Pains of Glass - The story of relocating a glasshouse.

[megrim]

Originally Posted by vjo

The second one should be a piece of cake compared to the glass house. Just think, you will each have your own greenhouse, I just don't think it could get much better than that....Jean

We definitely need one each. He put a few of his low-elevation hoyas in with my hot-growing lean-to greenhouse and within a month those hoyas had woven themselves into the shelving, were shading out one half of the greenhouse and were even starting to invade my mesh pots and air-layer into secondary plants.

I forget sometimes just how slowly orchids grow compared to most other plants sometimes

We had to cut apart three shelves completely with bolt cutters to get just one of his more aggressive hoyas out. A lauterbachii for anyone familiar with hoyas.

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Originally Posted by Polarizeme

What a great greenhouse! What is the overall size? I probably missed that tidbit when I read the thread through

It's 3 metres wide by 4 metres long. So 12 metres square floor space I think?, math is not my friend. I haven't measured the height, I'd guess around 2ish metres at the apex and maybe 1.5 or so at the eaves.

Overall, it's wide and long, but not very tall.

It's not as long as the new models I was looking at, but it is wider than them. And the glass at least won't degrade over time, something I do worry about with polycarb under hot, Australian desert sun.