Tale of Two Sofas
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Comments (5)I believe the intent of the above was to let you know this is not intended to be a gardening forum :-) It was designed for input into the functioning of the website overall and to the individual forums as well. Per the forum heading: "This is the place to offer your suggestions and comments about GardenWeb. If you have an idea on how to improve the forums, or what businesses we should try to bring online, etc., this is the place to do it. But please keep in mind, we receive a lot more." Your question would get the attention it deserves if you would repost in the Shrubs forum....See MorePirelli Webbing - MCM sofa suspension
Comments (9)Thank you to everyone for your feedback. Tartenmeup, your blog link was very useful in regards to the Pirelli system specifically. The information that it was often used in MCM due to the more bulky suspension systems not fitting the space of those "sleek" designs was informative. The sofa I was looking at on CL was not cheap, ~$8,000 new ($700 on CL, though!). It was a design model that was featured in an exhibit at MOMA ~10 years ago. As I would assume the Pirelli system (utilizing the best webbing) is also much less labor intensive, one assumes that the high cost of the sofa is more about where it came from, etc. than a reflection of the time/craft intense labor that went into it. But I'm not redoing the living room for the purpose of dropping names, definitely a "pretty is as pretty does" functionality is important. And of course, I have to like it! https://www.desiron.com/sofas/copy-of-hudson-sofa From CL: In addition, this may also explain the suspension system in the MCM sofa I purchased from Sweden 30 years ago which just has a tight metal woven grid (looks like the wires are knotted to the frame). It sits a bit like a very firm mattress (with cushy cushions). I had posted about it previously having no familiarity with that system either. Ironically, this is the sofa that was potentially being replaced by the one above, lol....See MoreTale of two cherries
Comments (7)Another P. pendula seedling. In Japan big ones are treated as revered objects, propped up with posts and bestowed with absurd claims of being thousands of years old. Over here they get chopped down. Probably these have long since become effectively extinct commercially in North America because the ethereal beauty of their small pale flowers on the mature tree is not the kind of thing that would show up well in garden center sizes - why would shoppers go for one of these when they can have named cultivars with bigger, darker, even double flowers? On a tree that will always remain small and in scale with something less than acreage?...See Moretale of two layering attempts
Comments (0)Colquhounia coccinea is probably barely hardy for me, but still didn't quite deserve a prized position on my limited south wall space. The first couple years of blooming were so underwhelming I was ready to deaccession it, but this year it made enough of a show to decide to keep one somewhere in the garden. It's more sensible to just put it on a (still extra warm) south slope and keep a backup plant in a pot for the next "polar vortex" winter. (hopefully not this one!) Alas it had been there on a raised bed for a few years and I didn't think moving it was feasible anymore. Had to be layered. So I stuck 2 branches in pots back in early August. I used a technique where I stripped a bit of the bark on the branchlets and tied a tiny pea sized wad of cotton-ball-cotton around one end. Then added a few pure drops of dip n grow. This creates a concentration gradient of rooting hormone along the stem. Before the first hard freeze in mid-November I severed them from the mothership and moved them into my garage/greenhouse. Well as you can see it's good I did two, because one worked, and another didn't. It immediately withered after being cut. The other one on the right is still going strong. I am almost certain that little flower spike definitely appeared after the layering...maybe in response to the rooting hormone? The surrounding plants are from my last ever order from Joy Creek....See MoreBonnie
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