A Peek into the Hot and Humid Greenhouse

It's 87 degrees outside and 97º in the greenhouse with exhaust fan on and water mist. Some things will seek shade soon or at least a cooler sunny spot.

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Gerbera Daisy and Alyssum in a rusty well bucket outside the door.

No plants in the NE corner, just pots and some little crates I wanted to keep out of the mist water.

More pots in the SE corner and my little red trolley.

The sensor changed from temp to humidity before the shutter clicked.

67% humidity, and 94 degrees earlier today, 97º now.

Looking toward the SW corner,  burro's tails, a small mistletoe cactus cutting, a tomato plant rooted from a cutting from the axil of a larger plant, graptopetalum and a seedling Pentas.

Pentas plant came up in the floor, 

then a second and now I found another.

I failed to take cuttings last summer. Somebody is looking out for butterflies.

Rose campion in the floor.

I think these seeds fell out of the trash.

Deliberate seeds are harder to coax into growth. 

I plant in regular potting soil and sprinkle a seed mix over the top.

I put seedling trays and plants I am trying to root on the floor 

where it is cooler and the mist drips on them. 

The blue flower is a Hydrangea serrata that 

got broken when we were working around it.

The tiniest pieces get to try to grow into a plant.

Things like twine, sulfur, rooting powder and other

things I want to keep dry are in ice cream buckets.

NW corner has a number of things that wanted to stay in

a little longer, shaded with a plastic party tablecloth.

Purple Heart can be planted out, begonias are optional to stay in pots.

Mistletoe cactus may move out with the other jungle cacti,

tillandsia can join bromeliads already outside. 

I don't know what I'll do with the birds' nest fern and the staghorn opposite.

Items sold as 'greenhouse' notions are

pricey. Paper clips hold as tightly as

something labeled for GH use.

Near dark, I plugged in the lights to see if they still work.

Twinkle LIghts in the Greenhouse

A string of lights from previous years hung among the grapevine garland in the greenhouse. Festive. Has not improved my mood.

 Burro's Tails are a good contrast to the rest of the greens. There are little 

rooting pieces in several places because so many segments get snapped off 

because I breathed on them, or the cat sneezed. 

This side of the greenhouse has all the flowers. Plenty of Wax Begonias mixed with spider plants and Foxtail Fern, the ill-fated Amaryllis that bloomed Pepto Bismol pink instead of the pale pink I expected. So far two have bloomed. As soon as the one in bud blooms, I will send yet another photo to the disbelieving vendor assuring them that indeed all three were mislabeled.  

Christmas Cactuses on the end wall are in various stages of bud but no blooms just yet. Some are close to bloom. I mislabeled a clearly white Schlumbergera cutting as Scarlet. I don't know how that happened but the buds are white, not the deep color that will bloom scarlet.

On the opposite all to the grapevine garland are bromeliads in good stages of putting on pups. I hope to wait until spring to divide them so the plants can stay together in a few pots instead of a dozen. It's hard for me not to put things to root -- there's a Epiphyllum leaf putting on new growth. I forget how it came to be cut, but I could not throw it away, despite the 5 full-sized plants that fill so much space.

Parsley seedlings appeared in 2 weeks. Alyssum is coming up one cell at a time. I sliced part of the basal plate on an onion and left it in the refrigerator for a few days. Now I have two little pots with tiny onion plants and I planted a celery bottom the way you see on Pinterest. I think it is going to sprout.

I planted some Agapanthus seeds back in early fall when they got ripe.  One has appeared. I am reasonably sure it is a tiny Agapanthus shoot: planted in sterile soil, definitely a monocot, forming a tiny bulb at ground level, I will be very excited to grow some Agapanthus. I don't remember reading how long from seed to bloom. I hope they are faster than Amaryllis. I have pots of young Amaryllis going into their third year, still not mature enough to bloom.

Looks cozy and inviting from the outside, doesn't it? There is

not room for an armchair and a reading table.