Spring is here, so my attention to the plants on the sunroom must increase. Because with the sunroom surrounded by windows on three sides the sun floods it at least 10 hours a day. While the artificial lights used to supplement the natural sunlight are cool lights, it might be 85O F outside on any given summer day, the temperature in the sunroom can easily be 95o F plus. This direct sunlight for so long makes the room, blazing hot, so an air conditioner, frequent watering, adequate ventilation with fresh air, as well as a humidifier for moisture is necessary to maintain the room between 70o F and 75o F.
However, more than this, constant attention must be paid to the plants health, whether their leaves feel dry, the feeder bottles are full (wholesale wine bottles held in by terracotta clay cones) or preventing insect infection, the spring and the summer months are the most care giving months for any sunroom
I found that my decades of knowledge in caring for houseplants very helpful when I transition my plants from the living room to the sunroom last summer, so I only needed to learn all there was to know about sunrooms, like how to adjust the artificial lights so to compliment the natural sunlight, when to ventilate the room with fresh air and maintain the right temperature and humidity, and what other plants I could grow in the sunroom, like using my hydroponic systems to grow vegetables to supplement those I buy at the store, and the results so far has been rewarding.
My sunroom is not only a place that allows me to be creative, it is a working space for growing and caring for plants, and its cool pastel colors are pleasing to look upon while I sit sipping from a nice cup of tea.
In closing this article I have attached a new video of how the sunroom looks today. In it is my new fountain of a mother and her daughter filling water jugs. There is quite a beautiful representation of the motherland, Africa, from centuries ago.
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| A mother and daughter filling water jugs. |