How do they handle that kind of heat?I'm not going to put anything valuable in my green house this winter. Maybe a snake plant or two. Windmills I h...

Funny how temps in those can get so hot. Today it was 68deg outside, and 124 inside the green house. Don't have any plants in there as of yet...to ear...

Bought this 6x8 green house at Menards. $320 Took us about 5 hrs, and 8 beers to assemble. Planning on adding a heat source, remote thermometer an...

Best winterization I've read so far and Eneste is to cut it down to a foot or two, pull it out of the dirt and let the corm dry. Also let the dirt dry...

Those free standing plastic type green houses?

Yea, I was thinking that. Don't want to worry about yet another tropical plant to bring inside or over winter. Was cool to see though.

New additions this weekend...Pygmy Date PalmSlim Lady PalmPencil Cactus

Ya know, after seeing a customer of mine growing a real cocoanut palm outside his business here in Omaha(potted), I looked online to see if they could...

Since my last post, the palm/tropical plant bug has really got me now. have purchased.....Slim Lady PalmPygmy Date Palm(wife even encouraged!) On sale...

Wheelman,I've been getting great ideas too for my first wintering of a windmill palm. Hardyjim to me has the best simplest idea so far. It's easy, not...

Ok, so you just wrap the trunk with burlap, and leave the fronds alone, other than tying them up and together?How did you create the "dome" at the top...

Hardyjim, great pics of how you overiwinter. Do you fill the snow fence with leaves? or encase it with something?I'm new, and going to try and over wi...

No video. Shows it's "secure"

Will keep that in mind. About to go out and buy my greenhouse and get it up before winter sets in. I will put a wireless thermometer in it and watch ...

So it was a moisture issue and not one of too cold? did you moniter the inside temps at all over the winter?