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beac

(9,992 posts)
Wed May 29, 2013, 08:16 AM May 2013

I over-wintered an alstroemeria!

(not my plant, but close to what she looks like in her glory)

It's a Princess Daniella and is only hardy to Zone 8 (I'm currently in Zone 6b/7a).

I bought it from the sale rack at the garden center and it thrived so well and bloomed so long that when fall came I couldn't just leave it to its fate. So, I brought it in and it lived on my kitchen table garden all winter.

It stayed lovely and green throughout (except for a bad patch when I must have skipped over it in watering one week-- but it bounced right back.)

Today it will go back outside. It may have even earned itself a place in the moving-with-us plant pile later this summer.
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I over-wintered an alstroemeria! (Original Post) beac May 2013 OP
Congratulations. Curmudgeoness May 2013 #1

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)
1. Congratulations.
Wed May 29, 2013, 08:24 PM
May 2013

Overwintering is not easy. I have tried it with a few plants and it has never been a great success for me. They get too dry, the leaves drop, it never blooms as well if at all, etc.

You are lucky, and I understand the desire to keep some plants from just dying.

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