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Newly purchased plants: leave in pots til spring? SW Houston/9a

javiwa
5 years ago

I finally made it to the Cockrell Butterfly Center's fall plant sale and picked up some wonderful 1-gallons: Cassia splendida (Flowery Senna), Passiflora foetida (Love-in-Mist passion vine -- complete with several Gulf fritillary cats!), Aristolochia elegans (Dutchman's pipe vine), and Asclepias perennis (Aquatic milkweed). Yeah, kinda went crazy: but their selection was amazing, and it's such a good cause!


For anyone in the Houston area and a little beyond, I highly recommending hitting this sale -- the folks there do such a great job. Plant sale is usually the first weekend in October and April.


I'm going a little pot-crazy in my yard right now, and am just cringing at the thought of hauling these into the garage ahead of a first freeze. Curious what you all do when you pick up plants in the fall: plant them right away and hope for the best, or keep them in pots til springtime?

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