Northeast Gardening: Show us your Bloomers #2, 1 by bbrookrd

bbrookrd wrote:
Dave47, yes I choose it for the Baker Brook as I figured it would be easy to remember. When I was working in Vt I had my office in my barn which overlooks it. I love running water.
DonnieBrook, I assume your name is not for a brook! Love that Hibiscus. I bought one at Logee last year and I just moved it back into the GH. We have a huge tree that we have had since the late 70's, but it is just plain red. I seem to kill the pretty ones. My fingers are crossed this time. It stays in the GH year round.

I am heading back out to throw more rocks as soon as I water all the plants that I moved back into our GH for winter on Friday before the storm. When we built this house we had it designed around a passive solar heating system. This was just after the last oil crisis. We have back up conventional heat as well as a wood stove, but a huge amount of our heat comes from the GH which was sunken partly into the ground with dark gray parged concrete walls in the GH that are faced with brick inside the house to make them 8" thick that radiates the heat into the house. We also have thick walled planters and brick floors to store heat during the day. We just open the doors and let the warm flow through the house and close it up when the sun goes down. When it is sunny it is a dream to be heated by the sun, plus I have a wonderful GH filled with plants. Much more fun than solar panels, but not as reliable. Though we had an analysis done based on Nantucket's historic weather patterns and we found that our heat savings would be significant. They have been. We also had it made out of recycled cypress wood from Rhinegold beer vats from Brooklyn. Here is a shot taken yesterday.

Thanks for all your stream encouragement. Now I have to make it look good as I have an audience. Patti