Pretty Flower Motifs: Borders, patterns and pretty flower motifs give these walls masses of Moorish interest. A base coat of a burnt saffron colour, washed over walls with a big brush for a slightly uneven finish, is adorned with a graphic flower pattern and a border of black, terracotta and blue. A fretwork pattern that's pure North-African style is stencilled below, for a look that's atmospheric, but subtle.
These unusual curtains are made by stitching together lengths of different coloured fabrics, for a relaxed, pretty look. Shades of green and white feature, as does a pretty blue flower-sprig design. All the fabrics are of the same weight, to give an even effect, and the curtains are simply tied at the top to wooden rings, a pretty detail that also means they're less complicated to make than tab tops.See Also Garden Flower Cultivar:The striking blossoms on the opposite page are those of the spider flower and are always welcome in an annual garden. This particular cultivar is 'Violet Queen' and has petals in a vivid purple.
Paper moons (Scabiosa stellata 'Drumstick') are a new garden flower cultivar. When the plants are in bloom they look like a rather washed-out scabiosa (the pin-cushion flower), in an unattractive shade of blue. But they soon ripen into bronze-colored, round seed heads that look more like coral fossils than plants. Stems reach 40 inches in length. Space the plants 8 inches apart. They are hardy annuals.
On The Other Hand See Conventionalized Flower Of Four:QUATREFOIL, kat'er-foil, in heraldry, a bearing displaying a conventionalized flower of four leaves; in architecture, an opening or a panel divided by cusps or foliations into four leaves, or, more correctly, the leaf-shaped figure formed by the cusps. It is an ornament which has been supposed to represent the four leaves of a cruciform flower, and is common in the tracery of Gothic windows. Bands of small quatrefoils are much used as Ornaments in the perpendicular Gothic style and sometimes in the decorated.
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 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.
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