Walmart has been the source of some very good finds for my planting needs...Earlier this year, as summer was heating up....and since no one was watering anything!!! and like someone else posted, plants out on the sidewalk with 90 degree heat bearing down on them....WELL...I was able to take advantage of their lack of effort...they had a bunch of plants marked way down...I got 3 good sized (albeit) wilted up, mandevilla vines that were trellaced....for $2.50 each and a bunch of Chinese pistache trees for a few bucks each! AND in the clearance section of the store, I found these cute little yellow watering pots, thinking they would be cute for using as a pot...and inside where a hodpodge of green plastic bags, faintly marked....in each of these little watering pots where about 5 bags of bulbs...they were clearanced for $2.50 each...I got about 30 bulbs and the cute watering pot to boot...a mix of glads, and some lillies I had never heard of before. For actual bulbs when they start selling at the other "box" Home stores, you cant beat Walmarts price...I got a bag of 6 stargazer lilly bulbs for $3 or $4!!! And 3 fern tubers in a bag for like $4 Walmarts ivy and air ferns and joseph's coat and some other perenial plants were $1.27 EACH...in 6 in pots... so for one who is patient and can pick and choose what they know is good, the price is right....I actually have had fewer plants from Walmart die off than any that I've gotten at Home Depot!!! Lowe's garden shop here is MUCH better... Kmart's garden shop had a clearance at the end of the season too, and I got 5 gallon container rose bushes for $3 each...4 tropical fruit trees (guava and papaya) for $4 each...they retailed at $39.99... DEALS can be found.....

I'm interested, I have parrots feather, water hyacinth or I can give you brug cuttings (I don't have any rooted already). I don't have the names of them but one is white and one is peach. They root pretty easily. Judy

For these 3 pots: Glazed or Plastic Pots Planted With Tulips,Hyacinthoides and Allium Glazed or Plastic Pots Planted With Lilies , Allium, Tulips Clematis w/ tulips, allium, in glazed pots The bulbs all need a chill period, so they need to be somewhere cold, though it doesn't have to be below freezing. I don't know how long the cold period needs to be, though, so you might need to research that. I also don't know how cold you get in the winter and for how long and what your tolerance is for losing pots or plants. To minimize loss, you don't want them to be really wet and freeze since the expansion of freezing soil may damage your pots (both plastic and glazed ceramic), and you can't let them get super dry since that will damage the plants. If they get too cold that may also damage the plants, so typical rule of thumb is to use plants that are hardy to 2 zones colder than yours for exposed pots. I have a feeling that both the shed and the screen porch will be ambient outside temps and will only have the advantage of letting you control moisture, and so I'd choose to place these on the steps under your bulkhead. They will stay a bit warmer, but still get good chill, and you can monitor moisture levels. In early spring after danger of severe cold has passed, move to the screen porch so that they get good light, or an outside spot where they don't get too much moisture, like under an overhang. Burial might work for you (depending on duration and extent of really cold temperatures) but I don't think I'd want to chance the pots, and those would have to be mighty large holes. You'd need to insulate over the soil surface with mulch or weighted down sheets of builders insulation (ugly!) since exposed soil freezes much more deeply than covered soil. Regardless, cover all the outdoor, bulkhead, and cellar pots with hardware cloth covers since mice and voles might find your bulbs and perhaps other plants to be good food sources. The only other of your plants that I've overwintered are Dahlias and tuberous begonias. Last winter which was quite mild, the Dahlias stayed in pots in my unheated and sunny entryway. Both the pots and the Dahlias survived total benign neglect no water or attention all winter. I was surprised to see that they had survived, but I might suggest that a cool dryish indoor location like your cellar might do better. Someone wiser & more experienced than I should advise you about when to start watering and bringing them into the light. My tuberous begonias go into a setting like your plant room (my east-facing cool kitchen windows.) They die back and I just tuck them under the bench holding other tender perennials until spring. I water them just enough so that they don't get overly dry, perhaps once a month a little bit. They start growing on their own when the time is right and I bring them up into the light then. Putting them outside on above freezing days might help them be less leggy - I am going to try that this spring with one of my pots.

Is it just a tuber, or is it a whole plant with stems and leaflets attached? Plant it now and it should get established before the winter. They have a tendency to go dormant as the season progresses, often loosing all leaves and stems in the fall. It should grow again next spring, and if it is old enough, it should flower too.