How often the days seem to take on a life of their own! Plans for shooting pics of fabrics to list today have been blown up! At 7 am this morning some contractors showed up to rip off some rotten corner boards on the end of the kitchen. As I work off of the kitchen counter this is not a happy thing! Had an appointment this morning that got me out of the house, but now, there isn’t any excuse to leave!
Thursday- August 4, 2011
The summer just seems to stream by! While just the beginning of August it seems as if September is just around the corner!
Make certain to get outside and enjoy what we have!
Primula Vulgaris, ssp Sibthorpii- a tale of plant lust
This is a tale, familiar to gardeners everywhere, of PLANT LUST.
We all know it, read how this one came about!
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A BIT ABOUT DAYLILIES
In Maine June, July, and daylilies go hand in hand!
Hemerocallis is the Latin name for daylily. It means, in Greek, “beautiful for a day”.
And that is just what daylilies are- beautiful for a day, as each flower lasts for only one day.
Our earliest daylily to flower is Hemerocallis flava major. This is not the earliest daylily to be had, just the earliest one we have.
It has large yellow flowers, and blooms for over a month! A lovely lemon color, it adds a lovely accent to the spring garden. It ends around the middle of July here, in the mid-coast.
HEMEROCALLIS FLAVA MAJOR
with Hesperis and other spring flowers.
THE LAST SPENT FLOWER OF
HEMEROCALLIS FLAVA MAJOR
Flowering next, and for not as long a time, is the so called Lemon Lily. One sees this all over Maine- in old cementaries, around old farm houses.
It looks very similar to H. flava major, but is more delicate, and has finer foliage. The scent is delicious! Large round seed pods form after the flowers have finished.
LEMON LILY SEED PODS
The common roadside daylily, the orange one- you know the one I mean, is Hemerocallis fulva. It starts blooming around the second week of July. An interesting plant, it is seen virtually across the country!
Quite a few years ago I found a source for Hemerocallis rosea.
It turns out to actually be Hemerocallis fulva rosea- a sub-specie of Hemerocallis fulva. This is the flower from which all of the pink and lavender daylilies are derived… really quite something! There are about twenty species of daylilies.. and who knows how many cultivars? But this is the one that really changed things for hybridizers!
While having the same general flower pattern it is much more delicate, with willowy stems, and a more delicate appearance over-all. The color is a definite reddish pink, with markings.
HEMEROCALLIS FULVA ROSEA
HEMEROCALLIS ROSEA
The daylily from which all pink cultivers are derived.
Not only more delicate in appearance, it is also less floriferous.
If interested in Hemerocallis species a good place to start is at
Olallie Daylily Gardens.
http://www.daylilygarden.com/index.html
They have a wonderful website, with wonderful plants! Enjoy!
JULY 18- Monday
In the fabric world two fabrics stood out as the best sellers of the week. Both are colorful fabrics, with lots of pattern details.
MONDAY in mid-coast Maine 6/6/11
A beautiful day in mid-coast Maine… a nice way to start the week! We decided to change the format of the blog for a bit..
FABRIC INFO of the WEEK – Monday, 16 May 2011
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Quite a variety of different fabric types sold this week. While seashell fabrics continue to move quite a lot of the Faux Leather Fabric also did!
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FERN FABRICS – Monday, 09 May 2011
Fern fabrics have a timeless appeal. Whether it is someone who loves nature or someone who loves antiques, they seem to go with anything! Too grandmotherly? Not all of them are! Fern fabrics are to the earth what coral fabrics are to the sea!
NEW FABRICS! – Tuesday, 03 May 2011
Just in, after a long back order: the Red Bird Toile Fabric. It and three other fabrics showed up on the doorstep yesterday!
COSTUMES AT THE VENICE CARNIVAL – Saturday, 23 April 2011
In 2009 we sold a small amount of the Faberge egg fabric to a man in Germany. Aways curious what people plan to do with fabric, we inquired what its use would be. The answer was a true surpise.
The man buying the fabric was Horst Raack, a goldsmith, and costume designer. He was doing a series of costumes for the Venice, Italy Carnival costume contest in 2011. The theme was Faberge. And he won! All of his costumes received first prizes!
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