![]() Pelargoniums hate poor ventilation as much as they do frost. No more waking in the morning to find your plants all frozen through, their foliage limp and black, the air already fetid with putrefaction! Thus speaks the voice of experience. On most models if the temperature falls below a programmed level an alarm is triggered, giving you the chance to jump from your bed and clad only in night shirt and wellies…. These require no wires and the monitors keep in touch with the sensor by radio signals. A new technological development is the availability of remote sensors, which can be placed in the greenhouse and be monitored in the house. Perhaps the best solution for the small greenhouse is to line it in winter with bubble wrap this cuts down hugely on heat loss and makes an electric fan heater much more economical. While paraffin and gas burners are cheaper to run than an electric fan heater, they emit a large amount of moisture, which will increase problems with botrytis. The Pelargonium greenhouse should be equipped with a heater and kept frost-free at all times. In a mild winter a cold frame may be adequate if the temperature is monitored. In the winter it is advisable to house them in the greenhouse, conservatory or in the house. You can increase the air in a compost using additives such as pearlite or diatomaceous earth.įrom the last frosts in May to the first frosts of October most Pelargoniums can live outside, in fact they benefit hugely from being in the garden during the summer months. For cuttings and seeds make sure you use a fine compost. We recommend using good quality composts from well-known suppliers, Sinclair’s or Levington’s. This is usually given as a percentage, the higher the percentage the more air in a mix. (AFP) is an indication of how open in structure a compost is. This is known as AFP – or ‘Air Filled Porosity’. Soil or loam based composts like John Innes are too heavy, Pelargoniums prefer compost with an open structure that does not compact over time. Multipurpose composts are not really suitable, as they lack structure and quickly collapse and become stagnant. Pelargoniums, although not difficult plants, are fussy about potting compost. Please note you can only combine orders going to the same address. We will then send the orders all together and refund you back any additional postage paid for. If you wish to combine orders simply add to the ‘order notes’ box at the checkout – ‘please combine my orders’. You can add to your order anytime before dispatch in Spring. ![]() We continue to propagate when the weather allows and we add subsequent stocks to the website as they become available. Therefore orders placed over Autumn/Winter will be dispatched in the spring. However, we do not ship Pelargoniums over the cold winter months. ![]() We are currently still sorting through the collection, but will be adding the plants to this section as they become available.You can order Pelargoniums any time of year when stocks are available on the website. ![]() Despite the help of her friend Bob Taylor, with failing health, she reluctantly decided it was time to retire.Val had been growing primulas for over 30 years and wonderfully it all started with a few packets of Barnhaven seeds, sent from the nursery which was then in Cumbria! It felt fitting for everyone that her beloved collection should be passed on to the nursery that inspired her to grow her first primroses. After the death of her business partner Doug Lochhead in 2007, her husband Jack helped run the nursery until 2012, when he also sadly passed away. Val Woolley was also the founder of the East Midlands National Auricula and Primula Society group. Very much involved in the show and plant fair scene in the UK, they also enjoyed a well-deserved international reputation for their fabulous collection. Field House Nursery was the UK holder of the National Collection of Show and Alpine Auriculas and they also had a very large and well known collection of P. We were very honoured when Val Woolley of Field House Nursery approached us in 2016 to find out whether we would be interested in taking over part of her huge collection when she retired.
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