Karen; Just love your "Dome" greenhouse!!!!! I bought a greenhouse many years ago, with an extension, so it now measures 8' x 12' and the height is way over my head. The two roof vents have blown out three or four times in hurricaines over the past few years, but I found the polycarbonate panes, and made an even better frame with thin aluminum tubing, and hinges from an innertube. I made a point many years ago, of anchoring it soooo firmly into the ground, that it will never move. So I took a couple of pics today, because I suddenly realized that I am using mine, in a much different manner than all of you are! Not for a second to suggest that one is better than another, BUT I am actually growing plants IN THE SOIL permentely inside the greenhouse. Actually, exclusively "cutting roses"! I did use it one time for trays of started seedlings, tomatoes, tropicals, and on and on, but I do have indoor lighting and heating pads and tons of "tropicals" that I put outside when the weather warms up. I also hill up all my 5 gal. pails of "patio deck" roses, and put same in the unheated greenhouse, and hope for the best! LOL.
A couple pics: First, the outside where my "HOSPITAL ROSE" bed is located. Every Spring, if I am not certain if a rose is still alive, into the hospital bed it goes. Note: Couldn't believe what bloomed in there this year, and I never got to release them from the hospital and transplant!! True!
My "Hospital Rose" bed just outside my greenhouse.
Peering inside my greenhouse, showing only "cutting rose" canes, the middle still open to put my "deck rose" pots in to overwinter, and also my "deck oriental lilies" to over winter there as well.
I have probably bored you all with rose pictures over the past year, but my "cutting roses" come almost exclusively from this greenhouse. Down the left side peering in, there are at least a dozen beautiful red "Olympiad" roses, producing all summer long, with even a couple of "Caribia (nee Harry Wheatcroft", a couple of "Love" and even a "Mr. Lincoln". There are also on that side, two yellows, "Irish Gold" and "Terese Latrech" (SP) the latter puts out two yellow blooms per season that are knockdown-dead unbelievable!! The right side, has five beautiful "Berolina" roses which are pale yelow and huge, and three "Elina" roses, slightly yellow, and one red showing in the pic, which should be planted outdside. Most widely sold rose in the World, can't think of the name.
Some of my "tropicals" in my basement "greenhouse"! "Adeniums & Plumarias"
"Bouganvilleas and a "Persian Lime" tree (with four fruit right now) all over six years old.
Newly picked green tomatoes, ripening (very quickly) under "basement greenhouse" lights,
Hope I didn't bore you to death, but that's my input on my Greenhouse. Cheers
