Spring Flower Shows- 2002 Update: Part 2
The Spring Flower and Garden show continues into March and April in the Atlantic region. More dreamlands to explore. The grandfather of the U.S. flower shows, the Philadelphia Flower Show germinated in 1829 and has blossomed into the premier show ... [... more]
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Flower Shows
I decided to go a bit off topic this month and write about floral design rather than garden design. I recently attended flower show school. The main purpose of a flower show school is to train judges who are accredited to judge standard flower ... [... more]
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How to Win Blue Ribbons at Flower Shows
Showing daffodils is a lot of fun. This weeks article is a series of questions and answers to guide you to become and exhibitor. Showing daffodils is not a life or death situation, it's one of todays best kept secrets - it's fun. Come and join ... [... more]
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Contrast - Part 1
The Handbook for Flower Shows points out that "contrast is achieved by placing opposite or unlike elements together in such a way as to utilize differences, to create interest" but that "contrast exists only between elements that are [... more]
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Daylily Shows
Learn about how the flower shows really work.This was an eye opening experience! I really didn't think I would want to discuss a flower show, but this year I volunteered to help at our local show because I felt sorry for the show chairperson, ... [... more]
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The Water Clock
 From Amazon.com: "A great story--at last," remarks newspaper journalist Philip Dryden, as he considers the mutilated body of a man found in the trunk of a car pulled from the frozen River Lark in England's watery Cambridgeshire Fens district. [... more]
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Onward and Upward in the Garden
From Amazon.com: These 14 pieces by Katharine White first appeared in the pages of the New Yorker and were posthumously collected by her husband, E. B. White. They are at once as formal as an English manor house garden, as sensible as the Burpee seed [... more]
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Creative Flower Arranging: Floral Design for Home and ...
The title of this book should read creative vases: The entire book is devoted to most unusual vases which would be used by very few people. The actual floral designs used do not require a great deal of creativity. The most valuable book on creativity in [... more]
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Water Clock
From Amazon.com: "A great story--at last," remarks newspaper journalist Philip Dryden, as he considers the mutilated body of a man found in the trunk of a car pulled from the frozen River Lark in England's watery Cambridgeshire Fens district. [... more]
CDN$10.99
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