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Push the Zone

By Skiekitty
October 31, 2013

If you suffer from cold winters and you have tender plants that are doomed to live outside, but shouldn't in your zone, try this: Get a black bucket that a big perennial came in, cut the bottom off, wiggle it around the plant, and fill it with natural mulch (not colored/dyed). I have many zone 7 roses that survive my zone 5/4 winters when I do this.

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Oct 30, 2013 7:11 PM CST
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Name: woofie
NE WA (Zone 5a)
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I know you do this with roses, but the photo attached is a dahlia. Does this little trick work for dahlias??? Be cool if it did!
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Oct 31, 2013 8:18 AM CST
Name: Toni
Denver Metro (Zone 5a)
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Woofie - I have no idea.. I've never tried dalias so I can't tell you. Sad Those are bulbs, right? I'd be afraid of them rotting in ground more than freezing I think.
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Oct 31, 2013 9:45 AM CST
Thread OP
Name: woofie
NE WA (Zone 5a)
Charter ATP Member Garden Procrastinator Greenhouse Dragonflies Plays in the sandbox I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database!
The WITWIT Badge I helped plan and beta test the plant database. Dog Lover Enjoys or suffers cold winters Container Gardener Seed Starter
They're actually tubers. Huh. Wonder why there's a picture of a dahlia attached to your article. Confused
Confidence is that feeling you have right before you do something really stupid.
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Oct 31, 2013 10:38 AM CST
Name: Toni
Denver Metro (Zone 5a)
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.
Birds Garden Ideas: Master Level Salvias Garden Procrastinator Irises I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database!
Charter ATP Member Xeriscape Region: Colorado Roses Cat Lover The WITWIT Badge
Woofie - No idea.. I am too lazy to take pictures for my suggestions.. and actually when I sent in these suggestions, I didn't know about the picture thingie. Never grown a dahlia before. I know you're supposed to lift them here, which, to me, is too much like work. Maybe next year I'll buy one & try it. Never hurts to try.. what's the worse I can do, kill it?

Yes, my name is Toni & I'm a plant murderer. I purposefully plan how to kill a plant for scientific research.
Roses are one of my passions! Just opened, my Etsy shop (to fund my rose hobby)! http://www.etsy.com/shop/Tweet...
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Oct 31, 2013 11:47 AM CST
Thread OP
Name: woofie
NE WA (Zone 5a)
Charter ATP Member Garden Procrastinator Greenhouse Dragonflies Plays in the sandbox I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database!
The WITWIT Badge I helped plan and beta test the plant database. Dog Lover Enjoys or suffers cold winters Container Gardener Seed Starter
Yep. Digging them is a pain. I only do it for the ones I paid money for. The ones I grow from seed are on their own!
Confidence is that feeling you have right before you do something really stupid.
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Aug 16, 2014 5:18 AM CST
Name: Caroline Scott
Calgary (Zone 4a)
Bulbs Winter Sowing Plant Lover: Loves 'em all! Peonies Lilies Charter ATP Member
Region: Canadian Enjoys or suffers cold winters Million Pollinator Garden Challenge Garden Ideas: Master Level
This is a very good idea for tender plants.
There was a couple in Calgary who grew tender roses in their front yard.
Every fall they spread bales of straw around the tender roses and held it down by carpets.
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