On 14/11/2013 08:53, Peter James wrote:
Roger Tonkin wrote:

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What do other people do, from my point of view the
easier the better!
Here in Cornwall I was talking to an elderly very experienced gardener
who tells me that he leaves his in the ground but covered with fleece or
sacking to protect them from the frost. He tells me he's done this for
50 years, and can see no reason to alter his gardening practice.

Peter

That's fine if you don't want to take cuttings to increase your stock,
though in time you loose the quality and size of flower.
To over winter tubers in the ground you need to have good drainage, more
tubers are lost to rot than from frosting.
David