Flower To Open: Floiver festivals are frequent in the flower to open belt between Haarlem and Leiden. When the tulips are at their height in April, every Sunday is Tulip Sunday. A National flower to open Show (mid-March to mid-May) is held on the Keukenhof Estate at Lisse. Later in the season (not the bulb-flower to open season), two magnificent festivals occur. The Hague stages a bril¬liant flower to open Festival (early in August), with election of the Flows Queen (parade) and with special prizes such as that for the best bicycle Decoration (open to children); and an Aalsmeer-to-Amsterdam flower to open Parade (September) culminates in the Olympic Stadium, for the award of prizes. The floats are always marvelous.
Make successive sowings over the summer.
One of my favorite annuals is the basket flower to open (Centaurea amen-cana) and it's hard to understand why more fuss isn't made over this plant. This American wildfldwer is interesting in bud and splendid in bloom. Each flower to open sits alone on a 4-foot stem and opens to 4 inches across. The color is a light rose, and the flower to open resembles an open thistle without thorns. The common name refers to the un¬opened head, which is surrounded by soft, spiny, strawcolored ap¬pendages that overlap and give the distinctive appearance of tiny woven baskets. Basket flower to opens require no special soil but grow best in full sun.See Also These Flower:There need be no question in your mind about the market for good flower photography. One of the big slide film dis¬tributors has found flower fanciers the most consistent buy ers of all among slide collectors, even though the pictures offered are strictly of specimen flowers. These flower cannot possibly have the same appeal as pictures of flowers grown by the buyer in his own soil. The only flower fancier who is not an eager prospect for pictures of his blooms is one who has never seen a color slide transparency of a beautiful flower projected. A close-up of a lovely flower on a screen is a sight to make anyone, flower lover or not, gasp at its beauty.
With this equipment, you will be able to produce those startling close-up pictures which, when enlarged by projec¬tion on a screen, seem to magnify the original beauty of the flowers. And These flower are the pictures which your clients cannot duplicate with their own cameras. They are the shots which will establish you as a flower photography specialist. The other pictures you have occasion to shoot, those showing garden layouts and pleasant clumps and clusters and masses of flowering plants, will take care The best sources of customers for your flower photography are the garden clubs and the flower clubs in your commu¬nity. If you don't know the flower clubs, get in touch with a florist for the information you need.
On The Other Hand See From Flower To Flower:Propagation and growing: sow seed in late spring, in well-drained, rich soil. If seed is not required, remove the flower stems as they appear. Self-sown seedlings will grow freely if the plants are allowed to flower; if not, propagate them by dividing the parent plants approximately every three years or so. The seeds are ready to harvest when they have turned a gray-green color and have hardened. Cut off the whole flower head and dry slowly indoors.
Mop-head hydrangeas (Hydrangea macrophylla) are superb garden shrubs which flower from flower to flower mid-summer to fall. Leave the flower stems and old flower heads in place until late winter or early spring, then cut out all shoots that produced flowers during the previous year This radically thins out the shrub, allows li] and air to enter and encourages the developmerr fresh shoots which will bear flowers later in the year
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