On 16 Oct, 15:45, stuart noble wrote:
On 16/10/2010 13:23, Derek wrote:

On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 09:15:12 +0100, stuart noble
*wrote:

pelargoniums require neither light nor water for a whole 6 months? Why
don't they just shrivel up and die?

If they get too dry they will die.

I suppose the traditional methods (hanging them in a basement etc) are
based on the idea that they're unlikely to get too dry in an unheated
environment, where the relative humidity is likely to be high



As you have limited space how about taking them out of their pots, and
lie them stacked in a box filled with peat, *check monthly through the
winter and make sure the peat is neither damp or bone dry.

Thanks. I might try that.





More are lost through keeping them wet, light is not needed as when
they are brought back to life in the spring cut back any straggly
white growths.
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There was a time in the last centuary when the recomended method of
storing your "Geraniums" over winter was to lift them and then to
store them in a clamp like potatoes, that is to layer them in straw,
cover with more straw and then cover with soil in a sheltered spot in
the Garden.