RE: Chilly winters

From: Phil Hanley (p.hanley@hud.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Jul 31 2000 - 03:42:56 PDT

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Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 11:42:56 +0100
From: Phil Hanley <p.hanley@hud.ac.uk>
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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.

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