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Garden Gate:  what plants do you bring in for wintertime?  |
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
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 Posted - Oct 15 2006 : 5:01:16 PM
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i brought in my STEVIA .. and a ROSEMARY .. i don't have lots of sunny places to put plants .. we do have a sunny 'garden room' but it is not 'heated' .. but is better than the outdoors with wind-chill. what are you bringing in to 'winter over' .. and do you just put it somewhere and leave it until springtime .. or do you treat it like a 'houseplant' and water it all winter?
True Friends, Frannie
CABIN CREEK FARM
KENTUCKY
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~Tracey~
True Blue Farmgirl
351 Posts
Tracey
TN
USA
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Posted - Oct 15 2006 : 6:36:04 PM
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We bring our huge ferns that are in half barrels in (it takes a dolly to lift them up and in) and also a couple of other houseplants (some type of lily and my mommy brain can't remember what it is). We got 4 more ferns this year to put around the water feature that DH added on our small back slope leading down to the beehives and I am not sure how they will all fit in our sunroom with the bunnies cage, but that is where they must go!! They shed something aweful by mid-winter but I look forward to Spring when I can clean that room out and I love having something green around all winter. Oh, I did have some huge geraniums that I would bring in and they would bloom again in late winter _GORGEOUS!!! but alas, I killed them this year!! Oh, we water the plants all winter but it doesn't take near as much of course.
Tracey,
mama to Callum 13, Katie 8, Wil 5.5, Benjamin 3 and Andrew 6 months!!
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
Posted - Oct 15 2006 : 8:45:25 PM
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i brought in a big fern too .. but i bet i forget to give it enough water .. and oh my yess! they do 'shed' .. i think that is why i like them OUTSIDE. xo
True Friends, Frannie
CABIN CREEK FARM
KENTUCKY
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katie-ell
True Blue Farmgirl
1818 Posts
Katie
Illinois
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Posted - Oct 16 2006 : 07:08:47 AM
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| I bring in my scented geraniums, rosemary, rex begonias, and foxtail fern. Oh, and all my Christmas cactus (8 or so) that summer outdoors. I have a semi-heated room in the back that is about 50 degrees in the winter -- lots of light there, but mighty cold. I just try to keep my old friends hanging on for spring. |
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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Posted - Oct 16 2006 : 08:52:09 AM
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I am bringing in a nice rosemary, some thyme and wooly lamb's ear..just cuz they were in the main garden and had to be dug up anyhow...I should have known better. I love having a rosemary in the house in winter. This one is an upright one.
Jenny in Utah
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
http://www.auntjennysworld.blogspot.com/ visit my little online shop at www.auntjenny.etsy.com |
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mommom
True Blue Farmgirl
854 Posts
Susan
Lancaster
Pennsylvania
USA
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Posted - Oct 16 2006 : 08:56:05 AM
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| This morning while I was hanging out laundry, I spotted my sole surviving geranium that is in a pot full of blooms and I brought it in so at least we can enjoy the flowers indoors. My impatiens look terrible! Maybe I'll pull them out today. It makes me sad to see my flowers so droopy after I've babied them all summer! Oh well. Time for snow! Susan |
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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Posted - Oct 16 2006 : 09:02:25 AM
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I had the oposite nice thing happen...my flowers are all pretty dead and brown..and I have gotten used to that the past couple weeeks but yesterday while looking out my back window..over the sewing machine to check on Mona there, in a hanging pot on the little patio were the brightest, prettiest pansies.. I love pansies..they are so hardy and happpy looking!!!
Jenny in Utah
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
http://www.auntjennysworld.blogspot.com/ visit my little online shop at www.auntjenny.etsy.com |
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DaisyFarm
True Blue Farmgirl
1646 Posts
Diane
Victoria
BC
Canada
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Posted - Oct 16 2006 : 09:30:14 AM
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I agree Jenny. Last spring I had a little hanging basket of pansies and it was so pretty... they seem to have smiling little faces. I have some pansy bedding plants waiting for me to plant out, it's "on the list" too.
I grew a pomegranate from seed about four years ago. It's the prettiest little bush, still in a pot, and it will go into the greenhouse for the winter along with my Australian bush mint. We don't get the severe cold here, mostly we have to protect things from drowning! My geraniums will come inside to the plant room where it's pretty cold during the winter. They will mold into oblivion in the greenhouse.
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