Cutting back pelargoniums to keep them healthy during winter.Holding the pelargonium as I cut it back.You can see the process from the pictures below. Pelargonium display theater in Beth Chatto’s garden.Īs I brought each one indoors, I cut it back by at least half its size. I came right home and went straight down the pelargonium rabbit hole. I have always grown a few pelargoniums, but I truly got the addiction after I went to the UK to Beth Chatto’s garden and saw her theater of geraniums. After I roasted them in the southern sun, I moved them next to the garage this year. My own version of the pelargonium theater. Against the garage, they now have a northern exposure, and all of the tropical plants benefited. I used to have the tiered shelves next to the greenhouse, but the southern exposure was way too hot. In spring and summer, they sit on some tiered shelves outside on the north side of the garage. I own a collection of scented pelargoniums, and they are now ensconced in the greenhouse where they will overwinter. The blue wind chime is a nod to my 1970s youth. We moved the heaters to the other side of the greenhouse last spring, and we need to relocate the wires. We use both an electric heater and a propane one. The angel types are miniature versions of Regal pelargoniums.Ĭonfused yet? Inside the greenhouse, all will stay warm with two-stage heat. Royal or Regal pelargoniums are the Martha Washington types with jagged leaves, and they are often variegated.Scented pelargoniums usually give you smaller flowers, but they also have scented leaves.Ivy-leafed types need some shade, especially in Oklahoma.I like to grow them too, but no pelargoniums really like our Oklahoma summers. Zonal pelargoniums are the regular ones with the big flowers, the ones your grandmother or mother grew.Pelargoniums fit into the classes of zonal, regal, angel, and ivy-leaved types. While scented geraniums and zonal geraniums are fun to collect, they are tropical plants meaning they require overwintering somewhere that is warm. It’s a really easy scented geranium to grow. This nutmeg-scented pelargonium (geranium) has such nice blue foliage that seems impervious to heat. Scented geraniums (pelargoniums) are fun to collect. I thought I would share my process with you as I move plants back indoors. The pelargoniums and my other plants are on the move into the greenhouse. I don’t water these plants for a few days to make them easier to move. Greenhouse gardening begins! Moving my jasmine into the greenhouse.
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