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How to plant and care for Geum (Totally Tangerine)
Geum 'Totally Tangerine'
🌸 Flower
🔁 Perennial
Soft-apricot flowers on wiry stems for months, from May to September, above neat green rosettes. Sterile, so it puts all its energy into flowering.
When to plant and care for it
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Flowers
Timed for a typical UK garden (last frost mid-April). The app uses your own town's frost dates.
Growing Geum (Totally Tangerine): what it needs
- Light
- Full sun · 6+ hours a day
- Watering
- Water well until established, then in dry spells
- Soil
- Fertile, well-drained soil
- Spacing
- 45 cm
- Height
- 75 cm
- In pots
- Grows well in containers
- Feeding
- A little general feed in spring
- Hardiness
- USDA zones 5–8
Step by step
- On planting day
Plant
Plant at the same depth as it was in its pot, 45 cm apart, and firm in.
- 0–1 days after “Plant”
Water In Well
Give a full can of water, then keep moist for the first few weeks while roots establish.
- 7–14 days after “Water In Well”
Mulch Around the Base
Spread 5 cm of compost or bark around the plant, keeping it off the stems.
Every year
- MarchDivide Big Clumps
Every 3–4 years, lift big clumps, split them into fist-sized pieces with a spade and replant the young outer parts.
- JuneIn Flower
Apricot flowers dancing on tall stems.
- JulyDeadhead
Cut faded flower stems back to the base to keep new ones coming.
