Gree nhouse PLANTS

TO DECIDE WHICH PLANTS SHOULD BE INCLUDED IN the greenhouse and surrounding garden, a lot of testing was necessary. While most of the plants are potted, a few, like the wisteria, are planted outside. “Most plants did pretty well inside, but some didn’t like it,” Megan says. “There was a lot of trial and error.” For example, at one point Megan bought a fiddle-leaf fig from Home Depot to test how it would do outside. She says the plant is currently nearing 8 feet in height.

As the region has a lot of deer, Megan also has to be careful about what gets planted in the ground. The plants that deer like are specifically potted and go inside the greenhouse to ensure they aren’t eaten.

An incomplete list of plants in Megan’s collection includes monsteras, several fern varieties, fiddle-leaf figs, wisteria, rubber tree plants, varieties of alocasias, “tons of” pothos, angel-wing begonias, wandering Jews, money tree plants, cactuses, numerous types of succulents and all kinds of seasonal flowers.

Beginning with a pot of daffodils a friend bought for her, Megan’s green and growing collection ballooned from a few small pots to hundreds of different plants.