This is for Southernsoil, but I couldn't attach a picture to a reply post in the Gazebo. I'd have put them in our new digs but there's no direct upload over there yet. So until there is, here's a quick peek at where I'm playing this winter. I'll link to it from there for chit chat purposes.
North Carolina - zone 7
Print this page
Email this MessageTaunton Home | Books & Videos | Contact Us | Customer Service
Privacy Policy | Copyright Notice | Taunton Guarantee | About Us | Work for Us | Advertise | Press Room
Fine Woodworking | Fine Homebuilding | Fine Cooking | Fine Gardening | Threads | CraftStylish | JUNKMARKET Style | Vegetable Gardener
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");
document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));
try {
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-4535902-1");
pageTracker._trackPageview( "/finegardening/forums" + window.location.pathname + window.location.search );
} catch(err) {}
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");
document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));
try {
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-4535902-6");
pageTracker._trackPageview( "/forums" + window.location.pathname + window.location.search );
} catch(err) {}
_qacct="p-d07fgYEfZvje6";quantserve();
very cool! boy it didn't take u long to fill it!
Mt. Hope, Ontario Canada zone6
wow Are you lucky to have that!
Enjoy!
"The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind." -Carly Simon
Absolutely beautiful Karen. Wow, you have a lot of real beauties. I know you will enjoy playing in there this winter.
Here's a few more, from top to bottom: pentas, cupheas x2, the cryptanthus corner, the dry end (terrestrial bromeliads and succulents), and a study in begonias.
North Carolina - zone 7
Karen, what beautiful flowers and Nanook is right... it seems like just a short time ago that you were showing pictures of your greenhouse being put together.
I've got two pentas I'm trying to winter over in my front window, along with lantana and false Mexican heather.
Northern Virginia, Zone 7A.
Karen, Congrats again on the greenhouse and thanks for the photo update. Your photos makes me feel like I'm looking at a botanical garden website; they're beautiful! I must say, I do like the new update for how pictures are presented.
I like how the photos open too, except that on my computer at work the photos I added later in the thread don't show up in the post at all, even as thumbnails or some kind of 'absentee file' icon. They do show just fine at home, though, so unless this is some special feature of the new platform telling me to get back to work, I'd say there's another bug to be worked out.
North Carolina - zone 7
Karen, again, lovely! I do at least know what some of THESE plants are. Lol!
The first time I looked at your post, the second group of photos didn't show up either. Later, when I came back to this post they appeared. I can't figure it out, but you're right, sounds like some bugs to work out.
I think the subsequent photos only show up when I'm logged in. Here are a few from today, in no particular order.
North Carolina - zone 7
Wow! I love your Abutilons. Especially Little Imp. I want a bigger greenhouse already. But first I have to figure out a better way of heating. The first elec. bill came in :( sense heating the greenhouse in its first winter. I am thinking about ordering some rolls of bubble wrap to insulate with.
I've heard of people using clear solar swimming pool covers -- they say it works better than bubble wrap. This is my first winter too, so I'm watching for the bill (gas, not electric) to come in. Mine has a pretty good exposure so when the sun is out, like today, it warms up quite a bit. The outdoor temp is 38 F right now and the greenhouse is ~30 degrees warmer, just from the sun. It's all automated so the heater won't come on til it drops to 50.
North Carolina - zone 7
Thanks for the info about solar swimming pool covers. We will check into that. I have two heaters that are on separate thermostats. One of them is a ceramic heater. The sun heats the house during the day, it is at night that those heaters are working hard. We figure it cost us $100 extra this past month and we are just now getting into the cold weather. Yikes!
Solar heated green house plans from the 70s had black 50 gal drums of water along the sun wall. They absorbed heat during the sun hours and emitted heat during the night. Presumably, evening out the temps. At least, that was the theory.
BJ
Gardening, cooking and woodworking in South'n Murlyn'
Do you also want to build your own greenhouse and start to make money growing fruits and vegetables? Click the link:
http://gardening-house-plant.blogspot.com/2009/12/how-to-build-greenhous...
Do you also want to build your own greenhouse...
been there, done that...
and start to make money growing fruits and vegetables?
no.
Our newest member is spam.
North Carolina - zone 7
I never liked spam but DH likes it fried. haha