{"id":20258,"date":"2019-07-29T13:07:20","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T12:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20258"},"modified":"2019-07-29T13:10:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T12:10:02","slug":"comments-made-about-overwintering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/novice-gardeners\/comments-made-about-overwintering\/","title":{"rendered":"Comments made about Overwintering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Irena Dorney<\/strong> a reader of my chrysanthemum post has asked &#8216; Tell me do you overwinter your plants? I can no longer afford to keep buying new plants for my planters so I want to invest in plants with a perennial habit that will work hard in my raised bed.&#8217;<span class=\"akismet-user-comment-count\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Overwintering Generally<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>I am a Yorkshire man so yes I try to over winter many of my plants. I want value for money and the thrill of getting or keeping &#8216;summat for nowt&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>A major proportion of my garden is planted with evergreen shrubs and they overwinter themselves.<\/li>\n<li>Alpines are generally designed for cold wintery weather but HATE\u00c2\u00a0 wet so I don&#8217;t worry about frost but will shield or deflect rain from auriculas and damp haters.<\/li>\n<li>Bulbs I leave in the ground or pots but take up begonias and dahlia tubers and keep them frost free for planting the following year.<\/li>\n<li>You can forget about your tender annuals but the seeds are worth collecting. You then overwinter them as seeds or biannuals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1757\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/hand-of-snow.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/hand-of-snow.jpg 448w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/hand-of-snow-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3>Overwintering Planters<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Selecting &#8216;hardy&#8217; plants that are more likely to survive to survive is a skill worth learning. Violas will last better than pansies for example and dwarf conifers and acers do well in my pots.<\/li>\n<li>One of the biggest risks to plants in pots is death by frozen roots. A big pot holds more soil and is harder but not impossible to freeze.<\/li>\n<li>I gather pots together for wind and frost protection. A group of pots can create there own micro climate.<\/li>\n<li>Under a hedge row I store many pot plants where I am fatalistic. If they survive great if not then <em>c&#8217;est la vie<\/em> &amp; I try to propagate more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Overwintering in a Raised Bed<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Selecting herbaceous perennials can fill your raised beds. <span class=\"ILfuVd NA6bn\"><span class=\"e24Kjd\">Herbaceous plants die back every year when the weather gets cold but the right ones regrow next year.<\/span><\/span> If the winter conditions are harsh then mulch around the root area. Delphiniums, alstromeria and primroses have done well this year.<\/li>\n<li>Tender subjects like musa (banana) or ferns can be wrapped in hessian or covered in straw but that is too much bother for me.<\/li>\n<li>I grow rhododendrons and deciduous azaleas in a raised bed for the want of a larger area. Like many woody shrubs they do fine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5762\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/containers-flickr.com-photos-sharon_k2629364505.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/containers-flickr.com-photos-sharon_k2629364505.jpg 500w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/containers-flickr.com-photos-sharon_k2629364505-300x102.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irena Dorney a reader of my chrysanthemum post has asked &#8216; Tell me do you overwinter your plants? I can no longer afford to keep buying new plants for my planters so I want to invest in plants with a perennial habit that will work hard in my raised bed.&#8217; Overwintering Generally I am a Yorkshire man so yes I try to over winter many of my plants. I want value for money and the thrill of getting or keeping&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/novice-gardeners\/comments-made-about-overwintering\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[291,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-experiences","category-novice-gardeners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20258"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20264,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20258\/revisions\/20264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}