Don't fleece. The cannas are cut back and moved into my tiny greenhouse along with a couple of tender salvias. Everything else takes its chance re the weather.
I'm lazy and can't be bothered growing anything that needs fleecing / lifting and storing for the winter. Even seedlings and such like have to take their chance in the unheated potting shed (which is why I rarely sow early). I do have a heated propagator but that's about it for molly coddling.
This is my approach to gardening. Only plants I dolly indoors to my semi-outdoor atrium are my Ixoras. Most other things, if they freeze off in winter, seem to regenerate off their roots again the next year. I'm just getting too old to bother with all that "molly coddling".
Has to let the light thru and I suspect green may not do that so well but I do agree the white is too stark and quickly looks shoddy. Best not to grow prima donnas that need it.
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