What do you collect?
elliottb
17 years ago
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Comments (60)Animals aren't collections, even if you do have several, okay 6 cats and four dogs. China isn't a collection...you use it. Besides, some of it was my grandmother's and some mothers, and I really liked the soft pink abstract rose on that set and you need Christmas china, and of course, you need different china for the grandkids at Christmas. I suppose having 350 different daylilies means I must admit to collecting them. But all the Christmas decorations are just decorations, not a collection...except maybe the Dickens Villiage is a collection. And Josh, I am really impressed with all of your languages. In addition to English, I speak only Spanish and German, and, like Melissa, I can read French, but I do not speak nor understand the spoken French. And like Susie, Books are not a collection any more than food is. kay...See MoreWildseed Collection
Comments (9)Sometimes I find native/wild plants growing within the city limits and I collect seeds from these. I recently found some Verbesina encelioides (Golden Crownbeard), Plantago major (Buckeyes, and red clover, which I have planted in the garden. I've found several different genus/species of sunflower-types yet to be ID'd. Urben areas often provide unlikely sources for wildflowers in vacant lots and medians where birds have probably dispersed seeds of many natives. In OKC, there are a few spots where vacant lots have actually been udtilized to plant wildflower gardens anbd there are a couple near me. I would not take any seeds from these, though, without first checking with the gardeners first. I am sure they wouldn't hesitate to share seeds, though, because most gardeners are very generous. Native gardening is increasing in popularity in the inner city so that folks like me, who don't or are unable to travel into the rural areas, are able to collect seeds easily. I have visited your website and admire your conservation efforts greatly. Susan...See MoreWhat do you collect seeds in?
Comments (3)Ziploc size sandwich bags are perfect and a black sharpie marker. I put a bunch of them in an empty plastic grocery bag along with the marker and out the door I go. Seeds go in a zip bag, zip it up, label with the marker and toss in the grocery bag. When I come in the house I put the seeds on the cheapest white paper plates I can find at the store. Label the plates with the name of the seeds and put them aside to dry for several days before packing them up. I reuse the baggies too and the plates. Just cross off the name of the plant on the bag and plate and right a new one, until there's no more room to right on....See MoreVintage and Antique glass collections? Pics?
Comments (2)Depends on what you have? I would weed out the brightly colored more modern stuff.....and keep the heavier simpler more "rustic" stuff....and a bit of lacy glass and milk glass too. My house is prettyw ell traditional antiques....and I have a line up of antique clear glass children's mugs and punch cups backed with old flint cup plates on the sashes of my windows in the liming room and diningroom. The den has shelves partially full of books and partially full of antique glass. I have grouped according to color....i.e. a small group of blue glass.....another of cranberry, a few pieces of green, some amber....all mixed with clear to separate the groupings. None of the glass on display contains anything....no flowers, no plants no twigs no colored stones. But I will often use a piece from the display to hold a flower or some candy as part of another arrangement. Would love to see pictures. I have no good pictures of the glass in the windows.....ever try to take pictures of clear glass set in a window? LOL!...See Moredonnamira
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