As time goes on, gardening gets harder and harder and spring can be a killer when so much needs doing at once. Little by little is the way. So, today has been the day for repotting and propagating the trailing pelargoniums which I grow in corner baskets in the front porch of my home. They have survived all winter outdoors but are straggling and struggling and in great need of attention (see below). The corner baskets are lined with black bin liner plastic to help prevent the plants from drying out. I always line my baskets baskets this way if all they have between the compost and the outside world is something so porous as coconut fibre. I removed the trailing pelargoniums (just one to each container), pruned them back to invigorate them, removing dead stems and leaves, refilled the baskets with fresh compost and replanted. From the trimmings I took four cuttings (the same way
propagating my other pelargoniums), in the hope that they take.
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| Trailing pelargonium flower |
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| Corner basket for trailing pelargoniums |
