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Comments (9)What fun! Thanks for sharing the plan - it's such a good idea to make sure that your spacing is correct and that you have the right roses in the right places. You are allowing enough space between them, it seems. Is this bed an island? Some of the shorter and smaller roses will get lost if they are in the back. You might want to add the dimension of height into your planning and consider how it will look 3-D. I agree that Portland from Glendora is problematic in this mix, which consists of teas with a few modern roses with glossy leaves. P from G is one of my favorite roses, but its growth is big and gawky and coarse (although its flowers are refined and fragrant and wonderful). I've seen it grown as a hedge, and I have it at the back of a border. In the cemetery, it's just a big tall plant. I think it might look out of place at the edge of a bed of teas. The yellow of Mistral may be a bit too bright and modern for the rest of these roses. All tea colors harmonize, it seems to me, although I wonder if Mrs. B. R. Cant and Mme Lombard are too similar in coloration (not similar at all in shape of flower) to be side-by-side. I also wonder about G. Nabbonand and Mrs. Dudley Cross, both of which are quite pale, I believe, and might not contrast enough. Iris or salvia would add spiky notes and blue/purple colors, which would punctuate the garden well. Anita...See Morethey forgot the 20 year warenty layer
Comments (45)tkme4ard, you actually want a layer of clay at final grade, right up against the foundation and running out 2 or 3 feet. Properly sloped away from the home's foundation and into the landscaping, it works to remove water from the immediate area of the ground to foundation "joint" for lack of a better word. Clay is way more water resistant than fill soil or garden soil, no matter how any of them are graded, You can top that with mulch or river rock or your choice of permeable material and then place your foundation plantings in front of it...say two feet out from the home. You don't plant into it, close to the foundation. As the foundation plantings mature, you begin to not even see the strip. We get rain starting in October and it seems to not stop until June. Temperate rain forest is how my area is described. Demand the clay layer be replaced at completion. One of my first homes, years ago, bought for rental needed the perimeter drains replaced. This was a 1,200 sq ft raised ranch. I dug it by hand, took me two weeks and cost me the cost of pipe. All four sides, four to five feet down. Last year we had another one, hired a contractor, he did it in 4 days and it cost slightly under $15,000. This was a fully buried basement so deeper, they tore everything out, wire brushed the concrete, sprayed the black goop (hey! I didn't do it or I'd know the name), dimple screened it, put in proper perimeter and rain drains, wrapped and drain rocked and filled it, clayed it and graded it. That price includes all new rain goods all around the house as well and its a bit larger home. Looks just like the one I did by hand for probably $300. Just a bed time story for your hubby. Mavc is giving you good advice, btw....See MoreDark restaurant, forgot reading glasses, winged it
Comments (32)I carry small purses nowadays, usually an across the chest shoulder strap type so I'm hands free. My most used is a little larger than a wallet with a zipper pocket for keys and my drugstore reading glasses (tiny and in a metal tube case), a pocket pack of Kleenex (always need those) and an outside phone pocket which I use for my smallest camera (I've never had or needed a cellphone.) I also have one of those flat plastic credit card-sized magnifying glasses which I bought and then forgot where I put it. I use glasses only for reading as I'm farsighted, but when I went to the optometrist for a checkup I thought about being fitted for computer glasses. Best idea I ever had as we could fine tune the correct distance at the optometrist's office by looking at his computer. Spending long hours gazing at my computer screen was tiring, so this was a good solution for reading the screen from about 27 inches away without eyestrain. Yes it is common here in Europe for men to carry a bag and it looks quite natural because so many of them are camera bags or backpack-type sling bags over one shoulder, often used by bikers and hikers. Most supermarkets and some stores here have a set of small lockers at the entrance where shoppers can leave their big backpacks or large carryalls. And some still have signs at the entrance asking people to leave their bags of all types in the lockers provided. Some years ago there were shops which asked people to leave their handbags with an employee at the front door. I would always walk out of such places, because as you said Lars, what guarantee do you have they're not snooping inside. Nowadays nobody bothers me even if I take a larger satchel-type handbag into a shop. SharonCb...See MoreAntique Chinese screen. Should we make into a TV screen?
Comments (24)Why would one keep the screen or cabinet door open when not in use. I am of the opinion that television screens are not attractive. Many people go to lengths to hide them including cabinets with lifts that go up or down so the television is not on view when not in use. I deliberately built a cabinet to hold my television during my remodel which acts as a large room divider between my office and the more formal part of my living room. It has what I call a stripper pole television so the television can be viewed from both sides and there are doors on both sides to disguise it when not in use. There is a television on the market which looks like a large frame - literally - and so it displays a piece of art/photo of your choice. So it looks like framed art instead of a television when not in use. My bedroom has a standard wall hung television but that's my private area with the wall visible from the bed. People routinely pull drapes or shades up or down and perform other acts so not sure why shutting a cabinet door is more of an issue. Is this screen in fact a rare antique. There are a lot of reproductions of items or even vintage items that are not particularly valuable and it's not necessarily a blasphemy to alter them from their original purpose. For me, it's solely an economic, functional and aesthetic decision. If the screen isn't worth thousands of dollars why not convert to a use that is both functional and aesthetic....See More- 11 years ago
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