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Help!!
Felicity Jones
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My geranium Bowles Mauve is now 3 ft wide by 3 ft tall. It is still in full flower so I am loathe to cut it right down and I can see no sign of new growth at the bottom. Everyone else's in the area are neat, rounded clumps so why has mine gone mad - anyone else had a similar problem?
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The Bowles Mauve I know isn't a geranium. Is this the Erysimum Bowles Mauve
In the sticks near Peterborough
Hi Verdun
In the sticks near Peterborough
Got the yellow flowered one which has done OK but really prefer the mauve. Thank you for reminding me to take cuttings
Thanks all. I now think it is geranium Rozanne!! Still 3' x 3' and not a clump. Have I planted it in the wrong place?
Rozanne should flower all summer. If it gets tatty, cut it back hard, feed and water, and then it will send up new shoots.
I have Rozanne - it does get lax and sprawl - I let it spread amongst the other perennials - it doesn't seem to do them any harm and the bees love it - then when it's almost stopped flowering I cut it back hard and give it some rose or clematis fertiliser and it sends up more leaves and starts flowering again until the winter.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thank you. Although it has gone mad this year it looks so lovely at the moment, then cut it back and possibly move it to a different spot in the border for next year where it can sprawl happily.
Sounds good to me - you could divide it when you move it and make two or three plants
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.