dormant pots
- Subject: dormant pots
- From: E*@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 00:15:35 EST
In a message dated 3/22/02 9:48:39 AM Eastern Standard Time,
Cersgarden@aol.com writes:
<< Claire, are these dormant or active plants?
Ceres >>
Oh dear, the pots are all kinds. There are sleeping bulbs haemanthus,
oxalis, veltheimia, bessera, etc., there are tender shrubs fuchsia
magellenica, dwarf hydrangeas, there are some plants that I have discovered
live over tossed into the cellar and ignored such as setcreasea pallida
'Purple Heart', agapanthus, that variegated solanum seen all over in the
summer, ivies, and a variety of other things that will live over outdoors
further south but have no chance here. I have a begonia called 'Skag' I think
that sits out the winter dormant.
They are supposed to be dormant but one at a time something will start
growing and it gets transferred to the the cold frames or the barn. We are
moving something around all the time. The pots of Hippeastrum all start over
the winter and come upstairs to a plantspace we have which is kept cool.
They bloom off and on all winter with more plants that live indoors not
dormant as clivias.
This is a very simplistic way to think about it but is in general how it
works. If I was in a climate close to the southern Georgia coast, I would
not be digging up the cannas (all dwarf or short plants). So if they stay in
the pots and do not completely dry out but stay quite cool and dark it is
about the same environment. Most of them make it and each year a few do not.
Dormant is what we aim for, sometimes if it get warm too early and then get
cold again there is a lot of moving around.
I prefer clay pots but am trying to replace the clay pots with those plastic
pots that look like clay as the weight of the clay is hard to handle in the
larger sizes. The bulbs need clay pots but I think the others can be changed.
Claire Peplowski
NYS z4
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