Penelope Hobhouse – The Art & Practice of Gardening: Roses for the Garden & The Smaller Garden Vol. 5 [VHS]

Penelope Hobhouse – The Art & Practice of Gardening: Roses for the Garden & The Smaller Garden Vol. 5 [VHS]

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Charlie Rose (May 27, 2005)

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Guns N’ Roses – Nightrain (Tokyo 92′)

Guns N’ Roses is an American rock band that was formed in Los Angeles, California in 1985. The band, led by frontman and co-founder Axl Rose, has gone through numerous line-up changes and controversies since its formation. The band has released six studio albums, three EPs and one live album during its career. The band has sold an estimated 100 million albums worldwide,[4][5] including over 43 million in the United States.[6] The band’s 1987 major label debut album Appetite for Destruction has sold in excess of 28 million copies and reached number one on the United States Billboard 200. In addition, the album charted three Top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, including “Sweet Child o’ Mine” which reached number one.[7] The 1991 albums Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II debuted on the two highest spots on the Billboard 200 and have sold a combined 14 million copies in the United States alone and 35 million worldwide. After over a decade of work, the band released their follow-up album, Chinese Democracy, in 2008. Their mid-to-late eighties and early nineties years have been described by individuals in the music industry as the period in which “they brought forth a hedonistic rebelliousness and revived the punk attitude-driven hard rock scene, reminiscent of the early Rolling Stones.” The Use Your Illusion Tour was a promotional tour for the albums Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II, although due to the scale of the tour, the term “promotional tour” is …
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I have some purple roses id like to keep the purple how do i do it?

Question by divatude: I have some purple roses id like to keep the purple how do i do it?
I recently got a dozen of purple roses from my honey, he is in Afghanistan, and I would love to keep them the same color till he gets home, I have heard so many stories about spraying hair spray on them and hanging them upside down and stuff but didn’t know if that really worked. I would really like to know how i could keep them in good shape. they are beautiful and mean a lot to me thanks

Best answer:

Answer by Vanilla Pepsi
put the roses in the freezer!
They last for a verrryy long time..but as soon as they melt they’ll look drooppy..
you can keep them in the freezer and show them to your Honey..then keep it in there for as long as you want..
I’ve froze roses for over 3 years and they look like they were just picked..
Goodluck

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America’s Best Gardens

Gardening is wonderful hobby and in many ways an art form. Through careful planning and hard work a garden can bloom to be a beautiful canvas. One of the best gardening tips that I can recommend for garden improvement is to find a source of inspiration. This winter when you are planning a vacation think about visiting some inspirational gardens to help get your creative energies flowing when Spring rolls in.

During the winter months, one of the best places to visit is one of America’s first green houses. George Washington was an avid gardener ever since he chopped down his first cherry tree. Mount Vernon, located near Alexandria, Virginia, was the plantation home of George Washington. The mansion is wood construction, built in neoclassical Georgian architectural style. The estate is located on the banks of the majestic Potomac River.

Mount Vernon is open seven days a week, every day of the year, including holidays and Christmas. Visitors are invited to tour the Mansion house and more than a dozen outlying buildings, including the slave quarters, kitchen, stables, and greenhouses. Stroll amidst four lovely gardens, hike the Forest Trail, and explore the George Washington: Pioneer Farmer’s site, a four-acre working farm that includes a recreation of Washington’s 16-sided treading barn. George Washington worked tirelessly to expand the plantation acreage from 2,000 to over 8,000 acres! The mansion now has 21 rooms, originally only 6 rooms.

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The next stop on the tour is the Biltmore Gardens… Biltmore House is a French Renaissance-inspired chateau near Asheville, North Carolina, built by George Washington Vanderbilt II between 1888 and 1895. It is the largest privately owned home in the United States at 175,000 square feet. You may stroll across acres of formal and informal gardens designed by America’s foremost landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted. From the formal beauty of the Italian Garden to America’s first managed forests, Biltmore’s lush landscape is a living tribute to Olmsted’s genius. Our experts continually work to preserve the original vision of the gardens and grounds, including our All America Rose Garden, featuring more than 250 varieties of luscious roses.

The final stop on this tour is also an Olmsted creation: Central Park in New York City is more than just a park, it also features lovely gardens. This may be the world’s greatest urban park. New York’s Central Park was the first big project that started Frederick Law Olmsted’s career and the profession of landscape architecture in the US. It has a conservatory garden similar to a European formal garden complete with parterres, fountains and herbaceous gardens.

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Girls – Would you prefer to be surprised with flowers at work or in person?

Question by nimbostratus: Girls – Would you prefer to be surprised with flowers at work or in person?
Me and my GF attend and work at the same college… so I see her often. I got my first pay check and I want to do something special and give her flowers.

I plan to do the following arrangements –

6 white roses – showing that I care
5 yellow roses – signifying friendship
1 red rose – love

Purpose is that I want her to know that I care of her and will be there for her; with the friendship and trust that we have, love will surely come…. This kind of summarizes what our relationship is currently like.

I want to write her about the meanings of the colors but I am not sure how to come about it… She is a simple girl and I dont know if I should just explain to her through a poem or directly tell her in writing.

What do you guys think about this arrangement and idea?
Would it be better to surprise with flowers sent to her at work or in person?

Best answer:

Answer by Sara007
Same ways.

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Pink Roses in the Victorian Era

People in the Victorian era took the language of flowers very seriously. Due to the repressive atmosphere of the times, flowers became the means by which women communicated with their suitors. The distinct scent of a particular flower or the grouping of flowers in a bouquet conveyed unique messages.

Often, these botanical gifts demonstrated feelings and emotions nobody dared say out loud in public. Even the way flowers were given to someone had its own hidden message. For instance, if a man handed a woman an upright bouquet of flowers, he had something happy and positive to tell her. An upside-down bouquet, on the other hand, meant he was bringing her some dark news. Handing a man a flower with the right hand indicates that she is agreeable to his proposal, while presenting the flower with the left hand often means that she is declining his offer.

It was important for those in the Victorian age to know what each flower meant so that they would send the right message to their lovers or anyone else. Entire dictionaries were written and published to explain this mysterious language to everyone. However, it was fairly common for mixed message nightmares to occur when two people had conflicting version of the “language of flowers dictionary.”

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One of the most popular flowers during this era was the pink rose. If you’ll look at figurines, paintings, jewelry, and other heirlooms and antiques from that time, you’ll notice that the pink rose is a predominant motif in Victorian art. The rose as a symbol of love was already common knowledge then, but they also knew that each type and color carried its own meaning.

Pink roses come in different shades, from a blushing pale pink to a dark crimson. The pale pink rose was the favorite of women during that time – they often used rosebuds to adorn their hair and dresses, and took care of their pink rose gardens like they would take care of children. The pink rose is said to mean a lot of things – romantic love, in particular – but the appeal of the pink rose today isn’t so much the message they are supposed to contain as the sheer beauty of their color and form.

If you want to send your beloved a bouquet of pink roses, go for the pale pink color of aqua roses. Besides their sweet and delicate shade, aqua roses also have a heady aroma that clings to their petals; creating an aura of mystery in the room they are kept. Chances are she won’t know about the meanings Victorian women placed on the pink rose, but she will love its pastel shade and the overall effort you placed in sending her flowers.

Read part of a story, and tell me what you think.?

Question by Ella S: Read part of a story, and tell me what you think.?
Be HONEST.. compliments are really not any help Please note that this is not the beginning, but the second small chunk. Search for my other questions if you want to read the beginning. It’s not crucial.

Rose hung up without properly saying goodbye. It was something the sisters had dispensed with once they moved away from the house, Virginia to Cornell and Beth to… well, away. Away meant as far from stuffy old Boston as she could get. A stint abroad, several waitressing jobs which paid abysmally, a (very) brief stay in a commune, and one quite serious boyfriend with whom she had lived in an apartment which had seemed romantically Spartan at first and turned out to be just plain old small and dirty. And now, she lived in California. That was what her parents told their friends when anyone asked what Rose did for a living. “She lives in California now,” her parents would say, and everyone would exchange knowing looks. Rose didn’t care in the least, which was what distinguished her from Virginia and their two brothers. Rose was in fact happier than she’d ever been, working at a Waldorf day-care center and even occasionally seeling a painting or two. She was paying the bills with even a little to spare for luxuries like shampoo and fresh fruit.
Rose looked at the clock the floor beside her bed, did some quick math and decided to call her brother Jim in New York. His full name was James Joyce Llewellyn, and their second brother’s name was Thomas Jefferson Llewellyn. The three oldest were all named after various people the Llewellyn’s admired, and then there was Rose, the baby. Just plain old Rose. The child of her parents’ middle age and diminished brain cells. Virginia, the oldest, had always introduced herself first, and someone, thinking themselves clever, would invariably turn to Rose and say, “and I suppose you’re Georgia,” Rose usually said, no, she was New Jersey. Sometimes she was Delaware. It depended on the day.
She got up and put on a pot of coffee, as there was little chance she was going back to sleep. Virginia had awakened her, but also given her much too much to think about to sleep. She punched in Jim’s number and waited as a phone two and half thousand miles away rang.
Jim answered, groggy from sleep.
“What are you doing home?” demanded Rose as soon as he picked up, again skipping niceties.
“What?” Jim said foggily.
“I said what are you doing home? Don’t you have classes? It’s a Wednesday.”
“Thanks for the update.”
“You didn’t answer my question. You sound like ******. You sound hungover.”
“I do not. I mean I am not. I mean I am, but I don’t sound it. Whatever. It’s what, four-thirty out there? Who died?”
“Nobody, but I’ve got something to spill.”
“Well, okay. Dish.”
“Dad’s got a new girlfriend, a young one, young enough to be our sister- that’s verbatim from Ginny- and he’s bringing her to the wedding.”
“Well, good for him, the old dog. Why is this waking-someone-out-of-a-sound-sleep news?”
“You just don’t get it, do you?”
“Get what?”
“He’s bringing her to the wedding. To meet all of us, and mom, and all our relatives, and all of Ginny and David’s friends. He’s bringing her to the wedding, Jim.”
“Yeah. And?”
“God, you are such a man. Don’t you have any loyalty for Mom?”
“Well, I guess, but it’s not like they’re getting back together. Irreconcilable differences.”
“Yeah, but she’s like nineteen,”
“You’re exaggerating. You think that the wedding is going to be an opportunity for you to pull some kind of a Parent Trap maneuver, but trust me, it’s not. They can’t stand each other. End of story.”
“I wouldn’t care if…” Rose trailed off.
“You’d care no matter what. I’m not saying I don’t care too, but he’s fifty-seven years old. We can’t tell him what to do.”
“Why do you have to be so goddamn rational? Why can’t you just be on my side, on mom’s side?”
“I’m not on anybody’s side, I just-“
Rose dropped the phone back onto the cradle with a clatter of plastic and metal.
Jim tossed the portable phone across the bedspread and scowled fiercely at the sunlight streaming through his uncurtained windows. Stacks of books glowered at him disapprovingly from the dresser. He pushed a hand through his dark hair and pulled his Fordham sweatshirt on over his head, and shoved his glasses up over his nose. He looked at his watch, and decided there was no way he was making it to Contract Law at nine-thirty. Instead he dialed his brother Tom’s number in Boston.
Tom was having the worst morning of all the Llewellyn siblings. He’d awoken to find the half of the bed which belonging to his girlfriend Claire cool and unrumpled. Alarmed, he’d run to the bathroom to find that her toothbrush was gone, and linen closet emptied of exactly half their towels. She’d taken the coffee, the peanut butter, two apples, a banana, the Saltines, and half the loaf of bread.. She’d been nothing if not democratic in the way she’d wrecked everything, thought Tom as he absorbed the state of the apartment which they’d shared until four-thirty six that morning. And so Tom was sitting dazedly at the kitchen table, staring at nothing in a particular, when the phone rang
“Guess what?” demanded Jim
Tom sighed.
“What?”
“Dad’s having a full-out, clichéd midlife crisis, complete with a nubile Playmate, who is reportedly young enough to be our sister, ”
“Well, that’s just Fantastic, isn’t it.”
“You’re sunny this morning. What’s the matter?”
“Nothing. Everything is perfect.”
“How’s your lovely, leggy graduate student doing?”
“Claire is fine. Claire is perfect.”
“Okay. If you say so. I hear that Dad’s bringing this new girl to the wedding, and believe me, Virginia and Rose are about ready to-“
“Look, I really have to go. I’m about an hour late,”
“Well, so am I,”
“Well, at least I’m not paying forty-five thousand a year to get drunk and over sleep.”
“Don’t be so-“
“So what? Responsible?”
“So uptight. So, anyway, I was wondering if maybe I could have your plus-one for the wedding. I’ve been seeing this girl for a couple months now, and I was just thinking that since-“
“No, Jim, I—“
He was going to say “I need it,” and remembered that he didn’t, not anymore. Instead, he hung up and got dressed for work.
It is easy to forget, when one is upset, that other people cannot intuit your every thought, nor see the elephant which is occupying your headspace. And so it wasn’t until he was pulling out of the tight parking spot which he’d fought tooth and nail for that Tom realized he hadn’t said a word to his brother about what had happened with Claire.
Umm.. emma J? this is not autobiographical.. I want to know what you think about it as a piece of writing.

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Answer by Mehera
I really like the way I can copy and paste it and then pretend I’ve written it

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Beautiful Vivaldi Roses in the Philippines

Roses may speak more eloquently when words fail to say exactly what you want to say and as beautiful as you want to say it. Sometimes, there are situations when it may be awkward to talk to a person about certain things. This is when we turn to roses to do the saying for us. Their simple beauty can easily express a deep feeling for a person without stuttering and the risk of sounding fake.

Sympathy and admiration are two emotions that are hard to verbalize exactly. Why? Well, it’s because sympathy is very similar to pity, and in some cases it is almost impossible to tell them apart. The difference lies in the fact that while sympathy for a person is very welcome since it shows just how much you care, pity is not. Pity may mean that you find the person hopeless and pathetic. In expressing sympathy, one must be very careful not to appear as if one is pitying the person since doing otherwise may hurt a person’s pride and feelings and you don’t want to do that.

Admiration, on the other hand, can easily be mistaken for love. Admiring someone means that you respect, esteem, and look up to him or her. The person’s achievements may be things you want to achieve as well, thus you feel admiration for a person. Love is different because it involves a deeper feeling; it is passion for a person you want to spend your life with. Often, when we love someone, we admire him or her as well for qualities, which we value. However admiring a person doesn’t automatically mean that we love the person. Giving the wrong signal may hurt the person or result in awkward situations.

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Sympathy or pity, admiration or love—it is indeed difficult to tell the difference, more so to express them. If you don’t trust your words, giving a rose may help you say what you want to say. The rose color that conveys admiration and/or sympathy is light pink. Make sure to get the best light pink rose to convey your feelings and it can be found in the Philippines through Island Rose.

Island Rose Philippines has the perfect light or baby pink rose which they call Vivaldi. Vivaldi is a hybrid tea, which is one of the most popular type of roses in the world. The blooms are of the large variety while the stems are straight and measures around 55-70 cm. The vase life is very good, which means that it doesn’t wilt as easily as other commercial roses. If you want to order, they offer delivery in the Philippines. Delivery is fast and efficient, so buying Vilvaldi isn’t a headache. Their quick delivery ensures that you get fresh Vivaldi roses straight from the farm.

If you’re looking for the perfect light pink rose to express your admiration and/or sympathy for a person, try Vivaldi. You definitely won’t get your words mixed up!

Who wrote the country song that begins with roses, candles and tears in the mothers eyes, its about a wedding?

Question by Ashley: Who wrote the country song that begins with roses, candles and tears in the mothers eyes, its about a wedding?
I don’t know who wrote it, whats its call or when it was made, all I know is that it is a country song.

Best answer:

Answer by mnisbet1
lost in this moment with you by big & rich

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