Re: Ceres/bringing the yard inside

> ... I need to get
> started on cleaning out the greenhouse

I need to clear out the garage.  The car has to go in.

Kitty

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrea H" <hodgesaa@earthlink.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 7:00 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Ceres/bringing the yard inside


> Good Lord. Well, all I can say is that I'm glad I live where I do. I love
my
> tropical look so I'm fortunate in that things like the Thunbergia,
Duranta,
> all my elephant ears, clerodendrum, gingers, crinums, cannas, dahlias,
> crocosmia, etc will come back. They do die to the ground, (Thank goodness
on
> the Thunbergia or I wouldn't be able to get in the yard) but they all come
> back faithfully. Tibouchina will actually overwinter too if it's in the
> right spot. I have no right spots here, but at my old house it actually
> stayed evergreen. It was planted on the fence and sheltered by a row of
> pines. Please be careful and don't hurt yourself!
>
> I'll be bringing in a lot of stuff, but not nearly that much. I need to
get
> started on cleaning out the greenhouse. It actually has a perennial
morning
> glory growing inside of it. What's that all about?
>
> Andrea H
> Beaufort, SC
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <Cersgarden@aol.com>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 10:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Andrea/Fine Gardening/Salvia
>
>
> > In a message dated 10/11/04 8:18:31 PM, hodgesaa@earthlink.net writes:
> >
> > << I know, I have VERY few things that I actually dig up and move to the
> >
> > indoors. >>
> >
> > Andrea, you would not believe the # of plants I am conditioning to bring
> in.
> > Tomorrow I will begin the big wash & cleanup.  I have a Tibouchina, 3
> > hibiscus & 1 hibiscus tree, 2 banana, 2 lg mandevillas, 3 Acalypha,
> Abutilon, very lg
> > Allamanda, lg Ginger, several Alternanthera, lots of different Coleus &
> > begonias, Cordyline, Dianella, couple  lg specialty geranium, a new
> plectranthus I
> > tried for the first time, Pseuderanthemum, Ruellia, 3 salvia, Sanchezia,
> lg
> > Thunbergia,  1 Alocasia  (all other alocasia & colocasia are saved as
> bulbs),
> > Aglaia, Bougainvillea, Brunfelsia, citrus, lg Clerodendrum, Crossandra,
> Duranta,
> > Hoya, Jasminum, Murraya, Christmas cactus, Stephanotis, Streptocarpella,
> > Hamilia, 2 varieties of sencio and others I am sure I missed.  I started
d
> igging
> > the dahlias, cannas, crinum, elephant ears, crocosmia, eucomis,
> hymenocallis,
> > Ornithogalum, Gloriosa this afternoon.  I went to the dr & he okayed I
> could
> > now work in the garden.
> >     I haven't decided what to do about a couple of passiflora.  Also
> > discovered I failed to bring out 3 pots of achimenes so they spent the
> season in the
> > basement.  I'm sure they will be to pitch now.
> >     By next week all will be in place!
> >         Ceres
> >
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