It started with a spreadsheet.
Like a lot of orchid growers, I kept one: collection numbers, names, vendors, prices, lineage, repotting dates, and every other detail I wanted to remember. It was useful, but maintaining it by hand gradually became its own part of the hobby.
Meanwhile, hundreds of orchid photos sat on my phone. Arrival photos, blooms, nursery tags, progress pictures. The photos and the spreadsheet had no connection to each other, and I would scroll through years of pictures trying to find one particular flower, knowing it was probably there but having no practical way to reach it.
So I built Glasshouse. It began as a way to keep each plant's record and photos together, something I could update while standing in front of the collection instead of trying to remember everything later at my computer. Once all of that lived in one place, the rest followed naturally: watering and feeding history, nursery-tag scanning, local rain and weather, wishlist plants, culture resources, and sharing tools.
