Before the frost was going to get them all, I brought a few annuals inside the other week (
Alternanthera and
Plectranthus as well as Coleus), even though I had so very little space for them . . . This one will have to be ditched before long, but in the meantime it has started blooming, and how does one throw something like this out?
2 comments:
If you have a place where they can sort of hang out for the winter -- I used a cool utility room where they wouldn't freeze -- coleus and alternanthera will last over the winter to be set out in spring. Coleus may get leggy and have to be pinched and restarted a time or two, but alternanthera just sits in water with a few changes of fresh water, all winter, making roots. It's how I have lots of plants for free, come spring.
Pinch the blooms off the coleus for better results.
Nell Jean -- Seed Scatterer
Great advice, Nell Jean; thank you.
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