Congratulations!

I too just built a small green house and potting shed this winter.

Not a pro at gardening, but I do love to experiment and have found placement depends on what you hope to grow.

I already had a fenced in raised bed area (I have a serious deer problem)

My green house (Hot House) gets south and west light and morning sun on the wall separating my potting shed from my garden.

My goal was to have morning sun to grow morning glories on the east wall and South and West light for growing tomatoes, nasturtiums, etc. Everything else just worked out.

The bricks for the floor is a great idea, I have a dark composite decking for drainage (stones under the flooring) Are you able to fence in the greenhouse to expand your garden area? Build attach a trellis to screen the A/C units? My garden fence has clematis growing on it.

I am not trying to conceal anything, but you do want it to look intentional.

I just added a trellis on the potting shed wall with a star jasmin for evergreen foliage year round. My bldg. is accessible from my kitchen on the back and from my front yard on the front of the fenced in garden.

Get a piece of graph paper and figure out a plan you can build on as budget allows.

Good Luck!

Thank you Lyn! This is the east side of my house. I do have some morning sun but not a lot due to a big tree. The front of my greenhouse faces east although technically south east in the pictures.

I haven't really thought about what i want to grow around the greenhouse. I also have a fenced in raised garden so my greenhouse will be more for propagating and to relax. I would love to add a trellis or 2 but I agree that it needs to be intentional and thats the reason I'm stuck!

I could fence it in and include the AC units but I would need to find a fence on fb marketplace which will be easy to do.

I normally can think of a plan for something like this but I'm 50yo now and my brain doesn't want to brain anymore! I thought about trying to use an app to plan it so I could move things around to see how it would look but I need a starting place or ideas from other people to get the ball rolling!

@tracefloyd I have tried everything to tag you in the app and desktop but I can't figure it out. Hopefully you get this message! I can't thank you enough for these ideas and photos! They are amazing! I am going to take a picture of the back patio which leads to the greenhouse. The back patio gets morning sun and is unusable until 1-2pm when it starts getting some shade. I would like to figure out how to shade this area. I will explain more with photos. Should I add those photos here or start a new discussion to ensure you will see it?

I am so pleased!

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