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Escaping winter to a greenhouse

This is your GPOD editor , Joseph , from my rooted garden in northerly Indiana . Winter has well and truly arrived for me here , we ’ve had a few snows , good hard freezes . Not much is plump on in the garden alfresco , but luckily for me , I live a short walk from a wonderfulpublic conservatoire . I love public spaces like these , a niggling magical outflow from the wintertime coldness into a delicious seaport of plants . Here ’s a little taste of some things that caught my optic on my last sojourn :

Where you ’ll usually find me in the conservatory … that little set of tabular array and chairman is a neat blank space to work when working from home base is start to get a little old .

I love see the skirt of paradise ( Strelitziareginae , Zone 10 – 11 ) in flower . These huge flowers are structured to be pollinated by sunbirds in their aboriginal South Africa . Unlike hummingbird , sunbirds ca n’t hover , so the foot of the flower is very strong to render them with a pole while they get in at the ambrosia and pollinate the efflorescence .

This huge plant life is another wench - of - paradise , this one with white flush ( Strelitzianicolai ) . THey’re just as nerveless looking , but the plants are so grown it is much hard to actually get a full look at the bloom .

Some of the oldest plants in the conservatoire started as houseplant that came to live their best lives here . This is the familiar jade works ( Cassulaovata ) , but I ’ve never see it get half this vast on a windowsill !

I love these plant stands , which exhibit a wide raiment of coolheaded succulent plants . It is always fun to take a close look at each of these living sculpture .

This specimen catch my oculus today – a variegated century plant ( Agavevictoriae – reginae‘Golden Princess ’ ) .

The desert dome is a favorite part of the hothouse . The immense home covers a blanket range of mountains of dry - adapted plants and really makes it find like I ’ve stepped out into another human race .

Most spectacular are these immense century plant ( Agaveamericana , Zone 8 – 11 ) . I wonder how old they might be … they for certain have been here a while , and just look awful .

All along the boundary of the desert noodle are more potted treasures . This is a cool cactus grafted onto another cactus rootstock . Grafting difficult or ill-tempered cactus onto a more vigorous diversity is a surprisingly gentle way to make them a passel easier to maturate .

I ’m in love with this paper spine cactus ( Tephrocactusarticulatusvar.papyracanthus ) . How cool are those foresightful , flavorless spine ?

An categorisation of cool cactus fill a enceinte plantation owner . Many of these coinage are very slow growing , and these massive specimens are sincerely especial and wondrous to see .

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