With few exceptions, all plants grown in pots must be protected against frost.Tropical plants such as velvet, bougainvillea, camellia, species from the tropics cannot withstand even the slightest frost. genus Citrus, banana, tibuchin, lantana, fuchsia. Ficus, mug, myrtle, olive, pencil and some palm trees can be tolerated by slight frost (down to -5 ° C). Frost down to -10 ° C withstand Aukuba, Laurel, Orange and Rough Palm.
We need to prepare a cool (5-10 ° C) room for all the plants mentioned above.It can be a porch, basement, garage or an unheated room.There is also another option - give such plants for safekeeping to gardeners.
Depending on the species, we overwinter the plants in a light or dark place, do not feed them and water them very sparingly, only those in a dark room so as not to dry the root ball.Many of them lose their leaves under such conditions. The plant dormancy is interrupted at the end of February or at the beginning of March. Replant young plants (every 2-4 years old), put them in a warm, bright room and gradually start watering them more and more and nourishing them with fertilizers.
Coral trees winter in a dark room (in autumn we shorten its shoots strongly), brugmansia (if we store it in the dark, we shorten its shoots in autumn), pear-tree (we only store the rhizomes, which we divide in March and place in a pot with fertile soil) ).
In bright places, among others, bougainvillea (in March we put it next to a strongly sunlit window), fuchsia (a bright place, but not by a sunny window), oleander (the room should not be too warm, because it causes weaker flowering). Similar conditions are also required for citrus plants (older plants need to be transplanted every 5 years in the spring, remembering about drainage in the pot), banana (at 10 ° C in a slightly moist substrate), agapanthus (it should be watered sparingly, but so that do not dry the leaves). Common ficus can be hibernated in a light or dark room.
