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6-inch Flower: If you have the room, try one of the numerous lily naturalizing mixtures offered by many nurseries. For a very reasonable amount, you can buy 30-inch-tall, blooming-size seedlings, in colors of red, orange, yellow, white, cream, or pink.
For bloom in mid- to late September use the fine Lilium mosanum with its elegant, 6-inch-long white atop 4 to 6 foot si Or try L formosanum 'Little Snow White', a cultivar from Tail with the same size flower but on a 9-inch stem. If grown from sown in September, this lily will bloom the following summer. It makes an excellent pot plant.Use 6-inch flower pot saucer. Place in cage at same time each day. If birds do not bathe, they may be lightly sprayed with atomizer. See Also Grandiose Flower:The lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) is a grandiose flower. Its blossoms exude a rich fragrance and stand with the leaves above the water on stout stems. When blooming is over, the seed pods remain. Colors are white, rose, pink, yellow, and red. The American lotus (Nelumbo Ma) has yellow petals and is only slightly less impressive than its tropical kin. Treat it as a hardy lily. Leaves are often 2 feet across and quite unusual in that they shed water as if they were the back of a duck. You must have space for both of these plants. Tubers are placed in a tub 20 inches in diameter or larger and kept with 6 to 12 inches of water above the soil. They must have six hours of sun a day.There need be no question in your mind about the market for good flower photography. One of the big slide film distributors has found flower fanciers the most consistent buy ers of all among slide collectors, even though the pictures offered are strictly of specimen flowers. These cannot possibly have the same appeal as pictures of flowers grown by the buyer in his own soil. The only flower fancier who is not an eager prospect for pictures of his blooms is one who has never seen a color slide transparency of a beautiful flower projected. A close-up of a lovely flower on a screen is a sight to make anyone, flower lover or not, gasp at its beauty. On The Other Hand See Slipper Flower Calceolaria:The slipper flower Calceolaria flower (Calceolaria 'John limes'), 6 by 8 inches, is a miniature of the popular Easter plant. This species bears yellow flowers lightly dotted with red about the lip. They are so tropical in appearance it's difficult to believe their presence when seen in a garden. But without adequate drainage they soon perish, so the alpine garden is a perfect home for them. Chamaecyparis Lawsoniana 'Minima', 20 by 15 inches, is a dwarf conifer that has green fan-shaped foliage and grows at an astounding rate of 1 1/4 inches a year. After 10 years the tree will take on the shape of a round ball, 24 inches in diameter. It needs winter protection from heavy snow or its tender branches will break.Floiver festivals are frequent in the flower belt between Haarlem and Leiden. When the tulips are at their height in April, every Sunday is Tulip Sunday. A National Flower Show (mid-March to mid-May) is held on the Keukenhof Estate at Lisse. Later in the season (not the bulb-flower season), two magnificent festivals occur. The Hague stages a brilliant Flower Festival (early in August), with election of the Flows Queen (parade) and with special prizes such as that for the best bicycle Decoration (open to children); and an Aalsmeer-to-Amsterdam Flower Parade (September) culminates in the Olympic Stadium, for the award of prizes. The floats are always marvelous. |
