African Violets and Gesneriads: Here comes Peter Cotton Tail, 1 by nannanavarro

nannanavarro wrote:
I have two shelves. They are quite sturdy because 1. I am clumsy and 2 my grandkids love to help with the violets and lean on the shelves a lot. I don't know the brand name. I got them in the garden store that I buy violets from. Each of the stands has 4 foot lights. (Two per shelf). One stand has two shelves and it gives off more light that the one shelf stand. Go figure. Don't know why. I keep the standard plants 12 to 14 inches from the light. The variegated I keep on the bottom row because the top shelf gets a little heat from the light fixture beneath. I keep dark leaves and girl leaves to the outside of the shelves

The single shelf has my minis on it. I keep them 6 to 8 inches from the light. I have been trying to stagger the heights of the plants to give me more room. Bill says it looks like a space station. I bought some stemmed glasswear at the dollar store and turned them upside down. The foot of the goblet is the base to set a plant on.

Well I'm sure that was a lot more information than you wanted.

Love the doily. I gave the one away so I don't have a picture of it. But here is a picture of another one I finished a couple of months ago. It's about 18 inches in diameter

edited for spelling.

This message was edited Mar 8, 2006 11:15 AM