Saturday, 17 November 2012

More early March photos from the garden




My attention has been so focused on the snowdrops that I have failed to notice several other plants blooming in the garden in early March. Yesterday I took a stroll around and took a few photos. Here are some of the things I found:-





Various Crocus in the lawn and edges of borders





Crocus 'Tricolor' - this actually looks more impressive closed than open. I bought 50 bulbs and the mice ate most of them before I had a chance to plant them! Will mass plant a patch near Hellebores Galanthus next year.





Delicate Crocus tommasinianus self seeding around





Crocus on the grave of my dads beloved German Shepherd whose name was NADA. It used to be outlined in yellow Crocus. I can just about make out her name now. Every year we say we will patch it up but never have the Crocus in the right colours to do it while it is in flower.





A closer look at the stripey ones





A couple of Erica from the Heather family - close ups. I think these are Erica carnea 'Springwood Pink' 'Springwood White'





Daphne bholua 'Jacqueline Postill' in full bloom. The flowers of this gorgeous shrub are highly mouwloos avondjurken scented and very pretty. Actually 'highly scented' is an understatement - 'intoxicating' would be more descriptive.





A few Hellebores





Helleborus croaticus WM 9809 - this was collected and distributed by Will McLewin. It has the tiniest little flowers that look purple at first glance - but when you look inside the flower they are a beautiful bright green with purple veining. A delicate specie Hellebore which will look perfect with dainty snowdrops.





All the torquatus doubles from Montenegro were purchased from the wonderful Washfield Nursery many years ago. I would love to move them to a better position where they do not dry out in the summer so much - but I am terrified of losing them! They are not thriving where they are, but better alive than dead - they are very precious.





A very purple torquatus double from the outside. They are all around 1 inch across or maybe less.





Inside they are a lovely turquoisy green with faint purple edges





Another torquatus double showing more green on the outside





This is the smallest torquatus double Vloer Lengte Avondjurken and is more of a pinky purple colour





DIDO - I think there were only two named torquatus double found naturally occurring in the wild by Elizabeth Strangman. My plant is a division from the original plant





My seedlings from the above parents crossing with orientalis hybrids. A few of them have inherited the highly ornamental divided summer foliage of the torquatus. I will try to find a photo of the foliage in summer.





Seedlings in the border. They are stronger, bigger and more floriferous than their parents although still much smaller than the x hybridus doubles (orientalis)





This is a purchased 'Party Dress' double which I bought to introduce dark doubles into my crosses. It has taken years to flower and does not have great performance, so I will not be using it for crossing - pretty though although I expected it to be very dark purple. The reddish colour is bruidsmeisjes jurken nice especially with sunlight from behind.





This is one of my very first crosses - a picotee. I ended up with many seedlings all looking very similar - some were stunning and others had too much green in the flowers.





x hybridus Picotee. I like this one as it has dark nectaries which match in with the purple veining. The flowers are large and deeply shaded on the outside of the petals.





Outside of petals - heavy shading and veining





I then crossed atrorubens (a tiny species plant smiliar to croaticus with a slightly bigger flower) with my Picotee.





This is the result:





It has pink backed petals with slight veining and inside is a pinky green shimmering colour wash with huge dark nectaries. In the summer it takes on the foliage of atrorubens and looks stunning. The flower is nothing special but I like its delicate colours and the fact that it is a specie x orientalis. It performs well and is even thriving in quite dark shade in some places in the garden.


Friday, 16 November 2012

More Formal Dress <a href="http://www.yamlodress.nl/cocktailjurken/cocktailjurken-2013.html">Cocktailjurken 2013</a> Designer Reviews




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Modest wedding dresses and gowns




In a world viewed by many as having rapidly declining morals, many families and brides-to-be are finding it ever more difficult to find modest wedding dresses and wedding gowns.





Many women, along with their fathers, are met with frustration as they look for a dress that satisfies both their sense of style as well as their desire for modesty.





Designers know that a woman wants to feel beautiful and sexy on their wedding day. But many designers feel that the best way to give a woman that feeling is by removing sleeves and shoulder straps, having low-cut necklines, and removing as much of the back as possible. Modest dresses meanwhile receive very little attention from designers, and modest-dress seekers are often left with few choices, what little there is being very bland and out of fashion.





But despite increasing demand for modest clothing, few people have taken up Trouwjurk Lange Mouw the challenge of filling this market. The pickings were slim鈥?until now. Companies like Fairy Godmother's Bridal, offering large selections of modest wedding gowns, are beginning to pick up the slack in this growing market.





Based in Utah where there is a large Mormon population that demands modesty in dress, Fairy Godmother's Bridal has successfully filled a need in a community that previously might have had to custom tailor a wedding gown from scratch in order to satisfy their desire for a modest yet fashionable dress.





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And it's not just Utah Mormons that are interested. Jones says that she receives orders for modest wedding dresses from around the nation. "I often have customers thank me and tell me how difficult it has been for them to find a modest wedding gown."





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Choosing a modest wedding gown





Modesty means different things to different people. In choosing a gown that fits your personal definition of modesty, here are a few things to watch for:





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notice the flowers at the bottom part of the dress as well as the handbag and umbrella it carries.





This Catrina is one of our specialties since it has very fine and miniscule details from the top of the





hat all the way to the base of the dress. The dress has a very deep neckline as well as an opening that starts from its waist and extends to its lower leg and is also decorated with ruffles at





the lower Cocktailjurken part of the dress. Other fine details include the painting of the small nails on the already thin hands as well as the very finely detailed, thin, stole scarf it wears. As accessories





notice the flowers at the bottom part of the dress as well as its blue flower earrings.





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Thursday, 15 November 2012

Modest Wedding Dresses




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Now, since the wedding is one of the most significant events in a woman's life, each and every aspect of it is also equally significant. However, there happens to be one aspect which, at least for the bride, is actually a little more important than the others, and that is her special bridal wedding dress. There are many facets to be taken care of when it comes to selecting the perfect wedding dress for you, and all of them are equally important.





First of all, you need to know the theme of your wedding. This decides the important aspects of the wedding dress. You need to know whether you are holding a gothic wedding, or a casual one, for then it will require a wedding dress that will match the concept, namely a celtic wedding dress or a casual one, respectively. Your budget also plays a very important role in deciding the kind of wedding dress you ought to choose.





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Choosing the perfect wedding dress is going to be extremely difficult, but if you follow the right steps in the right manner, you are sure to look absolutely stunning on your wedding day, just as you always wanted, and it is really doubtful if your Prince Charming, or any other male in the vicinity, for that matter, will have eyes for any other woman, apart from you. All brides really wants to be different and unique in every way. In walking down the aisle, all eyes





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Dreams of Wearing the Designer Wedding Dress





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How To Choose Wedding Hairstyles That Look Best On You?





Selecting perfect wedding hairstyles are one of the most worried tasks while planning for wedding. No one can find a live person. Just about every person living knows this is of marriage and the foremost special day of the ma.





Designer Wedding Dresses and Their Neckline TMs





When searching for a designer wedding dress, there are many different aspects that you will want to consider before making your final decision. Your wedding dress is an extremely important part of your special day, and you want to be completely happy with.


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Morning Dress




Morning Dress is the English and American set of formal dress attire that is Vloer Lengte Avondjurken traditionally worn before nightfall. It is related to evening dress, which is usually worn after dark.





Morning dress attire consists of a few specific clothing articles. The Lange Cocktailjurken most unique article is the jacket, whose design is derived from that of the frock coat, black or charcoal gray, with a long skirt in the back, cutting away to form an oblong tail as it suppresses the hips, and buttoning at mid-waist. Under the jacket is worn either a single- or double-breasted waistcoat, usually matching in color, and a white, stiff-collared shirt with a necktie. The trousers are almost as interesting as the jacket: They are striped in charcoal gray and black, and to be worn only with suspenders. Black dress shoes are a must, and, if it pleases, a cane and gloves can also be worn without the commission of any morning dress faux pas. You can even wear a gray or black top hat.





Morning dress, or, at the very least, the morning coat, was developed from the British equestrian tradition. In the mid-19th century, when modern morning dress was established, men might have worn frock coats Trouwjurken 2013 on their morning horse ride, should the jackets have been suited to be worn so; but for the sake of ease, tailors began to modify frock coats to accomodate morning riders by gradually cutting away at the front panels of the jacket from behind -- forming the rear skirt. It's true, the rest of the attire carried over from morning riding dress, which was, until the mid-19th century, considered much less formal than evening dress; but with the new coat, the whole outfit became accepted by a more progressive fashion world as formal dress, which is just what it is today.





In the United States, the stroller jacket has overtaken the morning coat in popularity as formal morning dress. It is considered by most to be less formal than the morning coat, and looks something like a scant tuxedo jacket. It is also usually worn with a waistcoat, dress shirt and tie, but, unlike the morning coat, is often worn with solid-colored trousers, and the waistcoat is often white, or some color dissimilar to the jacket's.