brought inside

Most of the garden pots I brought indoors to shelter from the weather are crowded into my basement window.

Left side of the window to right. Lemon verbena and ginger

Stevia

wild mint I dug out of friend's yard month ago

coleus 'gay delight' under the others- I cut it back further, taking pieces to restart indoors and also replanting some cuttings in the front bed- so it's shorter than the other plants here

coleus 'watermelon'

curry plant- I often disturb it on purpose because I so love its scent

Mini jade or 'ice plant'- sadly this is the only one of the plants I got in a box for my birthday, that is thriving. Elephant bush got devastated by insects outside- I've had to shelter it apart from the others, in case its malady spreads. String of pearls just kept deteriorating and I'm almost ready to reuse the pot for another plant. Lithops continues to look sad. . . . But ice plant is doing great! It liked the summer outside.

Rosemary. Bottom half of the stems the leaves had turned brown and fallen. A lot of these plants got withered leaves trimmed and heavily sprayed with soap/oil mix against bugs before I brought them in, especially the rosemary. Top half looks healthy, though.

Another view of the rosemary-

Ginger mint

Chocolate mint- this one got a severe trim. I cut out all the stems that had sickly-looking leaves on them (from tiny leaf hoppers), stripped the bottom halves of stems and hung the tops to dry for tea in my dining room, and sprayed down the pot.

Here's how lovely it looked before I cut it back

Some of these plants will go back outside once we get sun again- but others- probably the stevia at least- I might keep inside now until spring. Other garden containers I simply left outside to take their chances: russian sage, summer savory, dill (those are mostly done for the season anyway).