Insulating the Greenhouse for the Winter

Today was the day of the ancient and hallowed ritual of "insulating the greenhouse for the winter" -- a process which involves firstly (and rather counter-intuitively) removing everything from it (and thus taking the plants out into the cold from which one otherwise wishes to protect them) so that bubble-plastic can be hung from the interior. The fact that the greenhouse is built against the back wall of the house and thus obtains some of its heat from that is a major contributor to helping the plants survive the winter; the bubble-plastic helps traps that heat and maintains the interior a few degrees above the ambient temperature of the winter garden. The plants which overwinter there seem to do all right, anyway (more fragile specimens are brought indoors and spend the winter on the window sills, above the radiators).

Below are a few photographs of the insulating process. I bet you don't have to do this in Sydney or Perth!