Am looking for Martha Washington Geranium in any color in exchange of Spider plant, Purple Wandering Jew, green Wandering Jew or stemps. If you are interested, please drop me a line to: shany0@yahoo.com Thank you, Shany

Hello Patrick, There are several specialist nurseries in the USA that do mail-order plants. I suggest you try a Google search under Specialist Pelargonium Nurseries. You could also try searching under "Faye Brawner" at Deerwood Nurseries. This year I am trying to raise Regal Pelargoniums, or Martha Washingtons as you know them in the USA, from seed which is available from Thompson & Morgan I have 18 healthy small plants from two packets of seed.

Hello Tammy, You are correct about propagating African Violets, I have not heard of this technique being applied to pelargoniums. Rooting Martha Washington (Regal) pelargoniums is relatively straightforward provided that a few simple rules are obsserved and thes are basically the same for ALL pelargoniums. Select material only from disease-free plants, if in doubt spray the plants with insecticide/fungicide beforehand. Pelargonium cuttings can be taken all the year round except for REGAL and ANGEL pelargoniums which are best taken, in UK, between October and March i.e. the cooler part of the year. The rooting medium I use consists of soiless compost 3 parts, Perlite or horticultural vermiculite 1 part. Mix the two together and moisten. It is also possible to use compressed peat discs. Make sure that the rooting medium is warmed to the optimum temperature for rooting cuttings which is about 16 to 18 degrees Celsius. Do not try to root pelargonium cuttings in cold compost. To aid rooting, dip the prepared cutting in a solution of Ascobic acid (vitamin C) 1 gram per 85ml. cool boiled water. Store the freshly made solution in a brown bottle, make up fresh every two days. The solution should be colourless. Pelargonium cuttings do not like hormone rooting powder or rooting liquid and tend to rot. If there is no Ascorbic acid available insert the prepared cutting straight into the rooting mixture. Water and allow to drain thoroughly. Do NOT cover or tent the cuttings Place them in a warm well lit place, not in diect sunlight and they should root in a few weeks. Some growers recomend that you water pelargonium cuttings from below i.ie stand the pot in a dish of warm water to lessen problems with Botrytis Martha Washington (Regal) plants are prone to attack by Whitefly and Aphids: I use a systemic insecticide based on Imidachloprid (which also protects against vine weevil) to protect the plants. Hope this helps Ron

Hi, I started on Martha Washington's last year, I live in long island NY, so the weather is sometimes hot, sometimes mild and others cold. I bought 9 plants, varies colors, they did great in my front yard but I want to say sometime in the summer they stopped blooming, thought that I was doing something wrong, I was going to dig them out and store them for the winter but was not sure how too. The temps. here still is too cold to leave them outside so I keep them in the garage and take them out for a few hours during the day. Once the weather gets better I would like to plant them in my backyard this year but not sure how they will do, I have some clay spots of dirt, should I buy more dirt, or should I leave then in pots and dig them in? I wanted to remove them from the pots they are in now and put them in bigger ones so that once it is time to store them it would be easier to do so, is that a good idea? Any amount of care info would be most helpful. I have 24 of them this year. I keep reading to cut the and re plant and grow new ones, I didn't think that was possible the do so?