RE: question about wintering over
- To: <perennials@mallorn.com>
- Subject: RE: question about wintering over
- From: "* D* <m*@teleport.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 10:29:37 -0700
- Importance: Normal
Hi Isabelle, If you wait until your perennials go dormant for the winter
before putting them down in the basement they should be fine. Your basement
should be cool and the plants kept barely damp. When they show new growth
in the spring, they will need to go outside or under lights right away.
Marilyn Dube'
Natural Design Plants
Hardy Perennials, Choice Tropicals
Portland, OR Zone 8b
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-perennials@mallorn.com [owner-perennials@mallorn.com] On
Behalf Of Isabelle Hayes
Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 9:38 AM
To: perennials@mallorn.com
Subject: question about wintering over
Greetings:
I live in NYS, zone 5, about 100 miles northeast of NYC;
as you all probably know, we are in the midst of a very dry summer, after a
dry spring, and a dry winter;
I grew the following from seed this spring: heuchera, poa grass, carex
grass, mallow, jasione, phlomis, potentilla, and more;
I have been keeping the plants in containers on the porch, so it's easier to
keep them watered;
I've been waiting (in vain) for there to be enough wet weather to risk
putting them into the ground in beds where it's hard to get water to them if
it doesn't rain regularly;
it now occurs to me that there may not be enough rain before the ground
freezes, and I'll either have to risk putting the plants in anyway, or
maybe I could keep them inside in pots over the winter, somehow.
I have a basement where they wouldn't freeze, but there isn't much light
down there;
does anyone know how to do this? They would still need watering wouldn't
they?
TIA
Isabelle Hayes
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