Post a picture of your growing area(s)!

[Kuzuri]

I'm just curious as to where you all grow and what your growing areas look like.

Here are mine:


The area for those that need bright light. It's a west facing window.


For those that don't need a lot of light. This used to be my working desk (I make jewelry). Now, the chids have invaded it.

[tarev]

My Phals and Paphs stay indoors year round near my west facing window and north facing sliding glass door. This area gets good shade from the city trees so the plants like it. There is a ceiling fan above so they get air circulation if I cannot open window due to weather restrictions. If afternoon sun gets too direct in between the city trees cover, especially during sunset, I just pull the sheer white curtain to add further protection to the plants.
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Sorry, photo got twisted during upload, but this is my growcamp, where my Oncidiums, Maxillaria, Dendrobium, Cattleya, Pleurothallis and Zygopetalum live. There is always good air flow in this area, and they get nicely shaded in the afternoon by the city trees. During winter, I have a plastic foil that I attach and helps the plants endure the cold.
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Beside the growcamp is a fountain. Normally I have this fountain running for additional humidity, but with our ongoing drought, I turned it off. I just use it right now to hang my Vanda coerulea.
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My mini-cymbidiums are on this posts, year round, outdoors. Sorry again for the lopsided photo.
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[MrsSky]

I just use bakers racks and storage bins by any window in the winter and on my porch (weather permitting). Its not fancy but it works.

[RosieC]

"Area" ... singular! I will get some pictures of a couple of my different areas later when the sun has moved. But they are everywhere in my house... and greenhouse and even some in the garden

[RosieC]

Here are a couple of my windowledges, although it's still too bright outside to get good pics really.

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[nikkik]

Originally Posted by RosieC

"Area" ... singular! I will get some pictures of a couple of my different areas later when the sun has moved. But they are everywhere in my house... and greenhouse and even some in the garden

Lol! I am with you, Rosie!

[RandomGemini]

I'd love to see inside of your greenhouse Rosie!

This is how I grow... and some of it requires explanation..

Let's start with my kitchen table.



Um.. yeah. Orchids grow here. It's weird. The house faces sort of southeast here and we get so much sunlight in the summer from the row of windows on this floor of the house, that we don't bother to ask the AC to struggle to keep the temp under 78. We'd go broke if we tried. LOL! These two plants may or may not stay here, depending on if I have enough room for them in my office on the orchid rack.

And... my dining room table. I tried moving the phal on this table up to my office and it sulked. I tried moving it closer to the window and it got sunburned. It likes this spot, so I don't move it. I use the rest of the table as a spot to quarantine orchids that are coming in.



This is my plant rack in my office. I'm trying out a set of lights on the bottom, if I like them, I'll buy another set for the top. So far, my oncidiums seem VERY happy with this arrangement. I may opt not to buy that second light fixture at all, because my phals have been really happy where they are too. It's watering day, so a lot of things are out of their pots and sitting in solo cups to soak.

I do need to move those two pictures behind the shelf though.



And this is my mini phal window ledge, which usually has a lot more mini phals on it, but these are waiting their turn at the "watering trough," so to speak, so they will have to represent their missing brethren!

[RosieC]

Here are a couple of shots of the greenhouse. Still got a bit of space, need to fill it I think However the space on the left in the first picture is my potting area, so I have to keep self control and not fill that bit... it's all to easy for it to keep filling up if I'm not careful

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[Dave S.]

Here is mine:





If you look carefully, you will see a Gongora fulva in bloom.

[MattWoelfsen]

This is a very entertaining and revelatory thread. Thank you for starting it. Like RosieC I do not have an area,

I have several. Phalaenopsis and Masdevallia in the eastern sun.


East by MattWoelfsen, on Flickr

In the southern facing window I have Cattleya, Dendrobium, Vanda.


South by MattWoelfsen, on Flickr

In the western side, I have Nofinetia and Oncidium.

Growing above the Jacuzzi.


West, Part A by MattWoelfsen, on Flickr

Where more Neofinetia slumber.


West, Part B by MattWoelfsen, on Flickr

After looking at my pictures posted here, it occurred to me that I have become an Orchid "hoarder". Photos are taken with my iPad, so I cannot control the silhouette.