Preparing Outdoor Potted Plants For Winter

But many perennial plants such as roses and hibiscus also can be grown outdoors in containers and kept alive through winter.

Preparing outdoor potted plants for winter.

But with that said winter care is pretty simple and straightforward as long as you bring them in out of harms way. However protecting potted plants during the winter is not easy. Outdoor container gardens usually involve annual plant species that are simply discarded in the late fall and replaced with new plants in the spring. Hardy cyclamen cyclamen hederifolium and cyclamen coum are neat free flowering plants perfect for growing at the base of trees and shrubs or naturalising in grass they work well in winter pot displays and can be planted into the garden after they have flowered.

Begin preparations well before that first freeze or you may lose one of your prized plants. Potted strawberry plants are a bit more susceptible to the freezing temperatures of winter than those planted in the ground. In all other areas cut back on watering to help plants harden off in preparation for winter. The biggest challenge though is guarding against root damage caused by rapidly fluctuating temperatures.

On perennials that have finished for the season cut back stems to 6 to 8 inches from the ground. Even plants that are hardy to your zone can be hit hard when planted in a container in the winter.