Greenhouse

"Perhaps you are a gardener at heart? If so, the Greenhouse provides room for planters where you can grow almost whatever you wish, sheltered from Skyrim's harsh climate. Tend and harvest your crops from the comfort of your own home!"

- The Beginner's Guide to Homesteading

The Greenhouse is a possible addition for the west wing of a homestead built in.

Features
The greenhouse is a rectangular room that serves as a dedicated place where plants and vegetables can be grown. It can be useful for growing rare and expensive ingredients, or simply a convenient location to harvest ingredients for alchemical purposes. Like the trophy room and kitchen, the greenhouse is located on the ground floor and no additions are made to the second floor.

Once the structure has been built, the greenhouse offers a wide selection of furnishing options, such as: planters, containers, cupboards, shelving and decorative mounted animal heads. Once certain furnishings have been added, hanging moss will appear on the timber beams, as well as: bird nests, butterflies, torchbugs, beehives  and bees. In addition, a beam of sunlight will shine through the windows onto the large planters.

Planting
Items can be planted by activating a patch of fertile soil and choosing a plant from a list of food items or ingredients in your inventory. A maximum of 18 patches are available if fully furnished and only one sample is required for each fertile soil patch.

The selected plant will soon grow in the garden, and will regrow again after it has been harvested. Harvesting typically yields 4 or 5† samples of the plant, rather than only one sample that is obtained from plants in the wild.

The patch may be cleared at any time by activating the fertile soil again. If a plant is already growing, a message will be displayed that mentions a plant is already growing. The two options from here are "Do nothing" or "Clear planter". Choosing to clear the planter will revert the soil back to normal, ready for a new plant.

The following is a full list of plants and fungi that can be planted and grown in the soil of the greenhouse or outdoor garden.

The Green Thumb perk doesn't work on planted Items; it only shows "(2 or 3) (2)" after the name, but only the two or three are added to the inventory.

Furnishings
The following is a list of all furnishings that can be added to the greenhouse. Furnishings can be built manually at the indoor carpenters' workbench, or added over a period time if done via a steward. The cost of asking a steward to furnish the greenhouse is 1500.

All furnishings are fixed in position and cannot be removed once they are built. The name of the furnishing option does not always accurately describe what will be added, as in some cases additional containers and accessories may be added, along with the main piece of furniture.

Trivia
The greenhouse can be used to generate between 850 to 1,000  per harvest, by planting all of the containers with an expensive ingredient (such as blisterwort), harvesting them, and selling the ingredients to merchants.

A fully-furnished greenhouse will begin to spawn hanging moss, birds' nests, bees, and butterflies. (Tested on 360: a fully-furnished greenhouse in Windstad Manor generated a Pine Thrush nest. Butterflies did not appear until lavender and tundra cotton were planted.)

A pot of honey (a somewhat rare food ingredient) can be found in the greenhouse after certain furnishings have been added.

The most expensive potion that can be created from ingredients grown exclusively in a garden or greenhouse is made from Creep Cluster + Mora Tapinella + Scaly Pholiota. This potion has five effects, and has a base value of 357  (1,254 with perks and fortification effects).

A newly planted pot will produce ingredients in 24 hours, plants that are harvested and left to grow will produce ingredients in 3 days. (i.e. If you want plants every day, clear out the planter and replant. -tested on the Xbox-)

Bugs

 * Asking a steward to furnish the greenhouse does not work. The steward will take the player's gold, but no furnishings will be provided. It is recommended that the game be saved prior to purchasing any furnishings from a steward.
 * Purchasing all the furnishings causes the game to crash sometimes. Leaving one upgrade, small planter with cupboard, seems to stop the game from exiting.