Winter in Georgia

[kitszoo]

OK, so its fall, time to start thinking about wintering things. I'm in zone 8, north suburbs of Atlanta Georgia. I live in an apartment with a covered west facing deck, so everything is in containers

Comments

[ladycelia]

I'd probably leave them out, but have a tarp for wrapping them on the coldest days and nights.

[graylor]

I had catnip outside for years. It would die down and become shorter and sort of fluffier in the winter, but come back stronger the next spring. It was on the south side of my house in lots of sun, and in the ground, but I'm in western NC, so I'd think yours should be fine if you bring it in on bad nights so the roots don't freeze completely.

After an unfortunate tractor incident killed my old plant, my new cat nip is in a pot hanging over the kitchen sink. So far my cats haven't figured out how to get to it.

[virginiadear]

I'd leave the lavender outside, but I'd mulch it somehow without using a tarp (assuming the tarp is plastic) because a plastic tarp doesn't breathe and a lot of condensation, or even a little condensation, and no circulating air, is a great way to invite disease problems in your plant and in your soil. Same with the catnip: a member of the mint family, it's a perennial, and it's deuced hard to kill, so a wrapping of something to help insulate the soil it's in and still allow air to circulate, and it should be fine. The catnip may die back for the winter; not to worry if it does because it will come back next spring with a vengeance. Mints are very hardy

[wobblerlorri]

Well, first, you're in zone 7, not 8. And we have a fair proportion of below freezing days -- not necessarily in the 20's or teens, and our days do warm up into the upper 30's and low 40's for the most part, but you can guarantee we have plenty of freezing and subfreezing temps from late November until late March.

That said, I'd bring in everything but the lavender and the catnip. Succulents like the jade plant will just die at the first real nip of winter. The other plants are all warm weather plants and won't be very happy in the cold at all.

I'm in Bremen, GA, about 10 miles from the AL/GA border straight out I-20. I'm solidly in zone 7b. You probably are, too. Our weather comes from the west and north because that's the way the fronts come to us, out of Alabama and Tennessee. Only time we get weather from other directions is if a hurricane is behind it. (Gulf of Mexico to the south, Atlantic ocean to the east)

[virginiadear]

"PS: For those that remember, I have the office African Violet and its perking up and looking good, I may risk re-potting it into something more appropriate (it needs the pebble tray humidity boost) before the end of the year."If I'm understanding this correctly, your African violet needs a pebble tray but doesn't yet have one? If your African violet is in need of humidity (the leaves are starting to arch their centers upward as they bend or curl the edges down and under), you might give some serious consideration to making that pebble tray now, especially as we move into the cooler months: it's usually less humid outdoors as well as indoors and central heating dries out plants just that much more quickly. It's not necessary to re-pot your African violet in order to set up a pebble tray, and it's all right to have the diameter of the tray exceed that of t he mass of leaves of the plant (larger than you need right now, in other words) in anticipation of the re-potting, so you don't have to make a pebble tray now and then make