Yes, the wind whistles across here straight from the Urals!!!
Nevertheless most of those (except Camellia as stated above) will be fine outside - in fact they'll be much better outside than mollycoddled inside, unless the lavender is the more tender French type, and if so that might need some protection in the very coldest weather.
If you raise your terracotta pots up off the ground on bricks (making sure you don't block the drainage holes) that'll help stop them freezing solid.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Yep, pots are already up on bricks and bought some feet for the camellia last weekend. Fleece jacket might be a good idea as the camellia are heavy and it's a long way to the greenhouse. Could use it each year then. Will look into that.
Lavender is munstead which I think is one of the more hardy.
Does glazing in the pot make it less likely to crack?
We grow a huge number of things in pots, and find that it is far more the pot that you need to protect rather than the plants. I had camellias in very large clay pots for several years untilt he very hard winter of a couple of winters ago - then lost them - well, it did get to -25 so not surprising really.
I don't use bubble wrap because it catches water between the bubbles and these hold water which then freezes, Newpaper, hessian, fleece, old curtains - whatever is absorbent and warm for the few that really do need it. Of the list erhat you gave, I would say all are fine outdoors - if it gets to below -15 then a bit of fleece will protect the pots. We have 65 hostas in pots, and although we have lost the odd pot, rarely a hosta. Tulips I regard as annuals now, plant now, enjoy in spring then do it again in autumn - daffs last longer but eventually give up in pots.
Clay pots will stand alot, but glazed ones will give up if there is any sort of crack in the glaze where water can get in & greeze = yjod eill then push the glaze off the pot. Plastic pots get bitterly cold, and I would rarely use them out of doors in the winter. The new resin pots seem good, though I have not had a great deal of experience with them yet.
Bookertoo, won't absorbent stuff like curtains hold water and freeze too? I guess the ideal stuff would be something waterproof and warm like hot water tank lagging - but that'd be expensive!
My front door camelia pots are glazed - particularly don't want to lose those. Will make sure get something on them.
I'd like to have a potted plum tree one day but I think you're supposed to protect them if not in ground in winter. Do you reckon some really good pot lagging would do the trick as its not the sort of thing I'd want to try to move into a greenhouse?
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Yes, the wind whistles across here straight from the Urals!!!
Nevertheless most of those (except Camellia as stated above) will be fine outside - in fact they'll be much better outside than mollycoddled inside, unless the lavender is the more tender French type, and if so that might need some protection in the very coldest weather.
If you raise your terracotta pots up off the ground on bricks (making sure you don't block the drainage holes) that'll help stop them freezing solid.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Lavender is munstead which I think is one of the more hardy.
Does glazing in the pot make it less likely to crack?
Depends on the temperature it's been fired at - so unless you know that ........
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thanks all.
Noodle
We grow a huge number of things in pots, and find that it is far more the pot that you need to protect rather than the plants. I had camellias in very large clay pots for several years untilt he very hard winter of a couple of winters ago - then lost them - well, it did get to -25 so not surprising really.
I don't use bubble wrap because it catches water between the bubbles and these hold water which then freezes, Newpaper, hessian, fleece, old curtains - whatever is absorbent and warm for the few that really do need it. Of the list erhat you gave, I would say all are fine outdoors - if it gets to below -15 then a bit of fleece will protect the pots. We have 65 hostas in pots, and although we have lost the odd pot, rarely a hosta. Tulips I regard as annuals now, plant now, enjoy in spring then do it again in autumn - daffs last longer but eventually give up in pots.
Clay pots will stand alot, but glazed ones will give up if there is any sort of crack in the glaze where water can get in & greeze = yjod eill then push the glaze off the pot. Plastic pots get bitterly cold, and I would rarely use them out of doors in the winter. The new resin pots seem good, though I have not had a great deal of experience with them yet.
Bookertoo, won't absorbent stuff like curtains hold water and freeze too? I guess the ideal stuff would be something waterproof and warm like hot water tank lagging - but that'd be expensive!
My front door camelia pots are glazed - particularly don't want to lose those. Will make sure get something on them.
I'd like to have a potted plum tree one day but I think you're supposed to protect them if not in ground in winter. Do you reckon some really good pot lagging would do the trick as its not the sort of thing I'd want to try to move into a greenhouse?
Whatabout old synthetic duvets inside poly bags?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.