I have kept them indoors in pots and they survived, although they didn't look that wonderful. Still, survival is all I was hoping for.

I have removed the plants from their pots, shaken all the soil off the roots, and hung them upside down to overwinter in the tornado shelter. Some survived, some did not. This works best if you let them get pretty dry in the pot before you remove them, and you need to get them into their winter home long before the first frost.

In some very mild winters, I've had them survive outdoors in pots, but that has happened only 1 or 2 times in the dozen years we've been here.

None of the above methods works every time though, and there seems to be no rhyme or reason to why they survive some years and not others.

I haven't overwintered any the last couple of years....just not enough time or space.

Dawn

Like Dawn, I tried the dry storage method with mixed success. For the last several years I just dig them up, trim them back, repot into smaller pots and bring them onto the glassed porch that I don't allow to freeze. My daughter sets hers in the south and east windows of an unused bedroom that she keeps the door closed on to keep the cat from messing with them. They bloom for her but get leggier than mine do because the room is warmer. Geraniums do well for me on the porch, but impatiens and coleus do not. I guess it gets too cold for them.