*All products mentioned in this article are available at The Dees’ Nursery & Florist in Oceanside, NY. Geum Totally Tangerine is totally tops in our book. When you plant the Geum Totally Tangerine, be prepared for a show stopper as this is going to please everyone who enters your garden. Follow up with a monthly feeding of Espoma Flower-tone and don’t be shy to liquid feed them with Miracle-Gro*. This will help establish a large healthy root system. An exceptionally heavy bloomer reputed to produce up to 5 times the number of flowers on a typical Geum Robust plants are also much larger than average. To help in drought conditions use Espoma Bio-tone* soil conditioner with beneficial mycorrhizae. Totally Tangerine Avens Plant produces bright apricot to tangerine-orange flower blooms from spring throughout summer atop mounds of deep green, fuzzy foliage. Growing to a compact 14 tall, bright tangerine blooms add 15 inches to the plant. This will provide a perfect soil foundation for new plants that can retain water and nutrients. A sterile, fast-growing butterfly magnet, ‘Totally Tangerine’ Geum blooms from summer through fall, producing 5 times more blooms. Plants are thriving and we are very impressed, thank you. When first planting Geum Totally Tangerine, incorporate rich compost into the soil such as Bumper Crop* along with some peat moss. Our totally tangerine Geums arrived with great care, beautifully packaged (including the bottom of pots sealed with water in bags, which no where else has done in our experience), each of the 15 Geum plants were totally in tact and were ones I would have hand picked myself. Continuous dead heading of spent blooms will also keep flowers coming. The blooms will start in spring and continue in abundance thru the fall due to the fact the flowers are sterile, meaning they don’t produce seeds. Once established it is very low maintenance and stays nice and tidy in your flower beds. When it is in full bloom, the flowers bring this beauty up to 30 inches. With dark green fuzzy foliage similar to the foliage on a strawberry plant, it forms a nice compact mounded plant which gets about 14 inches high. Although there are many varieties, Totally Tangerine is in a class of its own. Totally Tangerine will perform best in moist well drained soil preferably in a full sun area of the garden, but can also go in an area of partial sun. Once established, the Geum Totally Tangerine is also drought tolerant. It is a fast grower with very little problems from insects or diseases. The Geum Totally Tangerine is turning out to be the “best of class” in this variety of plants.īeneficial characteristics of the Totally Tangerine are its long bloom time and ability to attract butterflies. It produces bright orange tangerine blossoms that make an outstanding impact in the garden. For amazing performance, the Geum ‘Totally Tangerine’ is for you. If you haven’t heard of, or used, this perennial in your garden then back up the truck. The Benefits of the Geum ‘Totally Tangerine’ Bloom Although there are many varieties, Totally Tangerine is in a class of its own.
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