Portable Greenhouses

Many amateur gardeners avoid buying plants that need a stable weather environment or warmer climate because they don't want to buy a greenhouse. Typically, however, these amateur gardeners don't consider the possibility of a portable greenhouse when modifying their home garden. The obvious advantage portable greenhouses have over larger, permanent structures is one of size and portability. It isn't typically feasible to by a large greenhouse for only a few plants that require a stable weather environment or warmer climate. It also isn't necessarily a good idea to buy a permanent structure if you reside in a temporary location or move frequently. Portable greenhouses offer solutions to both issues.

Portable greenhouses have several other advantages over their larger counterparts. For starters, these smaller greenhouses come in a wide variety of colors, making them infinitely more adaptable to your garden's layout and design aesthetics than permanent greenhouse structures. If you have a particular color scheme in mind, you can find specifically tinted greenhouses that conform to your specifications; although the typical "green" is most conducive to letting the beneficial wavelengths of light through them, some plants actually benefit more from different hues. Clear plastic greenhouses are extremely popular, as they are nearly imperceptible from afar and give your garden a thoroughly natural look.

The flexibility of portable greenhouses also extend to their general variety of shape and contour. Most traditional greenhouses come in only one or two basic forms (we've all seen the "longhouse" shape and the "oval" shape in countless gardens in our time) and only a few more size varieties. Most small portable greenhouses, however, come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes to go over the specific layout of plants you have in your garden. What's more, many of the larger portable greenhouses are structure-flexible, meaning that they can be arranged in several different ways to accommodate different shapes over the course of their lifetime.

Lastly, portable greenhouses can be built as large and opaque as their heavier, permanent counterparts if so desired. Many companies sell greenhouses as large as twenty feet by forty feet for private use, and still larger portable greenhouses for commercial, academic or institutional use. The primary area which permanent greenhouses still hold an advantage is in the realm of structural support; permanent structures are, obviously, significantly more sturdy and can weather elements (rain, heavy wind, snow and hail) much better than their lighter portable counterparts.