I LUV play dates

August deck garden

Wow, Jo Ann it's beginning to look like a beautiful jungle.

DD and I were deciding which cuttings to take in Sept before frost ends it all.

always such a hard decision JoAnn... but everything looks great!

They are all so Beautiful..

How do you keep your cuttings over the winter Jo Ann?

They're beautiful.

I'm thinking about which ones I should save over winter, too. I don't have space for all of them. And many of them have changed (sports) from the original. Sometimes they're better than the original but I don't always like the mutations so well.

Karen

oh I know.. the sports can almost double your stock.. every time I get a NC farms cutting order.. I always try to do a few normal ones.. and all the sports.. if I don't get to them all at least I have some different ones

I hate to repeat but I am not a spring chicken.First year I got instructions from a DG'er. I had 5 parent plants ,all in my bedroom and livingroom windows. I ended up with 30 plants to set outside in the end of May.Thats nine months of bugs, angsting over moths and watering.
In spite of that I found an old display rack from my show days and set it up in the livingroom and 2 tables in the jacusi tub in the bath. I took 30 cuttings as parents and ended up with nearly 200 plants.


Its constant watering when the plant roots fill the cells by March and I have 2 more months of watering.I want to toss everything into the cold by then.
If this is something you want to do I say "go for it"
Stick cuttings into large pots in late summer.If weather permits leave them there to root and grow.
Bring them into the house.Take and stick cuttinga duering the winter. Allison and other gardeners have basement set ups with lights and probab a better system that doesnt leave them so weary when spring comes.
I am taking cuttings of my standbys Mahogany Giant,Apocolipse,Trailing Queen and Canina.

can't go wrong with trailing queen!!

Loved it for 3 years

Containers are looking great ge!

I don't mind the work part of bringing them in for winter. I do worry about keeping them healthy. How would a cool (50's) sun room do for them in the winter? Do you mist them?

If you are talking about coleus,they dont like it cold, they're tropicals. Even at 60's and low 70's thay change and grow slower in winter in the house. Some change color patterns so I lable everything so I know where to plant in spring.
Colors are back to normal by mid June.

yes way too cold for them... sorry to say

Hmmmm. Have to do more thinking.

Lynn, just turn up the heater

And I forgot, what did ya'll say gets rid of the gnats? Camphor?