Garden chronicles, the greenhouse plantings

when we first purchased our new house i was eager to tackle the landscaping, i had big plans! i started with the foundation planting the first year, adding hundreds of trees and shrubs around the perimeter for privacy, color, fresh fruits and flowers. the next year we started my rose garden, a large undertaking that has given me immense joy! next up came my iris gardens, i wanted huge borders to dazzle me that easily multiply to spread around the property. with the foundation plantings, roses and iris planted i am finally ready for the cherry on the top, the perennials and annuals that really make a garden a garden! in order to maximize that pleasure i need a greenhouse to nurture my seedlings into fruition. with great joy our latest project is stepping up to the plate! 

right around thanksgiving i began cutting into the slope to prepare our site.

it all started to come together when i ordered several transfer loads of fill dirt

a week later we were ready for the retaining walls

it is two levels, the upper level is for us to be able to drive around the barn, the lower level is for the greenhouse.

my view from the greenehouse

we let the fill winter over to settle, ready for a fun new spring project! the first of april i was ready to go, we get our irrigation water on april 15th, i was hoping for the best that we could match completion by that date! the first week i found these windows on craiglist for a great buy, i was raring to go!

i still needed many more and figured we could just purchase at a box store and be on our way... no such luck, with covid windows were backordered for months... 

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...yawn, stretch, yawn, groan...

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2 months later...

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good news, the windows have arrived! bad news, it is 100 degrees and too hot to even think about using and or needing a greenhouse now... in other words, my husband is not that motivated...

it faces due south, about as hot as it can be to have to work outdoors...we aren't young kids anymore, but despite the heat my husband framed the foundation.

and today he poured the concrete!

 its going to be a slow pace, the thermometer is calling all the shots, but we have officially started the greenhouse! 

i like to keep track of everything i plant by area, i have a vibrant garden of reds, oranges and yellows just off the greenhouse area. 

 greenhouse garden area

graber pyracantha 5
toyon 2

Sweet broom 3

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orange mums 2

yellow mums 3

Orange stripe canna tropicanna 2

quince kurokoji

Forsythia magical gold 

Forsythia week-end
Forsythia magical gold
Yellow canna
elephants eat 6

Desert cassia

Maximillian helianthus 
red hot poker

blue princes/blue prince combination holly 3
Tropicana black 10

Scotch broom

night blooming jasmine 2

Gold flame spirea 2
Variegated Pretoria canna 2
Frankly scarlet daylily
strawberry candy daylily 2
Asclepsias
Autumn red daylily

Yellow gold mums 2

Mum mix 34
Coreopsis 3
Variegated asclepsias
Anthony waterer spirea
white buddleia
Italian cypress 2

Greenhouse planters 

Potato vine white

miniature rose tree europeana

Annuals: cabbage, red ranunculus, white pansies

Red geraniums

White pansies

White geraniums 3

Catchfire dahlias 4

Transvaal daisy 3

Red and white primrose 2

Bacopa 4

White alyssum 

Duchess of Edinburgh clematis

Red tulips

White alyssum 

red tulips 

White alyssum