This is more progress toward the end of May. It is starting to look like a greenhouse at this point.
This is the start of June 2012. You can see the benches are starting to be built. You can see part of the shade tent the plants were in in the right lower part of the photo.
Mid June and we have a door and an end wall. The benches are close to ready for bench tops.
Another end wall goes up.
After this we have a lapse in photos. Several reasons, first my phone which I had been taking pictures with died. Second, my second kid arrived on the scene.
The greenhouse got finished just in time for the cool fall in this part of Virginia. Then came winter. And snow.
You might notice the well worn path in the snow. That was made about 3 AM when we lost power. An eventuality I should have planed better for but did not. The only option was to haul all the plants inside or let them die in a 20 degree greenhouse with no heat.
That gets us to current day. If I can continue to motivates I will post picture of the greenhouse as it is today. That is, if anyone is still out there. A layoff of years may be more than this blog can take.
Cheers-
You write, we read. I have a Southern Burner that doesn't depend on electricity, even for the thermostat.
ReplyDeleteHey there!
ReplyDeleteI am Στηβ (Steve) from Athens and I blog on MyOrchid.gr (also have a small online local orchid nursery). I am launching the site in English (currently beta just a couple of posts got translated so far). I would like to keep the english version as an international community of bloggers. Here's how it was implemented in Greek http://myorchid.gr/blog/microblogs/ so long story short I am trying to invite people like you that have a passion about orchids and an eye for photography. Concept is that it will be as multilingual as possible (the site supports that each article can have as many versions in different languages as the bloggers wish to offer). I think your expertise will find an audience with our local readers and will greatly help the site to gain international readers. I am not sure how to "sell" this idea to you, I mean I am not sure if there is anything for you to gain since you already have a great blog... I can only think that sharing our passion for orchids in a community like blog is a great idea and as a collective effort would sure find a greater audience while also help educate on care of cultured orchids, while motivating one another to keep on blogging.
With your help MyOrchid could bloom! Thank you for your consideration.
Best Regards,
Στηβ