*** Quoting Maurice Kinal from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***

 CS> Working.  Chatting now about plants but it would be more fun to move 
 CS> that here?

MK> I have no problem with that.  I just wanted to see if netmail was doab
MK> to Japan.  I see it is.  :-)

Yes.  I may not have replied to the last one.  A few new molehills cropped
up ¨with the Z6 stuff and I had to sorta 'work' on our collective hobby
yesterday ¨vice just play.  Got a bit swamped.

 CS> I got 10 plants today just to pretty up my porch.  It's not much of a 
 CS> porch but it's mine .  In Hawaii, it would be called a small 
 CS> lanai.  It's slightly more than 3 ft from the slifing glass door to 
 CS> the rails, and on the 5th floor.  Probably 10 ft long?  Morning sun 
 CS> exposure.

MK> That sounds like a lean-to.  If it is actually part of the constructio
MK> of the house then it is a porch.  I think that is how it works here bu
MK> don't quote me on that.  Also if glass or other see through substance
MK> then solarium works but greenhouse if independant structure.

It would be a porch where you are.  I live on the 5th story so it's
attached to ¨the building and over open air.  Has no glass but does have
this netting stuff ¨out of some sort of plastic (we all have it) so you
cant lean over the balcony ¨to see out, but it is a very loose web sort of
thing (about 1 inch square ¨holes) so doesnt disrupt the light any.  Come
Xmas time, makes a nice framework ¨to hang lights on!


 CS> The plants are simple ones, nothing expensive.  Just some daisys and 
 CS> marigolds and such.  Pretty and hardy types.

MK> I prefer edible ones.  I am thinking peppers.  I just might do that th
MK> year but I have some major alterations happening as soon as it is less
MK> swampy then it currently is.

For many years, Don and I had apartments only and porches (lani is just a
¨Hawaii term for it) and we did little container gardens.  It's harder to
do ¨that here as i'm not home and somehow they sorta forget to water them
in the ¨summer, so I am cheap on the plants I put out there now.  I also
almost always ¨go with seedlings and simple stuff.  I have a relatively
brown thumb for ¨anything that needs special care.

                                       xxcarol

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