What do you overwinter (and how)?

[Anonymous]

Interested on hearing what others in the DMV (I am in MoCo) overwinter and what methods you use. I spent the morning taking cuttings of coleus, which easily root in water and will live as houseplants for the winter. I also took cuttings of geraniums and put them in a mix in hopes they will root. I tend to have bad luck that way. My best luck with geraniums is to bring them in as houseplants in a sunny window. But I have more geraniums than windows, so hoping for a new method. I also started cutting back lantana to bring inside — I have a huge pot of lantana that is now several years old and does great in my sunny basement all winter.
One question: I see a lot of recommendations to put plants in an unheated garage and let them go dormant. It feels like it will get too cold in our area even in a garage. Does anyone have luck with that?

[Anonymous]

Do you mean geranium or pelargonium, because geranium are hardy and will just come back in the Spring.

This year I am trying a few methods I've been researching to winter propagate my dahlias, most of which I will leave in the ground, but hoping to get more this way.

I have a tree form non-hardy hibiscus that is on year 3, doing really well indoors over the winter, even blooming. I'm also going to try to create a tree form of my lantana, which will require bringing it indoors. I have an olive in a pot that will come in for the coldest weeks. For all of these I also will put them out on a heated porch on sunny not too cold days.

Usually for hardy perennials I save seeds and sow some in late fall and some in spring and let what happens happen.

Last year I managed to keep fall pansies going until spring.

I took cuttings from hydrangea, asters, and sedum and just put them directly in the ground, all of them seem to have rooted. I tried that with roses too, but it failed to root. I may try rose propagation in pots indoors this winter.

[Anonymous]

You can keep plants under grow lights . I have fashioned my own setup using a 3-tier metal rack. I also have a huge sunny window where I overwinter my large citrus, bay laurel and curry leaf plants.

[Anonymous]

We put them in the basement with grow lights.

[Anonymous]

I always over seed my yard and prune dead wood.

[Anonymous]

Not sure what to do with my potted gardenia. I have nowhere to bring it in so may try my screened in porch wrapped in burlap during cold spells.