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[pmrorchideas]

Originally Posted by Becca

Hello and welcome to the Orchid Board! Glad you joined us! Do you have any pictures of your greenhouses? We love to see pictures!

The term, greenhouse, is nearly a joke. I widened my long garage along one side for 20 feet, but only 42 inches, so that I could use the large air mass to stabilize the temperature a bit for plants that I don't keep in the house, and which could not tolerate the winter rain or lower temperatures (rarely below 28 degrees F, but have reached 15 degrees and 22 degrees). I have misting and a couple of very low wattage heaters in there, with two fans, so I can fend off freezes, and keep the summer temperatures below 100 degrees. I try to choose plants that can either grow in the house or under my outside or "greenhouse" conditions.

My more recent acquisitions have mostly been in the last 12 years, but we lost most of the older ones when they got knocked into a large container of water during a storm when we were gone. Sigh! Those were mostly large cattleyas in 9" to 14" pots, old clones that we're hard-pressed to replace.
best regards, pmr
pmr

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