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Geranium help-browning in centre or flopping

janebuckingham71@yahoo.co.uk[email protected] Posts: 279
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Hi all

I have perennial geraniums - not sure which exactly - and I think they need a prune as they’re flowering mostly on the edges but I’m reluctant to lose the flowers.  

Pls see pics enclosed, most worried about the pink one as it looks awful in the centre.

Grateful for suggestions on how/whether to tidy them up now or wait a bit and divide them for next year. ?
Thanks 

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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I would cut them both right back and then give them each a generous handful of pelleted chicken manure and a good, deep drink.    They'll re-grow fresh foliage in just 2 or 3 weeks and maybe even flower again.

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Chop them hard back and feed and water as Obelixx says (and as Monty showed on GW last night).  Pop the flowers in a vase and bring them indoors  :)

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • janebuckingham71@yahoo.co.uk[email protected] Posts: 279
    Thank you!! 
  • cornellycornelly Posts: 970
    Did that with some of ours this morning, they usually grow fresh foliage.
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    One that l cut back a week or so ago is showing new growth, so l will be doing a couple more when it cools down a bit later on.
  • hogweedhogweed Posts: 4,053
    I always do that at the back end of the year and after the first flush of flowering. It keeps the plants compact and a summer prune can also encourage another flush of flowers. 
    'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
  • janebuckingham71@yahoo.co.uk[email protected] Posts: 279
    Good news!
    Hard to do tho’ when it’s flowering so nicely on the edges (even if the flowers are on the floor)  :):)
  • BijdezeeBijdezee Posts: 1,484
    Next year in the spring it would likely benefit from being divided too. 
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    But you will be pleased if it’s one that flowers again and it’s full of flowers. They don’t all flower again. I’ve got a lovely pink one that just goes on and on after a cut down. 

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • janebuckingham71@yahoo.co.uk[email protected] Posts: 279
    Thanks both! 
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