Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Roof photos today... or .......... Brugs Galore, 0 by GordonHawk

GordonHawk wrote:
hi Brenda.. OH..... visit anytime... this one was a blow out year.. some 80' of brug hedge.. a brug every two feet.. and then the interior ones... .. every year it's different.. I don't know that it will be as intensive here... next year... lots will be given away this year... to make way for new ones... only a few seedlings didn't bloom.. and there's still.. time for them.. so perhaps mostly seedlings next year.. as the excitment of something different poping through .. is alot of the fun here. and I'm perhaps somewhat overloaded. so maybe a smaller effort then .. but upping the unknown factor.. and with some first year seedlings at 10 ' now... I have to watch what I feeed them.. I'm still toying with what to do with them this winter... the expense of building a foam house.. then tossing it weighs heavily... I'd go to a hoop house... but the difference in that... and the heat for it with an " R " factor of maybe 3 compared to the foam with a " R " rating of perhaps 12... I ' m paying almost nothing to heat it.. with no blow out issues like with the poly film ... it's just the cost is high... but the material research is informative... This years foam house will have no metal in it... just layers of foam... for a 12' x 12' structure.. in a modified quanset shape... with built up straight lower walls... for edge height.. so the foam in the spring will be of little useability... unless I want a series of curvd planters somewhere.. this year I replaced all of my heavy 2 x 12 green wood planters with planters using foam from last years building.. so I didn't feel too bad tossing alot of the metal and unused foam.. i must say the foam planters held up realwell... no edge cracking or deflection by the stuffed roots..
SO given I could buy all new exotic rooted cuttings in the spring... for the price I pay for a building maybe I'll just overwinter a couple of big ones and some little ones inside... and cut the ones I live with down by 1/2... it's been quite full inside... as most of what's in the phots comes inside and it is where I live too.. I've grown to enjoy the open spaces here... and I've just repainted a lot of the house... taken off the recipe's molasses overspray off the walls.. I've been overwintering myself in ward # 3 of the Court Gardens Botanical Research Station..it's enough I run 1600 watts inside 14 hours a day for them ..
but to go out tonight.. and enjoy the blooms of so many... Priceless...
and after all it's only money... So...what's my problem...
OH.. got a few blue butterflies rooting out for you.. if some take I'll send you some... otherwise look for a big box of cuttings.. come the first frost days

This message was edited Oct 2, 2009 8:34 AM