Thanks Karen, but what I found really inspirational were the photos of your greenhouse that you posted a while back. Now that is something to aspire to!
Doug
Small Grow-Room or Hoyas Under the Lights
Doug,that's an awesome setup you've got there and the hoyas look great!! There is the possibility (not 100%sure yet) of me moving in the not so distant future and should it be to a location where it would cost me an arm and a leg to keep a gh heated during the winter,I may very well end up having to do something like what you've done myself.
David, If I had the greenhouse set up you have with all those incredible plants in place nothing could tear me away from it. It would probably take a combination of neighbors from Hell, a job offer somewhere else at double the pay, a nuclear waste facility buying up the neighborhood with me as the last hold out, and or, the government seizing my property by eminent domain for a new freeway to get me to move. There is still no substitute for a good greenhouse setup; I just make due as best as I can.
Doug
Good thing about me is that I own the property I live on and my family owns all of the property on our side of the road. SO!!!! There's no neighbors form hell (nosy ones either) they all live on the opposite side of the street and I do all of my growing outback out of sight from the neighbors and anyone driving down the road.
My job pays fairly well so,like yourself it would have to be a major increase for me to change at this point in life considering i've been on this job for the last 13 years,the nearest nuclear anything is an hour and a half north of us and one an hour and a half south of us and both are nuclear power plants.
A new highway is coming through in a few years but not close enough for me to be concerned as they have already acquired all of the property needed for that.
Not much tears me away from my gh with the exception of having to go to work!!!! All of my spare time is spent in there working with the hoyas or just sitting back in the chair and listening to the sound of the fountain and almost falling asleep! It's a very relaxing environment. The smell of freshly opened hoya blooms and the sound of softly flowing water,what more could you ask for except a few hundred more hoyas to finish filling it up????
Aaaah ... I have a mental picture of your paradise .... sounds absolutely wonderful!
Lin, if I just had the heart to find new homes for a few of these plants to make room so I could stretch my hammock out in there it would be about as close as I could get to paradise in S.C.!!!!!!!!!
LOL. I understand! I always said I would love to design my own house with a huge indoor plant room. It would have to be really huge - a room where I could have a hammock hanging between two tall trees and plants everywhere, including hanging from the ceiling, with pathways meandering throughout and a waterfall in one corner with a shower wall falling into a little pond in another. My own indoor heaven!
Nice dream, huh?