if you have a spot for them, plant them now. Fall is the BEST time to plant perennials. Water them in well, they'll be fine, as long as they're in good shape when you plant them. I'd prepare the hole, make it about twice as big as the pot the plants is in now. Enrich w/some peat moss or compost if avail. Add in some gravel if your soil is wet/slow to drain. Maybe a little slow-release fertilizer, go easy, you don't want to burn the roots. Here is a link that might be useful: lilac planting tips from a seller

If your seedlings were potted up for some time i would advise you to leave them outsde and not weeken them by bringen them under cover the hare realy hardy plants.I have around 1000 plants i grow from seeds last year,the wil be in there second season next summer,end i hope for some good coulors the are "Helleborus Atropurpurea. Regards and good luck

I do similarly as NHBabs & Sedum. At the end of the season (perhaps after a light frost), I snip off the foliage, clean up the topsoil, then store the pots w tubers in an unheated, dark-ish cellar area (45-50 deg in winter). Most of them are large pots. Every month or so I sprinkle to pot with a cup or so of water so that the tubers don't dry out. Too much water and they could rot or get moldy. In the late spring, I unpack, and clean hot the jam packet pot. I bring some to a window or growl ight area to get a head start. I often have extra tubers. NHBabs, maybe if you put a bit of landscape paper cloth over the tops, they wouldn't start sprouting as early? When mine sprout too early, I prune them back. I've grown dahlias from seed. Magic! I bring some of the geraniums into the house for the winter; it's heartening to see them blooming with snow just beyond the window. i've even had clematis inside over winter and one year had clematis blooms up and around either side of a large south-facing window. Cheaper and more fun than buying flowers. I've got a small Ville de Lyon I may bring inside along with an extra rooted one from the garden.

This is what I do, and I never lose any roses, and it doesn't matter what zone the roses are rated at: I overwinter my 50 roses in large pots in my garage with the 2 cars. LOL Three car garage. Here's what I do: - I keep deadheading until it's time for them to go into the garage. - I keep feeding them and watering well until it's time for them to go into the garage. -Then when the temperature gets to be about -6C I cut all the leaves off at the point they join the heavier stem. I don't cut any height off of the plant. - At this point I water them really, really well and move them by dolly into the garage. - I cover them with thick blankets, layers of flannel sheets or sleeping bags when the outside temp gets colder than -20C. - My garage is insulated. - Then I leave them alone in the dark. Doesn't matter if the garage door is opened and closed. - Around January, I look and see if they're dried out a bit. - If they are, then I water each rose 1/2 cup. - I repeat this every month. - As the weather starts warming up, I take off some blankets - so they don't start making new growth in the heat. - Any new growth should be broken off as you would thorns - just push them to the side, and they'll fall off. - If you have only a few pots - you can start taking them outside during the day when it gets about 5 C outside. Bring them inside until the night temperature doesn't drop below 2C. - Remember to water really well once you take them outside. - If you have a lot - then either wait until night tempreatures are 2C before you take them outside - or cover them with blankets at night. ----------------- This winter was really warm, so I didn't cover them at all. Hope this helps. :) Carol