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Help! How to Overwinter these Non- Hardy Plants, Tubers, Bulbs?

arbo_retum
11 years ago

After a few years of container growing non hardy plants, I have finally organized my huge question of how to winter store the plants I cannot leave outside in my z.5 garden. PLEASE let me know anything

you can! and thx so much

mindy

www.cottonarboretum.com/

Here are MY Z.5 STORAGE OPTIONS for PLANT OVERWINTERING:

1)-- Leave in situ planted in Glazed Pots, on Risers or pedestals (covered w/ plastic shrub covers)

2)--Open Screen Porch

3)- Bury Plastic Pots in Ground Trench

4)--Shed w/ small skylight, under Mature Hemlock

5)- Tiny Cellar 60 degrees , no windows

6)- Steps under Hurricane Door leading to Cellar Door

7)- South Facing House Plant Room w/wall of windows, skylights; open to living room, 65-70 degrees;

Filled w/ pots of Amaryllis, Xmas Cactus, Queen's Tears, Ferns , so window space is precious

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HOW SHOULD I STORE THESE PLANTS OVER WINTER:

(And Do They Need Water; how often?):

Pilea- Aluminum plant

Breynia- Snowbush

Pennesetum Villosum

Oxalis Cabernet

Dahlia ( can I leave planted in glazed pots and store in cellar?)

Taro ( can I leave planted in glazed pots? cellar or plant room? )

Colacasia ( """""" )

Alocasia ( """" )

Waterlilies

Clematis w/ tulips, allium, in glazed pots

Cissus Discolor

Begonia Rex (leave in soil in pots and let dry and go dormant in cellar?)

Tuberous Begonia (leave in soil in pots in cellar, let go dormant?)

Glazed or Plastic Pots Planted With Tulips,Hyacinthoides and Allium

Glazed or Plastic Pots Planted With Lilies , Allium, Tulips

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MY PAST/CURRENT SUCCESSFUL WINTER STORAGE METHODS:

Brugmansias -are stored in cellar, planted in glazed pots

Cannas -are stored in cellar,planted in plastic pots.

Abutilon - are transplanted into plastic pots in plant room

Ppl Wandering Jew- transplanted into plastic pots, in Plant Room

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