Fall GH pics, post here

These are all coming in as well...lol..there's more but I want to see what y'all have :)

lol that was a great start Tropicanna.....not. I couldn't figure out when you said "tomorrow" at 4am, you meant today or tomorrow :) and I couldn't figure out if you had hadn't been asleep yet or was up early! I always get up early, esp when I have a crop going and it is really busy-I guess my brain wants to get up, but my body doesn't always. Plus there is not much I can do at 3:30 in the am-a little too dark outside to work, too early to call landscapers...

Nautica-thanks for the pictures-you are off to a great start! I think that I have that variegated hoya, maybe if I take care of it, it will bloom for me...

Ok-Tropicanna started to turn this into a "what tropicals do we have to stuff into our grhouses thread" so here are a few pictures of what I have to bring in. I just basically went out and pointed and clicked the camera, so these will be more to show you the work ahead of me, more than upclose/good pictures of specific plants. Plus it was drizzling!!! Yeaaa!! (how pathethic that I am that excited about a drizzle)

this is one angle of the deck-everything has to come in, except any containers that had annuals in them, that are now dead because of the drought

another area on the deck

more of the deck

deck

my ylang ylang tree is in the center of the picture in this one

2 michelias in this one alba and champak and some other stuff

here are some more that are off the deck-

of interest to any history buffs-that house behind the plants used to be the old estate house before the Civil War. They owned all the land in this area and farmed it. The house was 2/3's larger than now and two story-which was a large house for back then. In the Piedmont area, alot of the estate houses were not the ante-bellum houses of the cotton/rice areas, but structures like this house. When they added a house to the existenting house that was here (not the house in the picture, but a newer house), they tore down the 2/3's of the old house (the one in the picture) because it was getting to be unstable. I love old houses.

wow....how many greenhouses do you have? lol

more plants and the old house. I don't that you can see it, but the house actually rests on piles of rocks, that are placed throughout, under the house. When they tore down the 2/3's of the house, they took the rocks from under that part of the house and made a huge stone fireplace in my house. The rock is very unusual-it has flecks of gold in it (not real gold- lol)

lol i am not even done yet with the plants...
I have 3-but I have to use them to grow annuals in, so by late Feb they are getting filled up with annuals.

Here are my tropical palms and some heliconias

more tropicals

coleus and sanchezias and a big evolulus-these are for the business and won't come in the house. On the left-right above the coleus, you can see the rocks that the house is sitting on

more-some of these are for the business. They are going straight into that house-which is getting a new facelift in a week or so. New plastic, any rotting wood repaired etc-all the grhouses are. I still have to remove this plastic, but I have cuttings in there, so I will wait as long as i can to remove the plastic. Then we can remove all the staples from the wood and retape the connectors and anything else that will rip the plastic when we pull the new plastic over the grhouse. Boy do I dread that day! Putting plastic (2 layers) on a big grhouse is not fun, and we will be doing all 3

Sorry SB-I am so far off track on your thread! My bad...
last one!! I hope I haven't bored you all, I know it is a lot of pictures, and not even good ones (where you can see each plant etc) These are for the business on this side-mostly anyway

I have employees that will help with all this, it won't be just me that moves everything-although maybe if it were just me, I would not have accumulated so much ;)

I'm so impressed tigerlily...really, wow!

Oh, Oh.....

This one was in Key West.....not Massachusettssss

KW

KW, great, let's see some more!

Come on, folks, I know you all have stuff in the GH by now!

Here is a different papaya, this one has more female-looking flowers...I am hopeful

First orchid blooms! This is a dendrobium I got last year in trade at our local garden club sale.

Stressbaby,

That beautiful pink orchid matches your greenhouse insu;ation!!!

Very color coordinated.

I post a few plant photos as soon as I finishing up washing & cleaning the inside, 1/2 done.

KW

Here's a rubber plant that was given to me by a good friend....It's one of my favorites, also a little hibiscus bloom...Nice to have friends ehh, SB?

KW

Here's a really pretty plant (pink), any help?
It's a happy thing.
Brightens things up a lot.
KW

This one is one of my wife's favorites as well as mine but I don't know what it is?
Looks like a little red maple tree.
SB....any help? I'll bet you know. Thanks

KW

Just cleaned the GH and put up some clear plastic on the So. wall for winter.
KW

KW,

Rubber plant?!? Pic 1 looks a whole lot like Musa 'Dwarf Namwah,' Dwarf Namwah Banana.

Pic 2 is either Ti or Draceana. TL will come along and tell us.

Pic 3 is Hibiscus acetosella

Very nice, KW Your Gh looks good.

SB

its a ti plant.

KW -SB is right-that is a banana, rubber trees have large, ovate, dark green, shiny leaves that are stiff.

This is your first winter in the grhouse? You will love it when it is so cold outside and you are in the grhouse all nice and warm! Have you started to let your dog in there yet? Train them early-they love to be in there with you! Yours is still a puppy?

Hello,

Did I say Rubber Plant?......Bananna & I love it - that's a SB, baby.

TL, yes it's our first winter with a Greenhouse, wow, very excited.
We have lots of plants that we need help and identification on so we can care for them properly.
This pink plant is really a beautiful thing??

TL, yes the puppy is now 8 1/2 mo's and 85 lbs. and he comes in with us all the time. Cries if he can't come in! He loves to grab the plastic pots and run out the back door & have his way with them.
Love that pup, another great friend.

This is a lot of fun and you guys all make it more so. Thanks for the expertise and friendship.
KW

OK, here are my fall GH pics. I just finished moving my cacti and succulents into my new HFGH 10x12. Still working on a potting area and tidying up the heater/thermostat cables, but at least the kids are all moved in. We have survived the first two nights requiring a heater (hooray.) I told a friend I alternate between excited and being a nervous wreck. The combination of cold night temps/thermometers/thermostats/heaters is a bit intimidating when you have never done this before. You guys give me hope!

Here is the south side.

...and the north side, with my less spiny succulents and Echeverias. I'm working on a sink/countertop area that will go on top of the bench to the left side of this photo.

Not enough hours in the day, I could have used another two weeks of warm nights!
Sheri

Wow! GH looks great. Love your benches.

Nautical

Thank you Nautical. I worried about benches that weren't movable, but I liked my husband's design, and I'm tickled with the results. The top slats are redwood we ripped out of 2x6's, the rest is pressure treated pine, fir or whatever was available. (Took a while to sand all those slats, LOL.) The shelves are closet shelving from Lowes, with wood bracing to prevent sagging (I knew I'd load them up with terra cotta pots.) Here's a better pic before I loaded in the plants.

I'm glad I don't have to sand any more slats.

Nice pics, oldmudhouse. Looks to me like you have lots of room left, though. ;-)

Lol stressbaby, you figured out my devious plan! I'll have the empty corners and floor space all filled up for next year's Fall GH Pics thread. :-)

This is one of my greenhouse favorites, I call her Big Momma...the more I cut the more she blooms and grows. I just love Bougainvillea except for their thorns.

Nice Boug, JBerger! Let me welcome you to DG and the GH forum. I hope this is the first of many contributions for you.

SB

Packed mine today. This is the front.

Jeri

Inside to the left.

Inside to the right.

Love that shelf design oldmudhouse! That is sooo handy looking! Great idea.

That's a full greenhouse, Jeri! I like the chair front and center, ready to enjoy the space.

Thank you ZZsBabiez, I'm gonna see how full I can get those shelves. :-)