Re: Perennials in pots

Are there pots or troughs that do hold up well in zone 5 winters?
I have been thinking about using some kind of fairly large troughs,
but there isn't enough time in my life now to get all the dots connected.
I just can't add <lifting all the perennials out and place in the ground and
mulching>!

Hal Lanktree
Zone 5-6 depending
Rochester, Michigan


----- Original Message -----
From: "Hal or Nancy Robinson" <robyn@icx.net>
To: <perennials@hort.net>
Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2002 10:09 PM
Subject: Perennials in pots


> This year I decided to be thrifty and use some of my many perennials in
> my large pottery pots around my shade garden to see if the Heucheras
> would behave better with no competition from trees roots.  I can tell
> you that they did very well in the pots.  I put painted ferns,
> ophiopogon, small Japanese maples, Carex and other perennials together
> for different colors, forms, and textures.  The large tompot(green
> glaze) that was the best had Revolution Hosta, a silver painted fern,
> and a black ophiopogon.  The hosta had dark green flakes in the white
> that matched the black grass.
> Since the pots do not hold up well to the winter freezes I will lift all
> the perennials out and place in the ground and mulch.  The pots go into
> dry storage for the winter.  I grouped 7 miniature hostas in plastic
> short but large pots.  I will just put these pots on the ground and
> mulch around the pots.  I also will have to put some wire on the top
> since the voles love my hostas and it takes a long time to find the
> small jewels.  I think the little hostas show up better if they are all
> together in a large pot.
>
> I found some cheap Styrofoam pots that I planted Japanese maples
> seedlings in with annuals.  I think I will try some to see if the trees
> will survive the winter with just mulch around these pots.
> If it is a cold winter it will be interesting to see just what does
> survive and on to what we can do differently next spring.
> Nancy Robinson  Tennessee zone 6b
>
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