Winter experiment with annuals

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Author Message   Seil  My Weather My Time Posted on Tuesday, November 13, 2007 - 07:21 pm EST :    It was lovely today, 60 and sunny, so I decided to go out and get started on my winter clean up. I have a large number of pots that I fill with annuals every spring but they are mostly ceramic and have to be emptied and stored inside for winter so they won't crack. Because the weather has been relatively warm most things were still blooming so I hated to pull them out. A few of them were different things for me this year and had done really well so I decided to try and winter them over if I could. I have never had good luck with bringing anything inside. They struggle along until about the end of January and then usually die from some pest or something. This year I'm trying something new. I have a bed on the south west corner of the house that is under a 9 foot deep overhang. It's very well protected and the snapdragons, dianthus and mums planted there will bloom until Christmas at least and then sometimes remain green all winter long to come back again the following spring. So I got out a bunch of plastic nursery pots and potted up some of the annuals I really liked this year and put them all in that bed between the perennials and the rhododendrens that are along the house wall at the back. I'm hoping that at least some of them will survive the winter there. I potted 3 geraniums, a red and white striped one, a variegated leaved red one and a hot fuschia one with unusually shaped blooms. There are 2 pots of prim rose, 2 pots of gerbera daisies and 2 pots of english daisies along with one of plumbago and one of lisianthus too. Wish me luck! Seil - Michigan, Zone "6"   Heirloomgardens  My Garden Journal My Garden Posted on Wednesday, November 14, 2007 - 08:53 am EST :    That sounds like a good idea. You might want to insulate your Lisianthus somehow, though. I think they like it cozier than a Zone 7 winter and a plastic pot is going to be chillier than an in-ground Zone 6 winter. Good luck with everything, though. Now you've made me want to go out and dig up my Snapdragons. LOL. Heirloomgardens - Massachusetts, Zone "5b"

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