Other plants in the greenhouse?

[Learner]

This will probably sound silly, but is there anyone in the Forum who grows a variety of plants in their orchid greenhouse? I would love to know how big a variety of plants can be grown with the orchids. Bromeliads? Philadendrons? Tomatoes? Okra? Christmas trees?

Ok, that got out of hand, but the information and experience on the variety of plants would be useful. It would be expecially helpful if there are plants that are absolute no-nos for reasons of insect contamination or disease.

[smweaver]

If you vigilantly inspect your plants on a regular basis and make a point to spend time with them every day, I don't think there too many absolute no-nos as far as what will grow alongside your orchids. I've got a small lemon tree, a large ficus, oleander, a jasmine that's been trained as a standard, a couple of cycads and a bunch of cacti growing alongside my orchids. Culturally, they all get treated very differently according to their individual likes and dislikes; however, I haven't run into any serious problems getting them to grow well in the same environment. So my vote would be for you to go ahead and try whatever you'd like. You'll only learn by trial and error.

Steve

[Learner]

Thanks Steve. I was thinking of trying some tomatos in pots and maybe get an early start on next years outdoor garden sometime during the winter.

[Tindomul]

If I had a greenhouse I would grow all sorts of Bromeliads, Tillandsias especially, and Aroids including Philodendrons, Anthuriums,Colocasia, Alocasia, Amorphophallus, Typhonium and other less known genera! Ferns too ofcourse. How about Bat plants of the genus Tacca.

[Learner]

Great suggestions! I may have to enlarge the greenhouse though.

[cb977]

I have a large Ficus tree and some miscellaneous plants doing fine in the room.

A friend of mine does have a potted tomato plant in her greenhouse and it fruited before any of her outdoors tomatoes were ready

[Faerygirl]

Umm, yeah, I do. I grow palms, aroids of all sorts including aquatic ones, bromeliads, hoyas, other vines, flowering trees like bauhinias and Ylang Ylang, gingers, heliconias, just about anything tropical.

The things I try to avoid, weirdly enough, are orchids in the Cattleya alliance. More than any other orchid, they are scale and mealybug attractors.

[Gin]

I grow Hoyas , Fern, and Broms ,Nepenthes , sundew , and butterwort in the greenhouse ,also palms and others on an enclosed porch The one plant I won't grow at all is Ivy . Gin

[andy83]

I picked up some Miracle Fruit(Synsepalum dulcificum) trees(shrubs) recently and I'm very excited about them. They are slow growers that will thrive in a greenhouse environment. I'll be keeping them indoors for the winter in my poor mans greenhouse.

The cool thing about them is that once eaten they change your sense of taste for up to 2hrs. They block sour receptors and enhance sweet receptors which makes anything sour/acidic taste miraculously sweet.

As far as other plants go, I really enjoy Bromeliads, carnivorous plants and anything tropical that will do well in a small space.

[snow]

i grow succulents of many sorts