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Overwintering Pelargonium Geraniums in the flat (in chilly Berlin)
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Hey, Pelargonium Dad here - I want my babies to survive over winter! Problem is, I'm in a flat in Berlin without a shed or garage to store them.
My options:
- Store them in the cellar, but it will probably get to 0 degrees in there, and I'm not sure how dry it is.
- Leave some of them around the house as house plants (but this won't work for the huge planters).
- Store some of them on high shelves (but worried they'll be too warm, dry out, freak out).
- Wrap them in fleece on the balcony and hope for the best (least favourite, but most practical option).
It can get to -10 here, sometimes lower. So leaving them out on their own is not an option.
Some of them are also huge, but I'm reading that I should not trim them back!
Any fellow Pelargonium Dads and Mums out there?
My options:
- Store them in the cellar, but it will probably get to 0 degrees in there, and I'm not sure how dry it is.
- Leave some of them around the house as house plants (but this won't work for the huge planters).
- Store some of them on high shelves (but worried they'll be too warm, dry out, freak out).
- Wrap them in fleece on the balcony and hope for the best (least favourite, but most practical option).
It can get to -10 here, sometimes lower. So leaving them out on their own is not an option.
Some of them are also huge, but I'm reading that I should not trim them back!
Any fellow Pelargonium Dads and Mums out there?
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Mine survive all winter in very little soil (I dig them out from the garden) in an underbalcony, cold but not freezing.
There are many videos on YouTube about pruning g and storing pelargonium.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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