Fall Migration Is Complete

My goal is to have all of the tender plants moved inside by the first week of November each year so this season I'm a bit ahead of schedule.  Hooray, more time to plant bulbs and get the last pots in the pot ghetto into the ground.  I keep thinking that plants should be grouped by water needs but once the migration begins, things seem to end up wherever they fit. Thank goodness that gardeners always have next year to make improvements.  Here's what the greenhouse is looking like now.


Somehow the greenhouse seems to have shrunken over the summer.  It's certainly not that a plant addict continued to collect plants over the summer.

Banana 'Ai Ai' the Hawaiian variegated banana, once only grown by Hawaiian royalty is now available to commoners like me.  Thanks Rare Plant Research for making this available at a fraction of the prices I've seen in the interweb!  It's more than doubled in size this summer.  I'm hoping that it'll be okay with the temperature in the greenhouse hitting fifty degrees during the winter.  It's sure got glorious foliage.


The male bust has been sitting buried among plants in the garden for years.  He said that he wanted to come inside this winter.
 A bit jungley and some interesting plant details get lost in the jumble but it's a great place for the tender ones to spend the winter.

I could move the tables and chairs out to make more space but I love sipping Saturday morning coffee here in the bleakest part of the winter.  It always smells so good, especially when something fragrant is blooming like Jasmine, Brugmansia or forced paperwhites/hyacinths.


It's wonderful to be able to winter over so many things.  Truth be told, quite a few plants stayed in the greenhouse all summer.

The agave on the right was my first, purchased years ago in a four inch pot on sale at Melinda's nursery.


Of course I didn't run out of space and start using my old winter plant storage areas inside the house. That would just be silly!  No, these plants' winter home is intentional to keep the air inside purified when the windows are closed all the time.  It's a health thing, really.  Anybody buying that?  
In any case, everything is inside for the winter except the begonias which will be stored as pots of dirt once the frost cuts them back or I get tired of looking at them.  How's your migration going?