The conservatory…

This little room is my favourite room during the spring and summer.  It has changed over the years along with the garden.  I used to keep gardening books in there but the slugs and snail would find their way in and eat the covers and pages resulting in paper mache poos.  The books also got a little damp as it is an old design of conservatory that has little gaps between the roof and windows (which are only single glazed) leaving the place rather chilly too during the winter months.  It would get too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter so I have tried a few different heaters over the years and now have a small greenhouse fan heater to keep at a frost setting  when the temperature outside gets too low.  I put up a thin cloth shade which keeps the direct sun off the plants.  I used to have the place crammed full of plants but they would take forever to water.  It was especially difficult to get someone to water the plants when we went away as it could take hours to do the patio, greenhouse , house plants and conservatory – it was a big ask.  Sadly the grape vine succumbed to scale insect and I have not been able to eradicate the scale from the room entirely.  Vine weevil got some of the succulents and cacti and greenfly caused havoc with the herbs.  Once the greenhouse found a new home I started to use the conservatory to house  the seedlings, and over wintering pots hence the extra table.  Now it is almost Christmas and I have a few decorations up and on boxing day it is used as the drinks table as the whole family and a few friends come over.

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