I remember my grandmother growing geraniums on her apartment terrace every summer. The deep red flowers grew in bunches on the top of strong stems, and the large leaves with stripes of different shades of green clustered at the bottom of the flower pot. When I read the instructions for knitting the scarlet geranium in this pattern, the petals didn’t sound anything like the flowers that I remember, and I couldn’t find any photos of a scarlet geranium that looked anything like my finished sample. Of course variations come and go in popularity over time, but not even a search for “heirloom scarlet geranium” turned up anything similar. I put one flower together with a leaf in a bud vase. I’m not even sure if the blossom is right-side up or up-side down on the stem. (Perhaps a reader with a penchant for heirloom gardening can fill me in.)