Depends on the container. I wouldn't worry about them unless the soil containers they are in are really shallow and might freeze. But if sitting on the ground it isn't going to freeze in a day or two so it should keep them fine. Dave

My tanks are really small: the Crosswind sphere is 10" i.d. and the cylinder is 7 3/8" i.d., 16" tall. Sphere gets SW light partially blocked by neighbor's house and filtered by the Tilly. The cylinder is in a corner and is down several feet from the SW exposure but level with NW tree-filtered light. The sphere dries out in 1-2 days (really! water in the bottom pebbles gone or mostly gone and sphag around plants dry, so I mist and add water daily. I know that blocking one side isn't enough (disaster: both Phals lost their largest lower leaf and one also made a scrunched-up leaf). I don't see how to set up misting for these tanks, so Bob8's modality is what I will try: closing it off completely and moving into a tree-filtered NW window. (I've already learned how hot it can get inside the sphere in bright light even when fully open.) Here are the set-ups. In the sphere, the (well-boiled) mopane wood holds 3 mini-neos (âÂÂBabeâÂÂ; which all flowered and now are producing pups) and 2 mini-Phals on the side facing the window; and on a cork mount is an Aerangis hyaloides which arrived somewhat tattered but has now started a new leaf.) The cylinder has ~ 1 inch of glass pebbles and water near or at the top of these, then a tree-fern pot with some sphag and potting soil in it for the ferns and sweet flag, and on one side is a piece of mopane wood attached to a tree-fern slab for the orchids. Water wicks up the pot to the sweet flag, Lemmaphylum microphyllum, Microgramma heterophylla, and a Fissidens-like moss (not IDed yet). The orchids are 2 Podangis dactyloceras and 1 each of Sedirea (Aerides) japonica, Haraella odorata (flowering), Lepanthopsis astrophora, and Oberonia japonica (looks to be initiating flowering). I am totally stoked that Bob8 and Greencurls replied to my post. I love orchids for their foliage alone (weird, I realize), and flowers are a sweet bonus! Even with my restricted space (once the other houseplants come in for the winter), thereâÂÂs such a huge variety that I might grow! Naturally IâÂÂd like to have more and maybe even a brighter light variety upstairs in the study window (SE), but want to be sure theyâÂÂll weather my occasional absences.

They still did not germinate at all... I usually go with the Thomson and Morgan instructions because they seem to be pretty reliable. However, I am not sure in the case of Hellebores. They keep changing the time you have to leave the seeds in fridge. For example, when I purchased the seeds in January they wrote I should keep the seeds in the refrigerator for 6 weeks. Now they changed their instructions and they say they should stay 3 months (or 12 weeks). Well, my seeds are at their 10th week and they have not germinated yet.

Malhgold, it's like you knew. We have no uppers in the rest of the kitchen (sorry, the pic was just taken over morning coffee). The cabinets come out 24" and nearly fill a space between 2 doorways. We have 11" clear at top and it is not enough for functional doors above. Original plan had me going all the way up and installing crown around the room. With careful planning I could add faux drawer fronts later which would be a consistent look all the way to the top. Urgh...... I am one hard weekend from being done!