Garden Photos - Part 41

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http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/912137/

Keep them coming!

My neighbor's fantastic maple.

Almost completely ablaze!!!! Very nice. My Silver Maple seems to turn directly to brown. Very little yellow. :-(

I don't have any outside flower photos, so I will cheat and add INside flower photos. Hope no one minds!!

This one hasn't opened yet, but I am excited to see a bud on my orchid. It will open to a purplish flower with pinkish falls. Wait till you see this one!

Im using this picture for my desk top

Because here is how it looks now.
There aught to be an official day of mourning after the first hard frost

Here's the Carrion Flower

Cool flower, willie! How 'nice' does it smell??

Sitting on your porch looks like a perfect way to reflect on that first hard frost!

Here's a shot farther out of the Carrion Flower.

Shelly, I want to move to OR.

It smells WONDERFUL!! Not!!! Horrid, but I like it some how. Yes .... like bad, bad hamburger!!

Here is the Concord Blue

I like these pregnant onion flowers. The seems to last for a month, or so.

Sometimes called Glass Onion ..... considered invasive in some parts.

The "orange" impatiens.

Not sure what got on the flowers of this one .....

This one is really a brilliant, Electric or Shocking Pink color

Here's a kind of long shot.

Ixora coccinea

Lithops ... First time this one has flowered in three years.

One of the fuzzy Kalanchoes

My new terra cotta planter .... only $12.00 ... Think I'll get another.

Not sure what I want to put in it. Looks like a pumpkin.

The Madagascar Palm, which really isn't a palm .... but, anyhoooo

This one should start to drop its leaves soon.

I forget what this one is, I call it Drunkard's Dream, but not sure that is right.

This one is flowering quite a bit, with teeny tiny white flowers.

Is that last one a 'pencil tree'?

The jades are setting bud.

Nice plant collection Willi
Your bleached impatien probably had water or moisture on th petals and was hit by direct sun.

No, it isn't the Pencil Tree Euphorbia. I have MANY cuttings of them, if you would like one sometime. Too cold to mail now. I also have the Pencil Tree in Red.

I think this one is some kind of Rhipsalis. I also have several cuttings of this one.

Here is another shot of the Glass Onion, all crammed in with the other plants. Everything looks so like it has just been tossed in there. Still dancing the greenhouse shuffle.

Thanks, JoAnn! I was thinking that, or maybe some Safer Soap got on it.

Here is a shot of what I see out my Kitchen Window.

Anyone know anything about the Furber Engravings I have hanging on the wall. They are quite exquisite .... if I dare use that term. Furber, I believe, Hand-Painted these.

You can see my 5 foot tall Pencil Tree barely out of the left window.

Love the greenhouse and what an array of plants! I'd gladly dance the greenhouse shuffle anyday!!!!

Here's a shot down showing part of the cacti side of the GH from the room upstairs showing the Pencil Tree and also the Rhipsalis hanging by the window.

Thanks, Celeste. Around this point of the shuffle, I would gladly welcome fellow shufflers!!

Here is a shot of my Trichodiadema, of which I just found out the name. Thanks, Norma! I always called this one Mouse Whiskers!

I also learned that this one is WAY over grown and needs to be kept trimmed back to look its best. Will cut this one down this weekend and make many many babies. I believe the roots on this swell up and look great as bonsai .....

Here is a close-up of a cutting I rooted a month or so ago. Again, this one, even at this small size, needs to be trimmed back hard.

I like the whiskers.

Robert Furber (1674-1756) was a British horticulturist and author, best known for writing the first seed catalogue produced in England.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Furber

As for the art they are both lovely and if authentic they go for about 2000.00 a piece.

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Here's a long shot from behind the hibiscus.

Probably should get busy with some work work now, so, I think that's it for now.

I believe what I have are original Furber engravings, and not the copies from the 70's and 80's that were so popularly sold at Woolworth's.

I hope they are the real McCoy, and I am sitting on a small treasure! I have some experience in antiquities and preservation, and see many clues which lead me to believe they are bona fide 18th c. engravings. Though, I am far from expert in this area.

Edited to add:

I have the months of August and September, not sure where February is, as Grandmom spent several vacations touring Amsterdam, and purchased these in the months of her 3 grandchildren's birth. Don't recall seeing February, and she might not have found it to purchase. I believe I was in the shop she bought these out of as I recall she mentioned that she found "the neatest little shop for these in the Flower Market."

The Bloemenmarkt op Amsterdam is an awesome spot I suggest everyone get to visit at least once. It is located along one block of the Singel, one of the canals circling A'dam. I will see if I can't scan some photos I took on my last visit for the Millennium Celebration. Amsterdam has been the BEST place of all the places I have visited. Grandmom was an Updike .... so, I wonder if I have some "genetic memory" of ancestors from there.

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BTW, if that sounded like I know anything about art..I don't it's what my DBIL said. lol

Good for you!! I know nothing about art...was sitting on some rare Norte Dame photo's my Dad aquired in France. My brother told me what they were worth I made him take them!! lol

Wait till I show y'all my Antique Iron Clock, I am thinking that the clock was Great Grandma's, or, more likely, maybe even her mother's. It is decoratively painted with an interesting floral pattern, so I am pretty sure posting it won't be OT :-)

Edit: Opps! Forgot an "n"

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Willie I had 5 kids in the same room as these rare photo's. The 5 kids could and would errupt into food fights , ball throwing ect..at any given moment. Once I knew what they were worth I had him take them home, his children were all grown!

YIKES! That would make me nervous, too!

I'm not sure but contemporary engravers sign and number their editions.
Thos framed pieces look as thought the mats are covering that information, if so that would be the place to look.
Under the image there should be something that looks like this
9/150, the first number is the nineth image out of onehundred and fifty that were hand printed.
Those are just sample numbers but that's what any numbers mean before and after the slash.
The signatire would be on either side, sometimes its the name of the printing atellier, like "Currier and Ives"Prints were done bu a custom printer.

I've always been afraid to open the framing, though I am sure Nana had them framed, herself, they are far from valuable frames.

If I want to know, I will have to open it up ..... [deep breath]

Wait until you want them reframed and take them to a reliable framer, they can remove the prints without harming them and maybe tell you if the images are authentic.

Nice greenhouse shots, willie. I like the Madagascar palm.