Pelargonium 'Wilhelm Langath'

❤️❤️ this plant. I'd like to try to overwinter it but that's new territory for me...advice anyone? 😃

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@latebloomer didn't realise I should be trying to avoid wetting the foliage. ..good to know

@belindah Reason for not wetting the foliage is geranium has hairy/velvety leaves and if water gets on them they dry into brown splotches as the water doesn't run off. The same applies to any other plant with the same type of leaves. I cut my geraniums back a little to tidy them up&use them for cuttings for new plants as backup. I then put them in a frost free place. No feeding after September&watered very sparingly. Just enough to keep them alive through winter. I've had many of mine for 20yrs+

Don't know how damaged they are but if there are any that are really precious to you I would take them into the house as it's a more natural environment for them. The greenhouse even heated doesn't have the same effect. If there's enough left I would take cuttings and bring them into house. You can take cuttings almost any time of year from them. I'm assuming you've cut off all the black frost bitten stems to green fresh stem. Winter in the greenhouse often causes mildew in geraniums.

I've saved some just in the nick of time by chopping them right down to within an inch and they grow back from the bottom. I hope they survive as I know how heartbreaking it is to lose very old plants. They have connective memories. I'm no expert. I have limited success purely by trial and error over a long period of time. 😀😘

Thanks so very much @angipangi @latebloomer for your advice 😘 will do some reading up on this and give it a go. I have vague recollections of my Grandma having many geraniums in her basement room windows in the winter but I was so young I didn't have a clue what that was about...would be nice to try something that I know she did all those years ago 😊

#memory

This is one of my favourite foliage colours on the pelargoniums 😊👌🏼