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Can any annuals be brought in for winter & live through it?
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margie12u
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| Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 11:28 pm Post subject: Can any annuals be brought in for winter & live through |
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Hi Everyone, Do you all know can any of the annuals be brought in for the winter and live through it, and put them back out in spring, I just hate loosing some of mine, I know I have enough to bring in without bringing in my annuals to, Besides that my hubby may shoot me!! But some of them are just so nice, I know it's a crazy question but just thought I would ask. 
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Netty
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| Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 11:52 pm Post subject: |
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There are some that I know will do OK indoors for the winter. Geraniums, Coleus, and Double Impatiens come to mind. I bring in my Brugmansia, Black and Blue Salvia, Oleander, Dipladenia and Bougainvillea.
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Droopy
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| Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 6:46 am Post subject: |
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Up here in the cold north people bring in Fuchsia and Argyranthemum. They only get bigger and better with overwintering if you've got space for them. I kill every plant I try to overwinter so I just don't buy them.
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bunkie
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| Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 2:51 pm Post subject: |
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margie, i've experimented with lots of annuals and growing them during the winter months. they do well as long as they can get enough light, otherwise they get leggy.
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gfreiherr
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I have had success with hybiscus, double impatiens, begonias and geraniums. You need to spray them for insects, I have had trouble with spider mites after bringing them in. They do need a window with good light.
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bsewnsew
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i bring in my geraniums yearly. Now rooting imps to try to keep over.
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stratsmom
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I bring my geraniums to my office every fall  some of them are several years old! I've never tried the impatiens but I have one on the front porch. I'll make sure he comes to the office too 
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calinromania
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LOL... i don't think most of the plants you mentioned are "annuals" but rather tender exotics...
when i think of annuals, i think mostly of zinnias, sunflower, etc
i could be ignorant or just don't know much, but i guess annuals are plants that after blooming and seeding - they are JUST done... and there is nothing you can do to get them through another year. that's why they are annuals, one year and that's it.
but i could be wrong. am i?
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bunkie
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| Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2010 3:11 pm Post subject: |
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i thought annuals were plants that grew and produced flowers the first year and then die from frost or the cold. last year i potted up a petunia plant and kept it in the house through the winter. it's in the same pot outside now and very lush. going to keep it going through the winter again this year...it has red flowers and the hummingbirds love it! 
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toni
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Cal, I think you are correct. A true annual is one that lives it's entire life in one growing season and then dies and they are annuals even in the warmer zones.
Tender tropicals are usually treated as annuals in cold climates, being replaced every spring. But they can be kept inside or in a greenhouse to keep them alive over the winter and be brought back outside for the next growing season.
The plants mentioned here are perennials where I live or further south of me. But they can be kept over the winter indoors or in a greenhouse in northern climates.
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bunkie
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toni, i don't know of any plants that die after a year unless by weather conditions? can you name me one?
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toni
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According to Wikipedia, corn, wheat, rice, lettuce, peas, cauliflower, watermelon, beans, zinnias and marigolds are true annuals. Sometimes you can get a true annual to live longer if you do not let it set seeds.
For the other plants it's pretty much semantics and where you live. An annual for you is a perennial for me and an annual for me is a perennial further south in a tropical climate.
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bunkie
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| Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 3:14 pm Post subject: |
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very interesting toni! i can see corn, lettuce, and cauliflower...tho i have seen cauliflower develop small heads, like the cabbages and broccolis when the main head is cut.
a perfect example of wheat not being an annual is the second and third, sometimes fourth cutting farmers can get with the plants. i performed such a thing this year in my greenhouse. i planted Vicar Oats in a flat and never got it transplanted into the gardens. in the flat it grew it's first flush of seed, then started to grow another flush.
first flush of seed...
second flush...the green stems coming up...
i believe with the right weather conditions, the plants will keep doing this, but up here, they die in the frost in fall. i guess you're right about semantics, and it depending on where one lives. so what do you consider an annual down there?
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toni
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Wheat is a Grass and Oat is a Grain and even tho they are in the same Poaceae family, but the Genus are different for Wheat and Oat
They are different plants and will have different growing cycles and conditions. That is probably why Oats were not in the list of true annuals on Wikipedia.
Pretty much anything that doesn't make it thru the winter down here is treated like an annual, whether it actually lives it's entire life from germination to seed then dies in one growing season or is considered a tropic further south and can't take temps below about 40 in the winter. But there are some sub-tropicals that over winter just find and return from their roots every year....Canna, Geranium, Petunia to name a few.
Ooops, Margie, sorry to highjack your topic about what annuals will overwinter inside.
Now getting back to the original subject of this topic
I would think that any of the plants mentioned by others will do just fine as long as they get enough sunlight and kept at a temp comparable with there hardiness zone restrictions.
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calinromania
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well bunkie... i am not sure. it could also mean that the second round is from... seeds from the first one? then it has nothing to do with the first round - just a thought.
annuals here really make no sense overwintering. all annuals (referring to plants that bloom, not veggies) are pretty cheap in spring. also they make lots of seeds, easy to collect and easy to propagate by seeds.
and as they are annuals, they tend to have a rapid growth rate. cause they know by fall they should be "done".
that is why i am not an annual fan. i used to have some in the garden, did very well, but for a very short time, and then they started drying up.
this year i had godetia but i enjoyed them for a very short time.
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