It's still down to 15 degrees at night - which is the thermostat setting - and occasionally ( like when I left the door open on a frosty night recently) down to 12. I think its not getting too warm which is more important for the Masdevallias - I can usually keep to 30 max except in say July and August , and even then it only exceeds that if we have an unusually warm spell . Living within a mile of the sea has the effect of avoiding the worst of the cold in the winter, and avoiding the worst of the heatr in the summer - after all there are trillions of tons of that sea water , never ( or only once in a hundred years) falling below say 4 or 5 degrees in mid-winter, and likewise never getting much above say 12 or 13 in summer - and moreover I live only 200 yards from the river which is still tidal for 20 or more miles inland, so that too will have an effect ( also to a very minor degree on humidity - the best for that was when I lived in Stratford on Avon - Shakespeare's town - and my garden ran down to the river , but that's another story).Originally Posted by mauraec
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