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Sun, May 26, 13 at 13:49
| Please show off your perennial containers. This one looks good all year here. Yucca 'Color Guard' and Delosperma cooperi. They never need watering or deadheading or replacing. Plant Clematis in the ground behind them and it really pops. |
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| Great that you can have perennial conainers out all year. No perennial containers for me though I have a few perennials, clematis and mums, in large pots that need to be taken into the garage for the winter. In the spring they are brought out and I add annuals to complement the emerging perennials. |
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- Posted by trovesoftrilliums 5 (My Page) on Sun, May 26, 13 at 15:23
| Hm I was just wondering whether or not I can overwinter clematis and roses in pots in my unheated garage. I had two sweet intoxication roses limping along in ground. I transplanted them to pots this spring where they are doing better. Wondering if I should shovel prune them or try to keep them. When the Japanese beetles show up, it might be easier to decide. I really don't like dealing with them. |
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| I have a couple perennial containers that over winter in the house. BUT they are in no shape right now for pictures! I just spent the last couple hours pruning, repotting and moving a number of them out to the green house to grow up and harden off. |
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| The only perennial plant I have managed to keep alive in a container outdoors over the winter has been ribbon grass, but it is only just sprouting now. It is a good solution for keeping the ribbon grass, which is a terrible runner, contained. I often place a pot of a nonhardy perennial in the center of the pot of ribbon grass. |
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| I've read that you need to plant perennials in pots that are good to 2 zones colder. But my question has always been how to overwinter the pots outside. I don't want to lug pots in and out. I've thought about planting perennials in plastic inserts put into glazed pots. Anyone else with ideas for perennials in glazed pots? I love the idea of the clematis in the ground near the pot. That yucca/clematis combo is beautiful. |
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