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» MaggieM - Winter is coming Hi Ann! I know that right now, we're just watering and deadheading and fertilizing our containers, but I would like to have some information, soon, about overwintering perennials in containers. I have succesfully overwintered some, and this year I am tryng some more, but I don't live in an area or have space (garage, basement, etc.) where they can go without freezing. Everything I have will have to spend its winter outdoors, up against my house, in an unheated shed attached to my house. I don't have much space to put pots in the ground and was not so happy with the results of the ones I did try (a mini rose and a Hosta - only the hosta was salvaged. It is now in the ground.) I'm in zone 4-5 US and can't use straw bales (too messay, and no where to put the leftovers). I've been successful with chives, tarragon, betony (I like ornamental herbs) and this year will try bergamot, feverfew. And I have no space in my house to bring much in - only my lemon verbena, pruned to within an inch of its life, and. and my lemon grass.Everyone says, put tender perennials in pots, and then winter them over. Well, what works? what is the best way to winter them up. They are expensive to lose over the winter. I'd love to have some good adive for a place that can get down to minus 20-25 C (I've forgotten the F degrees). -- posted by MaggieM » KateBerry - Ditto here! Ann and Maggie, I'm dying to know about this, too. I've been inventorying my garden lately, trying to decide what cuttings to take and when, and to figure out what will have to come up for the winter and what can stay. (I'm in Zone 5b/6)I am kind of lucky, since I do have a place to overwinter things. I had Hubby build a 10" shelf all the way around my kitchen, about 6 feet off the floor, and that's where I forced a lot of bulbs this past winter to get early color for the spring. Think I could overwinter plants there? There's also the garage and the basement and, depending on how safe you think it is, Ann, maybe I could put a few pots in my daughter's (unheated)playhouse which she won't be using once it gets cold. -- posted by KateBerry
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