Friday, June 21, 2013

Greenhouse converts to a Gypsy Tent!

As we suspected the greenhouse gets too much light for the orchids, so we needed to provide some shade. Apparently you can't just buy things like shade cloth when you aren't in Florida, except online. So we had to improvise. Thus ensued the trips to multiple thrift stores in search of sheer curtains. Really we should have just gone to the last one, but we didn't know that until we got there.  Now the greenhouse looks like a gypsy tent! But only on the inside, which I'm sure the neighbors are grateful for. We had to add 2 layers of curtain on the roof, and so far only one layer on the side. We are still keeping an eye on everything though to see how it goes. Several things got sunburn really bad before we got the additional layers of curtains: Cattleya cernua, Bulbophyllum baileyi, and a few others got just a little.


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