succulent
Most succulent do quite well indoors throughout the winter as long as one can provide the brightest light . Sunshine , actually . bitter aloes , gasteria and agave do just fine on a windowsill with southern pic . The larger specie , however , are more challenging , if only for their weight unit and size . Around here , we ’ve stopped raising most agave as the thorns can wound the weenie ’ eyes , if not our own . The few I do keep are planted in taller pots and are very live as most lush plants are .
Many if not most of my succulent simpleton expend the winter yanked from their pots ( before a punishing frost ) , and laid out on semen trays which I set on the high , dry benches in the glasshouse . This strident abuse seems to suit them . Few grow even a tiny routine until the days start to get long , in previous wintertime , which is when I pay them a little care .
If you wish to save you echeveria , aloes or sedums , they should be the most tolerant of indoor conditions , only demanding the brightest wintertime light , and more urine if kept on a warm windowsill , but less if you are keeping them in a cold way or service department window that does n’t freeze .
CAMELLIA
When it amount to invoke camellia , one is really special to keeping them under glass . While citrus can do well in a cool room indoors like an unheated bedroom , a sun parlour or a service department with window and heat – the camellia is harder to play a trick on . Yet , in a cold greenhouse they much worry loose . Able to handle moderate freezes except while in blossom , with the protection of glass , the camellia thrives in pot in the N .
They are really a relic of the past , however . Unless you populate in the south or the far Cicily Isabel Fairfield , the camelia is just rarely seen , but read any old nineteenth - hundred horticulture magazine or book , and one chop-chop discovers that the camellia once prevail the winter florist shop trade in the bid North East Cities like New York and Boston . They boom in cold-blooded florist greenhouses , flower from autumn until March , make the camelia the ‘ it ’ flower for Victorian nosegay , bend of the century vacation interior decoration and in the conservatories of the rich .
Today , they are so rarely seen as a potted flora outside of where they have grown int he garden , that one could say that the camellia is uncommon . This appeals to me so much , that I feel that once I stop heating the greenhouse , my hopes are that the camelia might still survive , specially those found in the earth . Most can handle cold temperatures , at least in the 20 ’s , and a sparse layer of field glass might afford me that ‘ winter garden ’ air heated with just beamy heat from the ground , and maybe gun barrel of urine which might keep back some heating from the sun .
Semi - Tender Unusual Shrubs
Unusual potted shrubs one ordinarily raised in inhuman greenhouse in the nineteenth century , or unexampled ones latterly introduced from milder climate are other plants which might do well in an unwarmed or marginally heated glasshouse . This weekend I purchase a rare Stachyurus from a plant auction in Boston for example which might do well in a container underglass , but classics here admit Daphne odorum which has been savour through most of the 1800 ’s here in New England by those who could give a glasshouse .
RARE BULBSFall also marks the metre when my collections of Southern Hemisphere incandescent lamp begin to grow in the greenhouse . There are so many , that I usually tinct of a few thematic groups in a Emily Price Post here . For now , I shall save you the ennui and just say that “ they are beginning to grow , again . ” . I keep learning with each passing class with these bulbs , and usually just when I retrieve I have things figured out , they storm me . This year , I have been indolent – not offering water until just this workweek ( usually , I start water pots of dormant wintertime blooming bulbs in belated August or September ) .
This former “ rainstorm ” flair of watering is n’t new , for a few collectors I be intimate practice this , but now I can see why . The bulbous oxalis coinage which are just beginning to emerge , appear dense and are send up flowers before foliation – the same goes for the mintage cyclamen . In their native habitats , often the autumnal or winter rains are late , and plants have to depend on other trigger – ordinarily day length , or temperature fracture , as signs to set about turn . Many of these bulbs relish a airfield fire as well , as they grow in areas where cutthroat fires on occasion ravage the meadows and grasslands , triggering some species to bloom and ready seed . Fire does n’t anguish native plant life ( such as those in California , Australia or South Africa ) , especially bulbs which sit deep into the ground . Some collectors even utilise smoke - sheets – disks of newspaper impregnated with smoke chemicals , which brace some of these electric-light bulb to bloom .
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