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When do you need to bring your plants indoors for the winter?
Short answer: it depends on the plant, but generally when the nighttime temps start dipping below 10ºC/50ºF or so is a good benchmark. Longer answer: Check out our care guides for each plant that you have outside -- one of the entries on the beginning table is how hardy they are! Most houseplants are tropical plants, which means that they need to come inside over winter or they'll sustain cold damage, and eventually die due to cold. For most common houseplants, the generally-accepted "safe" cutoff is about 10ºC/50ºF -- for the YQG/Windsor area, nighttime temps start hitting around there mid-September or...