room for keeping plants

[English4everyone]

In some houses there is a special small room for keeping and growing plants.
What do you call it, please?

 

[Raymott]

In some houses there is a special small room for keeping and growing plants.
What do you call it, please?

If I had one, I'd call it the herbarium. Greenhouses are common, but they are usually free-standing, not part of the house.
We don't have special rooms for plants in Australia. If plants are indoors, they are spread around as decoration.

 

[English4everyone]

This enclosed area (room) is small and usually has glass walls.
Is herbarium good to use for this? Can everybody understand it?

 

[Rover_KE]

Some people might call it their conservatory. ('A greenhouse usually attached to a house' - Collins)

I'd assume a herbarium was used for cultivating culinary or medicinal herbs.

 

[English4everyone]

So a conservatory can be the kind of room inside a house that I mean. Am I right?
When I googled it I had better results than herbalium. But all the pictures show an enclosed area outside.

 

[5jj]

So a conservatory can be the kind of room inside a house that I mean. Am I right?

No

When I googled it I had better results than herbalium. But all the pictures show an enclosed area outside.

Quite. A conservatory is outside the house.

 

[MikeNewYork]

This enclosed area (room) is small and usually has glass walls.
Is herbarium good to use for this? Can everybody understand it?

If it is glass-enclosed, it might be called a solarium, sunroom, or sun porch.

 

[5jj]

I think the problem is the original sentence: In some houses there is a special small room for keeping and growing plants.

If English4everyone really means a a room that is in the house, then most of us simply don't have one.

 

[Raymott]

I believe conservatory is the best answer so far.
https://www.google.com/search?q=con...KumpiAe75YDQCw&ved=0CIcBELAE&biw=1366&bih=643

They're not actually inside the house, nor outside. They are attached. But they aren't just any small room that you choose to keep your plants in. They're specially made to let the heat and light in (which is why I, as an Aussie, didn't think of this straight away, because we tend to get enough heat and light in our homes).

 

[MikeNewYork]

I believe conservatory is the best answer so far.
https://www.google.com/search?q=con...KumpiAe75YDQCw&ved=0CIcBELAE&biw=1366&bih=643

They're not actually inside the house, nor outside. They are attached. But they aren't just any small room that you choose to keep your plants in. They're specially made to let the heat and light in (which is why I, as an Aussie, didn't think of this straight away, because we tend to get enough heat and light in our homes).

solarium: https://www.google.com/search?q=con...CIcBELAE&biw=1366&bih=643#q=solarium&tbm=isch

sunroom: https://www.google.com/search?q=con...0CIcBELAE&biw=1366&bih=643#q=sunroom&tbm=isch

sun porch: https://www.google.com/search?q=con...IcBELAE&biw=1366&bih=643#q=sun+porch&tbm=isch

 

[Raymott]

solarium: https://www.google.com/search?q=con...CIcBELAE&biw=1366&bih=643#q=solarium&tbm=isch

A worthy addition to any house! But I don't think this is what the OP had in mind.

 

[MikeNewYork]

A worthy addition to any house! But I don't think this is what the OP had in mind.

A few of the pictures in my three suggestions and your conservatory work; others don't.

 

[Tdol]

I'd use conservatory, but the problem is that nowadays such rooms have generally been taken over by furniture and have lost their original purpose.

 

[emsr2d2]

My dad's conservatory gets so hot, he doesn't dare leave plants in there any more. They tend to die from over-heating.

 

[bhaisahab]

My dad's conservatory gets so hot, he doesn't dare leave plants in there any more. They tend to die from over-heating.

He should grow oranges and bananas. ;-)

 

[English4everyone]

Thanks a lot for all the suggestions. :up:
I think the best ones are "conservatory" and "sunroom". I searched in Iranian sites and I could find these two pictures that might help you with better suggestions.
Please tell me if you can think of better suggestions.
And do you think "conservatory" and "sunroom" can match these pictures?

 

[5jj]

I don't know what I'd call that room.

 

[Raymott]

I think that room could be called a conservatory. It has a glass roof; it's specifically for plants. The problem with sunroom is that this could be an indoor room where people go to get some sun. Sunroom by itself could mean solarium, which as we've seen is a place for near-naked women to get a suntan.

 

[MikeNewYork]

I think that room could be called a conservatory. It has a glass roof; it's specifically for plants. The problem with sunroom is that this could be an indoor room where people go to get some sun. Sunroom by itself could mean solarium, which as we've seen is a place for near-naked women to get a suntan.

:lol: That is only one use of the word "solarium". It can also be used for naked plants getting a sun tan.

 

[Raymott]

Here's a list of what solaria can be.
Solarium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia