Conservatory v Orangery: the difference?

Oh but my friend who is always pretentious on her son's behalf describes his garden room as being an extension to the "huge "kitchen -diner, so no messy things in that I think.

Orangeries are also used like greenhouses and have plants permanently growing in them like grape vines and figs.

And a pile of old, muddy wellies...

(or possibly shiny new ones, just for show!)

A garden room, on the other hand, would seem to have trugs, twine, seed packets etc.

Unless of course one is being pretentious, then 'orangery' sounds much posher than a 'conservatory. My mother would have had an orangery!

I think an Orangery was originally used for over-wintering orange trees etc., much as a conservatory can be used to over-winter less than hardy shrubs.

I bet the people who have orangeries don't grow oranges in them.

Presumably, an orangery faces the perfect way for growing oranges while a conservatory doesn't.

If you read the link you will see that it's mainly structural.

I had always thought an orangery belonged to a Stately home type of place but I do know of people who have Garden rooms although I have never seen one, so don't actually know how these differ from conservatories.

www.jewelwindows.co.uk/blog/the-difference-between-an-orangery-and-a-conservatory/

There was an article about this in the Telegraph recently, I think it was written by Christopher Middleton.