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Re: wintering perennials

I am going to break this down because I actually had many of the same
questions myself.


On Thu, 09 Oct 1997 22:03:28 -0500 Bob Axmear <bobaxe@sbt.net> writes:
>Hello everyone
>	I have a few questions I could use some help on.
>	If a person starts some bulblets from the stems of lilies and 
>they grow
>an inch tall how does one overwinter them.

My plan is to start them in pots in the basement and hope that I can
transplant them in the fall.  I would be frightened that 1)moles/voles or
2)serious freezing would damage this tender vegetation.
>	Has anyone ever tried to dig up pelargoniums (geraniums), hang 
>them
>upside down, and store them so they can be replanted the next year.

I do not know because I have never tried to do anything with geraniums.

>	I have about 200 pots of daylilies, hostas and other 
>perennials. Would it be better to put them in a building for the winter,
store them outside and possibly mulch them or some other method of
storage for the
>winter.

Other gardeners have told me that storing these plants is possible as
well as mulching heavily until you find where you want to put them.  (I
am transplanting some plants to my new home and wanted to be sure that if
I did not get them into the ground they would still live.)  I am told
that hostas and daylilies are very hardy.  

>	How late is the latest a person can plant bulbs such as 
>hyacinth and>crocus.

As long as the soil is workable and the bulbs have a long enough period
of freezing to be prepared for blooming.
>	Any help on these subjects would be appreciated
>Bob
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