I need help, I have several plants which are commonly used in areas with Mediterranean climate, some of them started from seeds, the plan was to bring them to Greece when the time was right. The problem is that my suitcase is never big enough and I now have several plants here in Norway which have become BIG, and I wonder how to make them survive the winter here. Some have already been transferred from the greenhouse to the basement (it will be too cold for them in the greenhouse), where I have some artificial light, it looks very exotic. The pots with
Pandorea jasminoides are there now, but I wonder if I should cut them down now, they are more than three meters tall, or should I wait until next spring? Others are still on my window sill in the living room, but they are hitting the ceiling, at least the
Rotheca (s.
Clerodendrum)
myricoides ‘Ugandense’, which is still in bloom, a
Salvia discolor is also quite big, as well as
Thunbergia grandiflora. Would it be better for them if I moved these to the basement (the temperature will be about 10 degrees C), or should I keep them in the living room, where the air is very dry in winter.
I know that none the plants I have mentioned here are not of Mediterranean origine, but there was not enough space to specify this in the heading.
Here is one of the pandoreas, on it's way to the basement
_Z110303 Pandorea jasminoides.jpg by
JorunT, on Flickr
and from my window sill, still in bloom
_Z140310 Rotheca myricoides 'Ugandense'.jpg by
Jorun Tharaldsen, on Flickr