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Article: Microclimate: gardening under glass - or plastic - means you can collect rare species, nurture tropical exotics, grow masses of plants from seed.(In The Garden)
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- House Beautiful
- Article date:
- January 1, 1996
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Call it passion, as many devotees do. Call it obsession or even compulsion. Whatever your label, greenhouse growers don't know how to quit. When the weather says "Enough!" and other gardeners are content to bid adieu to the pleasures and pains of the growing season, greenhouse owners keep on trucking water and soil, seeds and notebooks out to their protected oases.
These year-round growers nurture all sorts of plants that enrich their outdoor gardens. For example, they can start rare primula or gentians almost never offered by nurseries. Or if they want to fill a bed with, say, two dozen drought-resistant low-growing bellflowers they can buy a seed packet of ...