So right, Ursula it's always too tempting to push the zones down here - some years you win with a warm winter and very little scrambling to cover things. Other years it's a struggle and repeated schlepping into and out of the house and the hoop house for me. At least once you move everything into your greenhouse, and garage you are all set for winter. We're in denial until it actually gets cold here. Tonight is our first night below 60 for this fall. I've planted out a few of the nasturtiums but the rest of the seedlings are coming back into the house.
I've just finished planting 8 different kinds of tomatoes in my Earth Boxes. I think I may have jinxed us for a cold winter this year . . . and 3 of the Earth Boxes are not inside the hoop house at the moment. We'll see.
Here's Yellow Bird in her final golden glow before she starts to decline. These flowers have lasted almost a month since starting out, thanks to some nice cool nights.
Love the sweet little flowers on your Ornithophora, and this is a much better name than Gomesa for that plant! Darned orchid boffins naming things after themselves.
A great performer! 
. Or it put out a single leaf a little after getting it... I'll go check, I can't remember.
