The Parties over, the candles flicker and dim......
Maryl (Okla. Zone 7a)
7 months ago
This is an "add to" list as they become available. I already asked about last bloomers on original scapes, but now I'd like to see what bloomed last in your garden as an original or as a rebloom......My last bloomer is on a rebloom scape of South Seas. I've had it almost from the beginning as it was so often praised on this forum when I was newer at this hobby. Other daylilies have come and gone in this color, but South Seas continues to keep her place in my heart and my collection. This is the last daylily reblooming or blooming in my garden. The party is indeed over for this season:
Please feel free to add to his post as your last blooms become available..........Maryl
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Comments (48)Light sources have a spectrum. In some cases it is narrow, and in others wider. The sun, for example, emits through the entire visual spectral band, as well as UV and IR. tungsten and tungsten halogen are hot emitters with various spectral bands generally characterized by their apparent color temperature. The sun's spectrum is close to that of a 6000K (degrees kelvin) black body, whereas tungsten lights may be 2700K and tungsten halogens up to 3300K. The latter color temperatures are considered lower than the sun color temperatures, but are called warmer. Arc lamps that are spectrally broad may fall into the same color temperature range as the sun, but depending on line structure from the gasses used and the pressure that they are running at, may appear redder or bluer than the sun. Note that as these thermal sources are turned down with a dimmer, they become redder (warmer color) even though they are getting colder, physically. Now, getting to light emitting diodes, there are two types that I'm aware of being used for illumination (excluding variants). One type emits mainly at a single color, but because they are not true laser sources, this color band may be somewhat wide. Combinations of these sources may be used to try to match the tristimulus diagram of human eye response and look like a black body emitter at some color temperature. High color temperatures are considered colder because they have more blue; lower temperatures are considered warmer because they have more red. Note that this is referring to color temperature, and not LED physical temperature. The Cree LR4s had a scheme for re-balancing the color temperature as the LEDs aged. As I recall they were available in two different color temperatures for different applications. A clothing store, for example, might want a higher (colder) color temperature for interior illumination, whereas a kitchen might prefer something warmer (lower color temperature). (No one should be embarrassed if confused by this contradictory nomenclature.) Cree provided me a (proprietary) spectral chart that showed that their color spectrum was broad, but not particularly close to matching a black body spectral diagram. To avoid any post construction complaints I bought a single lamp and tested it against my soapstone and granite to ensure that the green highlights in each were being properly illuminated to provide a pleasing color balance when illuminated with the warmer LR4 option. The second type of LED source uses a deep blue or UV LED (or array of LEDs) to illuminate a phosphor or a combination of phosphors intended to emit a particular "whitish" color temperature. These phosphors tend to look yellow when viewed with the lamp off. By choosing the phosphor chemistry, and possibly over coating with filters, different color temperature sources are created. The goal is to know what color temperature one wants before specifying the particular lights to be used. If you want a tungsten halogen color temperature, specify 3200K - 3300K. For regular tungsten, 2700K - 2800K is good. Higher values toward 4000K will be bluer and more blue sky matching. As an aside, LG was able to cut the cost of organic LED (OLED) TVs by using all white (phosphor) blue-emitting OLEDs with red/green*/blue filters rather than the more difficult to manufacture sets of red/green/blue single color LEDs. kas *maybe yellow, I'm to lazy to go look...See MoreNo-drip Candles
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Comments (21)We always light the candles on our table every night at dinner. We purchase a good quality, non scented candle, usually Colonial Candles of Cape Cod. There are very specific instructions for safely burning a candle and rather then risk listing them all I linked them below. I don't want to sound like an alarmist but while candles can cause fires it's really about 4% of home fires and most of those occurred in a bedroom when the occupants fell asleep with the candles burning. Smoking is the number one cause of residential fires followed by cooking and electrical problems. Why don't you light some this afternoon and see how you feel about it when no one else is there. Since you don't normally burn candles you still might not feel comfortable having them lit when your company comes especially since you'll be busy serving as hostess. If you do decide to lit them you could ask a trusted friend to help keep an eye on them. Personally I love burning candles but we don't have pets or kids and we only burn them in the same room that we are in so that we can keep an eye on them. Obviously there are no combustibles near, we keep the wicks trimmed, votive candles are in appropriate holders, we avoid drafts etc. Here is a link that might be useful: candle safety tips...See MoreMaryl (Okla. Zone 7a)
7 months agolast modified: 7 months agoMaryl (Okla. Zone 7a)
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7 months agolast modified: 7 months agoHere's my last one blooming. I will go to frost with 30 buds, plus 6 more scapes that may not get to bloom before frost. All well budded. It was my first one to bloom [June 1] now the last one. Much better on rebloom.
Belle Isle Sentry.
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