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Help with choosing a plant

elizabethgreen14elizabethgreen14 Posts: 2
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Can anyone recommend a plant to grow in a glass porch that faces SE ? It can get very hot in summer but very cold in winter . It’s a large space so a big plant would be good but would also need to be tolerant of drafts when the door opens . I have a Swiss cheese plant but don’t want to put it in there if it’s not suitable ! Ideas please . Thank you 

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I put heat tolerant in mine in the summer and cold tolerant in the winter - if there's room - as the space is mostly used to overwinter garden plants.
    I think I'd be hard pushed to find a single plant that would survive both apart from maybe geraniums. I had some trailing ones in a trough that survived right through one year.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    You need to change the plants with the seasons as B3 suggests.  A Swiss cheese plant won't like the cold or draughts at all.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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  • hogweedhogweed Posts: 4,053
    What about an aspidistra? old fashioned I know but fairly bomb proof?
    'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
  • elizabethgreen14elizabethgreen14 Posts: 2
    That’s a great idea ! Thank you I hadn’t thought of an Aspidistra ! 
  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    What? A yucca plant in a porch?!! Not the most welcoming of plants, I'm afraid.
  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    Agave americana or aloes might be worth looking at. Personally I would treat it as a cold greenhouse to over winter things like Echium pinnata 
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