Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 08:19:27 -0600 From: John Green <john.green@ascensus.com> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg2311$foo@default> Subject: RE: Chilly winters
>>I live in New Jersey where the winters are chilly and
>>sometimes reach temperatures just above 0 degrees. I
>>have a pitcher plant, VFT's, and a few Sundews. How
>>should I keep them dormant? I don't think that I have
>>that much room in the refrigerator?
>I keep all my plants outside (in UK) under glass (no
>heating - door open) the temps last year went down to
>about -5 deg C and the pots were frozen solid for days
>on end with no ill effects. If anyone out there has
>specific tolerances for various species I too would be
>very interested.
Here in Salt Lake City, Utah our winters are cold and snowy, often going
below 20 F (-6.6 C) at night for weeks (winter here lasts pretty much from
November to the end of February or beginning of March). I've had S.
oreophila outside in a mulched bog, but they did very well. This year I'll
be experimenting with more Sarrs (leucophylla, flava, purpurea, and rubra),
D. intermedia, and a VFT (that's assuming they all survive that long with
the heat wave we're having now - 102 F yesterday). I'll post results to the
list next spring on how they all did, but I'm pretty confident they can
handle the winter well.
John Green
Salt Lake City, Utah (can we give the Olympics back?)
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