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  • You can keep them in pots as long as they're frostfree ... if you put them on windowsills they may even keep flowering through the winter for you. :)

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





  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    edited November 2018
    I keep mine going all through the year, indoors. 
    Look out for the tiny green caterpillars, you’ve probably only got one or two, they don’t particularly come out at night you can find them anytime. About half inch long and very thin, very bright green so hard to spot. 
    Just read your post again, I have never  taken them out of the pots and hung upside down for the winter! 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • I knew someone who did that with dahlias ... she said that hanging them upside down helped the hollow stems to drain and avoided rot setting in. But as pelargonium stems aren’t hollow I can’t see what good it would do ...

    Wrapping them in newspaper and keeping them under the spare bed is how my granny over-wintered the pelargoniums she didn’t have room for on the windowsills. 

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





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