What Do You Bring In For Winter ?

[ninnymary]

Aftermidnight, I love that coleus!

Larissa, I love the second one of yours too with those fall colored leaved!

I don't bring anything indoors.

Mary

 

[w_r_ranch]

I put the dwarf lime trees in the greenhouse. Also the hanging baskets, the spider plants & my prized mother-in-law's tongues that normally reside on the porches.

 

[Pulsegleaner]

Bringing in for me is usually done as a sort of "endgame" thing, with plants being brought in if they are near completing their seeds and just need a few extra weeks. And this year that doesn't amount to much. All the common beans are done, the one remaining cowpea has neither bloom nor sign of bloom, and the lone rice bean that has pods is in the ground and immovable (I've tried but you can't dig them up without shocking them to lose the pods, and since the pods are the whole point it would be useless)

The senna has the same problem as the rice bean, the pot is too big to fit inside (I think)

That leaves the finger millet as being the only thing that gets a ticket insider, to finish ripening the grain. In fact, if (through my research) I find out finger millet has a tendency for the heads to shatter upon ripening, it may be in my interest to bring it inside even if it isn't climatically necessary, so that the falling seeds wind up in my storage vials and not local birds' stomachs.

I suppose I could also bring in the Cuban oregano/ Spanish thyme, but since I end up eating it all up over the winter anyway (it doesn't die over the winter indoors, but it stops growing and so gets used up) and replacement plants are easily obtained in Chinatown in the spring, there seems little point.

 

[Lychnis]

Not much, stuck my Yacon tubs in the greenhouse to prolong their growing season, dug up my Acanthus "White Water" I lost a lot of stuff from the unusual winter we had last year and was kicking myself for planting this stunning plant in the wrong place. Low and behold after not appearing all spring and summer I saw a few shoots showing through the soil so into a pot and into my cool greenhouse for the winter. Not for one who doesn't like variegation tho, I love it.
It was a small plant when I bought it so not big enough to put on a good show yet but at least it's alive.
http://www.terranovanurseries.com/growers/acanthuswhitewater-p-239.html

I just took cuttings of my "Henna" coleus to root on the kitchen windowsill, such a pretty coleus and it seems this variety is hard to find now. This is one that doesn't flower so looks good all season .
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Right now the undersides of the leaves are a irredescent purple, love, love, love this coleus, this will be the third year I have kept this going.

Annette

Would love to hear about yacon. I'm in 8B, cultivating it in cups but not sure if I'll need to extend the season for growing or if I can plant it in-ground.

 

[Dahlia]

There was a time I would never bring plants inside for winter. If they could not survive winter I did not want them. Now I do bring in a few things, today I moved my citrus trees inside. In Nov I will move potted fig trees to unheated greenhouse. I will dig up dahlias when they die back. I did last year, not sure if beginner's luck but all came back when planted this spring. Not sure about geraniums, ones that lived never really grew this summer flowered very little. What do you over winter?

I overwinter rosemary, mums, one large raspberry bush and a small blueberry bush.

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

I so miss Nyboy!!!

 

[digitS']

And,

@aftermidnight