Drop by and visit my Greenhouse/Shadehouse Garden

Absolutly stunning Bernieh. Thankyou for sharing.
I have nominated this for GOYpedia, tropical gardens.
Fantastic.

Gracious thanks for your kind thought, Littlelegs. I'm so thankful for this little haven in what can be a rather dreary landscape here.

Wow that looks beautiful. I love the way you have taken advantage of the situation and used every inch of available space it looks so lush.

I`ve just enjoyed my tour Bernieh, absolutely enthralled , love your greenery, many thanks......

Hi Marguerite ... so glad to see you again. The soil here is almost non-existent ... there's a thin layer of decomposed granite around the property and under that is bedrock. There have been a few garden beds built up but they're completely compacted now and you couldn't get a shovel into them if you tried! The soil that was bought in for the shadehouse is just like that so I have a lot of the plants in pots in amongst all those ferns. Of course the Giant Sword Fern and the Yellow Walking Iris will grow in rock, lol, so they're just perfect for the shadehouse.

The shadehouse was here when we moved in but there wasn't much growing in there at the time ... although those owners were the ones who originally planted the ferns and the iris, so there were clumps of both out there. In the years since, the original structure has been pulled down and replaced as so many of the beams had rotted and the shadecloth had perished. I'm rather proud of the area now though ... it's not looking half bad.