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ahwt Posts: 2334 Registered: Mar 2003	posted 03-26-2014 05:10 PM I cut the flowers on a peony yesterday to beat a predicted hard freeze. It turned out to be just a light frost, but we are enjoying these blooms today. These flowers came from a peony that is a cross between a tree peony and a bush peony. The yellow color is especially radiant and although the petals of the flowers fall away quickly the memory of the color lingers. Out trip to the Nashville flea market turned up an attractive goblet by William Gale and Son and a small (2 7/8”) beaker by Edward and David Kinsey. The goblet has a worn engraving of “Wm. C. Flannigan from his faithful friend S.P. Dec. 25, 1856”. I do not know what S.P. stands for. The beaker has the same milled band as that used by James Merriman and coined flowers, cables and beads. I wonder if Mr. Merriman brought some of his goods from Kinsey. Finally a picture of some Virginia blue bells that are hardy enough to withstand a light frost. The blue is just as radiant as the yellow of the peony. I think Spring is here. IP: Logged
jersey Posts: 1203 Registered: Feb 2005	posted 03-27-2014 04:15 PM Dear ahwt, Your flowers are just beautiful . You perked up my day. I have a question as well. What can you tell me about the plate in the background. It looks like something i woukd like to give my Garden Club friends. Jersey IP: Logged
ahwt Posts: 2334 Registered: Mar 2003	posted 03-28-2014 02:03 AM Jersey, Glad you liked the flowers. I can’t take credit for the blooms on the peony plants as we brought them at the Nashville Garden show a couple of weeks ago. They were hot house grown and came loaded with buds that just opened up in the last week. I have been bringing them in the house each night when a frost predicted. I hope to get them into the ground in the next week. The plate is English, probably about 1850, and states: “FLOWERS THAT NEVER FADE INDUSTRY From bees a lesson we might learn, Nor their example proudly spurn; They never waste a single hour; But fly about from flow’r to flow’r” This saying along with the boy and girl tending flowers around a beehive was a popular maxim on plates and cups. You can search “Flowers that never fade” and find others as this must have been one on the more popular sayings. The English produced untold numbers of plates and cups with similar sayings. IP: Logged
jersey Posts: 1203 Registered: Feb 2005	posted 03-28-2014 05:21 PM Thank you so much. What a lovely saying. I have searched it since you gave me the information to look for. Now to make a decision as to what items to choose from. I really like the bluebells, I'll have to see if I can get them here. Have a glorious day & yes, Spring looks like its trying hard to get here. Jersey IP: Logged
ahwt Posts: 2334 Registered: Mar 2003	posted 03-29-2014 10:18 PM Jersey, Virginia blue bells are an early spring ephemeral plant – they bloom in early spring and then hibernate. My wife planted them at the top of a wooded hill in St. Louis in the mid 1970s. When we left 25 years later their offspring had spread almost to the bottom of the hill – some 60 to 70 feet down. They were glorious in the spring and if anyone young is reading this and if they have a wooded backyard hill have fun and plant them. My wife thinks she planted about 20 plants initially and they turned into well over 100 plants. IP: Logged

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