Wood porcelain - Who besides Porcelanosa?
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What do you collect besides plants?
Comments (34)I collect blue-and-white china, mostly plates etc that we use everyday. Cookbooks, mostly about bread baking. Kitchen stuff that I find at estate sales and can't resist. That's slowed way down since I'm out of room for it but I love the "what's this?" things. I have old Florida tourist souvenir plates like my grandmother used to collect. Turkish copper kitchen ware like gelatin molds and large platters. Can you tell I like to cook and to eat?? So much of it has come from estate sales, I feel like it's having a second life with me. I'm always looking for something interesting to put in the garden. Oh, and I guess I collect border collies since my sister says "one of something is unique, two is a pair, and three is a collection" and we have three. It would be so much fun to visit each other and see what we all collect in person. Even if I'm not personally interested in it I love to see what someone else is passionate about, that does make it interesting to me. Suzanne...See MoreDoes anyone besides me like pokeberry?
Comments (48)Hi Vineyarder - Welcome to garden web! You're certainly right about many "old weeds" being bred into great plants. Aside from asters, sambucus comes to mind as another native that was improved by plant breeders overseas before becoming popular here. The problem that sometimes arises is when the refined plants produce lots of seedlings that are not gardenworthy. I've seen this with other variegated plants, specifically Ampelopsis (porcelain berry vine). The hybrid form was lovely and, truthfully, it only threw about 4 seedlings over several years. The problem was that the seedlings quickly became rampant, uncontrollable monsters; the only way to prevent the problem was to eradicate the lovely variegated vine as well as all the offspring. Had a similar experience with butterfly bush - although I liked the wild ones enough that I eventually removed the "improved" hybrid parent plant, and just keep a few "wild" seedlings each year....See MoreA Wood Floor that will Look Good Beside Braz.Cherry
Comments (11)bestyears, here is a link for Mirage Solid Brazilian Cherry HardWood Floors in 3.25" wide Cashmere or Semi-Gloss Finish. I guess it now comes in the more modern 3.25" wide plank size which is close enough to the 3" wide size. A client's daughter had 2.5" wide solid oak floors in her dining room and tore up her rug and added 3.25" wide solid oak floors in her living room. The floors but up against one another with that wood type of room separator in oak in between them. Both floors have a natural finish and they look great together. I only realized they were a different width since I brought my ruler as I was trying to decide what width I would want for my hardwood flooring. I loved both widths but preferred the 3.25" width. There is someone who posts and shows her beautiful floors that are the engineered 2 9/16th cashmere finish and she claims they are very easy to keep clean due to the matt finish. I believe her based on my experience with matt versus glossy. I still love semi-gloss floors but I try to stay away from high gloss flooring unless that is the only finish the flooring came in and I was in love (like if I decided to get a laminate floor, I do love the Bruce Park Avenue line and may ignore my own rule but I still fear a glossy floor would be difficult to keep clean with so many clients visiting me during my busy time). I had samples of both the cashmere and the semi-gloss in my home of Mirage and the cashmere did stay clean looking despite walking on the samples for a few days. I still love the semi-gloss but if I was putting a floor in the kitchen, I would want a matt floor or at least not a high gloss floor unless I was buying a laminate floor. Here is a link that might be useful: Mirage Solid Brazilian Cherry HardWood Floors in 3.25...See Morewho loves their porcelain wood tile floors?
Comments (3)We recently put the porcelain Wood tile in our house we love em. They turned out great. Ours are darker than the picture shows (the picture was taken with a lot of light and with a flash). The tiles are 6x24 and have a hand-scraped texture to them. Things to consider, look for a very "true" tile or if it states "rectified" These tiles are notorious for being warped/cupped/bowed and if not laid correctly could show some lippage. The tile that we bought although not "rectified" were very true, all the same width. The installers said they had never seen such true plank style tiles. The tile we bought also had a slight beveled edge which gives it more of a true "wood floor" look. The tiles were laid with a 1/16in. joint which if you do not have a "straight" tile will be a pain or nearly impossible. Here is a link to the pics scroll down toward the bottom http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/flooring/msg030904385529.html Here is a link that might be useful: Wood Look Tile...See Moremic111
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