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Re: bringing your garden indoors





I've been bringing in certain plants, too.  I have six brugmansias that I
bring in for the winter.  As I don't have a sun room or even a room that
gets enough light in the winter to keep it looking green all year around, I
let it go dormant.  I keep it in my basement, which stays pretty cool as it
is unfinished.  All of the leaves fall off and I'm left with a bare-looking
tree in a pot.  I water the pots once or twice a month to keep the soil
moist and that's it.  I bring them out when the night time temps stay warm
(about May for me in Zone 5/6).  It works for these particular plants as I
started with cuttings that were no bigger than a No. 2 pencil and this year
they were over six feet tall.  I had to prune them hard just to get them in
the house.

I understand this may not work for all of your tender perennials, as I
found out the hard way.  My luck with others doing the same treatment was
very spotty, but I found that the woodier the plant stems, the better my
luck.  Hope this may help with some of your plants.


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