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Oct 9, 2015 6:59 PM CST
Name: Maurice
Grey Highlands, Ontario (Zone 5a)
gargoyl52 said:are there any that you keep outside in the summer and bring inside to keep going during the winter? Or would that mess with them too much?

I have tried that a couple of times and lost the "special" plants that I thought might not make it through winter. Usually I have done that because the plant was a new purchase that had been potted when it arrived in the spring because I did not have a prepared bed to plant it in and then it did not get planted. Since I have lost daylilies left in pots during winter here I do not trust that it would survive. I bring the pot into the house for the winter and end up losing it anyway.

Now if I have such pots left at the start of winter I put them into an unheated garage or other building or leave them outside to the elements.

I do bring some daylilies inside but those are for tests or experiments during the winter; they are not usually new arrivals and those are never expensive plants.

Bringing them inside can mess with the plants. They may bloom inside and then usually do not make enough growth to bloom again the next summer.

I had 'Siloam June Bug' in a pot for a test inside last winter. It is just starting to bloom now in the pot outside. It is coming back inside for another test this winter.
Maurice

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