Showing posts with label Growing areas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Growing areas. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Second "level" on the windowsill

Since most of my phals went into orchid tank, I decided to retire the plantstand with phals and vandas and moved the rest of the plants to a south-east window. Of course my windowsill became crowded and I decided to create a second level there using wire shelves from the shoe rack. Here is what came out of it:




The window gets a lot of direct sun during noon hours and plants were burning there a lot, so I put some "frosted glass" window film to protect them.



These measures are temporary because I got an approval on getting one more tank for "all the rest plants", so the window will be unloaded some...

Monday, November 19, 2012

One of my "growing areas"

Here is where my high light orchids live:



The window spans from the seiling on the main floor down to the basement by the staircase. Sun appears from the left at sunrise and moves through the area whole morning until about 1 pm. So the left part of the area gets strong noon light and the right part - just a morning sun.

Here is the windowsill, that's where I used to burn my catts and vandas until figured out to adjust them to the strong sun gradually. It is a bit crowded, but I plan to put some small plants on the top shelf in the orchidarium where the light might be too strong for phals.



Vandas along the railing, there is plenty of space to get some more (evil smile):




Some of my phalaenopsis plants are enjoying the morning sun:



And here is Emma napping right on everybody's way, so we have to carefully step over her. She likes the sun too and luckily ignores my plants: