The Second Major Group

Second Major group of plants for growing in a greenhouse is a small but important one these are the types which bloom or fruit in the greenhouse but must spend part of their lives outdoors.Included here are the hardy spring flowering bulbs which are grown in bowls that begin life in a plunge bed outdoors. There are the pots of strawberries which are brought into the cool greenhouse from the garden in January and there produce fruit which is ready for flowering Chrysanthemum which spends its summer in a pot outdoors and is then brought into the greenhouse in late September.

The final group of plants is large and complex these are garden plants which are either raised or overwintered under glass. They are not greenhouse plants in any sense of the word your lean-to is merely a place where they can stay to keep out of the wet and cold of winter of half hardy vegetables and bedding plants cuttings of Chrysanthemums and pots of bedding Geraniums and Fuchsias waiting for the return of frost-free nights in the spring.

The ideal is to have two structures a purely practical greenhouse for producing seedlings resting sick plants and growing vegetables etc, and a decorative conservatory to show off your ornamentals at their best. But that is a counsel of perfection in your single quite small greenhouse you can have a variety of plants to delight you all year round.