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In case you’ve been following alongside over the previous a number of weeks, you realize we’ve reached the top of Cherry Ong’s sequence on her backyard greenhouse set up in Richmond, British Columbia. In case you’re simply tuning in, or missed any installment of the sequence, make sure to return and take a look at the earlier elements to be taught extra about this inspiring venture: Half 1, Half 2, Half 3, Half 4, and Half 5.
Now that Cherry has lined each facet of the decision-making and constructing processes, she’s sharing the entire gardening joys and challenges confronted within the seasons since its set up.
Tender Plant Migration within the Fall
Initially, I had the purpose of storing all my tender vegetation inside however that meant sustaining a better minimal temperature since I had some tropicals. Tropicals additionally require rather more humidity so I made a decision to retailer tropicals inside my dwelling. Fortunately I solely had a couple of.
The greenhouse saved largely tender succulents for the winter. I grouped and positioned in line with how a lot solar they require. Taller ones solely had one space for placement since it’s a galley kind storage.
Cherry’s valuable vegetation all cozy and glowing below the artistic fairy lighting they put in.
First, Second and Present Winter
The polar vortex arrived and returned for the greenhouse’s first and second winter. The primary time the temps went to -20°C/-4°F, the temperature within the greenhouse dropped to three°C/37.4°F!
Nobody was dwelling on the time so the second we bought dwelling, we put in a second heater within the greenhouse. The facility was fed via one of many louvres. This corrected the issue throughout the first hour. The second heater was wanted for a brief time frame (days).
The place there was succeeding forecast of beneath zero climate, we might set up the second heater proper earlier than the storm arrived stopping a dip in temperature for the greenhouse.
I actually love that you would be able to so simply see all of Cherry’s unbelievable succulents and cacti from exterior of the greenhouse. In the course of winter, surrounded by snow, it seems like a magical desert oasis.
We’ve been thankfully having fun with a light winter this season, however the query of how one can feed the facility for a second heater ought to we’d like one has arisen given the alternative of the louvres with the automated exhaust fan. My husband was brainstorming and pondering of changing one of many glass panes adjoining to it with plexiglass. He can then drill a house for the feed.
Second heater in place on this photograph.
Exterior you possibly can simply barely see one in every of Cherry’s artistic vacation swags and a colourful winter container association, however contained in the greenhouse tells a very completely different story. An attractive Black Rose aeonium (Aeonium arboreum ‘Zwartkop’, Zone 9–12) has no concept in regards to the chilly world simply exterior their glass dwelling.
Winter January 2025: A lot much less snow on the bottom, however nonetheless equally as thrilling to see all these tender vegetation thriving within the greenhouse.
Make sure you verify again into GPOD tomorrow to see the ultimate installment on this sequence. We’ll be saying goodbye to the snow and seeing how this new greenhouse has remodeled Cherry’s area within the hotter months, in addition to getting a superb tour of the containers she has created over the previous few years that make this small nook of her yard lush and colourful. In case you’re in any respect acquainted with Cherry’s unbelievable container creations, you realize you received’t need to miss it!
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