Overwintering Black Mondo grass?

Hi Everyone
I am looking for some advise on overwintering my Black Mondo grass inside.
I have removed it from my biger pots and put it into 6 inch squares.
Should I bring it in like a house plant which is what I am doing with my Flax?
or Should I put it in the dark cool basment spot. Or should it be alowed to freeze and then put it a garage?
I know it's a lilly by birth so I'm a little worried about exactly what to do. The plant forum doesn't give any information at all about doing any of these.
I would appreciate any advice.
Ann

I have a friend just out of town that has some, let me email her and ask what she does with hers.

Linda

So, the grass is a zone 5-9. She says it doesn't go dormant in the winter, and that you should treat it like the flax. Bring it in, but not to the cold dark scary basement.

Good luck with it Ann

I have my Black Monda grass and new Zeland Flax both in pots and going to treat them as houseplants,
Which I did last year,,
infact have to bring them in tonight..

Wilma

Thankyou Linda and Wilma
That is what I will do. I have been protecting from frost but it's starting to dip to -2 sat night and that will mean they are coming in on Sat after I spray them.
Ann

I bought a black Mondo grass at the rock garden society plant sale a few weeks ago. Presumed since they had grown it and were selling it that it would be hardy here! So it is out in the garden.mSounds like maybe I should bring it in for the winter.

carol

Carol
I don't think it would make it in the garden and its not really a grass. Or if you like I'll take mine in and you can leave yours out and we'll see if we both have some in the spring. I plan on having it like a house plant. Did someone say it was hardy to here? or did they have it in the perenial section?
I thought it was zone 7 or 8 now I'll have to go and look it up.
Ann

Ann I've put a message on our hort chat line to see what members say about it. I'll let you know.

carol

definitely not hardy here carol. mine have been inside for 10 days now and look quite happy. tough to find them with everything else that is inside; but what the heck, who needs people space anyway. Definitely no room for a christmas tree this year. LOL

We grow it in St. John's at our BG but it is not thriving....I guess we are on its edge. This year we will overwinter it in our cool greenhouse to be safe.

OK I'll go dig mine up tomorrow. Are you keeping it in the house i.e. as a 'houseplant' - it doesn't go dormant?

carol

Carol ...Thankyou I will look forward to any info.
Lynn I know you can decorate the "trees" you have brought in Yucca's will look great in garland.
Todd I think it said it was zone 7 so that is one heck of an edge you have wow! I would be interested to find out how well it does. I bought one 6 inch pot that needed dividing ,last spring at the round up and split it. I think I ended up with 8 plants( Lynn may remember)and they are just looking good now. They are very slow growing. I had one flower and it was very delicate and tiny. I hope to be able to tell you next year that they are thriving after bringing them inside.
Ann

Carol
I think we are on at the same time. If i remember right it is an evergreen in the right zone so it should look like a houseplant inside. I guess we will find out.
Ann

So I just dug it up and potted it - had a pretty good root system already - it has only been in the ground for about 2 1/2 weeks - and a baby!
Im having a hard time finding places for these things - suddenly seem to have a lot of house plants started. I split a Peace Lily today and ended up with 2 medium and 3 small plants!

carol

Hmm - running out of room for house plants (that aren't really house plants)! When i have the nerve i will post some pics of what the foyer looks like this year.Anne and i just finished our fishing expedition of the day. The creatures are now back in the indoor pond along with tooooo many plants. Water lilies are in now too pam. Hoping the buds will open indoors since they certainly weren't going to do it outdoors.

I'm glad Lynn......if'n your pumps had shut down they would be gonners. Now that they are at blooming size there should be no looking back next year!

Ann, it did very well in St. John's for many years but last winter we had no snow until mid-January so the frost went deep (normally, with our snow, we have NO frost in the ground)..that knocked the plant back significantly. It's still alive bnut not a happy camper. Under 3-4 feet of snow, winters are like zone 7 so we can get away with some warm zone perennials...shrubs on the other hand...that's the challenge.

Todd
You have a super climate for pushing things! I can only dream of no frozen ground.
I was very pleased with the look of the black mondo and I hope that by bringing it inside I can give it a head start next spring. I will be container planting it again so the pot thing will work for me. I kept my Japanese blood grass in a 2 gallon pot and just plunked it into the ground in my grass bed then I just lifted the whole thing out this fall and have brought it in too.
Thanks for your input and advise.
Ann

It's interesting the way snow insulates the ground. We had one fall here in the very early nineties when we had 2 ft of snow the third week of October and it never did melt until spring. I was digging mature carrots and potatoes from the garden in April that had never had any frost.

As I recall, it was a very bad year for bugs though - no larvae were killed.

It's a bad year for bugs every year here it seems! I'm trying some so-called hardy gladiolus this year so I hope we have no frost in the ground...or at least only restricted to the top couple of inches or my experiment will end before it begins! The great thing about no frost in the ground is that snowdrops and eranthis literally bloom the day after the snow finally melts!