I obviously am a plant hoarder and spend too much time shopping, when I should be repainting the front steps...

LOL! Ahhhh, the yearly fall dilemmas! I feel your pain!

Reccomendation:Squeeze tight, making sure all plant needs are met. If you can't find enough room, plant giveaway might be in order. I face precisely the same problem. Thought most of my "houseplants" are actually outdoor "annuals" where I am(Coleus, Inpatients,Begonias, Swedish Ivy)

You're going to need a window-stretcher. I do too! What a beautiful bunch of plants u have!

I am considering fluorescent lights but I don't know if I need special bulbs, I thought it was one warm and one cool. I don't know how my pothos at work does so well under whatever lights we have those bulbs aren't anything special. Does AL have any advice on fluorescent lighting? I need a greenhouse, but winter in Minnesota...yikes what if you lose heat in the middle of January-boom everything dead...huge gamble.

Good luck with figuring that out!

I use the older-style T12 four-foot shop lights with ordinary cool white bulbs for my overwinters and indoor seed starting. Remember to get a timer, too.

If you built the greenhouse into the ground, you probably wouldn't even need to heat it? I know you're not likely to do that but it's something I've been thinking about (not thinking about doing it, just thinking about it).

Maybe built in the side of the a hill. But you need lots of sun...burying a greenhouse kind of defeats the purpose

Good point. I imagine there are secret underground heated greenhouses where marijuana grows :)

Well, it would get sun almost all day, unless there are trees or houses in the way.

maybe under an old abandoned parking lot?

The only underground greenhouse I ever saw was in the movie City Of Ember...

Overwintering time is time to get creative with vertical space. Also, make sure all of them really need to come inside (any cold hardy?)

Your plants are beautiful!!! Maybe you could pot all the plants that require the same conditions together.

It nearly broke my heart but I gave away some of my babies, I will be losing alot of my living room & a great deal of my kitchen space to make room for the ones that will have to come inside, I still have a few weeks before we get our first frost,but I am preparing now. I use grow bulbs and its worked for me, alot of them just rest for the winter and the biggest worry is over watering, I learned the hard way!

I could never own a greenhouse business because I get so attached to my plants...

Shawn, you have some neat looking sansevieria in your first picture. Do you know the name of it?

I wish that i could give you one I got them at home despot The label says: sanseveria species...I will look into it.

I have to say that this sanseveria seems temperamental. One leaf in the crown sort of rotted or went mushy. Then i looked at the roots and they were beautiful and healthy.

Hmmm, guess I better stop in at Home Depot.

Shawn where (what state) do you live in? I am in NJ and this is an annual problem. Sigh. The plants do so well and grow so well over the summer, but I really have very little in the way of suitable places to put plants come fall. Several end up in my office window. You can grow a lot plants fine with simple (cheap) cool white fluorescent lights. You can get a shop light fixture relatively cheap and the bulbs cheap....no need for fancy plant lights. Keep the plants (esp. those that like high light) very close (within a couple of inches) to the bulbs for best results. This works out fine if you have a place to put the light fixtures. Even better you can buy a set of shelves and put a light on each one to create your own grow rack. The problem may be you need some place to put it as it is not real aesthetic. That Sansevieria looks like S. cylindrical. There was a cultivar (?) of cylindrical 'Skyline' that was showing up in a lot of the stores. I like Sans and have a few different types. Good luck (and get those steps painted before the cold weather, LOL)!!

Edited because reading it was stressing me out.

Shawn, there is a very easy and simple solution to your quandary. Send them to me!!!!!

Just kidding. Oh, how I miss summering my plants outside and having enough room for the in the winter. My only frustration about apartment living.