Having problems with geraniums this winter.

151949 · ‎03-09-2010

We live in florida, in a villa (duplex). Every year we plant a large pot in the middle between our driveways with geraniums and ivy. Every year they do beautifully and by now they are about a yard across and covered in blooms.However, this year we have only a few scrawny - really scrawny- plants and no flowers at all. It has remained unseasonably hot and humid here all through the fall, feels like it normally would in June. For this reason DH has been giving all our landscape a lot more than normal amounts of water. All our other plants are thriving, but just not those geraniums.We are thinking of pulling them out and planting something else but we don't know what to plant. This planter is in full Florida sun dawn to dusk as it is in the middle of the driveway. BTW - the ivy is doing great and is crawling across the pavers and looks neat.

terrier3 · ‎03-10-2010

@151949 wrote:
We live in florida, in a villa (duplex). Every year we plant a large pot in the middle between our driveways with geraniums and ivy. Every year they do beautifully and by now they are about a yard across and covered in blooms.However, this year we have only a few scrawny - really scrawny- plants and no flowers at all. It has remained unseasonably hot and humid here all through the fall, feels like it normally would in June. For this reason DH has been giving all our landscape a lot more than normal amounts of water. All our other plants are thriving, but just not those geraniums.We are thinking of pulling them out and planting something else but we don't know what to plant. This planter is in full Florida sun dawn to dusk as it is in the middle of the driveway. BTW - the ivy is doing great and is crawling across the pavers and looks neat.

Geraniums don't need (or want) a lot of water. They do better UNDERwatered, in my experience.

hoosieroriginal · ‎03-04-2012

I discovered geraniums a couple years ago and now that is all I put on my front deck. I bought these turquoise planters at Target and with red geraniums I got a ton of compliments on the color combination. I plant them early spring and they last till late fall - all I have to do is pinch them back. I only water them if it gets really hot out. They just last and last....

151949 · ‎03-09-2010

@hoosieroriginal wrote:
I discovered geraniums a couple years ago and now that is all I put on my front deck. I bought these turquoise planters at Target and with red geraniums I got a ton of compliments on the color combination. I plant them early spring and they last till late fall - all I have to do is pinch them back. I only water them if it gets really hot out. They just last and last....

That is the problem I believe -- it is really hot here and really sunny. Way more than normal.

Kachina624 · ‎03-10-2010

Maybe you should have wintered in PA. this year. My sister near Philly says it's supposed to be 70, Christmas Day.

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farmerswife · ‎03-15-2010

I asked my husband who is a greenhouse farmer/grower about this. At first he thought root rot but I explained you have ivy doing well in the same pot. That led him to believe it was a PH problem. It can be fixed with fertilizer but he couldnt remember at the top of his head which kind.