Windowsill gardening indoors

[cohan]

continued from previous post, these shots are from a shelf that goes across the middle of the big central window, above the main cactus shelf; it is not very wide, so that it will not cast too much shade on the plants below! this shelf is mainly succulents, esp dwarf aloes, and some echeveria and relatives..

[Hristo]

Thanks for posting your windowsills, great to see how different they are from the genera on our windowsills but all so very healthy too! The dwarf aloe are very attractive! The double depth windowsill is a great idea, though there is little ( actually quite loud ) voice telling me no way in a million years, oh well.....

[Maggi Young]

Hristo author:  My Christmas presies arrived yesterday,5 Masdevallias, 2 Ascofinetias and 1 Neofinetia and Siderea japonica.

 Spoilt brat! 


 Cohan, your are really making maximum use there... This thread is a great answer to those folk who complain they have no garden!!

[Hristo]

  Maggi I was told I could not spend my Christmas money on plants, so these are of course 'Window Ornaments'!
Other point of view is that they are stock for bulking up and later sale and as such don't even count!!
A bit like white chocolate having no calories!!

[angie]

White chocolate has no calories , Every day I learn something new on this forum, isn't this great.
Angie

[cohan]

chris--not use your christmas money on plants? then what's it for?? i'm finalising a couple of seed orders with mine, and hoping there will be enough left for the much needed flora of alberta!

the aloes are faves of mine too, i've seen a few of them flower (several of these were just received summer 08 as small seedlings or offsets), some are very nice in flower..

i do hear a suggestion here occasionally that windows are for looking out of-well! the plants only block a small portion of the glass, i see no difficulty looking around/over them!

maggi,i have two other growing areas besides this, though not as large, will try to find or take some photos of those..
for many years, living downtown in large cities with no outdoor space worth mentioning (apartments or parts of houses, rented, no yard or shared yard, no balconies) indoors was my only gardening space, and living here, where the ground is frozen half the year (not exaggerating) i could not stick to only outdoor gardening!
i have been toying with the idea of an indoor crevice garden with succulents.. the key is to not end up taking up a lot of space that could be plants with rocks, but i think i can do it! i like to have some sense that the indoor plants are in fact a garden and not just a collection of plants/pots..

should i use this same thread to post some shots of individual plants/flowers? i was supposed to post some flowering cactus shots since last year, and still havent..alternatively i could start a cactus/succulent thread..

[Maggi Young]

alternatively i could start a cactus/succulent thread..

 That would be fun.... 

[cohan]

alternatively i could start a cactus/succulent thread..

 That would be fun.... 

okay, will do, i have lots to go, and know we have lots of folks here growing them..

[Lesley Cox]

A bit like white chocolate having no calories!!

Utter rubbish.

[Hristo]

Lesley, well known fact. White meats are very good for you, low in fat etc, hence white chocolate must be good!
Other well known fact is that only chocolate you buy has calories, if it is someones elses chocolate you are eating
then the calory 'issue' is their problem and not yours!!

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Other well known fact is that only chocolate you buy has calories, if it is someones elses chocolate you are eating
then the calory 'issue' is their problem and not yours!!

Must be Bulgarian logics.... 

[Hristo]

Luc, it's the international logic of Dieters!!
Same one that sees people go to McDonalds, Burger King, KFC for a big old feed up and order DIET COKE!!!!!

[Luc Gilgemyn]

 

[Ragged Robin]

A Windowsill gardening thread is a great idea and each I'm sure as individual as the gardener .  For years I grew african violets on a North/East facing windowsill in the UK and they loved it - plenty of light and a cool passageway - every time I came in the backdoor they greeted me  

Here in Switzerland, no such luck as the chalet windows have no window ledges, but orchids do like it in the sittingroom on a small table, out of direct sun but with a bit of airflow, they put on a splendid show that brings the tropical to the alpine!

Hristo & Cohan your windowsills are a great inspiration with such a variety of interesting plants, thanks for showing.

[Hristo]

RR, now come on, you can't say 'orchids on the table' and not tell us about them or even better...picture! I think a table near the window counts as a hemi-semi windowsill??