“There are plants that can be called symbols of indoor floriculture of a certain era, and sometimes even symbols of a certain social phenomenon. Once upon a time, such a symbol was “geranium” (pelargonium). Moreover, in the distorted consciousness of the early Soviet era, geranium (along with a canary in a cage) became a symbol of philistinism, as something bourgeois, dying out... The revolution did not encourage comfort in the home. Then this maximalism went away, but the symbolic meaning of geraniums, as well as fuchsias, remained with them to a large extent...”