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Winter transitioning

cgnarlycgnarly Posts: 17
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Hi there!
i brought in my plants from my container garden and would like everyone input about if I should leave them inside or my greenhouse depending on their preference. Some of them I forgot the names so please view the pictures of them! Any suggestions/identifications will be greatly appreciated! 

Thank   African Daisy^

 Mint^    some type of lavender^  unsure^
 Santana^ Geranium
 Unsure^
 Banana tree that wont blossom in my zone

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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    It would be enormously helpful, if you could tell us what country you were in.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    edited October 2018
    Your santana is a lantana and is tender and needs shelter from anything colder than 10C if you want it to do well - https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/99415/Lantana-camara/Details

    Your geranium is a pelargonium which is also not frost hardy but can be grown on indoors in a light position until after the last of the frosts next spring.  You can also take cuttings now to increase your stock - https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=338

    Mint can also be kept going over winter in a cool, frost free, light position but I find it's best to root cuttings in water earlier on in summer and keep a small plant going for the kitchen and let the mother plant die back and rest in a frost free area and then bring it in to a light sheltered position in spring and start watering and feeding it again.   Pot on to a bigger pot if necessary.

    For the rest, we really need to know where you are.


    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • ButtercupdaysButtercupdays Posts: 4,546
    The African daisy is Osteospermum, a tender perennial.
    The red and orange flowers are Nemesia and the red starry ones I think are Pentas. Some varieties may be perennial in warmer climates, others are annual, but none of them are frost hardy and they are all usually grown as annuals here in the UK.
    I have overwinted Osteospermum in my greenhouse however.

  • cgnarlycgnarly Posts: 17
    Hello everyone! I live in the US ZONE 6B

    THANK YOU
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    edited October 2018
    No idea what 6B is without googling.  Where, roughly?  State/city/town.......  How cold, hot, wet do you get in a normal year?

    This is a UK based forum with a few European and Oz offshoots plus one or two from across the pond.  Happy to help but need more info.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • RubytooRubytoo Posts: 1,630
    Your lavender is (I think) a Salvia of some kind.
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    Number 7 is wallflowers, perfectly hardy outside.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    Zone 6 is potentially pretty cold in winter. For comparison the UK ranges from 7a (Cairngorms) to 10a (Isles of Scilly and western fringes of Cornwall). http://www.trebrown.com/hrdzone.html
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
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