heights and historic New Orleans Uptown. A favorite quote is, "The bird of time has but a little way to flutter - and the bird is on the...