The pink Pelargonium 'Angel's Eye' blooms into a beautiful flower ball, showing only flowers and no leaves

A few days ago I posted that my Angel's Eye at home had bloomed into a flower ball, and fellow gardeners asked me to share my growing experience. Hehe, actually all my few tricks were learned online. Read the experience of the experts more, and then explore and figure out a growing method that suits you

The pink Angel's Eye was a medium-sized seedling bought in the winter of 2016, purchased online. When I received it, looking at so many dead and yellow leaves, and such a messy seedling, I really disliked it and was very disappointed. I even contacted the seller hoping to exchange it for another variety. The seller said seedlings do have some yellow leaves in winter, and besides, it had been on the road for so many days, so after letting it recover and potting it up it would grow well. They also said that if it died within a week they would send me a replacement seedling. So I made do and planted it. At the time I didn't add any base fertilizer or anything, and the soil was just ordinary nutrient soil mixed with a little peat. It never died, but it didn't grow well either. I can't find the earliest pictures anymore, only ones from 2017. Everyone, take a look at how it looked then, April 29, 2017

At the time it was really ugly, so I hardly photographed it at all. It wasn't until May 2017 that it finally looked better

Still in the same month, it became even more beautiful

On June 8, 2017, it amazed me

After that, because I was too busy with work, I had almost no time to take photos, and I even asked a friend to help with the watering. During the hottest part of summer, I put it on the north balcony, a very shady and very airy spot. During that time I had no time to look at it, and for watering I would just remember to ask my friend to go to my home and water it...

Just like that, it actually made it safely through summer, through autumn, and until winter was almost over. My busy period came to an end, and I could tinker with my flowers and plants again. Awesome!

During these busy days of mine, it had no fertilizer and was never moved from its spot, and it looked messy and ragged, but I liked it so much and was so happy, because it was still alive. Alive is enough, alive is enough, haha

In early spring 2018 it looked like this

In April 2018 it bloomed a few flowers

Looking at its drooping branches, I decided to prune it a bit. This is how it looked after pruning

Then I decided to give it a bigger pot. This time I definitely had to put in plenty of base fertilizer, using all peat. When I repotted, I didn't disturb the original root ball, I just added soil and fertilizer. After repotting, the effect showed immediately. This is how it looked more than ten days after repotting

Two more days passed

Two more days

Then

And then

Last summer came, and it went to the north balcony for a vacation. When autumn was approaching, I gave it a heavy pruning. Winter went and spring came, and by early spring 2018, I pruned it once more. I had no bigger pot to repot it into, so I just added some soil, plus slow-release fertilizer and a little liquid fertilizer. I don't know where the pictures are stored and couldn't find them, so let's start from when it began blooming this year

I usually don't add fertilizer when watering. During the flowering period I apply water-soluble fertilizer about once a week, and at other times I only fertilize when I remember to, with no fixed schedule. But I put in plenty of base fertilizer: chunk-style chicken manure and clay pebbles as a bottom layer, sprinkle a layer of soil and spread a thick layer of bone meal, then sprinkle another layer of soil and then put in slow-release fertilizer, liquid fertilizer, etc. Sometimes I just grab a handful of slow-release fertilizer and mix it with soil as I fill the pot. I feel that Angel's Eye needs a bit more base fertilizer to meet the nutrients needed during the flowering period.