pmartin,the Brugmansia will not tolerate frost, in particular, the newer, green growth. I expect yours got touched and you will lose all those drooping leaves and maybe all the green stems. In time, you may even find the bark sloughs off of the woodier stems as well. Take heart, you won't lose the plant because the roots will still be ok, they can take frost but not freezing Temps. If that was my plant, I would cut it back to about 6" above the soil line and put it in my basement for the winter. Don't forget about it, check it every couple of weeks and give it 1 cop of water around the stalk slowly so it doesn't pour out the bottom but remains in the soil. In March bring it back upstairs to good light and water it well once, then not again until you see new growth starting and you will be on your way to a new season. When you can plant it outdoors, I recommend you do that and then dig it up in the fall before frost and come back here and I will give instructions for preserving one that was NOT frosted. Good luck with your new obsession! This posting may be of benefit to you.... Here is a link that might be useful: Post about how to prepare Brugs for winter

Mark, We're coming to a crawl now. Gypsy was introduced I'd say pre 1947, I don't have the '49 Iris Checklist to find a description. The first child or offspring from it in the 1959 checklist was registered in 1950. There are tons of Gypsy Somethings out there, but "Gypsy" is very old. Approval '95/96 Graeme Grosvenor TB 38" S/pale blue F/white edged pale blue, darker blue hafts, yellow beards tipped blue. This is an Australian iris. Graeme lives in Dural, New South Wales, Australia May be hard to find a picture of this, since probably not to many made it to the states. Cheers, Randy

Canada, while I generally think of all of it as cold, lol, is pretty big. :) Can you give us a zone number? It really helps us answer questions if we know more about where a person is located, zone-wise. Do you have a balcony? A door to the outside that you can leave them by? (as opposed to an apartment building where your door opens to a hallway). Access to an unheated garage? If your only option is indeed inside your apartment, I think you will have some problems, at least with the peony. I have no experience with iris setosa. In general I agree with gardengal. I've left both potted peonies and potted iris outside over the winter with almost no protection, but I'm in zone 6 CT. Depending where in Canada you are it might make a difference. The biggest thing is to keep them dormant once they go dormant. You want to avoid, as gardengal said, frost heave, and breaking dormancy too early.

I think I would put them into paper bags and store in the cold dark basement for the winter. Plant in the spring. This is what I've read that many do in your cold winter zone. The reason being when planted late the beardeds haven't had enuf time to grow a strong root mass that will resist winter heaves. I also would not try to rescue every rhizome but select 1-2 of the fattest of a connected network of rhizomes. 20 feet is a lot of rhizomes!! Good luck.