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Geum Totally Tangerine
Dovefromabove
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I have to move my Geum Totally Tangerine - the colour is totally wrong for where it is - I've nowhere to put it at the moment so it will have to go into a pot - shall I do it now - it's blooming happily at the moment - or later - or wait until spring?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Cheers Verdun
I fell in love with it but the colour's wrong with the plums, blues and creamy yellows in the front border.
It might just work with the grasses Hosta gave me for the new island bed that's going to be created when the poorly ash tree goes ... watch this space ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Either pots or a nursery bed if you have one. I find my geum clumps split just by hand.
My biggest TT died this summer. Could the weather have been too hot and dry? 35° for about 2 weeks, but I did water it. It had looked good with Erysimum Jenny Brook.
We had hot and dry for several weeks here Busy and a drought situation which saw some of the bigger perennials and an acer suffering but no geum losses. I don't have TT but I do have many other geums and they just trucked on regardless and bulked up enough to be split to give them more room.
Have you checked for vine weevils or maybe some critter tunneling under their roots and leaving them hanging dry?
Have checked, found the answer. A wretched mole has tunnelled underneath it, so although I watered the roots were dangling.
Good thing I took some bits off it last autumn which are still alive but in a shadier spot.
Verdun I'm a great believer in adding manure etc. to planting holes