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Wintering my plants
barrygartley
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this year I have started to enjoy gardening an have been doing well, I think, but as winter approaches I'm unsure what do with my plants. To start me off I've planted most of my plants in pots and have, lavender, Snapdragons, fucias and a nemissia easter bonnet! I'm unsure, what to do with my climbing Rose, which is in the ground! Does anyone have any tips on what I should do so my garden survives the winter.
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The rose will look after itself but you might need to prune it or tie it to whatever is supporting it. If Easter bonnets are aquilegia, you can put them in the ground.
I'm not sure about lavender, I think it depends on size, someone else will know.
Think the 'easter bonnet' is a Nemesia which is a perennial, so it'll just die back. Snapdragons are annuals I think, so that will die off.
Fuschias can be either hardy or non hardy, so it depends which one you have. I think you can take cuttings from the non hardy types and overwinter them. I don't grow those but someone will advise about them. Hardy ones will just need tucked somewhere for the winter. Lavender's normally hardy, so just keep the pot somewhere sheltered as they don't like the worst of the wet winter weather. If it's a small/young plant, it will suffer more than a larger specimen. In freezing cold spells, pots may need some fleece to prevent roots freezing, but it does depend on where you are in the country and what your climate is like there. You can group pots together to keep them protected, and pop them against a house wall.
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I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Thank you so much for your replies. I will take cuttings, and cut pack the plants and keep them indoors and see what happens,
Snapdragons are actually tender perennials - We used to have one that came up every year in the shelter of an old cypress tree and I know of another that is self seeded on top of an old brick wall. If you live somewhere not too cold and can keep it dryish and out of the worst of the frost you may be lucky. They are usually grown as annuals and can be grown from seed. The seeds are tiny and have to be started early, in warmth, but if you can manage that they aren't particularly difficult, just slow growers in the early stages.
I wasn't sure about those B'cupdays - I just remember my Grandpa growing them
I don't think they survive up here with the wet weather, and are mostly grown as annuals.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I usually get two or three years out of antirrhinums. I cut them back to 3 or 4 inches.
Learn summat new everyday Joyce!
Perhaps I've always thought of them as annual because my Grandpa did them every year
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I'm just mean Fairy
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Leave your plants outside. Your only possible casualty will be the fuschia if it is not hardy. Snapdragons may or may not survive depending on where you are but no big loss.