Re: Need some help

Say, a shovelful of snow is brilliant, Lil...I'll try that too! 
 
And someone asked about Gaura in zone 5. I had it a few years ago (Whirling 
 Butterflies) and it was fine through quite a few winters...never a 
misstep..its  conditions were: sun 'til noon, dampish bed, room to grow and it must 
have  gone through one winter without snow. I ended up giving it to a pal 
and last I  heard it was thriving. Do you have severe wind in the winter? 
Perhaps it can't  take that. Do you always have snow? Can't count on it here 
throughout the  winter...makes it tough sometimes. 
 
Joanie Anderson
35 mi. north of Chicago
 
 
In a message dated 8/29/2009 1:05:23 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
liltovey@hotmail.com writes:

Alyce,  several of my hostas stay out in the pots all year and have
successfully  come back over 3 years now.  If its a really precious hosta I 
put
it  pot and all in the unheated garage on the outside wall, and give it  a
shovelful of snow from time to time.  I especially do this with some  of my
minis.


Lil T.

Georgetown On

Zone  5


> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:17:46 -0400
> To:  perennials@hort.net
> From: aete@northnet.org
> Subject: Re: Need  some help
>
> Becky, I'm in northern NY, zone 4. Sinking the pots  in soil works
> well for me; also burying in mulch. In both cases I  leave the top of
> the plants free except for some mulch. There may be  better methods
> but that is all I have come up with. I have also  brought plants
> indoors and placed them in a cool unused room over the  winter (with 
light).
>
> This year I have many huge pots of large  hostas (sum and substance)
> and eupatoriums (gateway) that I dug up and  I don't have beds
> prepared for them yet. That's going to be a lot of  digging or a lot
> of mulch. I may decide to just heel them in  somewhere, don't know
> yet. I'm listening to what others have to  say.
>
> Alyce Elliott
> Oxbow NY
>
> At 08:40  AM 8/28/2009, you wrote:
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> >Has anyone buried  pots of perennials in the ground for over winter? I
leave
> >in  zone 4, and have some that I want to put in a different spot next 
year
>  >and I am not ready for that yet. So I have read you can put the plant  
and
> >pot in the ground. Any idea how to do this? and does it work.  Thanks 
Becky
> >
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