RE: 61-degree heat wave

Kitty, thus far, I make pictures with them.  This Christmas, my in-laws and
older nieces and nephews got framed pressed flowers for Christmas.  It is
one of the few ways I can think of to share my garden with them since they
aren't local.  I have only one example left in the house, so it is time to
press more, spring allowing. :>) I'll be experimenting with splattering
leaves a bit this coming year, too.  (They'll be pressed to give a better
coverage beneath them to keep the spatters only where I want them.)  Then
I'll add some pressed flowers over the dried spatters for a different
effect.

Blessings,
Bonnie (SW OH - zone 5)

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf
Of Kitty
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 10:06 AM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] 61-degree heat wave

What ideas do you have?  Greeting cards?  Framed artwork?  Do you have any
books that suggest ideas for using pressed flowers?
Kitty
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bonnie & Bill Morgan" <wmorgan972@ameritech.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 12:02 AM
Subject: RE: [CHAT] 61-degree heat wave


> I did indeed.  Now I just need spring and a fresh supply of blossoms to
> press!
>
> Blessings,
> Bonnie (SW OH - zone 5)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf
> Of Kitty
> Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 6:36 PM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] 61-degree heat wave
>
> Re >that would make a sensational pressed flower garden!
> Bonnie,
> Did you get the flower press for Cmas?
>
> And yes, chicory, Cichorium intybus, is considered a weed here too, but I
> delight in them every summer for their beautiful hue.  (Re the bLatin - I
> just finished creating a seed packet label for this plant)
>
> Kitty
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bonnie & Bill Morgan" <wmorgan972@ameritech.net>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 5:16 PM
> Subject: RE: [CHAT] 61-degree heat wave
>
>
> > Jim, we have a good deal of wild chicory growing around here, mostly
> thought
> > of as weeds.   The flowers are lovely, but they are presented on those
> bare
> > stems at leafless, or nearly leafless, nodes along the stems, and most
> folks
> > don't give them a second glace because of that.  (Of course they spread
> like
> > crazy here, too.  That could be another reason they are thought of as
> > weeds.)  I do think they have one of the clearest, cleanest blues in the
> > plant world.
> >
> > Now if I could just confine some Queen Ann's Lace with wild chicory
> > interspersed, that would make a sensational pressed flower garden!  Of
> > course, whether the Queen Ann's Lace or the chicory would win out in the
> > struggle for dominance is anyone's guess.  :>)
> >
> > Blessings,
> > Bonnie (SW OH - zone 5)
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
> Behalf
> > Of james singer
> > Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 4:24 PM
> > To: Chat
> > Subject: [CHAT] 61-degree heat wave
> >
> > Was 61 at 6 this morning and has been falling ever since. Of course, up
> > where the short one's kids live it's been in negative numbers all day.
> > I've done my best to forget what that's like, however. Must be some
> > Puritan need for self-flagellation that makes them want to live there.
> >
> > All of our christmas cacti have decided to bloom this week in spite of
> > the cranky weather. Not just the yellow and purple we acquired last
> > weekend but the red and yellow and pink ones that have been hanging out
> > here for a few years. Blue--some genetic engineer needs to slip the
> > color gene from chicory into the Schlumbergia gene pool. Now that would
> > be sensational. The wild chicory has to most beautiful shade of blue of
> > any flower anywhere. Bright. Electric.
> >
> >
> > Island Jim
> > Southwest Florida
> > Zone 10
> >
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