For Those Who Like Pretty Buds and Sepals
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Largest petals and sepals...Cattleya?
Comments (22)Your sunroom and climate sound perfect for growing Catts. What a glorious sight when your orchids bloom and fill the room with their perfume. I'm jealous because you will have an easier time growing them than I do. If you can find a local society you will have the opportunity to buy or trade plants. You will get divisions of plants growers are giving away and will be closer to blooming size than a seedling. Generally bloom size depends on the number of bulbs the plant has. More pseudobulbs, quicker blooms. I've had Catts bloom on their third growth but some didn't bloom with six. You must realize that most Catts make one growth per season. If something went wrong during that year, that bulb won't flower. Now you have lost a year and hope the next growth will flower. Very slow, very frustrating. One difference between growing dirt plants and orchids - orchid growing requires great patience! I don't have your conditions. With good sunlight and warm temps you can choose Cattleyas which tend to throw multiple leads, or growths. Those will bloom earlier. If you can join a society (or just visit) look at what people bring in and ask questions...how easy to flower, how often does the plant flower, etc. Most societies have auctions and you can get great plants at low prices. They invite growers from all over who display their orchids. I rarely buy plants anymore. I wait for the auctions because I can get unusual plants at great prices. Most are already blooming. You are not looking for challenges. You want flowers. You want orchids which can manage mistakes without croaking. You have great conditions to be successful and I if you can meet with people in your area you will find Cattleyas which will do well in your home. Jane...See Moreabout the rose sepal ?
Comments (14)What I have is Hybrid Tea "Love & Peace". When I saw the picture by kstrong, I thought it may be different variety of the rose. Then, when I was searched in the net, I found the mini rose called 'Love and Peace". I was not aware of this mini and difference between 'and' and '&'. I got wiser :) Further, I got wiser today. I went to my "Love & Peace" bush and found a bud opening. Already the sepals were exposed and showed this overgrown leaf like sepal. When I closely examined, there was a petal just inside of it, showing half petal color but half green. Here is a picture. The leaf like sepal is at the left. The drooping sepal is the questionable overgrown one. Evidently, there was originally smooth sepal but turned into flower petal. Just outside of it, there was this leaf like growth mimicking sepal. This is, of course, my conjecture. It looks like my "Love & Peace" do this consistently. Could someone verify if you have "Love & Peace"? Well, I got curious. I went around my entire garden to see if there are another varieties that show anomaly. Then, I came to David Austin's "Wind-mare" (sold by J&P exclusively, I believe). Take a look. I found 3 sepals and 4 sepals. Then I saw this clinging petal with another 4 sepals. All the petals were fallen but one remained, which seems to be the sepal convert. So,in the end, I felt cheated but learned. In the same note, yesterday, I was trying to prove the number of rose petals may correspond with the Fibonacci number as well. I failed after reading the petal count of each rose in the David Austin rose catalog. ;)...See Morefor those who like Victorian plates
Comments (5)That plate went for $8. Good deal I thought. I checked eBay to see if they had any from this collection. Victorian Keepsake Plates. And they had one, different from the goodwill.com plate. hugs, Karen Here is a link that might be useful: Victorian children plate...See MoreAnalysis II. For those who like it except the price.
Comments (33)I have given my nieces their initial every year for a dozen years and can't always find vintage. etsy. You will always be able to find vintage initials on etsy. I agree with Chispa. It depends on the item and if I really want it (perfect for my space, could use in more than one place in the home, functional as well as pretty). Ok, I have to take back the functional part since I tend to mostly buy vintage/antique accessories just because. The things I have probably over paid for, but was happy to overpay, were things I had seen (online or in magazines), searched for (online and locally), and finally found (locally, traveling or online) - at a price I felt comfortable paying.. and didn't think was over the top. They had to be in good shape (not falling apart or damaged). A case of RH vs Antique. They have os de mouton wing chairs, on sale for $1185-1580. (regular $1395-1860). I had been searching for a pair of antique os de mounton arm chairs. Decent shape. Didn't care if they needed recovering since I would rather. I finally found a set of four, and luckily the shop owner was willing to divide. I purchased a pair, found the perfect fabric at bargain price (reg $27 a yard, and I got 4 yards for $27) yet it cost me $700 to recover both (included removing the back which was red leather, so they had to redo the webbing). Total for the pair, I spent about the same as one RH chair regular price. I'd much rather have an antique or vintage piece. I can justify the recovering expense since I will never recover them again. Getting the fabric at a bargain helped offset the cost of the chairs and recovering (at least in my mind). The chairs turned out great, they bring me joy every time I see them and they are comfortable to sit in. Even the cats enjoy them. I don't live in a "no touch" zone. So while I may not want to pay $900 for stone finials (value thing, like Chispa), I don't mind paying $900 for something else. Here is a link that might be useful: my os de mouton chair saga...See Morejaspermplants
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