Have you brought your plants in?

I was alarmed by the near frost Sunday night {34 degrees} and I brought all my indoor plants back inside last night. Now I have to clean, repot, prune and station them near all the sunny windows. I will have to rake the leaves off my sunroom floor because the wind has tossed lots of leaves into all the houseplant foliage. But the babies are in! How are you all doing with this?
Martha

I (mostly DH) just brought all my brugs into the basement last night. Sunday's cold definately finished them for the season. My tropical hibiscus is still outside but is up against the house. It's JUST NOW starting to open some blooms!!!! It's been all summer thinking about creating buds and waits til NOW to do it!! Can you tell I'm frustrated with it? :-) But it's got beautiful flowers so I'm going to sacrifice part of my breakfast nook and put it inside against a southern facing window.
Brugs and 1 hib is all I have to bring in, so it's fairly easy for me.
LoraB.

Mine have been in for a couple of weeks now. Still moving them around some, but that's an all winter long thing---
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I have brought in the white brug - now on the landing of the stairs filling the house with beautifull fragrance, 2 Boston Ferns, two big spikey things in pots, the begonia, three other brugs are in the garage.

I have three datura, another begonia, a canna lily, still to find room for.

When do I dig up the gladiolas? As soon as the dahlias turn black I will lift the tubers and store those,.

It gets a little colder and stay a little longer here, but I dug my glads last week. All house plants are in. After yesterday's 26 degree morning, my dahlias are black. I guess they and the acidanthera will be next.

House plants are in! The key lime tree that I bought at Logee's is setting limes! I'm so excited.

ooh Emily, I'm GLAD I didn't go, because I would have wanted one and not been able to get it, or wanted one and not gotten it and now be insanely jealous, etc, ad nauseum.

x, Carrie

PS - I made (did I say that? I meant I asked politely) my DH to bring everyone in a few weeks ago - and they're already showing signs of unhappiness.

Never mind Carrie - we will supply with new tender babies! My gosh - I have about a gazillion datura seeds!

This weekend I have to dig up the glads - never did that before - I wonder what I am supposed to do . . . they are still green and flourishing.

Some glads can be left in the ground, Seandor. If you know the variety check with other glad growers first.

What color are your datura? I love them!

Most of my houseplants are in and the porch is filled, again. Every year I delete plants but end up with too many anyhow.

One Amaryllis to transplant and a few dahlias in pots, along with the dahlias performing so beautifully right now. Thankfully, NO frost yet.

oh I am bringing plants inside since Monday... will come in next saturday... they froze... and I am planting, digging and doing a major cleaning saturday and hope to finish on sunday... lost some brugs... so I am going to cut some branches and see it they will make it inside the garage for the winter...

some roses are still blooming... Michaela, my double purple didn't bloom yet... so I have no pods... I am sad... if you have spare seeds would you send me some??? I have tons of white and yellow seeds... really pretty plants... and of course wild ones... these are like weed...

I planted "hardy" glads in 2005, they bloomed beautifully in 2006 but none came back!

This is our first year of setting 'houseplants' out and then bringing them in for the winter ~ LOL!!!

I have a very interesting dining room array of various plants, for sure!!

It gets to be a hassle at times, Candyce.

Yep. So far it is a hassle. But, it's a lot warmer INSIDE to deal with the hassle, than dealing with any hassle outside right now.

So far, the cats have been remarkably well-behaved and have left the indoor plants alone, for the most part.

All the plants I bought a Logee's are ather dead or dying! I'm so bummed! The lime tree was even setting limes and then suddenly it started dropping all its leaves. When I mist it - more leaves fall off. All I did was repot everything in potting soil. sigh I'm going to get one of those decorative fountains and hope it makes enough humidity to bring back the lime tree at least. The plants I dug up and brought in from outside are just fine! Guess I have an inside brown thumb.

Usually happens when bringing things from a greenhouse conditions to home conditions--I hope they come back for you----they should once they adjust to your house.

Gee - the stuff I bought from Logees seem to be doing fine - two hardy Jasmine and two bougainvilla "orange ice" - I repotted them and haven't done too much special - just put them in front of the dining room window. However, Our Old House is quite cool - so maybe that helps. Every once in a while I remember to mist and water them.

Each summer I take out all the Christmas and Easter Cactus and the Amaryllis and place them on the front veranda. They have been inside for a month now, and the large Christmas cactus (I have several) has already had a couple of blossoms (silly thing! it should wait a while!)

Today DH brought home a THIRD huge Boston Fern. It was from the neighbour who had left us two large ones already. This one was left to another neighbour who did not have the heart to refuse such a gorgeous plant - but has no place to keep it inside. Currently,. this BF is in my bedroom by the east window. It is in a lovely urn - so even if the plant dies, I still have the urn :-)

I've been misting! And I have that room set at a steady 65 as it is the cat's room and they are weather wimps. I was so insistent on getting that piper nigrum (black pepper plant) and now it is dead. I found a vendor - so I ordered seeds. I am determined to grow my own pepper. (The things I invent to torture myself with!)

Well, I think those darn piper nigrum seeds had better germinate and thrive, 'cause I don't like the idea of you being tortured, 'Cat.

What a nice thing to say!

So far, all of my 'gifts' from the RU are doing quite well. I am counting my blessings every day that the cats stay away from the plants, and they all (the plants AND the cats) still look nice and healthy.

Brought in my boston fern and hibiscus a few weeks ago. First time I'm trying to overwinter anything. So far they look good, hibiscus is still blooming and the fern looks big and green ... hope they make it. I'll be asking all you experts lots of questions, if things start to go bad.

I brought in my one and only brug. It's in the garage. I've babied the thing thru 2 summers and it hasn't bloomed yet. If I don't get anything by next summer it's outta here. I have to keep pointing to pictures of blooming plants and telling DH 'see, that's what it SHOULD look like'. He's convinced it's some kind of mutant.

AYC, good luck with the pepper. Sounds like fun if you can get it to grow. What are you going to do about 'growing' your own salt LOL

My hibiscus are still blooming also, but I have begun to prune them back. Some had to be pruned to even get them in the house. As the blossoms fade, each stalk is getting cut back. i had to repot a couple as well since their pots cracked over the summer. most of them stand on wire stands and needed to have a saucer underneath for the winter watering.
I am also taking cuttings from the pelargoniums that I have brought in. And chasing mealy bugs on the jade plants.
Gee, do I have enough to do?
Martha

They have those sticky cards to catch aphids and other bugs if that happens to your indoor plants.

Grampapa, that's why I put the little plant tags next to the plants -- hoping to inspire them to grow up just like the picture.

What's a brug?

Brugmansia. Big flowers and some say scented while others think less of the "aroma".

I did a marathon move on Friday with the storm coming. The GH is now almost full now, though I do have a few things still in the ground which I will bring in before it is suppose to turn cold later in the week. We don't supply any backup heat to our GH so it gets pretty cold, but never freezes. It is attached to our house and is a passive heating system for us. We do run a wood stove pipe through one end which helps. Anyway we love it. Here is some snaps I took this morning. The dogs love it out there. Patti

Thanks pirl! Just googled brugmansia, beautiful blooms. Are they hardy in zone 6b?

I brought my brug into the garage 4-5 weeks ago and put it in a smaller pot, but I couldn't bear to bring it to the basement. It was covered with flower buds. So I put it on wheels and brought it out on nice days and left it in the garage (near a bright window) other days. The blooms soon opened and they just last and last in the cool temps. My garage smells heavenly! This has been going on for a few weeks and there's no sign of them quitting. But I suppose eventually they will.

This is my first year with a brug. At first I wasn't too happy with it because it took so long to bloom. late-August I think? But boy, was it worth the wait.

I hope I don't screw up overwintering it. I tried softwood cuttings already. That didn't work. Maybe 1 might make it. I think there's enough hardwood to try a hardwood cutting later and still try to preserve the plant as a whole too.

all other plants that are coming in, are in. Let the winter gardening begin....!

Sorry, Michael, they're not. Even with a room to winter them over they do take up a lot of space.

I have 4 brugs - this is my first time . . . and I love them - all 4 bloomed their fool heads off and the three in the garage are still trying to make blossoms - even though they have had almost no light. I just put them in the garage last weekend.

The white one smells DIVINE! It is on the stair landing, though I expect it will drop its leaves and it will go down into the basement.

I dug up the glads - and I have gazillions of little baby corms! If I take care of them and plant them in rows for a couple of years, I will have lots and lots of orange glads! yes

I cleaned up the catmint and trimmed some of the perennials, cleaned up gardens, planted 20 ditch lilies, and six campion.

It was soooo wonderful having the whole day in the garden . . . I suppose next weekend I will dig up the dahlias.

Sounds like you had a fun weekend Seandor. I spent all weekend outside puttering around .. I love it!

Do you have a few favorite plants yet, Michael?

Well, I'm fairly new at gardening. But so far, of the plants I have, my favorites are canna, heuchera, Chelone and Lobelia. Having checked out a few forums on DG, I think my new favorite is the dahlia. Don't have any yet, but I will next year.

I love the heuchera, too. So colorful and so easy to maintain.

Now, Michael, Heuchera ARE hardy year round. Not like all those other silly things Michaela is waving in front of your face to distract you. BTW, Michaela, why do you think my "hardy" glads didn't come back?

x, C

I still have plants outside that needs to come inside...
The plants I got at Logees are ok but one!!!!!... I still have to repot one... oops... but it's green!!!!! the desert rose I took to work... it's warmer tand I have a full sun windown there. I was so upsed that the plant was driying out, started getting brown leaves and just falling off... so I am giving it a chance there...

Put a layer of pebbles in the saucer and keep it moist, provided it wants moisture but if the leaves are browning it sounds as though that's what it wants.

oh ok... thanks Pirl... I will do that tomorrow....