Saving and storing tender geraniums (Pelargoniums) over winter
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- Left outside over winter, pelargoniums (often called geraniums) will turn black and die. If you have a particular pelargonium species that you want to keep and grow again (or increase the number of plants) next year, it's really easy to keep them over winter, as long as they are stored in a frost-free, dry environment.
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A very informative video - this 78 y/o has no problem hearing what is said (without aid or mic) I wish the few critics would appreciate the effort and time in making this video. It is much appreciated by the vast majority.
Thanks for the kind comments David. It's difficult to know what causes the sound problems that some people experience as it was fine when I edited the video and played it back on my PC when I tested it through RUclips. Unfortunately RUclips won't let me add/edit the soundtrack so it's a matter of keeping the video online and helping those out that can hear it, or deleting the video. Kind regards Nick
I applaud your 78 year old ears!
Holy crap....thank God for this video....as I was just getting ready to try this and I would have forgotten to mark the colors on them! Thanks very much!
Thank you for this, I have inherited some geraniums and I wanted to keep them Winter happy, this is brill thanks! ♥
Graham a very informative video will definitely how a go with my geraniums this winter many thanks
Thank you Graham for a very helpful video. Keep up the good work.
Thank you much Nick, many blessings
Interesting and certainly worth trying. Thank you.
Excellent I am north of Inverness. I am going to try storage in my attic with no soil just the bare roots and see what happens!
Thank you for tips very useful.
Great to learn simple understandable wintering. Thanks. Do one on fuchsia and shrubs would be great. Thanks Nick
Thanks Nick I’ll have a go at the newspaper in the loft and won’t water them x Great advise
Thanks for the tips x
This is the time of year I am concerned for my pelargoniums, got them in a greenhouse with a very low heater so hoping there will be no problems, but most of my coleus died last week, so temperatures are dropping even with a deterrent heater. Thanks for video on this subject. 🌿
Thanks for your message. Whilst coleus are perennials, in the UK they are usually grown as annuals, as they are very sensitive to our cold weather. You can pot them up and bring them indoors as they make attractive houseplants. Otherwise they are fairly easy to grow from seed, sowing indoors in March and planting out in the garden in May. Good luck with your pelargoniums. Regards Nick
Thanks for sharing these informative tips!
Morning Dorinda, thank you for your kind message. I'm glad you found the tips informative. Regards Nick
hi you made a good point NOT all will come through winter NOT the gardener fault it happens ! GT video and info thanks for your time 🐝🐞🐤👍👍👍
Thanks for the kind comment Graham. Hopefully I've given people a few different options of how to keep these plants over winter.
My geraniums thank you!
Great tips, especially the one cleaning the secateurs, thanks
Thanks for your message, I'm glad you found the video useful. Regards Nick
Great video many thanks 🤝
Thank you.
Very helpful, thank you. (Constructive comment: lot of road (?) noise though)
Thank you Sir.
Thank you very informative
Thanks Vera, I hope it helps. Regards Nick
I don’t have green thumbs, luckily I just bought one Generium and it grows so well. I just cut and stick them in the ground then they live. It doesn’t require much water, that’s what I need.
Thanks Nick great advice, I have a greenhouse, a potting shed and a porch so I feel spoilt this year! Not really had the opportunity to store much over winter before but we moved at the end of last year and I inherited a greenhouse here and it's been full to busting all year haha - a greenhouse really is a game changer for me. Thanks for the in depth explanation and demonstration I am confident I can over winter my pelargoniums this year now, no problem with the sound either for me, thanks again and happy gardening :)
Thank you for your message. It sounds like your greenhouse has been working really well for you all year. It's about now that we start planning what we are going to do with it next year ;-) Good luck with storing your pelargoniums. In the next couple of weeks I'm going to pot up a couple of mine in nice pots to keep indoors, for a bit of colour over winter. Regards Nick
@@UKGardening Yes what a great idea I'll bring some in to the house to enjoy, we have a sunroom that gets really good light. I've started cleaning & packing lots of begonia's in to new pots to store too and I think a few of the wax ones should do fairly well in the house too over winter? I have a few fuchsias to do too. I did not realise how time consuming a job it is though :) I'm enjoying the process but definitely underestimated how long it would take for me to transition all of my containers to winter bedding - or am I just slowing down now !? haha
Thanks for the info i have alot of geraniums that i brought very cheap in trays of 24 from the supermarket. They have grown into nice big plants. They're such nice plants i feel like i want to save them for next year Oviously i dont want them to go mouldy so might try the cut all the leaves off and stick them somewhere dry to exsist till next may. I seen alan tictchmarsh cut them back shack all the soil off wrap them in paper and in paper bag and stick them under the bed.
Good morning Christian. Thank you for your message. Alan Titchmarch's suggestion is a good one that many people follow, especially if they don't have a greenhouse or space in a porch or conservatory. Both methods effectively put the pelies into a dormant state to survive the cold winter. For added peace of mind, you could also pot up one or two of each colour/variety of your plants now, put them on the windowsill as houseplants over winter, where they'll continue to grow. You'll be able to take cuttings of these in the spring to increase your stock. Good luck and I hope this helps. Regards Nick
It's so warm this year only today am I thinking of doing this... unseasonably high temperatures in Wales right now.
Are we being lulled into complacency? Probably. But my pellies are still going strong!!
It is unseasonably warm for this time of year and according to the weather forecast it's also going to continue to be warm into next week.
My pelargoniums, fuchsias and dahlias are still growing well and it's tempting to leave them where they are for the next couple of weeks.
I have already started to move some of my pellies and dahlias into the greenhouse, thinking that if the weather suddenly turns colder during the working week I'd have a problem trying to move and save my plants, especially with the darker evenings and an unlight greenhouse.
I'm going to try to plant up my winter baskets this weekend. As I use a lot of the same pots and containers for my summer and winter bedding, I'll lift, pot up and move most of the tender plants into the greenhouse in readiness. Perhaps just leaving one or two colourful pots of pelargoniums and fuchsias here and there that I can move into the greenhouse if it does eventually turn colder.
Going to try this with the gerbera pots I've had this summer...previously they've been killed by frost death before I got round to them but I'm already shifting them to t'greenhouse...
Love your video,now is there a way you save those cutting?😢
Hi Bruna, yes you can save the cuttings, but you'll have to grow them indoors over winter. Cut the cutting 8-10cm long, just below a leaf joint at the bottom and just above a leaf joint at the top (if you can leave a small leaf on the top, so much the better). Push the cuttings into compost in a small (9cm) pot, you should be able to get 5-6 cuttings per pot, water gently, label them including their flower colour and pop on your windowsill. In a couple of weeks they should start to sprout. I hope this helps. Regards
Would be so much better if you could speak up a little and look at the camera sometimes
Hi, I take it that the greenhouse you talk about is a ‘cold’ greenhouse?
Thanks for the video. Seems good advice and tips. Really struggled to hear some critical things you were trying to say as the audio is so quiet.... Hopefully useful feedback!?
Good morning George. Thank you for your message. I'm sorry you struggled to hear some of the video. I don't understand what's gone wrong with the sound quality on some of my videos. When I edited them and uploaded, I thought they were fine, but then some viewers said they are really quiet and difficult to hear, whereas others thought the sound level was ok. RUclips doesn't allow creators the opportunity to edit the audio of a video once it's uploaded, so unfortunately there's not too much I can do to fix the problem. Is there a particular part of the video you have a question about? Regards Nick
Put the subtitles on?
Thank you Nick. No sound problem for me. My first year of growing peles, upright and trailing and a new one from seed (not flowered yet so definitely going from greenhouse to house before end of Sept!) Others will be bare rooted when taken out of display pots. .I have the benefit of two polys and a greenhouse. I'm thinking I should pot up and put in the known warmest structure. It depends on the temps but last year (warm in South UK) my structures reached -3oC on two days. My lowest, most sheltered poly is being set up to store winter things like peles, dahlias, etc. If it' gets colder this winter, a pot & soil will bring more protection? I hope to also have the option of a mini greenhouse inside too. Pleased to hear I probably don't need to take them out in early Oct! Mice could be a problem ....
Morning @Dormousey, I'm glad you didn't have any problems with the sound, it does seem quite hit and miss on the audio of some of my videos. I'm also pleased that you are enjoying growing peles, I think they have such lovely bright colours and aren't too fussy. As far as over-wintering them I think you've got a great plan, keeping them in the warmest structure. It's not necessarily the cold that kills plants in the winter, its a combination of the cold and wet, freezing and damaging the roots. Good luck and if you fancy some new additions to your collection next year, have a look at Fibrex Nurseries, they hold the National Collection of pelargoniums and they have some lovely varieties including some with scented leaves. Regards Nick
@@UKGardening Thanks for responding on an old video; noted and much appreciated :) I will keep a link to Fibrex but don't want to be tempted!
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Thanks for an informative video. I have a number of species and scented-leaf pelargoniums, including quite difficult to establish p. ardens and p. sidoides. I have overwintered them in a dry cool conservatory, but didn't cut them back last October. New growth is just starting to appear. Could I still cut them back now (first week in February), and if so, should I treat them the same as zonal pelargoniums and cut back to 3 or 4 inches? And should I treat my scented-leaf pelargoniums the same way - they are much more 'shrubby'?
It's great that new growth has started to appear. I wouldn't cut them back now, especially if the predicted cold spell arrives in the next few days. I'd leave them to put a bit of growth on and in the spring cut some of the new stems back and use to strike cuttings. I hope this helps. Regards Nick
That great thanks very much . Such a shame just to pull them up and and get rid
We have had a lot of rain lately so my geraniums are all full of water. How do I save these over winter.
Hi Pada, Bring them inside and put them somewhere dry and frost-free like a greenhouse, conservatory, shed or garage, within a few days they should have dried out.
Can they be stored in an unheated greenhouse (Ireland) please? Very informative and no-nonsense video but a little hard to hear which is a pity as I was hanging on to every knowledgeable word you said. Thank you for your time.
Yes they can be stored in an unheated greenhouse, as long as it doesn't get too cold most of them should survive. But water sparingly, only once the soil has dried out.
Thank you so much for your information. I'll give it a try this year. Love your channel especially since we have much the same kind of weather it makes it so much easier.
I live in Spain, in Madrid, during winter time temperature gets down to -2ºC or even -4ºC. I have more than 70 geraniums, some of them are 10-12 years old and we don't do this at all. You should shelter them when temperature goes below 0ªC, by placing them close to a wall and beneath your roof's eaves. But you don't need to massacre them!!!!.
Right now we have about -1ºC to -3ºC during the night and about 8ºC to 10ºC during the day, and I stll have my geraniums with lots of flowers ( 4-5 each) . When the temperature goes beneath -4ªC in December or January I use to use either transparent plastic bags or some of those plastic made greenhouse which I can buy for 30€ in which I can keep 8-10 geraniums, because I don't have a green house.
You don't need any heat at the green house. They don't like heat.
I only take them inside home it it snows, which is quite uncommon here. The weather in the North of Spain is quite similar to the Irish one, so I am sure it would also work for you,
I use to pull of ALL the yellow or brown leaves and shriveld flowers, I don't water them unless it doesn't rain for more than 15 days which is quite uncommon, and at the end of February I trim them , but just in order to make the plant look more rounded, I dont take off green leaves; I fertilise them and place them in the full sun. In March my geranium is already full of flowers, and it keeps blooming until the end of November. Even during December and January I have some flowers.
You musn't water them until the soil is completely dry. We use to say "Thirsty geranium, flowery geranium".
It is very convenient to use some sort of flowerpot stand which protects the roots from freezing. I have one "trick". I have them in clay pots because it is better for them in summer time as clay transpires, and when winter comes I use to put the pot inside plastic flowerpot stand which isolates the clay pot from cold.
For loft storage, is trimmed down and in the newspaper best? Do i keep them dry all winter? Thank you
Hi Isabel. Thanks for the question. Let them dry out a bit in their pots before gently knocking any soil off of the roots, then do as you suggest, trim them, loosely wrap them in newspaper and put them in a cardboard box in the loft. Keep them dry and pot up in the spring. When you are trimming them you could push a few of the cuttings into a pot of compost and grow them on the windowsill over winter as an insurance policy and multiply your stock. I hope this helps. Regards Nick
Hi can you do this with the f1 variety of geraniums.?
Hi Troy, yes, you can save F1 geraniums in the same way. When purchasing F1 varieties they tend to be more expensive, so I'd be tempted to keep one or two plants growing on indoors, as houseplants, over the winter, you can then take cuttings from these in the spring if necessary.
Hi. I live in an apartment, but have a shed outside with no windows. I've stored my Dhalia tubers in newspapers and then inside a cardboard box in my bedroom as my bedroom is unheated and I keep my windows open during the day, so the temperature is usually 15 celcius during fall/winter. I haven't dared storing them in the shed as I was afraid it would be to moist. This year I want to store 3 big pelargonium zonale, and I'm wondering which of these methods you present that would work best for me - storing them in an apartment. I live on the west coast of Norway, so it's usually very rainy and mild during winters, seldom long periods of snow. But last winter (this year) we all of a sudden had minus 13c for a couple of weeks...so I'm afraid to store anything in the shed. Do you think storing them in flower pots in the window sill in 15c will be ok? Should I not water them at all, or once a month? Or should I just store them in newspapers like I did with the dahlia tubers last winter? Oh, and if I do store them in normal pots, do I have to cut them back?
Thanks for your message. I don't think your pelargoniums will survive if you put them in your shed and you get another cold spell this winter like you did earlier this year. You should be able to store them in the same way as you store your dahlias. Perhaps, to be sure of success, you could store half of your pelargoniums like your dahlias and keep the rest in their pots and grow them as houseplants over winter. I'd still cut them back and keep them on the windowsill in the bedroom, water them when the compost has dried out. They'll probably put on a little growth over the winter in the warmth of your house, but these new shoots can be cut off in the spring and used as cuttings for new plants. I hope this helps. Regards Nick
@@UKGardening Thank you for your answer! I will try both like you suggest😉
My geraniums are very wet and can’t seem to remove the soil to air dry them to hung
If they are outside in the border, or large pots/containers, carefully lift the roots with a hand fork, or a small gardening fork. You can then rinse the soil off of the roots in a bucket of water. Leave the plants on a piece of newspaper, on the draining board, to dry, before wrapped them in newspaper and storing them or hanging them to dry. Alternatively pot them up into smaller pots and leave them somewhere dry and frost-free. They can also be potted up and brought inside and put on the windowsill as a houseplant. I hope this helps. Regards Nick
Thanks nick . Will try… @@UKGardening
What is the purple liquid used to disinfect them? I couldn't hear what you were saying about it.
Methylated spirits
methylated spirits - you can get it in most DIY stores or decorating stores.
@Cat Bill In the United States, Amazon has that listed along with denatured alcohol.
Mike One more question ,is your greenhouse heated?
Good morning Bruna, no my greenhouse isn't heated. It's aluminum framed and only single glazed. I've thought of putting in a frost heater, but the heat loss and energy costs have dissuaded me so far. If I had anything exotic that I couldn't bring into the house, I'd perhaps sectioning off part of my greenhouse, insulate it well and then put in a frost heater. Regards
Thank you, great help now I can save them all for a fund raising in spring
Very good advice! I save a few every year in pots bring them in the
house. Then I have some kind of red one that seems extra easy to grow, I
pull them out of pots cut the leaves off store them in a large plastic bag
and fill it with pine shavings the kind you use in pet cages. I dont
seal the top of the bag I just fold the top over and store them in the
closet til spring. I do loose alot of it but some always survives and
anything living I plant and grows great!
PS the plastic bag I use is one that had Equine Pine Pellets also I store the stems up right in the bag. This has worked for me about 12 years with this all red more common type Geranium, but anything that is alive many stems dry up but sometimes a chunk of life here or a stem or lots of stems and I put those in a pot of soil water them as needed, they grow wonderfully.
@@briancaleb6503 Thanks for the suggestion. I might give this method a try.
Hi..can we start cuttings when we bring them in . In autumn? Thank you
Good morning. Unless you can keep the cuttings indoors or in a heated greenhouse, any cuttings taken in the autumn don't have enough time to get established before the colder weather comes, any that may survive the winter are likely to struggle in the spring. It's preferable to take cuttings from the new growth in the spring. Regards Nick
@@UKGardening thank you very much..yesi was planning on keeping the cuttings indoors..it was going to be a winter chore for me
@@mystiquerose620 I have 16 cuttings from a very leggy plant sitting on my south facing window sill right now. I am learning how not to have a very leggy plant by watching RUclips videos on geraniums. By next spring, I hope many of the cuttings will have survived, and I can start off with better methods.
@@libbyworkman1666 hi there..do you have the cuttings in water?I hope it works out for you too..thanks
@@mystiquerose620 Not in water; in potting soil made up of coir and vermiculite. I use 10 ounce solo cups from the grocery store, with a hole punched in the bottom of each with an ice pick for drainage. They do better that way than in water for me. So far the survival rate looks pretty good. It takes a while, because the roots develop first and you can’t see those growing. Each cutting has at least four joints, with two joints below the surface Most of them already have very tiny green leaves beginning to peek out.
Sir how to feed?with out water and soil how to they survived sir plzz tell me
.@Duvvuri Lakshmi thank you for your message. Using this method, you are effectively putting the plants into a dormant state, similar to animals hibernating, so they won't need any food. In the spring you bring the plants out of storage, pot them up in fresh compost and start to water them and they come back to life. Regards Nick
@@UKGardening Thank u sir thank you so much for your information and also fast reply
Dear sir, I live in London and just bought a 9cm Geranium "Rozanne" Gerwat Perennial hardy plant. I was planning to plant it in my small patio, but because is so small, and after watching your video I wonder if I can keep it indoor over winter. I don't want to risk lose it by hibernate it. Any advice please! Thanks before hands.
Hi Nick, I'm new to gardening and after watching your video on geraniums, I am unsure which way is the best option. We have a lot of geraniums in large pots and initially I thought I'd follow your "cut them all back and replant en mass in fresh soil" but this could turn out quite costly having to buy new compost for the amount we have but will do this if you say this is the best way. Also of the options which one do you think is the best to achieve the least losses. Could we risk leaving outside under a ginnel that stays mainly dry and if so do I just leave them without any cutting back. I do have a greenhouse which my hubby has bubble wrapped but as we have so many they would have to be cut down and replanted.
Good morning MrsM Thank you for your question. It's great that you've got so many but I can understand that you probably feel a little overwhelmed when it comes to trying to keep them all. As you've got so many I think you could try a number of methods, but first I'd suggest, as an insurance policy, you take some cuttings, push the cuttings into a pot of compost and grow them over winter on a windowsill, particularly of your favourites, watering them only when the compost dries out. In the spring they will have started to grow away and you can use them as donor plants to multiply your stock for your containers and baskets.
The first method, which is likely to be most successful, is to cut the plant stems down to about 10cm and repot them into their own pots (if they are already in individual pots or you've got all pelargoniums in the same pot you don't need to repot them) you don't need to use store bought compost, if you've got any spent compost from emptying your containers or growbags this is perfect. Keep them in the greenhouse, if you don't have much room, they will be fine under staging, or on temporarily constructed shelving (I use bricks and old wooden planks) you are trying to just keep them alive over winter, they won't/shouldn't grow unless we have a mild winter and shouldn't need watering (unless they look absolutely parched).
If you don't cut them back and we get a cold spell the stems and leaves will turn black and are likely to get infected with botrytis (a grey mould).
The second method, if space is at a premium, is to keep them in a semi-dormant state. Knock off all of the soil from the roots and trim back the stems to 10cm, leave them somewhere to dry for a day or two. Wrap the plants (without compost) in newspaper or pop them into a paper bag and keep them somewhere dry and frost free (a shed, garage or loft) they won't all survive, but those that do, you can pot up in the spring and take cuttings from.
I think if you move the containers to your ginnel there's a good chance they will survive if we have a mild winter but the colder it gets the less likely they are to survive.
Perhaps, now I've given you some options, you can try one or two of them. I would certainly recommend taking some cuttings now though.
I hope this helps. Kind regards Nick
Oh, I've just thought of another idea. Pot up a few of your favourites and keep them as houseplants on your windowsills indoors for a bit of colour over winter (or give them away to friends and family).
@@UKGardening Thank you for all your kind advice. I am feeling a little overwhelmed I can tell you. I think I will trial all the methods you have just suggested and see which turns out best. My dad was a vegetable grower for many years and has given me lots of advice on my tomatoes and veg but he has never grown flowers so any advice is much appreciated.
@@mrsm9443 Sorry, I didn't meant to overwhelm you, it's difficult to suggest the best option for you as I don't know how much space you have.
Trying different methods to see which works for you is a great idea and remember that your plants want to survive, all you have to do it try and help them over the coldest part of winter.
Good luck. Regards Nick
@@UKGardening I'm sorry Nick, I didn't mean you had overwhelmed me, it's because I have so many that's daunting me but once I get going with them I'm sure I'll be fine.
What do you use to sterilise secateurs?
I use methylated spirits, but Jeyes fluid or a household/kitchen disinfectant are probably a better suggestion. Regards Nick
I use ipa...isopropyl alcohol which is dirt cheap.
What about bringing bugs in the soil to the house.
Hi Katg, I can't really think what bugs in the soil you might be referring to, the only bugs that perhaps might be a nuisance, if you have them, are fungus gnats, which are little flies that can buzz around the plant when watering. But these can be controlled by keeping watering to a minimum. I hope this helps. Regards Nick
Check the bottom of the plants for wood louse, slugs if they were in pots. I prefer to get all the outside soil off the plant and use new compost for potting up when taking into the house. It also means you are reducing the risk of vine weevils too as they hide between roots
I think the issue people had was not the sound of the video but the projection of your voice. I loved the video, just had to rewind a few times to get what was said. I hear great so it’s definitely not my ears.
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Forever Ethereal thanks for the comment, I'm glad you liked the video. Sorry about the sound quality, my wife has always said I'm a bit of a mumbler ;-) Regards Nick
@@UKGardening I just discovered your channel and look forward to binge watching your videos. Thanks for providing great content, Nick!
@@UKGardening for these RUclips videos, if there is a problem with the sound, there is a good option, which is to tap the upper right hand corner it has the cc. Having the words printed helps me when people who have accents I have difficulty understanding are talking. I am telling you, so you can share that with your viewers.
@@libbyworkman1666 Thanks for the information Libby, very useful to know.
Soft spoken people need to speak up. Great information.
In this case you''re going to WHAT??? to disinfect it? (Too much ambient noise) Did you actually NAME that liquid in the bottle that you used to wipe down your pruner blades?
Apologies for the ambient noise in the video. Yes, I disinfect the blades of my secateurs to reduce any cross contamination from plant to plant and limit the introduction of disease into the fresh cuts. I use mentholated spirits on a rag, but it could be a fungicide or sterilising solution. Regards Nick
@@UKGardening THANKS!!
Maybe it's just me, but I heard you perfectly and thank you for the advice :)
Sound was fine at half volume for me, including the birds! Thanks for the information.
I have looked at several videos on overwintering geraniums. You are the first person who mentioned sterilizing the tool that is used. Good idea! Thank you for clarifying what you use to sterilize. I live in the U.S.A. and although I watch several British programs I still struggle to understand all that is said. Also, where would I get mentholated spirits?
I live in Spain, in Madrid, during winter time temperatures gets down to -2ºC or even -4ºC. I have more than 70 geraniums, some of them are 10-12 years old and we don't do this at all. You should shelter them when temperature goes below 0ªC, by placing them close to a wall and beneath your roof's eaves. But you don't need to massacre them!!!!.
Right now we have about -1ºC to -3ºC during the night and about 8ºC to 10ºC during the day, and I stll have my geraniums with lots of flowers ( 4-5 each) . When the temperature goes beneath -4ªC in December or January I use to use either transparent plastic bags or some of those plastic made greenhouse which I can buy for 30€ in which I can keep 8-10 large geraniums, because I don't have a green house.
You don't need any heat at the green house. They don't like heat.
I only take them inside home it it snows, which is quite uncommon here.
I use to pull of ALL the yellow or brown leaves and shriveld flowers, I don't water them unless it doesn't rain for more than 15 days which is quite uncommon, and at the end of February I trim them , but just in order to make the plant look more rounded, I dont take off green leaves; I fertilise them and place them in the full sun. In March my geranium is already full of flowers, and it keeps blooming until the end of November. Even during December and January I have some flowers.
You musn't water them until the soil is completely dry. We use to say "Thirsty geranium, flowery geranium".
It is very convenient to use some sort of flowerpot stand which protects the roots from freezing. I have one "trick". I have them in clay pots because it is better for them in summer time as clay transpires, and when winter comes I use to put the pot inside plastic flowerpot stands which isolate the clay pot from cold. I don't have any "casualties" because of winter.
Thank you for very informative message. In the UK it's often not the cold winter temperatures that kills plants but the combination of the cold and wet, which is why it's recommended to put them somewhere dry/sheltered over the winter months. Regards Nick
I’m sorry I couldn’t understand what you were saying it was a Lotta mumbling
Didn't have a problem but then I'm British who struggles with many Murican accents....
Can you do the same for the citronella geraniums?
Carole Lamont-Moore hi Carole, I've not grown the scented pelis but I can't see why they would be any different. I'd suggest keeping one plant ticking over indoors through the winter so if the others don't regrow in the spring you have a plant to take cuttings from. Good luck, regards Nick
i can't understand anything he is saying. He keeps turning his head away from the mike . He mumbles. BAD VIDEO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m listening with my earphones and heard everything perfectly well.
@@deirdremurray2750 Me too :)
I’m listening with my headphones and had to rewind quite a bit. Nothing wrong with helping him make his videos Better!
I heard perfectly well. Thanks for video Great information.
this might be an interesting video, but all i can get is this man mumbling. sad because i was very interested
try the subtitles/closed captions option x
I listened with my earphones and heard everything perfectly well!
I’m listening with my headphones and had to rewind quite a bit. Nothing wrong with helping him make his videos Better!