Winter Outdoor Potted Plants

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Winter outdoor potted plants.

Liven up your winter porch with 8 cold loving plants a spot of color and life on your front porch can ease the winter doldrums. Watering requirements vary from plant to plant but there are some general rules to watering pots in winter. In milder winter regions zones 7 to 10 you can expect to enjoy winter container gardens through the new year and beyond. But in my maryland garden which barely qualifies as zone 7 i have successfully overwintered plants that shouldn t have made it and i have failed with some that should have.

As fall approaches and night temperatures reach about 50 f 10 c start bringing the plants inside for the winter. Shade tolerant plants make especially good choices for houseplants since homes have less light. 10 winter friendly plants for your outdoor space from shrubs to spruces here are 10 evergreens perfectly fit for adding a touch of liveliness to your outdoor space this winter. However protecting potted plants during the winter is not easy.

Keep watering house and conservatory plants but reduce the amount of water as growth slows down in winter. Garden plants although stored in a cool frost free place are either stored dry or slightly moist to stop the roots from drying out. Outdoor container gardens usually involve annual plant species that are simply discarded in the late fall and replaced with new plants in the spring. Winter container plants stand up to light and even hard freezes depending on their location and the duration of the cold snap.

But many perennial plants such as roses and hibiscus also can be grown outdoors in containers and kept alive through winter. Many annuals can be brought inside even tender plants that need a winter dormancy period. It is a shame to lose all your tender outdoor garden plants each winter. Many are actually warm weather perennials that will grow all year if brought indoors.

These come indoors before nighttime temperatures dip below 45 f 7 c. The general rule of thumb for container plant survival through the winter is that the plant should be hardy to two zones colder than your usda hardiness zone.