Greenhouses Grow More Popular among Homeowners.

Detroit Free Press (Detroit, Michigan) (viaKnight-Ridder/Tribune Business News) | February 29, 2004 | Copyright

Byline: Marty Hair

Feb. 29--For winter-weary Northerners who long for sun and green leaves, weathering the final weeks of winter is a slow and tedious process -- like slogging through knee-high mud.

The weather makes it easy to envy people with greenhouses, who already are basking in warm, moist air.

"I feel better as soon as I step in," says Don Farrelly, who grows orchids, ferns and other plants in the greenhouse attached to his Grosse Pointe Woods home.

According to the National Gardening Association, about 900,000 households bought ...

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