Question from a new hibiscus grower - Container Needed?

Hi! I appreciate your patience with a newbie. I just purchased three hibiscus plants this spring. I planted them in the ground and they're going crazy. Really beautiful blooms, one single and two doubles. We live in Central Kentucky, zone 6a. Now as I head into the fall, I'm afraid I should have left them in pots so I could bring them indoors. I didn't save the tags, but read them when I purchased and don't remember anything about needing to have them in containers. Should I dig them up, pot them and bring them in? Any help would be appreciated! Thanks in advance.

Are they tropicals or hardies? If they're tropicals then you absolutely will have to dig them up, they're at best hardy in zone 9 (and I keep mine in a greenhouse for the winter because I've lost a few on occasion that got left outside). If you're not sure which they are, post some pictures and someone here will probably know. Don't count on plant tags to necessarily say anything about proper care, the grower who grew them probably ships plants to Florida and other places where they can survive the winter in the ground, and they're not going to list 10 different sets of growing instructions for people all across the country. At best they might label them with the zones they're hardy in, or label them as "tropical hibiscus", but I wouldn't expect anything beyond that.

I'm attaching my three pictures of the hibiscus I have in the ground right now. Thanks for anyone's help. I don't want to see them suffer when Fall comes.

One more....

Last one.

They're tropicals, so I'd definitely make plans to dig them up and pot them before winter comes. I would leave them alone for now though especially if they're still blooming--hibiscus usually respond to transplanting by dropping their buds and often even some leaves, so no point in digging them up before you have to, might as well enjoy them while you can, then dig them up a little before your first frost date.

The red one might be 'Celia', that's a fairly common double red one (I picked mine up at Home Depot). I'm not sure what the others are, but someone around here probably will.

The first one looks like Painted Lady, the last one mabe American President? Lorine