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| Geranium macrorrhizum 'Bevan's Variety' in our backyard. |
To make more divisions, choose a shoot and slide your hand along the rhizome back to where it meets the earth. Pull/tear it off from the parent plant, making sure to get at least 4 inches of brown root. Bury this root segment, leaving the green part above ground. The leaves will look wilted, but if you keep the new transplant watered it will soon rebound and make fresh leaves that stand straight up.
I dedicate this post to our good friends... team Bevan (that is Bev + Evan). :)
For more photos of how G. 'Bevan's Variety' fits into the plantings at Gilmore Gardens, see The Shade Path in 2011 and Favorite Garden Combinations of 2010.
Just beautiful pictures of blooms and raindrops!
ReplyDeleteHardy geraniums make such a lovely show. Your photos really do them justice.
ReplyDeleteSuch lovely pictures!
ReplyDeleteLove all the closeups:)
Like those geraniums too. Have 4 varieties
ReplyDeleteCame to read the post that has popped up on My picked posts ;~)
ReplyDeletePelargoniums may seem tropical from Pennsylvania, but they are South Africans from a temperate mediterranean climate. Not frostproof I grant you!
This is a great hardy geranium--very hardy and great color. Your photos really bring out all its good points.
ReplyDeleteDear Julie, Hardy geranium is so reliable. I love mine. Your photography is stunning! P. x
ReplyDeleteThe color and form are so delicate...and with your photos...just lovely!
ReplyDeleteNice Bevans. -Bevan :)
ReplyDeleteI have beds of these. Nice and tidy in drifts and carefree to grow. I can always tell when the dogs have walked through them because they come into the house smelling spicy.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading your post, I tried dividing my Bevan's Geranium as you described last spring (May 2014). It worked amazingly well and was so easy. I planted 62 new plants along a retaining wall and just one year later, they are gorgeous...and have spread and grown so much! It was so successful, I did another 34 this spring (April 2015). Saved so much money by avoiding the nursery purchases and simply dividing from my own plants. -Z Gardener in Glenwood MD.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for letting me know! So glad that I could help out a little bit. :) They do well in the shade too, if you have any bare areas underneath of mature trees. I am hoping to divide mine again this summer and fill out our new woodland at Havenwood.
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~Julie