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Old 18-10-2003, 04:02 PM
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Default Growing indoor plants for outdoor next spring


"Mceezee" wrote in message
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What type of plants can I grow over the fall/winter to be put outside next
spring?

I had a kalanchoe (sp?) which I had outside this year and just brought

inside.
Are there any type plants similar to this that I can use inside and then

come
spring, take outdoors?


Not sure exactly what you are asking, but all my houseplants summer outside
each year, only to return indoors when the weather cools in fall. I call it
the houseplant vacation plan :-)) Plants like the Thanksgiving and Christmas
cacti particularly like this routine - they set buds almost immediately
after returning indoors and are in bloom in just a matter of weeks. I also
take cuttings of coleus each fall, root them and winter them over as
houseplants before setting them out into containers in the garden come
spring. You can do the same for fancy leaf or scented geraniums - regular
geraniums as well, although they tend to overwinter pretty easily here on
their own.

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