Hibiscus: Hibs for the holidays, 1 by AuntAnne

AuntAnne wrote:
This is the arbor at the west/southwest end of my trailer. It is about 28' long and about 8' wide. We enclosed it with plastic (well dbf did anyway) for the winter. It is pretty airtight. I have grow lights and some lamps for heat. I tried putting heaters in but they keep blowing the breakers. So far the heat from the sun on that end of the house and the lamps have been enough. It did get down to 29 the other morning outside. I don't think that it got that cold in the gh. The only damage done is a place where air got in and burned a couple of leaves on one of my brugs. Two of the baby brubs are trying to bloom, though I don't expect to see anything for another month. It works better than previous years when we enclosed part of the porch on the north side of the house. I think that this will work way better. Next year we hope to convert the old garage (detached) into my greenhouse. It will be larger and have adequate electricity to run heaters or heat lamps.