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English Garden Catalog: Tidyrips (Layia platyglossa) are California wildflowers that I first saw in an English garden catalog. They are as cheerful as their name implies. Their small daisy-like flowers have sunny yellow petals, each with a dainty, white, deckle edge. Blossoms 2 inches across are excellent for cutting. The plants produce such a wealth of flowers, that it's easier to make successive sowings for all-summer blooms than to remove spent flowers from existing plants. Tidytips withstand a temperature of 26°F. Germination is in 12 to 14 days; the plants are hardy annuals and should be spaced 6 inches apart in wide drifts.Any good photographer will soon work out standard lighting plans and exposure and development constants, so that catalog technique becomes a routine which produces good pictures almost automatically. All-in-all, catalog photography can hardly be considered exciting, but a few catalog accounts can provide an excellent bread-and-butter basis for anyone. I was awakened in the small hours of the morning several years ago by a telephone call from a man who wanted to pay me a hundred dollars to come and take one picture of a beautiful woman, just one simple single-flash picture. Perhaps you can guess why this picture, which he could ordinarily have got someone to take for five or ten dollars, was so important to him that he offered a hundred. It was because the beautiful woman was his estranged wife, from whom he was seeking a divorce, and she was at that tune in a compromising situation. See Also Beautiful Garden Where:Adjacent to the pavilion and barbecue is an herb and vegetable garden. “We've created this beautiful garden where, natural herb garden with sage, butter lettuce, oregano, cilantro and sweet peas,” Hernandez said. “It is close enough to the barbecue that you can just reach out and grab some fresh herbs as you cook.”I've been growing ornamental grasses in the garden for over eight years. By the end of August, eulalia grass is often over 10 feet tall, reed grass reaches to 15, Japanese blood grass is turning deep red, golden top shimmers with silken gilt, blue fescue forms 18-inch clumps of steely blue, and spike rush is 1 inch tall. They are all beautiful garden where. Unfortunately, at the same time that the garden is a graceful jumble of abstract lines, the lawn is a scraggly 2 inches higher than it should be and badly needs a trim. On The Other Hand See Garden For Inferior:Don't plant trash. There are too many really good plants available to make room in your garden for inferior varieties. It's true that choice kinds often cost more, but they are worth it. If you must economize buy smaller specimens than you otherwise would, but get good kinds. You may be able to save by setting out fewer plants than you think you need. Makers of new gardens are often so anxious for immediate effect that they over-plant, forgetting that plants grow and soon crowd each other if they are not adequately spaced. Yet another possibility is to propagate at least some of your own plants. This is not practicable with all kinds but it is easy to start with a few groundcover plants, for instance,and multiply them so that before long you have many times the original number.The inclusion of an arresting object within a small garden is an excellent way of detracting the eye from adjacent buildings and into the garden itself. The focal point in this garden is an ornate wrought-iron seat, which leads the eye down the garden. The rather austere rectangular lawn is surrounded by a mass of pretty, shrubby little plants, which together help to soften the overall look of the garden. |
