Glass-House Tomatoes & White Fly

My glass-house is situated on the back lawn near the Wattle Woods, almost underneath the trees. The burbling water race is nearby - easy to get buckets of water from when needed.

In the early days I did use the glass-house to grow tomatoes, and I did have lots of healthy attendant white flies. Neem Oil would do the trick, but then I'd forget to reapply it. And there was so much watering needed - at least twice a day in mid-summer, to keep the pots moist enough.

Glass-House Across the Lawn - 2005

Tomatoes aside, I use the glass-house all year round. In summer the panes of glass are white-washed over, to stop things inside from overheating. Plants like Pelargoniums, Helichrysums and Daisies have to spend the winter inside. There's no need for heating though, as the frosts aren't too severe.

glass-house across the lawn - 2000

Comparing these two pictures, the flaxes along the water race seem to have doubled in size. And those weedy trees in the top picture are actually rather nasty - I suspect they are Deadly Nightshade. Eek!

Another View of the Glass-House

Below is the Moosey Glass-House, seen from standing under the yellow Banksia rose. The Apple Tree Border is to your left, home to two apple trees and a very disappointing old apricot tree. In the year 2005, as if for a joke, it produced ONE perfect fruit - no more have been seen since.

View of the Moosey Glass-House

To the right is the reasonably new Elm Tree Garden - a collection of fill-in plants (roses, daylilies, grasses and assorted perennials) planted around a donated variegated elm tree.