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Old 10-09-2004, 03:26 AM
Magwitch
 
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Nick Maclaren muttered:


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Magwitch writes:
| I've just bought a Datura (about 1m tall - nice plant). I know they are
| tropical evergreen plants that need lots of light but no frost. Would an
| unheated but usually frost-free greenhouse do for over-wintering or would I
| need the plant inside (in which case there'd be a not so much light)?

Yes, but they can take VERY little frost. Mine got killed in an
unheated polytunnel, but this is Cambridge. Keep it dryish in the
winter.

Thanks I'm relieved about the watering - the greenhouse is my Dad's, 4 miles
away!