Saving Container Plants: Overwintering Techniques for Keeping Tender Plants Alive Year After Year

Keep the perennial plants in your windowbox, or on your stoop, deck, patio or balcony alive even through the coldest winter months, and save the money and heartache of needing to replace your fragile container garden plants each year. This quick-reference advice is based on what kind of dormancy different kinds of plants go through in their native habitat.