Just keep on with your "budding" passion. One day you might be as addicted to plants as I have become. I grew 100's of tropicals for 45 years in my home state of Mississippi, and though our winters there certainly don't compare to those in Chicago, still, it gets into the lower 20's and teens. I had greenhouses to remedy those winter situations. Those Mississippi days came to an end almost five years ago and now I'm in SE Florida. No greenhouses, just a single orchid shadehouse. I've now got over 1000 tropicals, and live on 2.2 acres, but this is also coming to an end. I'm selling and giving away the vast majority of my tropicals since we'll soon be moving to a postage-stamp size property. I'll have to retire again, but this time, really retire from what I've loved to do all those five decades. Life changes.
