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Tuberous tender perennials
Everyone knows that you can overwinter Dahlias as a tuber. Today I have just
dug up Salvia patens, which I understand can be treated the same way. And so can Verbena rigida I believe. Any suggestions of others. And is it critical exactly when you do it. And what about bare root perennials - you see a lot for sale. Is that the same thing? |
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Tuberous tender perennials
In article , Peter Sutton
writes Everyone knows that you can overwinter Dahlias as a tuber. Today I have just dug up Salvia patens, which I understand can be treated the same way. And so can Verbena rigida I believe. Any suggestions of others. And is it critical exactly when you do it. And what about bare root perennials - you see a lot for sale. Is that the same thing? I overwinter salvias and verbena , but in the ground, i.e. I leave them alone, though sometimes I mulch a particularly nice salvia. All the dahlias apart from the giant Japanese one that I grew in 2006, came through last winter. I'll leave 'after Eight' in the ground and possibly put Turkish Sunshine (as it's in a pot) in the greenhouse. I have NEVER been able to winter dahlias out of the ground in spite of following every step advised. They just seem to rot. -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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Tuberous tender perennials
In message , Sacha
writes Never tried, I'm afraid. We leave ours in but gardening here or in the CIs is just so different. I'm not quite sure what the OP means by bare root perennials, though. Bare root hedging plants, perhaps, such a beech or hawthorn etc? Come spring you can buy plants of some perennials as rootstocks - hollyhocks, Gypsophila, paeonies, Liatris come to mind as examples of the sort of plant sold that way. -- Stewart Robert Hinsley |
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