Garden Igloo experiences

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We would really like a greenhouse, but we only have a small garden so would be limited to about 6'x6' in quite an inconvenient location. We're full south facing so it would only be used during the winter before it turns into an oven.

I'm starting to think to think a garden igloo/geodetic dome in the middle of the garden during the winter might be a better solution. We can put the furniture in it to use as a garden room and keep many more and larger plants in there (they're 2.5m diameter), then fold it down and store it in the garage over the summer. They're also about a third of the price of a greenhouse!

Does anyone have one? Are they as marvellous as claimed? Do you think they'd survive going up and down each year? And are they actually warm enough to sit out in?

Could you put up a link? I dont know what they are!

There are lots of companies, but here's an example. I can't tell if it's going to be cheap and plastically and only really survive one year or if it's properly robust. I haven't found a stockist to go to take a look.
gardenigloo.com/

I bet there's a huge waiting list anyway because they're the sort of thing restaurants are buying for social distancing!

Just seen it on Amazon, (out of stock) and the first ratings were very poor - one star, so I would be very wary of spending a lot of money on one.

They are very expensive. £900! You can buy a 6x6 glass greenhouse for £350 brand new, and for as little as £50 second hand. I wouldn’t pay that for a bit of plastic, sorry.

I think that, like a greenhouse or a conservatory, it will be scorching on sunny days and cold on dull days.

And whilst it looks lovely all dressed with plants for show, in reality the sloping sides seriously reduce head height.

I should have said I'm not in the UK. Greenhouses don't really seem to be a thing here and those that exist are horrendously expensive, normally imported from the UK.

But yes, you're probably right that it's still basically an expensive plastic tent and if it's warm enough to sit in it, it would be warm enough outside with a jumper and a rug. I need to find a way to get all the baby tomatoes out of our living room though! Our garden's a really awkward layout with nowhere natural to put even a cold frame.

In the details it also says it overheats and melts when the air temperature is more than 10°, so still too cold for planting out and basically useless!

We have a Victorian lean to cold frame shed thing and that does lots of jobs for me. Like this: www.sheds.co.uk/hartwood-5-x-2-victorian-tall-wall-greenhouse.html