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Greenhouses Grow More Popular among Homeowners.

Byline: Marty Hair Feb. 29--For winter-weary Northerners who long for sun and green leaves, weathering the final weeks of winter is a slow and tedious process -- like slogging through knee-high mud. The weather makes it easy to envy people with greenhouses, who already are basking in warm, moist

Publication: Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI)

GREENHOUSES SPROUTING IN A LOT OF BACK YARDS

Terry Litsinger built a little patch of paradise right in his back yard in Stow, Ohio. His 14-by-18-foot greenhouse is his escape from the brutality of winter and the bustle of the world. It's always warm and always green, a place where he can immerse himself in the nurture of his plants.

Publication: The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY)

GREENHOUSE EFFECT CONCORD'S MARK WARD HAS DEDICATED TWO DECADES TO THE PRESERVATION, RESTORATION, AND REPLICATION OF ANTIQUE GREENHOUSES.

IN THE RECENT HOLLYWOOD REMAKE of The Time Machine, a film about a Victorian Englishman who travels to the future, the main character conducts his experiments in an 1890s greenhouse, which doubles as his laboratory. Most people probably won't notice the details of the structure, which is made to

Publication: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)

Greenhouses Can Provide a Hotbed of Pleasure for Winter Gardeners

It has been bone-chilling cold in the Northern Hemisphere, and many plants would never survive without our assistance. The methods we use are varied, from plant wraps and cold frames to sophisticated indoor and outdoor structures -- anything that can control temperature, light, moisture, soil and

Publication: The Washington Post

Greenhouses bring you in from the cold.

Byline: Denise Cowie PHILADELPHIA _ It's about this time of year, when container plants are still lush but ever-shorter days signal that killing frosts can't be too far off, that gardeners are apt to sigh and mutter, "I wish I had a greenhouse." If only we had a greenhouse, we figure, we could keep

Publication: The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)

GREENHOUSES ARE WHERE HAPPINESS GROWS

Nicknamed greenhouses because in them plants stay green year- round, glasshouses catapult the past into the future. Nowadays noticed by those buying plants at nurseries, traditional greenhouses whisper of recreational changes just ahead. Once sheltering a prosperous south-of-Boston agricultural

Publication: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)

Greenhouses Provide Proper Growing Conditions -- Every Day of the Year

Winter and cabin fever can turn a plant lover's thoughts to greenhouses. A greenhouse, hothouse or conservatory enables you to grow anything you want at any time of year. Grow vegetables, flowers, shrubs and trees, from seeds or cuttings, if you wish. Raise exotic flora from warmer zones or store

Publication: The Washington Post

Chapter 14 greenhouse structures.

ABSTRACT This chapter discusses the origins of greenhouse usage and the wide variety of purposes for which greenhouses are used today. Different basic greenhouse structures are used today; each structure has its own advantages and disadvantages. The structural components of a greenhouse have

Publication: Introduction to Horticultural Science

Solar greenhouse opens for community

Dave Roper's nervousness is understandable. His vision and name is attached to a new community solar greenhouse that aims to make year-round local food production possible. "Right now, I'm a little concerned. I wonder if it's going to work properly" said Roper, a retired Virginia Tech physics

Publication: The Roanoke Times (Roanoke, VA)

Greenhouse effects A plant-filled space is a perfect winter retreat, but it takes hard work -- and hard cash

Long before jets whisked the winter-weary to Florida, ornate home greenhouses and solariums were the Victorian gardener's defense against winter, a place to read in good light and to smell warm green smells that had vanished from the outdoors. Though most greenhouses from that era are long gone,

Publication: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)