I used old window boxes to put geraniums in for the winter, takes up less space, and got 10 into each one. The info above is great, will do that. BTW I hate the smell of geraniums, but the look great in pots, and are so longlasting.
I do exactly the same as Verdun, what a load of faffing about from that book! Just grab the whole lot, in their pots, chop them back a bit, put them in a frost free place your plastic greenhouse with the fleece on, take a few cuttings now, to keep on your window sill, there you go.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Early in the year I ordered some "climbing" pelargoniums. I didn't really expect much - especially when they were delivered six weeks later than promised. But they have grown fabulously - more than half-way up the frame that came with them "for free". They are blooming profusely at the moment and I'm planning to cut them down and store over Winter. Who knows - with an earlier start next year they may reach the top of the frame in 2015! Hope to post a photo tomorrow....
Thanks for the tips here, very much appreciated from a person new to plant propagation .
I lifted all of my geraniums on Tuesday and trimmed the roots/cut off the stems as outlined in my book (Royal Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Gardening ), very useful for someone (me) who has only ever bought plants from shops/garden centres until now so has absolutely no experience in growing plants from seed or storing plants over winter .
They are in a container now and in my mini (plastic) growhouse. Night time temps are coming down to around 3 degrees C on the odd night, so I'll put the fleece cover on and the plastic cover back on over the fleece cover this weekend.
I took the opportunity to learn how to take cuttings from them too (another first - aided by my RHS book), so now have 44 pots (incase some don't take, 1 - 5 per pot, depending on pot size) of cuttings. If any of these cuttings take, I'll store them over winter too. The cuttings are potted up in individual colours, and the flower stems, still in bloom, are now in a vase in the house .
Me too. Verdun, have you used the chopped off bits for cuttings, 3 in a pot even more room in the conservatory.
Arnt we lucky to have the space to be able to do this, I am so grateful to my parents for the oppertunity to live in this beautiful bungalow and have free reign in the garden.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
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I used old window boxes to put geraniums in for the winter, takes up less space, and got 10 into each one. The info above is great, will do that. BTW I hate the smell of geraniums, but the look great in pots, and are so longlasting.
I do exactly the same as Verdun, what a load of faffing about from that book! Just grab the whole lot, in their pots, chop them back a bit, put them in a frost free place your plastic greenhouse with the fleece on, take a few cuttings now, to keep on your window sill, there you go.
This is a photo of a pelargonium grown from seed coming from Hot 'n Spicy F1 plant.
That's what should be called F2, I guess!
Unlike here in West Devon Verdun. Cant grow pelagoniums outside, much to damp and windy, all mine are in the conservatories.
Thanks for the tips here, very much appreciated from a person new to plant propagation
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I lifted all of my geraniums on Tuesday and trimmed the roots/cut off the stems as outlined in my book (Royal Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Gardening
), very useful for someone (me) who has only ever bought plants from shops/garden centres until now so has absolutely no experience in growing plants from seed or storing plants over winter 
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They are in a container now and in my mini (plastic) growhouse. Night time temps are coming down to around 3 degrees C on the odd night, so I'll put the fleece cover on and the plastic cover back on over the fleece cover this weekend.
I took the opportunity to learn how to take cuttings from them too (another first - aided by my RHS book), so now have 44 pots (incase some don't take, 1 - 5 per pot, depending on pot size) of cuttings. If any of these cuttings take, I'll store them over winter too. The cuttings are potted up in individual colours, and the flower stems, still in bloom, are now in a vase in the house
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Me too. Verdun, have you used the chopped off bits for cuttings, 3 in a pot even more room in the conservatory.
Arnt we lucky to have the space to be able to do this, I am so grateful to my parents for the oppertunity to live in this beautiful bungalow and have free reign in the garden.