You just have to get used to the idea that your basement is for plants, not mundane things like laundry, furnaces, etc.
Mu cuttings have remained in pots, and they're around 3 feet tall now. I'll probably take the bigger ones out and store them bare root on the floor in the basement. They'll be next to my bags of corms of cannas, elephant ears, bare root bananas, caladiums, philodendrons, etc. The living room, dining room, family room and unused bedrooms are always chock full of potted plants- everything from my patio plus those bananas that I dig up and pot like DC and zebrina, my bougainvilleas, desert roses, clerodendrons, nonhardy cactus and succulents, seemannias (formerly known as gloxinias), palms (butia, chaemerops humilis, and pygmy date palms), brugs, tropical hibiscus (7 varieties currently), orchids (8 varieties currently), tropical pond plants that need to be in water, and others I've forgotten in my delirium.
A greenhouse would be wonderful, but we don't really have the space or the money. We barely have the space for the two of us, and this is a 4 bedroom split level colonial.
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"Gardening is the purest of human pleasures." - Francis Bacon
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John F. Kennedy, September, 1960
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