If the day temperatures are above freezing during the winter and there is no snow cover on your pots and it hasn t rained in a week or more crack out the garden hose and provide your plants with a through watering.
Ceramic pot wintering.
Definitely move ceramic containers indoors for the winter.
The goal is to eliminate the possibility of water being absorbed frozen and thus causing the pot to crack.
Leaving terracotta pots out in the winter can cause damage.
Ceramic being even more brittle than terracotta the slightest crack can quickly split the pot in two.
Much like terracotta and clay pots it is not a good idea to store ceramic pots outside in the winter.
You can sometimes find styrofoam pots.
Your climate determines which types of pots will do best in winter.
There are steps that can be taken to help prevent your pots from cracking when old man winter whips through your garden.
The roses in pots cannot be allowed to have their roots dry out as the plant then runs the risk of death from desiccation.
Storing ceramic containers for winter.
Untreated porous containers such as terra cotta and ceramic tend to crack and break with freezing and thawing.
Winter doesn t mean you can t have plants in your yard but if you have potted ones on your deck or patio you should be careful which materials those containers are made out of.