It is certain that as rainy season arrives, such moistened air can indeed make a home feel cool. If you go into detail about cool air, and its ability to hold on to moisture and then add heat from a furnace, such moisture then is more intense. Warm air holds more water. Sometimes where rooms are situated, how air is allowed to pass through and around, can affect a room if there is a direct route to an outside door. A burning fireplace draws air from the room its in, and will draw air from surrounding rooms. This often can cause cold air at the bottom ..at floor level, to feel cool on legs and feet. The fire must have air and will steal it from wherever it can. This is why some fires it is prescribed to open a window a crack. Houseplants, if they number many, can put some effect into a room with the moisture they contain....but really, they'd have to be in numbers to make such difference. I cant believe a couple, even a few, could make such a difference you'd feel it. Mind you, its a way to give moisture to a plant by giving it company of others. Where air vents supply heat to a room and another room is in direct course to the vent, I think it can affect the two rooms. Plants put in direct path of such air, will definitely feel the effect and depending on how close, can be adversely affected. In that regard, just raising the plant by placing on a table, or pedestal or hanging up, will prevent any harm. Where it feels cool, put on a sweater and think of others experiencing deep freezes and snow....lots of snow. But today, it got up into the fifties...people are out in shorts can you believe.

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It would help to know your zone and also to know if you are talking about plants in the ground or hanging baskets. I have found the the mix used in hanging baskets dries out very quickly so plants need to be watered every day when it is hot. Sometimes even twice a day. Sometimes I repot in a larger pot using Miracle Grow soilless mix which doesn't dry out so fast. Some people also add water crystals to their potting mix. I also hang them in mostly shade with a little morning sun. And fertilize at least once a week to keep them blooming, more often if using diluted fertilizer.

Thank you everyone so much for what you do with your plants. Rina, your plants looks so happy, I really adore those aeoniums & echeverias! I like the motto SOS! I need to do that during the next downsizing. I wouldn't want to move all my plants either unless of the most severe storms (tornado warnings). Margaret, your weather sounds very comfortable, and what a typical Spring would be like in New England. I'm not usually in the super hot weather for a long time as there is AC indoors. When I'm in the pool the heat is great, just trying to avoid sunburn. I guess my plants and I have a lot in common, lol. Crenda, your tricolors remind me of past problems that I am trying to avoid, so I too feel they do best away from high humidity. It's like years of growing them and a few days of humidity turns them ugly. Maybe this is why some folks choose not to grow them.... so darn fussy. Ewwmayo, agreed on that shade cloth, love having it....what percent are you using? Mine is 30% but is doubled at the moment, when I get a chance later I will make it one layer. Pagan, too funny, I hope the mesembs are happier under that tough love...seems like it :) Mike, what is this about sitting back and enjoying the plants?!? Ha... I was just thinking the other day I don't have a chair in the gazebo, it's full of plants! I keep meaning to grab a chair and I forget. I collected rain water last night and earlier today I watered the 200+ plants. Looking around I have A LOT of repotting at least 50 to a 100! I do worry of older mixes being compact or they simply outgrew their pot. I'm going out soon and will get more potting mix. I'm sure the gazebo blocks more light than the plants could take. Western sun facing the shade cloth side, mostly jades and random succulents get the brightest area. CC/TC/Rhipsallis are further inward, they get some morning sun though on the other side. -Nancy