Our fearless horticulturalist, Julie, has been busy in her greenhouse this winter. She hosted a wreath building workshop for the members before Christmas that was well attended. The workshop included instruction and materials to build a live wreath as well as lunch and company. There were three seperate sessions over three days and Julie was happy with the results.
During the cold snap in January that saw temperatures as low as -35C at the course, the radiant heater in the greenhouse malfunctioned and lost heat. Julie discovered it as soon as she arrived in the morning but the temperature in the greenhouse had already dropped below 0C and was still falling with temperatures outside close to -30C. After some quick heater assembling, some smaller sources of heat were placed in the greenhouse but they were only enough to keep the temperature from dropping further. The serviceman arrived to repair the heater but that process also took a considerable amount of time. The heater was finally up and running by 8:00PM that night. Eventhough the repairs were made as quickly as possible, the greenhouse has still suffered tremendous loss. Julie is still surveying the damage but estimates that she lost up to 70% of her plant material because of the rapid temperature drop.
Any of you that have seen the greenhouse know that this picture shows an extreme lack of plant material as Julie has been clearing out the material that she lost.
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