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Geranium macrorrohizum
pugslovesun
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Hi, just wondered if this is a geranium you cut right back after flowering. Thanks for reading
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Hi there. Yes it is and you can do this with all of the other hardy geraniums too.
okey dokey, brilliant ,because t's ground covering and doesn't get leggy as some I suddenly thought I shouldn't !! thanks
Once the wretched rain ceases I'll be giving all of mine a short back and sides!
Isn't that supposed to be tomorrow!! I keep reading things that say it doesn't need cutting back but it hasn't ever been cut and I thought it might do it good even though it's really looking shabby.
It does get leggy. I sometimes dig up patches and replant the best bits more deeply
In the sticks near Peterborough
I do mine every year without fail and they look really tidy. I even ruthlessly pull out any bits that have strayed 'out of bounds' and it never seems to bother the plant.
I had a very therapeutic day massacring, sorry cutting back, the geranium macrorrohizum. It hadn't been done for years so underneath the foliage there was quite leggy brown growth. found it quite hard to know how much of this to cut back. It hangs over a wall and I want it to do that again. Any thoughts?