Tropicals & Tender Perennials: My new Hoya Station, 1 by plantladylin

plantladylin wrote:
LOL, I had to go measure ... reading and thinking about more space to hang plants made me do it! The shed is 24 feet long and the flower bed there is 5 1/2 feet deep so I wouldn't really have to enlarge it ... just need the darned arbor built for hanging stuff! I can picture orchids and hoyas hanging there but wonder about squirrels! We have a problem with squirrels climbing a tree behind the shed, running across the shed roof to the screen roof over the pool, to the other side of the house and down another tree. When I had all my orchids out in one of the trees last year, the squirrels really did a number on them. Some orchids were torn apart, bits and pieces all over the ground under the tree, labels scattered about and a couple of orchids came up totally missing! I feed birds so squirrels aren't going anywhere, LOL. I just wish they would leave my plants alone. I have a couple of hoyas and other plants (no orchids) hanging out in the tree and they don't bother them, they just seem to like the orchids ... or maybe it was the spaghnum moss in the baskets? I guess if I had an arbor alongside the shed I could everything but orchids there.

Boy, these photo's sure make me realize how much that shed needs painting with all the fading, and water stains from the sprinklers. We just painted it year before last! hmm ... maybe I can convince my hubby that if he built an arbor there, the plants would shade the side of the shed and it wouldn't need painting so often?