Paradise all year round: how to host a winter garden

The most interesting options for winter gardens, created by participants of our portal in their country houses

Possibility to arrange a home conservatory - another advantage of country living. Members of our portal are addicted to winter gardens at different levels: some amateur, newbie; and someone is using their professional knowledge and scientific degree. We collected structurally different (but successful) variants of the winter garden in a private home - these ideas can and should learn from!

Content

• A winter garden on the roof of a country house
• Winter Garden in the heated greenhouse
• Winter Garden, adjacent to the house
• Winter Garden in the house
• Winter garden with a brick wall

A winter garden on the roof

Member FORUMHOUSE with the nickname Alexander 0605 in their everyday life in charge of the Botanical Garden at the University of a large city in the Urals, and it is interested in citrus plants. For a long time he was a shoemaker without shoes and he lived without his winter garden, but then built a house with a greenhouse roof instead. A separate building on the foundation and heat it in the Urals would be too expensive.

A box of the house put a construction of 100 m² with a height of 3.8 m in the ridge. This truss system Soviet industrial greenhouses in perfect condition for a penny went to Alexander. The roof is made of polycarbonate multicellular honeycomb 25 mm thick.

Advantages of this solution:

• savings on heating;
• construction does not take place on the site;
• it does not obscure the trees and other buildings.

On sunny cold days, Alexander turns off the heating in the greenhouse. At -22 degrees behind, at 14 hours 13 degrees keeps the temperature inside the room, and the optimum temperature for the wintering citrus +5 - +10 degrees.

Citrus do not need high humidity, they should be watered rarely, plants water is evaporated to a minimum. For the cultivation of these plants such Galicia - an ideal solution.

Winter garden with heated by a gas boiler

Participant our portal Irina, with the nickname raspberry 18 shows a winter garden in a heated greenhouse.

Heating of the gas boiler (pipes laid in the ground), greenhouse purchased from known domestic manufacturer.

Extremely good location of the winter garden is expanding its functionality: just wanted to sit there with a book for the whole weekend, watching the river and the plants!

Winter Garden, adjacent to the house

Participant of our portal Harris and her husband were looking for a project targeted at home with conservatory. Their winter garden is oriented to the east and south, the two sides adjacent to the house.

It is heated by underfloor heating and radiators of the house. Roof combined - in the part where the snow can get off from the roof, a metal, and is closer to the outside - polycarbonate, 25 mm thick.

Harissa seriously interested in the cultivation of plants in its collection of more than 300 copies.

Generally citrus: Different varieties of oranges, lemons, pomelos, mendariny, clementines, tangerines. There are different trees, Guva, pawpaw.

Harissa

Participant FORUMHOUSE

Boredom is not necessary - the woman opened a pig.

Winter winter garden temperature is maintained at 10 + - 12 degrees.

In the spring, when the plant starts growing season, just becoming much more of the sun and in the winter garden the temperature rises. In the first year of operation of the winter garden removed a good harvest of figs and lemons.

Winter Garden in the house

Winter Garden Users of our portal with the nickname tora - extensive and high room in the house. It is not outbuilding - it was provided by another house was under a winter garden planning stage.

Area: 5.80h2.50 m, the roof - slope of the roof (the idea was to make a solid glass roof, but the thought refused, fearing large heat loss).

Plants in the winter garden a lot: several kinds of citrus fruits, a lot of orchids, there is even a pine seedlings grown from seeds. They are busy all the windowsills and tabletops made especially along the walls with windows. Countertops made of concrete slab and tiled, window sills, too: the tile is easy to clean, easy to move around on it with plants capacity.

Table tops are located above the radiator, and they have holes barred, to the plants fed warm air.

Glass conservatory with brick wall

Winter Garden c FORUMHOUSE user nickname Giperborej - it is a separate building area of ​​50 m², the height of the ridge 4.3 meters, with brick north wall with artificial lighting and heating. The north wall is plastered and painted. The remaining walls of glass, frame greenhouses - aluminum brands on a steel base. Giperborej gardening professional, conservatory he built with his own hands exclusively for the soul: to grow citrus, azaleas, palms and plants kraisvotsvetuschie.

Giperborej

user FORUMHOUSE

I need to get enough of the winter garden is also the next generations after me.

This project was implemented in the Leningrad region, known for its gloomy climate and perpetual shortage of sun.

Based on his experience, he advises for this design:

• for such structures is mandatory cap no more than 25-30 cm: the winter garden will be operated all year round, somewhere will have to be fixed heaters ..
• transoms should occupy 5% of the total area and located below the ridge, in the end or side, but in any case not below. Or simply, you can shoot in the summer some of the frame.

On FORUMHOUSE collected a lot of useful information on how to arrange a winter garden: read our article about equipment and engineering systems, about winter garden architecture? Look at the tropical fruitThat can be grown at home, learn how to select the appropriate for greenhouse plants, Watch a video about what how to equip a winter garden.

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