Greenhouse Vegetable Gardening by Palmstierna Inger

Author:Palmstierna, Inger
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2013-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Plants waiting to be transplanted out enjoy the company of store-bought geraniums.

Flowers in the summertime

Many plants do better in a warm greenhouse than outside. The enclosure gives us ample opportunity to try all different kinds of flowers in order to find out which ones we like best. Blue potato bush and lantana both put on a beautiful flower show. Both can be trained up as trees, providing a charming accent to the greenhouse.

Small trees (created by training up) such as hibiscus, cape mallow and other houseplants, can sometimes be found at garden centers. They’re well worth trying out, even though there’s no guarantee they’ll survive the winter.

Heliotrope releases its sweet, heady scent on summer evenings. Many salvias are perennials, although they’re not hardy plants; they come in many colors and shapes. Some grow almost to the size of a small tree. Luminous gentian sage and scented red pineapple sage, violet mealycup sage and many more beauties like petunias, marguerite daisy and more traditional bedding plants offer up a fantastic array of rich colors. Some plants like browallia (sapphire flower), coleus, New Guinea impatiens and garden impatiens can be used both as bedding plants and houseplants (which also benefit largely from staying in the greenhouse during the summer. See more on houseplants, chapter 14, page 129.)

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